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I have that motion thank you Joe first Joe second Peggy now entertain any discussion comments questions all right is there help for students who can't afford this yes so through the PTL and other measures that we have great questions absolutely any other questions yes yeah I just um obviously it was very successful before and I appreciate Mr Moore continuing this um was there any discussion or feedback from parents about or students like there's a lot that they cover and I understand why it's shortened and I you know and that was there any discussion about having a day or no no right like hit the best spot I asked Mr Moore that and I actually asked my previous District that because the same question came up because it was always looking forward it's a it's a full day and very similar to what kids do right now believe it or not it's just in Washington DC but I I think it just hits the The Sweep spot where what um kids can handle right now and where our staff is and where parents are I think there were there were no complaints from kids or staff that the trip wasn't long enough it just felt right they got to do what they got to do and yeah could they go for five days could they go for six they can but the purpose of the trip is to expose children to number one for some of them being away from their homes for the first time and number two exposing them to a place that they might not have ever been to our nation's capital and then the possibility of saying to themselves I want to go back here again yeah so they're hitting it and from a curriculum standpoint they're hitting everything that we would like them to have and they were able to follow the they were it looks like an amazing trip my son actually didn't get to go because it was covered um a weekend um as a family uh but my um my question is um do you decide on like which memorials or museums to visit based on the curriculum Mr Moore that that's certainly a part of it um and so yeah it's a it's a mix of getting curricular highlights as well as making a functional and logistically feasible trip right in terms of where things are uh honestly I think DC does a really nice job of setting themselves up as a place for visitors so you'll see that a lot of this just kind of follows geographically yeah and then teachers um also connect with you'll be seeing these things and then they can make the curricular connection so it's a mix of we want to see things that highlight what is curricularly and just like as American citizens right important right so there's some decision making there and then there's also some additional teaching that goes along with you know we didn't cover I don't think we don't hit the Korean War but that Memorial is powerful right and so there's some teaching that goes along with you're about to see this thing so it is a two-way street yeah you good are there any changes from how things were done last year best to the plan for this year it is very similar and tweaked in some small areas to make it even tighter more efficient in some spaces but I'd say we've largely mimicked a successful trip of last year okay having a first and second closing out the uh the questions uh all those in favor aye opposed so we're at 8-0 that concludes the business of the Board of Education tonight I want to thank the board members for their service and the Reps for being here the administration team the teachers that came out the public that came out uh and I especially want to thank you board for your commitment to Kansas kids and making our education system best it could be with that I'll take a motion to adjourn at um 8 20 8 20 p.m I have a motion to adjourn thank you Cindy thank you Kim on the second any any discussion all those in favor aye opposed we are adjourned thank you everybody
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so we could not Levy for that override until the subsequent year which is why you don't see the increase until fiscal 2017. the same thing it was actually in November of 2019 which is fiscal 2020 that we went out to ask for an additional five percent and so we didn't we weren't able to take advantage of the full 15 until the subsequent school year so the fall of 2020 okay and then again the 34.8 reflected in 2023 we just added the 2024 amount to this um this graph so the override commitments this is what we committed to I'm going back again to November of 20 November of 19.
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with this is what we said we were going to spend the money on retain and attract high quality Personnel add social workers and Mental Health Counselors and then contribute two million dollars to class size reduction so that's 18.01 million dollars but remember that the additional five percent contribute 11.6 so even in that year we actually in order to provide competitive wages needed to use questions we weren't able to use custom site fund back then but State Equalization mno to be able to fund the competitive salaries okay so this is a comparison between 2022 and 2023 note that the spend was actually 50 million dollars more in 2023 in comparison to 2022 but the big contributor to that which is a little bit unusual if you remember last December we made a recommendation to all of you to pre-fund our Arizona State Retirement giving us an opportunity to earn interest on these monies and hold it basically as a bank with Arizona State Retirement that would allow us to use that in the future in the event that we have a downturn in the economy or if we were not successful in having the override passed in the future so you can see that clearly salaries were increased 20 million dollars and then benefits were increased would have been increased by 5 million except for that additional 20 million dollar contribution pre-funding Arizona State Retirement any questions on that before I go on all right I do have a question um so if the override were not to pass that prepayment to the retirement fund that would only hold us for maybe a year yes well the first year we would lose about 11 million dollars at 12 million dollars so it would hold us maybe for a year and a half okay okay that's what I'm yeah that's what I'm saying it's not going to make up for the loss no but it's still one time yeah it'll help us Bridge yes it'll help us Bridge it yeah okay okay and then class size reduction again these were a targeted uh two million dollars to make a difference for those highest needs classrooms we had shared this in the past that if we were to to decrease class size across the district by only one student it would cost us about 2.2 million dollars so in this way we thought well let's just allocate out some monies towards this and then we'll just just address those highest needs classrooms so you can see we added about 24 FTE throughout the school district for a total cost of a little bit more than 2.1 a little bit more than two million dollars that includes benefits as well so now let's move on to the general obligation bonds so again as I shared at the beginning I really thought that it would be a good idea if we tried to show you the entire body of work that has been done since uh November of 2015 to the present summer projects that Mr dutchover has and as well as Mr Castellano and Mr Toby have completed over over time so to begin this is what we've already shared I'm not going to go through the details of this this is directly out of the bond pamphlet in 2015. this just shows you how we've been presenting to you monthly on the spend and notice that the expenditures are have totally eaten up that 98 million dollar Authority for this particular 2015 Bond Authority okay so it's all gone and then note that you have 98 million dollars here but the general ledger says we spent 98.1 million I'm only going to say this once but it's that issue where we have costs of issuance and because we have cost of issuance and we receive premium that means that there our investors are actually giving us more money up front than the par amount of the bonds we're able to use a portion of that to spend on cost of issuance so you'll see that in other places this is the 2019 pamphlet Bond estimates and then this is the grid that we've been sharing with you also same idea here where you see it's a little bit more than the 100 million dollars that was was authorized note the encumbrance column over here those are all the projects that as of June 30 we're still encumbered and ongoing we obviously need to do these projects during the summer June 30 represents the demarcation between two fiscal years and so there's going to be expenditures in 2024 as well as in 2023 reflecting our summer projects okay yes just to be clear if we did not have this money these obviously these projects would not be be done at all they wouldn't have been able to be done just a reminder that from 2000 and 2013 I think through 2017 the total accumulative loss in unrestricted Capital was over 73 million dollars so it would have been very difficult for us so it's been really great that we've had the support of our taxpayers over this time yeah so then this is just the combined amounts just to share that so since 2015 to date we have had 198 million dollars worth of spending Authority provided to us to meet those critical facility technology and transportation needs so now we have all this data how did you spend it Gilbert public schools and so we wanted to share that in as digestible a way as possible knowing that we're sitting on about 80 slides here so the first thing is this is the total spend in that pie across all the categories so there's about 170.5 billion dollars reflected here note that you have a technology spend here a transportation spend there's a small cost of issuance a ground spend the grounds includes our athletic outside athletic venues as well as smart irrigation that we just completed those types of projects mechanical that's all of our HVAC equipment lighting electrical projects under a hundred thousand dollars so back in 2016 and 2017 we had smaller projects that were that were less than a hundred thousand dollars so did not require to come to the governing board so we've captured all of those in a grouping and then of course you know that we had security cameras that were approved as part of the 2019 authorization and then finally the structural so structural is please correct me if I'm wrong roofs and flooring and restrooms modifications we've made many investments into converting our computer classrooms into regular classrooms those are just examples of the structural projects [Music] some of the emails that you sent us and then some of the people that I know that the air conditioning has been a big not but a fairly big issue this year in terms of going down um that I think it was a Greenfield Junior that they had an issue and I know my daughters had to move classrooms twice because of of not having air conditioning can you kind of walk us through what would happen if you can fix air conditioning with this money so ultimately we'd look at a at a closure at that point just because especially a year that we had record Heat this year it kind of put us in a bind but yeah it definitely we'd be looking at it at a closure if we didn't have the funds to remedy the issue quickly or at least you know they have something for the intermediate and it's been kind of widespread throughout the district hasn't it it it has I mean it's we've been going I think we hit 53 days over 110.
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um we've just been running these things like crazy and and fortunately some of these are just that outliers in a sense because some of this money has gone to those sites as well that have newer HVAC equipment but we just run run into some bumps in the roads and we're also running into sometimes getting parts Part yeah the parts ETA for lead times and and just for the example not to get too far into it with the uh um get the Greenfield Junior we did have Parts on order for the repair and that went back all the way I looked at the PO and I we uh we submitted the PO in April and basically just the lead times on parts were were extended so we weren't able to get them so the repair was actually in in process but unable to to move forward with it until we got everything in so what I'm just to remind us what was the solution that we came up with at Greenfield Junior High because I do remember we had to send kids home but not for very long just for a day or so so fortunately with our good relationships with some of our partners we were able to turn around a temporary cooling tower that was the the piece of equipment that had went down um so we ended up getting a temporary cooling tower until the the parts for the repair on the the cooling tower was down we're in which I think we are another three weeks out at that at that point and just so you know the cooling tower was shipped overnight on a flatbed trailer this isn't this is a big piece of equipment um and they got us they got it there the next day which enabled Albert and his crew to hook it up and get school back in business the following day so if we didn't have those relationships and the ability to acquire that type of equipment it could have been pretty disastrous in terms of school time so good to know thank you well just to add to that during that episode I learned from Albert as well that back in the early 1990s and 2000s many of our facilities have the essential plant and there was a full redundancy that means two cooling towers two Chiller units etc for these types of MNS the situation in Greenfield occurred where the one that was still under repair was still under repair and not working and so the one that was available went down so that's really what caused the issue but fortunately the planning back when we were building schools was very good to put in those redundancies knowing that we live in the state of Arizona if that's one more question quick can you give me an example of projects under a hundred thousand dollars the 17 million toward that just an example or two so I think that Albert could probably provide that for you um some of these were small just for example some small mechanical um Replacements in the central plant so pumps secondary pumps things that get the water the chill water to and from the building so those would come in at maybe just depending on on the size of the site maybe we're looking to fifty to sixty thousand dollar range at the time um I think we did another one we did some updates to our our building automation controls and we were around that uh ninety thousand dollar range as well so just those cumulatively uh you know came to that 16.9 and we're also reconciling that 16.9 as well because it's important with this effort of Master Capital planning that we know what those projects actually were so we're in the process of reconciling that too yeah because then we could separate it into the mechanical and absolutely then it would go where it belongs yep absolutely thank you and this allows you to be proactive as opposed to reactive correct yes most of the time yes yeah that's true that's true sometimes the problems move faster than we can um and this is just a grid that shows the actual spend over time so you can see in the case of a bond we were approved in the in November of 2015 we were able to conduct a bond sale in the spring of 2016 allowing us to begin our our projects in 2016.
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you can see over time that we were accelerating the amount of money spent on a fiscal year basis so and the reasons are very clear that in 2021 and 2022 for example the interest rates were overall less than one percent there were it was an incredible opportunity for our taxpayer to decrease our debt service requirement and we needed the repairs and so we accelerated our projects during that time so I wanted to make sure that was clear with with all of you I just had one question on this chart because I I saw that you have yellow for playgrounds but I don't I don't see that we've done any work on playgrounds in this chart a tiny little bit that you can't see because of the scale okay because we we haven't put a lot of money into playground we have not and generally speaking when there are repairs we have been using unrestricted capital I believe right is that right Albert yeah okay well that makes sense because we didn't include that really in the bond Authority necessary so it would have been it would have been allowed under the the facility reinvestment but we didn't really specify that but but as an example uh Mr dalecki in Albert's area has gone through now and assessed all of our playgrounds and so we're creating a priority grid that will go into our Master Capital plan that will determine which of those playgrounds we need to address first so we we are definitely incorporating that work now into our normal work that's great yeah that's great so this particular graph just shows the decade in which the school was built and the amount of money expended so it was important that we added the number of sites you can see that Gilbert Elementary was built in 1950 so that represents one site Mesquite Junior was built in 1960 and then Patterson Elementary was built in 1970 so you can see the dollar amounts and this is cumulative for all years right it's just the dollar amount being spent based upon how old the building is so it would make sense that in 1990 13 sites we've addressed the most money out of 13 sites and in the 2000s those built in the 2000s 14 sites we've addressed you know a little over 25 million dollars so it kind of shows the age of the building and the reinvestment that we've um that we've done in Gilbert and then this is a total grade level Bond spend by category just showing the dollar amount expended based upon k-6 7 8 9 12.
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uh note the elementary as you would expect would have the largest spend we have 26 schools in there so high school is next in junior high and then 7 12 just to point out that we have Gilbert Classical Academy in there now as well as Gilbert High School as well as a small portion of Desert Ridge in which their Central plans is shared and then Canyon Valley is in that grouping as well and then finally to look at the district-wide portion that's where all the technology occurs so we haven't been expending all of our Chromebooks on a per site basis we've been doing it centrally and then allocating them out same thing with the security cameras and then the other and then projects under a hundred thousand dollars which we are reconciling and moving into the other categories so we can figure out for sure where those are so we have made some improvements that are our district buildings I mean for example we now have more comfortable seating in our boardroom but that wasn't spent out of bond money how did we Finance those so when the when the unrestricted Capital came back we began allocating out certain dollar amounts for that furniture and equipment to include some at the district office complex the bond we have not in at least in 2015 and in 2019 we did not request authority to use Bond dollars on district office spaces were acquired by Statute to be very clear if we plan on doing that so all of the district office spend spend regarding furniture and equipment and any other upgrades HVAC equipment whatever the case may be has all come out of unrestricted Capital we redid the transportation facility a few years back that was 100 expended out of unrestricted Capital all right thank you you bet and then this shows the elementary facility spawn spend by category for each of our elementary schools you can see that we've touched each of our elementary schools a little bit I wanted to point out the large spend at Neely remember that in 2021 we were successful at selling the Neely property to the town of Gilbert and prior to that we had made the decision to move nearly into the Houston campus one of our lower enrolled campuses and so because of going from a population of about 350 up to nearly 800 students there was a significant amount of renovation that occurred at Houston at that time in addition remember that from 2016 through 2020 we still had projects at the old Neely that needed to be addressed so about 1.5 million dollars was spent at the old Neely building that was funded out of bond dollars just wanted to make sure that was clear sure Junior High facility Bond spend by category and then finally the high school facility Bond spend by category a note you would expect Mesquite High to be a large spend Albert mentioned to me today that Highland High you would expect Highland High to be to be greater because it's an older building well in 2007 or 2006 was that the prior Bond Dr McCord do you remember in 2006 it was approved so in what what was the time frame in which there was a fair amount of bond dollars spent on Highland High uh 2007 we replaced the mechanic the entire central plant so new chillers new towers so it's not that we haven't expended any money at some of these other high schools it's just that we chose to take the Chunk from 2015 through the present okay and why is there no oh you're going to the next and then yeah yeah I'm like where's Gilbert yeah so um so Gilbert is I'm sorry went the wrong way um so Gilbert because of the new middle school program we've now considered a 712 so you have Canyon Valley Gilbert Classical and Gilbert High notice the Desert Ridge mechanical so that's the example in which Desert Ridge was placed on a site with a central plant between the junior high and the high schools to provide some additional economies of scale and savings and so that's why that's reflected here so that represents all of the spend that's cumulative to date from the 2015 and 2019 Authority so any questions before I move on guess you're good thank you so now we're going to be into the detailed spend that have occurred in 2023 and I wanted to make sure it's clear that the spend in 2023 is planned spend as well as the completion of the spend last fall from the prior year so I wanted to make sure that everyone has that perspective that we're trying to figure out from that that fiscal year changeover you know how to account for things so as we were preparing this presentation we made the decision that we want to look prospectively and consider this spend primarily associated with anything that you all approved in 20 during the 2023 school year okay so not all of this spend has been accomplished to date I think is my point so first this is the 631 spend summary so this is that 2015 Authority so note that every single one every single dollar of that 5.5 million dollars has been spent in 2023 and then going to the fun 630 which is the 2019 Authority note that we had planned to spend with the actual so that actual dollar amount that 37 million dollars does include the portion that was paid off in last fall right from the prior years projects along with the additional um 23 million dollars of planned spend okay so leaving what we are projecting right now unencumbered unallocated of about 6.9 million dollars okay so this is the bond fund summary whoops that shows all of it together so about 66.3 million dollars has been spent or planned to be spent during the 2023 school year so here is the total 66.3 million dollars that has been allocated out and encumbered or accounted for so note student transportation three percent security four percent technology 32 percent in facility reinvestment 61 percent so now I'm going to hand this over to my friend um Mr Castellano to go through the details of the technology Services spend do you want me to drive for you John yes please okay you bet just tell me when to move okay Madam president members of the board Dr McCord thanks for having me here tonight um thank you Bonnie um yeah some of the stuff here you're going to see it's you see this every time we talk to you about the network infrastructure cabling but we will talk a little bit about the network refresh that we just began and then we'll review a little bit the audio visual refresh that we've completed and then a little bit about elementary uh a refresh that we've also completed the encumbrance is we won't talk a lot about that but that is just from projects mainly at the multi-purpose rooms at elementary and the junior highs which we're just waiting on parts so that stuff has definitely started rolling in and that's getting scheduled but I think that will will drag on a little bit through the hopefully not the remainder this year but but very well could but parts are finally catching up for the AV pieces there okay bye Mr Kessler so quickly this is we are now talking specifically about the 2023 spend we are specifically yes okay thank you and yours includes both 2015 and 2019 Authority as we can see from 6 30 and 631 funds yeah that was the cabling and I'll show you those schools for just a second yeah absolutely yeah um okay Bonnie thank you um yeah this was the majority of this was the last portion of the 2015 Bond spend so um uh all of our schools now that cabling has been completely refreshed in those sites so um we're sitting good there there's still a little a few Pockets here and there that we're working on but for the most part all cabling and all School District sites and departments has been replaced so um yeah that was the largest last part of that Bond spend from the 2015 um on bond um the big thing now that it seems like we've been planning the network refresh for two years now because again we were waiting on parts which is in our wireless access points all that equipment is now in it's kind of ironic those uh highly technical pieces are all in and now we're waiting on cables to connect some of those switches together but it's not stopping us we're actually able to start at the elementary sites because we do not need cables in those idfs and so we actually started last week and at Pioneer Elementary so we were able to go in on a Saturday and replace every single access point in the school and also those switches that those connect to and they were off and running Monday morning so we're excited to get going on that we will do um Val Vista lakes and Patterson Elementary actually this coming weekend so we will just can keep continuing on the smaller sites until we get those stacking cables in is what they're called and then we'll be able to hit the bigger sites which will take a little bit longer than probably the weekend to do those when we're done with this we will replace you know over 2 700 wireless access points in the district and almost 600 switches so it's a very large project I'm Scott Haase and his team are very efficient at this this is the second time in his career here that he's done this and so they're quick they're really quick so we're excited about that but it did give us time to configure everything properly and test before that all arrived so so it worked out so any questions do you have along the way please stop me so I do have one question remember replacing the cabling and the access points is that because of the upgrading technology or the age of the cabling the agent the cabling okay yeah any other questions on that thank you Bonnie so how what's the life what do you expect the life to be of what we're doing right now then for the cabling I mean seven to ten years on the cake um the network in which we want to get seven years out of that okay um it just depends how rapidly that changes Wireless changes constantly but it is backwards compatible with most of our devices now so that won't be a problem at this point so as long as we stay up with the Refresh on our devices then it should kind of work hand in hand um the AV refresh so we've completed the the AV refresh at all of our sites and used all the bond money for that at this point our vendor's just going back through um we're taking care of some issues and we'll be going back through all the schools making sure all that is taken care of um so we'll be working with them continually on that but it was it was a big big project on you can go ahead and um these are just some pictures obviously I I I recommend I mean you know I know you all are in schools but that's the best way to see how these things are being used they're not just using them to project uh anymore like we did with the projectors the inner interactivity and the students using these it's everyday something someone comes up with something new to do with them and it's good because it challenges us as well and so we learn from the teachers and the students but um it's it's been a big success to this point uh obviously it was a long project but we were able to do it without interrupting class time so we're really proud of that and again it's a five to seven year hopefully Endeavor there before we have to to refresh again but questions on that all right thank you our elementary laptop refresh and it doesn't just include the elementary teachers it also includes the desktops at the office staff at the elementary sites and then also we as part of that we started on the department to refresh as well so there's a lot wrapped up into that we were able to get to that done at the end of the last school year and then of course tonight's the secondary refresh is on the agenda as well for later and we will start that just as soon as we can get that equipment ordered and in and then we'll start planning that as well so by the end of before long before the end of the school year hopefully um we will have all secondary elementary teacher laptops refreshed office staff and as well as departments so again that's on a five-year refresh cycle and then keep in mind that the secondary refresh will be coming out of unrestricted Capital see that on the bond right yeah initially the two forward were right we've moved its capital now we're allocating Capital that's kind correct we've moved all technology especially because it's such a quick five to seven years which we try on the barn to have typically something that is longer a longer something that's lasts longer right is typical of a bomb spin right unless I cannot talk to yeah the device okay yeah okay yeah we've planned out seven to ten years in advance right so we can as well as we can yeah know that budgetary cost for that so any other questions on the Technologies I'm gonna do my best to go through some of the security uh Bond spend in 2023 for Mr Allen Kane you obviously can do much better than I but um as you can see he's done an amazing job at keeping this project going this is also an enormous enormous project and it does involve technology as well so it's been great to work work hand in hand with his team but at this time yeah all district offices High School junior Highs are complete they've done 16 elementary schools and then he expects to have the the other 10 completed by February this fiscal year of 2023 or so last fiscal year he was able to complete two high schools four district offices the junior highs in 12 Elementary so and I'll Bonnet if you want to hit that next I think everyone thinks security cameras are just a fine people breaking in at night right at night right but that's just not it there's so much more that him and his team can do with this and the schools have done with this as you can see what Kara Reyes said but it's really done a lot to even help find a student that may be missing on an elementary campus or maybe hiding somewhere he uses the technology in a good positive way that way to find where that student went so that student may have come out of a classroom and then where did that student go and they can quickly go back and use the technology that way so a lot of other uses for the security cameras and his team's done a great job with that so fiscal year 2023 and 424 cameras were installed but over 1100 views and so what what he means by that is some cameras will have three to four heads inside them so you're getting multiple views with the cameras so it makes them very efficient and allows them to cover all the campuses with less actual mounted cameras and once done he anticipates having over 1300 cameras and 3 300 views so it's the Project's been going very well excited money and there's been a lot of positive feedback to everyone about the security cameras okay so this is something we very much wanted noted so this the security operations center which is on the tech services campus um he now is able to staff that every day all day long and so he has the five elementary um patrol officers or security officers that he has and he has um uh he rotates them through their morning and afternoon so there's always someone in the in the sock and so they do all kinds of stuff to help out whether it's 9-1-1 calls monitoring the tip line which is real time that comes in alarms lockdown drills they can all he can they can help from that central location because of course in there they can pull up every single security camera in this school district along with the front door cameras for entryways as well so it's really amazing to go in there and kind of see what they're doing because they don't just sit there they're very busy communicating with the sites and helping the security guards on the campus as well so it's been a it's been a great project to watch I believe that's it so I have a quick question um we've actually Chad and I toured that together very impressive that that brain Center there will you just clarify where the security cameras are located on our campuses and where they're not located just to make a clarification like we don't have security cameras in classrooms and bathrooms but everywhere else correct no no okay correct okay and they're not and again it's the perimeter of the school I'm in right it's not you know far far out in a parking lot that is not where the cameras are at at this time do we have them inside like hallways at like like the high school every classrooms entryways hallways perimeter uh we will be looking at possibly installing some out in parking lots but this was our main Priority First was the actual physical campus so okay thank you okay now I'm gonna hand this over to Mr Trace Toby to talk about the 2023 Bond spend details for transportation so I will drive for you oh yeah good evening everybody um thanks for having me here um what we did with the money as far as we I should back up all vehicles are horrible to get right now we're still two years out if we ordered something so a lot of these were ordered way back when and they're just finally coming in but the industry like John was talking about getting parts it's it's everywhere it's not just nit stuff so um but what we were able to get in we got three of the sped buses two of the multi-use buses the 54 passengers up there and then two of the 84 passengers and I'll explain what they are here in a minute but that kind of gives you the idea of the of the money that we spent okay the 37 passenger sped buses these are our day in day out door to door picking up sped kids buses the floor is tracked if you've never seen the inside of a bus but we can add seats or we can add wheelchair spots depending on the route depending on how many kids are on the route depending on this kid's own wheelchair now and he wasn't before or something like that so that they're very adjustable on what we need the wheelchair lift itself is about 800 pounds capacity which sounds like a lot but when you get electric chairs and the size of the high school kids and stuff like this that keeps increasing over the years they were about 400 now they're up to eight now they're even going up to a thousand so that's that was a big thing there we have two rows of integrated child seats which looks like a bus seat but it has a velcroed in child seat that pops out for if we've got a haul the preschoolers have the little guys that you need to strap in we can use them and it's just more ability to use we talked about AC earlier these have 126 000 BTU which sounds like enormous it is a car has about 12 000 so it's really robust AC in them especially for the sped kids and they've got tinted windows and air ride suspension for the software ride for those kids another connection I didn't get it oh get it um the the multi-use bus and this is kind of something that we've been trying here lately and it's working real well it's a shorter bus than a regular route buses they're 54 passenger but we can use them for special needs as well as we can use them to pick up a stop from a regular Ed if we need to um we don't combine those two obviously but if a sped route is done early and we had a breakdown in route we can send one of these buses to go pick up that stop that the breakdown didn't get to or something like this so just there again flexibility for us it's got the the integrated child seats and it also it's got the big AC got the air ride got everything else so the other ones it just does not have the wheelchair lift and it's not tracked so we've kind of use it for a special purpose that way and then the last one is our big ones that you see or everybody calls them our big bus it's 84 passenger it's the 300 horsepower Cummins engine and it's got luggage compartments these are made for picking up regular ed kids but also for field trips and we kind of use them for both of that way so it will it's capable to run to Flagstaff and back with a sports team as well as going stop to stop to stop to pick up the kids in the morning it's got a little bit bigger AC but still tinted windows still air ride still everything else and these run a little bit faster on the road can't go over 65 legally but they're mower for a road type buses than the AC and then the sped buses any questions I do have a question do do our buses have seat belts or not seat belts I mean that's sped buses are required by law to have seat belts so they all do okay the regular red buses do not okay um there's been numerous numerous numerous studies on safety regarding that and everything else um we did perch everything that I've been purchasing since I've been here I have seat belt ready frames so if they ever would come back and mandatory it I could just bolt in seat belts okay just just thank you how do you guys decide who gets to drive the new buses we throw dice it's more based on Route than it is anything because you want the guys that normally will run field trips I'd like to keep them in their same bus so they can run their route and then go right from their route to go do the field trips and then it's depend on how many kids are on what route who gets what bus Bonnie had a couple questions um do we get any federal refunds or not refunds but any federal funding since we have to abide by federal regulations with percent buses does that come into our budget at all so we are eligible to use uh idea monies which is the individual with disabilities Education Act so we are allowed to allocate those to our special education bus buses and and Staffing generally speaking we do not know those monies are very limited so we save those monies for the classroom we did attempt to apply for a grant for electric buses we weren't successful but we're going to try it again good any other questions okay so now we're going to go into the 2023 operations spend details so this is the amount that's planned again planned to be spent so grounds mechanical structural again structural are those roofs flooring bathrooms mechanical is your HVAC electrical lighting and then grounds of course is the athletic venues as well as some of our playgrounds those types of smart irrigation we had the smart irrigation project that sort of thing so with that I'm going to hand over the rest to Mr dutchover and I'll go ahead and drive for you if you want me to but you can drive for yourself if you want no no you can drive just don't crash okay I won't thank you okay here's Again part of the large uh lighting project we had done uh throughout multiple campuses this is Highland High's auxiliary field obviously on top that's the the before picture no lighting below obviously with lighting this is something used uh for preparation for uh band performances and Orchestra performances a need and a lack that they had so we addressed it by putting lights on on the field again here was another one this this drive was extended probably about that same time uh 2007 2008 uh Gilbert High their their North Drive for queuing not only for parent and pickup but if you go further east as the toy Toy Box pick up and drop off again as you can see from the above picture a lack of lighting safety hazard when you get into the later evenings um longer longer mornings So Below is is obviously with the light Improvement Mr Ryan accused Albert of turning off the lights for the top picture that did not happen so I actually told Bonnie I got him on that one because on this one you could look at there's no light poles on top but I actually did that for the previous slide we missed it um again this is uh Highland High School [Music] um the first picture indicates a lot of what you see around the district uh it's just kind of a fix a quick fix that's the asphalt curbing used as a as a as a ramp or Ada access point which obviously deteriorates over time isn't the ideal solution so what we did with the below picture is created true Ada approaches as we do have a high amount of sped students that do frequent as well as their teachers and companions throughout that back Drive area and walkways again another another large portion that we had done is there was a high need at all our athletic venues for pedestrian walkways to and from whether it be the the rear entries or then the front of the school um to access our athletic venues whether it be the baseball field or the the track and Stadium so this is just to kind of give you an overview of what we we covered in those in those projects oh wow and how much square footage and space keep in mind that all of the um all the issues that occur with somebody falling or hurting themselves all of the insurance claims come through my office and so when Albert and I walked out on all these areas it was very very clear that we didn't want to let it go any longer and keep in mind that I believe all these asphalt walkways were original I believe yeah they hadn't been touched since the Inception of the schools and this is a revised picture so Campo Verde this is the first we did polished concrete here so pretty much shortly after the school was built we continue to have problems with moisture on the um on the foundation which is kind of a silly way to put it but it kind of gave an acne look to the entire VCT flooring that was was in place which again that's what created the etching here while you see the squares it's not necessarily by Design but it's a nice little design um so the solution was to allow a breathable surface so we we opted to do the polished concrete this Paula's concrete wasn't necessarily ideal for the the classrooms again for acoustical values and other points so what we did is we found a product that allows allows the slab to vent and dissipate the moisture I know that sounds as if that that carpet would be wet but it allows it to breathe enough to where that moisture evaporates and it's not present underneath in the past what we'd find is we'd pull back carpet or VCT and you'd have almost a puddle that you could put your hand in underneath the previous flooring interior exterior paint Playa del Rey was one of the schools that we had done a large grouping of projects on last year in in Canada the final piece to that was the interior piece we last year we did exterior restrooms as well as flooring this year we finished them off by doing the the interior painting of a refresh and might visit the first week of school Amber shared this with me the new families came in they were so excited they said oh my gosh how did you get a new school it was fun Campbell and Campo Verde again was in dire need of exterior paint which does equate to weatherization as well moisture penetration not only just the Aesthetics but um again it just says it's done to similar facilities it's allowed us to incorporate the school color more towards the school color and give it a fresh look in a more modern look this was a comment we got from Tyler Dumas his student advisory Council was pretty excited about the paint surprisingly enough [Music] Mesquite High School as well as is Campo Verde we're looking for more collaborative space for their students to gather not only during class time as well as well as during lunch or in between periods this is Mesquite High School this is a before they had already gotten gotten started on the project years past we had created some collaboration spaces as you can see in the picture to the left in the back with just the standard doors to them so what we did here is in the main space we we changed a few things added some paint put um Hard Solid Surface floors this allows the students to come in bring their lunch collaborate on projects and other presentations and we updated their collaboration space more it gave it more open look more of an open look which not only allowed the students and to function within but allows staff to keep an eye on the students that are in in the classes and note that this was the former Library as well for Mesquite High and so that area that's carpeted to the left does incorporate still some of the stacks in the area to the right with the LBT is where they have all of the collaboration desks and tables and stuff like that the kids actually come in at lunch they bring their lunches with them we also made a modification in nutrition services where we have a movable cart and they're actually moving one staff member over into this Commons during the lunch hour and they're actually the kids are adopting it and and buying and choosing the prepackaged lunches that are offered there so it's been a pretty good um pretty good Innovation for Mesquite High Campo Verde has done something similar but more in their what's currently their Resource Center obviously this this project is just kicking off so I only have the concept drawing but as you can see here is Bonnie points uh we're we're putting a covered awning as well as a roll-up door more of a cafe Style with a Ingress egress the door to the left and right so during the cooler months that door could we could roll that door up and students could come and go back and forth as well as there will be a patio space again so they could collaborate underneath the the awnings during during the nicer portion of the year so this is the rear of the administration building yes okay yes so South Valley Roofing this was last fall just so you know so so we we had a deterioration or premature deterioration of of the roofing component which was foam built up roof um as you can see here as well as the classroom pictures anytime we had a large rain that would intrude into the to the rooms quite a bit so we ended up putting going in and we put a more of a single membrane roof a TPO roof to give it more of a a sealed envelope we've been doing pretty good with all the rains I I will be honest there's been a few leaks but it's been more more so on the mechanical side where uh things have blown off and it penetrated that way so uh just one thing to note on that last slide I'm sorry um a side note is again this was another facility with high rates of failure for HVAC systems again talking lead times this this is a project that we think is board approved mid to late April po was cut we had about a 37 week lead time on HVAC units so we're still waiting we may be into March of 24 before we get these Pro these on the roof as they do trickle in we will move quicker if possible but again that just kind of goes back to that supply chain and some of the issues we've had and this is this is one that we were running and gunning on all summer they're they're dying quicker than we could revive them so so do we have temporary options until we can get everything fixed we do if we need to we've just been repairing these you know and it's it's been a I mean we've been keeping them alive and we've been keeping things going um but it I mean they've kept our guys busy there's been points of time I have seven HVAC technicians um there's times where I've had four to five guys at that school um again with even being understaffed I say we have seven fully staffed um during the the hotter hottest part of the summer you know that mid July through August I think we're running with four guys uh throughout the district and I mean you're talking 5 million square feet of cooling and 62 square miles of uh space that we're running to so well thank goodness that they're there thank you for having them but just a real quick Lori if we did need to we would have a temporary solution for this um so perimeter fencing this is Bert this is right now we are in progress for this project this is the entire perimeter of Burke Elementary there was a need due to deterioration over time not only due to water but just moisture in general you can see some of these block areas this is with within the block uh the wrought iron fence is already deteriorating as well as to the right you see the deterioration due to due to water and moisture I did highlight these two right here because they're they're not near the irrigation they're they're in a dry area but again The Rock was or the rock the block was starting to deteriorate uh making it a safety hazard and a security Hazard for uh for the facility this is our newest secured entryway this is Mesquite Junior High We redesigned the front office so if you could picture that this is when you walk right into the front doors this is not completed it's in progress again again going back to blaming lead times and supply chain the biggest one here was the frames and glass enclosures so those in the coming weeks will be be installed and these are some more pictures uh throughout that office it's kind of made it more of a true functional space and separates the lobby from the actual the office space other capital projects our other capital projects not funded through bond that we tackled this summer three facilities we we replaced the entire field with new sod Desert Ridge Gilbert High School and Highland High School it's top two were Gilbert or Desert Ridge High School to the left is Gilbert High and then to the right is Highland High School this is one of the comments that Albert got when they're watching the football games so that side it's natural grass natural grass so so one of the reasons to to kind of kick that off is Desert Ridge um it actually was we had two types of grass within that field we had a Saint Augustine and a Bermuda combo and you can see I did kind of a close review so you can see the broad leaf of the Saint Augustine mixed in with the the Bermuda and that kind of gave it it was it gave us some difficulties maintaining that field because those two are are wear tolerant at different points so St Augustine is a moderate where the Bermuda is a high tolerant and actually the recommended Mo Heights for Saint Augustine is two to four inches where Bermuda you could take down to half to a inch and a half and so basically they lived and died several times and and they were you know if we mowed to accommodate for the Bermuda we are burning out to Saint Augustine and so we were never able to properly maintain and field a good looking field I mean until we got outside of the um outside of whether it be football and soccer season so that's why we we went and just replaced it with the 419 Tiff and I think I think this is true too I don't think we've ever replaced the Sod at any of our high schools since these schools were built I I don't think fully not fully we've done partials between hash marks yeah yeah um so this is a an after the entire field and then I also took a close-up just more of the consistency you can see the difference between the original two pictures this is another comment that Albert received from fellow with Hunter irrigation so he was a guy that's in grass right that's kind of fun again we assist we assisted with the food service department I'm probably going to butcher this for Natalie but what we did is um we help them renovate and and modernize their serving lines I don't have the before I apologize we had individual rows so individual serving lines throughout front and back of that the um of the front of the cafe um we were able to give them more of an open space and more of a functional space for students to come and then they supplied the the equipment to allow for different options or more creative options for servings this is Mesquite Junior same thing here and so these serving lines were fully funded through the nutrition services fund fun 510 so again this was another kitchen project similar to what we did about a year ago at Gilbert High School we had another failing system which is our our boiler that feeds hot water to the kitchen and the building for specifically for Highland High again that being a health and safety hazard we looked into replacements and so now we have more of a high efficiency unit as well as totally integrated to building automation so we can monitor not only water temps but deficiencies or failures beforehand I try to stay ahead of ahead of the problems so that's all we have on the pictures of before and after and then just really quick just the tax rate summary so you can see that the town of Gilbert and the Gilbert Public Schools boundary continues to increase and assess value that has another been another reason that provides us opportunities but at the same time we've been able to keep the tax rate low and continue to lower it over time so again very thankful that we've had the approval from our local taxpayer we're doing everything we can to keep that tax rate low and that's the end of our report thank you very much board members are there any further questions I just appreciate all the work just so you know Mr Thompson this used to be like a quarter of a page to explain the whole thing and I requested that we give more information and pictures to our community excuse me well with that thank each of you not even just for the report but for all the work that's gone into this and all that you do for our students each day we appreciate it we appreciate you guys thank you thank you did you want to take a little break or no to you five minutes we'll take five minute break we'll be back at seven twelve yeah 25 years are we ready to start okay yeah [Music] thank you we will continue with our brief board business meeting with um oh no we'll continue with our work study sorry 2.02 Master Capital plan final published report presentation Dr McCart thank you madam president governing board members as many of you know the master Capital plan committee has been working for I think a year a little over a year and they've come to this juncture that they want to present to you a final report so okay we'll turn it over so thank you all first I'd like to introduce our guests this evening so to the right of me is Mr Scott swinski he's with Orcutt Winslow as well as Olivia forish she's a brand new architect so she's been there for about a year and she's been instrumental in actually putting together the final product that's in your binder in front of you I just wanted to share this is still in draft form so we we will get all of the final edits completed this week and we'll actually have a published document on the website by Friday the 15th so just so you're aware and then we're going to be tag team tag teaming this presentation so first I wanted to provide an overall process summary that has culminated in today we started and I was asking I can't remember when we signed the contract but sometime Last Summer and then I wanted to share just the details of the formal Master Capital plan report organization just to help you digest this book that's in front of you and then have time for questions at the end so first chose Partners last summer Orcutt Winslow and amaresco so Orca is the architectural partner and then ameresco has provided the tool that we can collect all the data so we are Albert and I will be going through a training process in early October with ameresco so that we can take over the use of that tool and continue to update it so as an example we have all of these projects that we did over the summer we will be able to update the condition of all of our facilities once we get that training so that we can recalculate that facility condition index that we've shared with you before um again as part of the process we did a full facility assessment so we have had a master Capital planning grid that Albert has been using since 2015 that basically lists all of our facilities and lists the the date in which they were built and then the variety of components that are part of the facility the roof the the flooring the interior paint the exterior paint all those components and he's been operating and making priority recommendations based upon the life cycle time frame not necessarily about the assessment of the condition of the facility so this facility condition assessment was able the partner firm amresco and their Engineers went through every single one of our facilities to include all of our district office buildings and actually looked at each of the individual components and gave a score based upon what they were seeing so it was a combination of what they saw took a bunch of pictures and then also considered the age and the lifecycle the various components again that process would allow us to be more clear about what our priorities should be with the next available resource um at that point in time then now we have to figure out okay we got this assessment well how are we going to prioritize those projects so we created um seven priority questions about does it impact safety is it Ada related those types of questions and that's part of the master Capital plan and then finally Orcutt Winslow and their staff members went out to every single building and determined what we call a learning environment assessment so this is about what's the quality of the lighting in the classrooms is their natural light what's the quality of the furniture even but Scott is going to go into more details about that and then we began the process of determining educational specifications so what should our CTE culinary be what kind of equipment should we have in there what kind of a should we have a demo space and should it be have audio visual available and what kind of sound systems do we need those kinds of things so we've begun that process as well and then the then that's led to where we are today where we're compiling the results of all of that and putting it into a formal document the final report organization if you want to page along with me the the book in front of you so the first part is the introductory section so I just wanted to let you know how to read the book and then if you go to the first tab it just gives you some information about where is Gilbert Public Schools today and this is mostly about how are we doing with our enrollment how are we doing with um with our academic achievement what are all the awards that we've been awarded over the last year those types of information is in there and then the next section is the adequacy so this is that facility condition assessment that I talked to you about in the next tab it's the suitability so this is the learning environment tab gives you information on how that was done and then the next tab is recommended recommendations and next steps and yes I recognize that recommendations is misspelled so I want you to know that we do know that that's why this is a draft document so we still have to do that quality control check and then finally the last section is the campus specific details and Olivia is going to go through some spreads of some example schools so you can see how we've organized them to give a picture of each individual school facility we have here in Gilbert public schools and with that I would like to hand this over to Mr thank you so I'm going to follow the slides rather than the book but the slide up right now the the two graphics on there kind of represent the spheres of influence of what we took into consideration when going through the capital Master planning process so on the left side the spheres of influence really focus on where we would gather the information from and so uh stakeholder input was a portion the program's best practices was an influence and then the environment assessment as well as the facility conditions assessment so all of those kind of layer on top because you really can't just look at one and then in addition on the right side we discuss kind of how you move from maybe having educational goals all the way to educational outcomes and what those influences along the way typically are and so the capital master plan takes into consideration all of those items as a document me me still okay all right um and so one thing as far as the conditions assessment to take home I think is just the uh the breadth of what you're overseeing within the conditions assessment I mean 4.8 million square feet uh I think it's easy to sit back and and look at the amount of money that you would have to spend to upkeep it but then within the view of what you're actually maintaining it's pretty reasonable um to have that Outlook and then be able to address those needs as they come yep so um the enrollment Trends so obviously if you're going to look at how you're going to be using your facilities and what kind of upgrades you need to make you have to consider your enrollment Trends just wanted to share this um figure with you this was provided by Mr Brammer at a retreat last week and I I just thought that this was a really good example of how Gilbert Public Schools is perceived we are attracting over 20 percent of our population from out of school districts so we really are a destination School District within the East Valley and we're pretty excited about that so one of the most important one of the most important values that you'll see in the master Capital plan is this FCI which is facility condition index and so that's basically the cost of everything that's wrong with a building or wrong with an item over the current replacement value and so basically what you're looking at is the percentage of a facility that needs help so you want it to be as low as possible once it reaches over 30 percent industry standards says that that's critical level so we want all of our ranges to be lower than that and so I just wanted to show this graphic here so amaresco is the company that we worked with to gather all of this data and so they've surveyed a huge amount of schools I think it says 13 000 schools and the average FCI of all of those facilities was at 44 and so Gilbert is currently at 10 which is relatively good um in comparison to all of those schools and so that was something important to show from the master yeah and so uh on one end we had the facilities condition index which is pretty easy to wrap your head around you can go through make an assessment understand maybe the life cycle of an asset whatever that asset is whether it's an HVAC unit but there are things beyond the black and white maybe that qualitative metric that we wanted to go through and assess and so outside of the fcis we wanted to assess the learning environments and so this is the suitability of the space and an analogy that I always use is that a gas station might be in perfect working order but it would function very poorly for a school and so looking at things from that perspective that's obviously an exaggerated example but it kind of puts it into perspective okay well is the space at adequate yes but is it suitable for modern learning so what we were able to do at each campus was assess a variety of things that are shown on the screen on the right so for example on the the slide currently we are showing a cumulative result for the high schools we have results for every campus individually but this right now is representing how the high schools are doing and so earlier today we acknowledged the interactive teaching walls that was a priority but now you can see as the blue bar is going to the right that we're now in the optimal condition for something like that so you can kind of see as we went through yes most all spaces are now taking on all cylinders within that purview but then if you look down at say lighting controls almost across the board if you go into a classroom there's two ways that you could can control light on or off and so in addition most the classrooms maybe even at the elementary level or whatever you go in and you can see all kinds of different ways that teachers are trying to get around that maybe they're hanging sheets Under The Lights just to dim it a little bit because now that we're using devices or screens or glare control some of those things are becoming more of an issue then we're able to see and assess from a district level where some of these things are falling short of what we would most optimally want them to be and so as you kind of zoom out as far as assessing maybe what we're looking at so those were the the easy obvious things that create a good learning environment and so we were able to go through and assess those and and so each of those kind of have their respective report outs from that so I just have a question on this because some of these um obviously we're doing really well in the blue um some of these where it's kind of there's a blue bar and an orange bar um kind of explain to me what that means for example water access yeah looks like that's kind of divided so what does what does the what do those shoe cars mean so it's kind of a sliding bar where if you take the total length of the bar it's the same that's 100 but if you zoom in real far I think lighting controls there's a one percent that had it and 99 that didn't so if you go down one to natural daylight you're more like a 50 55 55 45 okay so just overarching you're looking at a campus you can see oh okay so how many spaces and when we looked at natural daylight it was more like a space like this where you have people in here often we're not worried about storage closets for example we're just worried about main living or learning environments and so um now when the district would like to make decisions moving forward about how to allocate certain dollars for different projects they have a pretty good idea or understanding of what might be sub-optimal and where it's sub-optimal so when you're talking specifically about water access what does that mean uh in the classroom so for example um I'd say best practices for a high school math classroom you don't really need sinks but for an Elementary classroom that is a hired need and so that's what that water access is however across the board water access is is useful probably in more cases than it's not I mean the math classroom is probably the anomaly but I can probably find a math teacher that wants water yeah right exactly yeah culinary arts definitely needs water acts so the other point about the natural daylight this this room in particular would fail it'd have a big and it's a beautiful room right yeah but contrary to that I showed you the picture of um of Playa and they have this beautiful um Skylight in the middle of the hallway that brings in that natural light in the entire main hallway leading down which is very attractive and appealing so just a couple of examples okay all right thank you I appreciate understanding that sure yeah so I just had a question Bonnie um let's just go back to lighting controls just so I understand this so you're saying like in this room for instance you would say you would recommend getting dimmable fluorescent lights is that what you're trying to say on this is that that would be a solution sure and and so I mean I don't want to unpack this too much but when we went and did a survey at I don't know thousands of rooms we needed to come up with a yes no type of response that wouldn't get skewed by people's opinions so it was is there a lighting control mechanism present or not and so it wasn't really like a spectrum that we were so this is just black and white well that particular issue for sure like the the harder ones might be like flexible furniture that can get unpacked differently too like well is this flexible or is it not flexible that I'm sitting in now but yeah so that's kind of how that was uh assessed and if you're interested in the metrics by which we assessed all of these items in the book it goes through and there's definitions for each one of them that kind of describes like for flexible Furniture we used a 40 second rule so if the room could be rearranged by all of the students in under 40 seconds we considered that to be flexible um so we were using that kind of judgment you can read about it and what section would that be in them uh which one it's in the the academic suitability isn't that adequacy the suitability okay all right thank you I think too it's it's good to know that again this is informational we can use it how we want to now now that since they were going to since they had access to every classroom every space everything it just gives us that much information so then we can say okay what does what does that mean for us and how do we use that information it doesn't necessarily mean like you're failing or you're that's correct it's more of an input so as a great example is that every time Albert goes in and touches a classroom so let's use the computer labs that have been converted to a regular education classroom he's not just doing the flooring and making the modifications to the space but he's also changing the lighting from fluorescent LED so this information gives us that additional stuff that we can decide whether we're going to do it or not it and it goes back to that first slide where I spoke about the areas of influence and so if someone wants to make a decision between hey let's invest our our dollars in a or b you can layer on those multiple things so that you can make a well-rounded decision rather than just having one one set data point so I'm happy to give this back to Olivia because she she and their internet Orcutt Shireen what's her last name Olivia wanted to give her some credit [Music] oh mood or something like that yes yes I'm sorry man I put you on the spot there I'm so sorry you're gonna have to figure that out almost morning I'm just sorry so um anyway so the two of them spent a lot of time putting these pages together that really I thought they turned out very well representing each of our individual schools so we're going to hand over the rest of the report to Olivia sure and I'm just gonna run you guys through one example of each School type so it'll just be three and they're they're kind of shaped awkwardly in these slides but they're clearly made for the spreads in their booklets but um this is the beginning slide that we have for each one of the schools oak tree is the example it's one of the elementaries and so each one has a description provided by the principal of each each institution and then we've got some quick stats just to show you where the school is at what size it is just to get a good understanding of how many students there are unique program offerings that we identified we have several lists of those and then we also wanted to show the enrollment demographics so what the school has done over the past 10 years if their population has gone up or down and so then each school also has a page that shows the facility condition assessment and so this is all of that like if you have structural work mechanical work so it represents all of that it shows you what year it needs to be done in and what priority levels we range things as high low or medium priority so you can see all of that and it's done by cost so the bigger the bar the greater the cost um and then we also went through and listed out for each school um high priority action items for the next five years and then on the right you've got the learning environment assessment which we just went over for each School and so this is our example of a junior high the South Valley Junior and again it's the same stuff on the cover sheet all the same information just with a different School so on each of these schools on the first Square they're you have current FCI which is the facilities condition index condition index so most of these and that's what you want to be low yeah yeah 11.39 that that's a great score for a facility that of this age yeah anything under 15 is okay really good really good and so for the junior highs and the high schools we're also including some of the programmatic offerings so we went into the Career and Technical offerings performing arts and Athletics just to show what you guys have to offer at Gilbert and so again this is that five-year Outlook to show five-year action items the associated costs and the learning environment assessment I I just have to ask does um South Valley Junior High they don't have a seventh grade choir it just says choir eight so I just that was the question when I looked at it earlier oh okay sorry thank you thank you so the last one is the high school Desert Ridge High and again you see the same statistics the most important thing is the next slide with the high school one thing that we did differently with the high schools is we noticed that a lot of them have very similar Career and Technical offerings but each High School tends to have a specialty or a program that they offer that no other high schools offer um and so on the high school spreads you'll see unique offerings for each high school and so those were selected based on like if you have two or less high schools that have one program then it's in the unique offerings category just to kind of show off which high schools specialize in what foreign I'll just also acknowledge the reason that that sort of information was included was that if you had a side-by-side comparison you might have two prototypical schools that are exactly the same but they might have something happening in them that alters your perspective as far as whether you would invest in that or not and so that's why we wanted to position that information so that it can be part of the the decision making well and I do love these graphics for each of the different departments and things that we have I think that that's very helpful well into Scott's point the best example I can think of right off the bat regarding the city unique offering would be at Gilbert High they have the meats Lab at Gilbert High we're not necessarily going to create a Meats Lab at every single high school however that is a very specific facility need regarding the amount of power Refrigeration stainless steel within the classroom you know all those kinds of things so that information helps us as we're going to go into a building how to determine what the overall needs are to include those programmatic needs we also um we identified areas of emphasis at the end of the master Capital plan which are areas that the district should you know kind of focus their attention um and a lot of those included CTE performance and so we really wanted to be able to see those areas of each school and understand where they needed help and which schools had a variety of programs that might need things and I think that was it that's it so if you have any questions we're all prepared to answer them just just a note there was only 21 slides in there you could have included a few more of these it was dessert but we got a notebook to make up for that yes this looks great and I I really love looking over this I love looking at all that we offer and the opportunities that our students have and the way that we're working hard to make sure our facilities are efficient are suitable are maintained but also fiscally responsible in all that we do and so I'm I'm excited to keep looking at this and then I'm glad that we have all of these um this information to continue to inform our decisions and make the best decisions that we can going forward so was there anything else that anybody wanted to no I just think it's a really in-depth look I know that there has been talk for quite a while about a master's facility plans and I really am glad to see that we've gone through the work to put it together and inform our decisions and I think it really gives us a lot of opportunities to to really be specific in how we spend our money and to support those programs and things and just a reminder that we're not one and done we're very committed to maintain the facility assessments we've got this great database now so it's important that we maintain it and that we we are hoping to do a formal report to this body at least every two years where we can update the facility condition index and let you and the community know the progress towards achieving at least that 10 to 15 percent facility condition index throughout and meet the needs of our students well into the future I think too there's other opportunities as well to kind of have standards as far as what direction do we want to go as far as CT like you've said it kind of has brought up some really good opportunities to really discuss and focus in on how are we going to meet the next generation of this and what does that look like and how we're going to best fund it provide for it and what does that even look like which maybe we haven't had the foresight or the time or the information to really do in the past so I think it kind of actually brings up a lot more that we need to do a lot more opportunities to really look at and discuss things too so well I and I just had this thought it gives us a good look at every school to make sure that we're that every school is getting what it needs that there's not you know for example flexible Furniture maybe we have one school that's newer that has more of that and is there another campus that maybe needs to be brought up to a little modern modernization in what they have so I think that's a really good point to be very Equitable in how we spend our money and make sure that we're addressing the needs of every student well and I think that as Olivia pointed out there are differences at each campus and so those need to be considered as we're making decisions so you don't need all the same classroom spaces maybe at a Neely or a GCA in comparison to a more comprehensive Elementor or um high school so all this information is in there and then I also wanted to share that the master Capital plan includes all the district office complexes it's important to know that we've assessed everything so we do not gen and we haven't on the request for this November we have not again asked for authority to use Bond dollars for district office spaces but air conditioning goes out in the district office as well so we have to make sure that we are assessing those and we understand their condition and that's in the master Capital plan as well you don't want flexible Furniture Bonnie well this is flexible it's all on Wheels no I'm kidding thank you Scott and Olivia this is a very thorough and um very informative so thank you guys appreciate it well done thank you very much I appreciate it all right with that I believe that will adjourn our work study then and we will move to our brief board business meeting I will call that meeting to order and I will ask Ms Wilson for the real call please Mr Chad Thompson here Miss Laurie wood here Miss Sheila you Daddy here miss Jill Humphries here Miss Rhonda page here Madam president all board members are present you have a quorum thank you board members that takes us to the consent agenda items 5.01 approval of consent agenda items is there a motion I move that we approve the consent agenda items as presented thank you Mr Jetty it's been moved as their second nice second thank you Mrs page 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 and any opposed with nay thank you that will take us to our adjournment of our brief board business meeting board members is there a motion I move that we adjourn thank you Miss Humphries it's been moved that we adjourn is our second second thank you Mr Thompson it's been moved and seconded that we adjourn all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye aye any opposed with me thank you very much we appreciate it all right
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no good Ness let me know when I mess up the minutes oh okay no okay I'm gonna call the meeting to order at six o'clock I will need to um I'll need a motion to adopt the agenda I move to adopt the agenda as presented a second Stephen all in favor aye aye motion carries five to zero we're gonna go ahead and do the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States world okay um I'll need approval on the meeting on the meeting minutes I move to approve the minutes from the August 9th regular board meeting as presented second uh abstaining because I was not here okay um current events superintendent report okay you'll notice we've changed up the superintendent report just a little bit um and then we'll make uh be adding to it as we as we get used to it just a few things as we got school starting up did want to give a shout out to the business uh Department again they uh were received notification that they received the asbo international certificate of excellence of financial reporting for the FY 2022 annual comprehensive financial report so that's a report of our of our budget and how we spend our money importantly it's the 13th year in a row that we've received it so congratulations to Miss Cook and our entire department for the hard work and on that thank you 19th 20th and 21st uh CHS is presenting A Midsummer Night's Dream um so there's reserve seating available depending on how crowded it is you've got to get tickets in advance uh the CTE stagecraft course has completed the set design the lighting and audio and then the Stu student performers will dazzle with the audience in this comedy by William Shakespeare so that will be next week for three nights Simonson's kicking off a new fundraiser it's raised craze is in full swing students and families are asking for donations to directly support the school in the community students show gratitude for the donor's generosity by finding additional ways to pay it forward through kindness and service extending the impact of each donation so it becomes a win-win so it's just kind of celebrating what's happening at Simonton Ranch we have steam nights coming up the 27th and the students and families will be gathering for new need to discover the fun of science technology engineering art and math through Hands-On exploration and that'll run from 5 until 6 30.
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that it should be synchronized right okay Lori hey Jim how are you I'm well how are you I was at the same concert but um thank you how are you cheers good evening this is the Ashland school committee meeting for Wednesday September time flies when you're having fun right September 13 2023 I'll start recording the um and reading the vision statement um and the action Public Schools is a forward-thinking district the academics when the action Public Schools is a forward-thinking district the academic September 13th tonight I just put it on pause here someone have their notebook their audio on for their uh in the meeting someone have their notebook their audio on for their uh in the meeting yeah that over and over again try it again all right let's take two right nope no take two we're still getting a loop try it again all right nope no take two we're still getting a loop we're still getting a loop technology usually works a lot better than this why yeah test test try it all right take three all right so the vision statement from the Ashland Public Schools is the Ashland Public Schools is a forward-thinking district that cultivates the academic and social emotional growth of each student through a supportive collaborative Innovative and challenging environment students will develop into self-motivated resilient lifelong Learners who Embrace their role as responsible contributors to a global Community this meeting is being recorded by waca cable TV start with their order of business just to review for tonight it's the call to order which is what we've just done opening procedures which will be the review and Adoption of the agenda having a moment for a public comment if anybody wishes to do that and then we have items of new staff introductions why the room is full and then we'll have a report from the upper Charles River Trail committee update from Tony Lewis review of policy ke regarding public complaints approval of minutes from our summer Retreats of July 17 and July 25 warrant approvals assistant superintendent report our update superintendent update member updates and then adjournment so I'm going to start by just asking each of the members to introduce themselves say they're present and indicate if they're okay with the order of business and for folks in the room we'll also introduce one of our members who participate remotely today Paul why don't you go ahead and start Paul Kendall member and chair of the Mendes building committee Tina fraternities member of the school committee I'm good with the agenda Aaron Williams member of the school committee secretary visit the agenda and I'm Mark Terry the vice chairman I'm also okay with agenda Lori I am Lori tosty I share of the school committee and I am okay with the agenda thanks Lori I'm Mark um all right so uh first item on our agenda is the get that loop again let's just keep trying to go forward and see if you can fade it away um first item on the agenda is public comment is there anybody here who wishes to make a public comment seeing none in the room any on Virtual not seeing any there we'll close public comment um so first order of business is new staff introductions Mr Adams how would you like to to do this let's go in reverse order for a change all right Kelly I know stay on your toes thanks good evening everybody good to see you happy to introduce several new staff with us tonight or several new staff tonight um first we have Paul Kane the head who is not with us tonight he's our new business teacher it has a green light okay so Paul Kane head is our business teacher and again thank you for that new position we're really excited for it we have Sarah Dwyer who has joined us from English we have Dorsey glue who is here with us history teacher um Griff you know stand stores and wave welcome uh Griffin marshand is a new math teacher we have Natalie mazzini who's here from history uh we have Ryan Page a new English teacher um we have Jimmy Phipps who's a new ESP ABA Jen Roy who is a new ABA and will vidy who is a returning history teacher from a sub last year thanks good evening everyone so we have new staff and we also have some staff who aren't new but are new to our building first staff member was Caitlin Gentile she's our new 7th and 8th grade science teacher annik bertsman is our new French teacher uh formerly at the middle school Marilee Mullen is a long-term sub teaching Spanish Eric langmeyer is here and Eric he is our Drama teacher Kelly Berman an ESP but is serving as a long-term sub role for our special education Andrew Nickerson moving from Warren school is a new school psychologist for us Corey Jones is our new school nurse Kyra Knox is our new special ed team coordinator at the middle school Lily Orr and Lily Orr is a new ESP at the middle school and Kelly introduced Jen Roy so it's been a great start thanks everyone thanks Dave thank you good evening we have four new staff members of the Mendez two are here that I can introduce in person the first is Kate zumita who's teaching third grade and Michaela Evans who's also teaching third grade we have Brook moveitz joining us as a new special educator as well as Tim Crowley returning from you're here who's here returning from um a quick leave welcome thanks we have a large group of war in school hello thanks for having us here tonight we're in school so far we have 14 new faces for our staff or some of those spaces are either transferred from other schools or changed their positions tonight five of these individuals were able to join us in kindergarten we have bellobachi who's here tonight also in kindergarten Caroline Moore we do have a new from one of our bus drivers who's now working in our kitchen as well Anna Brennan our new assistant principal Erica lenares our new social emotional learning teacher Sarah McPherson who was married last week two weeks ago now so she may have been seen a Sarah dearville prior to that one of our teachers that was one of our dual position esps is now one of our special education teachers Ruchi Pathak new special education inclusion ESP Sweeney Chong new kindergarten ESP Jordan Lapointe new kindergarten ESP Allison McCarthy new ABA ESP Catherine Mason new ABA ESP Elizabeth Mumford new custodian who transferred from the Middle School Rich Pelletier in on October 10th we will be having our new bcba begin Caitlin bowsk we're still looking for a few more people if people would like did I miss someone Jim oh Natalie you're in the Middle with a big check mark I'm sorry I don't know how I just did that I'm sorry and I was just talking to Natalie while I was finishing my dinner uh Natalie Montgomery is another one of our staff members where last the last few years she's been serving as an ABA ESP and she has been one of our summer school teachers done an outstanding job and this year she is one of our teachers for our substantially separate programs as well Natalie I'm sorry for the Omission as we went through Jim thank you stay safe thanks Pete and last but not least our new members of the pit crew supporting our littlest Learners over at pittaway tonight we have Tiffany Berry our full-time SLP here with us so excited that she could join us and then we also have Brenna melinson as a special education teacher in one of our specialized programs uh supporting a long-term sub position for the year we've officially recruited two of our subs and converted them over to employees Melinda shuey and Luisa Silva as esps so we're excited to have them officially full time with us and then we're also sharing gen Roy as our bcba with the middle and the high school as well sir thanks you get everybody okay so just want to welcome you again as Lori and I had a chance to meet a lot of you on your first day or first couple of days but really want to welcome you again hope that your experience here is phenomenal we look forward to seeing your contributions to to all of our students learning um and certainly we wish you the best of luck and you don't have to stay any longer thank you for coming and thank you all for coming in have a good night thank you so why don't we our next order of business as people are clearing out is Tony Lewis from the upper Charles River Trail committee Tony want you if you want to take a minute to get yourself situated while they're all clearing up congratulations Brittany thank you for coming in yeah yeah we have you introduce yourself on we'll have you introduce yourself on the microphone okay Mr chair I could get your Indulgence um can I I just wanted to do a little intro for these folks yeah why don't we just let her hand down foreign yeah thank you thanks for uh seeing us um my name is Rob Scheer I'm the current chair of the Ashland select board and I've been involved with the upper Charles Trail for I don't know more years than I care to uh to comment on in public but uh and while Tony's setting up I think I just wanted to give a a brief overview kind of the big picture stuff um which antonian Tony Lewis is here to go do the presentation also Judy Rosenthal who gave out the material um so you know as you know we've been busy with a lot of major projects in town the Mendez school being one of them you know a lovely a lovely building and we've also coming off a number of other big projects the public safety building 126 135.
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the values that should be identified with these student athletes assume responsibility for your behavior please do not direct any negative comments towards officials athletes coaches or fans if you require assistance please call upon a school or security official please also note the following emergency exits are located at both the front and the back of the stadium smoking is not allowed anywhere on school property Spectators should avoid using noise makers while at the games and Spectators should stay outside of the fence track areas at all times thank you and now for tonight's starting lineups for West Springfield High School number eight Brigid Moore [Applause] number 18 Sydney Reed [Applause] number 10 Angelina Robinson number 13 Amelia Smith [Applause] number 21 Mia konka [Applause] number seven Ava mefe [Applause] number two Caitlyn Paquette [Applause] number 24 Addison Chapman [Applause] number 22 Gemma conka [Applause] number 12 player Summers [Applause] and in goal for West Side zero zero Chloe Lasher [Applause] the head coach for West Side is Anthony carnesi and he will be existed by Christopher Andre and now for your East Longmeadow High School Spartans [Applause] number two Addie Johnson [Applause] number five Caroline [Applause] number six Sabina [Applause] number nine Penna Marino [Applause] number four Ava Mendez [Applause] number eight Lizzy Roman [Applause] number 13.
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yeah I mean High School District Board of Trustees meeting of September 14th 2023 is called order at 3 30 PM the following members are present Jessa Guerrero and El Percy Catherine H Smith Emory Reynold Trejo and Brian O'Neill staff has requested the following amendments to the agenda exhibit L replaced Pages bot three yes three 24 25 26 28 29 85 and 88. exhibit Q replace page six to include attachment a exhibit X replace page one exhibit LL replace page one through one and five everybody got that good do I have a motion to adopt the amended agenda second motion a second all in favor say aye opposed five zero public comments on closed session items only seeing none the board will now hold closation for items 4.1 through 4.5 on the agenda and we're moving into closed session at 3 30. one
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the live stream is on good evening and welcome to the Tuesday September 12 2023 meeting of the azuz Unified School District Board of Education thank you so much Isuzu Community for indulging us in a few extra minutes for closed session we appreciate your patience and always welcome you here in person or online we will now kick off Open session with our Pledge of Allegiance and here tonight to lead our pledge we have Jaden Ramirez fifth grade student from Valleydale thank you good afternoon good afternoon good afternoon everybody sorry how are you guys great if I may ask please stand okay right hand over your heart ready begin I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you very much let's give our Jane Ramirez a big round of applause thank you so much that was that was tremendous uh now moving to item 5.1 report of action taken in closed session the board took no action in closed session now moving on to 6.1 Mr Fernandez good evening Dr Beau Board of Education members cabinet and attendees it is a outstanding privilege to stand before you tonight to recognize these three graduates from Azusa unified last year who are published some of the finest examples of student empowerment advocacy empathy compassion that you would find in the state of California having the privilege to work alongside these young people during the pandemic and seeing what they were able to do online and then after online and get to college and have the foresight to say this is something that matters that we need to leave uh something that lasts for the kids of Azusa and these are high school kids I think the Western Justice Center who's been working with us like they the inaugural Peacemaker Awards went to these three brilliant students from Azusa unified and for the community out there there's something wonderful happening for our kids in this District I'm so happy to be able to see this for the last four years so without further Ado I want to turn it over to Dr Beau and our great students Andrea Althea and Natalie who've done outstanding work thank you so much Mr Fernandez and to our alumni Althea Andrea and Natalie we congratulate you for all of your hard work not only as our students but now as part of our alumni Azusa Nation making a difference every day out there in the world um each of our students is online virtually with us are they online with us Mr Ortega we do have alkia online with us thank you so much um I'll see it would you like to say a few words about your experience so that we may recognize you tonight oh okay okay I'll go first um hi everyone uh before I begin like I just first want to thank the board and the cabinet for recognizing us tonight I can't speak for Andrea and Natalie's not here but personally there are really no words to really like encapsulate the innate catharsis of being called back home um in almost a month of being here at Cal you know I frequently found myself thinking about the temporality of my teenage years and just the fact that there has not been a single day where I'm here at Berkeley that I don't think of home there's not a single day here where I don't think of Azusa and so I just want to think like every single teacher every single administrator who has departed and gifted me um their stories their memories being here is like an adjustment physically because like of course we're all freshmen but I just want you all to know um that I carry your stories I carry your memories with me as sigils of strength and they've really really helped me adjust um and you know while my time at Azusa didn't really prepare me for my philosophy discussions on epistemological dialects on theories of Education um it did teach me to hold my head up in Pride knowing that I have a community whose shoulders I stand on with nothing things but loved and gratitude um so yeah all in all Azusa gave me more than I gave it and there's just no amount of articulating that I can do to express just how immensely proud I am um to come from Azusa unified um more importantly more significantly just how proud I am to see student advocacy Advance um and the institutionalization of growth and empowerment and what that means for generations of students long after like you know we've become alumni um so this is a new age for Azusa unified as we all know and while it is daunting it is exciting all the same and please I'm like this is just like me inviting myself into three things but if y'all need me for anything and I do mean like anything no matter how small like microscopic really um Camacho Mr Ortega um I'll happily jump on that Azusa unified Alumni network I'm only a phone call or email away so yeah thank you guys so much foreign and now it's time I'll allow time for our my board member colleagues to offer comment we'll go down the road starting with board member Greer I I don't even know what more I could say um other than I mean look um this is I mean we we celebrate you we're grateful we're we're we're I mean this is this is incredible but but um Althea just just kind of seeing you hearing you you are are a testament um just uh to what what goes on around here and so uh just just thank you for for being that Testament Althea this is Gabriella hi I'm so excited for you in every turn in every Adventure that you take that you just go on full force and that you literally carry a Souza unified on your sleeve your heart your soul and I just want to remind you of that conversation we had after basketball practice that freshman year and when you shared that you wanted to literally pour yourself and give yourself to this District I see it feel it and you are a prime example of what we hope that we can give to other students here in our district the empowerment to fulfill your dreams and to do and to become leaders because that's what a Souza would like to do and I know that all the staff teachers Administration and the board would like that for every student so you thank you so much for carrying the torch and continuing to carry the torch and hey we might just give you a call to come back and uh Empower more students good luck and I'm so proud of you okay um Athea I just want to congratulate you and the other young ladies I've always seen you at Glaston High School always working with students helping students out and now if you anyone notices she's a politician she works with the Senator's office and You Can Tell She's that girl she's going to make it a long way she's also like to help others and we really appreciate her which she didn't graduate last year but hopefully she can come back and work some with some of our students and Mentor them because she's a great mentor thank you hi Althea this is uh board member Benavides and I would like to say congratulations to you and all the girls and it makes me proud to say that you are a product of Azusa Unified School District and it's beautiful to see the passion in your voice and how much love you have for the community thank you for being a dedicated student and Community member to Azusa Unified School District Mr Fernandez do we have another we have one in person and I forgot Miss Andrea Mendez is with us live welcome Andrea thank you you um I also wanted to say thank I also wanted to say thank you so much for the recognition because I think that the past four years have truly been eye-opening and I've I really um tried my hardest to be here for not only my school but try to be present for the district as well every one of you guys has been able to open that door for me has been able to really show me that Youth Empowerment is something that is that something capable of occurring here in ausd taking from Miss Norma Camacho who has helped us through the Dei from Miss Gabriela Ariana's who has been there throughout that Gladstone Pride helping us Elevate our voices but also seeing each other in a different light seeing that the youth in this district is truly something that can uplift us more than more than we thought we were ever able to um now having a young student board member here miss Emily it's also something that I recognize as an alumni I can only say that I'm so so proud to be from ausd that I'm so happy to take everything that I've learned here all the lessons that I've been able to encounter myself within Gladstone or the little interference that I had at Azusa High every every little thing every step of the way is being taken now to my college experience as a freshman starting a new but taking everything that I did here and transporting that taking that with me to take it somewhere else truly continue to make that change and like I said I'm so grateful for you guys so thank you thank you Andrea and go ahead since you're up in a stand I also um want to just congratulate you Andrea again after basketball practice or was it before a basketball practice being able to engage with you and being able to see the leader in you um and the fact that you like reached out to Administration into the board and that we were able to go ahead and Empower you that way and when you speak and you say that you carry Azusa unified in your heart really means a lot because you guys are the Trailblazers Trailblazers that I saw you guys meeting after meeting after meeting long hours after long hours of wanting to come and make a difference as student leaders right you guys literally set the trail for the next leaders in our community right coming together and leading by example so congratulate you and I'm so proud of you thank you Andrea foreign Mendez and Natalie De La Cruz I will be presenting you each with their certificate I will go ahead and read it for Andre and then Dre if you could join us up here at the dice um for a picture um this is azusa's Unified School District certificate of recognition is proudly presented to Andrea Mendez for receiving the Western Justice Center's inaugural judge Nelson peacemakers award awarded this day of September 2023.
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four three two guys I pledge allegiance of the United States [Music] one nation under God indivisible don't fall asleep a course called resource Conservation District proposal John cunnington is here from the course called resource Conservation District and he's going to discuss a future establishment of a pollinator Garden Elementary School under the guidance of the CRC John good evening everybody thanks for having me resource Conservation District or CRC to sort it up we're a special district in eastern Air county is solely Grant funded so we're having organization um locally governed by volunteer board of directors um over the years we've participate in a variety of events such as school reduction we are the regional firewise coordinators in the area invasive species removal and dump sites reforestation events and pollinator and Canadian plant habitats which is so I'm sure most of you know but um the pollinators have been in shark applying um yes they do about 75 of those flowering plants at 35 levels in concerts for our reproduction and since the 80s they've been declined due to habitat loss ssidious things um because we rely on those improvements for our pollination of our food crops we rely heavily on them for our uh our entire system in 2019 CRC came together to discuss a shared interest and we partnered with North Fork Elementary School in the current Family Farm to create a pollinator and habitat at the school by installing headrooms around their running personal Garden we used about 800 clubs and had about 200 students come together in a day to plant a entire environment so we work with a non-profit organization called Xerxes they're the largest non-profit for conservation of invertebrates species in Louisville and they awarded us one kit in 2019 and then two kids in 2022 to go ahead and admitted areas of the hedgerows and um and 2023 crcd was awarded funds to participation in the block grant from the California Association of our CDs they came through the wildlife conservations CRC is proposing a great new pollinator habitats in schools and working Alliance throughout the summer County over the next three years we hope to partner with local school sites to accomplish the same type of program we have in our report we currently have Landover agreements approved by Joanna gain use in the Unified School District this year as well so earlier this year in 2023 we applied for two habitat kits for awesome Elementary these two Garden kits along with native wildflower seed mix will be used to create three rows of plants to meet on Center around the perimeter of the garden this will create a three to four foot wide Hedgerow or out and resize the lassum garden that it's approximately five thousand square feet so crcd along with students and staff can prepare plant and maintain the habitat CRC funds cover both supplies and staff time to install Monitor and maintain the habitat until 37 the landowner agreement in front of the board requires the plans not be removed before 2033 parking and that time CRC staff or representative civil Ally conservation one may want to monitor the site but our agreement will say that we provide advanced notice all school safety guidelines regarding background checks checking in the office and interaction with the cycle on campus um it's very easy to find multiple studies on the importance of getting students outside when it comes to education outdoor education Sports emotional behavior and intellectual development there's a wide variety of existing pollinator habitat School curriculum and citizen science initiative they're readily available but there are just so many more opportunities for educators to incorporate these habitats and discussions on botany biology ecology history references throughout literature made American studies in art is habitat will be an ongoing project a lot of schools like assuming to increase biodiversity improve integrated Pest Management by adding beneficial insects to the school garden and participate in ongoing worldwide conservation effort of quality even more exciting these habitats act as a living laboratory for project-based learning because the children invested in Plants bugs and interconnected life cycles and CR City hopes to collaborate with a sooner or manipulation opportunities to the students so thank you when you say a pollinator Garden are we talking big boxes or no so we will just be creating the actual habit happens [Music] yes so what we'll be doing is we'll be planting uh milkweed which is the main break in the monarch caterpillar and so you guys will want our butterfly and then we'll also be planting nectar species which help feed these butterflies throughout the life throughout the broken season so you have the Milky which comes up in June or so and beats for a few months depending on the variety but then we have pastors things that each of this [Music] I know I ended the uh we'll soon expert there so so now we're not trying to do that we're just trying to bring the plants in which will bring the native species in thank you okay all right moving on to our consent agenda any discussions not at all oh I do have one question the um the speech and language Therapy Services is that the same company we've been using or is that a different company and it's but last year we were a contract with two people and this year we're with one okay you'll see on the warrants it'll be a little bit less as we have on our two half times okay great thank you any other questions or comments okay um roll call vote Hi and hi all right moving on to monthly items and financial reports approval of monthly warrants um okay any questions or discussion my email Tara a question um regarding the award Association I believe the dues and they were there were different amounts they didn't understand if they have four people why they would pay different due amounts but it's based on salary so there's a formula with a percent of the salary actually it's five because we have uh okay there's uh the three principles plus uh Michelle and Randy yeah every year they plug in that person's annual step and then it gives you the number that the Jews are yeah sure they pay for their membership oh gotcha yeah thank you and I had a question on the expenditure that Yosemite school district for music so yeah thank you that was the advantage program yeah that's a great program happy to see so that's once a year that you yes uh they uh and it changes year to year because it's based on a high school band teacher's salary as well as the music assistants in the classroom um but yes we've had that for several years and our students attend first period band from the students yeah and when they get to the high school it's been great because they've had a whole year of that yeah management fantastic program yeah I had to get reminded on that too because I saw the figure and I thought that's a lot of abandons from us and I realized I was let me put it on this uh earlier and uh you know a year okay um any more discussion on what that is I just have a comment I really like seeing all of that that was exciting that was awesome because all of our site secretaries work with the teachers to make a card for everybody because in the past they would just get in like a big box of crayons or a big box of pens so the way they set it up this year with the vendors each teacher could submit a cart and uh to try to help it be organized between the secretaries and Indians you've already had 300 plus purchase orders among other things to order but so there's been a lot of ordering going on told everybody you've got to get them in here now or as soon as they lose or something is there any other questions or comments dual call vote hi hi warrants are approved all right quarterly reports so this is uh an information item um we report quarterly on investments and this is for the period from April through June um and you can see the attached statements there we have our pars open trust which is what our Actuarial study that we'll talk about later and then the County Treasury and you can see in the County Treasury fund uh it's up uh 2.8 2.08 from 1.65 this is the last time we reported and then oped liability is up slightly from the last time we reported as well and that's the money that's set aside in the trust to cover the ongoing cost of retirees uh Health and Welfare okay um any questions on the quarterly reports this morning all right the education protective protection act expenses so this we reported at our June blows out the began to report just to say that all the funds were spent because on June 28th we hadn't finished out the fiscal year yet they will have it on for that month and so on um but we receive 166 910 and we use that for two uh teacher salaries one full salary and a portion of about half of another salary and that's what it's supposed to be used for so we're just saying that we met that requirement yeah okay any um comments on that um ready Actuarial study moped liability so that was posted online but I did tonight and what that is is the state path legislation that you're required to put on your books the cost of the liability of Health and Welfare benefits for your retirees the way it was negotiated in our contract it was anyone who worked here 2008 and before would have a lifetime until they reach Medicare age Health and Welfare benefits so they just do a calculation to figure out what that cost is and luckily before I came here Maureen was awesome and the district they got the trust set up with parts so the money was set aside to cover that costs a lot of districts are finding that to be a huge uh deficit or a liability on their books whereas in our case it isn't because we are protected by having that adjustment there's around I think currently we have maybe a dozen employees that are retired that receive Health and Welfare and then we have around 25 or 26 that are active employees so they do this study just to see what the current rates are insurance and then talking about our investment and in this case the main uh the main thing that I'm sure you don't want me to go through this whole thing and I have a bunch of stuff to go over time um is that we have a it's called a net uh open asset so instead of having a liability we have an asset because we have over what um the cost would be so in the future as we go along you know paying those benefits we have that money in the trust set aside if we would need it to cover those costs and it's 620 87 17 is the OPEC asset so you're thinking I just saw the par statement our trust is 1.2 million well they deduct the cost of the Health and Welfare for everybody that I mentioned and then that's what's left over that's extra um and it fluctuates year to year um and you can leave it there to grow in the trust it could be put towards like stirs and pers retirement costs there's other districts that withdrawn from the trust to kind of help with that cost but ours we've always um just had it there in the portfolio feels like a great state because yeah I mean when I got here and I had been to different training with other cdos or like do you guys already have that set aside and you have an asset um because once they've made you put it on the books and on the financial statements as a liability in our case it's the benefit could be the asset um I was like that's great I really inherited something that will be really good for the district and we've always been pretty fiscally conservative so as a district so I'm happy that that's there yeah thank you that's just information that's good thank you they have extra copies if anyone wanted it but it's posted online okay moving on to the hearing of persons wishing to address the board that you're going to show for the three minutes we only have one person so it shouldn't be easier this time and you can speak on any topic that's not on our agenda it's this one is not so okay thank you so much and I want to say thank you to the board I know this you are working with the school sacrificially so I appreciate that and for children and for families I appeal to you as a mother of four children the grandmother of Supply I have been an educator in public and private schools as well as homeschool and children's ministry I have a master's degree from Fresno State and consider educational worthy and a lifelong Pursuit I've spent years educating myself on the growing phenomena of gender confusion and this new social contagion that is having deleterious effects on our children families and ultimately Society I've listened to hundreds of hours of testimonies attended seminars and I'm friends with many who have come out of the LGBT community those coming out of this lifestyle are talking about the nightmare the pain of ruining their lives and wish someone would have loved them enough to address their real problems rather than pushing an agenda I want no child or family to have to go through this school districts that include nor parents and families will continue to suffer great losses we are now seeing lawsuits against school districts and parents who are not apprised of their students gender confusion and even lawsuits against doctors and medical institutions who have pushed cutting off body parts and giving hormones reading offers to confuse children and as more as this happened the schools will have more and more homeschool families and alternative schools so I was shocked at the vitriol in last month's meeting that I heard online against something so simple as granting parental rights with the parental notification policy what parent would think it's okay for the school to keep secrets and even mind rather than to be notified of a child has encountered any significant physical injury or expressed suicidal intent or is requesting to be identified or treated as a gender that does not align with their birth certificate School District policies should reflect the importance of the parents rule in raising their child and not have to train teachers October I think you just told me they will lose their job if they if they do that if they don't hide them it is the school's responsibility to work with the parents and Guardians who are the ones responsible for that child and has been public policy in California the parents have been seen as partners in education not Spectators and laws from policies that give kids privacy from their parents do not exist I appeal to the board of everyone's here and ask if you would be okay with the school keeping secrets about your child going through a difficult time especially on topics that could be life-altering it is a parent's right to know children are alone to the school and not government property parents are critical component but the child's well-being and have the right to guide the child's upbringing being intimately involved with any decision for that child God okay perfect timing letters that were sent in and wanted to be read during public comment alien what the same topic now the first one comes from Sarah Bond to whom it may concern outing transgender students could be extremely dangerous for some students who may not feel safe or supported at home or elsewhere I am the parent of a transgender child a member of pflag and a member of free Palm hubs my child struggled with telling us and we're a very accepting and loving home hmm my child didn't choose to be born this way but to see how freen and the transformation in their mental health when they finally told us their truth isn't it's indescribable not all transgender children have this luxury I can't imagine I can't even imagine how a child who knows their parents will not affirm their gender identity struggles with wanting to be themselves but also feeling safe and secure lgbtq young people have much higher rates of suicide risk and victimization than their size gender and straight tears transgender youth in particular are more likely to experience anxiety depression and Suicidal Thoughts attempts and worse a majority of lgbtq students reported feeling unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation gender identity or gender expression and affirming School environment for lgbtq young people can improve their mental health and reduce their risk of suicide transgender and non-binary middle and high school students who reported that most or all of their teachers respect their pronouns reported lower rates of attempting suicide in the past year compared to those who reported fewer teachers respecting their pronouns schools must ensure the physical mental and emotional well-being of transgender and gender non-conforming students every student has the right to learn and thrive in a school environment that promotes safety privacy and acceptance finally California's constitution and state anti-discrimination laws including California's equal protection Clause California's education and government code and California's constitutional rights privacy protect transgender students from being forcibly outed if you take your commitment to the community's children as seriously as you Proclaim with your mission statement and so then every child a promise you should also protect your transgender Union from forcibly outing them and potentially exposing them to harm thank you sir [Applause] the second letter says good evening my name is Lexi Jenkins I am a junior at Fresno State and I graduated from Yosemite High School I also attended wasuma Elementary I am extremely opposed to forcing teachers and school administrators to identify and report on students who are questioning or talking about their gender identity in school this policy is not only blatant discrimination against lgbtq plus students but it violates their constitutional rights this policy would directly violate lgbtq plus students constitutional rights which are protected under the California equal protection Clause account the California education and government code California constitutional rights privacy this information is supported by the California Constitution and the California attorney general Rob bonto as well as blatantly violating lgbtq plus students constitutional rights to privacy and equal treatment this policy would directly endanger lgbtq plus students according to the 2015 U.S transgender survey 77 percent of transgender students reported harassment or assault fifteen percent ran away or were kicked out of their homes by their Guardians as a result of being outed and 46 percent of transgender students reported missing at least one day of school because they felt unsafe at school according to the Trevor Project an lgbtq plus between ages 8 13 and 24 attempt suicide every 45 seconds this is the result of blatant discriminatory policies such as the policy the board is trying to pass today if the board chooses to pass this policy and ignore the California Constitution peer-reviewed statistics and the opinions of the humanity they are knowingly endangering lgbtq plus youth they are knowingly increasing the risk of abuse harassment homelessness and suicide of lgbtq plus youth in our community if the board passes this follows are saying we do not value or care about the lives of your lgbtq plus children in this community if this policy is passed by the board as Community organizers we will collect a petition that will be sent to the California attorney general Rob doctor who is currently launching a lawsuit against Chino Valley Unified School District a district which attempted to enforce the policy we are discussing today demonstrated by his actions against Chino Valley the Attorney General will not tolerate human rights violations such as this policy and will act against the school district please vote against this policy to preserve the constitutional rights of all students and show the community that you value the lives of all children all the best Lexi juniors thank you okay we have another member of the audience that um Robert Anderson did I get that right thanks Robert just Glover okay that's fine uh this is the first PTA meeting up three minutes first one I've gone to uh I heard what happened last month I have two kids and I think everybody has the right to raise their kid the way they want to be seen as far as the you know teachers schools get involved I think that's just way out of hand they should have no business and my daughter or my son's life you know I mean as far as stuff like that and I mean obviously I'm going to look up policies and procedures for the school district and everything like that and teachers and stuff like that but that's not right you know that's like me saying how would you guys feel if I took your daughter you're a kid got wasted drunk I believe I give me some pills you know I'm like it's not right you just you don't do that um it's just a moral code you know it's just really frustrating to see this it's like how did we get here I mean really how do we get here freaking children they're kids I mean I understand like the suicide baby you want to talk to you know I mean suicide baby and all that stuff kids that take those drugs those hormones that's why they get really bad at suicide yes and it's just disgusting because you're forcing what's killing them you know if you really cared for the kid or something like that you would take the counseling you know you would do a whole bunch of stuff you know but that's not the way I mean you're just you're killing kids but you know just the whole agenda is sick and it's demonic it's just evil straight up evil that's what it is I mean that's all I have to say but this is just absolutely disgusting okay okay thank you Mr pero you've requested three minutes but you didn't disclose your topic oh there's a topic on our agenda same topic all right go ahead sorry so my name is John arrow and this is addressing the parental notification policy on August 29th of 23 the Speckles Union School District in Monterey County sell it for a hundred thousand dollars with a mother after the school transitioned your 11 year old daughter without her consent the child was told by our school and she might have to be upset because she didn't know who she was truly was inside from there the school allowed her to use the boy's bathroom he was male pronouns refer to her as and socially transitioned away from her mother and when the mother found out she stood in school and they settled for a hundred thousand dollars so that school district just lost a hundred thousand dollars in 2021 a ninth grade daughter was raped and the girl's restroom she was 15 years old she was raped by a boy who was dressed in a skirt that was going into the girl's bed restroom she they the boy raped her the school did not notify the parents they did not notify the police the parents sued and the governor just absolved and pardoned that man that spoke out against that for he got arrested for disorgan combat because he spoke up at a school board meeting National polls show that most people support parental notification and when it comes to protecting our kids parents instruct parents instincts Trump Party Loyalty so you hear two arguments you heard them in a letter that you just read tonight is oh when this is out of your students no it's not the students have already outed themselves their peers know it their teachers know it their social media knows it everybody knows it except the parents and then they make the claim that if the parents find out they're going to kick them out of the school and yet some of those statistics they were excited with the parents kicking them out you go right to CBC website those kids were bullied in school or bullied on social media or bullied in their everyday lives not to mention the confusion going on between their two ears that's what contributes to the majority of the suicide and you look at the whole lbgt Community the suicide rate is two to three times what it is in the heterosexual Community the disease rate is two to three times even same-sex couples the the breakup is two to three times throughout the heterosexual community and it has nothing to do in that case with LGBT or anything I mean transition to transgender or anything else so it's a bogus argument the other thing is school districts are afraid of this because of what I call the fearport well if we pass this then we're going to get sued like the secretary of the AG just sued Chino's Valley School District I guarantee you that case will not fly and it will eventually go to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court Will Rule and Chino's uh favor and all these other offices that are happening by the parents of the school so the school is in a catch-22 situation you're not in an easy situation you can get sued if you don't pass a parental notification you can get sued possibly you're going to go see one because this is a test case with what the Aging just did so if that goes through so you can get sued either way so my my solution is do the right thing and pass a parental modification policy okay thank you John um [Music] you can alter your meeting last month I heard a 21 letters and people that are against you know parents rights I can't believe and you had two today I can't believe there's nobody for parents for being notified you know for what's going on and I don't know how many people up here have kids but I think you're all like this please be notified that's uh I'm not when we're here excuse me I think he's a president of the Teachers Association who's here anyway we asked him afterwards um one of my friend asked me if a guy went in a girl's bathroom within restaurants and um and there's an incident of what what do you think about that and hear what his comment was I don't have any comment he says I identify as a crocodile what kind of a statement is that from a school board member or president of the preacher something saying I'm a crocodile a crocodile is goddamn creditor okay making a stupid statement like that and he said it twice and I think um if you guys are parents up here you would like me notified if there's a problem with your kid you know you don't want to keep them you know the parents have raised their kids from from five years ten years or whatever they know more about their kids than you guys do whatever the teachers and so what about parents rights okay that's all I got to say thank you all right thank you Joe all right so we're moving on to our active items we have the canned hearing resolution 24.
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foreign during closed session we'll be having a conference with our legal counsel for anticipated litigation we'll be also having a conference with legal counsel for for an existing litigation and we'll be discussing any student discipline student suspension student exposures Local 150 and management and we'll also be discussing any public employed discipline dismissal issues uh we have seven uh comments for uh closed session items uh before we begin let me read the speaker conduct for all those who wish to address the board during the public comment periods speakers are requested to state your name and affiliation for the record each speaker will be given three minutes to address the board five minutes per organization and a maximum of 20 minutes per topic speakers are reminded to communicate with respect fairness and courteousness to each other and to all present you're reminded not to use the name of any District employee in your comments the board welcomes orderly communication from the public so first we'll have uh Mr Joe Herman good evening a little flexibility when we have a lot of index cards from our members for me tonight so I'm hoping you're going to Grant some flexibility with time okay good evening my name is Joe Herman and I am the President of the California Teachers Association of Berryessa or ctet many of us are gathered here this evening because ctab members are working on expired collective bargaining agreement negotiations are at an impasse teachers and ctab members have been working diligently with students to build their classroom culture and to ensure that students feel safe and that they will thrive teachers hi my name is Christy Gurney I'm a third grade teacher at brooktree elementary I Am The Sole Provider of salary and benefits for my family my husband does not work that's never really held a job um I have two kids one in high school one in college and each year my take-home pay decreases because the cost of benefits increase full Kaiser family should be the standard that is paid for by the district not everyone needs full family coverage but for those who do it is an absolute necessity and then to kick it off I just got a letter saying that the cost of Kaiser is going up 11.78 percent I I don't know what to do I'm beyond I I have no money I can't afford this I can't afford benefits for my family I can't afford to live in this area and this is my 27th year in this District this is ridiculous so I'm asking for you to please look at full coverage for our families not everyone needs it but I do many others do um I have three other cards to read from other uh Berryessa teachers regarding benefits this one is anonymous my family is struggling to stay in this community even though I'm a an 11-year veteran of busd we are not able to survive because my whole paycheck goes to health goes to child care I'm not even paying for medical through the do we struggle living paycheck to paycheck staff members who do not have medical insurance through the do should get an HSA card this one is from wee Chen if you appreciate teachers don't just give them Donuts give them the salary they deserve Kaiser just raised the premium by more than 11 percent don't turn a blind eye and then finally from Paul Chen dear Board of Trustees with an 11.87 raise and the health care costs along with Rising inflation the Bay Area is essential for our teachers livelihood to be paid a salary that shows an appreciation for what we do for our community I stand proudly with my fellow teachers and I'm committed to public education because public education education takes in everyone and that includes us teachers and one last thing not on benefits but on prep time this year has been Beyond hard I am regularly leaving work at 9 00 PM last night I didn't get home until 9 30.
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Kayla has provided the marketing updates of some media coverage that we have gotten in some of the local newspapers and then I know you also received the enrollment report on Monday and and I know it's an agenda item that we'll be talking about a little bit later we had some choir students go to ASU this past weekend and participate in ASU High School choral connection and it featured workshops sent around the different styles of music and at the conclusion the Workshops the participants performed in the concert hall at ASU so it was a very positive experience for the kids CHS also hosted their academic Awards night for last year on the 30th it was representing the academic letters for 2223 so in the cohort of 2024 30 students were recognized for maintaining a 3 0.8 cumulative GPA for six semesters cohort for 2025 36 students cumulative GPA of 3.9 for four semesters and cohort 20 2026 24 students that had a 4.0 for four semesters our CT students as well as Administration and some teachers attended the Queen Creek annual chamber business education Summit at all ASU Polytech on the 31st it's just a good way you have business partners as well as schools those schools were represented included ourselves ala QC all three high schools in QC post and Butte Santan Heights and then they had teachers and administration there and then there was business partners from the community there just talking about issues and and ways that kids can become better prepared to get into the workforce and what are some of the things that can be done to celebrate things that are happening in in our schools across the area student council attended the regional Spirit conference [Music] on the 30th so 26th student council members completed workshops and listened to motivational speakers on building positive campus culture as a reminder the the stuco kids were invited to present on leadership at the as the Arizona State stucco convention and there I've been recognized nationally for the last two years so they're doing some good things up there uh CMS has got some sports going off baseball's doing great after four games they're undefeated and then as part of 9 11 we had activities around the uh around the district but at CMS they were able to host an assembly and they had both Queen Creek and Pinal County fire and police departments uh and turn and participate so that was nice and then CTS CTA has also got a current fundraiser activity has raised 9000 for classroom student needs the Scholastic Book Fair just wrapped up and earned over 5 000 purchases that's a lot of books in addition uh they had about 85 percent participation in the Parent-Teacher conferences so a number of good things happening around the district on the report I won't go through all of them there are some upcoming events uh the one thing I will highlight obviously next Friday is a busy day because we have homecoming and we also have the Combs Education Foundation golf tournament at encantara and I believe CMS has their first dance so it's a busy day on on next Friday so those are the events and activities I have I would just like to say I really love the new format of the report I think it's perfect the way you've set it up and also I'd like to congratulate Julie cook and her team on the uh on the 13 years in a row I look at all of that stuff I know people think I'm nuts doing it but there's only minimal deficiencies every year in there I mean they're just little things and they do a fantastic job so congratulations to them good job Julie and then now we'll have Miss Cruz come up for Ranch Elementary [Music] thank you Madam president members of the board Dr Wyman distinguished guest thank you for allowing Ranch Elementary to present to you tonight I hope my voice holds out tonight we have our video Club that's going to be um displaying and talking about what they do to get ready for our live video announcements every single day I would like the Ranch Elementary students that are here to come on up and also miss blackfeather please come on up all of you some have speaking parts [Applause] fantastic of course they're a little nervous just like me it's always nerve-wracking getting in front of everybody I'm going to turn the mic over to Mrs blackfeather who is um a paraprofessional on our campus she's been on at Ranch for six years she is very much dedicated to the students here at Ranch not only does she run the library but she also runs this video Club every single morning she is one dedicated lady so I'm going to turn it over to her right now foreign good evening everyone and as she stated I am Wendy blackfeather I am the librarian Aid at Ranch Elementary School and I'm excited to tell you about our amazing video Club um might be a little biased though um the video Club is led by The Talented fifth and sixth graders at Ranch Elementary School every morning they bring a live stream broadcast to um sorry stream broadcast that is full of fun and engaging content our video Club is a student-led initiative where our older elementary students take the reins and produce a daily morning show it's a wonderful platform for them to Showcase their skills develop leadership qualities and bring smiles to our students and staff before school starts video club members come together to plan film and present a variety of segments these segments can include news and announcement announcements to ensure that everyone starts their day informed and excited weather our young meteorologists present the forecast with their unique Flair fun facts the students share something new every day with national days that keep our school Community engaged special features from showcasing special events to celebrating birthdays an employee of character the video Club ensures that every student feels valued and included the video club members work together as a team taking on different roles such as researchers teleprompter director editing Checkers weather crew and anchors they learn valuable communication time management and technical skills all while having fun by assigning these varied roles the video Club provides students with opportunities to explore their interests develop new skills and take leadership responsibilities each task contributes to the overall fun and engaging nature of the morning show making it the highlight of our school day and now I would like to introduce Harley [Applause] I'm sixth grader Harley Hernan Harley Hernandez in the teleprompter role we handle downloading the pre-recorded weather manage the order of the slides watching time and staying on Pace with the director's cues so that our morning shows run smoothly working the teleprompter helps with building attention to detail task management and communication [Applause] and now Allison [Applause] hi hi I'm Allison payment I'm a fifth grader and as director we work closely with telepromptu and ankles we provide hand cues and let ankles know when to start speaking and when to use the next lock next slide on the monitor being the vector is a World Health build attention to details text management and communicating skills thank you and now Marilyn [Applause] hi I'm Marilyn Boyer I'm a fifth grader as anchors are the face of the morning show we introduce segments from the slides presented by the teleprompter following director cues and keeping the audience entertained our role helps build confidence and public speaking develop on-camera presence and display leadership by setting a positive tone for the show now Shaylin [Applause] [Music] sixth grader as weather anchors we put together scripts and are in charge of filming the weather forecast we use our own creativity to make the weather report engaging by using different locations on campus as our background we also stay informed about weather patterns and communicate the information clearly working on on camera presence and strong communication skills and now zap [Applause] I'm I'm our positions of Checker researcher and editors go hand in hand this team is responsible responsible for putting the show together adding info to the slides checking Transitions and making sure that the final product looks polished and professional these roles encourage is our attention to detail technical skills and ability to work collaboratively [Applause] and I would just like to introduce two of our other video Club students here tonight we have a 13 in total but we have raylynn Stewart and Aiden bear with us tonight [Applause] so in essence the video Club is an exceptional Avenue for personal growth skill development overall teamwork communication and Community Building its impact extends far beyond the morning show nurturing competent leaders fostering creativity enhancing the overall educational experience for members of our elementary school thank you for your time governing board members njo Combs School District please bring your attention to a short video of our club in action [Applause] foreign [Applause] okay volunteer recognition yeah yep thank you those kids work hard every single day and we just love it thank you to the um marketing department for helping us put together this video also we really appreciate that Mrs blackfeather could I have you back up here please oh [Applause] as I said to you earlier Mrs blackfeather has been at Ranch for six years she was a paraprofessional she has helped us out in the cafeteria she's helped out at PTO events she is just one fantastic lady and I just couldn't do what she does she lives and breathes books her Book Fairs are outstanding every year we have four to five thousand dollars worth of books and she puts it right back into that library and she's always fixing books making sure the kids say hey I want this series will you look into getting it oh yes she is the first one to call up Scholastic and say hey we need a set of books and we get them so Wendy I can't thank you enough for all you do I really do appreciate it [Music] [Applause] at this time could I have Loretta latte come up to the podium [Applause] you never know Miss Lata has been at Ranch for eight years she started out with me saying please please come work for me we needed a first grade paraprofessional at one time because our class sizes were pretty big and we needed the help so she started out being a paraprofessional then when it came time to say well we don't need that position anymore what can you do for me next so I was like okay let's put her in the cafeteria yeah she boy she got right in there and you wouldn't believe what she did with that cafeteria I actually miss you in the cafeteria at times so she was in the cafeteria and then it was like you know what I want to do something different it's time to advance and so we had the opening of an attendance Clerk and that's where Loretta has been when you call the school our phone gets answered you're not going to go to a voicemail she is there she is answering that phone she is communicating she's checking parents IDs when they come in um again she is just the face and the voice of the front office and I really do appreciate you and I'm telling you what this girl is in attendance all the time very rarely I have to send her home when she's sick it's like you need to go home which she says to me sometimes you need to go home I'm like I know but there's so much to do and that's how she feels that's how she is every single day so Loretta thank you for very much for being our attendance Clerk [Applause] I know next could I have Dr selvey peoples come up to the podium please [Applause] I have an interesting story here so I was sitting in on an interview and Dr people was interviewing for a position and I just kept saying I have to have her on my campus I just have to have her on my campus well lo and behold as things proceed and the process works out I called her and said how would you like to be a sixth grade math teacher at Ranch Elementary and she was like hmm let me think about that that's not the Avenue that she was pursuing to go down but I was like there's so many opportunities the district is growing and we need wonderful people here why don't you come teach for the year and see how it is well she taught last year for us and did a fabulous job teaching sixth grade well my academic coach decided to move on to greater things and become a social worker so she decided Well she retired resigned and I said oh how would you like to be the academic coach at Ranch and she's like wow that is something I think I really would like to do and you know what so this is her second year at Ranch Elementary we love her to pieces she's doing great things working with curriculum working with the teachers helping out wherever she is needed she's just a rock star and I just love her to Pieces so thank you for being at Ranch [Applause] yeah don't drop him again thank you for letting Ranch present to you this evening [Applause] at this time we also take an opportunity throughout the year to recognize different employee groups based on whether it's that the employees group day during the month or a specific month during the month of September what we've chosen to do is there's a special program that happens in the state of Arizona and what it's really speaks to is this is everybody's sitting in this room especially the adults there was a special somebody in your life that made a difference in in what you did that had confidence in you saw something you that maybe you didn't see in yourself that individual could be a colleague could have been one of your teachers could be a mentor and what happened is Nick Clement who is a long time administrator and superintendent down in the Tucson area he had written a book called how to catch a swamp frog and really what it was is a book of all those teachers that made a profound difference in his life growing up and then he decided he was he's since retired and moved on to work with NAU and they've started a legendary teacher day and what the concept of legendary teacher day is it's that day to say thank you to those people in your life that made a difference in your life as a teacher and so that legendary teacher day is the last Thursday in in the month and what we've chosen to do in this district is to go ahead and take representative teachers from across the district they're rookie teachers their veteran teachers they're at all grade levels they may be in the district a long time they may be brand new to the district and just say thank you thank you not only to them for the impact that they're having on our students lives but also a way for them to recognize those teachers that have had an impact on their life we give them a little gift which is the book that Nick wrote how to catch a swamp frog and then a little glass figurine that is a swamp frog so it's just a little way for us to say truly thank you we also have a link with the president that will go out on social media that allows you to if you have that special legendary teacher in your life you can go into a website and you can go ahead and recognize that teacher that that made a difference and the teachers you will see doesn't matter where you're from when you when I read off some of the names these teachers are from around the country from around the world it takes a special unique individual to be a teacher it's not something that everybody can anybody can do but the reason why they're successful is because at the end of the day they have a heart of gold and they really care about kids and that's what we're trying to celebrate to say thank you thank you for what you do thank you for the difference you make in the lives of our students so what I'd like to do is read off the names have them come up one of the board members will present them a gift over here and then we'll get a picture even though we got a picture there we'll get another picture because we like pictures and so we'll go through there so representing kindergarten from Ranch Elementary Christine Gupta her legendary teacher is Leslie Miner from Sanborn Elementary in Chandler first grade at Simonton Brandi bordelon her legendary teacher is Mr Miller from Monroe Elementary in Mankato Minnesota second grade oops second grade from Simonton is Cynthia Allred [Applause] and her legendary teachers Elva pitcher 8th grade in Karsten junior high up in Canada third grade from Ranch is Katie Snyder [Music] and her alleged teacher is Tony Adams from Pioneer Elementary in Gilbert [Applause] fourth grade from CTA Cara Lewis legendary teacher Miss Sullivan uh her second grade teacher [Applause] fifth grade from Ellsworth Brittany Willis [Applause] sixth grade from Ellsworth Arleigh Olson [Applause] legendary teachers Mr Bradshaw from Falls Valley Elementary in Idaho Falls Idaho [Applause] also from Ellsworth sixth grade Tiffany smart legendary teachers Darlene schmee from Meridian Elementary [Applause] in the area specials from CTA Adrian Arkell his legendary teachers eighth grade PE teacher Mr admin nula math at the high school Leah Patterson her legendary teachers co-worker Carrie Huntley [Applause] English from the comb Center for Success Jody Gratz her legendary teachers Verona lechler from Beach North uh North Dakota she gave me the courage to overcome obstacles [Applause] science from the high school Brett stonecipher [Applause] his was Mr Dam at Bellevue East High School in Bellevue Illinois social studies from the Middle School Heaven Gomez [Applause] her legendary teacher was Mr Travis Decker from QC High School [Applause] Fine Arts from the Middle School Daryl Lee his legendary teacher was Mr Barnes and John but she teacher's freshman year [Applause] for PE from the Middle School Michael say [Applause] his legendary teachers Robert Pelletier a PE teacher in Middletown area high school in Pennsylvania [Applause] for World languages from the high school genotrank her legendary teachers Mr ice a biology teacher at Dakota High School in Dakota Illinois from CTE from the high school Alice Goodrich her legendary teachers Mr Mrs Reynolds homes High School home act teacher [Applause] representing special education Combs Center for Success Christine grieve her legendary teacher was Mrs Burlingame a Latin teacher at Huntington Beach High School in California for our counselors at uh Ellsworth jury Ann joint [Applause] her legendary teacher is Mr tolke at Queen Creek L fifth grade social worker from Ellsworth Aaron Gomez [Applause] her legendary teachers Mr Smith her High School AG teacher and FFA teacher and for preschool from Ranch Tom Tammy lastauri [Applause] and her legendary teachers Theresa Helton from Playa del Rey Elementary it was her mentor foreign for teachers you don't always know the impact you make in the life of a child a life of a family but you do make that impact and you make that impact because you care and so this is just our little way to say thank you we appreciate it we know you represent all the teachers in the district the amazing individuals that we have that make up such a positive difference in the lives of our kids so thank you very much [Applause] thank you very much now we'll go to our students of the month Madam president steam board members Dr Wyman colleagues parents students that are here this evening it's my honor I look forward to this every month and I've missed it the last couple months because of the summer so I'm happy to be up here and introducing our wonderful students could I have Daniel roan horse from comb Center for Success come on up [Applause] okay everyone this is Daniel Daniel's shown a great commitment to his education he has strong work ethic and an impeccable character he's shown all of this to his teachers and he's very important to that campus as well as his education is important to him he's completed 13 courses in the first five weeks of school he's a diligent worker in class and outside of school hours he became an early graduate on Monday completing all of his coursework and he will walk at the graduation ceremony in May with the class of 2024.
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so I guess the big the big news is that the town has finally making this a priority project so many of you know that this this goes back many years a lot you could look at those notes and a lot of you were involved you know four five six years ago when we were really talking to the school committee and it's been a big gap and I just kind of wanted to explain that a little bit but we're now in a position to to move forward this has been now a priority project and with with support from the select board in the in the town manager so these guys are going to go over stuff and review things and they're going to talk about the three options so just you know when we put when this Trail was being put together it was important we thought it was important that the trail go to the high school or go have a presence of schools for a variety of reasons one of them being a safe route to schools and you know General Public Welfare of having a multimodal trail I think most of you are familiar with the benefits of such a trail so I just wanted to um you know say that um and I think as you go through this I would just ask you to think about how how can we what's the best way to move this process forward because there's a lot of you know the devil's in the details with this kind of thing and I'm sure you'll there'll be a number of questions and concerns about how these Trails interact with school buildings and school grounds so um one of the things I would be suggesting is that think about a working group to come out of this process and you know whether it's from the school committee the facilities manager the principal she's still here yeah very good that's great you know to kind of look at these details and like what is this workable can we go here can we go there I just say the from the point of view there's some difficulties with the right-of-way so just to set the big picture and Tony's going to go through all this but we're approaching now this High School from the direction of the public safety building in which we're working on acquiring more land around the public safety building for that very purpose for a number of other purposes and then the trail is going to come up to the um basically to behind the softball field and one of the major questions is it going to go right there or is it going to go left and then how does it how do we get to the right of way that goes to Cedar Street which the town is also confident we'll be able to get access there because of various tax reasons that that right away may be available so that's really I guess the Crux of the the issue that you know we have around the high school and I also just wanted to say briefly that you know the trolley Brook Trail is completed on Memorial Drive and that has a potential for a strong intersection with the um uh with the middle school and so we should think about that how it might work there right now it just goes down Memorial Drive you know to the Dunkin Donuts and crosses around voyager's Lane so you know it's just that's kind of a a separate issue but I wanted to throw that out there because that's another potential valuable connection so you know thanks for your yeah two procedural things as a show of introduction um so they understand from your comments the sort of tonight this is really just an update for us you're not asking for any votes or anything at this point I don't yeah I don't think so I don't see that happening because we're really what I think we're getting into now is the process like trying to lay out a basic Trail route so then we can move on to the design process and I should also say that we over the past few years identified substantial funds available to do this work so that's really you know a hopeful optimistic sign as we're ready you know our two big priorities now are root control and working out issues with with public property like where's it going to go so and then we really move ready to move on into concrete work in the next few years so and the other question was just you handed out a a nice color-coded chart fair to assume this is somewhere on the town's website for I believe it is it's been there okay all right great so you want to great well thank you without further Ado Tony take it away thank you thank you let me just pull up my popcorn site first and then I can pack if it's easier Jim might be able to bring it up and share it yeah thank you if you can use my flash drive because that's the most common oh we don't want to start out you folks have a technical system I want to turn off the notes and I I think all right I was thinking about this but the PowerPoint is this would be kinda I'll go back and forth you can ask questions anywhere as we go along and all that because you're actually activated bro there it goes and choose Adobe is there any way to turn off known I guess I'll give me a difference here okay yeah this is the PDF so no the PDF is not the PDF is I got the actual PowerPoint presentation that's been modified a little different if you I like to use mine okay but thank you for that okay so uh we'll we'll need the updated though uh one for for our records absolutely absolutely so whatever you're doing tonight can someone activate the PowerPoint because I'm I'm a beginner at PowerPoint all right so let's let's do the slideshow for now um so I don't want to show notes you know check notes oh there we go and then what you want to do is go to zoom here share your screen we're going to share this yeah you know how to do that or not right just just start the slideshow participate this piece thanks Paul I used to oh so that's showing this I try to get rid of the uh slides from the screen the site my mind I got it in slight view it's a presentation View I think is what he's looking for yeah it might be easier to do this we'll stop the sharing and then we'll share the whole screen and we'll be it that way instead of getting cute thank you for understanding dude I'll try to get rid of the notes too that's right yeah it's fine okay well I'm Tony Lewis and you met Judy Rosenthal and we're both from upper Charles committee and Doug Costello also was on our subcommittee and he helped with the presentation so with the subcommittee that's assigned to uh update the school committee that's why you don't see Joel in other art you know uh at the Charles Trail committee members so I'm going to go right to the next slide [Music] okay good thanks am I speaking the microphone okay thank you okay the purpose of this meeting has announced that the astronomical Charles Trail is now a Time priority project a big smile on my face and Judy's face thank you Robert announced quite a bit about it but now we can really stop dragging our feet method we're dragging them intentionally but our hands were tagged now we can really go to town I know the Middle School in in the town public safety building they got it completed because they were priority projects and uh I I'm really impressed with the building I was over the building the Midland School Saturday wow me as a taxpayer I'm an old guy and I don't know if the kids you know that the girls they used to go to school a long time ago but I feel it's I feel proud to be nationally and it's with my money to have that facility you know thanks for all the hard work [Music] um where I want to we want to provide an overview of the uh planned uh when I say you will never see art it's Ashland apachal's Trail I put Ashton up a child's Trail so the rule across the Ashland and and thirdly evaluate and decide on the best high school Trail route option no no but no but just get a get a better understanding so you you will be able to do it later okay there we go this map shows the uh that's kind of like the map you have in front of you not exactly but it's it's just a newly version of it but that shows the whole Trail excuse me going from from Hopkinton State Park going going east can you see the map there you know through the big through some property there eventually going by High Street down to sirius we don't know whether we're going to go north of Sears or South the series but it's going to hit up at the MBT Access Road uh this Mouse uh here it is so okay that's basically it's serious over there but you know you can see it okay good so Cirrus is here see they're gonna go not for serious apartments and the red line you see is the MPT access road now known as Memorial Drive and uh you can either go you go up towards the train station or you can go down to 135 pass the you know to the Dunkin Donuts and it's going to go right the trail see the green line where it says above the Ashland Middle School it says green line then there's that's where the future YMCA is going to be and they've been very supportive they gave us some land of easements along the property so they're very supportive of the trail and uh it'll be a good resource for the time when it happens so the trolley for trail you see the green line is already existent that was completed November 21.
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Jill Stevens number 11 Maggie Stevens [Applause] number 23 Ally Thompson [Applause] number 14 Bella White [Applause] wearing number one Emerson video the head coach race Longmeadow High School is Matt Mosher and he will be assisted by Kim Schwartz Hannah kalogy and Joel Katana prison Maybe our great country has persevered because of the men and women that serve our country in the armed forces we now invite both veterans and current military personnel to please stand [Applause] foreign and now we invite everyone to stand as we honor America for the playing of our national anthem [Music] thank you welcome everybody to an lcat production of the East Longmeadow varsity girls soccer team versus West Springfield we are here on a beautiful Wednesday night fans in the stands players are ready to go national anthem has been sung heard west side right there with their team chant East Longmeadow is going to coaches in the middle gonna get out there and he is going to Rally up his teams and then you'll hear the Longmeadow chant and then you're gonna see everybody head to the middle of the field East Longmeadow having a solid season west side also having a solid season a very athletic team both teams very athletic filled with multi-sport athletes looking forward to a great game tonight we've got some youngsters from East Longmeadow East Longmeadow Youth Soccer is here tonight managing the sidelines and the end lines when the balls go over the end lines it's great to see the youngsters out here supporting the high school girls looking out in the field and I'm sure imagining their dreams of playing on this field not so many years it may seem like a long way away for them right now but in reality it's only about three or four years they'll be out here playing athletic director down there Kevin McGee coaches on the sidelines West Side won the toss elected to have the ball East Longmeadow defending kicked right down the right hand side headed on out of bounds it's gonna be East Longmeadow throw in number four Ava men's gonna throw it in throws it right in there back to Ava man's Ava man settles it down passes it over to Ali Stevens Ali Stevens up to Thompson Thompson over to it's going backwards here number eight Lizzie Roman gets it over to Kenna Moreno Kenna Marino chasing it down heading out of bounds touched over there by West Side tries to maintain control picked up here in the middle of the field swings it down the left-hand side Mourinho using her speed to chase it down sends it out of bounds West Side throw in down at the uh East Longmeadow defensive Zone it's thrown in it's headed up it's controlled by islametto Addie Jordan picks it up sends it out here looks like Thompson's gonna put on a chase and does a great job uses her left foot it looked like it might have gone off West side but maybe not picked up there Ava men's has it number 18 using her body stepped in there again Ava men's has it passes it over it's coming down the middle great pass right there good look over to number five Caroline lukasik had it taken away by West Side coming down the end being chased looks like this one's going to head out of bounds and it's going to be oh she plays it a little bit of a risky play there but passes it up to men's men's has it uses her left foot gets it up to Thompson who keeps it under control passes it over great play there by number 11.
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thank you so much and please join us for a photo mesito just so you know we're taking a picture with you uh so okay just to preface just to preface um on my Berkeley ID I still have my Azusa lanyard so yeah all right here we go one two three thank you that wasn't a fine example of how we can pivot with technology thank you so much alumni for all of your work your accomplishments your passion um I think ladies you win the award for being the most articulate and passionate here tonight we salute you and celebrate you and we look forward to celebrating with you in person in a couple of weeks when you come to Los Angeles for the in-person uh uh recognition Gala so congratulations and have a great night now moving to item 6.2 Mr Ortega thank you Dr bo uh tonight uh we uh are honored and privileged to begin uh our board meetings uh welcoming uh two student board members uh I want to start off with Emily Hernandez who's here uh in person uh she will do half of the board meetings uh in person uh Emily is from Azusa High School um on Saturday Emily had the privilege of being at the field of Glory event at uh at the city that's put on by the rotary and Emily was uh honored uh to read the 10 elements of the freedom flag that stands for the remembrance of the events that happen on 9 11.
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so this is something that's required and in fact if you read the resolution it says 1979 is when this is enacted um it is a form that's in the state software saying we meet this requirement and we've always met the calculation there is an article there that I included a link to if you really want to learn more but we are required to have a resolution for that annually once we complete the unaudited actuals and um and that we meet that calculation this is an action item it's a hearing meaning it's required it's not my question yeah since there's a resolution should I read it yeah [Music] so we met the calculation for this year and at the requirement for the guns you would just sign the resolution after and we're good yeah unless anyone has questions yeah you close here it's already been closed all right um this is an action item that we have a motion I'll make a motion to approve the Gan limit second oh second okay any further discussion okay roll call vote hi Hi and hi okay here we go public hearing resolution 2406 statement of assurance for fiscal year 23-24 regarding State instructional materials open another public here okay in front of you on the agenda gives a background cites the Ed code um where this is a requirement we are stating that um each and every student has access to their textbooks instructional materials um register provided Chromebooks and so we limit the requirements okay all right I make a motion that we approve the resolution 2406.
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because I am I'm there I am pulling hours like never before so something's got to give thank you [Applause] Thomas our next comments will come from Miss Christine Johnson [Applause] I'm a long time substitute teacher here with Berryessa and I'm reading a letter from one of our members at Brook Tree Elementary dear Board of Trustees it was my hope and now in retrospect naive expectation that the state of education especially within our own District would improve after the pandemic I believed that surely we would all come together to tackle the new realities and burdens laid upon our doorstep unfortunately it has been quite the opposite things are quite worse I find myself and my fellow teachers doing too much with way less the needs of our students have shifted and grown yet the resources at our disposal have shrunk as an educator I attempt to shift with them to meet them where they are so I can measure the progress towards their goals but that has become an even more difficult task without the infrastructure and support system that is no longer there for me one of the greatest hurdles is the lack of professional respect you might not see it you may scoff at this and think surely this is a ridiculous notion but to put it quite simply nobody is listening to us and it just shows a lack of respect for our position and expertise we are the teachers the Educators the experts the ones on the front lines so to speak we know what we are doing you are in a position of leadership if you lead without listening who are you leading exactly we all answer to someone just as you answer to the state I know but if you can imagine if we were on the same team and moved as one in the interest of the students we could do great things but that takes true leadership which is listening with respect so listen to us when we say we need reading interventionalists full-time counselors newcomer program lower class sizes and of course Fair pay listen to us when we say that something is not working listen to us when we tell you that we need support listen to us when we say something it needs to be changed listen to us I grew up across the street from Piedmont I went to Noble I went to Piedmont my parents both retired from the district as a child I sat through endless meetings played around the district office listen to All the gossip and fell asleep in board meetings patiently waiting to go home I am now a teacher myself in the district as well as a parent I have seen this district from many different angles and am obviously invested in the community trust me when I tell you to invest in a in your teachers make the needs of the teachers a priority in order to put our students first with respect sick and tired I think if it was comments or our next comments will come from Miss Melanie ontiveros [Applause] hello I'm Melanie on Tavares and I'm a U.S history teacher at Sierra Mont and I'd like to tell you what I did over my summer vacation two days after school got out I went to Santa Cruz more specifically I went to the Santa Cruz Office of Education where I participated in a professional development on U.S history it was so exciting I brought back six lessons and three of which I've already implemented in my classroom I was so excited that I attended another one last Saturday Roxanne no she saws me afterwards and I was still excited from the experience it was wonderful and then of course when we came back I attended the professional development that we had here I'd like you to know that 78 of the teachers said in the survey that they would rather take a one percent cut in pay than attend the two days of professional development provided by the district it is important for you to know that most teachers do not find these professional developments developing and if you're looking for where to get funds so that you can help pay teachers a decent wage that they can live in this area might I suggest you get rid of those two days of professional development but leave that one percent on the salary schedule you've got one percent right there plus whatever you're paying these people to come from Wisconsin or Wyoming or wherever they're coming from they're plane tickets their fees for them to stay the night at their Mills Etc I don't know what that's costing the district but I know that that would be better invested in the community and in our teachers thank you thank you for those comments our next comments will come from Miss Madison Martinez foreign Martinez and I represent Sierra Mount middle school so I've taught and lived in the Bay Area for five years since I first became a teacher I got lucky when finding a first teaching job at siermont with the amount of but with the amount of loans I've had after college and the expenses needed to live in San Jose I've had a difficult time staying afloat my parents always told me to live like a student as long as I can in order to pay off my loans and survive here since moving to the Bay Area I've had to move five different times to fight to financial purposes at one point I was having to commute an hour and a half both ways so I could live with family members and have a lower rent with the demand and expectations of the job as a sped teacher I knew I had to get myself out of that situation so I fought my way to do so I don't see how the district expects us to continue teaching and providing an education to the community that is enriching when we are barely scraping by the stress outside of work deeply affects our mental health while at work if Cola is 8.2 percent then the district should at least match that if they want to keep qualified teachers who are passionate to stay in the district and these next comments are from other members of Berryessa and this one says current salary is a hundred and seventeen thousand with a 5.5 increase I will see an additional 370 dollars a month most of the raise will go to cover additional monthly costs due to inflation teachers are not getting a raise they are not being compensated for all the additional work and responsibilities placed on them this next one says financial hardships is giving an issue for those of us who are living paycheck to paycheck on paper we make too much money to receive financial support electricity bills water tuition Etc yet we lose the majority of our pay due to rent and utilities and nothing is left at the end of the month receiving no financial aid in college tuition or utility bills hurts us we need more salary to survive in the Bay Area and the last one says everybody knows this area is insanely expensive the district states that retaining great teachers is a priority please help us instead of just saying you value value US show us thank you thank you for those comments your next comments will come from Miss pandini pal foreign [Applause] I'm one of our instructional coaches and I'm here today to show my absolute compassion and support for my fellow teachers I'm reading comments that they have submitted this is from a noble teacher as a former primary teacher having more prep is very important it takes a lot of time to prepare the different Hands-On materials that Little Learners need to learn content K3 students learn best with their hands and touching physical objects while materials can be bought teachers don't make a whole lot many put things together on their own on their own prep time would benefit all K3 teachers and give them time to meet the needs of their students better this money also teachers spend from their own salaries you know a lot of the supplies that I bought I strongly feel that third grade teachers need prep time I can't find the time to prepare for lessons and learn new training teaching materials also from Noble elementary elementary teachers one through three need prep time to plan for English learner students in primary grade students need more small group instruction and teachers need more time to prep for that also from Noble with emphasis on small group instruction plus using Hands-On activities for science the third grade teachers need more planning time also the class numbers do climb up from 24 to 26 so we need extra prep for third grade teachers shouldn't have to make extra money by working aside job to be able to survive in this country give us a fair salary this is from Sierra Mont Y Park special education teachers are doing multiple jobs and being paid a single low salary other districts have multiple roles to complete the job requirements we are assigned preschool cost for my child takes 40 percent of my paycheck I have heard statistics that say people pay at least 30 percent of their salary into mortgages at least 10 percent for utilities and everything else also from Mincey Park this is my 10th year of teaching in in Berryessa Union School District I have been trying to save up to buy a home but I can't even afford to afford a one-bedroom condo with my paycheck my paycheck includes my masters and extra units too please give us a raise I'd like to move out of my parents house and be able to pay for my wedding from a ticket teacher younger kids but longer day proposed by the deal more students 24 now same size classrooms not an age-appropriate furniture or materials from NC Park quality education well compensated teachers are generally more motivated and committed to their roles this dedication can lead to improved teaching quality enhanced classroom experiences and better educational outcomes for students from Lindsey Park parent and community community satisfaction parents and the community generally appreciate well compensated teachers as they understand the vital role Educators play in shaping the Next Generation this support can lead to positive relationships between the school district and its stakeholders from Vinci Park II economic impact higher teacher salaries can have a positive impact on the local economy when teachers have more disposable income they contribute to local businesses and support economic growth and finally from ncpa the cost of living Santa Clara county is known for its high cost of living a raise can help teachers afford to live in or near the district reducing Community stress and allowing them to better engage with their school communities I want to add that as a single woman I can barely make ends meet myself I own a house I have a mortgage every month there's something new that I have to pay for I mean either there's a leak or there's something goes wrong with uh you know the a system and it's really really almost impossible to deal with these emergencies thank you post comments or next comments will come from Miss Mandy Matsumoto Moto [Applause] hello my name is Mandy Matsumoto I'm a first grade teacher at laneview I will be reading comments from other ctab members financial hardship I have two little kids at home to feed the inflation is too high and my salary isn't enough to cover the cost of mortgage groceries and clothes for the kids with the salary with a salary raise our family will be able to keep the house and raise our kids another member reducing Consultants and admin expenses money spent on care Solace is wasted money instead just provide fall full medical benefits instead of sponsoring these third-party care programs this one's from siermont I am reaching an age that I hope to retire soon however the income amount one needs to achieve in order to live in this area is much higher than what I will will receive in retirement increasing our salaries brings me and many others closer to being able to survive after we retire ment again I went into education because it was my calling I knew I wasn't going to be rich but I didn't know I would be struggling with the cost of living especially when I work for a district that isn't matching it again from Sierra mod when teachers earn a fair salary and have less requirements to attend unnecessary PDS they will be happier there they will be happier quality Educators which will then directly impact the quality of Education a student receives another CRM comment our salary is an indication that we don't matter to the district this impacts the way students and parents value US appreciate appreciate Us by giving us a raise in eliminating useless PDS um this one's from Noble it would be better for everyone involved if we were paid well enough to live where we worked teachers are living hours away and that amounts to less sleep which then affects how well we teach how can we expect students to learn when their teachers are tired from sitting in traffic for too long it is also horrible for the teachers Mental Health and this one's from Somerdale at Somerdale I have watched multiple teachers leave as they are priced out of the area some have left the profession entirely because the amount put on our our plates is so much new committees and adjunct Duties are constantly added when nothing is taken away we need to be attracting more talented teachers not driving them away thank you thank you for those comments our next comments will come from Miss Linda Simone hi I'm Linda saboni first grade teacher at Brook Tree Elementary um I have some cards about prep and I want to let you know I had a prep day today and it was fabulous I prepped for my plants and animals seal unit today all day I am nowhere near done but I thought to myself I how could I have even done this without this day so I want you to know that I really appreciate it and teachers really appreciate those seal prep days and it allows us to prepare really wonderful units for our students I actually really love the Seal program and it's nice to have the time to you know develop it and put it in you know place and and I'm excited to start um teaching that unit in two weeks so that prep time is really really valuable to us and I just want you to know that um Noble member said primary grade teachers should have prep and another member said prep time for grades one through three Exclamation point Exclamation point Exclamation point yes the upper grades may have more students but the younger grades have a lot of Hands-On things to prep which takes more time there have been years where I actually had more students than the upper grades and actually that's been happening more and more at Brook tree it happened to kindergarten last year it happened to me as a first grade teacher two years ago and you know it's declining enrollment I'm sure but we're ending up with 26 and they're ending up with 26 or 25 or 24 but they still have those two days and we don't have anything now we want them to have those two days we know how important it is for them to have it but we need it as well so we just want you to know that also grades one through three need a prep as much as fourth through fifth this is another member grades one through three tend to be more prep heavy having this would allow teachers to to just catch up on all of their work so thank you very much for considering adding prep for our younger students and teachers thank you for those comments our next comments will come from Miss Angela Jacobson [Applause] um I'm Angela Jacobson I teach at Lane view first grade I'm going to be reading some stories and some feelings from other members so my first one um says my classroom is overcrowded our classrooms are small and with 36 plus students this not only feels like a fire hazard but I cannot adequately support the individual needs of that many middle school students at once in each class I have three to five newcomers who need my support plus several students with IEPs plus 504s many with anxiety and depression these kids deserve my attention and to not just feel like a member please cap our class sizes another member said we need to clap cap sorry cap class sizes at 30.
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congratulations job Daniel that's why we're here could I have Alina grissomova come up from Combs High School [Applause] could I have Adan Tamayo come on up from Combs Middle School [Applause] there's a lot of things written about Adan and I'm going to give you the sheet when I'm done so you have it okay I'll pick a couple uh from some of your teachers Adon shows up to class always ready to learn and he's always respectful towards his classmates and staff Adana is responsible for his academics he will answer and ask questions complete his all of his work and is always on top of his grades he is a role model student in Spanish class good Ed on can always be counted on for being at class every day and being prepared yes clarifying questions when he needs help and always helps others around him you're just a wonderful young man congratulations for being nominated student of the month could I have Nathan Reynolds come up from Combs Traditional Academy [Applause] you ready you're good good since the start of the school year he's been getting homework done on time and staying on task in class he makes sure to keep his work neat in his area neat as well as by taking care of things and putting his materials away correctly we can count on him to be a great role model for others by following the classroom rules and always trying his best Nathan has shown responsibility in and out of the classroom all month keep it up Nathan congratulations [Applause] there you go could I have Ellie Orozco Castaneda come up from Ellsworth [Applause] ready Ellie shines as a student of the month for her exceptional kindness Independence and dedication to the rise code her genuine niceness and respect towards others creates a positive atmosphere both in and out of the classroom Ellie's unwavering commitment to personal growth is evident through her hard work on improving her manners and maintaining a high level Integrity her active participation good or active participation and engagement within the school Community showcases her dedication of Excellence overall Ellie's warm and welcoming nature along with her positive impacts on others makes her a truly deserving recipient of Honor congratulations [Applause] Eagle buddy could I have Owen Underwood come up from Harman [Applause] Owen treats everyone with respect and is a responsible student who puts forth his best effort all the time Owen works hard to make sure that he completes and turns in all assignments on a daily basis he does all of this with a positive attitude and a smile on his face Owen works well with others and always cares about others thoughts and opinions when other students are in need of help Owen takes care of business without prompting and gladly takes the responsibility of being there for them and does so in a kind and patient manner congratulations Owen [Applause] could I have raylynn Stewart come up from Ranch [Applause] you're a superstar earlier good job ray lynn we've chosen you as a student of the month for ranch because you're a star in the classroom you you greet all your teachers and the students with a giant smile on your face and RaeLynn is also a leader in the classroom she's one of the first ones in class to show that she's ready to learn every single day congratulations Raelynn [Applause] and finally could I have Presley Portillo come up from Simonton Presley is an outstanding third grade student she daily exemplifies all the character traits but in regards to responsibility Presley takes her time on her classwork she does quality work throughout all of her work and she answers and responds well in class Presley also makes sure she keeps up with her classroom job each week she's always helpful to her teammates classmates and all students congratulations Presley [Applause] parents we're going to take a couple minutes now a break so that you can take pictures and then if you choose to stay you can stay for the rest of the board meeting thank you absolutely I might have scribbled on it though absolutely yeah there it is you get it good job good job good job swim lessons good job Owen over here that'd be good thank you because you know I take a picture yes okay we're gonna proceed here you can do graduation out there okay we have um governing board member updates so apparently we have a couple so Bob do you want to start sure um I want to talk about the asba webinar that was held this afternoon to give a legislative update and there was a lot of details so I'm not going to go through all of it and if you're interested you can always go to the asba website and typically what they do is they post the webinar a few days or a week after the fact so it'll be available for people to look at but um they talked about all the legislation except for those affecting schools because we're on a fiscal year basis that becomes effective October 30th because there's a certain waiting period after the end of the legislative session they talked about the aggregate expenditure limit not having to worry about it this year because I guess part of the what was passed is that it was uh overridden for fiscal year 2024 so we don't have to deal and worry about that for this year they also talked about esas and how the number of students that are going to be taking advantage of esas by fiscal year 26 is different by The Joint legislative legislative budget committee's estimate and the ade's estimate if you go by the jlbc it's lower the Ade projects a hundred thousand students taking advantage of that by fiscal year 26 which would be a cost of 900 million dollars and that's what has been seen in a lot of press releases and that's where that number comes from uh there was some changes to the uh the budget formula and I'm not going to get into all that detail there was um a legislation about pupil suspensions and changes for younger children and there was also um some talk about um change in I can't read my writing so if I could take a minute oh in the district and Charter additional assistance increase so there are a lot of of issues that came up that finally bring us to what our base level is for our students and Julie knows that a lot better than I do so I'm not going to go into any more detail but um very interesting webinar and again if you go to the ASB website probably by later this week or next week that should be posted all right thank you Stephen Mr Ray I attended the asba delegate assembly on Saturday and basically what we talked about is how they Lobby for all the things that Bob just talked about and I'll leave it at that that's it come on that's it laughs you you had me hanging there for a minute and now you're not gonna okay um all right let me figure this out well any public comments none at this time so we have some um a consent agenda does anybody have any questions on anything in the consent agenda um yes I do okay um I'm looking at it okay just want some clarification on item 7.12 under personnel have we always had cell phone stipends presented to us like that because I just don't remember that you're starting to add more clarification to the to the pay that's going out to our employees it was decided that we would start adding that as well as stipend so you might have seen that the last couple board meetings as well so we're just adding more clarification and just making sure that we're taking care of those folks that are deserving of that thank you and I have one other item 7.2 Financial reports question for for Julie it looks like the mno carryover is over a million dollars is that what we we kind of projected a little bit less because of some additional expenses we approved last year so thank you thank you but as we as we talk about um student enrollment and those kind of things that will go away just as fast okay yeah that's all I had okay so any other questions comments concerns okay I'll take a motion to approve the consent agenda I moved to approve the consent agenda as presented second all in favor aye aye aye motion carries five to zero okay so that brings us to 8.1 discussion and consideration of approval of resolution for the legendary teacher day this is just a resolution that's presented annually that would make uh in this case the last Thursday the 28th legendary Teacher Day so I'd recommend approval uh as presented so do we have to do this annually yep yeah yeah okay I mean I figured like once we did it it was done okay any questions all right I'll take a motion so I moved to approve the resolution recognizing legendary teacher day in the JL Combs Unified School District as Thursday September 28 2023.
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