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cool configuration for you for our next meeting um and I'd like since we don't have officers yet I will go ahead and call our meeting to order for now until we have officers selected and I'd like to give a few minutes to our governing board president Sophia curio doll who would just like to greet you to the meeting hi everybody good evening for those of you who don't know me my name is Sophia carildon the governing board president and I just wanted to take the time to thank you guys for actually being here and contributing to this committee discipline policy is something that's been in the talk of the board for a few years so I'm glad that this is finally coming to fruitation and we will have your guys's input to better see how our policies can impact in a positive way for our students so thank you guys for being here thank you okay with that um because this is a board committee we are bound by open meeting law I think we did pretty good because I did a call to order and our board president did a welcome and that's what it says under number one on our agenda so we've been successful with that so far but to make certain that we're successful moving forward um we have with us this evening uh Jessica Sanchez who is um the attorney for the district and she is going to give us an overview of open meeting law so we all understand it so that way as we're proceeding forward with this process we're able to make certain that we're in compliance so with that I'm going to turn it over to you Jessica all right and I was told to try to keep it to 20 minutes so I have my clock in front of me and then I will all right I'm gonna give some overviews so um first of all thank you very much to the committee for what you do and for taking time out of your um schedules to take a look at these important policies so just um just as a visual before I talk about open meeting law it's important just to look at governing boards the administration and then whenever governing boards have a board committee you're really kind of an extension you know of the governing board but everything the district does we're governing board or Administration you're all operating in a fishbowl meaning that everything needs to be transparent and the public has the right to know everything that you're doing so this is this is a public institution it's paid with tax dollars and so the public has the right to know what is happening in the district and so the Arizona legislature has been very clear clear and courts have repeatedly upheld the intent that the public have access to the governmental process and so this is mainly accomplished in two ways when the governing board meets and then when any of their committees meet they're Bound by What's called the open meeting law so that the members of the public have the right to know how the official business of the board is Tran is is happening the documents they have a right to know what's going on they have a right to attend the meetings the administration is held accountable to the public by by the Arizona public records laws and so this just gives the public the right to access any public records that are created by the district so everything that the district does everything is pretty much open to the public with some exceptions and then there's of course some certain things that are kept private like certain investigations Student Records but for the most part everything the district does needs to be open so that fish bowl was just kind of a visual of again government is open and people have the right to know what's happening to question what happening to look at records so board committees when the governing board forms a committee that committee must follow open meeting law so you guys are obligated just like the governing board is to follow Arizona's open meeting law and I have a slide on here that pretty much sums up what the obligation is so the open meeting law basically boils down to four and a fifth major points the public has the right to know with some few and very narrow exceptions where you hold your meetings what you're going to be talking about what decision you make and the reason for your decision and the public should have equal access to this process so that's basically the open meeting some uh the public has the right to know where your meetings are what you're talking about what decisions you're making and then everybody should have equal access to that information and then I'm going to break it down in these next few slides okay so first of all notice we need to make sure that we're giving the public notice of where meetings um of where they can find information about the meeting so typically school districts will have a physical location where you know we advertise it on the website here's the physical location where we are going to post information about any future and upcoming meetings and we also include it on the website where's the physical location okay so that's usually on our website so the public always knows okay if I want information about where the meetings are going to be posted I go to this place and then when we have meetings notice that those meetings need to be posted in those locations where we've said the public can find that information at least 24 hours in 24 hours in advance um to the members of the public and to the general public that 24-hour period includes Saturdays if the public has access to that physical location but excludes Sundays so you can post on Saturday for a meeting on Monday but you can't post on Sunday for a meeting on Monday but the public needs to have 24 hours notice um for any agendas and upcoming meetings your agendas need to have notice of the topics and then that's the agenda that everybody has in front of them that agenda needs to clearly State what you're going to be talking about and so the public should be able to go to that physical location or look at that website take a look at an agenda and know okay I understand the board's going to talk about these issues or this committee is going to talk about these different issues any matter that's not specifically on the Gen on the agenda that's brought up during the meeting that needs that discussion needs to happen on a future agenda so you can only talk about things and take action on things that are listed on the agenda because again the public has the right to know what you're going to be talking about so that they can decide whether or not they want to attend there was a new um there was a bill that was signed into law that also just said that our agendas need to have um need to let the public know at what time they can access the oh and your agenda does that at what time people can access the room where the meeting is going to be held we also have to make sure that we're holding meetings in a room that has a large enough capacity to host the amount of people that we anticipate attending um let's see but anything that's not specifically on an agenda you cannot talk about it and then every member of the public has the right again to access that information so the district needs to provide note to come provide accommodations for anybody that needs an accommodation whether that's because they have a disability or because English is their is their second language or if they don't speak English at all so anybody should be able to contact the office and ask for a translation of an agenda or if somebody is visually impaired we need to make sure that we have in our website should be accessible to anybody who's visually impaired so that no matter what disability or language barrier everybody has the right to that information all of the meetings that you do um need to be open to the public so all meetings of any public body shall be public and all persons who desire to should be permission permitted to attend and listen to the deliberations and proceedings so you are a board committee you cannot have any secret meetings everything needs to happen in a public meeting sometimes you might have members of the public that attend sometimes you might not but the option needs to be there that if somebody wants to attend and hear the deliberations that they can and then all legal action has to occur during a public meeting and then just so you know a meeting is any kind of gathering of a quorum of the committee and that's in person or through technological advice devices and it includes anything that's discussing legal action proposing legal action or taking legal action or deliberating actions so a lot of times you'll see on an agenda that there's something called like an information item or a discussion item or an action item and that usually means sometimes you're just being presented with information sometimes you're discussing information sometimes you're making a decision all of that is considered quote legal action that happens that has to happen publicly so just because you're receiving information passively or just because you're only talking about something that's all still considered legal action in that it has to happen it has to be on an agenda 24 hours in advance and it has to be happening publicly so even just talking about you know these agenda items it all needs to be done in public at the committee meeting we talk about well actually I'm going to talk about it now meetings can also include a one-way electronic communication by one member that is sent to a quorum that proposes legal action or an exchange of electronic information what that means is is that if you're engaging in email conversations with each other or if maybe five of you are at you know a gathering somewhere and you just decide to talk about the the committee activities you're holding a meeting so anytime it's a quorum of you and even if it's just email discussions phone calls or in person that's considered a meeting and then if that quote meeting is not on an agenda 24 hours in advance and then happening in public it violates the open meeting law so that's kind of like the big part of this discussion today is understanding that meetings need to be on an agenda need to happen in public need to be on an agenda 24 hours in advance so that the public has the right to come and see and hear the discussions if they want to what that means is it violates the open meeting law like I said if a quorum of you are talking about any of these items outside of a meeting okay so especially if you're not used to dealing with open meeting law it's important that you understand that the work that you're doing on this committee all that discussion needs to happen here when you're at a meeting that's been on an agenda so you can't be um you can't be discussing among yourselves outside of these committee meetings the actions um you know or the issues that you're going to take up all of those discussions needs to happen here in public at a meeting that's been properly agendized and give and notice has been given to the public 24 hours in advance some people try to do and there's all different ways of violating the open meeting law some people try to What's called splintering the Quorum these three people talk and then these three people talk and then one of those people in the group you know kind of share information back and forth It's really just important to understand there's really just no getting around the open meeting law you have to have your conversations in a meeting that was on an agenda that was provided to the public 24 hours in advance if I sound like a broken record it's because that's basically the main point of open meeting law your discussions need to happen in a meeting that was properly agenda is that was given to the public 24 hours in advance anytime people try to basically get around this requirement you're creating liability for the district and the district can get in trouble for not following open meeting law so it's very under important that you understand your obligations you know again not to try to there's really no you know don't talk to these two people and then go talk to these two people and try to understand where people's heads are you know in terms of a decision the discussions just need to be saved for an open meeting that was on an agenda that was given to the public 24 hours in advance and there's all different ways let's see I have in the PowerPoint which you're going to get a copy of right okay and there's all like I said there's all different kinds of ways of violating open meeting law that's why it's just important to remember just take a conservative approach to this save your discussion save your ideas save your input for when you're all here at a meeting that was on an agenda that was provided to the public 24 hours in advance there are some exceptions to the public part of a meeting and then I'm just going to go over some of those quickly that might apply to you um boards and then now you're you know you guys as a committee you can have what are called executive sessions those still have to be on an agenda the public still has to know that you're going to be having an executive session but these kinds of executive sessions allow you to have conversations outside of the public ear so when the governing board is here typically they'll go into a separate conference room to hold their executive sessions and that's because they need to have a conversation that needs to be private um and then there's only certain reasons that you can do this and I'm going to go over that not all of these are going to apply to you but just so that you know the governing board will do this sometimes when they need to discuss confidential Personnel matters if they're reviewing confidential records for example Student Records if they're getting legal advice from their attorney if they're providing direction to their attorneys on certain you know negotiations or contracts for meet and confer um and that's just for the discussion of salary and benefits International Interstate negotiations and the purchase sale or lease of real property because obviously like if you're selling a piece of property you want to be able to have conversations privately about what you may or may not offer or what you may or may not you know accept um the one that will probably apply to this committee if it ends up being necessary at all might be legal advice and tip in this isn't allowable again executive session because anytime you get um advice from your from your legal counsel you know that's something that needs to be private confidential you don't we don't share legal advice publicly unless there's been authorization to do so that's really probably the only one that might apply to you is if you wanted to get legal advice on one of the specific aspects of the policy you could do that in an executive session if you do have an executive session there has to be minutes the minutes have to detail and we don't give these out to the public but we do have to have them in case the attorney general or someone else requests them later we have to take minutes that include who was there what was the subject what was the agenda item that we discussed and then any any specific directions that we're given if you have a legal advice executive session or any executive session but that's the one that's going to apply to you you cannot take action in that executive session that executive session is just for you to have a confidential discussion and it's just so that you can speak freely you know in terms of again like I said if you are asking your attorney questions you can ask questions in executive session that you may not wanted to have asked out in public but only the discussions are held in executive session any final action that this committee takes you know in terms of forming your recommendation to the governing board all of that action has to be public and then has to take place out here in public where other people can know what action you are taking there are some other things I had some common issues that come up um calls to the public this committee might decide at some point that they want to hear from the public and you can do what is called a call to the public where members of the public can come and and speak to the committee and give their input if you decide that you want to do a call to the public um if that you cannot discuss anything that's brought up from public comment that is not on the agenda because your committee is very specific likely members of the public are going to be you know talking about what you're talking about because you're looking at policies but still it's important to remember that this is not the time to have a back and forth discussion with the public this is just the time to hear the public and then you can go on with your meeting but typically you don't even respond unless um there is unless that matter is on the agenda okay we talked about email already but again email I mean I don't know if you guys are going to be emailing each other I just wouldn't suggest it again if you feel like there's um an issue that you need to discuss um could they let you know Hilda or who would they propose a proposed agenda item to probably you in the chair once they elect a chair and so you can propose to the chair I think this is an item that we should discuss but please don't be emailing each other because like I said then you're just putting the district in liability and you might violate the open meeting law all right I'm gonna see if there's anything else I want to highlight that are those are the main points that I want the committee to know sure yes Hilda's awesome at that so yeah typically when you're getting information from Hilder from the superintendent it'll come at you just one way in a manner that you're not able to reply all and say I really think we should do this I agree that this is you know again your conversations as a committee need to happen in a public meeting that was on the agenda I do have on here excuse me all kinds of examples of people getting in trouble with email and again my advice would just be don't respond on email passively receive that information from Hilda or information about the next meeting but save your input and your discussions for when you're here with the committee and conducting your business um all right if the open meeting law is violated um legal action any legal action that you take can be voided there are also civil penalties um of 500 up to two thousand five hundred dollars that's for a second and a third offense so typically you get one warning but please just don't even get there and just just don't do it just don't email each other don't talk to each other about these items just save it for your meeting and Miss Sanchez personal fine right and that is a personal find not one thank you not one that the district pays for the district cannot pay that fine for you so just don't put yourself in that situation you can also be removed from your committee assignment um and then the the Attorney General's office can order other things for the district in terms of um getting back into compliance these are some useful references you know if you feel like on a Friday night you want to take a look at the agency handbook for open meeting law all kinds of useful information that link is on this um PowerPoint there's a lot of other things in that PowerPoint that I just put in there because it applies to open meeting law I just wanted to hit the main points for you you can also reference the governing board policies for the district and then if you go to section B all of the basically open meeting law is put into all of all of the policies in section B there's a whole section on agendas on minutes on notice of meetings and so again on a Friday night if you're interested in the governing board's policies that implement the open meeting law you can take a look at those any questions or anything Hilda that you want me to point out okay that wouldn't address it's the policies and so and it's one thing if you're calling a colleague you know do you have some advice on some behavioral interventions I have this I have this issue at my school hey what kind of behavior plans have you done at your school I mean that's all specific to you trying to give a Student Assistance but hey what did you think about that change that was being proposed to the student conduct policy or hey what's your thought on the dress code policy all of that you should say for here okay I'll restate the question the question was um if you're a School employee and and you're talking to a colleague about just behavioral interventions is that still okay and my answer was yes because your specific committee charge is reviewing policies but save your input about the policies um you can talk to other colleagues who are not these colleagues but save your input on the policies and on the suggested revisions for when you're here because this is the place to have that discussion and the good thing about this committee I mean it's it's a big spectrum of different individuals from the community with different roles so all of those perspectives should be talked about but here so that any interested member of the public can hear that dialogue in that back and forth and that's the purpose of the open meeting law is that the decisions that you make and the reasons for those decisions that all happens in public and anybody who wants to attend can hear that any other questions that was 19 minutes exactly it was one of our governing type on here that works whatever means I'm just gonna open the word document I can't help with unlocking any doors ever so don't come to me for that special thank you yes I was gonna ask I didn't know what your name was hi Adam thank you so much for being here man thank you you could be having so much fun right now I'm sure at home how great are you in UNM thank you so much for being here man um all right I have this word document open because we don't have a like an easel to use right now and I know there's not that many of us but maybe if there's multiple nominees I will just yeah type things up here oh yeah let me do it right here already on mirror but maybe one maybe when I escaped yeah I was leaving PowerPoint my sorry no you're fine I just noticed it I also noticed it my bad there we go sweet yeah that should be a boardroom there we go oh now maybe it'll do it because now when it resets or something yeah thinking about it there it goes there we go all right so um I guess to kind of give you all an introduction to this agenda item as far as chair and a vice chair go essentially when it comes to committees and or the board the board has a board president and a board clerk that's essentially the chair and the vice chair of the board and so these committees are looking for a chair and advice chair the chair's main responsibilities um and this is like in statute somewhere and in Robert's Rules of Order but whatever um it's usually basically their main responsibilities are helping develop the agenda for every meeting and so if you're interested in being the chair I would say just count on that involving a little bit of extra leg work in communicating with Jay and me and Hilda in between meetings so we can discuss kind of what the agenda items might be for the following meeting and doing that in time to like comply with the open meeting law rules you just heard about so it takes a little extra work however the committee is not huge which is what also we were going for so hopefully you're not going to get inundated with like a million requests for agenda items and things like that um so there's a chair and then obviously the vice chair whenever the chair is unavailable and the other thing that the chair does is run the meetings so essentially you would be making sure we're staying on track for the agenda um that you've helped create and then also I think in the long run scheme of things making sure that the agendas are getting us to where we need to be at the end of the timeline that we voted on as the board so that being said I know we haven't like done introductions in here yet but I'm assuming most everybody knows who everybody is or no so we are missing two members right now Mr Diaz and we're missing three Josie Valenzuela James Diaz who's on his way oh okay and um and the parents okay so there are three members who aren't here yes I'm hoping to help with the Community member once we get done with the future dates discussion then I can go and coerce someone into joining this committee um then I'll have the I'll have all of my information to give them to be like you know you want to do this um yeah so knowing that those three folks aren't here I don't know are we wondering if Mr Diaz wants to be in leadership on this committee okay since we know he's on his way I just don't know if we should did he say he was like he said it'll take him less than 10 minutes I don't know yeah I think it'd be good for an introduction for sure yeah let's do let's do it was I was gonna say I've seen your faces but yeah um and then Jay's got the fun Mike there it's okay it's okay so you know who you possibly are nominating hi and ask what house are you in okay and then just reiterate the other three people and so Mr Diaz where is he at yeah this is a secret quiz for you Jay secret quiz thank you I remember the last name is involved sweet any questions about these two roles and or what would be required of you if you did in either of these things before we get to it sure and you know only the people here so you know [Laughter] um okay and then just to recap really quickly just so you also are aware before you commit to anything you know obviously we haven't had the discussion about future dates yet so you're committing kind of without the knowledge of how often we're meeting up until the final points and then I don't have it in front of me but there is a community council meeting in April April 11th that's correct it's my sororities founding day that's how I remembered what day the meeting was and so it's April 11th and that is where we are bringing our recommendations then there's a week in between that it is April 11th a seventh board meeting a couple weeks because it was different that's right that's right your birthday and so they're the cushion in between is for if we have to have a possible exact session like we had discussed to get advice from Jessica on all of the things we've then decided to possibly propose to the board um and or have an open meeting or both basically um so knowing that our timeline goes through basically April 11th we need to have our recommendations ready to present to the public on April 11th we don't know how frequently we're going to be meeting yet but you will need to be available to help set agendas and possibly help with um other things that go with the agenda details finer details there's all that I don't think there's any other information that's needed does anyone want to nominate anyone else or themselves for a chair go ahead Adriana just don't give the mic just don't give the mic back to Jay at this point I think Ryan would be our i-a-n okay um c-i-n-d-e-l-e-l-e okay sorry cool that's because I read my Kindle every day um any other nominations for chair wow okay all right well no one else is going to none Brian do you accept the nomination yes thank goodness okay all righty um do you have anything to say for yourself didn't know if you had anything to add about your interest or [Music] something yeah foreign fun I like it wow okay I'm not the only nerd in the room uh Mr Diaz is here welcome um we are currently taking uh nominations for chair right now Brian's the only nominee uh Brian's the vice principal at Gateway we did some introductions before you got here is there anyone here you don't know this is Adam he's a sixth grade student at Monte Vista other than that we're good and would you like to nominate yourself or chair of the committee chair of the committee okay okay I just wanted to give you an opportunity you know all right so Brian's been the only nominee he's accepted it um okay so are we at a second we need a second yeah somebody to move because we don't have we need to move and then okay me and Jay can't move or second anything or vote on anything so it's all up to you guys so somebody needs to move to approve Brian as the chair of the committee okay okay and then we just need a second okay all right then we don't have to do a roll call Vote for This I'm gonna have to do a roll call vote for this right I believe oh okay all right Brian Adriana we're going fast and I've already forgot Alan gosh okay James and I've forgotten your first name Megan okay Adam all right sweet congratulations Brian um you're welcome to come up here and decide who the vice chair is going to be if you don't so I can sit down thanks so now we need a nominee for vice chair does anybody have a nominee for vice chair uh chair is gonna run requires a little extra agenda um any nominations there we go any other nominations am I allowed to make the move a motion all right I moved that uh James Diaz be nominated for vice chair roll call vote yes yes all right we have a chair and we have a vice chair you have more energy than the rest of us Ryan so this is and tonight it was only because tomorrow there's a big meeting in here and it needed this setup so I just wanted to let you guys know so the next agenda item is agenda adjustments so around a little we could skip around does anybody want to move anything all right yes all right oh no well I was gonna exit out of here surprise so the next thing on our agenda is discussion on policies jic j i c a dash r j i c f j i h j k j k d a n j k e h someone request information just keep that I'd really like to uh you know that we can look at additionally essentially I think Sophia um I think she essentially trying to um as well so other than just and obviously the first one be pretty much anyone there has to be some these policies haven't been and that there's like a I understand we don't switch and that's really the impetus for all I plan for school I one of the and so so that's why see who's here Community counselor sure hello oh it's a lot louder than I thought it was going to be my name is Inigo Montoya no sorry okay um so it's actually two questions and a question slash request uh so the first question is you mentioned that these policies were collected policies are these Creighton School District policies or just policies from other places so that's a great question the policies listed and that are in the back that have the edits on them are actually Creighton District policies however I will add the caveat that most districts have adopted their policies from suggested policies that are given to them by the Arizona School Board Association or asva right we had we vote to adopt them as board members usually at the end of each policy if you're looking at it on board docs it'll tell you the lat when it was adopted and or the last time it was updated so you have an idea of how old something is I don't know if the print out in the back has that but the actual printouts from bordock should have it um so that gives you some idea there it also will list the related statutes some of those statutes will then tell you the more more details legally speaking of the requirements Behind These policies there are things in these policies that are not legally required um I didn't bring it tonight but I have I went through this entire packet um because I wasn't sure where this was going when we had it as an agenda item and I made lots of notations where I cross check things with statutes um so I will be walking a fine line of plainly explaining a statute and knowing everyone in here is intelligent enough to not think that I'm giving you legal advice on how something may apply to something okay because I'm not an education lawyer right um but hopefully I can lead you all to the water and you will drink it and you will see what is included in the statute and what is not so there are things in these and these policies that are not required by Statute or little things where shall or may have been switched out where we just have to see what do we want for our district you know it doesn't always have to be exactly what asba has required as long as we're still in compliance with the statute and that's where these discussions in these committee meetings are important but then also at the very end obviously advice from the council actual qualified counsel like Jessica who've practices in these areas a second question you mentioned I thought I heard you say that some of these were edited is the so is this the policy and then someone went and edited it in red to Mark things out that they decided shouldn't be there yeah so I think I think um Sophia two or three board meetings ago Sophia Kario doll had put this on an agenda item and she had brought this document as a proposed thing that the board could adopt as is um at that meeting there was discussion the whole board I think was there and discussed it um and discussed the fact that we thought that it would be best rather than adopting something that one person has kind of proposed that we create this committee to do what I just said and rambled on the microphone that wasn't getting picked up about basically it was getting because it just wasn't getting closed captioned oh okay great okay well and if I if I could add it just for clarity in our packets there's tab two behind tab two what you'll find are the current policies as they exist um in the in the district policy manual so those are the ones that Katie referenced earlier that are the ones that come to us via asba that have been adopted by the board at some place along the way and you know just to corroborate what she said not that she needs my corroboration but very often what we find I've worked with asba with policy for close to 20 years now it is rare that they send us anything that isn't a change to bring something into alignment with statues so when statute changes they send us changes if statute doesn't change typically they don't touch anything so there really is not a lot of work by way of asba looking at Trends in education like what's happening with student discipline you know things that that were mentioned earlier like if we're trying to have a restorative practices approach none of that's taken into account in any of their recommendations with the policies their policies are purely to create some form of compliance with statute based on whoever is currently their attorney's interpretation of what would align with statute and you know uh like any other three individuals you could put in a room if you put three attorneys in a room they won't perfectly agree so did you like the way I put that I didn't just like lay it on attorneys it's like any three individuals that was very nice yeah that was very nice um that second part as as Katie was explaining was that portion that our board president did bring forward and I believe um that she also reached out to some other groups and got some advice on you know what might be types of things that could be changes yeah and just to be transparent and specific I think specifically so if he is a member of an organization called School Board Partners she's in a cohort it's a fellowship across the country Nationwide of school board members across the country um and I believe this is something they've discussed in in that fellowship and so something she wanted to take on and that was kind of the launching point for that and getting advice from some of those folks so hopefully that was helpful and not distracting okay and then the last thing was and if this exists already and I just don't see it I'm sorry for asking but and I don't know how the rest of the group feels but in uh in I've been in committees like this before and it's really easy to go off in a lot of wild different directions it's really easy to get lost in the weeds um I personally uh since it's a governing board advisory committee I think it would be very helpful we always refer to them as governing board guidelines in other committees where you say this is these are the the four points that or three points or whatever uh that we would like you to think about as you approach your work so we can focus the work um like so the the expectation is by the at the end that it's somewhere in this ballpark not in outer space does that make sense and I don't know how other people feel but I know me personally it helps guide the process and just to be um trying to clarify there as far as guidelines what would be an example of like how concise are we talking here I'm curious the short answer is I'm not sure not not Norms I feel like Norms are something we can develop as a committee I'm thinking more like um I don't know I it's kind of like mission and vision type driven type stuff you know like these are the things that we want to by the end this is where the goals that you want to we want you to have accomplished certainly so um I this is something that I could definitely talk to Sophia about getting on an agenda so we can further discuss the guidelines I know time is critical um policy and the handbook certainly like what's the deliverable certainly so I definitely will bring that up at a for a future agenda item I can get that to Hilda and so we can discuss it I will say that I am not going to be at the next board meeting um so hopefully even if they discuss it without me there that's fine maybe we can try to get it on the next one so that it's just so that we're not skipping a beat with the committee because I'd hate to waste anyone's time so I'll figure that out so I just had a question about process because when it was first presented there was a lot of there was a lot of Crossing out and adding on so is our process to look at what has been provided as ideas as our Baseline and how we could move towards that in that direction almost kind of like what you were asking about guidelines or are we starting first with like a more organic discussion about each of the policies and how we see it playing out in Creighton because I feel like there's two paths that we could go and they're gonna end up a very different Road probably the same outcome but I'm just wondering like yeah yeah so from what I recall from our discussion I don't know that it made it an emotion but there was a discussion during that meeting about using that document as a guideline or a starting point that being said I would hate for it to limit you maybe their starting points for discussions right I don't think you're limited obviously there's nothing that we voted on or said specifically that limits you to starting with that it might be a good reference for when you're starting discussions about specific policies as far as like where this boat goes and which direction and how in which procedure you take this in I mean that's really like Brian's thing at this point and so um I would say you know this is a smaller group it's a lot easier to come to some consensus about certain things about you know how you want to do this um in my obviously in my experience I've been on two of these one at the city and one at Phoenix Union those were our giant committees and was a pain to figure out what consensus was for anything or what direction to move in so I think it's given that there's a smaller group um that that it might be easier to figure out like this is how we would work best as a group to kind of address these things um whether you know you take it and you're like we're addressing these two policies at the use meaning or we're having this discussion at the next meeting you know what I mean um and that might also be a good conversation for the chair and the vice chair to maybe even ahead of time kind of map out a big picture overview of how it might be best to like get through all of this by April 11th and it could be a discussion you have in a meeting and then you know it kind of just gets worked out as far as agenda planning with Brian and James or something like that but again that would be something you might want to agendize and another thing that we didn't agenda is tonight that we might want to put on the next one is I don't know if it's just assumed but I know in the other committees like kind of how the order is going to go generally speaking I don't know if you've noticed we take on we take a motion we take a second for things um so generally it's like a rough version of Robert's Rules of Order Robert's not the easiest person to work with um and so I think that's something that you all have the power and I know you all have the power to kind of decide but once you've decided what it is that works best for you all in terms of like whatever Rules of Order whatever you want to call them that work for this body then you just gotta stick to them so that's something that can be agendized in another meaning too if you want to have a discussion about that if you feel like how it works isn't conducive of getting this work done like as long as we're abiding by the laws that Jessica laid out everything else the sky's the limit okay so just keep that in mind because I hate for people to feel like they're in a box and I hate to for you all to feel that way with the with the um with the policies too in in that regard the very last thing I'll say to this point is that doesn't mean that you can't also create like a new policy or a new or like an entire handbook that you know like thinking outside the box into how can we add to this we're not just taking away we're adding or we're making a new policy whatever that looks like like let's just be as creative as possible with this right as long as we're in line with statute and we're feeling good about what we're doing you know and then the last thing I had and this is probably just for my own edification um when I was looking at some of the edits they were like great in I think like Theory but as somebody who was doing discipline and still is doing discipline logistically they didn't they were going to be much more difficult to follow through so what like when we talk about policy are we still considering like how the procedure of that policy would play out yeah 100 and so that's why when I saw this and I the night before I had been sitting at my kitchen island like looking through this not only looking at it for like a legal thing but having worked in schools before and assisted in this kind of stuff like I was like it's not gonna work well I'm like eating food and whatever like so um yeah no totally exactly so there's totally things in the in the suggestions that are illegal one and there's totally things in the suggestions that just aren't going to work practically too okay so just keep that in mind and as we get through them I'm happy to give you my opinion not my advice about what those things might be okay especially with the legal things I can just point those out what I my opinion might be um exactly as far as like how it would go on yeah exactly the Practical aspects and that's the whole point of having this community because I was like we can't be none of this pontificating and then like forcing things down people's throats yeah some of it was super easy it was like we were like these are the things we'll do if we go past 10 and then suddenly it dropped down to three and I was like the paperwork you know so yeah so I think kind of getting back to some of the things that I've heard and this one is we definitely need to come up with what is the purpose of the review and then once we have the purpose of that review then we can talk about next steps of how do we actually go about this there's one thing that we just heard that I think we should probably consider anytime we start any discussion which is what is in our policy that is legally required to remain in our policy because if that is there and it is a legal requirement there is no wiggle room around it that would have to stay and so I think then if we can start by saying okay this is what's legally required to be in here per all the statutes following the rules understanding there's a difference between shall and must and maybe sometimes we interpret it as must instead of shall but if we start with that realm I think we can start with that and then we can get into the discussion once we have those guidelines from the governing board James in terms of we start with the legalities then we look at okay the guidelines that we've been given on the purpose behind the work what are we trying to accomplish and then if we go back and look at the practicality piece and make sure before we make any recommendations that we run it through all three of those lenses I think that'll be kind of the work that's before us does that I'm seeing heads none does it [Music] and maybe it's more oh this is a strange process right here is the and and I would just see this as another component because I mean it it it's nice that it's a small Kitty but it's also a little dangerous that it's a small committee um I think feedback is wildly important um and uh stakeholder input is wildly important um and just you know I people always so the trying to trying to process this in a way that is not going to be coming off as confrontational sometimes sometimes there are initiatives that come down the pipe right and that's fine most of them are legal in nature and you have to go and do that sometimes there are initiatives that come down the pipe that people have no idea what they are and they become the the people that are responsible for implementing them I.E the people in the classroom or the people at the site levels they don't have the feedback a part of it they don't know what their role is they just know I'm supposed to do this and it makes it really really difficult to implement something when you don't have buy-in from the people that are supposed to implement I'm not talking just teachers I think people at the site level as well so I think that another component an important component is how how do we facilitate or is it our role to facilitate I don't know the answer to that question either maybe it's not it could be your role I think maybe I was wild and like just being like let's leave this pretty broad for you guys to figure out what you want to do one thing I will add is that we do have an upcoming agenda item I know we're running short on time but the agenda item is about public comments and it's coming up on number seven and so there's some suggested language there that Hilda pulled from Tucson um for a budget advisory committee they had in their committee they decided to only get public comment through written stuff ahead of time certainly you all can decide how you want to set up public comment for your meetings that's those are suggestions you could allow for people to come in person you could allow written things ahead of time um kind of whatever that looks like I think that's a good way to start the process for people being able to give feedback um again we can get to that at that agenda item but I just wanted to point to that as like something that might address what you just brought up and then from there anything else you all can think of as what you want to do so I think kind of looking at the agenda probably what we should be doing right now is we've got these policies these are the ones that have been recommended that we start with um and we can do uh related policies also but if we start with these policies is there anything anybody can already see that we would need to add to these policies sorry one thing I said to Jay that I didn't say on the microphone was I do have notes and so what I was depending on hopefully we're not planning on have a meeting next week since this is a board meeting next week but I'm trying to commit to um getting the related statute and highlighting things for you all to see so that you can see oh this corresponds to this spot in the statute so it's not really me giving you any advice I'm just pointing to things so that you can read that and then read in the statute so you know oh this oh the statute says shall but our policy says or vice versa that wouldn't be good the policy says maybe we've made it a shout like we have some room to change there right um so that sort of thing so that's what I would commit to trying to do depending on how quickly the next meeting is set obviously okay to hopefully help you all out with that starting point that you're looking for so does anybody have any thoughts on like we've talked about how we would approach it taking the legal view looking through the lens of the governing boards guidelines on the purpose of this um and then comparing it to the existing recommendations and kind of working through those parts looking also at practicality any thoughts on any more thoughts on this one before we kind of move on to meeting schedules and oh oh that's okay we're good um the only other thought I had is as when we do get um further guidance from the board about our purpose if as was suggested like one of our purposes as we're looking at these policies is to make sure we're not only legally combined but we're also aligning to our district initiatives it would be I think it would be helpful if if we received like here are all the initiatives in the district that might be impacted by this um so that we have some sense of what that scope really is in terms of alignment if it's a policy I see the policy I I it's like the tail wagging the dog I feel like the policy should come first and then the initiatives should align with the policy right or is that backwards you would think right however I think that sometimes in the past and people you know that's the problem when there's like a misalignment with um obviously I'm not do whenever I say this I'm not saying anything about any board numbers now or in the past right intentions are intentions or whatever people have certain backgrounds or perspectives my the thing is is like if boards are passing um policy or aren't in their entire tenure editing a policy right but also passing initiatives without looking at a Pilot like that's where that starts to happen right and so over the years initiatives have been approved without even considering how it affects a policy or vice versa right and so these two things have been happening kind of in isolation and I think now we're trying we're going to try our best to get these two things on track the best we can with without having to erase all the initiatives that we have going on right now so it's more like a symbiotic relationship yes one can affect the other yes if I could add you know there's there's a variety of things that all happen simultaneously and I don't know that there's always awareness of the intersection with policy so the best example I can give you is our strategic planning work that we've done over the last few years and one of the things that's come through both board guidance and the strategic planning work is the focus on Equity access and diversity right but our policies don't always lend themselves to equity access and diversity and that's Arizona State legislature right because the Arizona State Legislature doesn't really lend itself towards access equity and diversity so there is there may be some places where there's disconnects between statute and the direction that our governing board guides us we're fortunate to live in a state with local control and so our board has a lot of leeway to guide us the the issue that sometimes gets created is the bodies who provide us with the model policies are trying to ensure tight compliance with statute and I'm not suggesting we should be out of compliance with statute but for us to be able to have those board-guided initiatives or strategic plan components what we need to do is crosswalk that compliance with the desires of the community as to what they want to accomplish and so this is one of those opportunities to do that with the student discipline policies it may end up proving a model for looking through all of our policies with the same time of lens if that makes sense no that's okay I I I yeah I think when I start when as I've looked at some of these policies like it's particularly JK student discipline which is super focused on to what degree we can suspend kids for disciplinary violations that's really misaligned to our the philosophy and the practices of this District in terms of addressing a child is is a whole person which might include suspension but it's not limited to that and our policies really don't reflect that value so I think it's part so I agree with you James it's not about we want to write a policy that supports a particular initiative but I think it's that what is the intention of these initiatives and our policies allow those intentions to and reflect those intentions and the philosophy behind them one thing I was just asking Hilda about was we aren't agendized for an end time um in a previous committee I had Jennifer who was our old attorney as my attorney on that committee and she she would yell at me if I finished even one minute late but luckily we are not agendized for an end time so no one's going to yell at us except for the people that are here we can yell at ourselves or the folks who are helping us out in the back so I will just point out that I know part of this is my fault that it's 6 52 now um but obviously we need to figure out when our next meeting you know when y'all's next meeting is and uh what was that second thing the public comment thing we don't have to take action on that today but the next the future dates is obviously of importance for moving forward yeah I think we should definitely move on to the future dates because I don't want to keep Adam I was going to say yeah also we always have a lot longer in mind like I'm sorry buddy for you [Laughter] so moving on to the meeting schedule I think one we know we've got a definitive end date of April 11th we have to have whatever that final product is at this point we have questions about what that final product is and so it would be difficult for us to set the entire schedule I'm thinking because there's more information that's needed before we can get there um but maybe setting the next meeting date and putting like knowing we're going to intend on that agenda to set the remaining schedule to make sure that we can meet that date of April 11th being ready to present to community council so now comes the fun part where everybody has to look at calendars and figure out what day works and then just keep in mind there's a board meeting on October 3rd so obviously I know we're not meeting next week and then October 17th as well and I am out of the state window of time like two weeks three weeks I mean I I think you know as as we look at the agenda and some of the concerns and considerations that have come up um I don't know if we can I think um you mentioned Katie that you're not at the October 3rd meeting and I don't know if we can turn the agenda item around fast enough for October 3rd um I certainly can email Hilda and Hilda tonight if I have to just get that on the agenda and have that discussion at least that doesn't mean we're necessarily going to have the meeting you know the day after or whatever but at least we can try to get that addressed at the next meeting yeah it would just be nice to have the full board though for this discussion especially since you're acting as ex-officio with this group I'm sorry I'm going to the Foo Fighters no I I I both I'm both respectful and jealous of that but what I what I will say is that maybe October 17th would be the right date for that board conversation and if that's the case then it might be best to agendize the next meeting of this group for a week after that somewhere in that vicinity just to ensure that we're not pulling everyone together using taking your valuable time but we're still missing a key component we need to move forward certainly that also gives me more time to put together the document before you all okay so Tuesday meetings in between the board yeah I'm not here but I would be at that conference yeah but I'm going to be on his way to that conference yeah I don't know if he's not here if you're here if we can still have it here yeah yeah and I'm I'm you know I my goal to be here is to support everybody but I don't want to hold us up either so I think everyone's perfectly capable of moving on without me in the room and so as long as everyone's comfortable with that I'm fine with it being scheduled are you going to that conference no I'm not okay so I can be here because I'm not going October 24th works for me October 24th 5 30.

foreign we'd like to welcome all of you to Tuesday September 26th 2023 our regular board meeting at six o'clock and thank you all for being here and welcome to those also who are participating or watching online or in a in a recorded broadcast in the future we will begin and I'll call this meeting to order and then we will have a moment of silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance led by Mrs Sheila eugetti if you'll stand please and join me in a moment of silence foreign thank you I will now ask for Mrs Wilson to please call roll Mr Chad Thompson here here Ms Rhonda page here Miss Laurie wood here Ms Jill Humphries here Madam president all board members are present you have a quorum thank you that will take us to item 2.01 the approval of tonight's agenda board members is their motion I move that we approve the agenda as presented thank you Mr Jetty it's been moved as our second second thank you Mrs page it's been moved and seconded that we approved the agenda as it's been presented all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with me thank you that's past five zero now we will move to the superintendent's recognition Awards and I will turn the time over to Dr Shane McCord thank you madam president governing board members if you join me in front of the dice we have some folks we'd like to recognize this evening [Music] good evening oh no we're not doing it that way tonight good evening oh thank you so much this is our first round of recognitions for the 23-24 school year and if you've been to these you know this is my favorite part of the meeting because we get a brag about some of the great staff and students that we have in our school district so the first one I'm going to brag about dismiss and Schwab come on up man you're welcome so Ann um after I'm done talking about you couple minutes speeches all you're gonna need to know now and uh teaches art for Gilbert Public Schools she's also the coordinator of Elementary k-6 art and she won an award and we'd like to tell you guys about it aaea award for distinguished services with within the profession Ann Schwab was selected as a recipient of the 2023 MacArthur Goodwin award for distinguished service within the art profession an honor presented by the Arizona art Education Association this Accolade is a testament to Anne's dedication to Quality Art education in the state of Arizona not only is she dedicated and recognized by the state but she's a huge Champion for art in Gilbert public schools and all of our elementary schools and we are extremely proud of her and we thank her for her service thank you I was also told that the Packers who do they play this week the Lions do we have any Lions fans out there this is kind of an inside joke do we have any Packers fans out there oh couple faithful back there good luck to you and the Packers but more importantly thank you for everything you do for Gilbert Public Schools we appreciate you thank you so much [Music] next if I could have principal Jennifer Greene assistant principal Kristen Mayfield and any staff from Neely Elementary here or students please come up they didn't expect everybody to come up so I'm sure I've thrown some for a loop but that's okay why are you up here well let's let's tell everybody why the U.S Department of Education recently announced its 40th cohort of National Blue Ribbon Schools Neely Traditional Academy was among just four in the state of Arizona to win this award the National Blue Ribbon Schools program celebrates schools for their overall Excellence or their progress in closing achievement gaps among student subgroups this is the second time that Neely has received this honor the first time was 14 years ago in 2019.

all right welcome back to the first OverWatch stream of our third Esports season uh winning two state championships back to back we have Caleb Daly daily how are you feeling today um I'm really pumped for what we're gonna do today we've got a good team um we've strategized we've got a good strategy going and I feel like we have a good chance of winning today we're gonna go out and play our best good good um so how do you feel about the maps that are going to be played so interesting choices some of them um I mean that's kind of at our out of our control I mean we just kind of roll with the choices that are made and make the best of it um I know personally Dorado not my favorite but you you just have to play with it yeah it is um yeah a good attitude though we like we love to see a good attitude um so is is there uh is there any like real like real issues you see uh being in the future for it or like or just like this in general or are you pretty confident I'm pretty confident I would say um I don't see any real issues coming up I mean obviously there's going to be minor stuff that just happens you know you have to deal with it as it comes but I'd say overall as a team we're pretty confident I'm pretty confident we we're gonna do well especially today I feel like today is going to be a good one um but I don't feel any um anxiousness towards the future we're gonna do well nice nice nice uh and and I'll have one more question for you um as a state champion uh two times back to back back to back which is crazy um two times back to back how from just looking at the maps feeling feeling the new team do you think that a state championship is on the horizon this season I would say yes I would say um with our new member um Lily she's learning she's doing really well she has great FPS background um you know and the rest of team is similar to what we ran when we had our first OverWatch state champ so I feel like if we play like we did and even improve we have a really good chance I mean we played well the first season we got a similar team we've got new Talent um Improvement and I say state championship is definitely definitely what we're shooting for well hey I'm rooting for you guys he's rooting for you guys so we're we're we're we're all here rooting for you guys and uh let's just hope you guys got a banger match tonight I'm I'm so excited to watch you guys play and yeah is this for for this being the first uh OverWatch you know Season yeah yeah for the first season in a long long time it's about two years yeah we've uh we've done since we've done OverWatch the first season so uh thank you for coming down and you know we're we're going to be talking to one of your other uh teammates uh after the matches are over so I hope you have uh I hope you have a good match all right so before you leave do you have any other questions yeah like like would you like to say anything else yeah um I can't think anything I mean thanks you guys for doing this um stream team is awesome uh thanks for having me yeah hey Travis I mean it all right we're excited to see these new matches or we're excited to see these matches coming up we're it's just having this since uh like since two years ago almost brings it tear to my eye but see he gets it we will see we will see these upcoming matches I'm pretty excited to actually see a lot of Layton here Leighton is really good when it comes to the tank roll and just maneuvering around it like in the first place he's a he's a really really good player and not not only that but they've got a really good like cast of DPS players yeah I personally like Bastion and Noah's Bastion really well who knows how to deal damage at that time having the Golden Gun and everything for Bastion he is the man he's with the kids called Drift out absolutely uh not not only that but we can't forget Mac Mac is really good um mostly playing symmetra a lot from uh what we've been seeing uh this season Sim in this meta is going to be absolutely detrimental and glad glad to see him play in it it's uh it's one of those situations where it's like you know if you can't beat him join them uh as one should yeah uh and clearly clearly we can't forget about the support players Lily and Caleb Caleb Daly actually being the captain of the East sports team and Lily being a newcomer not so much of a newcomer though as she does have experience playing FPS yeah FPS a lot of a lot of uh first person shooters and she actually had a lot of um time on Varsity last year for um valorant and she performed really really well then even getting up to state um so we got a lot of good like older and newer Talent as Daley said so I'm very excited to see these upcoming matches and we're gonna we're gonna have an absolute blast of a time it is it is it is going to go absolutely crazy and I I can't wait alrighty and for the folks at home the first map is going to be it is going to be Nepal it is it is going to be a control map um Nepal is is is really good to the players that are playing at the moment they they actually really like the map and have been going over strategies and um overall well like well-beings of the map and for the folks at home what is control exactly mean okay so control is a specific point set in the uh middle of the map and someone has to go capture the point and get it to 100 like that's like King of the Hill yeah yeah yeah yeah it would it would uh it's it's more considered like it is most well known for being like a king of the hilltop game mode so that that'll be that'll be their first match is actually Nepal their second match being escort and then uh khaleesio for being their uh third map for resp respectfully is control escort and push um [Laughter] okay okay so um seeing these seeing these maps and seeing in seeing um how these players and how um daily was in fact reacting to Dorado Dorado not being so much of a strong suit um for having a notorious represent uh representation or you know representing itself as not for for okay okay now we're back sorry for the uh technical difficulties um so like I like I was talking about before and we was just yapping on about uh escort uh Dorado not being a super strong suit for um Caleb Daly but the rest of his team could in fact get a hold of that and make it their own match they they have a lot of potential as an entire team and columns are looking great great communication and most the most of the time clear comps yeah I personally think the best thing they do which game are they play is escort because they usually have either a support which is usually a sniper sit back on escort and the rest of them rush and push them back so the thing is about escort escort matches are really fun to watch depending on the map because um escort could be a super long game and you know you gotta love longer games it's just showing more of the content of the players exactly so um however the players may not like a longer match uh but escort always brings a good amount of excitement and value uh that I appreciate uh that comes to the game we will see we will see them interact uh see them go up in a moment we got about seven-ish minutes until the match actually starts uh at the moment they're just conversating with the Enemy team uh having a good old time uh so how are you feeling about this match uh personally I'm not a big fan of a watch too I think it is a great game do not get me wrong uh it's just I think OverWatch one was a little bit better in my opinion uh 6v6 yes a huge conversation going around right now whether or not 66 or 5v5 is um good and for players who don't know uh in OverWatch one uh there used to be a 6v6 where you could uh have two tanks um two supports and two dbs's uh and and so uh haven't haven't said all of that in OverWatch 2 it actually moved down to one one one tank uh oh they're getting into the match let's load into leighton's POV shall we all right it looks like Noah is also playing Bastion one of my favorite characters like I said yeah an absolute Bastion Fanboy you gotta love it but go composition that is so iconic to date um with this map it it is you have to join it or you will lose and we're gonna we're gonna see that in action tonight we're gonna we're gonna see Leighton going crazy mac daily Noah Lily we're gonna see them all perform amazingly tonight and I can't wait to watch it looks like Leighton is taunting the enemy right now uh more so taunting his friends being in spawn and busting down a move obvious as one does and spawn yeah yes as as as one does Now isn't it not a map that has a basketball game minigame yeah yeah that is that is actually most of the control Maps if not all the good drone Maps so you could be saying we kind of had a match basketball position and there could have been a match of basketball there were two uh the TP on the enemy side oh wow they are actually making so much space at the moment they have Orion versus the orisa as we all know that Ryan is actually weak against the orisa they're going on to a point that TP onto point for the players who can't get across with their Mobility abilities oh they're they're pushing it Forward they are they are holding them back wow it's it's insane they're not I don't think they'll get any value here oh it looks like fashion is asleep wow dude Layton absolutely just pushing them back like no one is going in triple insane getting getting the trip he like I said a lot of these players will are gonna are gonna do amazing wow or Reese or like Leighton getting the protection off uh right there for Max so that he stays alive amazing teamwork coming in from Layton you're gonna hear us chemistry all around yeah you're just absolutely this team it's amazing no damage from strange though teamwork as a whole um let's see so let's see what happens as a result of the Reinhardt just peeking and fire striking our damage is so much better yeah speak push ability dude they don't know what to do if if there was a creatures holding them back so effectively Matt goes down on a point on a point down and puts a village and Mac both at spawn bash and also dies daily dies wow almost a team wipe but they're at 91 percent oh there's that cheesy kill I was talking about oh wow wow dude these 91 at the moment they're just gonna absolutely push this and for the speed popping the alt oh but everyone gets out he rolled the McCree rolled out of the alt um Layton's low late and slow ah Leighton going down don't get too discouraged because we still have mac and Noah oh the reaper all doesn't do nothing there I didn't no I didn't see it no two of them two of them went down oh Tragedy looks like they're trying to TP right side and take High Ground they are trying they are going to be ending up on the team right side uh trying to trying to take that uh enemy team um are they able to do that's the question yeah that is the question will will the will they be able to perform and get this they're pushing they the symmetra wall goes down uh let's get leighton's point of view in here all the uh leighton's pushing into the gunfight gets the javelin they're at 92.

join me in the pledge of allegian people had a moment of prayer I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all our lord Jesus thank you I want to thank you for the newness of life that is found only in you is the board works through a number of items to my business items I'm just kind of asking that we have a vision about what it's all really about that it's much more than a budget and bonds and teacher contracts but it's about young boys and girls and young men and women when I asked that um we know that it's much more than just plugging information into their minds but that it's about their heart and their spiritual well-being as well I just asked that administrators us as a board teachers and staff do our jobs well to accomplish this end thank you give praise thank you all right the numbers thanks tonight but we're gonna hopefully move quickly future board meetings will be October the 10th and then not until November the 14th on November the 28th regular time and yeah revisions on the agenda are very simple I think we have one more automatic to new business and then a couple additions trades are recognition I don't think we have any donations to approve unfortunately we're always gracious for those are grateful for those Mr Keith area school recognition yes so we'll go ahead and start with um I believe and I had it we will start with Metro North Mrs Moore if you want to or you're still looking for yours no I've got it okay um so we had I believe that this last three weeks before our annual licensing visit from the state for our little nurses preschool and that's just to ensure that we're following all the safety regulations and of course our fiscal steps towards really thankful for that um it's a lot of work on the back side to make sure that we have you know everyone training per se and CR and all of those credentialing pieces um but that allows us to qualify for some additional funding from the state for our families that qualify to pursue cctf funding for the child care vouchers it also lets us then move on to the next step which drug absolutely rating which allows us to accept sorry I next step for that um we also have the absolute honor to have 11 Northfield students come Tuesdays and Thursdays that are interested in pursuing education as their career and most of them are Juniors and seniors since this Dyson teaches that early it's an early childhood and human services class but I just love having them in the building it's a benefit for them and it's a great benefit for our students staff so all right thank you Mrs Moore Mr Martin yes Sharp Creek we want to celebrate our paraprofessional staff who is very hard working and put sword lots of effort on a daily basis I'll read those names Kayla black Tammy Sloan Carrie Pugh Jen Pollard Sarah aderman Kathy Lyons and Jessica Clark I just want to say thank you to them for such being such a positive part of what we do on a regular basis all right thank you Miss Martin and I have a few other ones first of all from Mr Snyder Northfield Norfolk Junior Senior High wants to congratulate Jaden bear Shelby Macy and Anna Kissel who all received the national Rural and small town award from the College Board award program so the criteria for eligible students include the GPA of 3.5 or higher the PSAT nmsqt or PSAT 10 assessment scores that are within the top 10 percent of assessment takers in the state and also earned a score of three or higher on two or more AP exams in 9th and 10th grade and also attend in a rural area or small town so if you think about that a lot of criteria a lot of very tough criteria to be able to accomplish it so we do want to um recognize that and also this is something from a past um past Northfield graduate um past that doesn't make any sense a Northfield graduate Emma Wynn and I might have I'll read this and I'll see if Mrs Moore wants to share any more because she's the one that first saw this but Northfield graduate Emma wind was recognized in the Ball State University alumni magazine for dedication and act of kindness after an architecture comrade collapsed in class never regained Consciousness Emma and two other students honored the student by completing a his final semester project Ethan Whitehead's parents were invited to the presentation and the project was well received on its merits and it's just really really great to see some things that happen for those students that have graduated um from our school in particularly in the wind for Garfield Mrs Moore you want to say any more about that I just think that that speaks highly of a famous character um my daughter's been involved in the architecture program it's tough program we don't have any extra time and she was president she spends a ton of time like practically lives with in the studio when he became ill and later passed away and for her and her colleagues or her classmates to take on his project and finish it it's just huge thanks for your friends that was you know in tears as I'm flipping through my alumni magazine looking to see what I was saying about teachers about artifacts and just totally lost my breath when I saw that Emma is appreciate you sharing that um Ball State I think what they do is they send out the magazine alumni by grade point average and they go from highest to lowest and Miss Moore got hers like several days before so I finally got mine um and uh so I do appreciate actually seeing the hard copy of that too because it was online so or shared that with us and then I have one thing from Mrs Lewis at Southwood Southwest High School I'd like to congratulate Junior music department member McKenzie Mormon for making the 2024 Indiana All-State Honor Choir there were over 40 students from our region that auditioned this year and she was chosen to be one of the top soprano performers to perform at the Emerson Theater in Fort Wayne on Saturday uh January 13th so again we have lots of students that do a lot of great things and just like to recognize them for for their accomplishments and also the adults in our programs in our schools foreign public comment on agenda items at this time at the end of items first being approval minutes from prior meeting on the 12th so the second all in favor of that say aye aye claims if you've had an opportunity to review questions for Chris I noticed we had painted in there on the roof second all in favor of approving claims say aye aye all right move right on to payroll nothing out of the ordinary payroll sorry all in favor of approving payroll say aye all right little buddy of purpose Financial summary Chris you want to summarize the summary uh yeah this is just cash flow showing uh end of August for your education operation fund balances uh just showing that um a lot of the costs uh uh estimated expenses and revenue are factored in there even started doing a little bit with the teacher contract I'd still like to see one more month of averages on September before I kind of lay out a little longer term one but you know looking to try to finish the end of the year in our education fund off around 11 million that looks like possibly give or take a lot of that has to do with monies that we received from transfer tuition we did send out all of our transfer tuition statements a couple weeks ago so that's a long process and then we'll start receiving some payments from that next three four months or so and then those payments get slower and slower and then we have to have some additional support to get the remain of those payments which actually Mr Kiefer and I have already had a few of those for last year even that we haven't received payments I think last year we had four outstanding still that have not paid I think that will reduce downlight too so still pretty good return at this point in time but you know a lot of that when that money comes in could play a role in what monies we actually have for the end of the year at that point in time and because of our situation I just want to chime in a little bit too Dr King does a great job of explaining um to new superintendents new Chief Financial officers because a lot of times they don't understand all the situation but obviously we follow the Indiana code along with um what how how can we build and so sometimes it's just confusing for those people and those different schools to really understand all that but he works hard to make sure they understand that I actually have different meetings with different people and so because of our situation with having so many of those transfer and I don't know how many you found out this year but a lot and so it makes a different situation for our staff here in the business office makes quite a bit more work but it's something that that we need to do because it's something that we have to do so to get those funds back from what we spend for our staff at once well I know as a board we appreciate that effort because when I first came on that was one area that is not being chased you know we were way behind Rome yes so yeah it's appreciated that's all I really had for a financial assistance all right item three I don't know my list here is the 2024 project here in the second preliminary determination hearing uh the notice of this preliminary determination hearing was published as legally legally required the first one was held on September the 12th last meeting so at this time we'll open it up as a hearing and we'll move through the process of this the first one I think would be Chris sure I can explain the purpose of the hearing pursue it to Indiana code 20-26-7-37 before a school corporation may spend more than a million dollars to Bill repair alter a school building that will be financed by a lease or Bond it must hold a public hearing at which explanations of the potential value of the project to the school corporation and Community are given similarly pursuant to Indiana code 6-1.1-20-3.5 a school corporation must hold two public hearings and adopt a resolution to preliminary determined to issue bonds or enter a lease for a project which has a total project cost in excess of certain thresholds these public hearings and the consideration of resolutions are the very beginning of the legal process these resolutions presented at this meeting established the maximum financial terms for the proposed project foreign yeah we talked about a little bit the last board meeting yeah and I can just mention too that you know we obviously have had several work sessions uh that dealt with this and we do know that we have uh the reason for this is to continue on with our strategic plan but also not just with the Strategic plan but also just to be able to run classrooms for for these students and the things and things that need to be done to have appropriate classroom space for for our students and so again this is part of our strategic plan number four which is has a lot to do with technology has a lot to do with just the efficiencies of our of our schools and um that is the the reason for this recommendation Dana do you want to address anything or Dave as far as determining need or if you would like for me to I'd be happy to otherwise okay I don't know that we legally need to we've resolved it before so yeah all right we move on to hear from people look at that slide he got it right I'm still not going to address your your town names oh no welcome Jim thank you um we did go over and very much the in great detail in the last year in all the different steps I can share as much or as little basically I would go through the slide presentation but we're looking at a bond issue of 39 million that when we look at your total tax rate for the school district including each of your taxing funds the operations funds and your next service fund there's room in that debt from our estimated 2024 tax rate which includes the issue we just sold setting up for next year's payment the this 39 million will fit within that total tax rate so we anticipate no increase over the estimated 2024 tax rate which includes everything that you have established or issued today so that's kind of the basis for this your resolution I shared a few tables that will be of all the different numbers that will be included in the resolutions you'll consider tonight but I think that hits the highlights that we do have cost of issuance that's involved that that's out of the 39 million leaving you the money for construction hard soft costs and that we can fund that within their existing Bank service rate or a total Steward rate any questions and just so you guys are aware that this will also be advertised in the newspaper uh tomorrow with the information Jim has shared with us over the last couple all right thank you I think the next thing would be to open it up for public discussion anyone would like to speak now would be the opportunity to be able to do that if not we'll move on to addressing the three bonding resolutions Chris would you want to discuss the first one that we'll need to address yeah so the first one is exit a uh it's called project resolution so the project resolution is required when the school is planned to spend more than a million dollars on a given facility it contains the estimated hard and soft construction costs and the cost of issuance and establishes the total project cost of which Mr Alexander just spoke of it also contains the estimated tax impact in that resolution all right so we had that in the board packets we had an opportunity to review the exhibit a I have a motion in second and then we're open for discussion if need be some of the things of the day second is there discussion before the vote so if not those that would like to approve say hi hi anyone opposed same sign on the right we'll move on to exhibit B except B is the preliminary determination resolution and this is required when a school is planning to finance more than a certain threshold for a given facility it contains a total project cost maximum annual payment and Lease term and other financial terms such as the estimated principal amount and tax impact thank you motion for that and then if we have a second we'll discuss so we saw again any questions of discussion on that or thoughts if not all entertain a vote all in favor anyone opposed all right passes third item would be Exhibit C the main thing to address there yes so Exhibit C is better known as the reimbursement resolution so this resolution is relating to the financing of the construction project this allows the school corporation to reimburse itself from Bond proceeds for any cash which it might spend on the project prior to the closing on the bonds it is required by federal tax law in order to preserve the school corporation's ability to reimburse itself all right it makes sense we have a motion and second on this item still moved so all in favorites AI anybody opposed all right I think at that time I pretty well concludes this caring and appreciating everybody's participation and catch up on Monday all right thank you the next one is the 2024 budget hearing so I open another hearing they're willing to address or to speak to our proposed budget Chris you have a short presentation yeah a short presentation we can go through which one do we need to get there more than welcome to stay here they want to hear about our budget they can stay thanks so we'll go through these slides we don't have to go through them all in detail a lot of this are things that we've already discussed in earlier board meetings throughout the summer and early fall just kind of put all together into one presentation just to give our you guys and any uh constituents an opportunity to speak about those but this is our 2024 budget presentation it's going to cover the education operations Debt Service and rain day fund we've hopefully now understood that education fund and operation fund cover certain different types of expenses um in our operations and our Revenue comes from different things as well as far as those funds are concerned they also are allowed to transfer dollars from One Fund to another however we do have a cap that does not allow us to transfer more than 15 percent of our education fund revenues into our operation fund so when we look at our budget estimate for 2024 comes out to be 33.5 million dollars and it's broken down there by the four different funds that we are required to include as part of our submission to the Department of local government and finance even though this doesn't cover all of our funds this covers the majority of the one um so that just gives you a breakdown obviously most of our funds our largest fund is our education fund as far as our expenses are concerned uh 50 of our budget is related to educational costs uh State supported funds uh which are support our education fund these are dollars that were received from the state the biggest component of that is our funding formula which comes based off of the number of students that we have on AV and account days and you can also see there are other state supported dollars local supported dollars that we receive that go into the education fund I crossed out student fees because that is no longer one of those that week for sellers for so that will be a revenue loss when it comes to our education fund so when we look at our sources of revenue it's broken down there you can see that our biggest source is State funding 94 of our education fund budget comes from those dollars we receive per student that's just a breakdown as far as expenses are concerned out of our education fund you can see that 92 percent of our expenses are salary benefits out of those services that are paid from education fund dollars primarily instructional Services classroom teachers classroom instructors aides anything that relates to instructional costs um that's just a graph of those Appropriations broken down obviously the student idiom is very important resource because that is accumulates to 94 of our revenue or education fund so you always want to look at where you're trending when it comes to ADM this is a historical look at where we have been trending from a numerical standpoint if you look at it from a graphing standpoint which is the next slide it gives you a better representation that it has been on a decline but over the last three to four years we can see a leveling off of sorts for that Medium this is a breakdown of those dollar specific costs that go into each student for ADM so you can see in our basic Grant we get a dollar specific amount per student complexity is figured into that uh what's not figured into that are the extra dollars that we get per student related to honors grants vocational grants and special education grant dollars and you can see the breakdown of those anything that's highlighted um I guess in bold are new dollars or new amounts uh in those categories so like for honors Grant we never receive dollars for dual credits we never received dollars for early graduates or associate degrees those are something that are new that are factored into these honors grants that the state would fund us if we had students that qualified for those then it leads us into our tax supported funds which is our debt service and operation funds which we talked a little bit at a last board meeting so you can go to the next slide uh looking at assessed valuation you go to the next slide we've already covered this the last board meeting we look at Trends with all of that which leads us to our debt service that Geo Bond 2021 is our last Bond that we have um that will be paid off at the end of this year however we have are getting ready to close on our 2023 Bond on October 3rd so we will be receiving our dollars for that for projects that we've already been working on for this past I had some projects that we'll go into next year nothing related to this bond that we're looking at now for 2024 we won't be closing on that until next calendar year so that is nothing to do with our 2024 budget in our operational fund uh revenues are local property taxes are our biggest source of revenues we also get other smaller revenues that go into that the other biggest source is our transfers the dollars that we transfer from our education funding to our operation fund I think we talked about this our last board meeting you know the the property tax dollars that we do get they don't fully fund our operational fund budget and so the transfers from the education fund help help cover uh a majority of that that's the breakdown then as far as expenses are concerned we have a lot of different operational costs that come out of those all of that funds so General Administration that would be things like from central office uh the business side of the central office marketing technology then we have custodial expenses and utility expenses that come out of that we have our security services which are SRO and our drug testing programs then we have our insurances and student transportation and then our capital projects and Equipment purchases that go along with that that makes up that 9.9 million dollars in expenses so that's a breakdown there and then our last budget is rainy day fund obviously we just kind of keep that for rainy day fund purposes we do have some costs that we take out of there periodically throughout the year but nothing major with that so with that being said um that's kind of what our budget looks like for those four funds I do not see that we would need to worry about anything related to tax anticipation warrants we've done that in the past if We've ran into cash flow issues or additional Appropriations if needed to spend later out through the years so with that do you guys have any questions from education to operations end up being 11 12 inside that's where we've been trending the last couple years uh so yeah try to stay around that I don't see that increasing right now I don't see that decreasing right now uh but we'll probably stay around that number our budget adoption meeting then will be our next board meeting on October 10th those and we'll be able to submit our budget to the bltf so I really appreciate the way he puts us together yeah we break it up throughout the year just to kind of try to be a little bit more specific on topic and then I put it together there for me and I'm just kind of show you what we've discussed and if there were any changes to what we discussed on those previous times all right so we'll hold it we'll have an approval on the October 10th yeah so I think right now it's just an opportunity for you guys or anybody in the community here to have any public comments on this budget so before I close public hearing any questions so with that I would like to have a couple resolutions adopted as we get into that budget adoption uh this first one is a resolution to adopt the appropriation modification what this allows us to do is once we submit our budget we can get that budget back at any time statutorily they have to submit it to us before December 31st so it could come at any time once we receive that budget you have 10 days to get that submitted that could fall in between a time where we don't even have a board meeting and so this just allows me or the superintendent to work with the budget field rep in making any modifications in our Appropriations to make our budget work this does not allow us to add anything to our budget but if we need to reduce or move Appropriations to different things we can do that in a timely fashion get our budget approved uh during that time all right good explanation Chris so we have a resolution in front of us for fair recommendation for the resolution to be improved so moved second one all in favor approval say aye aye second one would be the recommendation to prove transfer Arena yeah so in the budget presentation and when we talked about rainy day over the summer we show a revenue that was included in that this resolution will allow us then to make that go into effect so we would be transferring dollars from the operation fund into the rainy day to show that we have supported that budget through that revenue and so this is something we've done for a number of years now just to kind of continue to build our rainy day fund to our goal and so if you remember what our goal is it was 10 of our education operation fund balance per budget excuse me not balance of budget and so this would help us with that role as well Plus show on that we have made that Revenue happen in that fund so I would need to submit that to the dlgf as well as part of this budget all in favor of approving say aye okay all right we'll move right along to human resource this evening we have under resignation Journey Willard Melissa Clark Mary Merrill Carol Perry professionals an employment staff is Stephanie stegle Jennifer Pollard Melody Yocum Hamilton Sadler and Scott Campbell and other Physicians of custodian prepare professional and the last two being robotic coaches at South and Elementary and then we have leave number 162 that will begin that has already begun in August and the last day for that would be in November you have to approve HR sorry all in favor of approval for hrci all right Matt Department yeah at your desk right thank you pretty little player there what they did is they gave us uh take a look at that and we can see how many certifications uh college credits internships it gives you all that data how much they have gotten through there went to a point they're saving more than 2.4 million dollars in tuition if you've been soon to University of Ivy Tech they do a lot of good things there with their dual credits and internships certifications and so on we had a short meeting the other day uh I'd like to thank Mr keefable for helping on the teacher contract over there teachers have approved we have to go through the steps to get that approved for next week um they had a couple donations one from a four meter box and they're always generous of fifteen thousand dollar donation uh if you're too long die give them an extra pallet of material which is always good for the welding and yeah and things like that uh probably the biggest thing sitting over the visit was donated was a cement cup from IMI uh the whole truck everything okay what are they going to do with it uh IMI cannot use it anymore because apparently there's a if they get a stress crack on the frame or something they gotta junk it so instead of just junking it they brought it over there so the kids can work on it play with hydraulics probably not making concrete but it's there for them to work at that's huge yeah that's kind of neat to look at and so but that's basically all I have thank you superintendent report no the only thing I just really want to say tonight is as you can see in all the things when we have our board meetings that we have a great programming in MSD in Walbridge County but also we've had even better staff and you can see that through our staff and student of recognitions through the different things that the principals talk about and so just really appreciated to be a part of msdm Wabash since Josh is setting the temperature well I can really increase already realizing some business is the first one needs School Improvement plans from our elementaries and we're going to start tonight with Metro North Elementary Mrs Moore and I was like I said one more thing though too is um you do have the school Improvement plans that were given to you earlier but instead of scrolling through the hundreds of pages and being distracted I decided not to put those on tonight and so I did ask the principals and they said that they would be able just to talk through it um about 20 minutes each so yeah previous years we're going to continue to focus on literacy and math and increasing our student attendance um the biggest thing seeing our professional development focus last year all of our K-1 teachers across the district participated in some literacy training um it's letters it stands for literacy Educators right literacy Essentials language Essentials for teachers of reading and spelling and this year we are having our K1 teachers complete the second year of training for that and our second grade teachers starting their year one and it's a huge Endeavor um it's pretty intense and but definitely provides our teachers with another another tool to help support students as programming degree um our other professional developments going to be focusing on looking at the new academic standards and reading literacy and math and creating that bridge from our old singers to our new standards some instructions as well as reporting activities thank you so change one of my notes uh hey thanks for the opportunity we also have a school Improvement plan at Shark Creek which is an obligation a required obligation to have but but it's also very much an opportunity that will prevent our staff we can be discussing organizing a document that that has information that in mind I like to say a paint's a picture of Sharp Creek Elementary and some really important things we strive for a clear document a concise to a point document in an accurate document so we have iLearn is referenced and the Irene three is also referenced with some goals but it's not just our goals it's a review of historical results where we've shined where we would not shine it's all there and then we gather that and it shows us a direction we need to be heading areas of concern areas in math or Ela and what we can do better and then also we we add in there again a picture of what we're doing it clearly says here's the pieces and parts the resources the programs what we're doing that can allow us some improvement whether that happened over the course of a three-year period or what's going to happen in the next six months whether that case may be so strategies interventions action steps and resources that are moving us forward a couple of highlights uh you know there's positives from from results of the summative assessments and those big big test items there's positives and then there's some that are less positive but a couple of the big positives uh fifth grade math is this past spring we were 17 above the state passing rate which was a nice showing and we also in honorary three obviously Metro North contributes to this because they have the students through their second grade Improvement of uh six and a half percent over the previous year's passing rate so I want to Pat people on the back when we do things well when things turn out well now every year is a different group of students we all recognize that but we like to find positives and those are things that are in that document then we also consider formative assessments the kind of as you go through a school year monitoring checking on student achievement growth whether that be nwea or just a classroom teacher observations and information we're always considering that to help guide us in decision making uh we do we keep a running log basically of our professional development uh what we've what we've done in the past and what we're heading toward is potentially on there but for instance and it's everybody Mrs rosemeier our building secretary I refer to her as the office manager which is a better title for what she does but she's going to a training tomorrow because we just want everybody in every goal to have a chance to be getting better we've got two teachers that in October are registered for some online math specific professional development and that's on there so we're keeping a document that says look what we're doing and it shows us if there's ever a concern that we're not doing some improvement task oriented things to help our own improve and then we we talk about what we do that keeps us safe in our building students and staff we talk about you know all the documents that guide our emergency responses and all those important things but we also talk about how we protect our school's environment of being conducive and learned and we'll talk about the uh the PBIS the good citizen program that's a positive behavior intervention and supports that drives an awful lot of what kids hear us talk about in our building trying to get them to make good choices in striving to get them to the point where they're good citizens overall and then another place that I think is really important is we list and document how parents are partnering with us and are able to participating in what we're doing a lot of academics but there's other things in there that you know that we look at every year it's a good discussion it's good good conversation and hopefully it's a very accurate not so thank you for the opportunity to talk just a little bit about that if you get the chance you want to read through it have fun it is post it'll be posted they're on the website I assume we're going to turn them in and stay here go along so foreign [Music] a lot of the same things that uh Miss Moore said about um the letters training work for me at Southwest Elementary as well um she's set up a lot of the letters training for kb2 staff um for uh for that science community that we're all moving forward to within the state um another thing that we started doing this year um was Hagerty which is a new Wheaton curriculum for grades K to two um the Metropolitan serve as well um it's all geared towards the science reading focus on that um three requirements and phonics kind of giving back to what we did well when we were the kids probably um so um with that being said um our scores this year um if you look at the results of our building I think we did fairly well there's a lot of room for improvement um but I was calculating up throughout all the adding up math and reading and and the six counties around us our building was in the top three so that kind of tells you what our teachers are doing in the classroom I'm very proud of them like I said there's a lot of room for improvement especially in the Ireland scores so we're really focusing on student intervention in our building and we're tracking that through a new forms that we started in the spring and TSS forms that Mrs law this is Stephanos myself kind of put together to help teachers be able to pay attention to all their students they could track me we have to we take their scores we log them on paper let's get to see what their percentiles percentiles are I think the EA scores the benchmarking and then we also have on those forms different tiers three different tears of interventions that we can use biscuits that might need that that way we're not missing some kids because we found out last year looking through data that we did miss some kids because we need some interventions that we should have been doing so our really our focus is that making sure that we're hitting all of our kids and we're getting kids the education that they need so we're going to start those data means in October after the first nine weeks I've grade levels of meat and hopefully we can continue to move our kids in a positive direction with different interventions that we have on The Incredibles is more for setting up a lot of this reading the literacy interventions that are in the Taiwan as well I know that that's did a lot of work so it's very appreciative that we spill a lot of the things that everyone can do as well so it's helped me out be a new principal last year this be my second um I'm Still Still improving myself and just learning so it's it's been continued growth for me learning on what we need to do to get better and there's still a lot of work out there I feel that we can do some better things and one of them is definitely our interventions that are how we how do we get better A lot of these things entail um uh like Mr Martin said second plan is another one um obviously with um safety and obligation schools will continue to help that plan um we had a meeting a couple weeks ago as a district to work on our our district safety plan and then we continuing to do that in our own building so uh that information will be in there as well as we continue to update that and get things more secure we just had officer Lincoln girls come in and we're working on just making our building a little safer we're doing instructional videos we came up with that idea and they're going to end up doing that with each building so kids will know especially teaching Elementary kindergarten kids how to be safe in the school if there's a lockdown what are they doing in the hallway what are they doing in the bathroom so we're gonna have videos to kind of show this kids those kinds of things so those are things that we're still working out safety wise um other than that oh one of the things we started this year that I think it's going to really help um as we started doing a new dyslexia screener through nwea called the map reading fluency um it's pretty neat to see we can uh Benchmark or assess kids in 20 minutes the whole entire class 20 to 30 minutes and it gives us a breakdown whereas kids strengths and weaknesses are and we can pinpoint those areas so we can focusing on again those interventions and it's pretty cool to see because the kids wear a noise canceling headset with a boom mic and they're reading they're talking all at one time they can hear each other and then we can go back and we can replay it and hear others how they're saying they calculate what they're reading but it also calculates all the restores everything for us so it really saves teachers a lot of time as well so so just like our we have excellent Secondary High School principles we have obviously a excellent Elementary team here too I really appreciate all the work and what they do and how they work together and learn from each other and appreciate that because we have different experiences with everyone and so it's great to be able to take all those experiences bring them together to have a great group that we have so I appreciate them and what asset you approve the school Improvement plans I appreciate the effort for the individual intervention you know because every little everyone counts we have a motion to approve the plans so we secondly all in favor say aye all right all right thank you next item would be recommendation to approve the alternative education grant yes so the education our alternative education new program proposal we will give to the state if you approve that tonight that was given to you earlier so since we have our own what we call our day reporting but also alternative education also called continuous Services we actually put actually Dr Zachary West who is our teacher in that program he has a lot of different experiences in special education and even in uh college level University level two and he's taking on a lot of different things it's kind of an evolving kind of a program but since all the schools of walrus County now have their own program with this we have wanted to do something with alternative education program and I ask that you approve this that is one of those I have said before education uh maybe requirements and get a code this is an Indiana code that is an obligation that you approve this before I can submit the proposal to possibly get also grant funding for this program all right the motion to approve that so we can apply so second all in favor say aye aye all right thank you thank you uh the list for fundraisers is there is quite expensive you could buy about anything you want to do so we need to approve this also correctly prescription [Music] all right thank you also we have recommendation to prove to salvage at 49 projectors and as you know we've had those TVs that have been replaced um they've been replaced not replaced yes the projectors the TVs have replaced projectors and so anyway we asked that we approve them the Salvage which means that Mr Hayden would be able to sell these then well actually he's going to open it up I believe to any staff member first and then you can build something else all right recommendation do we have a motion to approve the recognition still dude exactly all in favor say aye all right fifth item is a teacher contract tentative agreement so we would like to basically Dr is going to explain a little bit of the details about what has different from this contract from the other contract and then we'll explain a little bit more and I'd like to thank some people and also share some other information so yeah so um the contract I believe has been ratified by the Teachers Association they met with Mr keeper myself and Mr Bowman a couple times to to come up with a new two-year contract and so this will be a two-year contract for 23.25 there will be a reopener in the contract uh or the 24-25 school year but for this school year what we have agreed upon is that we would move the starting salary from forty thousand to forty five thousand and the top of the salary would move from 66 300 to 71 300.

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all right so this meeting ofing Regional school committee order 5 o' today Tuesday September 26 uh we are streaming so your image and your voice may be recorded sent out uh but can we all stand please for the pledge allegiance the United States of America stands na Indy and justice for all uh several people I see here is there any public comments here make public comments yes could you please state your name and where you live yes hi my name is Lori Benson I'm um former teacher at Boyston Elementary and a citizen of the town of Boyston I just have something quick to share um I wrote it out so that I wouldn't forget it or mess it up okay I recently viewed a recording of a meeting of policy subcommittee of the Berlin Boon Tonto school committee that was posted on the bbrsd Facebook page Miss Hart Mr Topman and Miss costell were in attendance the recording has since been removed from the bbrsd Facebook page at this meeting members of the school committee were suggesting books in a school library that they'd like to review as to content I understand that there was a request for an entire book list from each School library in our district although I understand that there's a specific policy for the school committee to review a single book I don't see where an entire book list is within their jurisdiction could you please share with all of us the policy from your manual that supports such a practice honestly as an admin as a educator I'm distressed by the fact that the decisions of Educators who were trained in curriculum and age appropriate materials and who chose books to match curriculum standards are being questioned by committee members and others without such training I'm requesting for the towns a clear explanation that includes support from the policies of the masc thank you we normally don't do a question and answer with public comment but I will ask you a couple things okay you said the video was posted on the bbrsd Facebook page it was it was pardon me are you referring to a different Facebook page it was not posted on the school district's page and it certainly wasn't removed from a School District page removed it may have day after I saw it it may have been removed from a page that you looked at I'm not saying it wasn't but the bbrsd the Facebook page which I run with Mrs har did not post it and did not remove it are you possibly referring to the private page run by a local parent no I am not it was on the bbrsd page that's the only that I see it was the end of August that it was the bbrsd did not record that meeting the cable channel did the cable channel posted it was shared I know it was shared in the bbrsd community page which is a private page run by a private citizen parent so it was not this school committee it was not this District Who removed any video so I want to make sure that's clear okay all right Mrs Hart did ask for a list of school assets Library list she is a former teacher she is somewhat trained it's our responsibility to oversee the schools and that's what we were doing it policy M it was an asset list assets are Financial we're responsible for the budget so there are several reasons we might be interested in it nothing no action was suggested or taken other than asking for a list yes laor so I just wanted to bring up because I felt that unfortunately it was an anonymous poster who put it there and I was misrepresented I hope people actually went and watched what I said what I said was we were having people reaching out to us complaining about the new health curriculum so what I was trying to do is someone said does a parent have a right to request curriculum material so I put in parent curriculum and it generated a list of our policies so I was going through and reading each one and I stumbled upon policy ke which is public complaints about the curriculum or instructional materials and it was the first line that got me it says the school committee though it is ultimately responsible for all curriculum and instructional materials including library books recognizes the need and right of the students to free access to many different types of books and materials now and I also said given what's going on in our country I'm sure all of us have watched on social media parents going to school committees and just yelling at them and being upset about what they found in the library I'm not I'm not here to judge what's in our library and what's not I just used to always think they're yelling at the school committee the school committee doesn't pick out the books and then I saw this policy and so Carol and I had discussed she suggested she said what do you want do with the list and I said I don't know but my name is I'm responsible for it I don't know what's in there I don't have a I don't have a a point of view that I want to go one way or the other I just just found out that I'm responsible and parents could be upset with me and Carol had suggested an idea of possibly starting some sort of committee um with people to go over including the parents and people in the community and that's where it went it didn't go any further than that I just found out that we were responsible and I never knew that until I found this policy okay so it's not going to go any further than where it is so Miss Miss Benson thank you for making your comment we can't say where it will or won't go right now we don't know we haven't talked about it um I just wanted to make sure we cleared up a misrepresentation of facts that you stated which was that a video was posted by us posted by you by bbr bbrsd which is US collectively and it was removed by us which it was not so I want to cleare that up Lori mentioned the policy that was done under we're going to continue to look at policy and we're going to continue to look at a lot of things to make sure that what we're doing for the schools and for the students is in the best interest of everybody so I do appreciate you taking the time for a public comment we don't typically make it a practice to go back and forth so unless you want to make a further statement I think we'll move on from this point right now I just want I just wanted to get my feelings out there regarding what had happened or what the perception was of what happened thank you would anyone else like to make a comment um okay anybody have any Communications to bring up yeah I have a few so that wedes when the video was posted as in of clinic and I received several messages about that and so I did watch the whole video the following weekend um and so I looked up the KC policy that you mentioned um um and so the committee that was mentioned within the meeting that same policy said are these communications that you're bringing up or is this it Wasing Communications yeah is this your interpretation of the communications or do you want to read the communications with a did you forward them into the drive to the parent but I can read the email that Erica how sent today yes we have that email and the I think that was sent to all of us y shall I read it out loud since it was too late to put into the drives if you want um so Erica how is the director of the boil library and so around 12 today she sent an email to all of us um says hello school committee members and superintendent Costello as a director of the Boon Public Library I want to reach out regarding bbd's collection development and materials policy in their libraries I applaud the policy subcommittee for turning their attention to these important issues this June I attended the American Library Association annual conference in Chicago and the major theme of the conference was book fans and censorship according to the Ala between January 1st and August 31st 20123 libraries have experienced a 20% increase in book challenges from the same reporting period in 2022 this is the highest number of book challenges the US has experienced as medical professionals are trained to provide treatment regardless of patients religious cultural racial or social backgrounds Library professionals are similarly trained to provide Collections and services that are equally representative and available to anyone we also trained to audit our Collections and services regularly to ensure the standard in 2022 I worked with a Board of Trustees to develop detailed Collective development and reconsideration of materials policies for BPL that were aligned with the massachusett board of Library Commissioners requirements and best practices it's more important than ever that libraries have plans in place that outline the process for how materials are selected to purchase and how individuals within the community may question or oppose materials as families have a right de la treatments that work best for them in the medical year each family has their own unique view on content for their children this is a vital time for libraries and our small communities are not exempt from the current pressures on Sunday September 24th 2023 under the Massachusetts Public Records Law mgl chapter 66 section 10 the organization Mass transparency requested all documentation from Boon's Library services and schools regarding challenges and complaints against our library collections their aim is to provide the public with information on our Municipal response to censorship if I can be of any service to the school committee and bbrsd Library staff I'll be happy to volunteer my services to help strengthen policies and create a clear process for review I'm also providing links to existing School library policies and other Massachusetts town that are excellent examples of carefully created and publicly accessible criteria as well as a process for establishing diverse review committees and she included a couple links Erica how director of the Bo and public liary thanks Jess that date come in about noon today uh just before two I responded to Erica you were all copied on it just thanking her for the information and letting her know that we'll take a look at it consider it further I was working today I didn't really have time to get it much more on that today so thank you all right uh do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented so move Lori second Julie okay anybody have any questions discussion for this I do actually so the minutes on the September 6 um policy subcommittee meeting is missing that request for the library list of all the books and it's missing the policy that was referenced KC policy so I just wanted to amend those minutes to incl that is that a motion I make a motion to amend the minutes to include the discussed request for Library list of all schools within the district um per the KDC policy second I'll second okay discuss all right so we're going to all in favor of that Amendment sorry I'll ask again all in favor of that amendment I I sorry all right so that Amendment passes so we're going to add that a request was made for all library books under policy KDC all right so the amendment is passed any more discussion on this the origal amendment is to accept the consent agenda uh any other discussion all right uh I want to add one thing about policy since this came up tonight policy that Lori reference KC says exactly what Lori says uh I know the last so this is our first well it's going into our second now full year as a regional school committee um before this before 2019 there were multiple School committees from 2019 until 2022 it was a transitional committee now it is a full Regional committee committee has three areas that it can oversee hiring and evaluating superintendent budget and policy if anyone wants to be upset at policy we probably should be upset that previous committees between 2019 and now may not have been doing what this policy instructs them to do it instructs them to do exactly what Lori did so maybe that's my fault and I'll take responsibility that we aren't following our policies as close as you you should I think Carol this is going to become a theme tonight about responsibility and attention in detail and professionalism so maybe we'll we'll consider that going forward we'll have to change the way we operate but uh if anybody wants to be upset at Lori or this policy I would think we'd be more upset that the committee has not done this in the recent past more than the committee has actually figured figuring out that he need to do it going forward so um if you read the full K policy however under B it says that the committee is the KC policy is not on the agenda to debate and discuss my comment is more a comment of how the school committee needs to follow its policies all of them yes all of them correct I agree so there are some policies that will be discussing later tonight and we'll get into those later but uh that comment about policy in this particular one I think Lori took a little bit more heat than she necessarily should have so that's what I have to say about that uh so all in favor of the consent agenda as amended i i i i all right that passes all right so now we'll move on to reports uh Nancy do you have a report for us yeah I have a quick report all right so I wanted to update the committee that we are starting our budget process for fiscal year 25 and in your folders you'll find the budget timeline so the administrators have been sent their budget documents and they've be begun their budget process it's due back to me by October 15 at this time Carol and I will review what has been submitted particularly the above level service items so the above level service needs that we move forward will be reviewed with a meeting that we have lined up with the towns on October 24th all parties need to remember that this is a preliminary and things can change before the budg budget is brought forward to the subcommittee and the school committee in November and December time frame Carol and I will be meeting with the administration to go over the budgets and further detail the budget will be reviewed with the subcommittee in at the end of November time frame frame if not December and it will continue to be worked on until our public Hearing in February I also wanted to um briefly touch upon Transportation so at this point in time all of the concerns that have been brought forward in regards to bus stop safety have been resolved or addressed we currently have drivers for all of our runs and where is my kid app is up and running there's still some GL es glitches within the app that the company is working on and it still doesn't work if they're using a different bus for the run but even with its faults I feel like it still helps with the tracking of the buses more than it doesn't I've asked for updated routes also um I'm hoping to have those adjustments To Us by the end of the week and they'll be posted to the website and I also quickly just wanted to mention Mike our food service director will be speaking speaking tonight but I quickly wanted to mention for anyone that is listening to us at home that if you have any interest in working in our cafeteria we would be so delighted to have you join us we need staff in filston elementary and Tanto Mike has helped set a flyer um he's working on a flyer that we're going to be sending home already sent it out the principal is like an hour ago today um and we're going to send it home to our community it's a perfect job for a parent who has a child in school they can come after they drop their child off and be home by the time they get home so I just wanted to you know throw that out there for anybody who's listening who might have some interest and last thing I just wanted to mention is we're finalizing our closing figures for last school year and I hope to have that to here to present to the committee um at the next meeting anyone is any questions does anyone have any questions no that's the year ended June 30th 2023 yeah and one of the Auditors already come in or they when of the Auditors no they'll come in probably November between November so that makes sense so you have this amount of time okay thank you I two questions so I was going to update you guys as part of my report on this too but um at the end of October we have our second meeting and after that I've invited the chairs of both towns select boards Finance committees and the town administrators to have a conversation above budget I don't want to have that conversation with other groups until this committee has had a chance to have the conversation with you so I know Bas on your timeline here of October 16th that's after our October 10th meeting but before that meeting so I want to ask you to have some kind of an update for us on October 10th I don't know exactly what that can be yet but could be very rough yeah and just above level service if it's above level service that's easy okay I can definitely do just because I don't want to go into that meeting without the full school committee having discussed anything yet uh because it's not going to be a it's not going to be a full school committee meeting it's GNA be the budget subcommittee meeting with some uh some of the Town folks so I just don't want to have nothing on the table that's not fair y all right and then we talked at about classroom supply lists being part of the budg you guys made progress on that so when I sent out the budgets to the principles I asked them to include everything in okay their budget that the sorry that the teachers usually ask for I asked them to include it and I also asked them to include it with the dollar amount so then we when we do our presentation and I can explain to you why there's such a significant increase because it will be a decent amount EXC yeah all right thank you Nancy anybody else have any questions I have one question when you say classroom Supply L you mean for the teacher or that family's purchase is that the ones that the teachers require the purch so I asked all the principles to build that into the budget so those lists will go away next year ends up getting improved think can be a bur in on some families anxiety activity issues so I don't like it so I like that I don't like disparities uh okay anybody else Final Call for Nancy I know Nancy you have to you have to leave at some point so yeah thank you for letting me go first yeah all right uh so that brings up the chair's report uh the first item there about appointments um so we need some people to help glory on the superintend evaluation committee um Megan and Jess you express some interest are you good with that yeah all right so superintendent evaluation subcommittee will be uh Megan and Jess and Lori Lori chair and Meg J helping out uh Lori when you guys do your meetings I know this is a very involved process there's a lot of a lot of boxes to check a lot of reports to write just make sure that we have a process documented and yeah and that right and that you know they come up to speed on it give them some good training I'll reach out to you for yeah for a meeting is that does that committee also handle uh negotiations I cannot remember we're not in a negotiation so that's SE group yes it's our self evaluation and then self and superintendent and then we'll have we have another group that handles negotiation in negotiation year okay thanks for clearing that up all right there's a list on the there's an item on the agenda about handbook formatting we're going to vote on the handbook later on um I think going forward a good practice might be to send that handbook to the success and Technology committee for a review and work through before it comes to full and that's going to probably require a change in the timeline um I don't think voting on that in October is probably the best thing because kids have probably already signed it yeah so that really is a good point um so I don't know if that has to happen in the spring or over the summer or when it has to happen but um I know it's the second time around on that that's one of these items I want to talk about professional and all that it looks much better now but there's still some things in it we'll talk about when it comes to the vote but um just want to have things tightened up if we're trying to teach kids correct way to write document and reports and everything we should probably be all on the same same outline so that's that uh the other item on the agenda there under mine is the tours uh I know you're probably going to speak to the tours a little bit maybe in your report I wasn't going to okay good take this so last Tuesday uh the schools had school committee and invited members from the town the select boards the finance committies and town administrators to come in and take tours of the buildings uh pretty eye opening I think um I don't know if anybody else had anything but um it's a lot of notes there I'm not going to go through every single one of them in detail I do want to thank when we walked up to bees the front of that building completely transformed um midan Landscaping uh Laura bradrick brck design and the Boon Education Foundation all pitched in did an awesome job cleaning up the front of the building there um I mean not only it looks great but they took care of a security issue because there were trees overgrowing the office Windows couldn't see that I was knocking at the door with my smiling face so now you can you can know not to let me in that's fine but yeah it looks great so thanks to those guys uh I think I also want to thank um Kristen Rubin the Town Administrator from Berlin she came to all three schools uh just check things out see how things were going that was awesome uh select board members from Boon Matt M from burlin Chris Keef and I believe Karen gei is that how I say the name I'm sorry if I don't say that correctly uh from the finance committee in Boon was there too to to take a look when we got to Berlin at BMS we also had uh Paul M from the Board of Health Rich Atkins from the building department correct um as well as Lieutenant Pino and Chief mcquillin from the fire department they to sort of show us around the exciting events from the summer to the building there what happened there uh and actually that was quite a quite a lesson from the fire department pointing out what they check for in their inspections for safety hazards fire hazards and everything through the building I had no idea that decorations for students on the wall were was a fire hazard but now I do so that was good um so thank you to everybody all those groups for coming out a lot of things did come out of those tours that I think we're going to address at least some of them this year through budget through uh maybe policy just talking to to like Ryan about the maintenance and upkeep the equipment that we need just the tools that we don't have to actually do the job right this kind of eye opening I would have thought schools kind of like a commercial building they might have the right tools to take care of them but we don't so we've got to figure that out uh to that end I mentioned the meeting that we're having in later in October with the towns select boards Finance committees administrators that's going to be basically for the schools to sort of lay out some major issues in the budget U but also there's an item in that discussion around facilities and it's not just the bees facility assessment that we got back that's got something like $13 million in changes or or repairs that are needed but anything having to do with facilities I know some people are upset about the condition of playgrounds the parking lots that the kids walk through at bees to get from the building to the playground is full of poles tripping hazards falling hazards lawsuit hazards whatever it might be broken toys metal poles just sharp edged metal poles just sticking out of the ground on the playground I mean that's not acceptable so uh an entire facilities discussion from doing things right now long-term maintenance whether that includes discussing building a new school not building a new school investing in renovations repairs expansions whatever it is nobody nobody knows what the final answer is yet but I think that conversation is going to start the conversation with the town perhaps even forming a a different group larger group that involves more people to start having those conversations because what's it take John to build a new school 10 years probably from the DAT side yep from let's do it to kids walking 10 years 10 years and it's gonna probably take at least an extra five years around here because some of the things that people are talking about would require changes to the regional agreement all sort of things that who knows which way it would go I don't know but if we don't start having that conversation now kids 10 years from now after all our kids are gone we're probably not around anymore we'll be having the same conversation why the hell didn't anybody think to renovate or fix or maintain these buildings 10 years ago and that's falls on us so um we're going to start the conversation where it goes is up to the towns but we're at least going to have it so uh that's what came out of that so that said I think that finishes my section my report unless anybody has questions for me you want to ask me questions I wasn't the was the H timeline metioned at all I don't think it was mentioned um talked we talked about the process but I don't think start final they got the green light they're beginning soon yeah they're going to go in after school so they they don't go in and they'll do like one classroom at a time yeah cool why does it take 10 years politics so you've got to get the town or towns involved and you've got to get the Buy in there you've got to get the state involved because the school building authority is going to give you the bulk of so you're line for that unless you've let your building completely F so there's to and there's an architecture and you can back to the towns on that and then there's all the building codes you back town that and then once all that's done then you start to think about site site prep and then building it's it's the the easiest part of a new school is building the school the rest of it it's all adult business it's all politics um they have some shortcuts I when I was in Douglas we built in a school and um one of the things they were just starting to do then was they were telling you that you know we'll support you at a higher rate if you use a school that's already been built um because then the architecture is kind of already done for you and what was nice about it was you go to that school and you could walk the school and that's what we did we walked the school said oh this is great but we hate this their school is kind of an angle so they were kind of like here at Tas some dead spaces where children might make poor choices but you can see that in real time so there's a lot of a lot to it but you got to you got to have community support you got to have political support and you got to have people a committee a building committee that will really dig in long term it's hard it's hard to do yeah so whether that happens or doesn't happen I don't know but we owe it to the towns and to the students to at least have a conversation so uh that'll be part of that conversation whether we make the repairs that are needed when we make repairs that we need what's the long-term maintenance plan that we can actually put down in writing every year do X Y and Z every quarter whatever it is so that'll start uh all right uh do we have an update from the budget and facility subcommittee um so a lot of stuff that we discussed at our meeting was already um brought up we had building tours Nancy gave a budget timeline um the district Improvement plan so we actually did did uh discuss the initial asks from the district um you know high level we're looking at a teacher at bees a math teacher at Tanto a float nurse for the district um various uh support staff um nothing too crazy so I think the bulk of as NY calls it the above level asks are going to be staff and then it's going to be some Capital items this year so anybody have questions on that um policy subcommittee uh we've had a bit of an update but we have another update yeah so we are voting on two policies tonight they were first reads last time um one is ecfa and that's for face coverings and the second is IH that's parental notification relative to sex education um and then we have three that are first reads um there's DJ which is procurement requirements and then Mass I see EF vending machine procurement and I'm G explain this a minute and then also imga animals and school first read but I believe did we get we get some updates from Janelle that we might need to talk about for that for next time for next time yeah so that might may be another first read in the future um but I just wanted to let you know for the first reads um the one that is um the Regional School procurement requirements um I added in in pink the masc suggestions and then yellow is Carol in ny's suggestions so as you go through that you'll know those and I put it right at the top so it was easy to to follow um and then another um a new policy that we have is policy EF and that's a first read tonight it's new it's as required by the usca food and nutrition services and so that's also a first read we've never had that before and because our other policy um our original policy EF was actually a different policy it was about vending machines we're changing the name of that we're not changing the policy but as you go through the drive you will see all of these in there and I tried to color code it and explain so that you don't have to go and compare and you have it right there this is good large does anybody know where that EF vending machine policy with a lot of these policies something happens somewhere at some school and then committees long to go write a policy about it so I I don't know anybody has information how this one came this isn't this isn't a policy that we find at NC it sounded like a custom right bbrd one started when the wellness committee was first established years ago I was principal Inland at the time and there were still vending machines and in the interest of getting rid stacks and opportunities for those they remove the vending okay from yeah so been a long time coming but now masc has suggested a new policy with the same title the same code e so we figured it's easier to change our custom policy name and keep the MSE ones in line so that in the future when we're trying to research these things they more aligned to so that's all that's there for and then just one more the imga which is the service animals in school that's a brand new policy as well so there's two brand new ones they stemmed off of other ones um so you'll notice like the whole it's I didn't highlight the whole thing obviously to as it's new so those are first reads for this week does anyone have any questions all right Jess do you have an update Student Success in technology subcommittee yeah we've talked about two different things um one was RF safety data regarding um which is RF radio frequenc yeah um and so Lisa had provided some information regarding the safety of that and had planned to reach out to Berlin I think and get a speaker to come talk um and to invite the school committee to listen to that [Music] um and then you know Bas was left at we'll see how the the wiring goes from the town and how that improves sell phone service go from there um the second issue was just the bees playground recesses very important for Student Success a lot of studies support that um and so it was just brought out that the two different structures were broken at thees and which was and I guess seen at thees well um and then future agenda items was just mentioned about um looking at time on learning uh add into the elementary school levels um and then also drafting a mission statement for the sub where did you land on adding the second recess I like that idea it was future agenda items oh oh sorry yeah yeah no but I think um there's a lot of studies in I think schools in Texas have like three recesses and the kids um especially with all the behavioral issues that are coming forth and still here I think it's something that should be looked at and when Ace was here he said he was going to look at it but you know um Changing of the Guard so I just wanted to bring that up for future thank you any questions suest other question could the principals weigh in really quickly on the second recess or no sure we to put us on the let's go challenge with a lot of we I I'm a real advocate for unstructured playtime at recess we try not to have any rules other than health and safety rules the problem with multiple recesses there there are several um one is there are only so many hours of the day and it becomes very difficult the boil and I I won't speak for you but it was before your time used to be a beginning of the day they called it recess that it was basically children knilling about before school was open um and it was nice but not really high quality recess experience not very well supervised either I think if if we're going to go down looking at that road at least in my opinion we've got to think about what is it we're going to give up you're going to take another 30 minutes out of my learning day what is it you want me to teach your trouble historically speaking back in the day there was a 15minute recess in the morning morning and snack was wrapped up into that recess and then there was a 30 minute after lunch so that was historically speaking and remember part of the challenge with recess especially when you get to winter again huge proponent we go out unless it's a blizzard we go outside but not stressing and undressing your 30 minute recess cost you 45 yeah or 15 I'm not sure I want to be the same boat of Texas indeed but in this this instance everything's bigger there everything is bigger including mind don't I I will I want to add in a little bit um when I first started I had some some families reach out to me inquiring about that first recess um because it helped their schedule to get their children there earlier what talking to the police department fire department what that blocked off was the back of the building so then all the car cars lined up down the road which was a safety hazard again not enough staff in the morning to really I wasn't here but looking at the schedule and trying to come up with that that schedule of who's out there um keeping everyone safe is a bit of a challenge and I agree with John what are we going to take away to have that I will say this for the teachers and I won't speak for your teachers um but there's a lot of it's not recess but they put a lot of movement breaks in there because we know children moving is very important gives them a little break I'm in there them if you're ever with school please jump in to have those movement breaks but they keep them movement moving not recess not that social piece but a little bit of social piece but a lot of movement there but it's it's challenging to put that in there good thank you can I just say one more thing what if so I get that you can't take away from the time on learning but what if instead of adding a recess we just strive to have more time outside and maybe have like a block a class that was taught outside not a whole class but um you know maybe a piece of class or something some learning going on outside and build that into the curriculum or part of the day I just I feel like not just the unstructured play but being outside is also really important does happen it does it does debus who retired last year but she uh did a whole weather unit and they were outside every science place oh I love that yeah yeah it was there are ways to build it in okay and you lose you lose a little bit in transition but it becomes more worth it more purposeful yes that's I thank you Carol I was goingon to ask you about this in your report but since it's on topic everybody read the MC email today they send us an email every day with a bunch of Articles rounded up for us a couple of them caught my attention today but there's one about some groups want to extend not only the school day with the school year so to your time on learning and recess maybe we should just go to school schol year round I don't know they do we'd have to get the ageback up cost a lot more yeah it might cost a lot more but we're gonna ask you for more academic reporting in the next couple months and looking at the mcast scores I mean they're talking about learning slide it's still not great so maybe we need to I mean what's the price of not doing it you know kids who have graduated already College professors saying they can't handle basic math so I mean maybe that's not as wild as an idea I think it is after you get through the initial shock we could do that here can you send that email to because I don't think we well I'm not on that list yeah let me yeah you can get on it though just contact I'm on one L but I'm not sure what that I can show you after MC I can show you too I think that was a local too I think it's absolutely just real quick I because principles aren't supposed to talk onless but John you're welcome to talk the superintendent will tell you let you there are parts of the country it's it's not many more days but they break up the school year differently so there never that gigantic summer Gap so they're on I think it's six weeks on two weeks off so that it's about the same cost in terms of building supplies and professionals and all of that stuff so you don't like have a huge hit but that lack of a big break seems to help they do it a lot I want to say in Washington state they started it a while back and it just they kind of maintains that continuity of learning so we're pondering options POS out there all right awesome inter do you think it's not it's not a New Concept and like John said it's going on in other other states it's new to us it's Mass I would be very new to Massachusetts and we would have to there's there's numerous obstacles to overcome I think of our contract right with our Union and how that would fly it involves alignment with dessie timelines that are typically 10 Monon timelines and other testing and so on that we would have to adhere to still it here too it would involve right holidays and and summer breaks and families who have other children in other schools or teachers who there's there's a lot to consider it feels like what came long years ago and we thought this is a great idea as a whole I think it was a changing holidays to March break that's what it was there was a conversation about having one right March most of us have been here a long time like even to move one thing like that impacted so many people because one other districts didn't have that there was Child Care issues all great ideas and and you know if we want to explore we just have to know that it's going to involve so many different pieces I think we couldn't do it unless we moved as a state yeah to do that as much it as much as it in ways it sense somebody mentioned HVAC I heard that go around I mean having HVAC in place that's why these other states are able to do something about this so those are considerations the only the other thing I would say is going through my mind because you mentioned earlier with the with um the other boards and sitting down looking at kind of where we're going with facilities and then the portrait of a graduate I would caution going out to so many different initiatives that we don't do certain things some things well because we spread ourselves so when we never get anything done because I really want to get this stuff like you we share that things done yeah that's all and I would worry that we we can't make movement with that though who knows I I've watch I watched Jesse go through like lots of changes and things that they're doing now that they didn't do before so it's may be an idea that's time will come I don't know in our time but it may happen you know so I love the idea I just don't know if it's feas I mean speaking of getting things done we are going to ask you to do more some academic reporting we've already talked about this the test scores and all that my main concern is what you know would it help the 50% of the fifth graders who aren't meeting mcast expectations when I saw those numbers yesterday 50% aren't even meeting we got you got to do something yeah so we'll get your reports on that later on um speaking of getting things done again uh I think we're on to you yeah and we do that's part of our meeting tomorrow brief meeting tomorrow as we get on board we have presentations coming for you from all different directions the October just say one thing before we move on from the Student Success in technology so I just wanted to just update you know based on what you just said that um I did reach out to 19 Carter to have our expert on radio frequency speak there and um you know we kind of went through it a little bit and they kind of would rather not do it there until like next year like later next year and I kind of feel like we should probably have that done sooner rather than later so I was going to look into having her speak at um like the 1870 um town hall and she's very willing to come and speak um and I did watch another presentation today from North Carolina and it was specifically regarding schools and Tech technology and they had a variety of experts on there they did a really nice comprehensive job and they even had a lawyer and the lawyer actually said that we have a Tor duty to be informed about this and they said um you know not only to be informed but also you know create a safe environment and even to inform parents about this you know because the science is overwhelmingly showing that it is actually harmful physically and mentally so it's something we need to get on top of um yeah so I just wanted to tell you so I'm going to work on that and then with that um second one that um that presentation that I watched today I would love to share with you guys when the recording comes out can I send it like should I put it in the drive or just email it email it to everybody okay yeah as long as nobody replies all and starts discussing it it's fine yeah okay thank you we can put on the we maybe if we feel like yeah yeah okay yeah that would be great cool thank you sorry okay let's start out first with introduction of new staff we obviously don't have all the new staff and we introduce them at the first meeting of the year but we do have several of our staff who did come tonight Lisa s is going toce her staff we did lose um two individuals um who um we thought the introductions were going to be a little earlier but um I I do want to commend Micah cash who's a PA professional and Jennifer thorburn a high school science teacher they were here but we do have Mary Sarah loore who is our Title One literacy tutor um this year um but has been um a member of the Tanta family for a very long time so we're thrilled to have her back nice absolutely and I do want to I don't because I don't know if he was ever officially mentioned um but we have talked and spoken with Michael Michael um onado but I wanted to officially welcome him because I've been able to work with him um you know closely here at Danto so the Food Services director is you know plays an important role you know food is important to middle school and high school students um so this is um so um it's um BR to have him aboard wonderful to work with himself thank you Lis I do want to mention Mary Sarah's role is does speak to what you're bringing up like well we can have folks like this in who are who are licensed who have experience and expertise in certain Fields they work with that population of students who who may not be the same ones addressed with disabilities and that the special needs population that we work with they're kind of those students who are kind of right on that line have some gaps that we can address and close those gaps and that's the work that Mary Sarah does some students and we have those those folks as well in an elementary school so thank you thank you for acknowledgement thank you and you we have one new staff member from be this is Brook deach did I spell did I pronounce that name correctly way too formal well I get to tell a little history she started out as a substitute teacher loved it so much that she applied for one of our pair of professional Physicians so she joins us as a pair of professionals thank you John one grou okay thank you for for inviting them my goals you have my goals went over briefly looking at last time for our first read I just wanted to make sure that you were comfortable with these goals um and I tried to go in detail about the standards and what particular standards were being addressed and what they meant rather than just numbers and letters which kind of makes me crazy and it keeps me on Target because I know what I need to do um so I looked at instructional leadership which is working with our admin team if you always keep in mind that this is a new admin team other than John and me right and Janelle who's been well and it's kind of a couple two years her position we are all starting together and restarting and starting so um but I think the we spent a lot of time this summer really talking about what was important to us with um instruction and who we were as a team so that that's what my focus was they're getting into the classrooms with them as well as working with them on data looking at our assessments and in general talking about instruction and what was important what's going on in the schools together as an administrative team and then also I I meet separately with Elementary and high school middle high school teams so I can really kind of focus in on what's important to them and use that dedicated time to do that and Janelle accompanies me on those so so that's what we're doing with instruction um professional culture that is um what is that one that's really looking at um meeting more meetings um getting together with sorry sorry whoops go to sorry community outreach apologize um that one is trying to get around to the town people to the communities I'm going tomorrow for example to 19 Carter um just to say hi just introduce myself at coffee time I'm going bring the C coffee cake and just hang out and find out what's new over there but also means trying to get to CPAC we're already with the admin team and everybody showed um the first CPAC meeting of the year and I said I'll come back when you know we'll plan other times for me to be there PTO meetings and so on and we certainly get around to the towns during the budget season so I just want to make myself visible and hear what's going on in the communities and then the third goal that I have this a professional practice so as a new superintendent um I have a mentor and she is in fact Sheila mure from Quin she has just retired as the superintendent of a regional school she's helping me she's now the executive assistant executive director of Mars we're going to talk about that in just a moment um Mass asso of Regional Schools and she is helping be kind of the conduit to getting workshops for us as well as working with me on understanding policy better budget better so I can be strong stronger leader in those areas I know that you may hear me making comments in our policy meetings with Mike and Lori is not a strength of mine I was not in those meetings prior to this position so I'm learning how to navigate the waters there in terms of what my role is what to W into and so they've been very helpful in guiding me with that and Sheila is also helping me with that as well so so three goals that that have a lot of time to them I didn't know if you had something else you wanted added any other those schools I just wanted to add one thing Carolyn I was looking at this for as much as you haven't you know your role is not as the superintendent you've clearly been paying attention to at the meetings to what we were suggesting in the past because when I was reading these goals they were extremely well written um and I think they lend themselves um much better to an evaluation you you were really clear in what you are going to do and you put in the the indicators as well which makes it extremely helpful and I can see how they related thank you so I wanted to say thank you for that I put a lot of time in thank you and we're all working together my goals are aligning with the goals of the principles they had these so they were building off this on in their goals so we're able to work together and then I some I spend time with each of them and Google over all of the the goals that they have and support them as well any other questions on the goals I have a thought um and I kind of was thinking about this before but you had mentioned about the Outreach you be one of your goals what do you think about school committee members being you know maybe at 19 harder once a month or once a week or you know Miss out in like public community area at a regular at regularly scheduled times like I would definitely volunteer to do that you just say hey we're going to be here if you have some concerns you know come talk to us you know just kind of so we can be here you know absolutely that a couple years ago that was something that the school committee had committed to in your goals and the school committee gos you get out into the public um attending PTO meetings and other meetings I know mik was has come with me during budget season to go out and even pre-budget season to go out to the PTO meeting and meet with them so I I think that's absolutely something if that's what the school committee's wishes are to go out but he will definitely be out and be invited to go out on budget season we travel but it's nice to just I like to get out to the public when it's not budget seasonal so I think it's important just with our relationship building with one another so happy to to participate in any meetings and Gatherings that you have as much as they can yeah it's a nice idea um my other next area one question Community have you started with the PTO groups yet have you met with them yet this year this my first one is October with October I said BMS link but on fantastic family dance last Friday already hit the ground I couldn't make it to the dance but I am going to shner farm yeah oh nice for the October 20th do you want me to get you tickets yeah I to bring my grandson so yeah so that I mean those kinds of things you know the link group the link group does a really good job BMS it's the one I personally have experience with I don't know about the other groups but um I know they're always volunteers too so if anybody wants to volunteer those are good groups uh yeah no thank you Carol can I ask on your parent Community engagement one I know there's a lot of friend listed there which I think are awesome could you add to that maybe a sporting event thing just because there's you know the parents on the sidelines would certainly love to just I started to do that at the end of last year and show up with some of the games I like oh yeah that's the boosters yeah yeah like that concerts you did all that last year too yeah just say school then want me to goes to a lot of stuff do you want me to add that formally I think that's a good idea because I feel like it's a whole different community that might not be represented in the other ones right sure yeah yeah or even maybe just one bullet say School event School event and sporting event well I would say supporting in a school the school would be like the music I know these this gonna be just to have documented so you get credit where credits do footballall it's looking good it'sing good all right I'll add I'll add that on too thank follow up um confirmation of dates for Mars Workshop that's in the drive I just put that in there today because I was on with Sheila mer this afternoon and I wanted to capture what we talked about so that you know so that was kind of late in coming but we are confirmed for um Tuesday October 24th as a workshop with Mars um at from 5: to 7 prior to the meeting we're having with the towns here and you know I talked with shil about the kinds of things we looking for um I don't know if those of you might remember Steve Hamond he's been here from Mars years ago um when UD was superintendent he came and worked on region regionalization with us um but he's going to present um uh who else is coming shill is going to come and um M Mar Marshall was a former superintendent in quaven and she's the executive director of Mars and they're going to offer all that they can in the two workshops that we have in October and November what I wrote down from our discussion today of some of the things that we were thinking of doing and if you have more I can talk to Sheila St is going to do an overview of just the budget process how it typically Works um stakeholder roles of the school committee and the towns you know what's the responsibility of us as a school committee what's a responsibility of each of the Town committees she was going to go over calculating our assessment in simple terms it's very complicated but we never had the how do they arrive at that assessment you know the town assessments that we work with and then time for question and answers that's about an hour and then with the other time we have I kind of named this navigating the turbulent Waters to building a trust building trusting relationships how to move through the budget process even when you disagree with other stakeholders what are their experiences um and how we can kind of work some of the things that we've dealt with in the past the second meeting in November 28th and Sheila suggested this I thought this was a great idea um what to do when plans start shifting gears and things don't go the way we think they're supposed to go where we want them to go and then she wants to bring some case scenarios for us to work with of experiences with other districts that are all regional districts have experienced so and then anything else that you may want to think about to add I can reach out to sh as well will that be 5 to S as well that other one will also be 5 to S that's on the set but we don't have one in November scheduled school committee meeting but October 24th is second school committee meeting time okay we don't have a meeting scheduled in November so our only meeting in November would be the 28th no no we I'm sorry we have one we we don't have we always sched two yeah except all right that's what I yeah oh I got you we didn't have a second one sched so those sound awesome yeah and then like I said if there's anything else you think of as we're talking about in the budget subc committies anything else we feel like we're stuck on and we're not sure how to work through we can add that on so that they can prepare um she said she'll send me a power presentation before me that the the next areas um I included the health Frameworks I wanted to just mention to you even though it's not um here um I use the same information basically I presented in the newsletters that came out very rapidly last last week um and I just will say the same thing I did in the newsletter to all of you these are new they there's some sensitive topics in there but there's and there's also some wonderful important formative meaningful topics around well-being um for our children that I don't want to lose sight of in the mix of the sensitive um topics I I have said already I do not want those rolled out at all this year I need time for our teachers to review that what's in all these units compare them to what they've been doing and are doing right now in the 1999 Frameworks and see where they need to build we need information around resources we might have to have to build into a budget for next year move forward we may decide we're only going to do portions of that that new framework next year and roll it out kind of the implementation the gradual implementation so there's a lot we still need to talk about that just came out and so I just want you to be aware of what we're thinking what we're talking about already so any any questions about that with new guidelines or or Frameworks like is that how how it works like over years the current is now adjusted to the Frameworks or yes yeah and and districts have some latitude around how they want this to unold and what they want included that's why I included the laws um in in the um newsletter I think I might have include them yeah in my report the state laws and guidance around what we what we do as a district I thought that was important for you to know so so that's what we'll work with kind of a long Justice Point Carol it's been 24 years since they've updated this is this typically how fast they it seems like it went lightning quick like we heard they were maybe working on something and something came out and they wanted feedback by August feedback came and now mid-september there is that a typical process or is that quick it I would say it varies but with with Frameworks that are that involve some of the controversial topics in here um it was I thought it was lightning fast I think I was really in shock and we we discussed it certainly around how they man how Des was looking at all of the survey results that were sent to them and then made that decision that quickly so I would say for this we were extremely surprised that I was talking about or we won't hear I mean the history in social science Frameworks took years in fact they they sent them out because of the political ramifications how do we interpret history how do so different political sides were weighing in and and Scholars but depending on where they stood were weighing in on those Frameworks they went out remember that 20045 then they got pulled back in again then we didn't see them for a couple more years so all kinds of things happen and usually when there's there's controversial topics or the way we present our instruction um they they can change so we may not see the end of this yet I don't know you know it but it's not our it's whatever desie is telling us to so yes it was so I have a couple of must anybody else have no based on what you said is controversial topics we got a lot of feedback from parents over the summer when they were coming in that's sort of what drove one of the policies that we're going to be looking at tonight it's lightning fast right so I was curious as to what you'll do what you and your team will do to come up with a curriculum to cover these and think about it's a health framework so I just went into the document gender is the controversial topic all right regardless of what you where you fall on it the word gender is in the text 52 times vers versus nutrition for health class nutrition is in there 34 times exercise in a health class you would think you talk about health class only appears 10 times in the document so I mean it some people who are maybe a little more controversial than me might wonder what are they doing with that you've got 52 times for the topic of gender which everybody if you're not living under a rock knows that is a controversial topic regardless of where you fall there this comes prek to 12 so that's 14 classes so four times per class on if you're doing averages versus less than once for exercise in a health class so which of our four grades aren't going to be told to exercise in their health class you know like I don't know it just seems weird so but I know when you guys come up with what you're going to come up with just like all the other other hot Buton topics that we cover it'll be with a focus on what this District wants right absolutely not necessarily what is happening in the outside world right absolutely and that's that's the lens that our teachers will look at with that and that's a lens our administrators will look at as well that's why I say there is no way that we will roll out any part of this curriculum this year we we can't we simply can't do it and we don't want to we have to look closely at it and I and and to what you're saying mik regardless of how many times gender is mentioned and I suspect it has to do with the fact that for Jesse this is a really important topic to bring forward um and it's new and so I think that probably there is so much emphasis on that in a way because it was never there before right in 1999 these were never topics that we talked about these were never um just never yeah topics that we addressed so it's so I think that that's probably why it's appearing so many times the introduction to it all but how we go about doing I don't think that negates in any way or lessens the value we should place on these other areas that you mentioned nutrition physical physical movement physical education um the mental state of children we talk about a social emotional envirment with children right all the mental health issues that we Face we have to focus on just as much so yeah we got so that's why I say a lot of stuff going on um but we'll be okay I'm confident I'm confident in our teachers confident in our researchers the last thing I just wanted to mention I've been putting out um invitations for the p graduate the administrators I invite I invited them if you like to join they are all on board um I'm thrilled that they are willing to give up their time to serve on this committee I would like you to have a representative two in the school committee to serve I've got several parents already that have been email to me and we serve on that I also think that this is really important work for us to do the vision of our future it ties into the things we talked about with budget with facilities with things Jessica's talking about right Health Wellness recess so what is important to us as a district I think it's time that we redefine who we are or Define it maybe for the first time um in a way we haven't done before we've been operating in a very traditional path pathway but I think it's time for us to break out of that and and explore some possibilities for different a different Vision but something that's more related to the children that are in our schools today so can I ask a question about that sure um would it be okay because I don't know I mean I I can only speak for myself it's really hard to commit to all of those meeting dates would it be okay if one of us came or maybe two or three of us represented the school committee and we each took terms coming to me or is that and then we could kind of like fill in like recap the meeting or do you want one person from the school committee to come to all of them it's kind kind of on the spot here because I you know I think that ideally I'd love to have one person or two people commit to that and I think that that would be helpful for you as well for the continuity but you're always welcome to come I think and listen to what we're talking about so if you if you wanted to do that as well there's no reason why you you wouldn't come to hear hear what we're discussing so I'll that up to you I just think that it's a better flow for you rather than trying to figure out if you come the first meeting and the third meeting what happened if the train and get it's we looked at we looked at dates and it it just seemed because John and I were actually talking about Tuesdays and so what I was trying to avoid is we have school committee on other Tuesdays we will be out and budget for the Monday night s and the finance and then the p on Thursday night and and so like I don't know when Friday was not gonna be no no I get it I get it John BR he goes why you have one meeting and see when everybody can meet maybe planed today can you imagine the group of people all trying to pick the next beting date we can't even you were all here tonight monkey thank you Carol uh any final comments Mo on okay next up uh technology coordinator an update good evening um I can take as long or as little time as you would like you have my report um just a couple of updates so um fiber brand um as you may or may not be aware the town of Boyston was um awarded a $335,000 um fiber Grant to which includes our ability to connect the buildings um it was warden in June um we had some kickoff meetings late August and early September um with the town and um Phoenix communication who has been contracted um to do most of the work um they did a site walk um the same day you folks did your s sidewalks on September 19th um to go over termination uh locations and basically get a a basic layout out of where things were going to go um once they get to the buildings um next steps include um Phoenix will have to submit uh pool drawings um that is required because they have to license space of the pools in Berlin um so um that that will happen again we've been told that this isn't going to hold things up um because again the town of Berlin has Municipal space on the PO so they'll be sharing that so it shouldn't be an issue um and again they expect because again Wilson um owns rights to the polls because of boilson light the section that's going from 140 um section of 140 through 70 um should be starting fairly soon Paul when this uh fiber project is done what will we exactly be able to do that we can't do now so right now uh most networking things like so anything between buildings has to go out to the cloud so if I want to communicate to um bees from here I have to go out to the cloud and from the cloud back to bees um things like our phone system we could potentially um consolidate that so like again for communication you might you might have four digigit dialing because it's all going to be on one phone system um potential cost savings with the phone system if you know if you're only running one system instead of replacing four all the time we're replacing one instead of um same thing true on the networking side so we currently run four servers um at each individual building because we can't um you know validate my login credentials here over to bees if I had to go through the cloud at Le every time I go to log and it would it would be too slow it would be noticeable um this is going to create one centralized Network for us um again I look at little things like our backups now run on site so if Tanto Burns um the backup for Tanto is at Tanto um so if for some reason we had a a disaster you know we take um snapshots now and again and move them so like but we might lose two months worth of data that's stored in our on our servers because the backup is we'll be able to do those overnight you know between buildings and um you know again not have to worry about speed and that the fact that you know it actually takes six hours it's only going to take an hour to do that backup um lot of lot of lot of things that that is going to benefit us again potentially on the um on the internet side instead of having again everybody has their own connection going out we may be able to consolidate some of that and probably improve bandwidth while cutting some costs too so kids will be able to access more social media really don't started again not to to pick up on that that comment we have firewalls at each building we potentially be able to have one firewall or two firewalls you know like doing that filtering so incre security that's and there's fiber going to the police station too that create like a hard connection to the police station and it's gonna potentially yeah um it it again part of this um the reason why why it's going to work is Wilson was already doing that and so some of the the cost that the 335 probably wouldn't have covered connecting all the buildings but because there's already because of the communication for the police department was already running from here um to 2115 million um we really only have to SP between downstairs and upstairs for that to work so again but potentially um I think that's going to really be more um done by like walkie-talkies and and being able to get on their their system more than necessarily using the fiber but it again 911 I mean it from a land yeah no it's still that that's its own system that answers my question thank you you're welcome um Capital um so there were a lot of Technology Capital items and we made you know good progress or finished many um Carol Nancy and Ice add again today so we'll probably have a further update you know later maybe November or January that um but anyway you know gave you a quick rundown um we had student devices that were purchased and configured over the summer um new copy machines um at all the buildings um we had you know some hiccups there which as of again that same date September 19th was when we finished off um we had V I had vendors in that day um finishing off the two elementary schools um so that and they can use their um swipe cards to um access the the copy machines it's going to allow us to track better um in terms of individual teacher use as well as color copies versus black and white and hopefully reduce some cost there um we've been tracking some of this for a long time but not doing anything with it and so this is going to give it gives more direct reports to to Nancy and to the principal so um I hate to say it'll be in black and white but it'll be more in Black it'll be more in black and white uh as to what those copy costs are um 3D printer um has been ordered and actually I said in here waiting on install date install date has been um arrived at it's going to be on the PD day in October so that they can um also do some training so they'll utilize some of that PD time for Mr Ironman and some of the folks in the Ia department will be able to um get training on that new 3D printer that day um central office phone system is up and running and um security camera um here at Tanto um we have a a capital request in for doing that um this is the one thing that I'm again I put in my report being the most deliberate about um is inexpensive and I I want to get it right I don't want to have happen the last time um we did a project around cameras and um security fobs at um the two schools um we didn't get what we wanted uh uh licensing the ability for um many people to to access um and have ability there were just a lot of things that um when we wrote The Proposal we thought it was good when the delivery was done and the vendors went away and they had met all the requirements but um we were left with um things like the three buildings not being compatible and on the same cards and um the cameras at the elementary schools not being compatible with the same software as the cameras that existed here so um again I'm trying to be very deliberate um about this um working with a few schools that have done projects recently um and making progress but it's still in progress um Network upgrades um have some are tied to that fiber Grant um so we will have to um add some um networking equipment in each of our closets um that will basically accept the fiber um we've begun that um here at Tanto um a lot of that will progress again some of it will have have to happen as part of the fiber project um but some of the other pieces that um um like the wireless access points that are part of that um request um we're going to wait or pause until we get our e funding um that cycle begins we just got emails this week um from our e consultant um the purpose in that is the federal government will um reimburse us 40% for that equipment so instead of maybe being able to do 20 access points with the amount of money we have will probably be able to do 30 um so again we could rush and do it and get it done but it just seems more cost effective um knowing what we're trying to do um and in the meantime it's still um our network isn't broken or not functioning um so to be able to wait for E rate is is okay to do how about the electronic forms all they all so I had two other items um so the I'll go in order the website um again through some basic pictures of what um folks in the admin team um came up with um for the template um again I received an email yesterday or Friday basically saying it's in production um so that basically means they're actually working on it and expect probably still beginning of November to have the website um ready for us to see um I would expect that we're going to do some edits and changing and additions before we actually go live um and again the I noted the last sentence here that our existing site will stay live until we cut over to the other piece um and then on the electronic forms um Lisa and her team um had created a um a template for um again try to bring those in I don't think Lisa was aware that um we were I was trying to get this done through uh Power School and ecollect um so we we took that form which really was a combination of about six or seven different sign up forms um the reason we started with Tanto was um it it's through Power School and most of our parents or majority of the parents at Tanto um because of scheduling and because of grades being um online um have accounts and so it made sense to try to you know get it done and see work out some of the bugs which we've certainly found a few um to to do as a trial um I think it's going pretty well um I think some of it again is going to be education and again like what I said in the Russ the board getting um starting to get the elementary parents on board earlier um so we'll do some Outreach I'll send out a couple like little videos here's how you get your um Power School account up and running um followed by um we'll we'll do a trial at at the elementary schools as well so something simple like getting the school messenger um contacts into into Power School um every year we send that sheet home update your contact information you know we we can do that and um we'll get that going and then will that be this year will that be this year yes oh yeah I'm I plan to go to their open houses like their parent night I think that's no not the not your not open conference dat November it's like in November I'll be in the cafeteria whatever and we'll get people signed up and again I don't think we'll have 100% participation at first eventually you'll have to because we'll try to move all these two yeah I think that's the goal that we set right is it's not a choice it's that's how we're going forward Paul is there a way to put on the current website now that sort of we're under construction new website coming just so people when they go to search for things they don't they understand when they're frustrated why sure figure out something yeah all right thank you so you think so you said uh website should be available for the admin team to review and make edits in November yes so presumably like beginning of the year January 1 time frame that think so we might you know like again looking depending upon when we can get some training for like the key people you know like try to figure out date that makes the most sense to really go live so that again I think it's like anything else um that we do um if you keep up with it right away yeah yeah then then it stays maintained if you lose it right away we're back on to the same place we were okay any any questions I just have one yeah like we have this calendar it would be really great if we could have it populated with all the school events like right now it just has early release in labor day I mean we should Cy yeah we should at least have like school committee meetings but it would be great to have like open house yeah open house even the sporting events like oh concert here or bees open house uh Berlin open house um just so we can see what's going on in the district I mean I I know I acknowledge it'll be pretty full but I think that would be helpful can I I just want to add to you what you're talking about so we've talked about this in the ad meeting the principals are taking back their SCH calendars but they're also making an effort in this website to have a single calendar I think right to to put their input to to build single calendar yes I saw I just saw Lis okay so that makes sense so you have yourss so so someone clicks on Tanto they'll see all that stuff right so yeah so this one on is going to handle the district like she's going to coordinate that district and she'll be the point person she won't do what was happening in the past the principles weren't loading their own things they were sing it to a single person centr so yeah that's what that gotcha that's blank one is so that's why she's going to take over the main so then Nicole will be doing District wide and it will come from all three principles and then the principles are their own so if you want to see just what's going on at the es you can click on that one but if you want to see all the stuff in the district you'll be able to right okay I like it that's what we're working on so I know Berlin is looking at their towns website there's people are going around asking towns people what they want to change this calendar idea came up so I don't know if the schools uh they're you this an online thing they they're what should we do Pro it type of questions and some people are confused about the town calendar not sinking with a school calendar and school information not really being available on the town websites because they are separate the school district is you know a little different than other Town departments in the regional district at least where you have fire and library and police are all kind of the Town umbrella whereas the school is sort of a separate umbrella within the town so I know there's some confusion in the community about the calendars Town calendars and school calendars thinking of will when we're ready will this calendar be able to sync up with the two towns or can we at least do something to give the towns a way to send their people to the school directly link some a link something yeah add the link to the district calendar if it has everything so I know you know people people live in Berlin they want to find a Berlin school they go to the town Berlin site thinking you know that's a logical place to go to find school stuff and it's not there and then how do I get to it and there's confusion so four different sites for bbrsd the bbrd page for BMS for bees for Tanto for the district itself for the school committee itself there a whole bunch of different so this will all be Consolidated easy to see from this one homepage yeah I'm ring my head on that um so just basically the towns are looking to update theirs we're looking to update ours yeah it makes sense to talk to each other yeah so I know and again I think in the past you know they've offered to so I think if we want to have three or four different leagues so like one that goes to your school committee page one that goes to I think the towns are willing to do that so you know if nothing else like you know like so should say buror school to the regional Berlin bson school committee so they be be Three Links there and people would you know and if we want to throw in like a a link to the district calendar again in the past they've they put in what we have asked them to put in or they basically one single single link to right now right well right now go I think right now there is a I think if Le in Berlin and I think in Boon there is a link there that just says here's the Berlin Boon website page and it goes to our District page cool but I I'll follow up on thanks Paul I just have a question for the security cameras are you considering having them be hardwired or they will be most likely be hardwired so then one more thing on the website so then the idea is the building administrators will manage their page on the website that's probably more car question that's kind of what photos their schools and updates yeah and and I think the admins will have like so I have anage in the area has an area will still be responsible for that Nicole will kind maybe do more of the general stuff that doesn't fit under those umbrellas but is on the website great thank you thanks Paul um director of Food Services Mike do you have a report you want I have a few things I I could run over sure um uh as we all know or as you all know by now uh school lunches and breakfast are free for all students this year um that's that's a great relief it takes a lot of financial pressure off in meals programs and um it raise participation levels which which is just fantastic to have kids not hungry in school is always my goal and whenever we can accomplish that easier it's great um we're working on obviously as Nancy was saying uh getting some more staff members uh trying to hire on some more staff members um we did create a couple of different positions Nancy and I in conversation one being a floating position that could work at all at any of our three schools it's just something it's very good to have we don't always have substitutes which the principles are well aware of um for just about any position so to try to take as much pressure off as possible we come up with a couple of different um positions to try to hire for uh we received a f schol purchase uh Grant and of about $5,700 which is good because that means I get to finally meet um farmers and local produce and U in our in this area um we'll start to take advantage of that probably in Spring after we used up some of our tiid funds for uh fresh fruits and vegetables from the USDA um uh one thing that would try to uh look at here in the near future and talk with with the principles and other administrators is the the breakfast after the Bell program uh the breakfast after the Bell program has been pushed by desie to try to get into all school districts in in the Commonwealth over the last couple of years and in my last two districts that I was in I was able to Institute it and it was fantastic the just from behavioral issues plummeting to um children's attentiveness attendance even better it it was just fantastic but those are things I'm going to be ringing up with the principes and District administration on how we can and how we can implement it and best practice to do so um using School funds we've been able to repair at least six large pieces of commercial equipment this year um using school lunch funds only uh we purchased um uniforms for all the uh District meals Food Service staff and I I want to kind of point something out here when I say using only school lunch funds these are funds that uh this program is self-funded these these monies do not come out of General general fund these monies do not go you don't see those this on your property taxes not only do I work in education but I'm also a home worker and I also have children in the school district so I'm very cognizant of making sure that everyone understands where our funding comes from and that we are self-funded um working on calculating uh what I District my districtwide V participation is it's um for for me it's a indicator of uh the successful program with free meals for everyone I'd like to see that number about 70% we'll see where we are after the end of the month after September and I can have a better idea of what we need to do to improve um yeah that is about all I have I know that I'm new to the district so I'm sure that there could be a bunch of different questions that that I can Fields anyone does anybody have questions I have a small so my daughter gave me feedback um and she said there's no more two muffins in the morning again she's obsessed with the muffins and then you can't get a cheese stick with any of the meals and I was curious if you could purchase it on their own um in addition to the free lunch and I guess what what was behind the change I funny but so what I've noticed and um I'm a person to seek first to understand to be understood so over the first couple of weeks in school I'm watching what's being served what times are being served and trying to understand the training that my staff has had in the past um more training has to be done because for example when I look at um a lunch going out there is let's say it's a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a yogurt and a cheese stick and I so I started doing the math in my head for my training like wow that's uh three proteins for a seveny old we can't get free proteins to a seven-year-old because we have nutritional guidelines that we have to follow so it's not only just about one day it's about what happens over the course of a week so we have to figure out how many calories are coming from those me meat Alternatives like cheese sticks and yogurts and it goes over the course of a week so there's specific guidelines that we have to follow and I try to let things operate as they should when I see some things like um for example giving two two grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch like why do we do that well it's because of what we've always done okay well we're also giving four grains we're only allowed to give two like I can understand maybe three but we can't do this because the Chlor going take us too high the sodium is too high it's just these are things that we can't do so when we see those little changes and that's where they're coming from we just haven't been following we haven't been in compliance so when I notice them kind of have to stop those so is that affect doubles kids or no if someone wants to purchase something extra a double a second meal um they're more than welcome to they can get an entire full lunch or they can just get the one ENT just the entree aspect let's say it's an Italian sub from the deli here at Tonto they can just add just that or they get the entire lunch again but that is not part of the school lunch program that is alart sales and so we don't have to track we have to make sure what we're serving for alart is healthy and it meets the it's conforms to the a list of smart snacks that's what we have to do for our the cart that doesn't um compute to with the U the daily servings for the uh school lunch program so hypothetically cheese stick would be available for purchase as well I don't know if we carry cheese sticks as an alart item right now we don't have a really good refrigerated section for for kids to choose something from but I can I can Envision a nice open air cooler right up there against the wall with pre-made salads and just grab and go we'll get there there thank you anybody else mik I just want to say since the school year started I've heard from different random parents that they're impressed with the changes changes in menu items uh menu groupings and something you just said there which is a pet peeve of mine when I do my training for our people at work why do you do it that way well that's the way we've always done it you you ke whatever you can change to make it better more efficient people happier better Manu choices uh it sounds like you know what to do so so go and do it that's when you said that you know that what we've always done that whole that concept of those seven words yeah that really fires me up at work I have to untrain what's been trained in my folks so that's good thank you yeah think about first of all I'm grateful that you're here on the team as one of the directors now we have not had a food service director in the past here so thank you for your willingness and desire to come the advocate he said I've always been on school committee school committee meeting okay um but Mike is going to be on is on the wellness committee that Sally is organizing now he has a lot of information a lot of changes that he knows from policies and so on right for for what for for our our wellness policy we're going we're starting the process and Sally is leading the group I've been through the food service director is always on the well committee so I had to do it a lot and as we get into it that I've already read through our wellness policy there will be revisions that will come to the committee to consider and I'm sure it'll go nice and smooth though we haven't touched that and I came even tell how long so this is a tremendous change thank you expertise thank you uh so that takes care of the report section of the agenda moving on to business items uh before we get started with the business items Carol we've talked about this Nicole and I have been working together on a sort of a drive a Google Drive policy procedures um we've gone over a timeline I just want to make sure you and your team understand where the committee is coming from when it comes to items that we're going to vote on we need or we want lots of information to make the decision some things are going to need more than others but the way we get that information is through documentation into the drive and having it organized which Nicole's really been helpful on getting that organized but the documents themselves being organized laid out formatted professionally uh to a level um there there's some stuff in here we'll talk about some specific things maybe as we go through these um just in general CL out um so we we talk about a couple specific things but um all right so first up is the handbook I have a motion to approve the student handbook for Toronto so second Lor and Julie second okay any uh discussion on this was this in this wasn't in the drive until like yesterday correct it was a late edition I think because they're still working through some of the format yeah it was in last meeting yes so we had it in the last meeting um two meetings ago yeah and they took a bunch of feedback from uh anyone who sent feedback in um and then it was out there again uh I I have some specific comments but does anybody have any specific comments yeah I I have one thought um the table of contents is kind of like a index instead of a table of contents usually you know it kind of has table content has things in order and this is like alphabetical I'm just wondering we want to change the main or possibly just reformat that to be a table of contents yeah that was one of the points we had last time around uh I think in sending this to the the success Committee in the future is going to help take care of those things um we have to vote you're saying we have to vote on this because school years started it includes some items that the kids need to follow they've already signed it probably um but yes that's something that need to be pretty quick to do it is it in word so part of what I think was going on is we were moving back and forth to word do right formatting and so when if Lisa changed something then it came to us and then it went to Google doc and then it got messed up then it went back again we were cleaning up formatting after formatting things I talked with Mike about with all of this and and I know L you had volunteered to take this over I'm just like we let's St but I don't know if that's something you would entertain it's if you have a particular format in mind like you want it to look like kind of what we did with the what do we work on the thank you the schol Improvement plan we did a certain way for years right and that's our kind of our knowledge base as Educators but number of you are business people and you know different formatting other than changing content formatting would be right formatting is and I think I think that that's a very difficult thing when you have we have a tool Google doc that allows people to work simultaneously on a document and but then there's there's limited formatting ability in Google Google so then it gets transferred to a dock but then once it's once it lives in the dock and people are trying to input then people lose track of okay so which version do you have where is that living did you have that version okay so what did you name the most recent version and so everybody's kind of scrambling to try to figure out who has the version I don't have whatever you guys have I don't have that I do not have I don't have the the actual document at this point all right if we do on it it's accepted Nicole this will be the document you can circulate to to them formatting issues we know need to be worked on that will be worked on uh it will come to the success committee um as far as content does anybody have questions I have some things okay um I don't know how we're going to votee on a handbook that the principal hasn't say well I mean content I just content just format re the content change no and I'll be honest with you Julie we didn't get it to Lisa because I didn't want her to change formatting over the weekend because I was doing the formatting okay on Friday afternoon and I said to Nicole I don't think this is where I need to be spending because I was changing asteris and and was making me crazy it needs heavy proof read and I mean that year right so we could probably find some I would gladly internship maybe one of the assistant principles at Tanto should own this I I don't know in the interest of it being 10 minutes formatting issues are gonna be taken care of content content okay so I've seen this handbook it's my fourth year I don't see much that's changed in the cour year I know you haven't been in position you haven't been in the superintendent position um so obvious things that I noticed was in the um athletic handbook and I know our athletic director is not here to speak to this but um we have we have to adhere to the MIAA rules and regulations and we can't be less restrictive than those so in the Mia handbook um students have to um they're Bound by what's called a academic eligibility standard naturally right it's in place for those athletes um to be eligible for the season that they're going to plan it's based on the marks from the previous season in our handbook it says that students must student must secure during the last marking period proceeding the contest um second quarter marks and not of semester grades determines the third quarter eligibility of passing grade in at least all but one of the major subjects that he or she is taking and the MIAA handbook requires a passing in all of the subjects that they are taking so this is they're allowed to fail one here they're not allowed to fail any with the Mia rules and R and I think maybe that was changed somewhere because these regulations are 2023 to 2025 so that may be that just was never updated R hours um but certainly that's of course important that we can't be as restricted in the Mia yeah I don't know why we would allow a failing student to play extracurriculars versus do extra homework anyway right I mean could we possibly suggest to strike those words that say fail class yeah and then it would match the M MH only have to say you can't fail you'd have to say you'd have to be have passed and receive full credits for the previous course I mean the language is right can you take the language directly from that to but if this was this might have just recently changed you know what I mean so that's probably why it hasn't yeah it might be why it's not in there but we still need to get it in there right that's what I'm saying yeah still certainly we're talking it's page 30 that jul correct Y and then also during the season they're also Bound by an academic eligibility standard as well and I'm sure Matt would have more details on this what that means that one um not to beat a dead horse about the cell phones but I think it's a tough argument kids can't play cards at lunch but they can use cell phones at lunch y I don't know that's in there too 100% agree with that one was that J me that I coulde with that wait so can Middle School use phones at lunch though all right and I get the idea it's gambling and right good no no know I like I do because I can remember many many many many years ago when I was substituting at toono and I thought it was I was a subtit Institute teacher and I thought that playing cards was okay because they were it was strategy and and it wasn't principal came in and advised me otherwise so you know I don't they're probably poker games going right but I don't know there are a lot of important card games that can be played like five other a yeah so I maybe it's a you know another discussion I don't I always was cards and cell phones I think are bigger conversation than tonight um a comment I had about another thing in here we're picking and choosing certain policies to put in here like on page 31 it does have the ecfa policy my question was why individual policies going into the handbook versus all policies going into the handbook or no policies going into the hand book but with some reference to policy manual that was one comment the other comment was the policy that's in here is not actually the current version of the policy and then we're also voting on that later tonight so it may or may not change from the current version the current version is not what's actually in here so I mean that the MIAA stuff if we have a a handbook that we approve this year and a kid is failing and he goes on to play in a basketball game or whatever are we in violation of Mia what does that do to the team what does that do to the rest of the the program can we approve this with those things not being correct or addressed couldn't you strike the words like and make an amendment to the vote to to approve this so we would first have to vote on the amendment of striking the words and replacing it with I think there's even some confusion as to what exactly right would it be replaced with you know well I guess specifically for for the failed class I mean the M the new Mia I would imagine um the athletic director would weigh in on what wording he would put in there yeah I don't know I mean it wouldn't be directly from I mean we're we're almost a month into school does another two weeks hurt like Megan said yeah we're meeting on October 10th so I mean I don't know are you is the Student Success committee meeting I mean I it seems like there's kind of a lot to just amend and then vote on yeah I I'm I think that the MIAA thing because if you get a kid that fails and then you're like you know nope you can't play sports by Ma and they're like oh no that's not tono policy right I mean that's going to create a huge I mean you almost have to have kids resign that the handb change say so I would say you're gonna have to send a new copy out so I I almost feel like not and same thing with the me the the face coverings policy if we're voting on a new policy tonight and then this is in the policy that that's a slippery slope right there I would just remove that policy anyway because it's unless there's a reason to have a specific individual policy in the handbook but then we we should be consistent with what we have exactly yeah so I think that's what you I mean I caught that one particular policy because it's up for vote again tonight I don't know if there other ones in there in different places I think you need to make a decision where either G to put all policies in this handbook and have them signed off or put no policies and refer to the actual policy manual yeah there's a another one on page 37 school and it's documented school committee policy klg law enforcement agencies coming into schools but yeah I think that's it's only picking and choosing and there might be more school committee policies that actually do apply to the high school kids and yeah I think I would probably just remove all school committee policies and have a little saying at the end that says you know you must follow all district policies unless there's a compelling reason to do something different yeah there's a lot of stuff that's like specific to the school makes sense but I mean I I would maybe argue for that the the C the police policy that you just mentioned like I to keep it any I yeah yeah I mean especially with the discussion of officers but it's still policy it's just I this is so cumbersome 131 pages I me are any kids actually reading this whole thing well no I read it yeah J cre I read yeah so I don't know there's a lot of so who who actually writes this this it's a team effort well it is it's been so I will say too there are a few like the sexual harassment policy there are a few things and Janelle maybe you can CH Chim in but there are a few that have to be in there so there are a few policies that I know again because they have to be presented every year to so yeah so that's what I mean reason to have don't ask Paul Mar what those are yeah is there a compelling reason to have individual policies in there and if so can they all be grouped into one acknowledgement section so many I would need to look into it a little bit I mean if I'm being asked I would need to look into that a little bit to see exactly which ones it's an excellent point Paul um yeah like civil rights I would exactly what needs to go into the student rights we know I mean we can tell you um in our sleep what needs to go to staff each year but what needs to go into the student handbook and that is probably the roots of why there are some policies in there and not others Wonder have to look at it the animal support if they so so here's my confusion with the with the handbook is that we have a document that is formatted to no fault of anybody's honestly because if it just keeps getting handed down then the can's getting K nobody's fault right we have a document that we have to approve for the community to follow sort of the protocol for the kids to follow but yet there's things in it we don't know what policy should be in there what policy shouldn't be listed in there some of the language is incorrect so from here I I I would make a motion to send it back to the team but I don't even know what team that is that's going to review it right that's I think that's the piece I mean right I think I was to ad they were all new so they at something that I heard what you said to your point was just handed down to us so it's been this way this act this one was actually forwarded even before July 1 so it was pres it was handed to toward school committee even before I you didn't yeah we we voted on this in years past and I hav just been like a rubber stand okay so where do we go from here I think you need I think we need to form an ad hoc committee to focus on this this handbook is going to be this handbook and then the other one is the staff handbook yeah that I was going to try to do for October but I feel like well we really need to spend more time on that one as well I think that's it Mike I think it just was rubber stamped and we these probably got through every year yes I'm sure that's all this is not new they didn't change no no I know I know I've seen it four years I've seen it well like Mike said the way it's always been done not the way so maybe we need to do that and pull an ad hoc committee to look at these areas one of the things I was going to propose but I'm trying to play it out in my mind that's why I was kind of quiet as thinking do we just do a stay in place with the handbook that we've had until we can get the right one in place I we have to have something worry about without having anything in place well they already signed all this one didn't they no they signed that off the last year's handbook is that the one that's current current students have they signed anything yes they signed one that we had to look at last meeting in early September well or was it August they've sided an acknowledgement of looking at the handbook so yeah yeah that's what they sign right a this one that they've read right on on the one that was presented previously not the version we're looking at right now which same content formatting issues but same content same cont so which some of that content probably not accurate yeah so right now we're in compliance because they've signed at least based on what they've looked at which is kind of like the stay in place like it's what they've acknowledged that one the way it is it's not go ahead so one of the reason one of the changes I believe in that handbook is the code of conduct yes yes yes um so there were changes um to those laws and regulations around student discipline last November and I believe that the code of conduct reflects what those changes are alternatives to to suspension in some cases um so we are eager to have an updated code of conduct in place so that it reflects um those most recent regulation changes but that exists in the one the students have already acknowledged yes our old superintendent's name is in that one the students have I don't think it does I don't think it does I don't the yeah hold on hold on quiet so if it's not in that one then it's not in this one right I believe it's in the proposed one the one that we're looking at right now is in the drive that so unfortunately I've lost access to that drive I I had it last year but so I'm sorry I can't see that um visually don't look at me um I can only see the agenda so I I can't put my eyes on it but can you confirm that the one that they're looking at has the new code of conduct that we worked out over the summer the one on the website right now is the 2022 23 because that was not vote because the 23 24 was not voted on so I couldn't repace it so it does not have the updated Cod so the one that the handbook that's on the website now was written and approved and posted prior to those regulation changes in November of 2022 correct therefore it doesn't include those um those changes so there is there is some need to update that because otherwise our code of conduct is not up to so this one you're saying that this one does have that so it is Conta CH but they the kids haven't gotten this one we hav right the kids haven't gotten one but this one hasn't correct someone point out where that is I I believe it's on page 59 it's policy I believe it's student discipline policy jic is that suspension page 59 and notice of suspension there there's also a chart right that talks about like if this conduct happens at school this is the potential consequence and that begins on page 52 thank you and what I'm wondering is if we can is it possible to to B for now or we sent this particular portion home and have people sign off on that is that too much could we right so could we just focus on just having the code of conduct discipline code discipline code thank you and on the other y I get what you're saying okay so we would amend this motion then to not approving it as presented but approving the discipline code to what we say to be sent home do they have to sign off on that Janel that they've seen it do you think probably I mean that's it's typically part of the signed off we can we can communicate we can find a different way too it's I think it's most important um right that we're communicating what those expectations are and then that we're implementing them it puts us in a strange place um to be following in updated handbook that doesn't um for discipline that doesn't necessarily align with those updates that came out last November could it be added as like an addendum to the 22 23 handbook like that's how I vote it and that way it is actually part of the handbook like we attach it to that one I'm wored that be so many errors to the 22 23 that I mean those are the ones you brought up do but well they've already acknowledged that one is what they're saying this year that's the one acknowled so that one needs the discipline code but they so they'd have to resign again just just the I see just the student discipline code um that has the the charts I believe it starts on page 52 and it continues on or you could just reset resent or you could just spend two weeks get someone to fix it we'll vote and then send the whole thing in its entirety out and say you need to sign this new one the school committee just approved it but somebody needs to own this in the district I don't know who what does the udent not the high school student council isn't there a community of council members aren't there student council school council school council so we we just met and we're doing the school Improvement plan and so we w't have another meeting in okay I don't let's um there's a motion on the table to approve this right now and we don't want to we're saying there's problems with this we can either amend the motion or vote on the motion let's vote should we amend to could amend to just approve the discipline policy yeah so would someone like to make a motion to amend the motion to not approving the handbook as is but to only approving the discipline code some Megan second uh Jess okay anyone want to discuss that amendment should we add into that amendment that there's parental consent involved that's you can amend the amendment once so if you amend the amendment you have to be steady on what you want to do because you're going only do it one more time yeah uh no this is what's going to we're approving this this parent acknowledgement or student acknowledgement is part of the process that they do we're y amending what they're do or voting on what they're do okay any other discussion on the amendment I would just say I don't know how we can add that amendment in and not take into consideration the MIAA rules and regulations and I think at that point if we're going to and I think that one is very important I think the Mia one's very important I think we have to do this the right way and I know time is of the essence and we have to get people to sign this because we're not in compliance at this point but would two weeks would two weeks make a difference well do they have someone that in two weeks can fix this I don't know we'll have to just we'll have to make that a that's barel yeah I I we well I guess if you're going to hand it off to the success committee then we'd have to have a meeting but then we the input of like what civil rights yeah we don't necessarily right now this we wouldn't necessarily do that because that was mostly for a final look for formatting flow and things like that it would be Carol's team to get it correct and it would just be to fix the MIAA make make sure that discipline thing is accurate and I would say go through and figure out what policies are what school committee policies are supposed to be included in the handbook and which ones don't have to be I me those would be the three action items for your team to take in the next two weeks to bring this back to us so we can vote on it so we would vote no then on or well you can vote you table the to yeah well no because we're in the middle of the motion we have to vote we could all vote no Jess opinion can also amend it or we could just take the discipline but I agree with Julie because if we're in a sport season so we're in football season right so one K on the football team gets an F or starts failing a class and our manual they've signed is well it would only affect if they had failed in the spring yeah so I just think it speaks to we we have to right stop just doing if things are handed and it says been handed to everybody in this room at some point it just has to stop we have to we have to have an appropriate handbook that has the right documentation in there from Soup To Nuts And my and my thought is I don't know if we can turn this around in two weeks that's I one thing I worry about we can make those we can make those three edits we can make those three changes I I'll be perfectly honest with you because I when I look at other District's handbooks I think looking pretty good no oh okay okay see that bring up again back to what Mike says okay the way it's always been done right and this is the grief I give John every time we talk about Ang GL and andcat scores I don't care what other districts did we're not responsible for other districts we're not responsible for the state we're responsible for our district so looking to those other districts for you know sort of inspiration or or maybe the way they do things but to look to those other districts as an example Well they suck too so we don't have to be so good she saying opposite she's saying the opposite yeah you're saying they don't look good right so she's saying they look oh they look good and then I I would prefer ours to look that way well yeah I would too so that's okay so I Mard what you said I'm sorry but still to the same point is comparing us to other groups versus what what are our kids need our kids don't need what I don't know pick other District they need what our kids need so so I think legally do we need that portion the discipline portion I think that is the most timely thing the Mia really it based on Spring to this that's already happen they're already playing so it's really not going to be until winter sports which is after Thanksgiving correct yep that's correct so so that is important but maybe not the most important thing that we need to Pro because just leg I don't know I don't know what I mean this is Mr pakar would know better but you you are not allowed by maiaa rules and regulations to have less restrictive guidelines than the MIAA and we do I mean I guess it is currently an issue is there someone that had failed you know yeah that's why I was going to ask well I don't I don't I don't I have no idea but I I know that there's this the language is such that we're less restrictive that's what I know in this um I don't know I think we can find people to help we and we'll do our best I just don't want to promise something that we may get into this into the weeds and find out that we need to update even more as we get into I just I promise that it's going to be ready because when we're talking two weeks it's not really two weeks because we have to load it in so everybody can review it right so now we're talking maybe a week and a half I just don't think we can do this well we're going to be having almost the same kind of conversation we're looking at content huge and then now we're getting into form too no we're not talking about format discipline code academic eligibility policy legally required policy yeah and I think one person needs to own it I I understand the collaborative effort but I think things something like this that's actual work work or I call it real work I mean like to sit and write a policy somebody needs to own this and then you go back to your group and say hey this is what I did can you help me with this or can you I don't know who that person is supposed to be if it's supposed to be Janelle or somebody at Danto or you know but there should be I'm try to put work on you but there should be somebody maybe it's one of again maybe I get the both assistant principles are new but maybe that's something that one of those people can own moving forward I think somebody needs to own this it needs to be their responsibility because I don't want to be a jerk but it's a little frustrating that this is what like the second or third time we're looking at it and this is not high quality work um so I mean sorry but you know some and if somebody is accountable for this then that might solve a problem yeah and I and I don't necessarily think it should be you Carol because I don't think it's your job to write the handbook for the high school you should be reviewing it but somebody else needs to own this update trying not to volunteer that yeah you not somebody else needs to don't know right but but when you're talking about high quality and so that's why I was tying the formatting it's how it looks but it's all more importantly it's the content and it's all has to be updated so if you're comfortable with the content changing we can I can't promise that in a week and a half we will do our best but I realistic J because I also want to add in right I think that we've been asked to to move forward forward some of our budgeting work um For an upcoming town meeting and that's in the same overlapping time frame to be realistic it's it we wouldn't be able to deliver on maybe drop drop the drop the policy portion and push that off because that seems like the yeah bigger piece but maybe these two glaring the code of conduct and then the Mia and we might if we can get together with if I can work with Lisa and the assistant principles and M Caro has to be involved in this as well Paul should be involved in the technology and making sure everything's accurate and there all those different elements and Janelle we can come together and and spend time looking at that working on that together but moving forward someone's job description should include Handle by the time we come to next August we'll have a completely updated yeah and accurate correct one right now we have a amended motion on the table to we approve only the discipline code and you want to change the MIAA eligibility as well can we add that to you can amend it you can amend the amendment once Amendment and add both in and then just yeah I just would want I just think Matt should speak to it Mr Mara should because this is his feel you know okay so so what about see I don't know so all right I agree with Julie he should speak through he's the expert yeah he's the expert he knows okay if anything we have in the district at any time needs to be amended updated for whatever reason change in law recognition that something's wrong it can always come back to the school committee to be done in the future yeah I think we should hear about the Mia rule next meeting we have an amended motion to approve the discipline code so that students can rege the discipline coding unless there's further discussion on that we should vote we already second right we already second so all in favor of the amended motion the amended motion the am all favor of the amended motion to approve the discipline code the updated dis code and have students knowledge that is the motion on the table that we're voting on all in favor hi post okay so new discipline code passes that can go to students to be acknowledged tomorrow at our next meeting Matt can come and speak to the Athletics portion and between now and then if any content is noticed that needs to be updated let's bring that to attention as soon as possible so we'll have time all right and uh okay so want to number two that was good but I um have motion to approve the middle school math curriculum second Jess and Julie this is one of those ones Carol where I was talking about earlier that we're going to need more information to update a curriculum so curriculum oversight by the committee seems to be a theme tonight okay so you're asking what exactly we being asked to do because what I see in the drive isn't very clear I thought the book was supposed to be at the meeting tonight it's right there but it's 20 P 7 and we on each read the book all right vote well we're here for discussion I think we need to get more information is are these already being used they're already being used she was going to say that looks familiar yeah okay so it was it was reviewed by by thee of math or right Department process so this this occurred when I was in the other position and this was two years in the making we had vendors come in we had presentations done the math department met reviewed all of that documentation then they did a year of piloting this program and um before they they said this is the one we wanted to go with so that was how it came about this should have been approved the end of last year really um to go forward this year but it was part of what we budgeted for as well to make sure that we had the right materials so and resources and I think that that speaks to this curriculum it's a proving curriculum versus approving resources that the students are using so in essence what you've been doing historically is approving the resources that we use not necessarily the curriculum so that's really so the way does it work on the agenda it says curriculum curricul right but that's the word that has been used for approving the material a new book whether it's foundations or it's like Invision or caring School Community or whatever it's been so it's a new book that goes and it would still be nice to get a little bit more information on the book but I don't know how you would do that or just even the name of the book and then we could go online and look it well you reviewed it because you were the curriculum oh so two years ago so you you looked at the book would you agree with recommendation yeah oh gosh yeah and and Sally put together information about why why it was approved by the why it met the needs of the math department when when they met just Frameworks practice opportunity scaffolding um just more updated to instruction our students essentially and I think that's what we're talking about is what we were provided to make this decision to vote on something was a little light in the information we might want in order to make that decision and I think looking at the Timeline like for doing this probably going forward again this was sort of you use the word before it's a rer stamp yeah on what we've done if if you want a more assertive aggressive way of looking at to curriculum way ahead of time and I think that the time to do that is before we move into pilot mode on these so that sounds fair I mean we've got a big curriculum coming up in the works yeah so yeah because I I think links before I think there was something we looked at last year that had links in it too to some I can recall over the last few years different changes to what's been called curriculum coming in front the school and again previous chairs I didn't see much detail then either right there was not yeah so if we're going to be putting the school is going to vote on something regardless whether it's culum or policy or a donation we need to get better at communicating and the the information that we have in order to make a decision because we don't want to be a rubber stand so all right um so there's a motion to approve this middle school math curriculum is anyone comfortable or you want more discussion anybody else have anything to say um looking at the KE policy that was brought up before um it does say that it's based on the superintendent's recommendations so um seeing that she reviewed it and was familiar with material um I think recommendation holds a lot I think it's it's not so much do you recommend it or not it's do we understand what you're recommending and why you're recommending is I think one would probably all right anybody else I I don't I don't want to hold anything up and I I kind of feel like we're between a device right now it's like you have to approve this but at the same time I don't know what I'm approving and my name is going on that for approving it and it just makes me nervous not that I don't trust you or anybody else I just I don't know what's in there other than five bullet points um which were helpful but I don't know anything I don't I don't know if they're I don't I don't know anything and so I just feel nervous saying I'm okay um and again I trust you implicitly it's just we're okaying it and we are the people that are going to people are going to be upset with if we don't know like I don't I don't know anything about that math curriculum at all you've seen it at home but I haven't I haven't seen it um I agree with you lii it's I trust Carol but at the same point in time our job is to be looking at the stuff oversight yeah and if we're just over here the book's already being used so why do we even need to vote on it just so we got the formality to check the box I mean mean that's so silly in my opinion I I would respectfully ask all of you to consider approving this we've already paid substantial amount we've gone through it to Jessica's point we reviewed I understand your point but I also feel like going forward we're happy to to meet the needs and the requirements I just feel like this was part of the again to say the way we did things but this is what we understood was expected of us as a school committee as well so we weren't asked by the school committee to do it in the way you're asking then this is what we have been doing so therefore I think it should be approved it's it's set to go it's been reviewed going forward we'll do curriculum differently so I'm just going to put that out there to you I don't know what to do yeah otherwise do we you know that's a that's a fair point you bring okay you also bring out the cost I mean if there's one thing we can actually have site over it's cost so when new curriculums do come down the road and cost is a factor yes we we'll get more information and that will give us time to do that if you're looking at it before even if we set money aside this year for for materials we might need to your point the health curriculum looking at that before we go forward and put it in the budget would be something that we should be doing and bringing it forward and we're happy to do that I just feel like to hold this I don't know what to do with that if you hold this up now you totally right though I remember when I joined the committee and that was how it was explained to me like a lot of stuff was just rubber stamping it and it wasn't until you know we've kind of formed kind of set some new norms and I think we're all learning together so I totally understand that and I appreciate it so yeah any other questions all right motions on the table so all in favor I against I'd like to obstain AB I just don't feel like I can make a decision based on what I have uh and I don't want to hurt the Four Eyes one abstain and I be an i as well so that's five and one abstain excellent thank you very much uh next up is can I have a motion for the approval of wion Lions Club donation for k k Road Race proceeds so moved really Jess this is a $500 donation uh addressed to the tono art department so there's a question real quick the art department does that include music is it simply graphic arts what does the art Department include we we reached out to the donors they in fact said for the art as in visual arts department for supplies for that part supplies for the visual arts so drawing painting okay uh so that's what that will be there anybody have any questions or discussion it's great no all right all in favor against all right that motion passes thank you uh approval of may I have a motion for the approval of stien positions for Tanto second Megan okay um s in positions anyone have any questions on these I just didn't understand the document okay yeah this is another one that I know what it says now I asked Nancy but okay no this is another one where we probably need something more more of an explainer my understanding is the total amounts are not changing but it's just being reallocated to different positions is that correct I just don't understand what club advisor to replace these're producer the school play the director the school play these are the new positions and the new amounts no exist so instead of Bravo it's gonna the producer yeah scho Global Studies exist it's not like they don't equal each other it's just confus it's they don't they don't exist and so people people are doing work right you know and not there's not a proper name for it so we're just trying to be specific in terms of you know who's doing what and what are they getting paid for yeah I just about the auditorium manager why is that on here because we voted on that in our last meeting right oh that was a note to that was a note to Nancy to put it into so we have a document that between all of the schools of our stien positions because those are contracted so I just made a note for her to put it in that because it's not there and so I can't you know I can assign it to anybody so the amount listed there is different from the amount that we voted on last time oh so yeah because she didn't update the amount of the siphons with the increase this year so the amount we voted on is an incorrect amount was it 696 I think yeah was an incorrect amount believe was 717 so is this vote approving that new amount as well or is that going to be a separate vote in the future is a vote for that as well this do okay does everybody everybody understand yeah we voted the wrong amount last time yeah correct by like 20 bucks yeah or something like that yeah can you just speak to the mentors program I see that is no longer being r no um it's it is not um I mean we want to have it run but there are no um individuals that have stepped forward to be mentors because it's a pretty hefty time commitment so um I had just you know added you know I didn't understand some of that money for the mentors is a grant funded through mentors program and then from my understanding there's a small amount that is part of our the stien budget and I was just trying to get some clarification so I knew the money I was working with you understand so it ended up being 7117 that the like the Tonda budget was adding to an acquisition I think is maybe so that's that's where I've been spending my a lot of my time with the budget stuff so there's no change in the total amount is just reallocating to different positions anybody have any final questions thoughts well there would be a change in the total because we're adding on to uh yeah there is a change in the auditorium total of it is that $21 yeah so offering to 21 bucks can do that all right all in favor all right that motion passes thank you uh on to policy votes uh so policy e may I have a motion to approve policy evcf facee coverings the draft version is in the drive the title of the version that we will discuss is draft of revised bcfa June 2023 face CS some second Julia La all right any questions on this I was curious um when the desie Mandate ended um prior to that the school committee didn't really have any power to end that mandate so I'm I'm curious by striking out local mandates the legality of it like has the lawyer been talked with with that um because you know prior to the desate being lifted the school committee could not end it so the school committee actually me to discuss ending it not too but we were because the council said you couldn't no to my memory and no no we made the decision not to go forward with it uh but we didn't mean to discuss anything yeah I remember that but so it was that that was also was that face coverings and return to school or was that just face coverings February 202 was it yeah uh which one there are so many discussions on this point remember either I think when we were talking local mandates um we were speaking I at least I know I was thinking Board of Health and things like that it's something that we would have to it's not that we wouldn't approve it is that the school committee would meet to discuss whether they wanted to burin held on to their face masks in municipal buildings longer than the February 28th um and that's kind of what drove this so I guess with the phrasing it should all federal and state mandates and local law no we took out mandates and we're going to do what the law or we're proposing we're going to do what the law requires yeah I guess I just I don't see the difference between like if you had decided to you know not go along with the Desy mandate then it was then putting in danger of the Desy funding or the state funding so I just not seeing the difference of taking out the local you know the federal state State mandate versus local mandate I mean it's the placement of the Mandate rather than the actual local if that's what you're referring to if it's the local dph I just didn't I've lost track of the name of our legal councel but I don't know if she Kim Kim thank you sorry names are not my special um so I didn't know if that has [Music] been I don't put in front of her so I think Jessica when we were talking about this um the way it used to be read is if the CDC decided tomorrow that everybody should wear a mask automatically everybody in the school will be wearing a mask and I think what we wanted to do is be able to have a conversation um before we were to just agreed to a mandate um and that's why we did local law and took out the Mandate portion of it it doesn't mean that we're not going to follow it it means that we would have a discussion to discuss if that would be we've talked about how you know in our we want to represent our schools accurately and how we're different from other schools I think it's it's an important conversation to have because we're a smaller District before we just go based on what a big entity would be saying that's at least my feeling on it true any other questions comments I I would like to suggest that we include in this policy um the requirement that we have those um those pulse oximeters in the nurses offic you do have all the connection have yes oh that's great have um I don't know if we should include that in here that people can go down if they're not feeling well wearing a mask can they go they can go down and have the nurse check their oxygen lels because there's so much pressure you know from you know people who believe in masks and you know to pressure to wear the mask and if they really feel terrible and they can't focus and they can't think then I think that they should at least have some data from the nurse you know to justify if they don't want to wear the mask because they can't like they literally can't function I think that's procedure for the policy I'm looking at Janelle because we just there there are things that are happening and not happening now in the nurses office it had been happening in the past yeah and I do think that I do think that you know any student or staff there really you know for any need regardless of mask can go down and and see the nurse I um I don't in my opinion I don't think that it needs to to go into a policy that they could have that checked um if I could offer that opinion but because that's just part of the standard practice um and I am you know I'm not a nurse but I do that's one of the first things um right that a medical professional looks at when someone's not feeling well um is that that's part of those initial I mean then if you include that then you're going to get into the numbers like what is what is you know dangerous and what's not yeah you have to be a policy on what you yeah I passing and failing at the bottom of the violation of this policy it kind of addresses your concern that no one's going to be uh no disciplinary action will be taken so I guess I was just thinking you know if we're going to enforce masks in any way or have you know have to wear them in the community that people should know but that they have the option to have the nurse CH you know and how would they even makebe think to do that because a lot of people just don't even know I think in schools though in any case regardless of his mask Co or anything else if someone's not feeling well like Janelle said nurses are very absolutely go down to the Nur they'll take care of you but it's a difference but it's a difference on what Carol said procedure versus policy this policy is strictly looking at when will masks be required if they will be required that gets more into healthare which the committee has said in the past the committee is not a healthcare body it's not going to make recommendations on healthare that's up to the individual parent to choose they have child or the adult staff memb CH I understand what you're saying um yeah the oxygen levels are a big thing putting it in a policy to Jess's point we would have to then say okay in our policy it has to say when it is this level do this that level do that that's more procedural healthare thing that the nurses probably should take care of yeah I mean under that instance like the CTC guines that if you cannot mask if you're under two or certain disabilities you can just stay home for 10 days on so so I mean there's that as well if if if you were sick if you're positive for Co specifically yeah I mean but this refers to just like asymptomatic spread probably also right I mean that's concern it would just be like everybody has to wear just in case yeah I don't know this we're just looking at the policy of what are we doing in our district regarding uh masking to be honest I think this is even a little bit dated for us even right now this I think this update's been like three months in the making because back then they were talking about possibly doing it I think that's kind of died down so good points I think like Carol said the nurses do have those tools they will they will do that for kids as J said the policy does address if someone's not feeling comfortable they're not going to be disciplined for not doing anything um one thing in your proposed policy you mentioned ventilation and so I agree with you on that account um and so there was some concerns that after the wildfires um filters should be changed um and so not necessarily relevant to this in this policy that we're talking about no but proposed addition a polarizing topic so let's keep it to I'm just talking the air fers and the buildings that they should be changed after Wildfire I think to Lisa's I think to Lisa's Point as well if if we were to change this so that people if there was a law that required that they had to wear masking that's when I think that would be something that we would want to put in there for health reason so that we're protecting everyone's [Music] Health would that be part of policy uh it already kind of is because if we are going to go down this route then the administration is required to a plan as to what we're going to be watching and doing so anybody have anything else uh okay so all in favor I opposed I'm gonna abstain okay one two abstains okay I'm an i as well so that is four eyes and two ABS thank you um c a motion to accept policy IH the proposed policy IH ma parental notification relative to sex education second Julian Lori iard any discussion on this one questions all right uh all in favor I all right all opposed all right so this policy passes as well uh that's it for uh votes uh any questions on the first readings glor kind of went over on her update no questions all right uh future agenda item proposals so uh on here is a future town hall meeting regarding the BS building that's something that we're discussing I think that October 24th meeting with the towns might cover least the initial part of this we're going to probably propose a larger group to take a bigger look into all the buildings um October the school concer still want to come in so I think a bre I can't remember right now if I've reached out to the school counselors at this point or talked to Lisa about it but Lisa L was going to come in um she did want to talk about the Epic pen the portion of the med delegation that we can get High School commission to come and talk about that um so that that opens up the doorway for field trips or day field trips and who has who's able to ad we've had that we have a policy on it already she just wants to make sure that we're all comt so comfortable with that so so that we know when we speak to the staff about so so anyway the counselors I think I reached out so we can definitely I'll check on that one and then be in I have I have a list of people coming already I just want to make sure we have the nurse medic Carl the principles are reading the reports John's doing his report on the accountability no on mcast a point on the John you probably say right but I know you love point out the highlights of the the scores which we should definitely celebrate the highlights of the scores I don't I just don't want to gloss over the low points in the scores where I think we'd really be interested in hearing what the plan is to address the low points is probably more important right so I we come in here I don't want to bombard you with surprise questions or anything but we really want to know what the plan is to fix the low points but we also would like to celebrate the high points as well me we kind of started to do that last you can recall that it was not Universal endorsement that approach um that is City talked about you know if we're not honest with ourselves then how can we grw neither of the schools are bad schools which just there are areas where we could get better no I know and uh there are some awards obv right like high rankings that the schools receed right so there good things but I think to the rubber stamp Point sure we rubber stamp the highlights like but it's what for needs to improve is what we're focused on because if you need budget items if you need policies if you need whatever if car's not doing a good job and you need to evaluate her we can address that there's nothing for us to do if everybody's achieving 90% you will the a kind of be compared because it's like two different days of testing and there two different types of test yeah you know so there's MPS which is it's a nice one day measure of work it's AR one day um and you take it with kind of a grand Sal you look for patterns over time right that was kind of where I got not into trouble but you know has had some success over the past several years well it's been not quite as much success successful but we want to keep looking at that I talked a lot about bringing the two schools into more of a alignment in terms of curriculum approach expectations I I want to just go through go ahead you go first obviously sorry it just popped into my head when you said alignment between the schools because something came to my attention speaking of the old curse of writing I have it on here oh so that's what I want to to me this is an equity issue and I don't know that you think I would think this is an equity issue but it is an equity issue if one school's getting it one school's not okay they're getting it that's great but the other school's getting something else that the curse of school's not getting so there's not Equity there do you want to have that conversation at 10 to no I don't but I she said she's got it on there so that's good I just wanted to um also I want to ask you there's a lot of talk about getting away from mcast in the state there's a lot of there's a push to do away with that cast right there's grps so if you might have something to share with us then on that too okay yeah great I just want to go over I just want to make sure we're all on board for what to anticipate for the October meeting everything another three hour meeting you got little 17 minutes and like 60 minutes so you could deal I Sally was going to do a presentation understanding Dei okay we have John and Cindy working on we're gonna talk about this tomorrow everybody but you kind of know curse of writing John and Cindy we're going to address um financial literacy and where we are with getting the new math person to teach financialy because of the requirements from the state for graduation moving forward um in the mcast report Elementary and accountability report we have John and Cindy on Mi we have M Carl the school nurse is going to be coming in to discuss we get the councel Department to as sounds good for the record I'm in favor of the cursive right I want the curs right I know I know we have Cur of writing to read historical documents you need curse of writing to read the Constitution you need writing well you know the Bible need to read Greek are we to teach the children Greek to come on you guys like some country and anybody have any other future agenda proposals to Me Maybe cell phone use in scho yeah meeting hold on that's that's a fair point last year we talked about cell phone use of schools and the principles at the time gave us a bit of an update on how they're used at the high school level is there anything we can follow up from the STA I mean I don't care you want get rid of some folks make motion care we need I I would like to go ahead Carol I was just going to say so last year at the end of the year I know that other than assistant principal had done a survey presented the survey and we discussed the survey and the results of that I think going forward my my suggestion to this would be you know we are doing what we're doing right now at Tanto I think it becomes more of a policy I see this as a policy discussion so if this is the policy that the school committee wants to create then then that's the direction we going because I think it we could go back and forth a million more surveys propose something to Lori for the polies up and also this ties in with the radio frequency stuff they talked about that in the presentation that I mentioned earlier that I'll sent to everybody um they talk about how that really amplifies all of the radiation the world all being to everybody has a cell phone and they have um some really good ideas for taking them to the classroom yeah so hopefully all right anything else oh maybe one more thing this will be really quick I just feel like this is last thing where do our kids go after they graduate I feel like we don't ever get that information like are we are we are they going to I League Schools are they going off of the job force can we get sort of I 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a moment could you call the role for the purpose of attendance please miss Fitzgerald Miss disler Mr Hayden cyrillo right now is absent miss Mama Mr taubox Mr LaMontagne hi president uh chair would appreciate a motion on the minutes of September 12th discussions all those in favor anyone opposed Mr DeStefano would you be kind enough to give us a cash balance report please sure cash balance report um actually as of August 31st uh the account balance on July 31st was three million 522 109.60 we had deposits for the month of 5 million 465 966 37 those were Assessments in chapter 70. we had transfer out to mmdt of a million five less payroll on August 3rd of 349 954.99 payroll on August 17th 487 370 86 and payroll on August 31st first of 1148 422.99 [Music] uh warrant number four on August 1st of 35 604 warrant number five on August 8th of 2 million 224 365.99 warrant number six on August 27th at 646 800.

the live stream has begun it's on now yes that is correct good evening and welcome to the Tuesday September 26 2023 meeting of the Azusa Unified School District Board of Education and study session I'm calling the meeting to order at 5 33.

um pleased to let you know that we're bringing Celine sayonlar back from another school district to work in Cliffside Celine is a Cliffside Park High School graduate former athlete in the district and we're proud that uh she's back teaching with us resolution 31 I wanted you to know that both of those transfers within that resolution are voluntary and it just happened to work out well that one teacher requested to go to the Elementary's and the other teacher requested to go to number six schools and lastly resolution 32 is what we discussed at last week's work session and I believe Dr penciliano may speak about that further during her report I'd like you now please to just jump to the policies under the first of all any questions on personnel yes I do have a question on Personnel so number 23 I'm assuming the salary adjustment is due to additional responsibilities you have a 70 year old interim and um dancing as fast as I can but yes Mr Roman Gino and I again talked about this and we knew that with me coming in here that person within the resolution is going to pick up additional responsibilities I'm asking you tonight to compensate and we're going to have significant breakage I'm sure it's Mr Roman Gino correct salary way higher than yours no that's understood um yeah I think you have about forty fifty thousand dollars that you get thank you and if I can interject the individual starters with the transition when you have Mr romantino did announce his uh retirement to the board last uh last year and took that role uh you know in full force and and just has made this transition easier as you can speak on for yourself Dr hey she's been a great asset to you 100 now she's here to present with us tonight is going to save my kudos for when she gets up to present okay thank you thank you any other questions on personnel so if you would look at policies and procedures please there are six resolutions again open lunch and have Dr pentatiana is going to address it resolution 49 I wanted you to look at and let you know that uh that's a an annual approval that we're asking you to ratify and we had two Hip allegations at the middle school in September both of them came back as non-hib or parents were notified offenders and victims were counseleds and I think everyone in the district who works who gets involved with our HIV did an outstanding job at the investigations and that concludes the report of the superintendent Dr pantaliana did you want to address I just have a couple of the volleyball program at Flipside park for many years so I was very proud and honored to see that the senior volleyball player Reina Institute has been named New Jersey athlete of the week I'm not sure that's happened to a volleyball player I think the date XO was 1985.

it's 5 30 okay with folks tonight I will always be like 10 to 15 minutes late but that's okay yeah that's okay for you guys that's true I would want to make it earlier in case certainly yeah Adam you're okay with 5 30. all right thank you all right so it looks like our next meeting I'm getting a lot of head knots everybody's in agreement will be October 24th 5 30. all right and then the last two things on our agenda the first one is the guidelines to address this committee do we want to discuss that now or do we want to wait until we have more guidelines from the governing board on what our work is going to be request but I'm personally okay with postponing it especially since it's 6 57. just throwing that out there but I do have a request you said that we can request information um I would be excited to see other districts if they have something similar to this that we could use as a comparison the only one I'm aware of is Scottsdale they have a student code of conduct um it's a pamphlet I think it's like 8 000 pages though um but Scottsdale has one I'd be curious if there were other similar districts that have something like this in place follow-up to that Scottsdale's huge right are you when you ask for similar are you looking for like similarly sized only an elementary school district me personally I since this really kind of cuts into the um Dynamic of the community I would personally like to see districts that have similar socioeconomic status a similar uh makeup of ethnicities cultures things like that if that's possible certainly um and then if this was a point of contention on a previous committee if those districts are like from another state no I mean to me it's just a data okay as long as the dad I don't know how everybody else feels but because it might be hard to find some of that here just to be honest because we are kind of doing this I don't know of other districts who've done this work on this specific topic in this state I can look for it um there might be other districts in others can I ask why somebody would be concerned if it was out of state because we do things no I'm just saying the other committee I was on people were always like wow there was comments about things not being exactly aligned like okay so and then they would say well this is invalid I'm not going to consider it because it's not exactly aligned the way I believe it should be that's a little pity okay I don't care ultimately but I think to avoid like a possible issue especially for like people who aren't part of conversation if the states in which we're getting it match like the political landscape that we have here like I don't know if yeah all Arizona families would like us to be modeling it after certain States so that would be if if we could find justifications telling me not to go back to my old employer Portland Public Schools yes okay good to know I'll take a look-see this is like the things I think are fun Brian Googling these things um okay um can I make a request just to please can we just do something where we say for the next for public comments for the next meeting that we just stick with that please email them to Hilda and then we can figure out a more formalized process in the next one is everyone good with that for now cool that works one thing I wanted to add was Adam we did like a whole bunch of rambling about those policies I'm very curious like the reason why we wanted a student on this committee is because like we believe that you're entirely capable of looking at these things and giving your opinion on them right you have to be the one that abides by all these rules right and so if you're if you're reading through the if you have sometimes like look through these policies and if things surprise you or you're like what the heck is this or that's not how that works at my school um don't worry that your principal is here but um please like just be as like don't don't be scared to speak up one and don't be afraid to like say what's on your mind that's why we want you here and that's why you're here okay I know it's easier said than done because it's a lot of adults just rambling a lot um but please whenever you feel moved to say something or you're thinking about something you know we're all ears that's why you're here because what you say is important okay yeah it's something Katie just because it wouldn't be breaking open meeting law he can talk to his principal okay okay so you too can talk okay so I was just gonna ask it would be okay if he and I sat down and I was like read this policy and tell me what you're not sure about before we come okay cool get ready buddy what did I get myself into yeah maybe there's some sort of incentive we can provide from me personally I'll figure it out Adam thank you okay I have all my to-do's I'm emailing the agenda item I'm making that document and I'm researching other districts and then you're looking at the initiatives or whoever you delegate that to anything else we missed that we're supposed to be getting for the next meeting and then our next meeting will be October 24th 5 30.

Neely has also been recognized as an A-Plus School of Excellence by the Arizona Education Foundation and in 2022 Neely was ranked eighth on the list of best elementary schools in Arizona by U.S News world and Report ladies and gentlemen your 2023 National Blue Ribbon School if we could go down everybody introduce themselves yeah Mrs Green the principal Kristen Mayfield assistant principal I'm Kristen Tierney I teach sixth grade math say your name what's your position oh I'm president of the Garden Club I'm Cassandra howdy I'm the president of Watchdog run I'm Matthew Dorney and I'm president of nihs I'm Emma Dorney and I'm president of student council I'm Lauren Schaefer and I'm student council representative of NHS I'm Ava Correa and I'm president of creative writing Club I'm Caroline manding and I'm president of ambassadors Club Heather Crandall fourth grade teacher Dawn Kane instructional coach [Music] Amanda hagermeister reading specialist Christina Bina 5th grade teacher this is just a sample of why Neely is a blue ribbon school please give them a hand would you like to say a few words come on this is your time to shine let's go the credit goes to the people that are standing here we have dedicated parents we have dedicated students and our staff is outstanding so that's where the credit goes in mid-november myself Miss green Miss Tierney by the way who I knew when she was in fifth grade when I was a teacher so that makes me feel really good I wasn't even a teacher yet Mayfield used to teach for me too when I was principal at Houston which is now nearly Traditional Academy in mid-november we get to go to Washington DC and accept the Blue Ribbon award and we're looking forward to it so very special celebration for this group of folks and I guarantee you it wasn't luck you definitely earned every piece of it so one more time for Neely thank you if you guys would shake hands with the board and then we'll stay for a picture thank you congratulations congratulations congratulations [Music] and we'll just fill in the gaps find our windows this way ever there we go one two three Traditional Academy school [Applause] well done [Music] and last but not least for our recognitions tonight um we'd like to recognize some National Merit Scholars semifinalists that we have here this evening let me read to you what this is all about over 1.3 million Juniors and about 21 000 high schools entered the 2024 National Merit Scholarship program by taking the 2022 preliminary s.a.t National Merit Scholarship qualifying test the Nationwide pool of semi-finalists representing less than one percent of U.S High School seniors includes the highest scoring entrance in each state and we have some of those folks right here in Gilbert Public Schools when I call your name please come up let me give a disclaimer if I mispronounce your name wrong please tell me and I will correct it because I never scored that high on this test just so you know from Campo Verde High School Jonathan Schaefer also from Campo but not here this evening William Stecker congratulations William from Gilbert Classical Academy Reagan Burke Nicholas Carlson Stone guyman where's Heidi come here Heidi come here say your last name for me ulrixon Heidi ulrichsen see if you don't say it you can't screw it up that's my Victoria Wang and from Gilbert High School Gabriel Lopez from Highland High School Justin Joseph foreign [Applause] and from Desert Ridge High School Aaron Levitt these are your semi-finalists we wish you the best of luck as it continues on and we really really are proud of everything that you do we know that again like Neely this isn't luck this is about dedication hard work and not just on test day this is every day leading up to that test so you're a testament to what comes out of Gilbert public schools and we truly appreciate you we're extremely proud of you congratulations once again congratulations guys how many of you went to Neely no I was like yeah you bet you tell me what you want first everybody first okay we're gonna do some different sets we're gonna do everybody first and then we're gonna split you up by school and take pictures if you guys could take a knee or if you you're wearing a dress you don't have to do that you guys do know what taking e means there you go there it is we have limited amount of space here we get creative there it is okay GCA first do you want us in with us yeah they want us there you go go ahead and get in there it's Highland High congratulations GCA pilot High if I could have somebody vertically challenged stand next to me that would be great all right this is starting to get ridiculous come on over here you go okay I can fix that don't worry well done Gilbert High School well done thank you Campo hold on I know and Desert Ridge High should I oh he wasn't here oh yes Aaron Levitt yeah he'd never make that list ladies and gentlemen your National Merit semifinalists congratulations to all of you Madam president governing board members that concludes my recognitions for this evening thank you guys for being here with us we appreciate it thank you very much [Music] thank you for that and congratulations to those who were honored and and we appreciate you and best of wishes and and all that you're doing going forward thank you Dr McCord that will now take us to the superintendent's report 4.01 Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board members I would like to introduce a few people to you first uh we have some representatives from the superintendent student Senate if Lucas ganio from Mesquite High School and Taylor Perry from GCA could please stand thank you for being here welcome it's part of their service uh on the council they they get to come to some meetings and learn about what this is all about thank you guys again appreciate it oh did he ah hello well we're gonna take another picture with you get up here come on up ladies and gentlemen this is Aaron Levitt Desert Ridge High School we appreciate you being here please give him a big hand absolutely foreign I'm glad we got to get everybody which is really nice uh another group of folks I'd like to introduce from our Aspire program these folks uh are up and coming aspiring administrators would Sarah Earhart LV Krieger and Hannah Grothe please stand welcome thank you guys for being here we know you didn't have a choice either congratulations [Music] it's tonight this is the week of the first quarter and fall break will be here in just a few days fall break runs from Monday October 2nd through Friday October 13th we hope that all the students staff and families have an enjoyable break and please know School resumes on Monday October 16th we will have three Bond and override informational meetings for our community the meeting times and locations are as follows Wednesday September 27th at 6 PM right here in the governing board room Wednesday October 18th at 6 pm at the Desert Ridge High Library and Thursday October 19th at 6 pm at the Highland High School library so if you can make it we'll be giving out factual information related to the bond and override at those times also the Gilbert Education Foundation is holding its cornhole Extravaganza this Thursday evening at 6 p.m at the whole nine yards which is located on the northwest corner of Gilbert and Guadalupe this event is to help raise funds for our students and staff in the forms of scholarships and teacher grants which will be rewarded during the 23-24 school year we appreciate all the efforts GF puts forth to help benefit our students and staff and we want to thank all the sponsors for this event Madam president that concludes my report for this evening thank you Dr McCord we will now go to our request to speak to the governing board and if we could ask for the administrative to be to please be played speak to the governing board pursuant to ARS 38-431.02.h the board may make an open call to the public during a public meeting subject to the reasonable time place and manner restrictions to allow individuals to address the public body on any issue within the jurisdiction of the public body at the conclusion of an open call to the public individual board members May respond to criticism made by those who have addressed the board may ask staff to review a matter or may ask that a matter be put on a future agenda however members of the board shall not discuss or take legal action on matters raised during an open call to the public unless the matters are properly noticed for discussion and legal action during an open call the board requests that speakers refrain from voicing complaints against School Personnel or any person connected with the district as it may impact due process rights policies Keb and Ked are provided by the board for disposition of legitimate complaints including those involving individuals forms required for the use of these policies can be obtained from the Gilbert Public Schools website thank you we have two who have requested to speak as well as we had the the one who also commented on online so we appreciate that we have Richard young who will go first you'll have three minutes and then we'll have Barbara siego Diego thank you who will then follow with three minutes thank you Richard yes uh in February I spoke about uh standards based grading at the request of a concerned parent today I'm going to talk about the same thing because of my grandson who is one of your students he didn't ask me to do it I'm doing it because I overheard him at a little family neighborhood Gathering his talking to friends of his laughing rather loudly and I heard him mention even if you'd turn in a blank sheet of paper you get a 50 percent oh well I knew what that was that standards based grading so I went over I wanted to see what students thought about this because there's a little hokey used to be you'd have to sneak in and steal the teacher's grade book to add 50 points to your grade now the teacher does it for you under standards-based grading so I asked him why do you think this is being done they astonished me they think they're all Crooks that's what they think they think you're doing it to cook the books to get more money from the state that's the impression this thing is leaving at least with some of the students and it is not a good impression uh I didn't comment on it to him I was just simply surprised and I said well do you think there's any other reason that might be involved with it one of them said Equity yes that actually is correct if you look at the literature on that that is part of it and it's basically not what Equity means in a dictionary or in law which is fairness in public schools it is exactly the opposite it means unfairness it means giving a grade that someone does not deserve and you're robbing students of failure when you do that you learn they know it in sports if you shoot at a basket you don't get a score if you miss but in school apparently you do and you learn from your failures um Thomas Edison tried 6 000 filaments before he got a filament that would work as a light bulb Elon Musk launched a rocket that blew up everybody said it's a failure he said no it isn't a figure we learned a lot and now he's doing it this is a terrible program it cheats students and if honestly if you can afford something like this which is an adjunct to student social emotional indoctrination an expensive program if the school can afford that it already has too much money way too much money and you don't need the bond I'm going to vote against the bond thank you now we'll have Barbara ciago thank you members of the board I am Barbara siego I live in the Gilbert School District my children are too old to be in the school district anymore but they all did go to school here I just wanted to talk about the bonds I have an issue with um because of the way the economy is right now I feel like parents and families need their money and I feel like we're tightening our belts and the school districts should as well I also wanted to talk about um how bonds some people think you know bonds are an investment but like they are if you're buying the bonds but if you're actually selling the bonds it's like a loan that you have to pay back with interest and who guess who has to pay back the taxpayers so I think I think it's time for school boards all in Arizona lots of them are doing bonds right now and they all need to start cutting back on their spending as well since we have to do it as well thank you thank you Barbara that will conclude our request to speak to the governing board tonight we will now move to our reports beginning with 6.01 FY 2024 monthly financial report for month ended August 31st 2023 Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board member I'll turn it over to our associate superintendent of Business Services Bonnie Betts thank you good evening governing board members president wood Dr McCord this this presentation this evening represents the activity through August 31st so it represents about six weeks of school at that point in time so um as usual we always include the district operating funds but we're also going to do a little bit on the Federal grant funds the state Grant funds and then complete our conversation about the bond fund fun fund 630 that's a carryover from the report that we made to you on the 12th of September so first looking at the maintenance operations fund which is our main fund and the general fund note that the available balance is just under 8 million dollars so we anticipate at the beginning of every school year that we're going to have to process payrolls in order to encumber all of our medical benefits throughout the entire year so Ms matinin generally does that work over Labor Day so the the update on the maintenance operations you're the data extended encumbered increased by about six million dollars over the prior month resulting in that eight million dollars so that six million dollars included about four million dollars in additional benefits encumbrance we always anticipate there will be a certain dollar amount so we put in a a paper figure to kind of hold that in reserve so we've we've eliminated that now and fully encumbered all the benefits same situation with classroom site fund as you know we do have significant amounts of salaries in classroom site fund at this point and so all of the Arizona State Retirement contributions are now fully encumbered so those are the two main changes there in addition looking at unrestricted Capital which is our fund that we do allocate out certain dollar amounts to our schools is the requests are coming in and the spend is beginning on school materials such as classroom Furniture Library materials those kinds of things and so that explains the changes in all of those your date expended encumbered uh funds so to go to and then this this of course is just describing um what I just shared the Federal grant funds this is just a reminder uh also you can see the strikeouts of the ARP idea the 100th day in-person Education Plus up Grant letting you know that those will be deleted in the future and then I wanted to share the idea Part B at the end of this meeting in the action items you do have a request to approve a fiscal year 2022 AFR revision so this is a year ago this is related to the maintenance of effort requirement by the federal government so due to a recent meeting with the Department of Ed they've agreed to allow us to um do this AFR revision to move expenditures out of idea and put them in maintenance and operations giving us an opportunity to meet the the maintenance of effort requirement we discussed the classroom site fund issue and the fact that we purposely use classroom site fund for our program 200 our special education providers and they have disallowed that but in this way it was a win-win we were able to still preserve all of the available resources we have in Gilbert Public Schools it's just now going to increase the available balance in idea moving forward and decrease the available balance in maintenance and operations just as a reminder even in maintenance and operations we do have about a 55 to 60 million dollar spend associated with our special education programs here in Gilbert the other other highlighted row here is sr3 just wanted to let you know that after the intercession work as well as summer school for the 2024 summer any remaining monies will be used to help offset the cost of the math adoption which we have begun and you will be receiving a request for Award of multiple providers at the October 12th board meeting so that's all I have on federal grants before I move on are there any questions about any of that foreign could you go back to the previous page please sure and the one before that could you uh say a few words about uh line 570 indirect costs and what those are used for yes so um indirect costs are there's a recognition in the federal grants that we are allowed to charge what we call an indirect which means that when you have nutrition services when you have our federal programs whether it's idea or title programs we have Personnel that are operating in those in those funds and we have to provide payroll to them and we have to hire them and we have to have procurement associated with all of those funds and so we are allowed to charge an indirect charge to help compensate for those expenditures thank you you bet okay um then the state Grant funds we shared this last month as well again just a reminder instructional Improvement that adapted budget is low we have received the final payment of over 1.2 million dollars which will provide the needed resources we have to continue our professional development programs here in Gilbert Public Schools so that will be a big change and then I wanted to point out fund 478 the school safety program note that it does indicate an available balance of 7.7 million We Believe two that that adopted budget is low and that will be revised and taken care of when we revise the budget in December we are expecting to come to you the first meeting in December to revise the current year fiscal 2024 budget and so that all these changes will occur then miss betz can you say those numbers again on that last one that you've pointed out yeah the fund 478 okay now you can see the available balance is a negative seven thousand okay okay so we haven't as you know we are now working on the fiscal year 2023 AFR and we will be presenting that to you the first meeting in October and um at that point in time we will know what the carryovers were in all of these funds that will be reflected then on that revised budget in December in December okay thank you you bet and then finally bond fund 630 just wanted to share this with you because uh just a couple of weeks ago we shared that the available resources remaining in fund 630 was more like seven million dollars not uh 17 million this is a reminder that all of those projects that we shared at that meeting a month ago were associated with summer projects so there's lots of money being spent in June and even more continuing to be spent for those projects in July and August and ongoing into September so much of that 17 million dollars has already been accounted for and um and so once we get everything encumbered that's supposed to be encumbered for the new year you will see that that figure will come back down to that about seven million dollar figure I just wanted to explain that because it's such a huge change but we have to close out fiscal year 2023 and then we have to open up additional purchase orders in 2024 to complete the projects that have already been started and that's the end of my report thank you Miss betz are there any questions board members sorry Miss betz can you just remind us what some of those projects were that the bond funds were spent on sure um the the larger projects included the lighting project throughout all of our high schools associated with our stadiums and parking lots mostly the safety concerns associated with our our Lighting in addition over the summer we've started projects at Mesquite High I mean at Campo Verde High that are not quite completed but to redo their Student Center their Commons area that's still outstanding we started many restroom projects that are still in process in Greenfield Junior primarily and those are being completed to date all right thank you you bet anything further seen nothing thank you very much we will now move to 6.02 teaching and learning academic Spotlight Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board members tonight I will turn this over to our assistant superintendent of teaching learning for our academic Spotlight Mr Ryan Madam president governing board Dr McCord thank you so much this is a recent addition to our board meeting agenda but has quickly become a favorite of our department it causes us to really take a deep look into a variety of programs that you all have supported over the course of time tonight we are joined by Brian winter and Stacia Cantrell from Gilbert High School they're here to talk about three specific things and and share some of the amazing results they have on their campus is coach Cannon would say who sits in our audience tonight this is publishable type work what they have done at Gilbert High School in recent years Gilbert accelerated Middle School International Baccalaureate and their AP progress have been off the charts and they're here to share with us tonight some of the work that they have been doing some of the the things you've supported including the career program the middle years program and the connection to Patterson Elementary School and all the pieces that surround that so a lot of work has gone into this and they're here to share with us tonight so Brian and Sasha thank you Mr Ryan Dr mcgord and governing board first of all Gilbert High School we certainly feel like we are a work in progress and I always tell our teachers that you know education is pretty humbling because you never really reached the Pinnacle of the profession with that being said some some hard work has gone in the last couple of years and and we are excited to be here tonight just to just to share some of those accomplishments and some of the things that we are doing I'd like to start out just mentioning that Gilbert High School you know in in a time where uh enrollment is down across the state Gilbert Public Schools is experiencing you know we're a declining enrollment District Gilbert High School has been able to maintain an enrollment of approximately 2 400 students and one of the reasons that we've been able to do that is 30 percent of our kids are open enrollment and I'd like to think that we really work hard each day to create a a safe caring inclusive environment for our students we've got teachers that are that are willing to meet kids where they are in addition to that just really unique programming I mean we have a meets lab in our Ag Department which is there's only a couple in the country we have a Metals jewelry class which is really unique and last year we added computer science and have just an All-Star teacher in there running our robotics program and computer science as you probably know is is the top degree that students are pursuing right now so we were excited to add add that in addition to that three years ago we started a campus-wide literacy initiative and we did that for a couple of reasons uh you know students had lost a lot of instructional time during covid and we wanted to focus on something that we felt could close you know close the the Gap the learning Gap and that loss of instructional time and uh thankfully coach Cannon here and his relationship with with Chris tavani who we brought out Chris tavani is a is an ex-english teacher she is a consultant and we were able to bring her out to Gilbert High School to kind of kick off the school year and and really get us focused on literacy in terms of what that was going to look like but literacy is not exclusive to just reading and writing that students do in their English classes it's it's really about being able for students to successfully engage in text in all content areas so it might be word problems in math reading music and choir or reading and understanding a warranty in our agriculture or Auto offerings literacy is the ability to read write speak and listen in a way that lets us communicate effectively and make sense of the world so again we were fortunate to bring christophani out we developed the literacy committee at Gilbert High School we had representation from every single department on our campus and um we we utilize the screener a screener to see where kids were reading at in in fast bridge to test students both at the in the fall and the spring to to be able to access their growth and at at the end of year one sixty percent of our students were reading at grade level and after our second year of the initiative we were able to make a 10 jump and get 70 percent of our students reading at grade level so this was a big accomplishment obviously and and the entire campus really rallied behind this initiative and when we started this this wasn't going to be something that we were just going to do for a period of time we were going to we are going to continue to emphasize the importance of literacy and and make it a priority on our campus moving forward so this year we we have a goal we've set one of our campus goals to move that to 75 percent of our students reading that grade level and then in addition to that we targeted one of our subgroups which is our special education students with a more focused approach this year in hopes of increasing their Lexile their reading level by two grade levels from the beginning of the year to the end of the year uh the next thing that I want to talk about is is our passing rates at Gilbert High School so we established a goal uh last year our goal was to have our core content areas math science English and social studies all have passing rates of 90 percent or above and this year we've expanded that to all of our content areas and you can't just say that you're going to um have these passing rates right this really is is a lot of work that that has gone into this with our our staff in terms of not only meeting kids where they are but giving kids multiple opportunities to show their level of understanding of of the content we have spent a lot of time with the GPS grading beliefs and practices the the various components we rolled this out last year so we continued the roll out this year but have seen some very positive gains with students and their success rates and we were proud to finish the year last year in all content areas with a passing rate of over 90 percent and so we will continue to focus on a couple of those those areas moving forward at this time I'd like to have Stacia Cantrell our assistant principal talk a little bit about IB and the growth of our accelerated middle school thank you hello one very exciting Spotlight we'd like to share with you tonight is the growth of our accelerated middle school last year in the first year of the program there were 23 students and this year we've more than doubled to 60 students students in this program are happy and thriving and it's growing like crazy early projections for next year is that we will be over a hundred students and we're so proud to announce that Gilbert High School will soon be applying for candidacy for the IB Middle years program on our campus to service those middle years the 7th and 8th graders in the accelerated middle school and as well as our students in 9th and 10th grade that are in that IB track the addition of the middle years program will provide a Continuum of IB learning for students from the primary years program at Patterson Elementary all the way up through the diploma program in the career related program at Gilbert High School this IB Continuum will provide a framework of learning that encourages students to make practical connections between their studies and the real world and really help to find the identity of the Gilbert accelerated Middle School we're excited for those students to move on up to Gilbert High when they get to high school and continue their Advanced coursework whether it be in IB or AP dual enrollment or our amazing CTE programs um one of those areas that has grown significantly over the last three years is our International Baccalaureate program in the 21 2021 school year there were 82 seats occupied in IB courses and this year we have over 464 seats in IB courses occupied by 238 students these students are choosing to take rigorous courses that help them develop a breadth of breadth and depth of knowledge and interpret that knowledge within a global context in addition to the original diploma program we also added the career related program this year which provides additional IB opportunities to students who are passionate about career related study this program is designed for students interested in pursuing a career related education that also want to challenge themselves with IB diploma program coursework during their two years in the career related program the CP they will apply their knowledge by working in the community Through Service Learning and a reflective project also learn a second language and how that language applies to their career related study students who meet the CP the career program requirements will graduate with a career related program certificate that is recognized by University's worldwide similar to the IB diploma program we're so excited for the eight students who have chosen to pursue the career related program in its first year in areas of Agriculture and computer science and cannot wait to see their service learning and their reflective projects developed over the next year even with the increase in enrollment in IB courses the number of students taking advanced placement courses AP has continued as well between 2021 and 2023 you can see the number of AP tests administered to ghs students increase from 236 to 676 and when you combine this with the 70 IB exams that were administered last spring it shows impressive growth in the amount of college-level coursework that students at Gilbert High School are earning even our students who are not enrolled in IB or AP courses at Gilbert High School are performing at higher levels than ever before our preferred science track for students is biology and then chemistry and then physics and in order to effort in an effort to better prepare them for the act as well as for college opportunities After High School the science pathway provides them with the foundations they need to be critical thinkers and have the knowledge to be successful in their future Math and Science courses the number of physics students increased by over a hundred students from the 2122 to the 2223 school year and our amazing science teachers have embraced students who may have avoided these courses in the past and supported them along the way and at the end of last year we had zero failures in physics this is a testament to the hard work that those teachers put in every day and that their belief that students can learn and succeed thank you for your time tonight and we're excited to continue to see what happens with our amazing school thank you thank you both are there any questions board members um I'd like to know a little bit about how we're supporting students through these Sciences so that they're meeting that challenge are you speaking specifically come on up to the mic to the um well you talked about biology chemistry physics and I'd just like to know how we're supporting them so that they are better able to perform at that level right there's obviously in in chemistry and physics there's uh there's a math component to that and so I think that was the biggest thing early on is is just a belief in those students coming in it's really I think it's come down to teachers the willingness to kind of break down the the components of of the math necessary to be successful in those areas I think there was really a stigma that was out there that you really needed to to accelerate in math in order to be successful in chemistry and and physics um and I and I think this this the approach of the teachers I mean it's we've talked about it on our campus and obviously there's a lot of intervention that's that's taken place for some of our struggling Learners you know we've done some turnaround classes on our campus as well for for kids that that weren't successful in in algebra one and also in our English classes just trying to set those kids up for for success but I think if if I had to say this we were just really fortunate with the the teaching staff that we were able to hire again just to meet kids and say okay this is where you're at this is where we're going to get you and kind of figure out that that plan in order for those students to be successful so just just a real full-fledged commitment from from teachers to to work with students to give them the skills to be successful in both chemistry and physics all right thank you I appreciate that yes I just had a couple questions first of all Stacia thank you for showing up in the school colors you look amazing um I just quick question where is the Gams located is it is it Gilbert High School so we've got seventh and 8th graders on campus at the high school yeah our our accelerated middle school students um they they are in classrooms at Gilbert High School so they start um in English in the morning and then they travel to their other classes throughout the day and then they they end kind of in the same location but yeah so are they all together are they mixing with the high school students so they have their own classes for for English and science and social studies math there's a little bit of overlap depending on what level they're in for example we have like five students in honors geometry so they're seated in a high school class and then there's also co-seeding in the IB Spanish uh prep IB Spanish one prep class and the Japanese class okay and are these students coming from all over the district do we have any that are coming from out of District yes we have a lot of students that are coming from out of District or from Charter Schools or maybe we're in the district at one point and left and have come back okay thank you you guys are doing wonderful work over there it's it's amazing to hear all the accomplishments you guys have achieved over there thank you thank you thank you anything further well thank you Mr winter and Mrs Cantrell for coming tonight and for sharing some of those initiatives and success that we've seen and especially for the way that you care about students provide so many opportunities for each of them to succeed and to thank you to your faculty and staff and all the adults working there at Gilbert height for commitment to this these these opportunities for our students thank you [Applause] I think that concludes our reports then thank you very much we will now move to our consent agenda but I would like to actually remove off of 7.13 staff travel number three and number four um is that specific enough for everybody okay so that will that will not be considered as part of the consent agenda it won't be considered at all tonight it's just taken off yeah so board members is there emotion I moved that we approved the consent agenda with the exceptions noted by the president thank you it's been moved is there second thank you Miss Humphries for the motion and thank you Mr Thompson for the second board members all those in favor of approving the consent agenda items with the amendment that had been made please vote by saying aye aye and any approved with knee thank you that passes 5-0 that will now take us to the action items and we'll begin with 8.01 revision to FY 2022 annual financial report Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board members as Miss betz stated earlier in her report this was coming along and she will take a few minutes to explain to you what this is all about first I really wanted to acknowledge Ms Jackie matinin the Director of Finance as well as her new budget manager Miss Lauren torska so both of them I walked back into the office Tuesday Morning a week ago and said okay we're doing an AFR revision from over a year ago even though they're actively working on the 2023 AFR however both of them went at it keep in mind that Lauren is brand new into school finance and has done a yeoman's effort of learning this very quickly so I just wanted to acknowledge the two of them in making this happen so very quickly so up on the screen this is the main page page eight of nine that reflects what Ade has historically used to verify idea maintenance of effort so you can see the highlighted boxes so in the original AFR under that total total of all disability classifications where you can see the 48.9 million um the original document showed that is 48.3 million so it's an increase of six hundred thousand dollars everything else stayed the same the remaining three hundred thousand dollars is associated with unrestricted capital and those are reflected elsewhere those expenditures are reflected elsewhere and again as I said earlier this will decrease maintenance and operations by that six hundred thousand dollars decrease the carryover going into 2023 not going as well as 2024.

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00 so our salary range will now be 45 000 to 71 300. uh which is uh about a five thousand dollar increase uh in salaries salary amounts um on that scale so the lowest a person would be making going into this year is forty five thousand everybody else in the uh schedule will get a two thousand dollar increase along with that uh there is a 700 increase to health insurance uh benefits and that's to help cover some of the increase in health insurance premiums over the last couple years we also increased our retirement match contribution from a 2.25 percent increase or excuse me uh match to a three percent patch we also had some ECA adjustments as far as increases in our coaches pay and some of our academic uh stipends and then there were some language changes in relation to mileage and bereavement all said and done this will be an addition of 655 thousand dollars of new money uh teachers hands and so I do want to thank Mr Bowman as far as being the representative of the board Dr for all the work that he's done and also the the MSD of Walbridge County Education Association member the negotiating team which was uh Matt Denney also Shelley Myers and also Ryan sincroft so I just want to thank them we've done very well the last several years being able to work together like Dr said we had two meetings some people dragged this on for a long long time so just really appreciate all the work that has been done to be able to end up with the starting salary from 40 000 last year to 45 000 this year and then top of the scale with the master's degree of 71 300 so and also the other things with the like Dr Community already said but just reiterate that again with the retirement benefit from the 2.25 to 3 percent again also the insurance increase and all the ECA increases also so I appreciate the teachers ratifying this is just another step in the whole process this is again just a meeting to discuss it and then we will ask that you ratify it officially on October 10th it was a pleasure sitting in on the discussions because there's such a spirit of cooperation we're really fortunate we have the teachers that we have their belief in MSD yeah that's great all right so recommendation to approve the overnight field trip with Salford Elementary fourth grade Camp compensate that'll be the second third of November you can approved that so all in favor say aye all right also under foreign policy to save you by the second reading and we will vote on board policy 4230 which is the restraints and gender restraint and really the only thing that we change at one time there was a blank as far as when we were to notify uh parents and guardians of a physical restraint or an isolate time out with a student and we added that not added that we just put it in there because there's nothing there to 24 hours so that we will communicate just to parents within 24 hours so I ask that you approve this policy all in favor of approval say aye aye there's no opposition that passes all right thank you uh public comments this evening before it close yeah I'm trying Chris you learn man any items for the boys sorry

warrant number seven on August 29th at 509.91 and warrant number eight August 31st of seven thousand leaves us with a book balance at the end of the August of 277 000 oh forty seven twenty three the corresponding bank balance of three million 362 726.91 in our mmdt account we started with eight million three forty one oh twenty nine ninety two uh year-to-date interest um was fourth 437 854 81 on a total of eight million 778 80 884.73 and the transfer from the Eastern operating account of 1.5 uh monthly interest of forty seven one thirty four forty nine leaves us with a mmdt balance of 10 million 326.019 22 and a total operating cash balance of 12 million 403.066.45 jail accept the motion discussion all of the favor in order pose uh he hand down to the Consolidated cash Reconciliation Report revolving fund report and budget report any questions on any of those documents okay budget calendar uh Ms Martel will update the district committee on the fiscal year 225 budget calendar so you have the 25 fiscal year 25 budget calendar in front of you I made a few changes to the process this year if you look at the calendar most of the work for budget process happens in October and November last year I felt like we didn't have a lot of discussion time around budget so hopefully this calendar kind of builds that in for the district committee I'm hoping to have an update on the budget on December 20th these are like the three things that the district committee should note superintendent will come and just give a quick update on what our budget status is and what the priorities are um in January I'll come and I'll do our full budget presentation to the district committee we'll have time for discussion after that we'll get the governor's numbers hopefully on January 24th and as soon as I get those I'm planning the next day to send the assessments to the member town so they can have the numbers to put into their budgets I'll incorporate any changes from our conversations any updates from the governor's numbers I'll have everything put in the budget book which I'll bring on February 13th and at that point we can vote the final budget you agree with those uh those dates this time the chill except emotion to accept the calendar as presented we have a discussion all those in favor and you want to pause thank you very much budget transfers Ms Martel please yep um so I've included all the budget transfers that I've been working on to get everything sorted out for the beginning of the school year these reports that you have in front of you there's ton of them I'd like to just kind of start including these reports they're straight out of the system these are the budget journal entries that I book um so if you I don't unless you want me to I'm not going to go through every single one because they're kind of self-explanatory but if you look at the top it gives a description of what I've done so the first one is just to correct an account number and as you go through you can see specifically what it's for some of them are just taking the budget that we had left over and positions that we didn't hire and reallocating it to positions that we did hire we had a lot of Staffing changes this year so I had to take overages and some positions and move them where we didn't have enough budgeted in others but going forward I'll just start to include these just like the budget report and the revolving account balances so if you have questions on them I can answer them but I think that this is good to keep us transparent and just so you have all the information of what's going on Mrs Fitzgerald I just want to make a very positive comment by putting the memo at the top for the purpose of what is happening with the transfer um it as you said it kind of says it all and rather than just getting a sheet with all of the budget numbers and where it went this is the purpose of it so I'd be happy if you presented it like this forever joyla you have a microphone please this is very helpful um I do have a question even though I see a little different I didn't see that before I see two transfer for Early Child director at least our instructions and one is so what's the difference um are they it looked like they are going from the same account to the same account but the two different transactions so if you if you look at the long account code um like the three digit the two four seven and the 220 we created it's a department number so we just we changed the department number so I just corrected the account number okay okay thank you anybody else have the motion for the budget transfers discussion all those in favor and you want to post thank you very much Miss martial uh donations uh two two two tool boxes an engine crane floor jack and various hand tools donated by Ms Barbara Voss of end of a mass so you know articles here no public participation and uh October calendar is in your packet any questions on that any comments on it John the admission policy please documents that represented the entire admissions policy with some new changes that were looking to implement uh going with the next uh into this year's policies for admissions practices for admissions this year oh I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry the changes to the policy are highlighted in red for you to and I'll I'll read through those every the rest of the policy is consistent with the policy that was approved last year so I would need the committee to uh vote on the changes that have been that are being uh presented before you this evening I'll start off with the first one which is on page two of twelve that's highlighted in red and it states non-residence applicants must submit a non-resident student tuition application to their home school district by April 1st a non-resident applicant must be accepted by jlts in the ascending District must approve the application for tuition in order to attend glts so this is uh required to be in our policy it's a state policy uh regulation and we didn't have it in our policy so we're just adding it even though we typically don't accept non-residence applicants every year it's unusual but there could be a case brought before you at some point so it needed to be in our policy um the next change is in under home school students just give me one second this is Fitzgerald yes if if I heard what you said about it being a state regulation but if we are a non -choice School different different this is different than non-choice different than choice okay so we just have to have it in there even though we don't accept students from we do other districts yes okay thank you uh on the homeschool students uh there was we just added a couple sentence in there to give Clarity on um understanding there that they've completed the eighth grade up to the eighth grade level of work so it states a letter from the local superintendent attesting to the successful completion of grade level standards as evident by the students work completed in addition verification of successful completion of the school year and promotion to the next grade level may be requested additionally homeschool students will be required to participate in an interview process if formal attendance and discipline records and or school-based recommendations are unavailable the next change is found on uh any questions on that particular the local super nintendent means wherever they finish their where they're coming from yes yeah um on page five of 12 for applicants for grade nine fault Mission the application should be submitted either electronically or paper copied by the priority admissions deadline of February 1st to change applications for grade 9 will be accepted no later than June 1st for fall admissions the only exception to this deadline will be those covered under the McKinney vento homeless education policy or other extenuating circumstances if approved by the superintendent so you can see it's a major change from our past where we had open enrollment right up until the opening of school we've moved it to June 1st um because the committee has had concerns in the past taking late applicants and bumping out students who are already on the wait list we we believe it's a fair process for those students who are applying at an earlier date and also it's very difficult to manage students trying to apply in the uh in the summer and has an impact on trying to prepare the opening of school for not only a placement of student in particular programs but as well as trying to do scheduling for many late students when we do accept very late students so we believe this so is a more Equitable process by doing it in this way good any questions uh Vivian I don't know if I'm speaking too early on this but um John and I feel like I've always brought it up in terms of like the deadlines and like even now with these changes I I feel like it it further highlights certain confusions that I have and then parents may have um because in one token we're saying that the deadline is February 1st but then um on the other hand we're saying but if the application is submitted before June 1st it's like I don't see the difference when an application is submitted before you after February but before June it's still holding the same regard right well oh wait if you apply by February 1st then those are the applicants that we're going to review first and uh get back and give notice to those students who are accepted and you're more likely to be accepted if you're doing it by by February 1st there may be minimal space left by uh if you wait to after um February 1st to turn in your application you salsa you don't did you have a question sorry well a question on the SE earned so when is admission deadline February 1st remind me when are we sending the asset the accepted letters typically we accept we start sending them out in March towards some middle to end of March early April yeah so is this saying that after June first no more applications are coming in exactly we're not accepting any more applications that coming school year yes yep continue John please uh number two uh on 512 uh it is the responsibility of local school guidance counselors or principals designee to upload all required documents and complete all required parts of the application as soon as possible after the notification that a student has applied so that's a change we're trying to get um as much information about the students who who have applied as early as possible in order to start the process earlier and and that we were able to accept students early if we have if we have all the information we need sooner than having to wait often we have to wait for information in order to make uh and it can hold back the application process of so the next the next policy references uh application for grade 10 or 11 applications for oh wait a minute this is the late applications applications for grade nine received after February 1st but prior to June 1st deadline we'll be evaluated during this be evaluated using the same criteria as other applications so regardless of when it's you turn in your application we use the same grading policy protocols and procedures for acceptance thank you um nine on page 9 12 reviews and appeals upon receipt of the required documentation the director will schedule a hearing with parents Guardians and students and will send a decision in writing within 30 days if an appeal is denied the applicant parents Guardians can pursue a final appeal with the principal following the same procedure that for those students who appeal being denied oh sure so if a student is denied and requests requests a review or an appeal um it states that upon the receipt of the required documentation the director will schedule a hearing with the parent guardian and student and will send a decision within writing uh within 30 days so once you've made the request and we get all the documentation necessary for the appeal um the director will notify the uh the parent or Guardian within 30 days all set no okay continue John please and that's it this time the chair will accept a motion to the changes in the uh admission policy as presented by the superintendent discussion all those in favor anyone opposed okay John moving on superintendent will update the district committee on purchasing of the Elks so over the last couple of years we have looked at um and talking about whether to uh do an after dark program during the day and in order for that to be possible we would need to have another uh building which we've been looking at purchasing or hoping to at some point be able to purchase the Elks we've been uh can have been considered by a couple of Foundations to help fund that uh and I've spoken to two different Foundations at this point uh and I would say that it would be a lengthy process many year process if we were to try to pursue it that way so it's not on not inconceivable that we could get partial funding if we were to try to purchase it so at this if the committee would um consider another Avenue which would uh require us to possibly go for a bond or seek other Alternatives I would like to look at having conversations with our state legislators with our City municipal Leaders with our superintendents to see if there's an interest in supporting some kind of a bond and then sue the idea of a possibly a breakfast where we could bring everybody in and give them articulate more what that really would look like if you're interested if you're if you're truly interested in starting a after dark program during the day which we would service about 600 students let me explain just a little bit what that would look like so an after dark programs during the day would mean uh yeah so it's it's a program that would be designed similar to our after dark program where you we would take in 11th and 12th graders um so uh we would take in our sending high school students 11th graders in the morning for three hours from the high school to the Elks and give them uh three hours of training every day and over a period of two years they would get 900 hours of vocational training which is the minimum required to receive a vocational certificate and then in the app they would be bus back to the high school for their academics and then in the afternoon we bring in 12th graders and give them training and then in the morning they would go to their regular high school so it's a similar to the after dark program only we'd be doing it during the day which has advantages in that students could continue to do after school activities like sports and clubs and and things of that nature um so if the committee were interested in um pursuing the idea I would do more work with our communities and seeing if interest is there and helping fund purchase of the building and then we would uh for any of the renovation work that we would seek mspa funding um to do the amount of renovation so it would be the idea would be to start approximately 10 Technical vocational technical programs we would Target we would try to Target some programs that we do do not have a jlts and expanding some of the programs we do have that have a high need for employment skilled labor so at this point here I would just like to get some sense some feedback from the committee if they like the idea uh and if they like the idea to for me to pursue it more I would do that or would you like me to give you a more in-depth presentation about the idea Vivian um your mic please about this I wanted to understand how would the daytime program work um in terms of like how would it affect their um their academic work with the their school do they have to stay afterwards to make up for that work um the programs I was gonna ask if we were offering uh the same programs that we're offering in in the after dark but you said 10 so that means we're adding additional programs how how do you make the determination as to what programs you're planning on offering yeah and um so yeah let me let me allow you to speak go ahead John so um the way it would work it right now right now students who are in the after dark Program start school later then the regular students so they're not putting in the same amount of hours at the high school so it'd be putting similar hours that they do now for the after dark program only um so that in lieu of electives or in lieu of some other programs they would still get their core subjects at the high school English math signs the ones required by the state in order to get their uh high school credits the rest of their credits would come from their vocational programs they would graduate with the same amount of credits only half their hours would be spent in a vocational program so they would still receive a high school diploma as well as a vocational certificate and um so that it's similar in terms of the hours that they they do now and the um the heights I've had conversations with a couple of superintendents already about the idea Lawrence certainly loves the idea and seats a lot of benefits to their students at their High School uh it's I've spoken to the commissioner about it his he thinks he believes that if the um he likes the idea but he thinks it really we'd have to have a real commitment from our sending superintendents and high communities to make something like that work plus we'd have to have a lot of meetings and other uh make other f have other opportunities to meet with the Department of Ed and possibly the Board of Education because the funding would be have to be more uh increased from what we get for after dark now because you're basically operating another school and uh so yeah so there's it'd be like a satellite school but definitely more cost involved in order to operate run such a system but it offers great opportunities for a lot more students who don't go on to college now so I'm uh does greater Lawrence went up go down that road path would be very different and unusual but just another way of of uh offering more seats providing more access since there's such a great need for more access that we're not be that we're not able to provide this is just possibly another way of providing more access uh well right now uh what we certainly look at programs that are in the after dark now we wouldn't have to do the after-school one we've moved some of those programs into the into the uh to the Elks and then we would add such that we could add programs such as masonry we could add programs such as a labor Craftsman some medical Pathways that we don't offer now like pharmaceutical some um oh other areas in the construction industry that we don't offer now different Pathways Pipe Fitters so there are other skilled labor Pathways where there's good demand low voltage which we offer now but we could offer specifically in a in a setting like that so that would be some of the things to look at and consider so Mr Hayden avoid three hours a day the best they can get is a two-year vocational certificate am I right it gets uh 180 it gets three times 90 is 270 300 600 gets uh I think it's 7 hours 700 hours any whatever the minimum we would get them in enough minimum time to get the certificate I try to remember if it's 700 hours or 900 hours we would they would have to get the amount of hours required so it may be three and a half hours a day they'd have to go so but that still wouldn't get him a four-year certificate not a four year it would be it would be strictly by hours yeah and I can see the problem with the sending schools not wanting to give up to students three hours a day even though you're saying they get all their Core Curriculum done I can see that being uh stumbling block for us well it's actually a benefit for them because they don't lose any funding they still get funded under Chapter 70 for those students so the their school's on lose a penny but then they their students get the opportunity for some to develop some skills and um it's a real benefit to the school also because they'll need less academic teachers because some of those those students are going to be coming to a vocational school and not have to put in that until you think hour for hour they're going to need less teachers in their system but they're going to get the same amount of money uh for this for their students that's the way after dark works now the schools do not lose any money the Lawrence or any of the other schools don't lose any money or they wouldn't want to send the students so it's a program that the schools wouldn't lose funding oh Mrs Fitzgerald well yes I have about 6 000 things flying around in my brain right now but I'm gonna keep it down to a few here um the first thing is um how active is the Elks right now in looking to sell their property so I've spoken to the Elks a couple times they'd be willing to sell their property for the right price if we were willing to help them find another location okay that answers question number one question number two and uh if Going Back In My Memory Bank a long time ago when Emerson when they sold all of that property other than the actual land the Elks and parking lot is on um when they sold it to Emerson College and then MSN College backed out and I believe the city took over all that land so in the arrangement of all of that does the city have the opportunity for first refusal in purchasing that and I'm asking that because it's a very real possibility because of the deals that were made at the time with Emerson and everything and then them backing out um so you answered my question about who have you actually met with um I don't know whether you would mentioned this before and I forgot about it the I feel a little bit like if you're asking us to take a boat here tonight you're asking us to put the cart before the horse it smells a little bit to me like a charter school and I would be vehemently opposed to uh Charter School type of operation and I know Department of Ed is pushing that so I just feel that there are so many Avenues do they have a realtor for status I mean is that how active they are and looking or are they just looking for us to do their work for them so okay I'll stop so the city well the city is aware that we are actually looking at this because I have spoken with the mayor and he's actually well here's here's a rub with that a little bit is there is other interests in uh Corporation purchasing the Elks so the city's torn between well do we want them for an educational ins uh institution or do we want to for jobs and tax dollars so there's a little bit of that that's to be so you know um until the ability to actually make the offers there we won't know so we may be this may never happen but I don't want to continue to work towards something that the committee has known I'm not asking you to vote nay or yay I really want to get a sense or a feeling for in this conversation more of a conversation to understand where you where you sit on the idea and you don't have to do it now we can think about it and talk again again more before I start to bring Representatives other peoples into the picture I would certainly do a lot more work and research but I don't want to do any more work towards this until I know where the committee sits on it because if if the committee doesn't like the idea I certainly would not pursue it Mr tabox yla the idea sounds very promising in terms of um get acquired more um real estate because we actually need more real estate to expand so my question and that will be after all the questions are answered in terms of whether we can purchase the um the elves um what's the difference between doing an after-school program or a day school program or just us after having that purchase real estate adding more shops and more academics for our own youths I think the big difference between day and night is that you'd have way more I believe you'd have way more students interested students don't want to give up after school activities in order to pursue something um here at glts and so that makes it really difficult for students who want to to want to to pursue a program like that and I think that um they in terms of the difference in terms of GLT it would be a school that would still be part of glts there would be a an Annex there it's not I don't believe it's it has um I mean some people think greater line technical school is similar to a charter school and the way we operate and this is would have some different flavors to it than we have now but it would not be a charter school would be under our would be under your uh governance so the school committee would still be this school committee that would be governing that that uh school and and the way it operates it doesn't operate is still under the uh governing body of glts which is our glts school committee so that wouldn't change no I'm just I'm just I know you answered her question do you answer my question I don't oh wait a minute well did I miss one of your program like if there's a difference my question is if we like I said if everything else is answered and we are able to acquire the IELTS and instead of going for it and uh extra after after that program can we expand our jobs can we expand to use it for our own programs yeah so just yeah I think I understand so you're saying can we just expand great along technical school as it is and offer the academic programs and because now we'd have more space yes I understand yeah there you could certainly if we wanted to um expand and continue to offer academic programming and all that yeah I mean we could certainly look at that as another way of doing it um it would be more costly to service more kids than it is doing it this way this way is less costly and the advantage to this too is the our sending communities high schools could maintain theirs some of their students and kids would like to continue at their own high school and still have this opportunity just another uh I don't think the vocational World in Massachusetts would love the idea so so my and someone I had spoken to someone about it before and why would I want to do this the reason I want to do it is so that we can help more kids get skills it's about the kids not about the adults no I'm glad you tapped into um the the reasoning why um having this building uh be more of a service to students that are in other schools as opposed to admitting more of uh you know admitting students because we've had challenges um in not being able to accept every student that wants to be a Reggie um so thank you for clarifying because I was trying to like struggle as to why um when Marilyn said she she didn't want this to be like a charter school my mind went to the fact that I saw this more of uh like one of our campuses but I thought that this was like ow you know it's it's our building where we're able to service more of our students by expanding our shops and creating uh you know admitting more students uh especially to those uh top shops where we're not able to give every student their top pick um so um thank you for clarifying John um so I guess my question is um do you have to in order to purchase this building and and I'm for it by the way as long as we I'm for it regardless if we're doing it to Service uh students from Lawrence High um Andover um I think it's a great opportunity to continue to help even though they weren't able to be admitted to the school uh on a full-time basis but um in order to make this project happen do you have to have to make a decision on whether it's solely uh a program where they're coming for the day and then some are coming in the afternoon or are you able to have like a mixed use of the building in terms of like I'm not sure if you're understanding makes use in the sense of like a portion of the building would be to serve to do that specific program and then a certain portion of uh the building would be used to expand our current shops and um that we currently have yeah um I think that would be a challenge to do that because of the academic programs and the connections and um we I I think um no I don't think that would work well because now we'd be trying to manage day Pro regular programs in another building in another facility as well as trying to manage another type of uh Paradigm of uh teaching vocational would be a real challenge okay confusing for kids as well they would not connect I don't think they connect with each other as well how many total students you said you would be able to serve if this well we would Target about 300 in the morning 300 in the afternoon all right I'm all set thank you Mr tab box John could because the hours are cut by half or two you know the numbers of hours in the in the setting is different um would you select technical skills that are unique for that you know a short period of time so those these graduates could get a job in that area possibly yeah okay so you I mean I would probably be targeting programs where I don't have to bring in big equipment and heavy you know less costly equipment but still offer opportunities and Pathways that would prepare them for some real skills that could be crossover skills to some of what we teach also uh you know it could be a path when I talk about medical uh programs when you talk about pharmaceuticals uh it's a pathway off some vocational schools are offering Pharmaceuticals as a pathway so that's something we don't offer that we could offer that doesn't take a whole lot of equipment but you can get a partnership with a CVS or one of the other pharmaceutical companies that would help fund it and put it together because they have done that in other schools so those are the kinds of things I would be seeking to get some support from industry as well to see where where the real needs and and the programs you pick have to meet the Northeast uh blueprint Target for where the job market is so the department is not going to approve programs that don't meet that Target because we're not going to train and not have jobs for kids I used to hate him one more time Mr Lavoy again this is not a full certificate it's by ours so the kids that we graduate will only have equivalent to a two-year vocational certificate I'm not sure why would we want to pay for another building and land why do we want to pay to renovate that building why we want to pay for the extra teachers and the administration not to mention the nurse the cafeteria the safety officer this is a big endeavor for what I'm calling a two-year certificate I'd rather see I'd rather see that time and effort brought back into this building it's not big enough well some of the services that we offer here you wouldn't be offering there in terms of your um guidance Department would come from the sending High School some of their special ed services some of the services that uh we wouldn't have to offer we'd be more a skilled training center and not offer a lot of the other services that you would up we would still have to offer some support for Yale students so which we do with our after dark program anyways and special ed students to make sure they get the support they need to be successful in their vocational programs um but the cafeteria they could have it could be scheduled around lunch so they're not having Cafe until they don't have lunch at at the training center um so that may be may not be necessary I mean the cost will be different also some of the um um Personnel you could have crossed over to some degree as we do with the after dark program now where we have some administrators so we have um part-time people are working part-time hours to cover the administrative work but it definitely would be much more costly than a after dark program would be but it comes down to if the department of Ed is looking for alternative ways to provide more access it's an it's an idea and an alternative way to provide more access uh for less money than it would cost to try to put a major addition on our building and expand you know and that would have a huge I think trying to expand much bigger than we are now we'll start to impact our climate we always see some change in our school culture and climate it's been very still very positive and it's been really really good you know but I don't know how much larger we can get and really it's not uh see more struggles in terms of trying to meet the needs of all our kids Mrs Fitzgerald well I want to start by commending the superintendent for never letting his brain rest there's no end to the things you're able to think of when you're supposed to be on vacation or resting or whatever else but we are up to just about 1800 students now I believe and when you came on the property I think we were maybe at 1300 12 1300 so we have seen phenomenal growth and I know that you want to service more kids but I think that in the past two years with the expansion of our new vocational technical areas um with the many new people that are in our fold in terms of family teachers students that um we haven't really had a time to catch our breath and see if we are right where we want to be and you just said that things are starting to be taxed a little bit so while that property is really close to us and it's really a big piece of property and it is worth looking into I think that it there's just so many questions starting with what are they looking for and I think the most important one that I asked earlier is to find out if the City of Lawrence has first refusal on that and I have a feeling that it might have been written up that way when everything was done but anyway um you know I I commend you for thinking so for opening up your funnel so wide so that Lots comes in there but I think our first obligation is to take care of the students that are here right now like I said I don't think there's any question that we are taking care of the students that are here right now uh John I'm going to ask this uh for a vote just to move on just to have you move on because it doesn't sound like if it doesn't go through don't waste don't spend there spin your wheel so at this time huh he's going to make he's going to make a recommendation okay that we move for I have no idea no idea you want him not to move forward on it so okay yeah I guess yeah I I want to put it out for discussion because uh I want to get what's in my head out there to see get feedback on your own thinking okay you don't have any idea exactly how everybody feels no but I I feel I feel like people have been able to express a little bit what they're thinking but I definitely know you need a lot more information or more I don't see I don't feel like you're saying oh this is a bad thing thing it could be a good thing but again as Marilyn says not at the expense of our existing programs in our school of course not yeah right no um no not at this time you know but just he's got the feeling of everybody if he wishes to move forward I mean I think we should vote on it give them whether or not we want him to investigate further not even move forward to do it but just to investigate further uh you know rather than to uh rather than to just take and have him spin his wheels if he has a 5-2 vote here against you know but if that's not the wish of the committee it's not the wish of the committee more questions well the way Leo phrase it's probably pretty good to investigate further and bring back more information not to buy it let's just start hiring teachers you know just to investigate I mean it's a we had 1400 students apply to this place last whenever and we took 470 or 450 all right there's a thousand people out there that want some vocational education okay uh we cannot fit them in this building it's physically impossible chances of us getting probably 190 to 210 million dollars to build another building out back it's probably going to be the cold day somewhere okay so um I just think it's a good way to offer and I I think the communities will go with us because they won't be losing funding we've had we've had that problem before trying to do this where the communities lost count lost numbers and it meant dollars to them if that doesn't mean any dollars enough it's going to be a win-win-win situation for us for the communities and for the kids that we're going to service I know they're probably just getting a two-year certificate but let me tell you a two-year certificate if employers out there will be happy to take somebody that has two years worth of formal education they will be happy if they don't because right now kids that come out they're expected to when I hire somebody and I've hired children I've hired students for the vote I'm expected to teach them and I expect that that I'm going to teach them Vocational School only teaches them so much so I think two years is better than nothing and that's a I mean if we can service another 600 students and give them a vocational education in whichever way in whichever Department because I know we can't do all 21 22 departments we have here I just think it's a win-win situation if uh if we can I mean I'd love to build a building out back and take another thousand kids but I just don't think that's feasible myself personally you know it costs a couple hundred million dollars to do but but so if you don't want to vote on it I'll have the superintendent get back to us um with some Direction that just uh anything further on it okay moving on then uh Craftsman labor program um I just wanted to get committee a heads up we are looking at um is this a program that we should pursue because we will have once we finish up everything we're doing this year a barn that will be a actual learning space we can put it in there but I would not again I'm I wanted you to know we're looking at it we're going to put in uh Department of Ed uh possible seeking of the program but we're not ready to totally commit to it we're just doing a feasibility study right now because I you might hear that we're doing that and I don't want you to say what's he doing now uh I want you to know that that we're looking at it and I've already scheduled a meeting with the business agent or looking to schedule a meeting with I've called them a couple times uh a meeting with the laborers uh Union business agent to talk about because they would be they would absolutely have to be a partner in this in order to ensure that there are good job opportunities for the kids because laborers are mostly employed in in the union more so than in non-open shops there are some open shop opportunities but mostly Union shop open opportunities so we want to see what the demand is under the department of vet Fields is a big demand because they're now promoting this program so I thought it's important to take a look at it and see if and it seems like the kind of work our students would love we tend to find these are lately our construction programs are in big demand are are the most popular programs in the school so it I thought it was worth pursuing so I want you to know I was doing that and here for me not from somebody else any questions for the superintendent little reggies so you just have some information in your packet about how the opening of the uh Child Care Center has gone this year has gone very well we have quite a few students that are already we have 26 students enrolled in the program which is more than we had expected I think if you see the kids you can see why parents who work here would want their kids to be part of the program the kids seem to really love it here and the space is great and if you see some of the pictures you can see it's pretty pretty awesome seeing them around the school it gives a helps the culture of the school a little bit seeing young people around so I thought you might enjoy seeing some of the John getting some feedback on it when they sign up for the little registers it required they come here as Freshmen yes that is uh that's the new rule that's the new rule that's a new rule yeah okay good yeah and unless they cry too much oh okay any questions do they have the essentials for the picture or do they just wear them every time they're here they only wear them once in a while for special events especially like future time yeah yeah I love them anything further that's it okay uh principal's report please good evening um just a few things to update you on this month we've had a busy week last week we had both back to school night for our caregivers and families and we had our school-wide summer reading day last Friday and I also want to share our data and mcasen accountability with you so for back to school night we this is our second year we did it a little different last year as a first year and we stuck with that this family and caregivers follow the student's schedule and we have an amended bell schedule so they have a very quick um quick turnaround to get to visit each classroom and shop and have a brief presentation and Q a with the teachers it's really great to see the the teacher the family caregivers get the experience of running around the building getting lost like their students do but it's you know for a while we didn't do it this way but we found it to be more effective and it's great because all family caregivers get to meet with each class as well as the shop we it was well attended our new parking lot although it wasn't paved and it was paved but not lined yet was full we had a great crowd we did try a new schedule we learned from last year last year we tried to have two like an orange week and a black week schedule and it was a little confusing for people so this year we just had one schedule and that seemed to work a little bit better we had our Reggie leaders all over the building and they were helpful in directing and supporting we already we already surveyed our staff and we got a response rate of about 52 teachers that said overall they felt like it was a night that where they could connect with caregivers and it was timely and benefit beneficial information we moved this night it used to be mid-october and moving it to earlier in the year seemed to work well so far so we've already gotten some feedback on how to adjust for next year but it was a great day and a great turnout um summer reading was Friday summer reading also was a school-wide event and it was great to just stop everything and read um we had our students discuss their summer reading books in their career areas or their academic areas and at the end they all participated in a Jeopardy game which students and staff really enjoyed each grade level had their own book selection list and each grade had six different selections to pick one we try to make sure that all genres are represented and there's multiple ways to access the books including audio digital or actual books which are my favorite one of the ways that we we supplemented the program this year is we got a Laura Bush library grant for five thousand dollars and we were able to purchase a lot of books and hand them out to kids so that really opened up access so it was also a great day I also want to share with you um briefly I won't go too deep into it but I want to share with you our accountability data you may have seen that the department of Ed released all of the accountability last week so none of it is embargo embargoed this is actually we haven't had accountability since 2019 prior to the pandemic so this is something that we haven't seen in a couple years so I want to start off with our mcath data and first I want to just give a comparison from 2019 to 2023 we used to have a long historical data for many many years but as a reminder we're now in the Next Generation MCAS and the test prior to 2019 was a legacy test so you can't really compare it's not Apples to Apples just looking at the achievement letter levels for many we think of MCAS and we think of proficient exemplary and the categories now are a exceeding expectations meeting expectations partially meeting expectations and not meeting expectations so if you look at our Ela data again this is just historical data from 2019 returning to the pandemic and then 2023 you can and I'll dig deeper a little bit into the the actual 2023 data a little bit later in this presentation you can see in terms of our categories and achievement we did have kind of an increase in the not meeting in ela and I'll dig into that a little bit so here um it just we talk about our student growth percentile and this is achievement that changes from prior years to current year and it Compares other students in the same grade who performs similarly in the past so our average SGP stayed the same 2021 and 2022 and we've had a slight decrease this year or last year this is our comparison from glts is in the orange compared to the state in red and are sending districts as well as a comparable CTE school and another district is listed in Gray moving on to math we have the same comparison for math you look at math and you can see in the partially meeting expectations we are steady we have seen a little bit of a a slight slight change in the not meeting expectations but not much our SGP for math is a little bit different we have we go from 21.2 in 2021 to 40 and down to 35.

we'll begin our meeting with roll call a board member board vice president Rodriguez Pena president board member Greer for president uh board member benevis will be absent today and we are expecting board clerk Ariana's shortly moving to item 1.3 Pledge of Allegiance if you would rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance of the United States thank you moving on to item 1.4 approval of the agenda may have a motion make a motion to approve second one moved and seconded uh colleagues is there any discussion I'm seeing that I'll call for the vote and members of the public bear with us we're having some technical difficulties with our portal so if we're pausing for a second it's because we're waiting for our screen to come back up the motion the item passed uh three zero now moving on to item 2.1 public comment on agenda or non-agenda items individual speakers will be allowed three minutes to address the board on each agenda or non-agenda item and the board uh our general practice is that the board will limit the total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes I know we have a lot of familiar faces here today so I'll ask Hope blue cards for those members of the public who are here in person as well as Lika members of the public who wish to make public comment online okay and um hope I wanted to ask do we have uh categories so seeing as we have two agenda items so we have categories of members of the public who wish to make comment on agenda items versus non-agenda items sometimes it's easier to hear uh comments by theme if that is available agenda items on the agenda okay all right which is on the agenda oh uh sure we'll start with that person thank you and hope as we're doing that will we be able to see the and will the speaker be able to see the countdown clock is that going to be an option too hope if it um I know our technology is going seems to be going in and out if it's helpful I can just take the blue cards and we can go in that order and then go to people on Zoom out of respect of everyone's time if we think that that's uh the option we want to go with okay all right we'll begin public comment with Mickey Carpenter good evening Dr Beau members of the board staff and the community I'm Mickey Carpenter I'm director of Community Resources for the city of Azusa I just want to again congratulate you on the progress so far uh with the findings found that that have been presented to you from the 7-Eleven committee I know there have been recommendations for Community Center use potentially just want to remind everybody of the great work that the school district and the city are doing together with regard to our collaborative all in for Azusa and the work at the Youth and Family Center it aligns really really well if not perfectly I would say with your community schools initiative we're really proud of all of the work we've done together thus far I would encourage you to look at some examples out in the community where there have been fabulous Partnerships such as we have here with the school district and the city such as the Jeff Seymour family center out in Omani and there are others too that you could take a look at so thank you so much for having me tonight thank you thank you next we have Cecile delatorre good evening my name is Cecilia De la Torre and I am a member of aea and I'm here this evening representing aea to oppose the approval of any Charter School applications as a group of professional Educators we believe that allowing a charter school into our district will sanction the many negative socio-economic impacts that said Charters will have on our ausd Public Schools please consider the following negative effects that a charter will have on our children of Azusa community of Azusa and employees of Azusa before allowing this to happen first and foremost we will see resource diversion one of the primary concerns regarding Charter Schools is that they divert valuable resources away from traditional Public Schools when students enroll in charter schools the funding allocated to their education often follows them leaving fewer resources for the students who remain in public schools this can result in overcrowding classrooms outdated resources and reduced extracurricular activities in our Azusa schools second we will definitely see an increase in segregation critics argue that Charter Schools can exacerbate socioeconomic and racial segregation in the education system Charter Schools often have more autonomy in their admission processes and are accused of cherry-picking students which can lead to a concentration of disadvantage or special needs students in our Azusa Public Schools this segregation can perpetuate inequality in education I will be submitting a copy of my comments to be included in the minutes verbatim thank you so much thank you next we have Market Guillen good evening my name is Margaret Keon and I am a member of aea and I'm also here this evening representing aea to oppose the approval of any Charter School applications allowing a charter school in Azusa will definitely affect our teachers working conditions Charter Schools often have different labor agreements and working conditions for teachers compared to Public Schools some Charter Schools hire non-unionized staff offer lower salaries or provide fewer benefits this disparity can lead to challenges in recruiting and retaining high quality teachers in public schools negatively impacting the overall quality of Education Charter Schools definitely present accountability concerns Charter Schools while they are publicly funded often have significantly less stringent accountability measures compared to the traditional Public Schools this can result in varying quality among charter schools which with some providing subpar Education Without sufficient oversight when the charter schools fail it can create disruptions for students and families who then must re-enter our Public Schools after having fallen behind the responsibility and resources to help these children to catch up then falls on us I will submit a copy of my comments to be included in the minutes verbatim thank you so much next we have Ron Trussell good evening my name is Ron Trussell I'm a member of aea and I'm also here this evening representing aea to approach to oppose the approval of any Charter School applications Charter Schools also contribute to reduced Community engagement our public schools are governed by you our locally elected School Board which allows for Community input and engagement in decision making charter schools on the other hand are often managed by private organizations or non-profit boards that may not be as responsive to the needs and concerns of the local community this reduced Community involvement can lead to a sense of Detachment some from the education system and the community itself charter schools have no restrictions against cherry picking and attrition Charter Schools sometimes engage in practices like cherry picking High performing students or pushing out students who face academic or behavior challenges this can create a perception that public schools are responsible for educating the most challenging students making it difficult for them to demonstrate success in conclusion we will see an erosion of public education let's face it the proliferation of a charter school in Azusa will contribute to the erosion of the public education system as the charter school takes our children our Public Schools will face declining enrollment and reduce public support potentially leading to a vicious cycle of under I'm sorry underfunding and declining quality for the majority of the children in our community thank you I will submit a copy of my comments to be included in the minutes verbatim next we'll have Magna good evening board cabinet community members employees we're here today as partners partners with the district with the city with a strong commitment to our children to our families to each other and so we're here trying to educate you on a different perspective on a charter school coming into Azusa before I give you this resolution that we have signed along with CSEA our partners in labor our partners in educating our children I'd like to give you what I call the hundred dollar example imagine if we have 10 schools and each school has a hundred children so that's a thousand kids and a charter school comes in and only takes 10 kids from each school and you think well what's the big deal well by taking those 10 children away you're taking away a hundred of our kids 10 percent and you think wow that's still not that much but at every one of those elementary schools or schools that has a hundred kids now has 90 they still need a principal they still need a custodian they still have to pay the same water bill the electricity bill the gas bill it's not changed but instead they're operating on 90 cents 90 percent of the funding that they once had and so how are you going to make up for that 10 percent loss in funding you can't let go of the principal you can't let go the custodian you still need to operate at that same level at a minimum to operate your schools and so what gets sacrificed the things that are not absolutely required by the law and so it's the extras it's the extra programs the extra supports for our kids the extracurriculars the extra clubs the extra tutoring the things that are essential for our kids we as a group oppose having a charter school come into our community because we don't believe that it is the right place we have other needs in our community that are being well addressed by our school system and I think that as evidenced by what the other teacher said about segregation about the socioeconomic impacts um Azusa is not the place to have a charter school come in we have written this resolution between the Azusa Educators Association and the classified School Employees Association and ask that the district sign it as well and so after I read it we will submit it and ask you to put it as part of your board agenda for your next scheduled meeting in October um I do believe that I am going to run out of time before reading the resolution and so my colleague here is going to Stacy Munoz defer her minutes to me I will defer my minutes to next fall I'd like to read the resolution whereas the Azusa Educators Association a local chapter of the California Teachers Association and the California School Employees Association Local 299 of Azusa exists to protect and promote the well-being of its members to improve the conditions of teaching and learning to advance the cause of free Universal and quality public education to ensure that the human dignity and civil rights of all children and youth are protected and to secure a more just Equitable and Democratic Society whereas the Azusa Unified School District has just addressed significant financial pressures by implementing a reorganization plan which included but was not limited to school closures reductions in Workforce and optimized programs whereas all three parties aea CSEA and ausd recognize that a charter school in the city of Azusa does not afford its citizens school choice but rather limits opportunities by decreasing funds and thereby limiting the ability to offer resources and programs to all Azusa students including those in proposed charter schools whereas the Azusa Unified School District Board of Education like every other California school district is legally required to accept and review applications for new charter schools therefore be it resolved that aea CSEA and ausd collectively express our determination that the ausd Board of Education rejects any applications for Charter Schools prior to submission to the LA County Office of Education and or California State Board of Education be it further resolved that the Azusa Board of Education fully considers the fiscal implications and impacts on student outcomes for all constituents in the city of Azusa please please read it please consider it please hear our plea for the sake of all constituents in Azusa all stakeholders including our children our families our community and all of our employees thank you next we have Esther compost ball good evening board president vote members of the board superintendent Ortega and cabinet members and to my fellow colleagues and csca in the room and anybody or residents um I'd like to address you tonight not as a member of aea and not as a teacher but I'd like to address you as a constituent I am very proud to say that I live in the city of Azusa I'm blessed to live here because not only do I live here I work here I shop in the neighborhood I um see my students in the neighborhood and I'm really happy to say that those are my students and my alumni the reason I chose to address the board as a constituent is because I am not in favor and I'm telling you as a constituent I am not in favor of any charter school coming into our community I have seen what it has done to my school district that I went to Duarte Unified School District and I am not impressed with what has happened there so I am going to tell you that as a constituent I don't feel happy I that this is even being brought to our city I know that part of the reason is because you know are some of the community think that we don't offer great programs well I'd like to say to those community members that don't feel that our schools our Public Schools offer the best we have students going to Stanford we have students that have been accepted to Harvard USC UCLA all the UCS and some very private notable private schools like Notre Dame I have an alumni student at Notre Dame on a free scholarship her brother did the same thing these are all students that were products of Azusa Unified School District public school system so I really would hope and pray that you consider um not allowing any charter schools in we tried catering doing dual immersion programs from what I understand we tried having a dual immersion program in Mandarin and we only had one application so to the members of the community please come see what we're doing in the public school system a Susan unified has amazing schools you just need to come and visit and see the wonderful things that are occurring in our Public School System here in notices it Unified and once again as a constituent I implore you not to allow any Charter Schools come in thank you next we have Jeff Perkins Mr Perkins are you online Mr Perkins you may mute your mic hi can you hear me okay yes we can hear you now okay I'm sorry about that thank you hi everyone my name is Jeff Perkins and I'm a parent of two ausd students I want to thank all of our board members and superintendent Ortega for the time and the care that you give to addressing the needs of our students I have been following the discussion at recent board meetings regarding the district's vision and mission statement and the debates surrounding the continued use of diversity equity and inclusion as part of ausd's core values I'm calling to express my full support for diversity equity and inclusion remaining in the core values as I feel that our students and Community can only benefit from embracing diversity in all of its many forms whether it be diversity of cultures faiths languages gender physical ability or academic ability just an in sum as well as working to overcome inequities so that all of our students have access to the same opportunities I've gathered from the recent meetings that some community members have expressed concern with the term diversity equity and inclusion although there have been mentions of a general sense of discomfort with these stated values I've heard no mention of a specific component of diversity Equity or inclusion that has triggered this discomfort unless I missed it I hope that if our District's parents or students do have specific concerns about the promotion of diversity equity and inclusion that they share them for consideration if there is to be continued discussion about our District's core values I hope that we hear from all sides of this issue in the spirit of inclusiveness and diversity of opinions thank you for your time Lika do we have additional members of the public online that are here for public comment we have no additional hands raised on Zoom thank you and thank you to all of our community members who are here in person submitting their comment live on Zoom or just listening into the meeting your voices are heard and appreciated we will now move to item 3.1 approval of resolution in support of declaring September 15 through October 15 2023 Hispanic Heritage Month is there a motion motion to approve 3.1 second moved and seconded is there any discussion uh before we I call for the vote I just like to offer my comment on this item um I'm happy that this is the first time at least in the research that the super nintendent and I did online that azuz unified has been brought this resolution honoring Hispanic Heritage Month um I think given our community and our school district demographics and populations it's important to uplift um the rich Vibrant Community that we serve and that we are a part of without further Ado the item has been moved and seconded without any further discussion I will call for the vote and the merchant professors and the motion differences for uh to one absent thank you and next are on our agenda is item 4.1 discussion of surplus property Mr Ortega thank you uh board president Beau um as the Board of Education uh knows uh we have been on a journey of school reorganization uh and that Journey has led us to uh this point in time where the Board of Education uh today uh will have an opportunity to begin to discuss um Bates decisions um interest um and what to do with our Surplus property that we have here in Azusa uh we have a couple of things uh tonight uh that may assist that conversation uh the things that we have in front of you we have in the lobby as well available these are all items that have been agendized as attachments in previous uh board meetings uh the first one is a presentation by dcg strategies that is a PowerPoint packet that was presented uh here at a board meeting we have a plotted site map that outlines all of our schools in Azusa Unified School District and highlights the Surplus property in red we also have an estimated costs uh spreadsheet table that outlines potential estimated costs to modernize uh the six properties that we are discussing tonight and we also have the most recent document which is the report that you received and accepted from the Surplus property AKA 711 committee um with their conclusions and their recommendations for the Board of Education in addition to the hard copy documents that we have tonight we are also joined by Sarah Polito who is a member of our legal team who has been uh hand in hand with us navigating the 7-Eleven and that and that process and and helping with those meetings um and we also have uh with us from our developmental consultant strategies Miss Lauren Jennings uh who is here as well they are here uh as a resource as a support as a if we're stuck maybe to un stick us and move us in in in directions uh but they're here again as a resource as we begin uh the conversation around what to do uh with our six Surplus properties deductible thank you Mr ortegan uh thank you colleagues for engaging in this conversation and thank you to our partners here to provide additional contacts and information to help guide our discussion um as this is a study session this is there are no action items tonight this is an opportunity for us to focus on Surplus property and have a robust discussion in public around this opportunity to invest in our community according to our geography our current needs our future needs and some of the programmatic ideas and dreams that we represent here in Azusa unified um I think what might be beneficial to kick it off is to have each of our colleagues you know say some opening statements and then maybe that won't start shaping the discussion do we feel comfortable with that all right board vice president I'm looking at you okay so um as I I read the Surplus um recommendations from the 7-Eleven committee and um I I agree with them wanting to have one of our properties to be a um pretty much like a career center you know the top of the takeaway we so we can move it a little bit farther away can you hear me no perfect that's better yes okay so um talk to them anyway there's not really anything that has um for the community as Memorial Park you know they have the uh Girl Scouts they have a teen center they have well-being Center and um they have their Library over there and I I my focus was um and I'll say it you know Center Middle School because I I feel that it's a big campus and we could have students have sports there we can have a satellite Library they have a library there already but of course the books there because they moved them and I just think that would be a great location uh centralized in the community uh in in my second um idea was not Elementary I think Palm Elementary would be great to move to Sierra High School students Sierra High School is our continuation we moved in with Blackstone Street School uh Sears on one side and the adults goes on the other side and they're saying they don't fit you know and not only that they do not have a field they have football games they have basketball games just like the other high schools and they're they don't have a field I I don't know I I don't even know where they play but they it's like Glaston High School but I think that um Sierra High School the weight room is all crowded you know um our vision was that there have been a football and once you put them in they do not I think power is perfect the classrooms the field um the location so that's my recommendation that's what I I think we should do thank you so much for cook Ariana's good evening everyone I I just want to take also this time to thank the 7-Eleven committee for the members that have come together to to do this this this tough work right being able to um dissect being able to take a look at the future of our community this process that did not just start last year it did not start five years it started way long time ago where we knew we had declining enrollment and we as the board took the decision to close schools so that way we can focus on the future of this district and as we're moving forward now we're having to to speak about what we're going to do with these facilities one of the things that the report finds is that residential areas are needed in Azusa right but one another thing too that the district needs they they also need um to use some space we need some space so as I'm looking at the findings and I'm looking at the research I I do agree that we need to have these conversations too with res you know rezoning um some of these uh areas for residential and have a partnership with the city and be able to go ahead and also in these uh facilities be able to put some of the like um some of the services right we have no room here for here in our district that we can grow some departments right special education we have Covina offices right let's go ahead and centralize everything here in Azusa and use to the best of our ability what we do have and give back to our community and how do we do that well I think we have a prime example today we have a lot of teachers here thank you guys for coming and people out in the community hearing um this uh this meeting out through YouTube that you're your your community is going through a transition not only are you know the schools have been closed we've merged the high schools together the middle schools together there's a lot of people moving in I actually just uh met a few people yesterday um new to our community at Gladstone Middle School some new parents that have chosen to come here to a Souza right now they're living in apartments but they would like to buy a townhouse or you know a house here in Azusa the opportunities that come with this transition can be positive but going through transition it is painful and we as the board will have to make decisions and we will not make everybody happy but just know that I do stand uh I do stand in solidarity with my community and that is we we do need some residential areas and we do need to make use of those facilities for our district for our departments for our students and what that looks like is what we are here to do thank you thank you board member Greer um for the record I believe that clap was for you uh foreign so first first I do just want to yeah I would definitely want to thank the 7-Eleven committee and the work that was done this is not easy work and and that work was was done over several meetings and conversations and and work that took place and so grateful for our partners uh that we have doing that work as well also I want to say thank you to you superintendent Ortega because it wasn't that long ago that we sat at the dice it looked a little different then and we talked about really looking ahead more than just a year and really trying to understand what are what are the realities of the demographics in our community of the needs within our community and even that was very difficult but we put forward some some bold um interventions to try to maximize our resources and now we're at this place where we've determined that we do indeed have some Surplus property and as we're looking at what we might do with that Surplus I want to remind us to continue that same mindset of looking far enough out so that we're not finding ourselves in a situation where we're making short-term decisions with with assets and properties that we have uh that are that are are long term um because once we off-load properties it is next to impossible for us to to dream of acquiring properties again in in the future and so I agree that there are a number of creative options that we that are available to us for us to to consider um recognizing the realities of of the just general housing crisis that exists here within this the state and and specifically here in Azusa and in this region um that's something for us to also consider uh but I'd love to really have some serious conversation and really weigh if we are looking to offload properties um I am also strongly in favor of the idea of having some sort of centralized Community Center and looking at how can we partner and continue to work with the city and and other community organizations uh to be able to utilize uh those those properties and and also as we look ahead yeah what are the the offices and services that we have that are in other locations that can be relocated or how do we maximize again the the different sites we have I think about the adult transitional program and where it's located um and so do we use this as an opportunity for us to to Really find a fitting home for that program just like we're asking the same question in regards to uh Sierra High School or other offices as you mentioned board member arianis um that would that would be my hope that we have an opportunity right now and that we don't we don't make short-sighted uh decisions uh because of uh any any one factor but that we really consider all these factors thank you board member please I also want Brad I really liked with Mickey Cooper oh sorry that Nikki Carpenter mentioned um in El Monte and um also when we make our decision I would like to since we do have six Surplus properties I would like to visit maybe one or two at a time and not do all six at the same time to be sure that we are making the right decision and we're using our funds um adequately for the community and for our students thank you we're getting used to our new microphone so that's what we're trying to do um adding in some of my thoughts that I've been brewing on over the past uh year and a half I um I agree with um my colleagues in terms of not only thinking about what we can do here and now but uh what we will what we can do now and what we should do now that will benefit our community 30 years from now and 30 years from now is one will be judged for what we do today and in the coming coming months and years I think that it's appropriate that we also visit other cities and school districts right to see how they how they did it if they had to do it all over again what would they change I think that's kind of going slow so that we can go fast uh make sense um and there are some great examples of community centers wellness centers different types of housing options in the greater San Gabriel Valley that we can go on a listening and looking tour um so I very much support that idea and I also particularly support the idea of not doing it all at once because then you really don't have the chance to soak it all in so I think as we are as we can schedule those um I'd like to figure out how we we as an entire board can participate in those um in those site-based tours for centers and assets throughout the San Diego Valley I think I think in particular one of the um uh values and and um ideals that came up in our recent Mission Vision Values and goals Retreat and adoption at the last board meeting um was around safety and around Wellness and um if we're being so bold as to say maybe this campus you know naming them again we're not voting but we've got to start putting some things out there so that we can start shaping them um I I envisioned one of our campuses being a place where we can partner with our city to expand the existing Recreation and wellness for our community and in particular um I'm looking at Slauson Middle School and I see that as a natural partner it's one of the larger sites it's you know it's nice and flat and rectangular and to me it almost appears as like a mirror to the Memorial Park Center so if there could be a way that we could have an exploratory dialogue with our city Partners to figure out how that campus could be used as a and let's say a Wellness Center a soccer field a school district based food pantry you know food insecurity is something that really came to the Forefront during the pandemic a resource that is um uh run and and for the school district and it's the families that serves um even the idea of bringing in appropriate non-profit partners that would provide services for our families if it is uh again just ideating here like a medical clinic like uh vision and dental screening even starting off small where we could have pop-ups come in or you know the osmobile come in and that be a location that's very walkable that's very accessible it's in an existing neighborhood where we could build that to say this you know between Memorial Park and um and and the Slauson Middle School site this is our health Wellness Recreation Center where you can go to pray you can go to learn take a class you can go extra size and again building on some of the assets already within our within our city um the second idea I had was looking at looking forward and again I was inspired by some of the work around the mission and vision and what our job is you know what are we charged with um as as a school district and part of that is um to uh Empower students with skills that they need for life right and we know that students um are going to find their find what makes them tick right and we want to support whatever that is so giving them the options giving them the skills the opportunities and so I'm wondering if one of our sites we could explore the option of something like um uh like a CTE uh meaning a Career Technical education EMT fireplace Training Academy I'm bringing in those well hubs not only for our students to be able to have access to those um to those programs but also for the Greater Community as we look at a city being a place where we want to work live Play and Learn how do we create those assets to say you know this is as superintendent has said something that makes our city and our district attractive right people are uh programs are moving here and saying Roots um and that what can we do to create that long-term um those long-term assets where you go to school here you find your first job maybe you do the EMT training and that's how you enter into the workforce and then you buy your first home here and and your own kids come back in in 20 years and we do it all again um so those are my initial thoughts around possible Wellness Center at the Sloss insight and another site um seeing that looking at how what we can do to create a training center a Workforce Training Center to support our Workforce so um I need I need to disagree on that uh on Slauson Middle School we would be um with Memorial Park and with the city of Azusa if you know Memorial does pretty much which which you're mentioning that we need they do have a Wellness Center they do have a team Center and I feel the same way uh with this adult um workplace for you know for jobs we're competing then against the adult school you know the adult school has a great medical program where they have codeines a lot of this about when they return The Graduate they usually already have a job and we can give it to the adult school you know add these uh classes and the track Community is just down the street on on Arrow Highway because my grandson goes there and yes they he he does welding there he took the electronics he did welding he did um um mechanics so they do have it it's just down the street also so um I I I'm not saying you have a bad idea I just think the location may not be you know um where it should be I'm not I'm not sure where you mentioned the um The Adult School area for the for the um I don't know if you mentioned notification but I know you mentioned sauce in Middle School um and Memorial Park has a lot of the things that we're talking about already and I don't want to compete against him or I don't want someone to feel that um you know should I go over here to Azusa unified or I'm trying to Global here with the city of Azusa you know I don't want to compete against the city I'm trying to do a partnership with them you're not compete with them and I think just to clarify I wasn't suggesting a a competition but I was specifically suggesting a partnership where we are going to do is what I'm saying well uh what I'm saying if we could do more if we had if Memorial Park had another 25 000 square feet what would it like to do as an example right I'll also I'll Echo some of the the comments from board member Rodriguez Pena in that it would make sense to me as we as we look at just resource kind of saturation or lack thereof within our city it does seem as though there are resources lacking South in kind of More Southern regions and so it would make sense to me if we were looking to provide some some equity and access to resources that we would look to the southern part of the community um I while I recognize in addition to that while I recognize that there's a decision that the Board needs to make regarding these pieces I would love to engage our counterparts at the city about this conversation because as We're Dreaming and as we're lifting up things I wonder where there may be overlap um with with some of those dreams and so I up to this point we've we've spoken theoretically we haven't had properties that were officially deemed as Surplus now that we've crossed that threshold I wonder if that's something for the ad hoc committee uh to to begin in some conversation I know that we have talked in the past about just some sort of joint meeting between the city and uh and the school board I wonder if there's if there would be some value in in discussing this and allowing for some some shared dreams and shared ideas um yeah I just I just see an incredible opportunity to to partner and and really bring some um some incredible things to our community I think for from for many years we've been seeing with that we've want to partner with the city that we want to have conversations and I I as much as I want to agree with you um we as a board um I feel need to have those conversations with the five right with the other five in the room to be able to dialogue and what are the needs of our community right what is the city of Azusa what like you're saying to lacking what what is it having those conversations um it's it's it's nice that we have a committee of two that go in and speak with two other members of but I think it's about time that we put our words into action and really make this happen what do we have to do so that's can I can I add to so I because to be to be clear I'm totally in favor and would love to have some five on five conversation I just recognize how that complex and how and and all of the moving pieces that may be required in order to schedule an additional meeting and give the lead time and they're just they're just our pieces and so because we have ad hoc commit subcommittees of the board that are that are ad hoc in nature to be able to have some of these conversations it can allow things to start it can allow those conversations to begin um and that doesn't have to be the end-all be-all I'm so I'm I'm not saying either or I'm saying both okay which I like to just add to that that um since we have the ad hoc committee uh we can get recommendations from the other board members and we will bring that when we when we meet with them we can bring these recommendations and ideas that we all have together as a team but the the two uh members that are ad hoc members will and that's the points of having that ad hoc committee that that's the whole idea yeah I'm not in in uh against having the what I'm seeing is to also have to have make it a a thing we like I said we've been having a conversation for years that hey we want to talk about this we only come together it seems like when we have an emergency or a tragedy or something happen in our community right maybe this can be a catalyst for us to have a yearly uh meeting for us to come together and I would like to see that happen um I would like to see the you know ad hoc as well to continue but I think maybe yearly we should be able to sit down and have a conversation with our fellow um elected officials that also make decisions in our community and how we're servicing the same constituents the same Community the same students the same families right as we go through our changes go through these changes this transitions right are we whether we're going to um find some room to to build um some residential areas right or we are going to use the facilities for district use only right we are going to make sure that who benefits I think the most important thing here is our students you know what I heard I don't know who it was but um or a future Generations you know I've been living here for 45 years in this community and have seen the transition that has come to our community some of it not favorable some of it you know it we had no choice and I can go back in history but I rather not go there um what we know is that we have the Surplus commit uh Surplus properties we know that our community is lacking resources one of the things that um I I just heard my colleagues say well um we need to bring like CTE uh we need to bring some other things well you know what that let's let's find out like what other districts are doing what other communities are doing and you're right we don't want to go ahead and and find out what the city is offering right we we don't fully understand what the city is offering I I don't know what the what the city's offering we also have another subject right another issue at hand that we have here in our community which is homelessness how many of our children how many of our children are homeless our families let's address that issue as well do we have housing here how about you know what some of that housing um only before our teachers you know for them to stay in our communities housing is going up so much we want to keep our you know our families here we want to keep our teachers here and what best way is to you know to offer those services to our own people who live here who work here who are invested in our community and I think that we need to take that in consideration as well you know I um so programs services housing and how do we keep our teachers here right on a teacher salary I'll tell you right now on a single teacher's salary a teacher cannot buy a house let alone raise a family is that to say but yes everything milk eggs bread tortillas beans rice everything is going up right but how do we invest as a district as a whole right and the people that are invested with us as partners and I think that we need to take that in consideration and not just bring somebody new or bring a new school you know or bring some no we already have enough in our plate for us to discuss and to think about our future Generations here and we at a Souza District I think you know I'm a product of a Souza and I'm proud to say I'm a product of a Souza there's great teachers here there's great families we can sit here and say well let's also you know I think it's time that we take in consideration what the city needs what the district needs and put that at our best one foot forward with public education in mind so I have a question uh superintendent and cabinet so in on page five of six of the 7-Eleven committee's recommendation page five number two it says the committee recommends that the board explore retention and or use of at least two of the properties for the following types of community benefit uses number one excuse me uh pardon me can you please repeat the page number page five five of the uh 7-Eleven committee reports page five uh item number two item number two number two okay the title is community committee's recommendation thank you um so for the following types of community benefit uses one Community Center slash Conference Center slash student Events Center number two extra parking Athletics and recreational space number three additional room for Central Kitchen expansion and number four reorganization of existing student programs um so this this gives us a great starting point right this case that went through the process and um so superintendent I'd like to hear from you um as superintendent you know CEO of our district how you see these lining up when you have discussions with a cabinet about existing programs and how you would want to expand them using these four touch points because I think what we're trying to do is we're trying to find alignment um so in previous board meetings and definitely during the Surplus property meeting we were asked does the district see any use for the properties uh and we came out and said that we do see two uh use two needs for properties that we would love to have one was to give Sierra High School their proper school and I'll explain that in a second and then number two was to have some kind of community slash Conference Center and I'll explain that in a second as well um right now we have the Sierra High School sharing a campus with the adult school um and although they technically both fit um it is not the most ideal situation um more space um would be wanted by both the adult school as they think about expansion as they think about bringing in other programs to attract adult learners um and then at the Sierra High School um site um as they look to have adequate facilities for the programs that they are offering uh the students for us ideally um if you wanted to hear um for us ideally one of the sites would be for Sierra High School we envisioned that at that site we would also either construct or expand the Central Kitchen to have a robust uh Central Kitchen where we can further expand the commitment to scratch cooking we think that Sierra High School would be a perfect location for a Central Kitchen um as we dream not saying that these things would happen for sure but if there's a Central Kitchen at the Sierra High School campus maybe that is the beginning of a culinary CTE pathway maybe this is an opportunity for a different student Workforce Development and opportunities uh maybe even just Standalone classes around nutrition and health and so we see Sierra High School as a as a great match for a Central Kitchen um to be housed in the same location the Community Conference Center um we believe we have had many conversations whether that's through my meetings with the city manager or as being at the table uh with um city um programs like all in for Azusa where we have discussed the possibility and the dreams of bringing some services that exist right now north of the 210 to the community south of the 210.

I want the girls to know I have believed in you for many years and I'm looking forward to great things from a lot of your senior year I look forward to Bringing Randy to the board meeting so that she can be appropriately honored and I'm very happy to announce that our volleyball team beat Fort Lee this week and they have an excellent standing in the league currently so very proud of them thank you very much the girls do you have any comments before we vote I mean I want to thank you for coming last week and you made some excellent comments and presentations about the lunch and I think that we've all taken that into consideration and we'll be voting on it shortly so the open lunch correct the resolution oh I apologize um so I think the back I gave you the copy of the contract Judy him that's that and uh Mr fennel can we redact the resolution at this time of just putting insertion in to approve the Cliffside Park open lunch period for seniors only we can make a motion to amend right we'll make a motion for men yes sure make a motion to amend number 48 to include for seniors only a second yeah thank you for that thank you very much to include that we'll put on the overall agenda which will embed the unit okay the amendment sure because we have we are recording also so we'll capture all that and I'll be captured in the minutes and also be captured in a revision to uh the the agenda yeah I'll give a quick update on finance we are currently working on our 24-25 budget and we'll be engaging finance committee and the board in the coming weeks probably at the next October work session to talk a little bit about capital projects and the Surplus in regard to our 2223 audit which will hopefully be doing the exit interview next week and that will trigger the finality on our Surplus and that will trigger us to be able to more appropriately have dialogue on what capital project we may want to do because we'll have a clear understanding of how many dollars we have to spend and what projects we may want to assess with our architect and engineering we'll probably engage the exit interview next week and engage the finance committee and the board I believe October 18th is our next work session so I just wanted to bring that to the attention of the board and the public and there's one change additional change we're going to make if you go to page 16 resolution number 64.

we have agreed that any public comments need to be emailed to Hilda prior to the start of the meeting how early hello I believe it said noon on there all right prior to noon the day of the meeting and then we will review all of those and we'll have the agenda ready 24 hours beforehand when you make the agenda can we focus on perhaps like one policy or just give us enough time for him to get some information about what we're looking at ultimately sorry if you're reading the closed caption this might seem strange but it's very ironic to pass microphone right next to each other um is this being videotaped it can stream online that was a request of mine oh all right okay about the accessibility did not know that I I think and be aware people can watch the rest of the committee for Time and Eternity the rest of the committee just I think we can do the whole head nod thing for now because we seem to be working pretty well with that right now consensus is what we're calling consensus there we go so for the sake of making sure that we can actually talk coherently about the policies and keeping in mind Adam's going to have some really really boring reading to do before every one of these meetings that is going to need additional support because I know I need support sometimes in reading the policies um are we okay with limiting it to one maximum two policies per discussion as long as we can get through enough discussions to make it worthwhile in the end and still produce the product please all right it looks like we have consensus I think we have discussed everything on the agenda at this point last thing though I will hype this if you have staff meetings if you have Team meetings anywhere encourage people to watch these meetings if they're at home I'm sure it's thrilling um if give public comment obviously the public means people that work for this District right or parents or anybody right and so if we want what you're looking for James we're going to have to like let our colleagues know and let the community know that these meetings are happening to get some interest going on that um again you could decide in the future too that you have some other way you want to engage before the community council meeting that that can be agendized and you all can discuss that in the future as well so all right certainly yeah okay I think the only thing left is a motion to adjourn do I have consensus you can make them I make the motion to adjourn all in favor yes hi and bring them back to every meeting now you lose it before the

and then we'll increase the carryover in idea again no economic uh impact to our available resources and that's all I had to share and so we're asking you to approve the fiscal year 2022 AFR and please don't leave after the meeting because we need you all to sign it thank you thank you Miss betz board members is there are there actually let me call for a motion and then we can discuss I move that we approve the revised AFR thank you Miss Humphries it's been moved is there a second second thank you message Eddie it's been moved and seconded that we approve the revision to FY 2022 AFR is there any discussion or questions I I do appreciate the hard work on this that school of Finance is complicated and coming to a resolution with the Department of Education I think that's that is a win for both of us is really good so thank you and I'm sorry to say you haven't had a round of applause after your report that's okay I was I was clapping too that was really good well thank you it's just different when we're talking about student achievement then finances but finances are underneath they undergird all of that work so thank you I appreciated the explanation that you provided in our weekly board report it was very clear and sometimes it's hard to to interpret those kinds of things anything further okay seeing no further discussion I will call for the vote all those in favor of approving the revision to FY 2022 annual financial report please vote by saying aye aye aye any opposite's name thank you that has passed 5-0 8.02 policy development deletion of policy kcca Community involvement in bond campaigns Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board members this agenda item as well as the remaining agenda items have been through our policy committee this one as well as the others the others are first reads this one is for the deletion of policy kcca Community involvement in bond campaigns based on how we operate and what the function is of the governing board as well as the school district we did not feel that this policy was needed any longer so we're asking your approval to delete it completely from our policy manual rectum cord board members I will call for a motion and then we can discuss I move that we delete the policy kcca thank you Mr Jetty is there a second the second thank you Mrs page is there any discussion I think I would just like to say that um we have in other policy that we remain it's legal and we we follow that that they're that we can only use that we can only ever the district can only ever give factual information and cannot use any funds to influence any in in election in any way let alone a bond and override election so that is still in our policies and the rest of this just we have never this is nothing no practice that we've ever used and this actually was distracting to maybe what are yeah to how we actually operate in belief so I think it's blue in the face of what we already do yeah so this is what I it's just outdated I mean I think when um the finance formula changed and we were allowed to do bonds and overrides maybe it was trying to clarify the process for that but we understand that well now and it's just an outdated policy great anything further okay if nothing further I will call for a vote all those in favor of deletion of policy kcca Community involvement in bond campaigns please vote by saying aye aye any opposed please but by say nay thank you that has passed by zero 8.03 policy development First Street to policy IGA curriculum development Dr McCord thank you madam president company board members before you we have a um I would say a correction to policy IGA earlier in the summer probably last spring at some point in time we received some policy updates and in the original policy update which this was originally I think went to the second read August at some point 26th or something close to that it included the word governing board in certain areas as it relates to meetings and asba came back and said you know what after further review that is not necessary to have in these policies the governing board already gives authorization to superintendents for certain committees and meetings and those that are governing board meetings or governing board created uh um committees committees they are subject to open meeting laws and so in order for this to read correctly asba has come back and given us Direction on how these should read uh which makes it more legal and more uh direct to Arizona State statutes so you'll see this in the next three policies this is just the first one and I I would oh never mind we haven't got a motion no we have this one thank you I will call for the motion um is there a motion board members on 8.03 First Street at policy IGA I move that we approve the first read of policy IGA curriculum development thank you Miss Humphries it's been moved is there a second second thank you Mr Jetty it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion I just wanted to point out that um part of the reason we changed this policy previously was because of Allah passed to the legislature that now textbook um curriculum committees are now subject to open me law even though they are not a board committee but but they will have and what that what that means is that the meetings will be posted in advanced and and the minutes will be kept and posted so that they're open to the public and that information is available to the public but um I was confused about why that said governing board originally so it's not a it's not a governing board committee but it's still a committee that has to abide by open meeting law I just wanted to clarify that for the community yes I think this makes it more clear to align with this the intent of the statute and the wording of the statute so this will make sure that we're in compliance and I know that we already are following that as we have begun this curriculum um looking at curriculum for the math adoption we're following all the open meeting laws and going through that in that way so is there any further discussion no this is a first read so again this will be back again but I will now call for the vote all those in favor of approving the First Street of policy IGA curriculum development please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with nay thank you that has passed five zero 8.04 policy development First Street to policy igd curriculum adoption thinking Madam president governing board members again this is the same concept as in the previous policy in terms of making sure it aligns with State Statute and um so okay there you go thank you um board members is there a motion I believe that we approve the first read of policy igd curriculum adoption thank you Mr Jetty it's been moved is there a second thank you Miss Humphries it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion seeing none I will call for the vote all those in favor of approving the First Street to policy igd curriculum adoption please vote by saying aye aye aye any opposed with nay thank you 8.05 policy development first read a policy ijj textbook supplementary materials selection and adoption Dr McCord thank you madam president government board members uh not to sound repetitive but this is the same concept as the previous two and there's one item struck out related to the governing board thank you board members is there a motion I moved that we had adopt First Street of policy ijj textbook supplementary materials selection and adoption thank you Miss Humphries it's been moved as our second second thank you Mr Page it's been moved and seconded board members is there any discussion seeing none I will call for the vote all those in favor of approving First Street a policy ijj textbook and supplementary materials selection adoption please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with me thank you that will pass 5-0 now that takes us to 9.01 requests for future agenda items are there any requests at this point no please let those be known as always that we might put those on the agenda let uh Dr McCord myself no please thank you that will take us now to our board committee reports see which begins with me and I do have one thing I'd like to share tonight okay so 10.01 city of Mesa liaison that's myself and I wanted to let everybody know I spoke with council member Summers and he said that they will continue the tradition of District Six in Mesa partnering with Desert Ridge and the Mesa Police Department to host a Halloween evening Monday October 30th from 5 30 to 7 30 p.m at Desert Ridge High School and they'd say please join us um celebrate Halloween early by meeting Mesa police officers learning important safety tips for trick-or-treating there will be candy for the kids and Trunk-or-Treat SWAT and air unit Halloween games and more so please I wanted he wanted me to let our public know that so thank you that concludes my report 10.02 town of Gilbert liaison Mr Rhonda page just one item and Dr McCord please jump in if necessary September 19th the town of Gilbert approved to add two additional SRO officers to Mesquite Junior High and Mesquite High School and they will work through the town and so we want to thank the town of Gilbert and the Town Council for approving those funds Dr McCord did you want to expand on that I will so the State of Arizona Arizona Department of Education put out money for Grants and this is something they've done several times over the last several years the town of Gilbert generally did not participate in those grants and so this year they decided that well last year they decided that moving forward they'd be able to do that and so we applied for two grants one for Mesquite High one from Mesquite Junior High and with their IGA being looked at by their attorneys are attorneys we came to the understanding of where this is at so this grant fund pays for the services of both of those police officers and we sincerely appreciate the town of Gilbert as well as the city of Mesa for providing sros for our students and staff on our secondary campuses thank you 10.03 Gilbert Education Foundation and audit committee Miss Humphries so the Gilbert Education Foundation is finishing up their power of one and that is the request that every student if possible donate a dollar those funds go towards the teacher grants in the classroom so we are really excited about the opportunities we give students to do a little extra that's above and beyond what we as a district can offer them and that's going to be closing soon so you can go to the gefaz.org and make a donation to the power of one we also have our cornhole tournament on Thursday night was mentioned earlier and our Gilbert unites campaign will start on October 16th we did have an audit committee meeting last week and things are looking very promising we're we're doing really well to have a clean audit thank you Miss Humphreys 10.04 Insurance trust representative Miss Sheila eugetti thank you just wanted to let everybody know that we have a premium holiday coming up the first paycheck after fall break which is a really nice thing for our employees and then some really good news since we adopted the investment policy and created the formal trust board we've earned over five hundred thousand dollars in interest for the fiscal year and that will go directly toward benefits or impacting its additional income yeah that can be given back to our our employees hopefully yes instead of having to give a bigger increase in things like that and that's just how many months Bonnie I know I said fiscal year but Bonnie how many months has that been that we earned that five five hundred thousand um it's it's been pretty much the no that was the other that was the Arizona State Retirement contribution so this one was the full year the full year okay and remember that our um our reserving our investment policy is very conservative so um but having a half a million dollars of earnings is not insignificant well in considering that I think we had what 10 000 previously yeah right yeah it's been a lot so a little bit of difference between 10 and 500.

and and it looks like Bob may be able to stall here no ball goes down fairly quickly that ball was really putting in trouble for him well played all around yeah absolutely these guys they're they're insane like this this is such a strong meta that they are running at the moment and Noah gets play of the game so deserved oh yeah uh there's that Bastion I just love yeah you you know you you love to see it you love to see this gameplay you hate yeah you dislike and hate the receiving side but you gotta you gotta love the results that you gain as your moments of playing Bastion howdy it looks like they are standing up for their next map which is Dorado which is an escort map so they had to stay on the car I believe yeah the cart the payload payload that's what it was sorry however uh daily did mention before that this is not really a strong suit of theirs this map so we will end up we if you know if everything doesn't go exactly according to plan we may end up seeing a loss this round which isn't gonna be the end of the world yeah because we are a huge blow it'll be a a partially decent blow coming in to uh from us but in the end the Tigers got this I I have full belief that the that the Tigers definitely got this oh yeah and going in with uh with the with pretty much the exact same meta that they had before it looks like there is yep the exact same meta except no eraser this time we're gonna see Sigma we're gonna actually see Leighton going crazy on Sigma as he is a very good Sigma player I won Sigma first got released to this game and he would just blew up yeah uh we're we're gonna end up seeing a lot of good stuff coming from all these players this match I I may sound like a broken record but these are really really good players let's get leighton's point of view into this match all right setting setting up for the uh for the site they have about 20 seconds before this this next match starts you have anything to say no not really I've barely seen Layton's gameplay with this character and I know I could just say that it's very good it looks like rooftop is also Prime position for him yeah they they they're gonna be they're going to be playing rooftop here as as it's going to be one of the best play uh best places holding height in any video game is going to be really good yes Obi-Wan has all taught us The High Ground is the only ground that is just factual information but they are going in currently they're just taking pop shots at each other oh but oh wow there's bash oh wow and the and the flank cover front coming in from Layton wow that was insane what what a what a series of events that just played out there getting the absolute elim onto the tank and then getting the flank cover in for uh for Noah oh wow the uh Genji Genji going back in up top oh they they've got monkey and Genji up top uh quite a deadly combo if I do say so much but but Genji goes down um currently Mac is just taking pop shots over at the Hanzo interesting pick for um competitive um you don't regularly seeing Hanzo um getting getting played in this sort of uh division yeah but see that's another Pro that's a great thing at the same exact time because you don't really know how to counter the Hanzo if you don't see him a lot that is that is true oh oh monkey ends up pushing them oh wow and for those at home monkey means Winston he's a big monkey yeah yeah we we we've as as the community of uh as OverWatch has grown we've uh just call him monkey we just could we just call a monkey we love we love Winston we we we we love we love a bit of good Winston gameplay uh but yeah we'll see Leighton take uh taking pop shots here uh trying to get this some tick damage off on this Genji so that he can build up the alt charge uh however his shield ends up taking a lot of damage here he won't be ending up putting it up he doesn't see it as too much value oh but but they do drop down and they do they do go for the push on to the devil wow their whole team is right there the Hanzo gets the headshot onto Mac wow that was insane how quick he went down was a diva is also really pushing in that wow instantly getting melted wow 10 player kill streak on Leighton at the moment he they're they're they're all going insane as as a team they are all doing amazing at the moment Noah and Leighton especially at the moment uh feeling feeling like feeling like the MVPs of this match and you know you'll love to see this oh [Music] really targeting that Diva right now yeah no Noah Noah gets real low here uh we won't we won't end up seeing any uh we will we will see the supports healing him uh oh wow the Leighton is just at their spawn he he gets the double pick wow dude Layton is causing the Stagger of a lifetime and if you don't know what staggering is uh it is when the enemy team starts coming in in pairs or like one at a time uh causing like less teamwork uh but they won't get the Stagger off as they do regroup Diva pushing Diva pushing top in the Hanzo all actually gets popped uh late and chilling in the back Lane is solving the supports and Noah gets the double kill wow Noah's going absolutely insane at the moment Diva goes down and this is overtime over wow yeah and for those at home while they were sitting on the payload and not just leaving alone is if the opponent meaning them sit on the payload they push it back wow that was that was an insane match they didn't get any distance on that payload no like it is insane watching this gameplay unfold right before of us and we're gonna see the orisa you don't know how much you love to see it on the original yeah I love to see the Arisa really because it's just it's just Javelin does it for me oh dude and this they have guns and everything else she just uses her travel in seeing Leighton hit these javelins is actually really fun to watch it he's just hitting these people from out of nowhere and it's so entertaining to see before my very own eyes uh however can we get leighton's point of view here all right um welcome back they they are going they are going crazy in chat right now they're telling them good luck have fun how nice these guys are yeah you love to see it with the good Community like this you you'll you'll love to see acts of kindness this is all a bit don't be toxic it is bad foreign push it looks like Noah no no no is immediately going in he's already got height but the the Sim TP owed but she gets dropped back down or she went back through her portal whoa no Noah in the back line currently he's him having to heal because of no supports oh Leighton goes down wow yeah it looks like Caleb is the only support on the field right now it's there may not they may not have gotten it there but you know what they're gonna run back and they're gonna get it again let's go let's go Bluffton Tigers while they they immediately TP up top they all get knocked off with one boob as you mentioned before uh Lucio's ability to just immediately take High Ground back there that is insane [Music] Leighton gets low Mac is our Noah's also low here uh late and goes Layton goes down the oh the uh the Sig alts goes oh but but he doesn't die oh wow uh the M work goes down and the shield goes down but I will he actually Capital he gets he gets a kill off here Noah is going insane that oh they're pushing top may all gets popped up top oh looks like Noah got stunned which is super know what getting hit with a lot of CC here uh and CeCe for anyone who doesn't know is um just like getting stuck getting stunned or like not being able to move that's that's what a lot of cc means uh and they they plan on they plan on ending up taking The High Ground again off of them TP up top oh but the Bap Falls but it's but it's fine because they get they they get the kill off the Bap here the mercy tries to go in for the res I do believe um not able to get it as she does fall back currently at the moment they were taking pop shots but the immediate drop down onto this may the May goes down the the the uh the simtp currently is up oh do they get this do they get this oh no Noah gets Noah sponsor and she's dead wow insane yeah Dr the Sim wall was dropped and if you don't know what symbols is is it is just essentially Brian Hart's shield and they they're so close do they get it they do they get it they get it wow going 2-0 2-0 insane these insane and I wonder who got the play of the game here and Leighton gets the play what an absolute gamer as as we were talking about earlier leighton's Sigma is insane same with his Orissa his his tank is just absolutely insane dunking on him like he was LeBron James it's it's this is it it looks like they ended up leaving let's go over to leighton's screen real quick let's spectate Leighton here I think it personally was just some miscommunication between teams I think it was actually some miscommunication between the teams going on right now as it is actually a first to five unless they end up forfeiting here which it is kind of looking like this what it's like they all left maybe they thought it was a first of three yeah as as as it was as as it was in the first season I it was actually first to three so maybe some miscommunication actually did happen here um we will we will see shortly as they are trying to get all these difficulties fixed up um okay so sorry um but uh it it does look like they're a bit stuck here with uh with the team not knowing what's happening um they're currently still not there the coaches are probably sorting it out at the moment uh but uh until then how have you been enjoying these matches oh these matches are very great sorry I just got to move this around a little bit it it has been so entertaining to watch Leighton Elkin absolutely perform and go crazy chat like the YouTube chat is absolutely loving his gameplay as you know we all love to see it Leighton is the best when it comes to uh tank play and just a lot of play in general it looks like we have actually one of the coaches right over here Jomo if he wants to take yes let's go Jomo oh he he says he has work to do but we don't always believe him um they are telling us that their squad dropped so they're trying to get everybody back into the game right now for the third match okay and and so um that they're Squad dropped what do you mean by their squad dropped uh I think it they disconnected oh did they DC or did they like miscommunicate okay wow DC yeah for those at home that knows what DC does not stand for it's disconnect essentially it just means that they drop from the game and they're gonna be back shortly although let's let's let's mention for a second as we have leaving them we have been leaving them in in the dust a little bit support appreciation you gotta love this like the support gameplay as a whole is actually going crazy multiple times in multiple games where any of these guys could have just instantly died and the supports absolutely come in clutch and you love to see you love to see the games that they play and you know see seeing see seeing uh Lucio getting played and the back getting played amazing and more it's amazing just Lucio being able to provide speed into the match and get the match started as quick as possible is an insane benefit for a team and it's why he has chosen constantly by the team's Captain Caleb Daly oh yeah what is your favorite support actually I'm going to ask you this uh my favorite support okay so if we're going based off of fun Lucio Lucio is so much fun and all in like a lot of the games I play um and like for like for real support like like heavy like gonna do the most support probably on a witch Caleb daily is gonna play Lucio and Anna two of the most just best supports you could play my in OverWatch one my favorite support was Mercy but yeah God personally does not get a much gameplay in this current season yep yep although some people there was a joke in the OverWatch Community called battle Mercy where you don't heal it all yeah you gotta love to see a good match with battle Mercy uh but let's get leighton's POV here so as a uh as a zarya player myself this character is so much fun and can provide so much utility for our team and it's actually going to be so much fun seeing Leighton playing him here these characters they aren't they like for example Leighton isn't playing a character I we haven't seen him play a lot here so um we will end up we will actually get to see the how he plays with different comps uh and like compositions for a team um uh Leighton I feel like is overall super adaptable but the maywall goes up blocking the bubble sad to see it oh but he just knows immediately where the turn is going back for the peak pops the bubble not a lot of damage gets dealt to it though and he's he's just he's going in with the second bubble oh the Bastion ends up pushing it wow Lily ending up going down here daily going down here too oh it's it's it's up it's it's up to the support or it's up to the DPS is at the moment and he gets pinned insane pain that is wild that that Ryan charge was an absolute snipe there Mack in the background getting as much chip damage as possible yeah gosh that Reinhardt charged earlier that was insane uh they're at the at the moment the urge is doing a lot of Chip damage oh oh but the right the Ryan goes for a misplay the AWOL goes down blocking the Reinhardt ooh but he doesn't go down though he doesn't go down but he but but he pushes back he gets the shatter off wow blizzard is actually up at the moment we might be able to see some gameplay coming in with the blizzard alt and maybe even the soldier alt which is coming up soon we do also have a few other uh alts going on and could be pop potentially such as Lily's alt and both Layton and calebs are pretty much even when their alts are going to be popped they're just they're they're pushing they're pushing the gunfight oh but Mac may die to this Soldier here or to this Reinhardt here the Sim portal does doesn't go down uh as it wasn't really useful to try uh to bring it down um now they're just going to get the push off wow in in in Crazy Matt so far they are actually going in for the Redemption Arc these guys are insane yeah oh they are just trying to push but they are really great at holding them back right now all those the the the gravel goes off crazy but oh wow two two three of them go down but the but the tree is still up so the mercy stays alive for not much longer why did I even say anything we all knew that that Mercy was gonna go down with this team unfortunate I personally wish blizzard would upgrade but sorry buff Mercy what do you want to give her and like a rocket launcher no I was thinking more of a semi-automatic rifle a fair something to like what uh uh make her a DPS oh this Reinhardt may go down and drop the shatter but actually Leighton ends up dying there wow no no tank at the no tank at the moment but it it does look like that they might end up being able to push us here if Matt can if if they can kill this Reinhardt here I can almost guarantee that they can get this push off at the end uh but the oh they are they are getting pushed back at the moment yeah it looks like Leighton got back with him now Leighton is finally back with them oh let's let's see Leighton immediately popping the bubble knowing almost exactly reading when he'll end up taking the damage visor visor and uh bath wall ends up going down we love to see a good alt combo ooh bashed in behind ah the they're focusing on Reinhardt right now Reinhardt Reinhardt being a really big concern and he's actually going to get life weavered away and fully healed Noah at the point at this point having very low HP oh but the Reinhardt goes to charge it but he fumbles oh but Noah still goes down wow leighton's also down at the moment so they kind of have to wait a second before they can recuperate and actually join back into the fight looks like mac is really just trying to do as much chip damage as possible against the enemy team trying to get the trying to get visor back up I am assuming because going for all combos like that paying off is really detrimental and oh my Lord grab gets placed and they out they all die wow oh my he's him he's him what it what an amazing what an amazing grab that is absolutely insane and staying at a high percentage the entire time if you don't know the percentage for zarya is the amount of uh damage she will do in output they get back into the next gun fight oh Bastion almost goes down he was he was like one he was one HP oh my Lord leighton's just gonna continue pushing that drops that drops the fight with the mercy but they but but they do but they do get the maywall up and the Bastion oh the Bastion doesn't go down oh the the Reinhardt the Reinhardt all kids pop Mack gets down though he's like Leighton goes down too unfortunately wow that is harsh especially after the uh especially after the grab that was just played they seem like they're on somewhat uh even footing now Mac just getting a lot of Chip damage in he does have alt we we will we will end up seeing um the Reinhardt play going down here oh misses the charge and hits the wall they they do end up pushing the Reinhardt back there the plan the plan is is that they are actually going to do the visor window as they did before at this point they're they're going to attempt it here and I do believe that they will definitely get this yeah it looks like Leighton switched up they are going they're they're go they're going for the Pfizer but they push them all back they push them all back so it doesn't even matter wow that that is insane Leighton actually getting some value there the the mercy the mercy does get the alt off oh but the charge goes in and he gets the Ryan heart the nuisance of this match and good and gets the Sim you gotta love seeing Reinhardt plays especially because he isn't popular or as popular as he was at OverWatch one you'll love to see a good amount of Reinhardt gameplay and it does look like that they will end up getting the uh that they do look like they will end up beginning to point here but the Reinhardt goes down into the tree all the mercy gets the res off wow Leighton still does have all any pops it to get the Reinhardt away and he gets the kill they do they do end up getting the lead here in the push oh yeah wow amazing gameplay with only a minute left in time um it's it's it's actually insane what is going on uh wow dude these these are some insane players at the moment Noah going in for the all not getting any kills with it uh we may see oh but the the counter charge going in from Layton and Leighton gets the gets the Reinhardt down but he's low but and you gotta you gotta love to see the game play it do you wanna know how Academy did 2-0 wow it's a double pinned uh pin to stop the pin oh he didn't know he had the alt and and they pop it they can't Point here they get point and that is 304 Bluffton wow insane this entire time the absolute gotta love it you love to see the zarya getting played here myself you love to see a good team wipe with the Gravitron off you'll love to see it and all around I feel as if it's this was a phenomenal match yeah and we were good plays all around even against the opponent's school they had a lot of good plays against Bluffton and we will actually be getting another interview uh coming up shortly uh should be uh we we will be ending up getting an interview with Leighton we're actually getting an interview with Leighton the Tank Man himself what an absolute unit that all around loving The Vibes loving how they were playing it insane all around alrighty it looks like here he comes is this thing actually on yeah yeah talking to all the fans right now so uh hey Jay how was the gameplay for you yeah dude it was good I feel like near the end there we kind of Switched things up a little too yeah but yeah we were cocky and we had to come back I just kind of rhymed and yeah I loved seeing the zarya and the Rhine in that last match uh two one like one of the characters Reinhardt isn't really used anymore so you have yeah you'll you'll love to see the little the little reinhardt's getting thrown in it there you but uh yeah how was how was that match for you um it felt pretty good I feel like I always was in a good position on but you know there's always some stuff that I could work on I was taking a lot of inspiration from a player called a hottie he plays for oh for London Spitfire right now he's like the only guy running Ryan so it's inspirational it very very inspirational you you love to see Reinhardt getting played competitively but uh from the characters that you've showed us this match um you showed orisa Sigma uh and in fact a little bit of zarya and uh Ryan out of all those characters who would you say that you played the most in Maine um overall I mean riding the most because he's got like double my hours in my second yeah but right now I've been playing a lot of like honestly Diva sigurisa just because they're like in The Meta yeah they're they're they're really good at the moment um loved loved loved seeing the erisa the javelins that you would hit were insane the the strats and com uh just compositions that you guys had set up it was like I was mentioning to uh Travis a lot it was a lot of um if you can't beat them join them uh as as as this uh as this method usually tends to seem uh trying to beat it with anything anything else other than it yeah is really difficult so like how like describe this meta a bit for me well so basically the main thing is you have Sigma and orisa and essentially they're almost the same character um they both have an e ability and both of their alts do the like just about the same purpose and then you would have your sim which is made to teleport in and out you're gonna teleport out if there's too much pressure you're gonna teleport in if you want to uh uh apply yeah and then Bastion is just he's just like you like you have to pick Bastion yeah we're the biggest CVS I'm not mistaken he deals the most uh DPS right now by far especially when you pair it up with Bap who is next with the window yeah right now if you watch OverWatch League or really any uh High ranked game it's usually Bap and Bastion are your constants like sometimes they'll throw in like like a junker Queen like a tracer but Bastion and Bap are always there and then our last character was Lucio which we ended up we ended up swapping a few times which I didn't really agree with because the point of the Lucio is whenever we need to get out fast if you notice our comp is kind of really slow yeah it's like sluggish but powerful because we're one unit so whenever Lucio is there if we don't have our TP to get in or out and we just need to go or get out that's a really good alternative and beat with our comp like you can just yeah like you can just imagine a five-man 1000 HP Powerhouse just running through your comp and and especially from a lot of the uh gameplay that uh that we are seeing from everybody you were so absolutely gassed up I just gotta mention like uh as long as I've seen throwing his hands up in the air chat was going absolutely crazy Jay was absolutely going in and you know as Jay being one of your closer friends right figured you should know that yeah they were watching and I popped in so shout out to Jay but uh thank you for being on stream and thanks for going over just the general uh like comp and just being an amazing tank player thank you my inspiration thanks for having me yeah absolutely uh statement yeah and anything else you want to say we're rolling this year flawless flawless flawless flawless flawless all right look cocky right there if I do say so myself all right and that I think that is close to it do you have anything else to finish off the stream with uh do not forget to turn tune in tomorrow for the Super Smash Bros oh yeah the gameplay so excited for that too and we will also be having um yeah we will we will be having a few interviews then uh so stay tuned for Smash and just all the games in general you'll love to see cyber tigers and you love to see the everyone in action this is Kaden and Travis have a good night