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[Music] hi I'm on Bridge Run and welcome to this uh Bon briefs episode in this episode um we have an exp Linda Heimer uh who is going to be talking to you a little bit about long-term care insurance uh so I'm often when I talk to clients as most folks know I do nothing but elder law I'm dealing with these issues all the time and this question always comes up how do we try to deal with if somebody either needs nursing home care or needs a lot of Care at home in order to avoid going to a nursing home and for those of you who can in specific situations I really suggest one of the things you got to talk to about is whether long-term care insurance solves this problem so I asked Linda to join me to talk about that Linda can you just give the folks who are watching a little background about about you and how you ended up doing this uh and about kind of the who you who you typically see as a long-term care insurance applicant and and and what their issues tend to be and then we can kind of go for ab absolutely so my name as as you mentioned is Linda taller been specializing in long-term care insurance for over 23 years my background is that I am an occupational therapist I have my masters in healthc care administration and I transitioned from healthc care into long-term care insurance when I saw the challenges of of uh the nursing home setting that they were becoming more challenging setting settings to provide uh you know the real high level quality of care and so my clients are people who tend to be planners um or have seen the high costs of care and they're trying to figure out how do we stay in our homes longer and better and how do we afford the very expensive cost of long-term care giving us more choices and options um in in a more cost-effective way that's a that's a that's a wonderful quick quick summary and so let's let's just kind of talk about um a couple of things the first I know when people hear long-term care insurance they're thinking nursing homes how do we make sure that I've covered for the nursing home cost and they're not often not thinking about the cost of not being in the nursing home the co which because of which is everybody's last possibility oh my God keep me out of a nursing home right um and so and so for those folks can you talk about what what that long-term care policy might offer in terms of Home Care in terms of dealing with assisted livings can you just kind of talk about that for a little bit absolutely yeah so I actually call long-term care insurance nursing home avoidance policies nobody wants to go to a nursing home and the reality is that the nursing home is where people go when they don't have any money those are the settings that are covered by Medicaid home care and assisted living are private pay settings generally speaking and they are very expensive so for example in Massachusetts the average cost in home care is about $37 an hour you can't get anyone to walk into your house for one hour of care it will be a minimum of four so you're talking about you know $4,300 a month just to get one hour of care and home care and I usually tell people this is the most important amount of money for a long-term care policy to cover because when you need care and you know you need an hour an hour and a half a care and you have to pay four hours a care people say you know I'll just do it myself and and that is the beginning of the end because families get overwhelmed and then people end up in facility settings sooner than than they would otherwise so having that opportunity to to quickly access care stay in their homes longer and better is great um assisted livings expensive right so we're looking at averages in Massachusetts about $6,500 a month you know the nicer ones up around 75 8,000 and if it's a dementia unit It's Not Unusual to find them at $1,000 a month so very close to the cost of nursing home care right absolutely absolutely in fact I tell people that the you know it's in the ultimate planning it is to uh set yourself up so you can go to an assisted living and supplement your care and stay out of nursing homes right because nursing homes have become places for the very sick and the very poor which is not a good Financial mix right right and that you know the the as I spoke to spoken to people about and I remember thinking about it from myself you know because I say to myself I have I have so I'm the last of six kids I I have a one my oldest sister died of cancer a couple years ago but she would would have been 89 my next sister is in a nursing home right now excuse me and then he's she's in her mid 80s my next brother should be in a or would be in a nursing home except that he's at home because his wife is taking care of him but it's really hard they don't have a lot of resources and they hate to be and it's a finite pile of res s ources so they're trying to figure out how to manage she doesn't want him to end up in a nursing home but she's killing herself and I and I I regularly talk to my clients that say you know when you have a husband who's or a spouse who was going through this the last thing the worst thing you can do for that spouse is die if you die your spouse at that point is a really going to be depressed that you're not there and B is definitely going to a nursing home and and and and I also kind of talked to him about the fact that you know the thing about the nursing home care is that it inevitably there are there are practically no singles in a nursing home so that to the extent that an important part of your life is your privacy right in the best nursing home you can't get it you know because you're in a double and you're you know the other person has got their own lives and people are coming in so trying to figure out how to do this home the home pieces are really really important right absolutely now can you can you know one one of the things that people get concerned about though they're talking about the long-term care insurance of course we're always talking about a can I really qualify and then B aren't the premiums going to kill me right so can can you just can you talk a little bit about that right absolutely so let's talk about the the additional protections that longterm care insurance provides most people aren't aware that a very small policy two years $130 a day no inflation even up to a a year of elimination period um for a 55-year-old couple who was not in fantastic Health you know they got a little high BL blood pressure a little anxiety they might have had a hip replacement $100 a month for the couple so we're talking very very little money to get a long-term care policy to provide a catastrophic protection which is the protection of your home in Massachusetts by the way that's that's a great that's a great example I do a lot of work um in my own area in matro west but I do a lot of work in the is and N talk in Martha's Vineyard a lot and I told houses are worth2 million you know and and and but I tell people you get this little policy and now your house is Sav it maybe that your other assets may be exposed but you're not your house you know yeah so and so in um so actually it was in 1995 I believe that the um in two I'm sorry excuse me 2005 that the um the the law changed bit so you can't hide everything in your house it's a graduating increasing number in your house it's it's about $890,000 that is protected in a primary home and the reason for that was just as you were saying many people were throwing all their money into a home to to to hide it so they are they are trying to cap it but still it's a huge protection and if you have any people in any in the surrounding states like Rhode Island you know for example Connecticut there are partnership policies which you can protect dollar for dooll so every dollar you receive from your policy is protected um against your estate um one of the other things that I think is important is a lot of people are concerned about the cost and what I tell people is this is that you know this is all about leveraging the insurance companies are looking at 100,000 people in a room and they're saying how many of these people are going to end up in claim and for how long so there's no question that putting money into a long-term care policy is going to be the strong strongest leveraging of your money as opposed to an investment um and for those who are concerned that they may put money into a policy and not use it we have hybrid policies that return the premium and interestingly those policies have reduced significantly in fact one of those hybrid companies have reduced 24% in the last few months due to the high interest rates so there's no better time to be looking into hybrids with this return of premium and within the last month we have the first hybrid cash policy shared so that means that you could have for example eight years of coverage between a couple first one can use all of it first one could use nothing everything's left to the air and if no one uses it the whole premium or greater than the premium is left to the airs tax that's a pretty wonderful yeah that's a pretty wonderful policy so can you talk a little bit about eligibility I know the went the first issue people talk about is premium the other issue is how could I possibly qualify you know and and and just talk about so is is there a magic age above which this is really out of the question at this point for you to get a long-term care insurance policy no age is the the least of my concerns um so we're really talking about uh 18 to 84 off as as an opportunity the biggest thing we worry about is health and health does decrease your opportunities although I do have an 83 year-old who just received got a policy so um the the key is that I always tell people they're younger they're better for those people who have lots of money and planning on leaving money in a state I en encourage them to get a long-term care policy for their kids while their kids are young and healthy as as a part of Estate Planning and they can you know they can pay it up in a single pay or over 10 years and uh but in terms of this insurability there are home care policies that are not insurance that I help people with that provide home care with no insurability at all as long as you are independent with your daily living skills your community living skills and you're still driving so as long as you can do all those things you could have a mild dementia you could have MS you could Parkinson's you could have had a stroke but as long as in those that moment that you're signing you are independent you can still get that that Home Care policy that's a huge that's a big big deal because I often I once again I'm often talking to folks who are saying if you're a couple and one of you needs to qualify for Mass Health because you're in the nursing home I we can shift assets around we can get you qualified into like all cases right the the the issue though is and that there isn't I tell them there isn't Mass health program that will help you try to stay home the frail waiver program right but the problem in that case is that you're so constrained in terms of the caregivers you could get because you're stuck with only the caregivers who have signed on with the regional uh a the regional Aging Services access point as opposed to you really being able to find any caregiver that kind of works for you right but I had no idea until you just said that that there existed a policy that could deal with those issues that didn't have the kind of more serious con eligibility constraints to them that a long-term care insurance policy might have yeah absolutely and actually these policies start much earlier um than long-term care so um you know for example I I got this policy uh from my father-in-law when he was uh 85 years old and he start to access benefits at 88 and used him until he was 90 and so the the definition is just that you need help so these are really designed around keeping people in their own home um shopping laundry uh food prep money manage I mean uh yeah it could be money management it can be um food uh preparation and then gradually increasing to the daily living skills and um as well so I I try to to tell people when I'm talk toing about this whole cluster of issues they say look your attorney isn't going to be the expert on this you know it's like when people look for me for financial advice I'm going like wrong person you know I understand a little chunk of the world this elder law I don't understand that so so I just really try to encourage them to just to talk to somebody right so do so do do you find yourself just it obviously doesn't cost anything to talk to you right and are you um do you have people like just from all over or are you in a specific geographical area yourself you know yeah so um so I I live in Massachusetts but I am a national expert in long-term care and I um provide long-term care uh education as well as as right people across the entire United States and um and so I'm actually a trainer for agents so as well that's great yeah so what I'd like you to do and I know that you know we we'll put up a slide at the end of this right and and so that'll have your contact information for folks that may want to just talk to you about to get more information but in the meantime can you just give folks you know once again a lot of my clients they're still emailing like yeah maybe right so can you just talk about a phone number what is the best best number to reach you sure sure so the best number to reach me at is 201124 99 and an easy way to remember me is to think about long life planning if you're going to live a long life you need to plan so longlife planning.com and all my information will be there and they can also click on a link and schedule a time and uh but feel free to email or text or call I'm I'm open and I do uh love educating people and helping you make an informed decision with regards to long-term care planning so Linda thank you so much for coming on I really appreciate it so folks once again this is the point about long-term care insurance is like you know you call and you check on and stuff and you know if you get turned down it isn't like they're going to sue you you know you just get turned down just no right so you have to check this out this is an important piece of how you may want to think about really protecting your assets for your family that's really the goal of this is to make sure that after you die your that the family gets the assets and not just home just care providers so thank you very much for watching Linda thank you very much for tuning in uh and folks I hope you enjoy this and and and check my website with my my uh YouTube channel once again elder law Frank and Mary to look for other burgon briefs episodes that it may be of interest to you thank you very much perfect thank you so much hi I'm art Bon and welcome to this Bon briefs episode uh today we are talking with my friend Scott aen from Cornerstone Bank about an issue or a part a POS a solution to an issue that comes up with my elder law clients all the time as folks know um I always talk about my friends Frank and Mary and their kids Peter Paul and Mary Jr the joke is if you you know if you can get the joke you're old enough to be my client and and their goal which is to live in their house until they die and be buried in the backyard and ideally leave as much as they can to their kids not to the nursing home not to the government to their kids um but what often comes up for my folks you know is you get older and you got a house and you killed yourself to pay off the mortgage right or maybe there's a small mortgage left um but you don't have a lot of money you're on a fixed income now you're getting Social Security and pension you got a little bit of cash but you got a house and your goal is to stay in your house forever but it's a house and houses are expensive you know stuff happens with a house it's not $5 dollar it's a thousand a year it's 10,000 there and so you're trying to figure out that and you're also trying to figure out as you get older you know you never never never want to go to a nurs nursing home which means you want to stay in that home and it may be that there are some home things that you need to do to make that home safer for you right because I tell my clients you know you can you can live in your home for a long time but just don't fall down you know do not fall down right um or you may just need some help you may just need some personal help and you don't have the kind of savings you know to deal with that personal help so in all of those issues I often tell people I know you say forever and you really want to leave the house to the kids but you want to stay in your house until you die so how do you do that Y and so I asked Scott to come on and talk about those issues so Scott can you just tell us a little bit about um you know you and Cornerstone Bank and how the two of you ended up being connected uh and talk a little bit about those issues okay yeah so again like Arthur said my name is Scott Allen I'm the Executive Vice President of retail lenion at Cornerstone Bank uh I I've been with the bank for 11 years you know quarterstone Bank was uh derived from a merger between Spencer bank and southb Savings Bank uh I've been in the financial services industry for over 30 years I worked for larger institutions small institutions in the midwest on the East Coast so I have a broad range of experience and exposure to uh all types of financial issues um you know what what you're talking about with the home equity um it's a big product right now for us and we've seen a very big uptick in home equity lending really is around 2021 because interest rates dropped um homes appreciated you know through the roof so there's this wealth of available funds and equity and you know speaking to you know your type of clients qualifying for that and be able to getting that um you can definitely get done and it's easy to do but there are a little bit of nuances to it which we can talk about today Arthur and that's and I kind that's what I'd like to do so you know think think about say so I'm Frank and Mary and I'm trying to weigh my options in in that situation I have the house I have a little bit of extra cash but what I really want in in in in in this case which I hope and I try to make the typical case it's not an emergency yet it's not an emergency yet I'm not I don't need a check for $100,000 tomorrow you know but I want but I want to sleep well at night I tell my clients you get to our age you know and fame and fortune has pass Us by you just want to get a good night's sleep right so I want and it's going to help me sleep knowing that I because I think about these possibilities you know what if the roof goes on the house and what if I need a deceptic system or or what if I need I am personally more disabled and therefore either need to change the house to add things you know to add whether it is something to get me to the second floor or or flights or whatever or I need some Care at home H how can I how can I sleep better at night yeah and and that's with obtaining a home equity line of credit and ideally they should be thinking about this before they retire during there years of you know higher income it'll be much easier for them to qualify but let's say they've already retired and they're on that fixed income whether it's pension Social Security we can still qualify but we have to qualify him off of that new income stream so it can still get done but we have to look at really their ability to pay it back but the beauty of of those emergencies and sleeping well at night is having that home equity line of credit in place because you only will have to pay it back when you utilize it so it's that flexibility and be able to access those emergency funds when you need it is really the main driver why you should have a home equity and retirement so so can you talk talk to me or talk to us it is now you know it's August of 2023 and the rates have gone up you know and and and so can you just talk talk a little bit about if a person came in say they've got their house and it's worth $500,000 not an unusual house anymore right $500,000 no mortgage this Frank and Mary they've got their you know and he's getting Social Security of a couple thousand she's getting half of his so she's getting a thousand so they get income about $3,000 a month and once again what I'm telling you you've heard a ion times you know in these kind of variations right C can you just kind of walk it walk Frank and Mary through what the process would be that the that the bank would use if they came in to kind of analyze um what what their what what might be available to them and then if they wanted to to go through with this and use what what I always remember these used to be called Improvement loans or what and I keep thinking home equity lines of credit are helocs right but if they want to be they want to be accessing that what are they going to need to go through to do that how are we going to figure out how much they could afford to get as a line of credit I always tell people what this is a social this is like a this is a credit card that's supported by a mortgage you know right so how big a credit card and you get a credit card limit it's a credit card right so how much credit can you get and what are you going to have to go through in order to get it in terms of um of upfront costs and closing costs and any of this Jazz and then down the line how's that going work sure you know how long does the line of credit run for when you know when if ever does this have to get paid off you know as often people are comparing this to like a reverse mortgage so you're saying you know you know which where am I going so and I know you're you're you're you're shaking your head but that that's why I want you to understand how why they should be coming to that conclusion sure they would simply you know come in one of our local branches we would sit down with them take maybe 15 20 minutes spill out a simple application then getting into the qual fation process it's really looking at their credit which we're assuming is typically always very very good um how much Equity they have a ton of equity and then we'll look at what their income is you know pay stubs um Social Security pension have they been taking any draws out of their investment accounts and then based on all those characteristics we would determine how much they would be eligible for and the mechanics of the helck is there's a draw period and a repayment period and the draw period is typically around 10 years where they can access those funds and draw it down and typically most lenders there is no fee if you don't utilize it all lenders are different um and that that payment is typically an interest only payment which is tied to Prime and granted Prime has gone up but again you're only going to pay and it it's only interest only payments during the draw period and it's only interest only payments on the money that you've used not the entire amount of the line of credit right exactly only amount you use so you want really want to think about you know it's not be to be used as an income stream it's really for you know Home Improvements emergencies things like that or you want to help your kids out with a down payment or something major or significant um and typically the there's a margin tie to it whether it's prime plus or prime minus you know Prime minus a half every lender is different and there's a typically a floor rate which is around three or 4% um and and and once again if I were walking in today and you know once this is August of 2023 if I were walking in today about what would that rate look like about well for us we're Prime minus a half so that would be 8% I get it yes Prime is eight and a half um but we also have a future where once you open the home equity line of credit you can take a fixed rate advance and lock that in for a period of time whether it's 5 10 or 15 years but you're starting to pay that back and amateuring payment but the advantage of that is it's a fixed payment and a lower interest rate I see I see so so so these when when I think about HELOC I'm thinking about something that's more kind of cut and dry but you're telling me that at at corstone because you're doing a lot of this stuff you're also looking at different variations on that theme really in order to accommodate what the uh what the customer is looking for right exactly and then you get you get into the repayment period That's typically a little bit longer than the draw period but at that point in time you can no longer draw on the funds the repayment period runs from anywhere from 10:15 I've seen some as far as 20 and that payment is really an amateurz payment so you're starting to pay back principal and interest and this is a good point to remember for you know Frank and Mary that payment should be or will be significantly higher than the interest only payment right of course because now you're paying back principal so during that qualification process UPF front we try to qualifying them to avoid what we call payment shock right we don't want to be shocked by a large payment if you have to pay all that back over the repayment period so that's why it's we want to put them in you know the the right credit limit knowing they the ability that they have back and and when you're and when you're doing that kind of qualification is your analysis of ability to repay based on the the ability to repay the interest only or or be on the ability to pay if they if they start in that at that point where they're actually having to repay the principle yeah we we try we look at it as far as if they drew the entire credit limit out yeah and that payment during the repayment period so we we are qualifying that much higher than the interest only payment and most lenders do that and they should do that right because that's you don't want to put them in a situation you know and I guess from my from Frank and Mary's perspective therefore right if they were if they were doing this you know they they they might really want to be looking at once again H how old they are when they do this because you're telling me that in the typical package you've got interest only for 10 years and then that other thing kicks in and and and and you're saying to yourself well I don't want this other thing to be kicking in and I'm like 90 years old and I've got like and now really because the older you get the more you're kind of stressed in terms of these finances right that's what and that makes sense to look at that up front right so it does and you know the you know you are accumulating debt and like you said it is a basically simplistically a credit card tied to your home right and you want to make sure you use it wisely and um you know it's a better tool than say pulling down funds from your investment accounts right especially in a down Market you know you're losing um you know wealth accumulation by pulling those funds out right and it's better off utilizing that helck and then when the market turns around then maybe utilizing those funds to pay back the helck and by not drawing into your investment accounts you you're avoiding you may be a tax implication right because that's the other issue most of most of these folks you've got my classic folks you've got a house and you paid off the mortgage and you've got some tax deferred you've got a you've got a 401k that turned into an IRA you you've got some tax deferred so the one of the other advantages I tell people of doing doing the the HELOC is that you're not having to pay income tax on those Reserve funds at this point you may want to kind of save those for later on and you just and you know once again ideally people say yeah but then what if I die and I always say well that solves all the problems dying is not the problem you know living well until you die is the problem right dying solves all issues right so can you you just also just talk a little bit about what's getting they walked in the door and they're thinking about this what's it going to cost them to to do this and is it related to the amount that they're borrowing because because once again when they're trying to compare apples and apples you know they're they're looking at this worth versus a reverse mortgage where where the I tell people The Upfront costs are really really high so you you need to really be absolutely comparing right yeah and for us in really most lenders there are no upfront fees for the home equity line of credit unless you get into a a much larger credit limit request or a higher LTV then yeah there might be some cost Associated but it it's it's marginal compared to especially reverse mortgage or doing a full first mortgage refinance so and there isn't a kind of an expected automatic fee like a point or a percent or two two% I say we we majority of our hel loocks there are no fees to take it out right and then and then I know that also I tend to be the one of the biggest fees on this the the attorneys tend to be big fees when it's when it's a first mortgage right been my experience that's much that's a much lower that's much lower because a lot of that is handled internally when it's a HELOC or a second it is we don't get full title insurance we get a property rund down title report uh you know rarely do we have to get a full appraisal um it's typically just a uh automated valuation um very quick you know typically we close them with less than 30 days it's really a a very simple process for most applicants of course you get into the the larger requests or more complicated borrowers um it might be a little more more to it but really not much more and it's pretty straight pretty straightforward so yeah I really appreciate you're doing you know taking the time to do this I think these are these are questions that folks come up with all the time and we'll have a slide that we ask we'll ask you to you know to give us with your your contact information or the contact information for the Bank you know whoever they should be calling but I just I just like you to leave people with so if there are questions who should they what is the number who should they call who should they talk to right yeah they can reach out to me directly and uh my phone number is 0945 or if you go to our website Cornerstone bank.com um you can search for our lenders and any of our mortgage loan officers anybody in their Branch can help you with this product um it it's pretty simple straightforward um you going to a local lender that liveing works where where you live I think is beneficial uh my suggestion is to shop around a little bit not all Hecks are traded equal um they're they're very similar in nature but they they can vary from um fees costs um interest rates um so it's important to really investigate those and and check them out and I think heck's a great product you know I I I encourage everybody to have one but they have to be be used responsibly uh and carefully uh because you don't want to use it as an ATM so to speak it it is emergency vehicle to help you out when needed and Scott and I know you're you're referring it to as an emergency vehicle but to me it's a sleep well at night vehicle it's that you want to use before the emergency right so you just know that if there's an emergency you're not going through anything you're just you know writing a check you know you're just and and and so I really appreciate you taking all this time you know and and and I hope that that uh that uh if folks have got questions F folks this is something you have to do if you're Frank and Mary if you want to stay at home if you've got limited other savings which is most people's situation you need to make sure that your house is available and I know you don't want to take use the money because you want to leave it all to your kids but what they're going to tell you is Ma look and Dad you you saved that money this is your money take care of yourself right and so this is an important tool for us so thank you very much Scott I really appreciate it and folks I hope you you know tune in to our on our YouTube channel you can find any number of these Bon briefs as well as other seminars that we do on other facets of elder law other facets of elder law so thank you so much all right thank you Arthur

of October 12th 2012 2023 just a reminder to everyone that the meeting is being broadcast and recorded um first on our agenda well I guess I'll officially call the meeting um to order at 7:23 the first item on our agenda is the clerk's report Kate Madam chair we received four communication uh by email from the public uh since the last planning board meeting thank you thank you um next on our agenda is public comment um so if any members of the live audience or the um it all right Peter I'll let you manage public comment sure so thank you so much we have two uh people uh two uh two members of the public that are looking to make a comment so uh first we're going to go uh in the room um to the podium um Mr Joel arbitman please introduce yourself with your name and address um Joel arbitman I chair the Ashland upper Charles Trail committee and I thank the board for giving me an opportunity to speak to some issues of concern that I have uh last May I submitted some written comments to the planning board about the homer a is it right Homer AV project and the board's uh reaction at that time one of the words that was used in sort of uh deemphasizing what I felt was an important uh safety consideration was the word aspirational we can't plan around a trail that doesn't exist there's almost nothing here you know someday maybe there'll be a trail and I just wanted to speak to a number of events that have occurred since May that lend uh important uh weight to the to how real this Trail is and and I hope that you'll uh take this under consideration first uh I've been told by the uh select board chair that Senator spilka has set aside some $2 million for ashlin's trail that's a serious amount of money and and would allow us to do a lot of uh surveying engineering and actual construction second representative Jack Lewis also was able to procure an additional $125,000 for the trail again that's you know it's not going to build the whole Trail but it's it's a an indication of deep commitment by our representatives and by the town and perhaps most importantly our own select board on June 20th at their retreat uh uh has uh uh determined that the trail project should be a priority project for the town uh meaning that we have been receiving additional staff time and resources Mr machek has attended one meeting already with us the town manager and another one is scheduled in the next couple of weeks so this is happening this is not some far off Fantasy by some bike riding Guy this is real uh there's substantial resources being put behind this and we're doing it so the question becomes what impact or impacts do we need to consider when we look at projects that are literally right adjacent to the trail I mean we give great concern to a Butters the trail isn't a butter and more importantly the trail is going to have as its users our residents in Ashland we're going to have kids riding bicycles we're going to have adults riding bicycles some of them with great skill and many not and so uh uh one of the concerns that I want to raise uh about the homer project is the parking uh my understanding is I don't have the exact number but it looks like there are some roughly 60 parking spots there can anybody tell me whether a traffic study has been done when the fir when the applicant first applied there was some traffic count submitted yes I'm sorry I I I wasn't able to hear that traffic counts were traffic counts I believe were submitted at the time of the original application so was was that done by an independent uh traffic consulting firm or was this supplied by the applicant it was it was supplied by the applicant and I and I and that's that's all I can speak to Okay so I mean if one were to just make a simple statement that uh children are going to be riding by this project right where these cars that are parked in the project are going back to the uh development are going to be parking uh uh you know is have we provide have we provided an adequate level of diligence to assess what the risk to the the children of the community and and others using these bike lanes that we're looking to put in one other uh item that I didn't mention is that the select board has been talking about as part of our complete streets program uh putting in a bike lane along Summer Street which as you know would run from the 135 end down to the light at Main Street the the continuation of that is the bike path that's the plan uh so I have no traffic background but I want to point out that if there are roughly 60 parking spots whatever the actual number number is I don't have that what is a what is an expect what is a reasonable expectation of trips per day per car or per unit or per you know per residence I don't know if each car goes out to work in the morning and comes back in the evening and maybe goes out once to the supermarket or to a local restaurant or something and comes back that's four trips and you multiply that times the number of cars well there each one of those trips is likely to be crossing the bike path so reducing the number of parking spots is one way to reduce the risk to Residents using the bike path and looking at other types of traffic mitigation could be considered also like a traffic light for example at the corner of Alden and uh Homer or coming out of the rear lot which I understand is now one way which by by the way I I want to point out the document that I submitted that I I really felt the board was very dismissive of of the importance of these considerations I raised uh included a recommendation to make that back parking lot a one way which I was glad to hear later the fire department had their own independent concerns and and that the board uh thought that was important to do so that's great that's a definite Improvement I think that's about it so I I I guess the question is you know oh oh and one other thing I've been hearing a lot of talk you guys know this better than I do about possible significant housing going in where the current Mill building is so we're talking about not we shouldn't be just looking at Homer AV in a vacuum and saying well it's this many units it's this many cars here's our estimated trips per day on or crossing the bike path on Homer but we're going to put in an addition to that more housing and more cars S at the Mill building if that project is is a reality and those people you know we can speculate that they're going to go north up Myrtle Street to the pike or they'll never they'll never be on Homer but you know a lot of those residents are going to be going over to the gas station on Homer come and again it's crossing the bike path in and out uh one last thing I wanted to say and I hope I'm not misquoting the attorney uh I watched I watched the uh the last hearing and I believe this is what the this is what I heard the attorney say let me put it that way uh there was a a calculation made of the number of parking spots for the commercial space on Homer I guess the first floor is what we're talking about and I did my own math and couldn't couldn't come up with the same calculation so maybe this could be explained more clearly uh what I heard was that there's a certain calculation in our bylaws or zoning code that that talks about how many spaces you need to allocate based on the type of business number of seats and so on and what I heard uh attorney mors say uh was I I think that uh he said the uh the the pizza place would have required nine seats and each of the two smaller businesses uh the barber shop and the whatever the other one is were were two each so that would have been 9 plus 2 plus 2 13 uh parking spots for the for the current businesses if we don't plan and allow as as they say in the shoe business room in the toe if the businesses changeed but let's say as a requirement that that it would have been 13 spots and attorney moris went on to explain that uh because it's in the downtown zone or there are certain specificities in the zoning code uh there's a an exception I guess I'm not sure what the jargon is uh to allow only 75% of the uh the number calculated and uh what I heard was he arrived at 8 when he did the calculation my math and and my little pocket calculator says if you do 3/4 75% of 13 it's 10 9.75 to be exact which would require an extra two spots maybe I'm not doing the math right uh if it just to keep it simple if it's 3/4 of 12 and this would be 3/4 of 13 that would be nine he came up with eight so I I just to point out that that my math is showing that there would be an additional two public parking spots required and again I I'm not saying I have a full understanding of this but I I I was confused by that and I would love to have an explanation anyway that's it thank you very much I appreciate your giving me the time to speak thank you Mr Ritman just for clarification the downtown add zoning bylaw does have its own parking calculations and it's 75% of 75% and so there's another step within your calculation that you missed okay okay great thank you you're welcome the second person with their hand raised is Mr Mark donon Mr Mark D can you please unmute yourself and state your name and address okay thank you good evening Mark 49 half Road I have couple of questions and and maybe in opinion if I get an answer on one the downtown construction is nearly finished how much more through the planning department is left to have done that can be said to the public that's one Mr Mar uh Mr Don so yes the downtown project is is near in completion uh there's a couple elements that still need to be done they're going to be installing brick in the Middle Island um you know in the coming days into or weeks um and then I think that's really about it I think it they're down to to a punch list uh I am not the project manager on that and so that may be better suited for for uh for for a town manager but I think the punch list items will be completed as soon as possible and I think you're looking for final completion in the spring I think everyone can appreciate the Landscaping that was recently planted and uh and I think it's that's what I that's what I can you know as an update I can give uh Mr Don and the other one would be if I have permission to ask in the in the comprehensive plan is how much more ground work is left to be done before the public can have an idea of what there's going to be for um back to the planning board back and forth before public forums what's what's what's there that going to be through the plan through the members that are on it I can ask and Mark I'm one of the members on the St ing committee the comprehensive plan process just started in some ways because we just uh began work with our consultant and it is a multi-month process most communities it takes about two years to wrap up a comprehensive plan process so we're just at the beginning okay at some point there will be check-ins with the planning board as the work continues and I'm sure the steering committee will seek input of the planning board but there isn't a particular time frame that we can share right now until the consultant and the steering committee get going it's just starting out and and I just had one little plug though on public that um December forum and we don't have a date but just have people really on the lookout because that is the a big kickoff of public input okay thank you and um there was some sort of talk committees other committees in town here saying that know it's it's the two committees the design review and the planning board how strong are both of those boards together other than say ask and they can look at this say things about a uh project and then come back and circle around go back to one board come back to the other how strong is that c together Mark I I think we are definitely making Headway in the relationship you may not be aware we had at one point a meeting of both uh entities in order to talk about improving our communication and we've developed some improvements such as getting written feedback from design review uh which is a major improvement in our communication style so I would say that Circle of communication is strengthening I'm sure there's things we can do better Mark but we're making progress and um I I was my opinion which is not um negative not positive but it's down the road sort of thing the uh businesses economic growth I think in my mind should be more said than a horrible housing because the economic growth in this town is not there and still making the citizens the oldest citiz and senior citizens paying more from here so businesses should be more welcomed and housing should be put on waiting list thank you all right thank you uh next item on our agenda is um number four at we're talking about a planning board represent representative to the Metro West Regional collaborative and with us we have Yolanda gavves from the select board who also currently chairs the Metro West Regional collaborative and um I've invited Yolanda here to kind of explain to us a little bit what it is um and we do have um our new associate member Amanda who may be interested in filling that position so if you can fill us in we'd appreciate it Yolanda sure so the Metro excuse me the Metro West Regional collaborative is one of the sub regions of the MPC which is the metropolitan area planning Council uh they have 101 cities and towns that they represent and as a town we work with them we pay dues to them to participate and be part of their organization they also then help us with different projects so the Metro West Regional collaborative is our sub region it is currently nine communities it's about to be 10 it is Holliston Ashland Framingham natic Marboro Wayland Weston Southboro that's eight Welsley and we're about to add Sherborn uh one of the reasons we're looking to add Sherborn is through a lot of the discussions on the upper Charles Trail Sherborn was doing things and we said you know it would be really good if they were part of our conversation what is the benefit of either participating or us being a part of the Metro Regional collaborative so when I first came on the select board 11 plus years ago uh we needed a new appointee because the person who was the appointee had was no longer on the board and for me it was an opportunity to meet other select board members and planning board members as well as different Community leaders throughout the region and I was able to learn a lot and get to know all these people so that when we're having discussions it's not just an Ashlin discussion it can be a regional discussion so we're about to look at having a discussion about the new MBTA 3A zoning how is that impacting communities how are different communities dealing with it the other project that we've been working on for I don't know probably seven or eight years is a project that mapc has started but that we are very much a big part of it's called the landline project and that is connecting multi-use Trails not only in our region but throughout the region and because of the work of this landline project that is not just ours but other regions there is a north to south Greenway that's getting put in place so from Maine to Florida and originally they were going to have it come through Massachusetts out near Worcester and Springfield because of the work that our region is doing between the upper Charles Trail the Bruce Freeman Trail Chris Walsh Trail the Chris Walsh Trail and various other trails the minute man Trail Mass between all these Trails it was determined that instead of having that north south go to the middle of the state it's going to come through our region so the upper Charles trail that we are working on for Ashland it won't necessarily hit the Ashland portion but because we'll be connected to Sherborn and Holliston and Framingham eventually which is Framingham is doing a lot of work people will be coming down that trail and they'll be saying oh if I want to go see what ashlin's doing or if I want to go see what's going on so the collaboration within this organization for our region has been very beneficial for us for that um like I said for myself when I first got on the board and I was the representative I would go to these meetings and I learned so much about what other communities are doing but it also gave me insight into some of what the planning board does because I was still learning about what the I mean I knew what the planning board did but not to the same extent I also met some great leaders if you know Dennis GM Betty Who currently works for Senator spilka's office he was the Framingham representative and another gentleman some of you may know or maybe not uh Josh OST who was from natic he was their select board representative at the time and now I'm making connections with Marboro because they have their representative there and Southboro and so whoever decides to represent from the planning board I think if you can sit in on those meetings on a regular basis they are they are very educational um the important part though is we have not had a planning board representative since Preston Crow stepped down and unfortunately the current bylaws of the the collaborative is you have to have a quorum of your communities and the n and each Community has two people that need to represent it to be able to take any vote so we're not the only community that hasn't had a second person for a while but this between now and November we're in the process of really as a group trying to every town have their two Representatives appointed and be at meetings so that we can take some votes we have some bylaw changes that we need to vote on we have some funding project Project funding that we need to vote on uh so when I spoke last with Trisha and when I was here last time it was recommend you know it was suggested that maybe Amanda might be interested but she might not always be able to make it so I reached out and I got confirmation that we can have an appointee and we can have an alternate we just need to put that in the appointing letter that we send to Metro West Regional collaborative so if aanda decide she'd like to be the appointee I would recommend that Alvaro be her uh alternate so that if she can't be at a meeting or if she's not there when voting is happening that we at least have a second person you know in the room sort of say so that um the collaborative can get its business done cuz right now we've been hindered by not having and again it's not just Ashlin that hasn't had one hollis's been having some issues marbo some other communities as well where they maybe appoint people but they don't show up and they you have to have a certain quorum to be able to take a vote so I have a question on that because I think either last time you said it was a planning board so what are the actual requirements is it just another representative not no it needs to be a member either a select board member or someone appointed by the select board or a planning board member or someone appointed by the planning board for each of these communities now for the two cities for Framingham and marbo it's not it's city counselor or it's or mayor appointees but the the idea is that for each of the communities there need to be two people appointed and then ideally show up at the meetings so that we can vote and have Quorum because with 18 people well and it's going to be 20 people are going to be appointed we're going to need to have at least 11 people showing up to be able to take a vote okay and that I guess I would just want when we mentioned last time Alvaro he's not a planning board member so I was wondering how that works it can be an appointee and there are many communities that do not have a planning board member or a select board member um I know for Weston they have a select board member and then it's their Town planner um for whand the woman who is appointed as the planning board member or I maybe she's a select board appointee is no longer on the board but no one currently on the board was interested and she was interested in continuing the seat um sari who is now in Framingham used to be in Wayland he was there appointee for the planning board so it doesn't have to be a planning board member it has to be a planning board appointee or a select board appointee and just a note either myself and or alv try to attend every meeting so Alvaro has been attending and networking just for the reasons why um y ler stated and when I try to I can try I try to jump on when I can so just to make a note that Alvaro has had a presence uh and and we do try to stay connected with within that sub region group yep and you noted that the the meetings are at the third Thursday from 8:00 to 9:30 the third Thursday at 8 to 93 9 online typically yeah so what we've been doing certainly since coid is they've all been via Zoom unless we're having a big event so in October on the 26th we're having one of our big Trails events that's happening in framing so that will not be in person fortunately for that one there won't be Tak we won't there won't be any votes taken it's really just presentations on what's going on and and a way to again connect and talk to different people and find out what other planning board people are dealing with or select board people or even talking to their Town managers or city counselors um and that won't just be our region they reach out to the regions that abut us as well so there's the magic region and what's the one in the Sou sou the South the Southshore Coalition there's a Northshore task force there's magic there's the Metro West and I believe there's three rivers uh which is the the medfit area right and then I believe there's a northern middle sex as well which covers conquered um conquered Stow um mayor that kind of District I would say so um Amanda did express interest in in taking this position we had talked about a little bit before it didn't it seemed like it was um and if anyone else is interested they should step up but someone that can commit themselves to to this position um Amanda do you want to I'd be thrilled to represent the planning board um I think you know I my one hesitation was the timing and just family obligations getting my kids to school but um I I can be there it's it's a question of you know it might be 805 810 and that's that's the yeah when I when I talk to Trisha about it so because I'm the chair I have a hand in creating the agenda so if it's the kind of thing where if I know you're planning on being there if you're our representative I can make sure that we don't do you know like minutes or any vote taking at the beginning of the meeting we can move at a little bit later in the meeting perfect and and I I would I'm thrilled at that opportunity and that flexibility um yeah I would love to and if you want to talk in more detail I'd love to have a conversation but first is are there any other comments from the planning board about who we want to represent us I have another comment not about who to represent us okay um I I guess I'm a little disappointed that sort of first I'm hearing that we weren't Staffing this and it came up and I get that that's how it works but also is there a way to integrate some feedback to the board like about what's happening like high level but can we put it on our agenda at at the followup and have a absolutely we will put Amanda on the spot every single meeting and to have a report but and and and we actually did have someone um L me was actually our representative and I don't know if she just didn't wasn't aware always of the meetings I'm not sure she well until she left she was I mean so after I guess after Preston left she was your appointee so she was there so I guess it's been since Lai has so it it hasn't been this whole time you know and Emma would go to the meetings I would try to go meeting cly there was presentation from the planning but because there was no one officially appointed for Ashland other than myself we didn't we didn't always have Quorum I mean a lot of times we did because of the other communities but we're at a we're right now within the collaborative really trying to push that each Community has their two appointees and it's official um and again the October meeting wasn't as critical because we're not taking any votes but at our first at our meeting in November which I believe is going to be the 30th because the fourth Thursday is actually Thanksgiving so it'll be the week after we'll be taking votes on the bylaw and um funding of some projects so we just want to get this taken care of so is there any other member of the board that is interested in taking on this responsibility seeing No Hands raised I make a motion that we appoint Amanda Hayes to be pling board representative to the meeting with it um Alvaro our assistant Town planner as the alternate and is there a second I'll second that and a roll call vote deai Anna teski I Marcel I Katherine Jers I Trisha Kendall I and that task is done great thank you very much I appreciate it and again Amanda let's get together um and we can chat perfect thank you I'm excited welcome thank you all thank you all right so next on our agenda um uh we have two public hearings tonight the first one is 400 Cedar Street this is a special permit for T-Mobile North East Peter can you kind of um introduce that topic to us sure thank you so much thank you so much so this application is for uh 400 Cedar Street also for uh 36 uh 396 sometimes known as 400 Cedar Street this is a town of ashin owned water tank right on the Ashlin um excuse me Ashen hollon line so the applicant is T-Mobile represented tonight by Adam brayy um EXC EXC I forgot I forgot your Law Firm I'm sorry okay I'll let you intr introduce yourself uh but just uh in the process the town of Ashland uh for many years has had uh cell equipment Communications equipment uh attached to this Tower um and not to take any of the the the the steam away from the application but um very briefly um over the years the town of Ashland had five um five carriers attached to this water tank four on the sides and then one on top of the tank T-Mobile over the years the town of ashin um through our water and sewer department um DPW uh Doug Small and our consultant Greg Aldridge um we've always kind of kept a close eye on the tank um and really the structural Integrity of the top of the tower with the equipment on it so um over time Sprint merged with T-Mobile um and they for Sprint uh has taken their equipment off the tower the town of Ashland always has that the desire to move T-Mobile to the side of the Tower so with Sprint leaving indoor merging with T-Mobile it's opened up a vacancy on the side of the tower the town of Ashland ex let the lease expire for T-Mobile who which once sat on top of the tower and then every 20 years we have to put out RFP and so the RFP was put out for the vacant spot on the side of the tower T-Mobile was the winner of that RFP process and they are looking to um theoretically move their equipment to the side of from the top of the tower to the side of the tower in doing so they're looking to upgrade their equipment but the the perming of Team Mobile on the tower on the 400 Cedar Street Tower does date back I believe to 2002 uh when the zon board of appeals issued a the variance and a special permit for the location of their cell equipment I do just want to make note that the applicant and oursel in the town of ashon work together because the the location of this Tower sat very close to the town line that both residents within 300 ft of the property in Ashland and within hollon were notified um of this hearing and of the equipment being proposed so with that I will turn it over to the applicant Adam brayy and he can take us through the application great thank you uh Peter and I I don't think I have to say much more um just for the record uh my name is Adam brillard I with a firm called Prince leel Thai we represent T-Mobile on a number of permanent and Leasing and Zoning aspects um throughout the years um and I'm here in connection with a uh modification of an existing special permit that was granted back in 2002 for the reasons that um that Peter referenced we I think we approached the town back in 2021 um with an an interest T-Mobile's interest in modifying the existing site changing out the antennas there's currently nine panel antennas up there with some um remote radio units I think six remote radio units and T-Mobile at that time just wanted to swap out the antennas the lease was coming up for end of its life for 20 years um and Peter and I Peter contacted me we got together and and we said let's let's kind of do everything here at once if um if T-Mobile wants to continue to stay on the tank then the the town's going to um then they're going to have to uh respond to an RFP and win that bid um and then we can talk about um what what we want to do with the equipment so that's what we did the the town um put the um location out to our p and I'm I'm reiterating what Peter said but um T-Mobile respond to that I was actually I did the work for that as well a big part of what's in the application that tab six I think is um is the lease it's I'm not sure what it's the lease and the RFP response um so we've were working on this for a while I think it's tab six yeah um so once we won that then the next step and Next Step was then to negotiate the lease um I think there was a minimum bid amount so the rent was already determined but we needed to negotiate the legal terms I also did that with the town um and uh and Town Council um and then we that was fully executed not that long ago probably two or three months ago and then we filed um our application with this board for the uh the modification Andor special permit so what we're proposed so that's kind of the the history here we've been working on this for a little while again uh currently Teo is on the top of the tank um just going back a little bit when we first kind conted Peter in the town um they got got the consultant in involved um Halo Ward um and then early 2022 um Hal Ward said listen tanks aren't really meant to have equipment on the top everything's good structural analysis that we've run is is fine what they've run is fine the beams underneath are are not corroded or anything like that but over time we don't want to worry about that and their recommendation was to for T-Mobile to go on the side of the tank and it made sense now that um T-Mobile and Sprint emerged and Sprint was removing its equipment so all that has happened te- Ms agreed with that we've uh rent our RFP response referenced the mounting on the side of the antenna and coming off the top the lease agreement the lease agreement and the exhibits in the lease agreement show uh T-mobile taking the antennas off the side the top and going on the sides so this is really the close to the final step final step up being a building permit um and that's why we're here and so the proposal is to take the mounting equipment off take the panel antennas off the top the remote radio units off the top of the tank anything that's on the top off the tank and then put back on the side of the tank um eight panel antennas instead of we have nine up there now but because of the the um challenges with other carriers that are on the side of the tank we are not going to be able to get the full nine so we'll have two sectors of three panel antennas and one sector of two panel antennas to to Total nine that works for the radio frequency standpoint so we're good there um and then we'll have six remote radio units also on the side of the tank and then we'll run the conduit and co- axle cabling accordingly and down where it already exists at the base of the tank where T-Mobile's existing um cabinets are there's two existing cabinets we're going to remove one large cab cabinet which is about the size of a refrigerator and then install two small cabinets on that same pad one of those cabinets is a radio equipment cabinet the other one's a battery backup and we'll run um we're going to run uh hybrid cables to the uh to the antenna's additional we're going to take off I think 12 coax cables and run uh smaller hybrid cables and that's really the extent of the uh the installation um when you mention the uh um consultant is that the dpw's third party consultant Greg Eldridge correct so Greg Eldridge works for Helen board Greg Eldridge uh takes care of is is kind of is there we always talk about gcg and how they do our our civil reviews uh Greg Eldridge and uh Halen Ward are dpws gcg third party consultant for all water and sewer matters um and Greg has been reviewing this and actually it's it's being reviewed One More Time by Greg um and we're just waiting for final sign off on that I do want to make note when you see the tank um and if you're ever coming up Elliot Street um outer Elliot Street from Sherborn and you look above the tree line I would say at around uh 10:00 10 11:00 you can actually see the tank and and one of the elements that we do need to look at as a town is actually paint the tank and so that is one a key component of another re reason why we were looking to move the equipment off the top and the side is so we can have greater access to kind of maintain that tank so is it a matter of kind of safety for the equipment that we requested the town requested this be moved I think it's both I think it's a little bit of everything I think number one I think over time structurally we did not want equipment up on that tank you know it's a piece of infrastructure that the town owns and operates um and number two um it allows us greater access to maintain the tank um and then also with the vacancy of Sprint on the side of the tank this was kind of the perfect opportunity to have since Sprint dropped out T-Mobile in merged with T-Mobile T-Mobile was on the top it was just kind of bringing everything together so since uh a social concern is kind of one of the basis for for this change is the town set on never leasing the top of the tank again great question I don't have a full answer to that but I'm going to take a stab and say yes the town is not looking to it it's not recommended by Greg Eldridge to lease space on top of not just any not just the town of Ashton water tank but on any water tank on top and so I think it's kind of a Greg Eldridge third party Consulting civil engineering matter where you you say you know what this tank built in this time era was really not developed into or designed to hold this weight and so over time there is a possibility um obviously I don't have the accreditations to tell you that the town will never lease this tank on top of the tank but uh I don't think the town is in any interest to to go out to bid to implement another carrier on top of the tank so um was there any preliminary findings from Greg Eldridge on on this you said he was going to be issuing a final report there's a we have a letter Tab four I think is it do we have yeah I think it's Tab four so that's the structural analysis that we ran oh this tab four is your analysis yeah that's our analysis um that for the side for the side gotcha do we do we have an analysis for the top being a bad idea what I have is from Greg um I have a couple copies of that yeah we don't have a structal analysis for the top of the tank the equipment's been up there since 2000 the early 2000s um when when T-Mobile was first issued this permit so the the way these telecommunications leases work right and and and please step in Adam if I if I misspeak um but from what I've collected is the state of Massachusetts does not allow season sils to enter into any lease agreements four um we can just pass it around that you cannot typically leases correct me if I'm wrong do not exceed 20 years in a 20 year time frame and so and so back in early 2000s it was still when when cities and towns were pering these cell towers um on smoke sacks on water tanks wherever it was still a little bit of a little bit of the while West I would say yeah you know everything was run all structurals were run and there not that that I know of there's been no issues with u you know equipment on on water tanks that and I've done a ton of these really my job is to do exactly what Peter's saying is when leases are up for renewal the 20 years have gone by we go and we request towns to issue the rfps and we get on those and then a lot of times at that point ifin 20 years everyone's got a lot smarter language and rent and everything and time maintenance maintenance and you know like for example this town there was no there was nothing in the lease that has expired that allowed the town to require carrier to relocate temporarily while and say for example pained under this new le the town now has the right to save a T-Mobile hey you have so many you know a couple months you're right to get off the tank well we be pain and then you go back on but so it's just things like that this letter came out um in 2022 I think May and um around the same time when we were when we when T-Mobile was saying we want to just we want to just um modify the existing site and and and I was working with Peter and he said listen I think that uh Haley Ward is is concerned or not concerned but they they're recommending that if there's space on the side to go on the side has Haley Ward reviewed your tab four findings they're in the process of review but not concluded okay correct it hasn't been concluded it's been started that whole process has been concluded yep so I mean my my gut in and thank you so much for showing us the letter I think that's really helpful um yeah you can take it back that's okay if you need to but um I mean my thought immediately is that obviously the application seem sound per various laws that there is no substantial change in the physical dimensions relative to the current use if you will of the side being removed and there's the space on the side so I think arguably it's hard for us to deny the application my concern is more about our responsibility as the planning board because we do have some jurisdiction in plan and we have some responsibility for this tank and so I have no problem agreeing to the application obviously once we have Haley Ward confirmed the tab uh for your analysis we're not going to create a structural problem once I have that confirmation I'm very comfortable proving the application but I also feel like we as a planning board separate issue need to have a conversation about the fact that there was a safety concern two years ago that we did not know about until today and we do have some obligation to think hard about a $250,000 lease coming into our community that we're now aware of because it was signed in August of this year and we have some responsibility to make sure this tank and whatever structural damage we may have caused already is addressed because at some point in the future that is our responsibility and this will be the planning board that knew and did not do anything so I just want to make that very clear it sounded to me and correct me if I'm wrong Peter that DB W has already long been kind of on top of this issue um and that's why we have the third party consultant looking into it and making this recommendation that is correct so um yeah so I I think it's just a logical I think the the letter um by Mr Eldridge which is I think it was by him right um which is I think fairly brief it's just very logical that we take them off the top and put them on the side um so I obviously have um no problem with that either um with the caveat that we're we're waiting for the final the final review so that of of calculations we can't possibly understand so um I do have a question I think I look through the packet pretty well but is there any equipment that's going to make more noise than what's there or hopefully less noise than what's there um yeah good question the the so the battery C the the the cabinet that's being removed has I think two fans uh to cool the um the radios that are inside it um the computers that are inside it those fans are um like 6 in wide and that's going to be removed the and replaced with two smaller cabinets one's the um battery backup that has no noise and the other is a smaller radio cabinet which has smaller uh fans so I don't know the decibel changes but I think it's going to be actually less or di Minimus so you're not going to you're not going to have there's not going to be change there any other questions from the board right um then I think at this time we could um take a vote that is dependent on the final review and um the final review from the third party Consultants how how does that work procedurally though because like who if we're not seeing that like do we say dependent on well I think's satisfied with it not us we would be then kind of directing Peter to and we can wait on the vote as long as we're in um you know as long as we're in agreement we can have Peter start the decision process because we still have to have a decision and vote on that decision so if we're comfortable with him starting the decision process and it's just dependent on the third party reviewer saying yep everything everything looks good to him we can expedite that process I I I am comfortable I mean the this's due diligence being done being done in the process and uh if if a final analysis is what's missing then I I don't see any reason why we should not just expedite and just move on meaning start drafting the decision and vote next time well that's what you just said right yeah I I think that's the it was just kind of our you know taking are are we all ready to do that that draft an approval decision it's contingent upon the final review and then we'll be ready to vote on it next time I can say for the next meeting I I'm more than capable of getting a draft decision out to the planning board obviously uh you know the Friday before which would be next Friday and then obviously uh I'll continue to work with Greg and Adam and make sure that we get obviously final sign off um and then everyone everything is notated within the final decision uh for a review very to the last kind of cell phone tower applications we've kind of gone through so yep all right General consensus on that so we just we'll just proceed in that manner okay so I think at this point we just continue to the next meeting which is the um excuse me I go to look at my phone um 26 you are correct 26 I make a motion that we continue the hearing 400 CER special T-Mobile application to October 26 meeting and second Anna ROV Anna tuski I Marcel I Katherine Jers I Anda kend I so thank you we will see this again on the 26th I do want to request from Peter a little bit more again separate issue but related to this I I think that in light of this mention in the May 2022 letter of um strength loss over the years I think we do need to kind of have an update on what our plans are as town to address any strength loss to that tank that we're now aware of whatever that strength loss is I'm happy to have a conversation into that yeah I'm happy so that this board can be responsible because I certainly don't want to not I don't want to not act on that if it's a non-issue I'd love to have a memo from our town folks experts to say oh it's perfectly fine there's no strength loss you don't have to worry about this whatever damage we've done by having this on top of the tank Tower you don't have to worry about if the town takes that position great but until the town does it's on us as planning board members it's becomes our responsibility but so I I don't understand that I mean we don't know that there's damage done so we should not say it I don't uh I've read this 2022 letter and it raises my eyebrows a little bit well I read it too it did ra it says that there there were concerns but there's no but there's no uh final it's not structurally damaged right now but by putting things on top for so long we caused enough damage that we needed to remove then why are we removing it well remov it because it's was not designed to carry it but the the letter says that there's every structure is designed with extra capacity for for concy so if Haley Ward opined that it was a good idea to remove it why don't we get Haley W to confirm that there's nothing for us to repair uh I I'm well the plan board is not responsible for repairing parts of the Town who who is responsible for for the structure the water department or who structure it's the water the the DPW the Water and Sewer Department okay so I assume they are on top of whatever maintenance Greg and our water and Su Department work work hand inand and and they have a you know they typically would and what I assume and I believe is they have a Capital Improvements plan right about all infrastructure within Town depending if it's a sewer treatment Su Pump Station to water tanks and I know in the next couple years the plan is to paint this tank right and it needs to be done cuz I see it every day as as my as I come to work and I think that's one of the major components to make sure that we can maintain and update this tank and I think for the future of this tank and for any infrastructure in the town of Ashland is that we're saying the best option for the town right now is to move T-Mobile off the top and put it on the side and and that's been always my takeaway I'm happy to to reach out to Greg and simple as remembering that we we have jurisdiction over planning including resources we are currently in the middle of a comprehensive plan we have a very important resource called a water tank we should at least make sure to notify our consultant for the comprehensive plan we have a quarter million dollars coming in for a 5year lease we have a resource now financially to repair this tank we as a as a planning board have jurisdiction to plan and take care of our resources that I think it's clear I think and I think DPW and Greg already on top of this but we can ask them to report where they great idea so right but I think it's on their court and I I think they're already on top of it but we will we will ask Greg Eldridge about that so that we can know the status of the tank yep okay thank you I'll follow up with him but I will uh we we'll see you in in two weeks and and we'll work together on it and and see everything through awesome thank you thank you appreciate it have a great night all right next on our agenda um our second public hearing is um 99 to 49 Homer Avenue site plan and special permit application uh Peter can you just give us a quick update about uh where this is sure so the last time we met on this um the application team who's here joins us via Zoom Mr Attorney Terry Morris I believe their architect Ron bour and also their civil engineer Rick Salvo or on the call so since our last meeting uh the application team met with the design review Comm committee last Thursday night um the the the the the design Review Committee again met last night uh and so they uh very brief uh very swiftly issued their fi their their memo uh this morning which I received which I forward out to everybody so I know toming wasn't the greatest um and and I and uh that's just part of the process um however I can let the application team give you a review and obviously the design Review Committee um their report speaks for itself uh in addition uh this morning I also received the gcg report um and so I I spoke with gcg today and I and I had a good conversation with Rick Salvo the civil engineer so at this point we received drc's um report and I believe it's their final report um and we do have our gcg I think there's some outstanding uh engineering items that I that speaking to both gcg and and and Mr Salvo that we just need to kind of tie down um but that's where everything kind of stands tonight and so um please just a note before I give it I give the microphone over to the application team um I just want to make a note that um all the material samples have been submitted um and that's what's displayed here on the on the on the on the table so um ra I'm going to take it back okay uh so at this point I'm G to hand it to Trisha yeah so um given that uh and I think all the members are aware of this that we we got two reports just today um one was from the design Review Committee um and as Peter said on their meetings and we also got um a a round of reviews from um from gcg you know and which frankly I haven't even had a chance to open right um as you know both of them came late in the day I did I did skim through the design Review Committee but that was all the time I had and I'm sure most if not all of you were in the same boat so my um suggestion tonight is that we um put aside the gcg report for now to we at least have a chance to read through it those tend to be more complex issues that you want to be fully awake to understand um we've already been through the design Review Committee things before so it's a little bit more familiar um and so my recommendation would be that we start going through the design Review Committee um we we we'll let the applicant present the things that the new items that they presented to the design Review Committee if any nothing that we've seen before we don't need to see it again um but then really start looking just going through the list of design Review Committee and we get as far as we get this evening looking at those things knowing that again most of us really haven't had a chance to look at it in any depth um to this point any uh feedback on that plan sound like we're go through stff I think it's the blue stuff actually the blue stuff is the design Review Committee notes the red were the initial action items the green what was added by Marcelo and I and then the blue is the kind of final notes so that said now I will turn it over to the applicant knowing that that that is our plan for this evening if you have if you have anything you want to add or or ask or requ Quest different than that plan I'm willing to hear it but that's where we're sitting I think no as a matter of fact we received reports as as uh Peter matak said uh today at the same time you did so we really hav't a chance uh to delve into them rather than simply read them C cursorily and uh point out any um things that we think we've already answered um I think it's what we did we approached the design Review Committee with your the markup that you and marchella did um and focused on those issues largely they dealt with Hardscape and Landscaping because as we went through your markup there were several places where you indicated that was the purview of the uh design Review Committee and we focused on that uh we focused on the treatment of the sidewalk um the so-called plazas in front of each of the buildings and then of course we we finished up with the actual treatment of the facades themselves and materials uh I have read the the DRC report and I think that perhaps that would be the best uh document to uh since you you the members may not have had the opportunity to go through it perhaps we could put that up on the screen and use that as a template and go through each one and tell you what yeah actually I think we have we all have it in front of us so I think the best thing would be to do to put is to put up the drawings so that we can um you know okay you know the latest drawings that we can you know if we're looking at the plan or the elevation we actually have that large in front of us uh Ron who oh who's putting there we go well perhaps one of the most just as an introductory remark Madam chair one of the most significant um changes to the look of the building uh as you know at the last meeting the most significant change was to the site plan itself where we um changed the uh entry an exit point to oneway traffic in off of Homer and out onto Alden um the most uh obvious Vis physical change to the facades was the um was the we picked up on the suggestion that the DRC made that they felt that the the the commercial facades that uh typify the the first floor um in three of the buildings that project um forward on Homer Street we had added uh we had um used brick in the recessed areas I'm hope I'm not stealing uh my colleague Ron's Thunder and the two buildings at the end as you will see um we had a brick inlay and they had suggested that we use a common approach or a uniform approach uh to the to the front uh first story facades and and I and we've we've agreed to do that I'm not sure whether Ron has had a chance to change that or not but uh I just point that out as one of the more obvious changes Ron are you ready yes so I think sure yes so I think the first point if we're following the design Review Committee document the first point on page 2117 is about the front um the the plaza spaces in front so if we can look at a plan of the plaza spaces I think there's some a rendered plan yeah so um it so um it seems like there was a discussion so I just want to clarify this to the planning board it says that they're noting on record that these spaces should should continue to be reviewed throughout the pro project development process such as flexibility is provided for use of undefined tenants and for the tenants and for the community so do you want to just um review with that discussion was it sounds like since we don't know what the tenants are going to be we don't know if tables out in front of those little areas are appropriate or if a or some or if something else is appropriate out in front of those entrances is that is that is my understanding on that correct no that that is correct okay uh which is sort of that discussion we've been having back and forth where we don't know what the tenants are is very difficult so the best we can do is provide a space that is adaptable and U as you can see here there are really four different types if you go from left to right uh so on the far left you'll see that it's just an entry sequence uh there could be benches bike racks that type of thing but really it's not suited for seating uh the second Bay from the left I've indicated bike racks and seating and an open Plaza which which the um design Review Committee had requested initially to widen that and make it um a little more open um the third Bay uh introduces uh some some plantings to separate the entrance in the in the from the plaza to the sidewalk and uh has benches and and um and bicycle racks and the far right is the entrance into the U residential lobby as well as side doors for some of those commercial spaces um so from our discussion um and I think what's been marked up on the plan is that they indicated that the third Bay over with the uh with the tree in the in the center in the well is what they'd like to see presented in the other um Bay to the left as well and to uh recess the uh benches um into the landscape slightly um so that we introduce benches there as well it does still give us that opportunity for Flex space where there would be sufficient space on either one of those if if one was a a deli and the other one was retail space for example example uh we could have uh tables you know on either one of those bays and I think it would work out well so it sort of accomplishes that goal of of having a flexible space that can accommodate the tenants whoever they be um another major discussion we had was about Landscaping so we spent a significant amount of time talking about the plantings and they had made suggestions which they've indicated in this document uh we have not had a chance to update that yet but um Julie and I will work on that and um that will be sort of that final um discussion about the Landscaping hopefully so um I think we we'll meet we'll meet what they what their intent is and and I think that should be fine with that Ron Ron if I could interject one thing one of the things in discussing the plazas so to speak and the introduction of a a tree in uh in the the left hand side there was also discussion of where we locate uh bicycle uh racks bicycle facilities and I think at the end of the discussion there was pretty much agreement that they would be located just uh back of sidewalk uh rather than closer to the buildings um and uh so this doesn't show on this plan but it it's something that I think uh would enter into the discussion any final discussion about how we treat the area these PL these spaces that is correct right any so I I think the general point the design Review Committee is saying I believe is that there's going to be some flexibility in these spaces to accommodate different types of tenants and that would be appropriate as we have no idea what the program would be going into these spaces to me that seems very logical and I would say that maybe if there's a a a major change from the final site plan submitted that that might need to go in front back in front of the planning board but otherwise we assume that there's going to be some flexibility benches versus tables versus you know whatever else might be out there I mean I took it a little bit differently I don't think it's just about tenants it's just about the community and so I I would I don't I was not there so the applicant could correct me but I took that comment to mean kind of both usage not just tenants and so if you have bike cracks a little bit closer to the road I believe there was some prior discussion at another meeting we had that the trail may not be that far away um part of what we're thinking about here is how this space creates a sense of community um how it might be utilized people coming and going to these businesses sure are tenants but there also might be community members going to school or walking home or walking to the post office and this could be a space that allows that communal feel as well um and it brings to mind um I had a recent trip in Maine where there are apartment buildings that essentially have public public space integrated so that you can enter these types of spaces and there might be like the one I'm thinking of um in Maine had a like a chair like a that represented that town and you could like sit in the chair and take a picture across from a from the Waterfront of you know the little town name behind you kind of deal so like you could in theory Envision more of a community presence in some of these spaces relative to the historic train station or some some kind of easement if you will for public space into these these areas so that's kind of how I took that comment because it doesn't just mention tenants so how does that differ from flexible spaces as long as we recognize it's not just about tenant use it's also about thinking about this as a potential Public public space in part so I I the flexibility I like but I also we also the applicant mentioned some specifics so like I don't want to lose track of those I think we we all agree on bike racks we fought hard for bike racks sometimes and didn't get them I think bike racks come later in the document it probably does but but I guess it's related to those spaces like I would go bike racks yes toward the road yes or no it's a board decision tree and the other one yes or no like just to get through what was said because we're losing trail of that if we don't yeah no I I understand I just know that both the tree and the bike rcks are later in this document they are you're right um I guess and I don't want to take this way off track but I we like green space but is that like landscaped meaning not usable Green Space because that seems like a missed opportunity on the public feel and usable do does anyone know I don't and I I yeah I don't know where the balance I mean that maybe it's a question for the applicant the balance between Paving versus planting um gr yeah versus right because there could be plantings that still make it usable public space right for there could be we've been trying to activate these spaces right having events and I'm not asking them to have events that's not my point we're leaving we are trying hard to leave possibilities so if that becomes a planting that maybe hopefully looks nice but is not usable maybe that's a missed opportunity but looking nice is also part of activating yeah but I think we can get both I think it's kind of a matter of proportions yeah that um Can can they please yeah can the engineer confirm what what what is the these these green areas and these rendering that shows as little circles on the plan what what are those is that grass or is that some general low planting what those are those those are little plantings so we we did not um we did not look at this space at as lawn or something that is really um suited for the public to go on and lay down rest you know you know whatever that but but was this part of the discussion on planting with the design Review Committee as far as as far as using that space for public use no that was no no no meaning that you show a planting plan and you guys discuss planting right as part of what we asked to review with you correct so these was agreed we have separate landscape plan that actually flushes this out oh okay yeah there we go and this is um so I'm going to go to the next page which shows what these plants actually look like but um so these are the types of plantings we were looking at for these spaces so if you look at if you look at this uh r r romatic I'm butchering the word but um you know we were looking at having those spaces be occupied with these types of plants um spaced appropriately apart but not really creating public spaces within them yeah no I I see the point and I understand what kti is is is mentioning I'm just saying that I I personally don't feel like we need to micromanage that point to that level I think that if the decision from the proponent is to plan things and have some really nice front which creates a little bit of a recess a little you know psychological privacy from a street that is very close to to the development I'll be fine with that and looks like the design Review Committee did not object to it so I I I I would be fine with going along with what has been discussed with them we seem to talk a lot lot about the public realm and kind of that connection reality of this is there's a little bit of rigidity because of the size of the area that is really the landscape area so when we talk about access to public and have a bike rack so there's going to be larger circulation that we need to really consider and when you start to put those things in on paper this is really kind of just a landscape area it's not really a place where we call it pocket park it's sounds as if it's like acres of land but it is really not it is a patch of landscape in front of a building and it would be really interesting to see that dynamics of people wanting to sit in front of a building and feel like it is a community space it's not that deep so I think we have to really look at it from the scale point of view and be really I don't know if he can get any more creative but I think the landscape is very minimal to really say this is a public realm and kind of the interaction I don't think that's how you're going to pan out so the only thing I can think of creatively that's not massive and not disturbing is maybe a couple of benches that are kind of open to the public so I would imagine our community is getting older ideally we have more walking in our community we're trying to create more of a sidewalk Community um you know I can see Elders walking to the post office coming by this space and having a place to sit down um that's kind of what I'm envisioning as a creative kind of component where the public could maybe have two or three benches to sort of enjoy this this what seems to be a pretty space that you're trying to create in in earlier presentations I did have benches facing the sidewalk and and they were um I believe they were not really acceptable they but I'm I'm not sure that that's what Anna is saying because I would agree sitting there looking at a street is I would not want to sit there but but the way they're being right now what you what I think what you what I understood you're saying in terms of the spirit of yeah is like if I see this drawing and you know close to the center to the right on that Plaza there's benches kind of next to the plants and I heard that they're going to be now a little more embedded on into the planting seems nice um that you you you could see more you could see it also on the other side yeah or you can be at the side of the trees so you're looking towards the tree but you could face like other bench so you can actually talk to somebody as opposed to facing the car exactly so like where the trees are if you're going to have two areas with trees you could have benches on each side facing in so that the trees in the middle essentially you can you can choose to look to your side and look towards um the old train station or across towards the farmers market or you could be looking at one another for a moment um and it but that's how that one is working right the one with the tree with there right so this is this is that small pocket park we created as um as you enter the site from from the corner of Homer um and it was it was designed as a um a response to wanting to acknowledge the train station um but not copy it so um you know as you can see uh what I did was I took the textures off the wall and and turn the colors not the um not the not the physical roughness of the stone but use that patterning and the colors in the paving uh have have several benches limited plantings for a little bit of enclosure and then uh you can see on the right side um a uh a small uh roofed uh area over that bench uh that carries that vocabulary of that train station um I think that was a good compromise to tying uh one side of the street to the other as well as providing a public space that is in an appropriate location so that it is someplace where you can go and you can read the paper or you can you can relax you're you're seeing the street you've got uh some enclosure from the building and you have uh a direct correlation to the training station across the street um so we you know we did consciously provide that space and I I think that's the appropriate location for it I find a rendering that shows it I mean I I I for one like that space there and I guess I'm suggesting a few more maybe the same type of benches towards that front where you have the nice two trees that you're adding so that you have that element both on the side pocket park but also a little bit in the front the design Review Committee mentioned some kind of mural where would that be so that's at the pocket park but in the the cheek wall of the this wall if you can see my cursor with my little hand moving yeah so aren't there already aren't there already benches on either side of that tree on the drawing that you were just showing if we go back to the the plan we were looking at right there right there I see I see bench seating on the opposite sides of the tree is benches so this this the one y so and the and maybe it's the best fit in those two big areas because they have more space yeah that's exactly what Anna was suggesting I didn't realize those were bunches I thought that was just some kind of color thank you uh but yeah those are benches I think that's great and I think you mentioned and I believe the design Review Committee like I said later in this document um suggested adding that a tree just like that one to the other large Plaza and so if we just repli replicate then we have four benches which should be plenty especially if you have an ice cream shop or something where it's not the pocket part so there will be plenty to choose from yeah that they can be used by the businesses and by the occasional person who's walking around you know yeah myt was also to add benches into the Landscaping here sure on this far left I don't think we portion I don't think it would hurt to have benches I think we will invite I yeah I do think you can overdo it though like I don't think I don't think you have to have every Plaza those two that are the widest those two that are the widest with some tree and benches I think you can just limit at that that would be more than that sufficient if the two widest locations which I like I said I think is already in the document have that Center tree and the two benches which you already have on those two widest locations and then the other ones I think stay they're smaller and they stay more flexible depending on what maybe it's just a sidewalk into the entry on on those sounds you use those opportunities of those Furniture elements to be a little more organic than rigid so maybe it's a little more built into the landscape and maybe that will soften the overall look and feel versus a little bit rigidity I think um right now it feels obviously for rendering purpose you have it as a Furniture piece but I think it needs that little finessing of that organic feel that that street automatically gives you uh we just need to bring that into that landscape I mean you you do realize you're going to have a lot of dogs on this on this thing right so that's going to soften it up pretty quick dogs B chair you're going to have a lot activ are we ready to go on to the next item I think we've covered this one there probably several others that are coming so the next item um and we may be coming back to this diagram but I'd like to kind of keep going in order on page three of 17 they're talking actually about the um the materiality now it says in here I I think we were that originally you presented four different material pallet options and then and I I think we expected that you were going to maybe present more than one but you presented one one option or a suggested option yes yes so so and I think we have those colors before us okay um upon initial review uh let's see so the um the building recesses it says Pearl gray and gray slate is that the where is it no so um part of my next task from that meeting is to upgrade to the colors that you have in front of you uh because the applicant um selected those colors but I had already done the renderings uming okay so the the textures and the materials will be this as shown here the colors will be uh as you see them in your in front of you on the desk are those so so so what we have in front of us are khaki Brown and Timber bark yeah which are not on this that's not what this is recommended do we have Pearl gray and gray I have Pearl gray which is this and then this is gray slate and where would those go on this rendering I know the rendering is not accurate to the color scheme but where where would we imagine it to does it say there on t uh building re Rec recesses where is that in the Deep Parts the Deep Parts okay so this so that part right there yes okay so we have to like pretend right yeah actually it says Okay so notes say cladding reviewed renderings are cool gray tones while submitted samples are beige tan upon initial review cool gray as rendered was preferred as a contrast to the warmth of the brick cool gray so that's what they mean by Pearl gray and gray sleeve so they're considering that to be cool gray yeah so they're looking it sounds to me like design Review Committee likes the cool colors versus the warm colors okay isn't that contradicting with the train station so so what you see in your left hand would be the recess and the right would be the um the darker shingle and cab that you see I so and there was also discussion about the brick and using the same brick that and that's probably further in the document but uh using the same brick that you're using for your downtown and using that as our Paving p pattern um for the for the uh the borders and then on the face of the building where there's brick so we would carry that vocabulary from downtown onto the building yeah so I think I think it's going to be impossible for us to review this in terms of words and imagining yeah it's hard we're not that imaginative and while we know that while we know that it's impossible to get the rendering to match the materials that's just not possible um but we can try to get them as close as as close as you can like for instance the brick shown on there is a very warm yellowish brick and here we have a red brick which is more indicative of the sidewalks and stuff downtown and so I'm not sure which one so what I'm confused about the whole thing right we we worked hard to say these are Under design review perview they came back with a recommendation so it sounds like I don't know if this board agrees with the record recomendation or not me personally I am going with what the board said the um design review what isn't clear to me is if the applicant says I don't want to do that is the applicant saying that's a good point that's what I have is the applicant saying that I don't know I can't tell from this whole conversation that's why I'd like to get out of the way so question to the applicant you were given recommendations and I know that you just got this today the same as us right um but do you you don't you don't you're not opposed to trying the recommended colors as given on the facade um no I'm not um I can't speak for Charlie but um one thing that came out of that meeting was the request about matching the brick from the downtown so that R this rendering was uh previous to that so that that discussion resulted as a result of this rendering so that's where they [Music] said so that red brick would be you know would be replacing the brick that I have shown on those renderings okay and I think the and Marcel correct me if I'm wrong I think that recommendation about looking at the brick had to do with continuing the street materials and sidewalk materials that's what we've always said on the plane of the street and sidewalk not necessarily on the buildings that corrector I'm confused about that yeah so that continuing the downtown work the sidewalk was always intended on the planning board's point of view to be on the plane of the sidewalk not on the plane of the buildings so where does it say uh does the applicant know where in the design review document it talks about the the town colors continuing but I think can I just go back so we're on 3 of 17 B materials and textures 1b1 1052 23 yeah what what it seems like is the applicant is will go back and make as best they can renderings what I think we have to do though is that are we are we agreeing with the recommendations of design review to tell them yes or no that's where I'm still confused well I think the thing is since we have no visual about what those you know it like this doesn't seem totally the image that we're seeing right now now doesn't seem totally updated with what the paper says so we shouldn't have to Envision whether we look whether we agree with it or not I no I understand that part I'm saying agree that we want them to do that is probably a better way to say that we want them to come back with a rendering that matches what was recommendations of the design so that we could make a that's what I'm asking are we asking but but then there's another wrinkle because the the way I'm reading this it says uh what was I uh we uh we prefer cont the warm of the brick okay upon initial review cool gray as rendered is preferred as a contrast to the warmth of the brick so as rendered are we referring to the drawing that we have here on the screen when that discussion took place no I do we don't I don't so what does as rendered mean I agree with Marcelo that they're saying as rendered they believe I believe they're saying that as the rendering looks the closest match is Pearl gray and that and that's exactly and it's preferred over what was submitted which was the Khaki Brown correct that's the way I read it it's the way I see it and and the way I read this rendering of course the rendering is not perfect and it's impossible to do a perfect rendition of of of reality but it seems to me that the the overall palette and contrast accents that this rendering shows was well received I personally happen to like it so I'm not opposed to it either so if that is a recommendation I I personally will be happy to to go with it but I don't know if we are kind of making a stor a glass of water here but no so so you're saying that um I agree you're saying that the when we look at the image which we like we seem to like those Grays are more like the ones that the design Review Committee the Pearl gray and GL GRC slate they are not like the brown Grays or exactly or or even if it's even if it's a little closer to it that's that's fine but can you put the r in the on the screen the rendering the first drawing where you see it from the street and you see all the the complex there you go here so that this is probably what was a little it looks a little different than the other I guess because of the sun where the sun of the rendering is this one looks a little more brownish in general but but the scheme seems seems pretty good to me it seems you know the the trim work and and and the the cloud board location the shingle locations uh and if it goes on the on on on on the gray tones I will be just fine saying yeah okay and what color is the bricks eye what what color is the brick supposed to be like on these on the renderings it looks kind of like a yellow brick and here we have screen the color you know it depends on what your your screen is set to but on page nine is where they reference the material uh so material one recommendation brick matching downtown renovation project at the ground surfaces and similar color brick at the wall so they're asking us to put it on the building and as well as as into the plazas so we have a border on the plazas so that would be um that brick I'm not sure it's the intent that your sidewalks will be brick in that area I think the confusion is also because further down the same page three there is a reference to 21 Main style which has black frames window frames and that brick so it feels like we are trying to do something what 21 Main is in a different location but I think this this particular campus should really connect to the train station right it has nothing to do with 21 Main so if you change all the window frames to all black and that brick it changes the whole context of what we're looking at here I'm not sure what they're trying to achieve here haven't we seen always the frames black frames on these windows I think we have I don't think that has changed yeah what's what's deceptive in these oh the trim you mean the trim sorry yeah so I I remember some discussion that we didn't want to be like too to replicating the train station um I kind of respect the the look if you will of that black trim in the sense that yeah we don't have Main Street project anymore but it's not that far from some of the things this board seems to like if you will so I think their design review is trying to give us something that we seem to appreciate yeah and in general I would say I will only add that it looks like the design review was appreciative of the work the design work that that is shown here so in general I would say I would be very comfortable with going with what the architect and the designer that envisioned this project selects as as the best pet I think going towards the great seems fine to me if they want it a little warmer I'll be fine with that too I'm noticing even a difference in the screens this looks much cooler yeah if you look here that's true that's a littley a lot yellower scre that's a little freaky yeah Ron can you confirm the samples that you submitted was the rendering kind of based out of those colors or even I know it's hard to match I SC material and then I kicked it like with an eye dropper okay so it's it's very difficult with computer screens because everyone's frequency and you know they just little nuances to them that so your design intent was a warmer palette not a cooler palette is that that was my that's my intent and then the owner um where would that be you know also um had his ideas with with those cooler color the warmer colors thank you we didn't coordinate the two together for that meeting so like would it be possible for us to maybe like label these things like a through Z and like put put letters up there so like we can connect the dots as to what goes where because I'm not a little I'm not getting it okay so like I think maybe it would be helpful to have the applicant in person next time so that we can more quickly identify or maybe a field trip with design RW team okay but what are we looking at there's no building oh pause it right there okay okay so just just just so we have this clear according to what's in the the what's in the report um so there's three Shades of Gray that we're talking about on the very top in the triangles right on the very top in the triangles where it looks like shingles okay that is what they were talking about as being night gray this is night gray right in the middle band there are some planes that are closer to us those are shown darker those are the gray slate so they're a middle gray just like on the drawing it's a middle gray okay right and then the ones that are recessed but at the same level they're showing as a pearl gray it's not bad so these are the renderings provided and I think these are the actual colors that the design Review Committee picked out these three Grays yeah if those are the three Grays I'm I'm happy with that piece of it yeah and I think to marcelo's point what design review is saying is that these match this better than these which kind of match this better right those those samples are a little more brown gray than cool gray and these I love those are and my only question would that be about the brick yeah the brick is which which could be fine because it does match the street but that's not the brick that's being shown on the rendering this on the rendering it's it's it's yellow brick and this is red brick so that's the only um thing I would say is if we can get that yellow orange brick changed more to the one near the entrance yeah the entrance CU I don't think that's this to me that's not a red brick what more brick are is that brick that we're looking at I think the brick is the brick is just like Trisha said it's a lot rder yeah the r is that brick what we have on our street would have apparently yes apparently so now I get I'm just trying to clear because we mixed up those two and I want well I think originally I believe and Marcel have to come because I think this was his originally comment in continuing the street materials we were talking about continuing like don't switch from Red Brick downtown to gray brick or yellow brick on the ground at this location here I think they did also take it up onto the wall which I'm not opposed to I just don't think the rendering shows that color even close something about the building we've acknowledged that yeah is applicant able to hear us at all yeah we have we have acknowledged what you're saying and I think Ron has made it clear that the brick that he's shown is not what we're proposing now we're proposing what the DRC had recommended and that and what you're talking about which is a redder brick yeah that it's fine I think we're all just catching up yeah to deep to Deepa point I think we should talk about deepa's point because she's saying should we maybe rethink and somehow connect to the the train station I feel this Palace is way too contemporary we are having trouble hearing you we can hear the chair very well but not the members I feel like the um no offense to the design review but the palette that suggested trying to bring colors from the rendering is way too contemporary for that um environment it feels like the palette that was suggested by the design team is picking up some of that connection to that Railway that train station it's it's not exactly copying it but it's definitely picking up those tones warm tones and I think um if I it was me I would take these samples to exact location and really see what these Grays are doing because we also have warm light here and it's really hard when you look at different screens and how these are how these get rendered um it feels like that palette to me first talked to be mentally connected to that environment and that feels way too contemporary um um to me at least because that has lots of Blues in it versus that um train station which is very very warm palette I mean now that I'm hearing Deepa I kind of agree that I like this because I like I like it but I do think there's some value to now I get what you're saying to kind of going for a field trip and actually seeing and thinking about how this pette against that palette will will look that's not a bad concept to sort of do I'm fairly sure in another meeting though we talked about separating ourselves from the train station and not using it as a pallet that it didn't have to you know that we were looking for this building to be more contemporary less less ornament less decorative it has still has a lot of ornament on it and so station yeah so I feel like our discourse we're flip-flopping a bit on on the discourse I don't know if you want to match exactly what's there what I'm trying to say is you're going to have two buildings on either side the mass of this with kind of that com temporary color is going to take your attention totally of that train station which could be the intent but it's going to look like two different buildings and the new building is definitely going to stand out in that environment it's it doesn't have to speak to one another 100% like you don't want to color match what that stone is but I think there has to be some visual balance between the two sides you don't want a contemporary building on one side and something that shows kind of um an age of the building fuel but but yeah I I think that's a legitimate way way to see it I I personally think that this is a contemporary building because it is from the 21st century sure and and contrasting is not necessarily disrespectful and and uh I think uh what I like and and of course you could see it both ways right what what what I think the approach that that I heard was um respecting and following the downtown so it's it's more like a more holistic way of matching the context and then using some of the of the pattern of the station in some of the detailing that's across the street so it is kind of um like um um like a like a nostalgic reference by using some of the materials but not a direct like oh you look Brown then I'm Brown you know it's more contrasting which you and I think it could work both ways you know so I I totally get what you're saying yeah I think trying to match that pattern will get lost because of the scale of this Building compared to that train station and I think how irrespec how hard we try that trying to take that queue from that building will get lost just because of the scale of this building it's possible but how strongly would you like to see them connected how how how direct I don't know if I want to see it connected like I definitely don't want things to be color matched but at least many of times like to me mentally I feel like this is what's going to catch my attention if that may be the intent and the whole idea of that environmental context if you will is going to get lost somehow I I I I I I get it I I I think I I think the only thing I would say is like right now what what detracts from the station is a is a very disorganized curb card with Street mall and my houses and there's no order there I think this is going to create a scale a pedestrian scale and a wall a street streetcape and a curb appeal that actually would benefit actually wanting to be there and sit in the bench and and then look at the stage I I would I would say that I I can see it both ways but after listening to you guys I I don't think this is as severely industrial or modern as we are perceiving it um I personally would be comfortable with this and I'm not too concerned um if I could if I could um put my two cents in please I think we have consider the materiality where this is a stone building with a um you know large overhang uh uh hip roof and it it is its own entity I mean it's its own vocabulary it's its own architecture uh that's what he was famous for ex and we we we've you know kind of chosen to acknowledge it with having uh directly across from it a seating area that has a little bit of that vocabulary both in the materiality and colors um as well as creating uh you know a location where you can enjoy the train station you're looking dead dead set against it uh across the street and then the building itself is not is not Stone it's it's a wood building Grays are not you know it's not a contemporary color they've been around for hundreds of years um the vocabulary of the of the lower level retail uh hearkens back to an earlier time so we're kind of you know we're kind of acknowledging the time period um but it is a different building totally different materiality you know I would suggest because you're going through this exercise anyway that um that we just put together two complete color palettes they're almost here right this one has three Shades of Cool Gray that one seems to have two shades of warm gray um there there was a Driftwood shingle picked out I think I remember that you know that might go with one palette there might be a different shingle that goes with another palette we should get the fullsize shingle sample um and then the bricks you know if this is the brick we want to use because it relates to the downtown then we'd be able to see which of the Grays best match this brick which we want to use you know and then we can kind of we should have two different renderings one that you force into at least in the printing you force into looking warm one that you force into looking cool when it's printed um and and then we can look at those two pettes I think there's two good options here I don't really think there's a wrong answer frankly um but and it takes just a little B more homework to have okay here's option one here's option two which one is it you know so otherwise I think we're going to go back and forth all and I follow up with um The Brick so I get what you're saying this is on page 9 of 17 material one the brick matching the downtown and also on the wall which is what Trish just said for rendering material too is pretty important they the design review adomant said that's unacceptable so I would agree if that's that block Peter sitting s right near Peter the gray paper so I think that's important to give feedback to the applicant on material to recommendation on page nine of 17 yeah I mean that to me is very gray versus a a worm uh I think they were more if you read through that it's more than the color it's sort of the um Quality and the texture oh so this that's for the that's for the ground yes okay it's for the plazas right okay that's for the plazas if the if the side walk so so you'd see both red and gray on the ground one is kind of a field and one is kind of a path or a border is that right that's correct ises that yeah yeah so I again I'm just trying to keep it concrete they said stake in the ground samples concrete paper is unacceptable recommended Granite Natural Stone paper matching the color I again personally agree with that and I think the board should decide and give direction to the applicant and this is where it will complement the train station so I think that's that's a good a good compromise of something so how do do we want to go about this I mean there's a lot in here that the applicant hasn't really approved or gotten through on could I ask AET maybe Peter can answer this um is the intent that those sidewalks will be brick Peter or is it not part of that scope so that those sidewalks over there are I believe concrete yeah I mean it's just the decorative things it's the brick band matching the downtown I think I think that might be what they're thinking there's a band of brick on the downtown new downtown sidewalks yeah correct but I think as you go around Pizza mine it changes yeah it changes because that sidewalk becomes so narrow I would have to I would have to go out there and take a look I think you're right because in front of the Town Hall here you have the concrete and then when there's extra space where the light poles are the infield that with brick correct like an an extra layer yep and then some areas in the down well over near the library there is a strip of four bricks well I would say on the on the opposite side of town hall between the train obviously to the left and right of the train near the near the Veterans Memorial I believe it's four brick I think that strip is four bricks wide and I think that's what's kind of carried throughout except what Marcelo is stating is where there's a street tree there's extra room there plantings the brick expands to much larger much greater area I think in this area that we're talking about over here opposite of the train station because of the existing buildings and the sidewalk size I don't know if there is a brick banding of of of if there a brick banding exists or is it two bricks or four bricks I would have to walk over but I think it's still kind of cool to have the sprinkle of brick throughout Ashland like if if that is what design review is intending to do to kind of create this visual ual that you're an Ashland there's a little bit of this brick in different places I'm all for it that's not a bad visual to create for downtown Ashland I don't disagree so again I think that I think we're it's it's coming up with you know originally we started with hey there's four options but I think we're just down to two color options one is more warm and one is more cool the cool option may use the red brick that we see in the sidewalks the warm option may use a slightly warmer brick as in the train station and I see those options I think coming out of this text but it's a little it's hard to read about color in text right versus seeing a picture with sorry with arrows saying this is this color that's this color so I think that's what again no no um know no criticism of of the applicant you just got this today too but we can put together these two these two options which were basically the same except for the warm cool color palette and so we'd have two palettes next time and see which one we but material to recommendation is more than color it's m it's materials it is but it's a p you know it's a you know so if we go back to the paving so there's two right in even in that there's two different pavers there there's right the smaller scale p and the bigger scale P that's in the pocket park but see right so right so I I also have the same thing on the um exactly so you have two material you always have two materials and I assume one is always kind of the gray and one is this other color is it a warmer brick or is it a warmer paper or is it a cooler paper but and I guess going back to the other discussion so what what's being created here is some sort of um a brick threshold between the road and the project and once you cross onto the project it changes to those large papers over there right it that yeah in the curve of the sidewalk yeah and it might have a almost looks like it has a little border all the way around or that color is being used but does that does that sound like a a Next Step so we can move on from it doesn't sound like we're going to get to a decision exactly on color today cuz we don't have the the stuff in front of us visually and um and like I said we just all received this today so I mean the one thing I'll say is I I maybe a way to compromise towards what deep is saying and towards what some of us seem to like the cooler colors on the building is maybe the the pallet on the ground should be more warm towards the towards the train station so the train station is almost like spilling into the building but the building is completely cooler right so there could be that kind of that balance balance so so we could see it on those updated rending the options option cool with warm warm with cool warm with warm I guess these these rendering right here that shows the plan could be also replicated with the two options right with a warm option and a cool option yeah and and and the other one that shows the the building and I think with that we should be in good shape too yeah so if we can just look at it with like this rendering and the one where it's it's an enlarged flat surface and if we can just have those two drawings one with the cool palette and one with a warm palet and then we can look at it can can I make a recommendation because I think also to push this forward is that the applicant like assume this was gcg and they give a response because we're some of these things we are absolutely not talking the same thing you guys are getting stuck on color when it's talking about quality materials on material on material recommendation two I don't see color I see quality of materials and that's what spoke to me about what the design review wrote so I think that we're never going to get unless we get the applicant saying I get it yes I'm going to get some better materials and I'll work on the colors or whatever I think they're going to have to because this is I thought it would be easier but I see that it's not without that um which which paragraph are you on ke um 9 of 17 the very top thing material to recommendation I mean it sounds like design review is not quite confident yet in the materials no they just one Granite instead of concrete yeah so what's the next step in this are we going to have the applicant kind of go through and see what they agree or disagree with it sounds like uh Charlie hasn't had a chance to look at this either so there's no like definitive commitment yet right correct this was submitted to the applicant today yeah so I I think we have we don't have a we don't have anything finalized but we have enough information to pursue this to the next step I think right so maybe we just want to go on and see if there's anything see what other things we can kind of help cherry pick out of this list that may be low hanging fruit well and and that's what I saying marking up like the 1 G3 recommend options presented for Planters seaing act as a buffer from the street that that was a clear yes I believe from the so I'm sorry Kate what page that's page N9 of 17 still and I'm just saying that's a low hanging fruit I believe everyone agreed and liked it move on yes and the applicants say yes see drwing whatever when they when they finish right so it's all clear cuz the there's a lot of stuff here and I think that's the only way to you're talking with the bottom comment correct the 1G do3 I believe that's a yes they agreed the the board agreed right but yeah that's what I'm saying to keep moving through ask the applicant to mark up and then reference a drawing when they have it so Kate is recommending that the applicant review the design review documents and tell us if they agree or disagree and where R get through this yeah but there's some that we already we all agree with which is what Kate is saying so that we can just Che I already wrote yes but I so next the only other one what we talk about the colors and the materials we we already agree with what the next step I feel like we skip page five like how did we get to page nine I feel like we skipped because we got talking about materials okay okay so page five talks about the gcg percentage for multif family housing yeah those are with the EV charges again it's a note but it's not really in their purview five was good go to so then seven the mural we talked about that little I don't think anyone had any do people like the mural concept yeah I mean we already have one mural in would the cave that that has to be commissioned by the town and yeah same language as Starbucks same as right yeah I think it we'll see what the Starbucks process does you know see if you like it is the applicant okay with the mural or giving the town an easen to put up a mural it's really up to the applicant requ question to the applicant but that's what I'm saying they can they can mark this up we so they can hear us we said we like it they can mark this up and say no way Merl or yes will entertain E's move on can we just be clear on the mural we can't require it it has to be negotiated no no we we can require the the permission to install a mural in the future we can't require it I don't think that's how we did it with Starbucks we negotiated we asked them if they were willing to do it and they said yes that's say so so they're hearing us saying yes we support the design review request they're going to go and we'll hear their their feedback yeah um so the next one recommended provided S stand interpretive historic mural on the pocket park that's that's related I guess that's the bureau that we just discussed yeah um so then signage yeah so signage location as indicated is acceptable so bonts and colors of signage shall be deferred and reviewed prior to occupancy signage guidelines study is underway by whom um that took me by I I have no knowledge because I've heard that the S review was interested in signage at some point some discuss I don't know if this is um can you can can you confirm are you is your team studying the signage or what what what happened with this discussion with the sign Review Committee um I'm just trying to think back so what we did we presented the locations for the signage where it says retail signage you know around the building didn't didn't didn't deal with font or or anything like that just indicated location and they were fine with that um the signage guidelines study is underway I'm not quite sure what that means but but the way this is written if the board agrees we just put a condition you can't put up a sign until you come back to the board for approval yeah I mean um we've done that in the past and it's been painful and not fun to have to deal with imagine it's not yeah it's not to have to deal with these type of decisions a year L maybe half of us won't be here the next time we you know so it's it's like it's kind of something we should make a decision now so then we need a proposal so then they need to give us a proposal that's right so then that's the direction to again they mark it up they're going to come back with drawing whatever is our propos yeah I I think that that's that's fair to just ask for a sample kind of um on hypothetical business and put the sign how it would look I like the fact that it's being illuminated externally illuminated we don't want any self illuminated science or anything that move anything it should be a little a downtime requires a certain type of more graceful lettering and materials who can see it so if you can do a um an enlarged view of the signage showing the goose neck lighting maybe and the and the sign and what color the letters are and you know yeah the enlarge the enlarged rendering here I mean do we want to see it here or you think like a sample sign yeah just like an exp could be in a drawing I mean not not actually produce a sign right but yes you know so there's you know on their drawing they're zooming in and like you know right now the the letters are white I doubt they'll be I doubt they're proposing white letters on but that's the thing say they should be either bronze or they should be black or they there's something that or if match around the town or if there's photographic examples of real signs it's going to look like this we're going to match this style of sign right it can help it would be it would be great I think to assign an approved material for the L bettering if if we see whatever's been done whatever in the town like they did with this historical signage throughout M it would be good that all the businesses as we move forward the signage there's a downtown feel of consistency of you know maybe two metals or something like that yeah so in other words you don't have to reinvent the wheel on the signage just show us what you're thinking something that maybe goes along with other things that are downtown do we have anything historic in in Ashlin as far as signage consistency or anything that we have already I I I hope that that's the study that's underway because the design Review Committee one of the task that we that we all thought throughout our discussions is that that would be a good Endeavor can we ask them if they're doing that why don't we reach out to them and ask them what this is all about so we wouldn't have to be discussing this it would be you know there's a signage rule yeah or if anything yeah I mean worst hopefully like worst case scenario that signage will match new guidelines as put forth but I just don't when will that happen so for now I think seen the the the uh properly rendered not white letters but properly rendered with the right font size that is expected and and then we can say okay we like it or not change it the um an 8 of 171g do1 I think that's planting so I think that's just the applicant say yes or no I think that's um I'm sorry you're on page eight now um oh right turns to nine um 1-g do1 and it's just about planting so I think they're going to say yes or no right that we yeah basically get rid of lawn and get rid of grass things that has to be mowed so are we in page 10 now the B we're still on the bottom of nine I think but it's probably pver so we're good we can move on 10 offside snow this is yeah snow storage so [Music] um yeah that keeps going back it was originally offsite then the last tech review I think they said onsite and I think that's why design reiew picked it up and it looks like the current applicant intent is on site so then we would want details of that it says along the landscape b along homer which doesn't seem like a good idea agree yeah I mean um so question to the applicant what is the current plan for snow storage um we've we've always said that it would be removed I know there was a comment in there from the DIC saying that we had retracted that but that's not the case okay the only the only area we need for if if there's more snow on the ground then can be accommodated uh you know on site it will be removed um you know one or two inch snowfalls don't require removal you simply plow it and it's off to the side of the road um so it's still our plan to remove any any uh significant snowfall will result in it being removed from the site okay good all right um that was easy number 11 11 now uh 10 yes page 11 still 10 that's sounds like we're happy to add trees at least two is what was in here that's good yeah um so I think you got 1.4 in remove invasive species s% native I I think I'm assuming the board would support that that yeah and you know anything on the site yeah that invasive species can be removed um additional trees there he kind of said yes I think on 1 h.5 2.1 on page 11 critical root zones not shown um I think that's a good idea because we originally one of our very first meetings was about those trees that are on site on the left I'll call it the left hand side the existing trees they're sort of at the boundary and people were concerned about keeping them is my recollection you mean like at The Back Fence those are the ones that I yes yeah there are a few trees along there not all of them but some of them yes the ones that are yeah an El element and Oak and when we had 90° parking we had one space that was slightly smaller it wasn't 20 it was 18 to accommodate the the the space needed around that route uh since we've reconfigured the parking we've made this landscape buer larger and I believe now that it it falls within that criteria good okay so that seems like that seems like something you're willing to entertain when you go through the list sure all right so yes so the next page 12 is where I think that tree comes in again which we've talked about which we already discussed yep um so we're adding a tree not moving a tree right adding a tree we're replicating the same setup on the other Plaza the arrow looks like something I would draw so thank you no offense now give yourself more exactly exactly exactly I feel included I'm like wait is it moving [Laughter] over we stand that's probably final change have anything 14 we got to 15 wait hold on I'm just curious what is perola p yeah p in the pocket part wood trilus wood structure oh got it okay thank you learn a new word today um so at page 15 of 17 I'm sorry 1- L2 the um bike racks I think we we said toward the front I don't know what the final thing will look like if that but I think that's a okay think it's been a great and that's all from design VI there's other open things with this a planning board they're not huge things I think so yeah I think most of the planning board things again tie back to gcg I think we went through those last time yeah yeah which Al who also got this document so once we read through maybe we'll see that those things are being picked up yeah um okay so see the applicant have we we can have have we given you information on these things about the one that the planning board had an approval or an opinion on and other ones that design review whatever it was desided with the design Review Committee is is good um so I I think the next task is for you guys just go through the list make the changes that you agreed upon or discussed with the design Review Committee things that are and and if there's anything in here that you think is a a problem or an issue of the things that they've asked for then those are the things you need to come back to us with that here's something that's going to be hard for us to accommodate or that we don't agree with or that interferes with our own design process you know whatever the whatever the reason is does that make sense it does madam chair thank you for the the so clearing it up clearing up giving us the opportunities for we're getting renderings too right with the yeah so the so the two renderings the two different because I think a lot of the confusion is which one are we doing again you know um um so at least so we'll have two color palettes but I think I think the rest you know I think we're getting close I think a lot of it is you know it seems like a lot but it's it's not you know um I I have a question related and it's maybe more it's probably more internal than the applicant but maybe so we haven't had any I saw on the tech review meeting it was about water and sewer but I think the water and sewer it didn't seem settled to me like we're under a sewer moratorium which means somehow in ashin there's a problem with sewer or potential problem because that was the moratorium we have to investigate SE moratorium yes we are under sewer moratorium under sewer moratorium yes but this is this application came in before that no I I understand my point is we're under a sewer moratorium because someone said there's either a problem or a potential problem with our sewer I would like to know what that means for this site okay there's there's some from the tech review they ask for Grinders because that will help with the problem but we should know as a board what this really means what this project means for our sewer and as we also should find out with the water and the water it rained a lot this year hasn't been a problem and there's the supplemental MW so I I'm not saying water's not a problem okay but what I do think we have to or at least ask the question right there's some businesses there but now we're adding a massive facility is the water pressure adequate when we're dealing with like the amount of added residents and the fire protection and I think we I have not seen an answer to them so I think we should ask for that but the the the application I mean the town needs to the utilities on the town have have to guarantee the service otherwise the capacity for the service otherwise this application wouldn't even make sense Ian me gcg I'm sure evaluated that noet and the sewer moratorium and I remember even on the discussions on the sewer moratorium was was really not about sewer moratorium the sewer had actually decreased over the years we were told that yeah correct so I don't know who who is going to guarantee I'm happy to reach out to Greg Aldridge who's our water sewer consultant to get a verification yeah I'm sure they can say oh yeah there is capacity and there's no problem then we hope so but here I'm reading Grinders on the property to ruce stress on Grinders and pumping stations this I didn't make this up this is add color to that I'm happy to add some color to that that comment came from our DPW our Dan Mau you know Dan Mau is our water and sewer commissioner that's who made that comment a lot of times you go to a pumping station there is not just an astion but across all sites and obviously everyone works in construction as architect X Y and Z is that there's a lot of times yeah there people that pull out wipes it's just not an astion that's across all apartment complexes right and there are opportunities to put if they're saying if there's an opportunity to put a grinder in it may make sense because of things people flush down toilets and that's where I think that comment comes and I think that directly what it's aimed at is to say it could be possible is if it's possible to put a grinder pump in an apartment building it may make sense to help ease any any I would say influx in harm on that system but regarding who capacity in that I'm happy to reach out to Greg Eldridge and make sure that we're we're we're taking care of yeah I mean I think but the grinder is not insignificant if if a apartment building is coming that will have an impact on all of us and we have a way to mitigate it I think that's what the planning board is supposed to do if I so sounds like something that we should consider adding to our decision grind pum one person said it but they have not been replied to by the applicant or gcg correct yeah we I don't think we've ever really touched upon it obviously the applicant did get this tech review memo we were in the tech review process and and and that's what the comment was to add a grinder pump you know and we've never touch and we've never really touched this topic when permitting 100 Chestnut or 501 Pond Street we've never really heard this comment from the sewer so it's kind of came out of so it's a recommendation that just came out a recommendation best practice Okay so so can we have gcg I can mention it to gcg and a pine on I can have Mike Carter a p an expert to say you really don't need it or actually yes you actually want that and then we can say okay I'm happy to I'm happy to have that conversation I mean I think Peter is right I've been to Deer Island took their too or you want that and and this is a big impact right so if if we didn't do our best job in and on other developments let's not repeat that that's you know tech review tech review is also we don't have time today to get to so maybe we can include that in our next agenda and include this element and I totally I kind of agree with what Katy suing but I think that decision should not be just let's ask for it because let's ask for it if there's a sense if it makes sense and if there's a professional opinion of an expert that says this is what you should do mhm let's have a basis for the request not just let's ask for it no I'm on the same page with that I agree 100% yeah with Marcelo hope that's to say if it why I brought it up yeah and and and I think I hopefully I was able to shed some color on that comment that was made by the sewer department and you know but I'm sure there's residential houses that flush baby wipes down the toilet and they go into the septic systems and they go right but our job is to consider impact on infrastructure in decisions that is very clear so I I think agree um but back to the water so on Chestnut if you recall there was a potential issue about pressure and we put that on the applicant I have heard nothing about pressure and I want to bring it up now because I think that will be a condition if we don't know we're going to have to put that in but to be kind to the applicant we should probably at least find what we can right without spending Engineering Services but at least I mean apparently the applicant doesn't have a concern maybe it's not a problem but I think it should be raised I guess yeah so that's um I'm happy to put an email together and try to get an answer yeah okay you have to talk to them anyway about Cedar Street so I'm happy so water pressure and Sewer okay capacity MH and the the pump great okay so um just while we have this open and uh we're kind of wrapping it up here I do want to open it up to any public comment on uh on 9 to 49 Homer AV I don't know if there are any and some of it was held during our public comment um so right it doesn't look like any public comment seeing none we'll move on um so so anyway so next time at our next meeting we would expect to see the design Review Committee list having been gone through and responded to by the applicant the things that we talked about today we've given as much feedback I think as we could but for you to respond to all to to those things because they're they're directed to you in the drawings about you know what what we're supposed to approve and then we'll also look at hopefully not only have a report on sewer and water but um be talking about the G CG report and so I would also recommend that the applicant also go through the gcpg report which I know they're doing anyway and see if there's anything in there that's an issue and what you know what what is remaining that is still going back and forth yeah I can if anything I I'm sure the applicant will be able to do that obviously I talked to to Rick Salvo the civil engineer today and so I know that that process is underway okay but I think we got through a lot today I think we made good good progress so uh Terry has his hand raised oh yes Madam chair I do with regard to the gcg report I did have an opportunity to go through it with uh uh Rick Salvo um a lot of those things in that in that report deal with matters that typically are dealt with during a building permit application rather than planning Board review and I just like some guidance as to um how you feel about that I mean you you've dealt with gcg reports before I assume they seem to be a peer review that's uh that the town relies on um periodically so um I don't know that we should we are we expected then to to to deal with get into the knights and bolts of the building permit process or deal with simply planning board issues well like I said I have not even had the opportunity to even look at that report I even even open the file so I cannot comment on what those can you give us an example yeah it goes It goes into detail about engineering things for example um that that normally we have we have our project engineer who you know takes care of those things when we file the building permit application we submit building permit plans are a lot more detailed obviously than P plans and elevation understood but our consultant is extremely used to doing this kind of evaluation at this stage of the game so I would personally relying on gcg to say no this needs to be taken care of at this stage and this is how we do it in Ashland um but but maybe not maybe there's some maybe they would make a different comment I certainly don't want to speak for them but I'm not going to disregard anything they have in their report yeah I would just ask for they've certainly gone they've certainly gone far a field and commenting on some legal legal things and I thought they were engineers not attorneys so maybe comment when you respond because we are clueless right now now I I Sor can you speak up please sorry maybe when you review it and you start responding you can put that in your response which element you feel you're not comfortable addressing right now and why that can go right into your response so then we can make a more educated decision thank you yeah that that's that makes sense I mean we obviously just cannot respond now because we don't have we don't know what the document says so actually if if possible what is the timing of of the applicant's response to gcg because it would be good to have it in advance so that we see what they said so that when we come to the meeting we already have an opinion on on the exchange I would obviously it's kind of a back and forth there a volley back and forth obviously we did got the gcg report today you know the email prep for the next meeting was going to go out next Friday um and so I would like to have a response you know back to G CG by next Friday so at least the planning board is seeing what the response will be and hopefully the turnaround is a little bit quicker obviously because of where we stand in the game regarding the review and obviously um gcg takes I mean obviously you know the the civil engineer takes the report and then adds any new comments that that are needed to obviously make that correction so if if it's possible I would probably say next by next Friday morning would probably be best if that's acceptable to the applicant Rick we can we can meet that deadline okay great I mean that'll keep the process moving because as you can see it it really it's it hurts when we show up when we come and we haven't been able to review the material so um then it's hard for us to move the ball forward on our end so well thank you for having done so this evening thank you yeah I feel like we're getting there um so but that means so we'll be continuing this for to two weeks correct and so just as administrative matter I did work with Attorney Morris and we did take care of a continuance it's all set I accepted it today uh actually he sent it to me before the meeting it will be filed tomorrow with the Town Clerk and it is to extend the public hearing process until November 17th which is um a minute that's the week before Thanksgiving and that is going to be we have a meeting Excuse me yes it's the Friday uh after our uh November meeting and so we'll have next meeting and then we'll have another meeting and then but if you know we'll we'll get a better idea of where we stand after the next meeting then the meeting in November um and one of agenda item not to lead into it will be our November December schedule so um I think that's a good time frame it doesn't mean that we're making a decision at that time we're just we're extending it out and extending it out until we get to the point where we're ready to make a decision yeah I just think knowing the meetings in in the November and then I know we did that one time it was like oh we have a meeting but it was due and it's not the way this is going I'm not seeing it all wrapped up all the conditions in a written agreement by that by that November meeting that's the point it sounds fast to me given where we are right now with just receiving documents today so um I mean it's fine it is it gets us out of the woods right now but it's just going to keep doing this so I just we all have to keep it on our radar screen so we don't get caught agreed no I think we can bring it up at the next meeting and see how far we get along on the 26th and then go to the 17th and you know keep you know yes it we're we we we must feel like we're hamsters in a wheel but this is just you know part of the process okay so on that note we'll be looking for a continuance I make a recommendation that we can continue the 9 to 49 Homer a site plan and special permit application until the october6 you're making a motion right not a recommendation okay I'll second that roll call vote I Anna tuski I Marcel r i Catherine Jers I Andria Kendall I all right so we will see you on the 26th we will aot as today have a amount of time for the discussion of this project yes so and that should be easily possible to do all right all right thank you thank you all for your time okay Amanda still hanging with us she has she she hasn't left yet I don't know she hasn't run SC from the room are you okay you haven't left yet after all this she laughed at my lawyer joke of drawing so that worked that's a fun reading I'm sure right there okay so we are then moving on to uh reports on planning topics I'm not sure we have anything new on these three items Scenic roads economic impact or parking memo I do have an in I do have an update okay uh on economic impact study and so I um did swap emails with Framingham State and I will be attending their um Merc advis board meeting on Friday October 27th and so hopefully that relationship continues to build and we kind of move forward and and um continue and so um um that's where that when I can stand and obviously we continue to work on Scenic roads and in in a parking memo I know we talked about updating our parking bylaws but it just keeps on you know as more projects come up that one keeps kind of sitting lower at the totem pole but has that Scenic Road postcard or whatever it was has that actually gone out yet let me check with Alo I thought about the same thing I believe I thought it did and I know we're getting close we're getting close okay yep all right then uh reports from board members and town planner um comprehensive plan kind of give a little update uh really I think I gave an update of the last meeting so the next meeting is a week from today we have Public's welcome and invite we do have to work on like sound issues again I think I heard some some uh movement maybe on getting that to get it um more relevant to the people online they did have trouble also people in the room but um planning board welcome please attend we roll up sleeves and keep working no you may have mentioned it the week I wasn't here I don't know but um so you have two co-chairs now of the large steering committee group is it did we talk about that last time yes they were we we selected two co-chairs that will not rotate yes the steer committee now has that and they've signed on for potentially for the year and a half or twoyear duration pretty happily oh pretty happily yeah yes no okay they've been tricked excellent excellent excellent work well I just think that's say these things out loud don't say two years I just think um because I did I did watch the tape I saw them when they were kind of I know the first time they were maybe they weren't permanent yet right you know and um I was uh it I was I was happy because it seemed like the thing that you guys I don't remember who talked about it in the beginning but about being able to draw out leadership from the community and I was the one that says no one's going to step up for that they did we better have it in the regulations that one of one of us select board or planning board can step in if no one else steps up but it seems like kind of your first choice of I don't know people from the community stepping in I think that's a really powerful thing absolutely and it's good to have uh both of them representing unique perspectives in the community for sure so I I say kudos for as long as they don't find outow twoe process which you keep ruining you said okay anyway um okay any was there anything else comprehensive plan I kind of jumped in there we did the consultant uh undertook a survey of the steering committee to assess our community connections to begin the work of engaging with various members of our community and so obviously the steering committee alone cannot guarantee all the connections to all the underserved communities or the unique organizations Etc that are part of our community and so if you remember at one point as a planning board we brainstormed who do we want to bring into this process of the comprehensive plan um and if you have our members if you have unique connections to underserved communities in in our in Ashland or a community that you believe would have a vital voice to contribute please let Kate and I know so that although you didn't fill out the survey we can take that and say oh the planning board has these types of community connections whatever they might be that you think may not be in that room like you know who's on the steering committee if you think you have some kind of connection that's not in the room please tell us do you have any idea yet when like the the things like community community forums and thing will start to happen that are very open do we have any like that's I'm a little nervous because it's sometime in December and that is a big it's it's kind of a big important thing out of their public of the Consultants public process but we don't have a date so I did say it t say it again it's December please public like December but we got to get that date right because we can't get people there if they can't plan for it so yeah the December um the consultant did recommend trying to tie it with a community event and that's they've seen success so we have like that illuminate Ashland which might be something this is where like we as a planning board can be part of that meaning like you each whether you ran for election or not you all have connections in the community people that support you that share their views with you like please come to the Forum bring your neighbors bring people that have spoken to about planning issues we should be part of that of creating that presence in the room that should be on on us as well because we are planning board I I think so I mean that's how the I the planning board can be present and you you have all the board has been very supportive and it's clearly Not absent in my opinion but I think there will be a time we're going to need even more and it might be certainly December for one soon to you kept telling like we had an event at the farmers market this past weekend uh the comprehensive plan steering committee had an event to kind of spread the word of the comprehensive plan and I talked to a couple of public members and I made a point to say to them we are required by law to engage with the public for a successful comprehensive plan like we have to do it we don't have a choice it's the law and that's really really important because it's there for a reason like we can't plan without the public so um I really appreciate how Focus Kate has been on public process that's awesome um but I feel like I haven't done enough on that and I feel like we should all try to do more to bring our neighbors and our people in as much as possible and I know we in this room have good connections to certain members of the community so all right great thank you um any other reports I I think the other ones were kind of covered or you know that we don't need to report on at this time um anyone else have a committee to report on I say nothing for okay then um under administrative matters we wanted to Peter and I wanted to talk about the meeting schedule for November December given how the planning board always falls within the holidays on on uh November December can everyone see that oh boy so we are so currently we we are in October it's October 12th um we do have a comp plan next week uh on the 19th and then our next planning board meeting is going to be on the 26th this meeting hasn't changed I do want to just mention and and I'm going to skip to one of the administrative items number one is that um I've been connected with obviously following Town Council in the litigation regarding whittimore Estates in Town Council has proposed an executive session for next Wednesday night at the select boards meeting uh and this could be held in person indor via Zoom um so I just want to this happened today kind of came across yesterday late I mean late yesterday early today so I figured I'd just kind of talk to everybody in person would would everyone indor a majority of the board be able to make an executive session next Wednesday night and that would just be coming on for just that portion of coming on just for that portion of the meeting Wednesday night the that will be the 18th yep yes okay what time I can do that I think uh it could be before their meeting so it could be a little bit earlier but I can confirm tomorrow with the town manager's office uh a time I'm open okay I can put this in an email as well tomorrow Andor on Monday moving into November is everyone okay if I moved into November just to make note I did make that mapc Trails meeting that is regional and in the morning if anybody's interested in going that was part of that email that I sent though Halloween is on the 31st uh I am not going to take credit for that so here is here is um November the Thanksgiving is going to be on the 23rd the fourth Thursday of the month our planning board meeting is always on the 2nd and the 4th so here we are going to meet on the 9th of November um and then the 30th right correct so here's here's the here's the here's the kind of the the start of the conversation so normally we meet on the 23rd and I we are proposing you know I'm proposing to move the second planning board meeting to the 30th which is taking advantage of the fifth Thursday of the month I think that's a good idea since Thanksgiving is the 23rd unless we all want to be napping in this room on Thanksgiving day unless you guys want to come over for turkey also to not uh the MBT the select board a while ago uh mentioned that you know one of their last meetings that to have a update on the MBTA Community zoning and so on the 15th the planning board will be asked to meet with the select board to go over uh MBTA zoning myself and November right this is November 15th correct I guess a joint meeting that's something I could have just reported very briefly on uh Peter Alvaro Joe manani and I have met twice now about that and are kind of digging in and and we'll be having on the 15th some real initial proposals about how we can and that's a joint meeting with the select board that we show up to their meeting we show up to their meeting just for that portion yep sounds good and in December um so normally we are going to meet on the 14th and the 28th um remember we're going to meet on the 30th excuse me we're going to meet on yeah 30th the 30th of November so traditional so we're we're going to have one meeting what I'm proposing is have one meeting in December at this point on the 14th and that would be on the 14th um having a second meeting is the week of the 28th obviously it's school vacation week I'm always off that week I'm out of town that week um myself and Alvaro are both out of town that week I think that's okay to not have one okay and so that will be the schedule for octo I mean November and December and then we pick it back up second and fourth on January keep in mind that the comprehensive plan will have its big Forum sometime in December so that's correct it would be good if we are skipping one of our meetings maybe try to show up for that as a so that yeah neighbors cookies whatever it takes yeah yeah I think traditionally I will say just so that you know with I've done comp plan obviously you know I've done comp plans we have the first two weeks in December then after that everyone checks out everyone checks out Hol public forum will be yes and so I think having that meeting on the 14th is good timing it's another it's a regular intervals between the meeting on the 30th and then obviously we can we can all take a Christmas break and then come back in January and then get back into our first and fourth Thursday of each month rolling in the new year of I can't believe I'm saying this 2024 so our January meeting would then be on the second Tuesday which is the the 11th that's almost a month off folks wow I don't know how I can make it uh so that is the meeting schedule for November and December I think we all concur what everyone's good with that moving that November meeting though okay yes great uh I talked about wura States um 10 to 30 chestn Street the foundation's been the foundation walls are being kind of poured last Friday they finished up the sub the U subsurface drainage Mike Carter was out there you know checking out the drainage with moving forward with the sewer and water connections laying that pipe that's all being also uh also being um excuse me inspected by gcg in our water department we're all working together um the next item I wouldn't say is Starbucks obviously everyone's probably driving by the site uh the foundation has been poured it was back fied and doing some grading work um and so that's where that project stands right now and the mural has movement right I think they have the mural does have movement I just haven't been briefed on that I want to say they posted a deadline for artists for Mid November so if you know muralists I think the deadline is is it November I think it's a November deadline yeah I know making that up October I don't think you made that up you know I think I responded to an email last week that came from that the the Ashland committee cult Council it was just asking you know what's the size what's the material you know I had to jump into the building permit look at the building look at the size look at what's going on what they' be painting on I fired all the details off to them and then I really haven't heard back so obviously that process is underway cool all right it's all the updates it's all I yeah it's all I have all right and then we just have we have no new applications I assume we have no new applications at this point um and I see a couple maybe rolling it obviously I think we all you know the the the brewery at the fire station that that that's the next one I am I would say um I'm I'm waiting for uh and and then then go from there all right so we have we've already discuss the next meeting we have the meeting minutes from o sorry August 24th that was one I was not there though I do have a couple just little Corrections uh item 13 uh Zoom conference in yep and the other one it took me a while actually to it's way back on p on line 126 on the last page that the planning board Mr machic reported that the planning board received a throttle letter these are the two things I was going to change the zoon and the throttle I think I assume it's withdraw withdrawal letter a throttle the throttle that sounds serious someone's being throttled yeah I don't know no it's just a I drive a standard car it sounded like something a throttle EXA I don't know that sounds yeah it's very frightening I don't want it I was going to say we never got that letter I'm driving a boat nope that's his withdra I make a motion that we accept the minutes of August 24th 2023 as amend with the two Corrections mentioned did anyone else have any corrections okay second and a roll call vote I Katherine J's a guy and I think that's it because I wasn't there so I'll make a motion to finish the meeting 10:03 at 10:03 p.m.

[Music] know remember [Laughter] ver hey marel can you make the laptop of the center is it connected here the laptop thank you yeah connect construction okay a yeah EX on that [Music] I just want you yeah yeah not too [Music] much we're still missing something for Saturday afternoon if that's what she now just you don't want to get caught up in that traffic what traff Saturday yeah did you guys get my yes I did okay it's 5:30 and you know seeing seeing seeing I to order the regular board meeting of the Allen Rock Union Elementary School District Board of for Thursday October 12th 2020 CH EES uh let's see here at this time I you know um we go with the roll call marel will you please call the roll today is a regular board meeting of October 12th 2023 at 5:30 pm members of the board in attendance president mfam presid vice presidenta presid Andres Kino uh the clerk of the board has informed me that he is unable to be here this evening member Linda Chavez present member Andrea Flores Shelton she is coming in late okay Administration superintendent Dr Bower present okay uh so with that I move to the land acknowledgement the Board of Trustees of the AL Elementary School District there hereby acknowledged that the district schools and Facilities sit on the traditional lands at the MMA aloney people and Board of Trustees further acknowledges with respect and reverence the MMA alone people tribe of the San Francisco Bay area for their stewardship of these lands so with that would you rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance of the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with libery and justice for all thank you pleas H please be seated okay so with that item 1.02 discussion and or modifications of the agenda the board may change the order of business including but not limited to an announcement and agenda item will be considered uh out of order that consideration of an item has been withdrawn forone scheduled or removed from the consent calendar for separate discussion and possible action board president yes I received a message from board Clerk and item 5.01 needs to be table okay okay and let's see here I actually since uh I oh best so I'd like to also adding to that move uh item 8.01 02 03 04 05 and let's see here uh to be considered right app right before item 3.01 can you repeat that please so I'd like to move that items 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.0 4 and 8.05 uh be moved uh to be considered after item 2.01 2.

uh board meeting tonight thank you for being here we always enjoy having not only adults but uh students in the audience either to listen or to make presentations so we'll begin tonight with um a pledge of allegiance and moment of silence led by our student board rip Daniela Ruiz please stand your right hand over your heart ready begin IED alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all without getting into the political aspects I want to take a moment to recognize and keep in our thoughts and prayers young children who are affected by War zones to no fault of their own infants children and toddlers are faced with horrific acts of violence that lead to consequential health impairments sometimes leading to death in cases they may live they carry with them Everlasting scars injuries and Trauma that no child should ever bear these children have little to no conception of what is happening around them let alone why they are in that position in the first place these children did not choose to live in the impacted areas and most importantly they did not choose War please take a moment to reflect on children and the impact War has had on them thank you thank you Danielle U now we'll have the closed session report by the clerk of the board thank you president O'Neal item 4.1 the Board of Trustees by a vote of 5 Z approved initiation of litigation in Orange County Superior Court case number 30-20 23-01 dc- p- CJC documents will be available upon filing of the litigation item 4.2 the Board of Trustees by a vote of 5 approved a partial insurance settlement for reimbursement related to Orange County Superior Court case numbers 30-20 to 1-01 o-c P JC c and 30-22 0-11 c-p - CJC item 4.3 the Board of Trustees took formal action by a vote of 5 to accept the settlement agreement in Orange County Superior Court case number 3-2020 d1126 712-c u- mt- CXC SL jccp number 5052 item 4.4 the Board of Trustees unanimous ly approved the settlement agreement in oah case number 20237 543 resolving all issues in the district's due process complaint by providing reimbursements and equipment in lie of an i item 4.5 the Board of Trustees unanimously approved the agreement with the student by providing reimbursement for compul compensatory education item 4.6 no reportable action taken regarding negotiations 4.7 no reportable action taken regarding Personnel item 4.8 the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to make the following appointment Kimberly ID I'm sorry if I'm saying this idio idio sorry Kimberly idio assistant principal Western High [Applause] School we'll have you come up in just one moment congratulations item 4.9 the Board of Trustees took formal action with a 5-0 vote to deny the appeal and uphold the suspension of student sa 2301 item 4.10 the Board of Trustees took formal action with a -0 vote to approve the expulsion of students 231 and 2302 the Board of Trustees took formal action also to approve the administrative transfer for number 22045 with a 5- Zer vote thank you thank you madam clerk now miss idio would you care to come to the podium and say a few [Applause] words board president O'Neal esteemed Board of Trustees superintendent matsuda cabinet and honored guests thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to serve the ahsd community at Western High School I will uphold the mission and values of our district to support our students success here with me today are my parents Eddie and Lilia my husband Oliver and my son Sebastian thank you so much I look forward pleas my son here you can hear him my husband Oliver and my parents in the back once again thank you so much for the opportunity and I look forward to begin my work week next week great thank [Applause] you well welcome to the district or back I should say back to the district thank you uh next is a student representative report Daniela ahsd News September Edition tune in to see what your schools have been up to starting with Cambridge Virtual Academy they had a Classics field trip where CVA students had the opportunity to experience entrepreneurship with Classics floral and Confections the best business pitch received a $15 gift card Cyprus had a Back to the Future homecoming themed um on September 16th Cypress students took a trip back to the 80s to party and have have a good time the Cypress campus was transformed into a scene out of the notorious movie Back to the Future food and beverages were served from hot dog on a stick and students got to dance the night away big congratulations to homecoming King Sid Shahi and homecoming queen Jamie pones Gilbert High School in Gilbert High School they started a flag football where they got to go to other community schools and and along with that gilbertt will start to campaign about the bus time in front of Gilbert to make sure that when the kids get out of school the students can get to their jobs and home safely at catella high school they had a fall blood drive in collaboration with UCI Medical Center catella students over 18 had the opportunity to donate blood Kennedy High School school had their very first RSVP Summit so Kennedy's RSVP program had their first summit on September 22nd with the help of over 80 facilitators they were able to reach 60 plus classrooms and Garner 1,000 plus suggestions on potential improvements on campus that moving on to Laura they had a Bridges Retreat towards the end of September Laura's rsup Bridges Club hosted the first mindfulness and restorative justice Community circles on campus with Groundswell formerly OCR students were able to gain leader skills learn about the difference between restorative justice and distributive justice and Achieve learning how to conduct and facilitate a circle loera's RSVP Bridges Club goal for the school year is to expand the concept of circle groups in classrooms and acquaint to teachers and students topics that are planned to be discussed include mindful racism on campus student inclusivity and homophobia on campus Magnolia High School Agri science community center on a segment of ABC7 Magnolia's Mac was featured on a segment on our local news ABC 7 the segment features all the opportunities the Mac had to offer Magnolia students were also featured on the segment and gave the students the opportunity to speak on their impact the Mac has provided them other guests were also interviewed such as Mayor Ashley akkin and Josh Friday Oxford Academy had their sports comeback with girls golf back at Oxford it brings back the return of a sport that was lost 5 years ago with Coach David voser leading the charge the sport is starting to gain traction amongst the students here at Oxford the team is led by three team captains Junior Leah Luna Junior Melody o and Senior Ashley chin despite the rushed start to a season the efforts made by coach Vos kuller helped in their win against Whitney on September 14th Savannah also had their very first RSU PE Summit on September 29th with the combined effort of our 100 plus staff members RSVP board members and 107 facilitators Savannah RSVP was able to excute a majorly successful Summit on Friday September 29th trained facilitators dispersed into over 60 classrooms during a double assembly schedule and presented about the RCP initiative in an informative and effective manner insightful feedback ranging from academic support Improvement to school spirit was collected and students remained productive and engaged throughout the entirety of the summit we are incredibly proud of all of our students for their participation in our facilitators for leading important convers ations and being campus Role Models Western High School had Varsity talks at an alumni breakfast Varsity talks had their third alumni breakfast last Saturday we student athletes all came together to enjoy breakfast made by culinary students and Lead Chef Med we also had an attendance Board of trustee piery the event had a great outcome and got the opportunity to hear from amazing alumni who now are iians doctors lawyers it was a chance for our current athletes to feel a part of something bigger as well as to get the chance to connect with athletes who played in college professionally that concludes the school report thank you thank you Daniel Daniela very nicely done and also want to thank our Pio John for getting our what EXC me what Danielle just presented up on the board so the audience can see instead of us just looking at at the flyer so thank you for that um moving on next do we have any I don't have any student speaker request form so I'm assuming there's no uh students in the audience that wanted to speak so we'll move on to um reports of on associations we have Mr James Goran AA Britney here from apga Britney um good evening everybody rant is sick again so you're stuck with me for the report tonight I have a short message for you guys today um good evening board and cabinet ASA would like to compliment all the work put into the Ed Summit by all stakeholders presenters across all content areas were sharing their expertise in the 5c's and performance task assessments attendees were reflecting and finding new ways of improving their ptas that are utilized every day across the district our members will continue to support students their families and the community in every way that we can the association is ready to begin negotiations at the table with the district despite a slow beginning we are interested in meeting with the district finding common ground and reaching an agreement on a contract that our members and members of other associations deserve that's it so thank you very much thank you thank [Applause] you next we have Amanda bean from Ulta good evening uh president O'Neal Board of Trustees executive cabinet and our community guests both in person and online uh first I just want to give a shout out to our principls it is National principles month and so just want to express um the Gratitude and thankfulness for the hard work and dedication of our principles and so if you haven't thanked your principal lately take a moment to do that um want to give also a couple of shout outs to some recent events um first to Carlos Hernandez and his team for the planning and execution of our College and Career Fair um that event takes the work of many departments across our district to execute and um it just gets so much bigger and better each year I want to thank the board for attending and all of um you who um came to help even um like I was really impressed that the business department was there helping us out and so thank you for that um but really just want to thank everyone for their attention to um providing such a great event to um connect our students and their families to really wonderful and exciting um college and career opportunities and so thank you to everyone who's involved with that um secondly um in connection to that I'd like to thank all of our teachers our administrators our counselors our partners and support staff for their um execution of the College and Career for lessons and so um prior to the fair we execute um a a a two days worth of lessons at each grade level to help prepare students to make the best use of their time at the fair and so we're doing activities such as exploring your strengths and your interest connecting them to potential career choices and then potential College choices that help match those careers I mean so that's a big lift and so everybody's involved and so really just want to thank everyone for their attention to that um and you know everyone from again the classroom teacher um all the way through our RT Department we didn't have any technology issues this year so yay for that um so just really want to thank everyone um for their participation a lot of dedication there um and then lastly I just also want to give a shout shout out to Diana Fujimoto and her team for the planning and execution of the Ed Summit um and all of the teachers who were presenters um you know the feedback on that was awesome and then the other team members that um held a satellite camp campuses and did um specific activities for their groups so we had our counselor likes and social workers at Cypress High School working together and we had many of our special education staff at different campuses across the district for um some tailored opportunities so you know thank you to everyone who takes the time and energy to make that day valuable for all of our team members um again thanking our teacher presenters thanking our assistant principal who facilitated many of the breakout rooms and then our principals and their sight level CL um SL that led the camp or the the campus um breakouts and so uh just a lot of work in the month of October and just uh really on behalf of all the members of ala just want to thank everybody who's involved um and and again for their dedication to making these days uh wonderful for either staff or for students so thank you thank you [Applause] Amanda next Britany Busa from uh apga hi thank you so much for having me thank you board um since our last board meeting counselors have been hard at work supporting the needs of all students whether it be academically social emotionally or through College and Career guidance uh counselors prepared students for the College and Career Fair by helping with CCF lessons and supporting teachers in the classroom to um have intentional conversation um regarding future plans um and it could be clearly seen with our students at the College and Career Fair I mean I don't know if you guys saw some of those lines were just wrapped around I think UCI and UC Berkeley had like three separate really long line so um that was great to see um we want to thank our leaders for creating such an amazing Community event to show our students that they all have the opportunity available for them um to do something with their life After High School whether that's Community College University trade school um there are so many opportunities for them and that's just a great night for them to really see um what's available to them um we'd also like to thank our amazing mental health Task Force Team um with their amazing work on Monday our Ed Summit was really one for the books it was truly a time of complete collaboration among counselors social workers and school psychologists um I think it was probably one of the first times we were all really together um working in collaboration so I think it was just a great time for everyone to really feel supported um later in the day counselors continued focusing on student needs by looking at needs assessment data um which is the result of counselor's hard work at collecting over 20,000 responses so we really have some great data to look at as far as where our students are at um what they need from not just counselors but from everyone at the school site our admin our teachers um to really help you know help students with the school culture really feeling like they belong um and really addressing those needs of our students um and then as we head into the second quarter of the school year our work only continues to ramp up college applications small groups classroom guidance lessons as well as transcript and I AP audits to help build site capacity fill our schedules with joy as we continue working with all students to prepare them for Life After High School thank you so much thank you Britney um I'd also like to just recognize um liia Holstrom from Roop in the audence she is the administrator for Roop so thank you for being here uh PTA is anybody I didn't see anybody here representing PTA this evening okay seeing done we'll move into presentations Anaheim anti vaping Endeavor doctor all right well it gives me great pleasure to bring up Vicki oo um she is our project coordinator for tupe uh big Grant we have so she's introduce our friends from okapa who are going to share the great work we're doing um their anti- vaping Endeavor great thank you good evening good evening boor good evening cabinet and Community um Vicki aavo I'm your tobacco youth prevention education project coordinator I've been holding the position for nine years and we have a lot of different grants that come at us not only from um education piece right tobacco youth education but there's also resources for research um and so this is one grant that um came to us it's a tobacco research development program and so I'm gonna let Emily Park and Jonathan garzon start their presentation thank you very much Vicky for that introduction um hello good evening uh members of the board and the cabinet my name is Jonathan garon I'm a community health educator at the chiao family Comprehensive Cancer Center here in Orange County hello my name is Emily Park um I'm a program coordinator at okapa and also the co-coordinator on this project with Jonathan um we just want to thank the Board of Trustees in the cabinet for taking the time to learn about our program Anaheim a um a which also stands for anti vaping Endeavor and the work that we've accomplished over the years today we are thrilled to introduce the nhim MAV program um next slide um so a little background about our program uh we started it in uh 2021 and as we all know during the coid years a lot of vaping uh amongst our youth started to rise and so this is a program that came out of that uh you know we saw that there was a need for uh research around this topic and and with our program um we we partner with Vicky ASO the TP program here at the Anaheim um Anaheim Union High School District with the aim to empower students with skills for anti vaping efforts youth advocacy research skills public speaking skills and community outreach all focused around raising awareness about uh VAP vaping's impact on our youth um and and here on the screen you'll see a list of our partner programs so we're grateful for the collaborative effort between UCI Cal State Fullerton okapa the Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance and the Anaheim Union High School District to create and sustain this program from the beginning here's a a list of all the partners uh that have dedicated their time and resources to give a brief overview of the program from Spring 2021 to Spring 2023 we focused on having the students co-create a peer survey with Dr Sora Cheri from UCI who's also in the audience um and Dr Joshua Yang from Cal State Fullerton in 2021 to then be distributed to their peers um at various auhsd schools and so through this survey we gathered data on students experience with v vaping um and their beliefs and opinions on it the results showed that students believe their peers Vape because of social factors such as peer pressure psychological and emotional factors um such as Stress and Anxiety Relief and then product factors such as it being easy to obtain the students then planned and participated in a CommunityWide event disseminating the results from the peer survey there um our event happened in Spring of 2023 and was called the breathe healthy live mindfully event um and it was focused on vaping and mental health over 14 local health and anti-vaping organizations provided resources and activities for students to learn about mental health coping practices and addressed ways to combat vaping in the community we also partnered with Gilbert High School um to host our event at their school they presented to over 120 peers and community members about the survey results that were gathered and hosted a booth with informational materials and visuals that they created with the peer survey data Vape confiscation data researched by Dr Joshua Yang from Cal State Fullerton and information about the effects of vaping two of our students Alyssa Malong from Magnolia High School and Michael Flores from Gilbert High School MC the event um and to wrap up our Anaheim AB uh our students for our final project uh focused on creating and hosting uh the breath healthy living mindfully event and then during that event um our students were divided into two groups for this event and they focused on two different information dissemination methods one group uh one group designed and showcased posters located on the leftand side um at community events OK Capa youth program Gatherings and the Anaheim Union High School District offices so you might have seen them around here uh the second group of students crafted an educational vaping presentation which they delivered to syo Junior High School uh student during the Saturday Academy session in the spring of this year and you can see a picture of the students uh they're presenting in front of the Saturday Academy on the top right hand corner um and to gauge the impact of the presentation and using the research skills that we developed during the program the Anaheim map students created pre and post surveys for the junior high school students um and we included a snippet of the data on the survey questions focusing on assessing their knowledge of vaping effects um and indicating the pre and post survey results and the results revealed in increase in knowledge among our Junior High School students before and after uh the presentation kind of to showcase the importance of peer-to-peer education at the end of the program the students were surveyed on skills that they grew in including ahs's 5 C's the two highest skills that they improved on is public speaking and communication as for the 5c's they improve the most on collaboration this was largely due to the planning and participation in the Community event and um their presentation in front of the community members uh we are proud of our students that they took advantage of the opportunities that they had in the program and got to hone their skills that will only benefit them in their future endeavors um as their program coordinator it was truly a joy to see the students open up as the year went on and watch them put effort into their projects and their presentations they formed friendships with each other even though they were from uh different ahsd schools and enjoyed coming to the meetings at the end of the program students received a stien and two certificates one from Congress and one from the County of Orange to recognize their completion of the program um on this page there are a few testimonials from Anaheim a students um I'll just read some portions from each one so the first one um the bolded portion says I loved how we were able to actually go out and present our information at the breathe healthy live mindfully event um for the second testimonial um it's says as an individual I've been getting much better at public speaking without a script this has been my proudest accomplishment as I have never in the past would have had the courage to speak without one and then the last one says it was really interesting to be able to apply Concepts taught in school to a real life situation that made an impact on my community um on the bottom there are some art poster submissions that the students also did during a um art poster contest for uh vaping poster and so you'll see some on the other sides as as well so on the screen you'll see some pictures of our students uh uh dedicated students at our events um we appreciate their commitment to our Anaheim math program and the contributions they've made in the middle picture and in one of the middle pictures uh you'll see that we also organized College Tour tours throughout the year offering valuable opportunities for career development and and college expiration among the many opportunities that our students were able to present uh participate in and so Anaheim MAV we we tried to build a lot of their skills through a lot of the different programming that we offered we also had uh some colleges uh come out and share resources and information for the students that were getting ready to go to college um and last slide I just want to acknowledge everyone we want to thank the Board of Trustees um for their support um and the Community Partners uh and thank you to Vicky ASO and um everyone here at the County uh for their support and now we're open to questions or feedback from the board thank you thank you for your presentation anybody have any questions great present I have a I have a question um you mentioned about the survey and the survey said that uh the um about uh peer pressure what what percentage of the students said that they started Evas because of peer pressure do you have anything um we we didn't get a lot of uh participation from people at meting to vape use what we mostly gathered was data from other students what they Perce perceived uh the reason that other students were vaping okay uh you also mentioned about the ease of being able to obtain The Vaping devices uh do you have any more information on that like where are they getting the devices from uh because they shouldn't be able to walk into a store and buy them because they're they're under a so I'm just wondering how are they obtaining them did you did your research show anything from that right uh that that's a really good question thank you for that question um we don't have uh we're still finalizing a lot of the data uh it's being analyzed Yeah by our professors okay yeah so when you're looking at use just in general you come over the microphone please yes thank you um so when you're looking at tobacco and vape use just in general a lot of it's purchased online or older students or friends or family will have access to it and so then it's sold and Bartered right between younger students and older students um unfortunately even though prop 31 passed which was a flavor band for California you still can walk into stores and purchase Vape devices in every you know 25,000 different flavors um so it's going to take a little bit of time that passed in December it's going to take a little bit of time for healthcare agency associate s right government cities um to basically remove it from the city itself right because unfortunately it's still being sold so I would say most of it's coming from older right family members or older siblings or they can actually go online and just hit click yes that they're 18 we're 21 now right yeah wow thank you it's an eye opener unfortunate I just wanted to thank you for doing all this work thank you fi um thank you um to our partners and the audience and and okapa um what are our plans you shouldn't have sat down what are our our plans to do this again um I guess I should yeah so sorry I know the presentation was only 10 minutes so I wanted to give Jonathan and Emily um the most maximum time but I feel like this is bringing on information that you guys are going to need to know cabinet and board so I think it's in the next couple months I'm going to try to get on the board meeting and we'll give you an update um we have lots of different grants that are coming from research again this was a a research when you look at um the tobacco over oversight committee you have policy you have education and you have research so tobacco Master settlement agreement monies are going to those three places um for us working with Dr Adella Cruz now um I'm now under the school of Mental Health and Wellness so we're collaborating greatly with social workers social workers are hosting four main campaigns this year suicide was last month uh this month is substance awareness fits really well with Red Ribbon Week February they're going to be um stating violence and may will be mental health so not only are we pushing campaigns in addition to T still doing curriculum right in health classes we're making sure that the students are getting information and then I have a TP adviser at every single School site um that implements Youth Development activities so it's mandatory and I meet with you know those advisers over the year to work on workshops right and put things in place sorry um but looking forward we're we're moving with intervention and cessation more on site we're not only doing that in alter alternative to suspension on Tuesdays we're bringing on uh new lung Anaheim Regional Med Center and they're giving um station classes like they would if they called the number or went to the hospital they're getting an hour and a half every single student that's in our ATS program right Pathways to success um so we're trying to embed it right and then we're giving other opportunities like a text quit number right they can text uh ditch Vape to 8879 and it gives them kind of interactive personal messages we're also starting it's a new program as of last year but we're uh using wap.org it's with a y not not why question why but why vape.god ministrators can go on and actually assign a student to meet with a cation coach twice via phone or online and so we're trying to we we've maybe had five schools utilize it last year um so in addition to Alta suspension and our y Vape you know.org program which will you know it connects the administrator with the pro process rather than just saying hey call this number or get you know here go get help um and Dr Cruz and I are also working on other interventions and cessation for other drugs and other options right so we just created a flowchart which we will be sharing very very soon with principles and um assistant principles right and TP advisers right and everyone who needs to know um so yeah we have a lot planned we do all right fantastic work thank you answer your question I'm going to stay here I just have a quick question Emily and Jonathan uh working with after working with our students we always know that adults fall in love with them what is one thing that you learned from them sure um well I think in the beginning of the year they were a really quiet bunch and you never know until they come into that classroom and they're you know you're meeting with them and doing activities with them but over the year they definitely opened up and we now have one of the students that was in the anahim MAV program in another one of our OK Capa youth programs called rooted this semester or this year and so I think just to not underestimate like their motivations for you know putting themselves out there and their um motivation to grow as an individual and as a youth and I think I've really seen that throughout the past year that I've been a part of this program and um even continuing into this year even though they're not my student anymore I still see growing and taking advantage of opportunities so that's really awesome to see wonderful yeah and uh for me it was really great to see the students just want to take uh control over the event and make it their own so as our final project like I mentioned we had the breathe healthy live mindfully event and all the students were engaged and they all got to go up on stage and and present and so it was just um a great culmination of of to that project and all the students were able to you know bring their own friends from their own schools and all come together um and kind of see everyone in one place so that's my lastic memory from that fantastic very nice thank you thank you thank you thank you thank [Music] you next presentation is Workforce experience opportunity Californians for all all right well it gives me great pleasure to Now bring up our director of innovative programs and instructional systems Amy Quan she's going to introduce our team who is a part of creating a just a tremendous opportunity for our students this summer and really into the school year as well but turn over to Amy I'm excited for her to share the great work that was done good evening president O'Neal Board of Trustees executive cabinet and of course our community members um I am so proud to be able to introduce our next presentation um it truly is a reflection of our uh career preparedness systems framework in action through our community schools approach um really investing in our greatest ass said as a school district and that's our students in solving our biggest concerns in our community um and so what what we are going to share about today is a uh Au hsd's partnership with the city of Anaheim through a grant called The Californians for all youth job corp and our first of we we have an army we'll keep it brief but um uh who I have here today with us is the city of Anaheim uh manager of Workforce Development Mr Marco Lucero and the youth job coordinator Miss Blanca Rees good evening everyone on behalf of the city of Anaheim we are pleased to support the valuable work experience uh provided to the youth who participated in the Anaheim youth job corpse we have invested the funding from the governor's office through this program and truly sparking an innovation and ination through the projects to be shared in the next few slides you can see in the slides that the goals and objectives established by the grant we are Grant we are proud to say that they have all been achieved through the partnership with Anaheim Union High School District thank you um in the slide you'll get to see that uh last month we had a visit from our Mayor Ashley Aken and uh the state California Chief Service Officer Mr Josh Friday who came out to Magnolia agroscience Community Center um of course to see our farm but really to acknowledge the um interns from all across um the city of Anaheim so we hosted several interns not just ahsd students but also outside of ahsd um the youth job cours it it focused on three key essential areas of Co 19 economic impact uh food insecurity and climate change and you'll hear from our students how we addressed all three of those um our partnership with the city of Anaheim in this grant started in summer 2022 where we had 11 students who were um employed to work with us at the Mac um actually I think we were the first project to actually execute as part of the grant um it was so successful that at the end of the grant um the city of Anaheim agreed to keep on three more recent alumni so students but recent alumni to stay stay with us throughout the school year from Fall to Spring then this summer we grew the program from 11 to 53 in three different areas we had six students of ahsd um working with our faces and our um our Google certificate team to offer Google certificate parent courses is where our students were creating the modules hosting um tutorial sessions and um providing one-on-one support to our parents um we had 30 students working at the Magnolia agroscience Community Center and then we had 17 students working at 15 of our community school sites in developing um a network for Community pantries and again such a successful summer program that the city of Anaheim has continued to employ six students or recent alumni it has to be 20 hours a week so current students are a little bit difficult to maintain a 20-hour week job um so we have six recent alumni working in all three of those programs with us wow so in total in two years we've been able to offer 74 internships to our students um from students across six different schools um we also really proud of the students who have been able to serve in these positions come are very representative of the demographics of our district including English Learners newcomers and special education students um totaling about 16,0 580 hours of student experiences and almost $300,000 going directly to student salaries so today you'll get to see a brief overview of um of our three programs you'll first hear from Victor siero from our parent Google certificate program um I'd like to thank our faces Jonathan Barbara and Sylvia van y who have supported um and led that program and we'll also hear from Ansley sza and Justin puera from the Magnolia agroscience Community Center program and I'd like to thank Dr Sabina jamus Doug Noah and sha Manning who have supported that program and then of course our community school Pantry program we'll hear from Denise roas Andrew Fernandez Victor fiser Hernandez apologize he's he's also here but not on the slide um and I'd like to thank ruy Aus and erlanda or erlanda orta um our community school coordinators for leading that program so first up Victor Sierra oh good good evening boarding cabinet my name is Victor Sierra and I'm here to share my experience as an intern for the Google project management certificate for parents the certificate will help parents empowered through real world through the use of real world scenarios should where they will learn skills in problem solving and communication that will help them succeed an entry-level project management careers I have supported this by having one-on-one technical support in person and virtually I have also created video tutorials on how to navigate the course this summer we had a total of 23 parents enrolled this fall we had 200 parents interested out of those 200 parents 129 parents are currently en enrolled and participating in the course I am proud to be helping in this project and help parents and help empowered parents and the community thank you all [Applause] right I feel like I'm a curse this after good evening everyone uh my name is Sabina joas I'm the project coordinator at the Magnolia agroscience Community Center um I'm here to just introduce our uh two of our students two of the 30 students that work at the Mac farm this summer um but first I just like to um go over our our theory of action and also um express my gratitude to the board um I think um it's wonderful to see that all five of you have been on the Mac uh Farm site and so I think our students see your presence and and appreciate that as well so um thank you for your support um our theory of action has been um toate create a Comm uh a sustainable agricultural practice site um where we are creating a social and cultural shift in the way that our community um approaches their food habits um due to their scientific literacy learning about regenerative farming which is good for the environment oh there it goes it's just [Applause] slow um so at the Magnolia agroscience Community Center um some of the things that we are proud of doing is that we um at Magnolia High School have lots of Civic a um action projects where students um are um finding ways to use the farm as an asset to their learning um we've held multiple Community Education events with Community Partners um in our classrooms especially our science classrooms we've partnered with uh UCI professors that have been doing professional development for some of our science teachers across the district um learning about how to bring in regenerative farming practices into um science classrooms like chemistry physics and um Living Earth and then um lastly helping teachers make a connection to um using the farm as as an asset to learning um bringing into professional development opportunities for teachers to make learning matter for the students um so with me today I have um Ansley Sosa he's going to go first um Ansley is actually representing um four different student groups so we we split our 30 students into five different Civic action groups this summer so he's here to represent um four of those groups and he's going to talk a little bit about what those students did hi I'm anley soza I graduated from Magnolia High School in the last spring and I had the opportunity to be to work as an intern for the Mac during the summer and I was fortunate enough to be hired back for the 2023 2024 school year I'm currently attending Cyprus College and plan to transfer to a four year university and I'm currently majoring in mechanical engineering this internship has helped me understand the different um opportunities and jobs that are available in the public sector which I'm also interested in working in so one of our groups that we had was the Community Education group and this group researched ways that could benefit the community and environmentally sustainable ways of changing our food habits this group also realized that the best way that they can reach out to the most amount of par uh people were through our registration so we reached out to almost 800 families during our Magnolia High School registration event and they were able to educate families one-on-one about eating locally produced foods and eating foods that were in season in California so that they do not have to eat foods that are travel away from like far places our next group that we had was a group that wrote a book about the um history of the mac and not only did to write book about the history of the Mac but it also highlighted student stories from all over our districts student wrote personal stories about the connections to food including their favorite cultural recipes the book is also currently being looked over by an editor and is projected to be ready to be published by the end of the school year my group worked on video production that helped spread Awareness on the Mac farm and the community and also educate others on the importance of regenerative farming my personal favorite um video that we did over the internship was the jam the jam video which is right there we will not be um playing the video tonight but you can access the video on our YouTube channel which is farming the future on YouTube and we also created podcasts and many different um videos that you can um are very educational to teach other people I would like to thank the city of Anaheim for this experience and I'm feeling very confident in my future because of this opportunity that was offered to me and next up we have Justin Pera talking about his group cell phone app creation thank you um good evening good evening my name is Justin pora I'm a senior at Magnolia High School I was a past intern for the mac and now I'm interning with Aim so uh I'm here to talk about my app called Pure plate which is um created to help solve food and poverty within the city of Anaheim so originally coming into the internship I was given the option to either do the Mac or another internship with Aim so I'm in the cyber security program for Magnolia which um kind of puts me in a bit of a hard situation because the Mac is all about agriculture whereas I'm mainly used to doing stuff like cyber security and computer science so I decided to um solve a core problem that I've seen my whole life growing up an sorry growing up in Anaheim um I've seen food and poverty my whole life you know it's always easier for me to just go down the street and get a cheeseburger as opposed to getting like a salad that's charged up $5 and it should be so me and my team decided to create an app that will help solve this problem if you look up on the board um we actually gathered different areas where you can find local fresh and organic produce at a cheap price so we targeted places like farmers markets grocery stores and um other places like that such as the community garden at Magnolia here's a general Overlook of our app it's not much but we do aspire to add much more so we have a SAT satellite view of Anaheim and where to look for these grocery stores and farmers markets um we also have a bit of an education page where you can look at which fruits and veggies are in season and when they're the best to be eaten so right now although it's not much we do plan on finishing the app with a partnership with aim um throughout this school year and a little bit into next year um now I'd like to introduce Andrew Fernandez thank you goodness just go okay good evening my name is Andrew Fernandez I am one of the 17 students chosen to participate in the community schools internship program so essentially I'm give you a quick overview of this program so after um a survey of basic needs and assets we noticed that food insecurity is a humongous problem in our community and my team and I decided to initiate the five C's such as critical thinking collaboration and communication to solve this food problem as a result and what I've done here for example at Dill Jor high is establish a food pantry and add on to it by basically restocking all the food basic necessities such as clothing sanitizing Pro and uh products just to give to the families and I've additionally started to collaborate with companies such as Target and Food For Less they have given Dale Junior High money to support us in restocking our food pantries and additionally we've started a collaboration with the OC food bank and essentially what this has done it has given us a cons istent source of food and clothing for our families in Anaheim and most importantly what I've gathered from this experience is I've greatly sharpened my communicative and collaborative skills including with working with other people especially adults so yeah this has been a great experience overall it really pushed me even more to pursue political science and civil services which I want to pursue in the future thank you all right and I'd like to introduce the Western View team um hello everyone my name is Victor Fisher Hernandez I was the intern at Orange Junior High School here is a marketing campaigns I have created and in this video you can you won't be able to see but in this video there's a success a food drive that I help manage and as someone who wants to major in public health this internship really opened my eyes on the Necessities in our community I would um as as a person I am really social with um with people around my age but when it comes to adults I'm I'm tad bit reserved but here I am speaking to adults I'm having a conversation with adults and so this internship really help me build up my confidence speaking and conversing with adults thank you hello my name is Denise Roos and I actually was an intern for Western High School uh as you could see on the slides we had our project Beyond Western where we took staff to better know our community and to better understand the food and security that's occurring we also had project labita where I helped manage and organize our food pantry and our resource Pantry which had Sanitary products and other free products accessible for our our community and our future prospects was expanding laita as well as bonding together and I really enjoyed this experience being a part of this internship because it kind of adds on to what I want to be when I grow up which is practically also in political science I want to do policy work and I want to be able to contribute back to the communities and being able to work hand inhand with community members and other organizations gave me that collaboration as well as working along with other schools and other sites thank you all [Applause] right that concludes our presentation I'm sure we would have loved to have all 53 students up here tonight and they would have been happy to share um their individual stories but once again want to thank the city of Anaheim um for giving us this opportunity um I know the Grant's going to run out but we are definitely going to apply for another one and ouring next time we're going to extend our current funding and one thing we've learned for doing it two summers in a row now that we've announced that we'll probably need to tell the students when the interviews are because they are hounding us um to to have this opportunity so thank you to all of our advisers who led it and thank you to the city of Anheim and thank you to the board any questions anybody have a question question I I didn't have a question but just a comment I just want to for both the presentations they're definitely student driven projects so I want to thank all the partners and staff for continuing uh to support our students and thank you for everyone that came to present tonight and I have no question also but I have a comment and I want to say thank you this is great news you know we've got our funding to to go and support even more students this is a phenomenal uh gain for us and the project at the Mac Farm is great you are just pride in what you do how you serve this community and for my generation there wasn't a lot of opportunity to think about what you wanted to do when you became older it was very limited and I think of the breadth of experiences that our young people it gives me chills their experiences that they're having to decide what direction what pathway they may want to go in life and all I can just say is from the bottom of my heart thank you thank you I'm uh I'm just choked up right now because um you are the epitome of just um giving back and just the the things that are going on in the world right now you guys can make such a difference and you already have made it difference um in in bringing about change in the community a lot of people are stifled right now saying we can't we can't and you have all proven that that's not the case and I'm just um I'm I'm just enamored with all of you and um anything that you need from us please don't hesitate to ask um we need to be helping you because you have all the answers and we're so so proud of you thank you well I I think what has been demonstrated this evening is uh what this district is all about and that is uh opening up our Paradigm uh to you students allowing you to Venter into instead of just a simple classroom and sitting in the classroom and looking at what we used to call a chalkboard and having the teacher stand up there and and talk to actually getting your hands dirty uh and out in the community working and helping others and planning for the future because what you're planning is your future and uh your your students future so uh we love it we the board loves to have students come and make presentations and talk to us because um we hear what you're having to say we we we hear the education you're receiving and what you have done tonight is just F fantastic it's wonderful we we thank you very much for not only what you're doing but also all the teacher support and the community support that goes behind it because without them you know we wouldn't be where we are today so thank you again appreciate it um question was just raised do you think that uh students would care to come forward and have a picture taken yeah so if we can come forward here with the board be part of the picture yes got yes we can take your yes well but you helped provide the experience for the kids so yes until Kimberly I can drop her off I home make sure you follow is there any speakers today resolution thank you Vicky oh yeah just wonderful that's great that's what it's all about getting these kids involved in learning yes where did Miss Randle tro go did she go with the students out the door serious that's what lost oh okay never about these kids okay next uh got a lot more options up is item number eight public comments on Open Session items and there's a timer here with a parliamentarian right there uh 5 minutes 3 minutes to speak excuse me and uh the first up uh to speak is Ry Castillo good evening it's been a while I'm back oh but was great night tonight love to hear this is something that I like to see the young kids do and it's strange you know because I was in Jeffrey Lynn for 25 years helping feeding from the CDC Catholic Charities uh Orange County Rescue Mission and then helping mentoring kids families but to see younger kids doing this that's that's the that's the change in me to see youngers getting involved and some of the other issues where of the smoking and all that you know where these kids they do get it from peer uppers that um or they get their families you know we see something on the table they take it and they're young kids in in elementary school so it's surprising that the the times changed a lot and there's a lot of peer pressure out there in the community um so being involved in that in this community I can understand sometimes but when you get kids and kids in actions and uh YMCA and Boys and Girls Clubs and you keep them activities you know those kids turn out great and we got to keep it going when they're when they get to the next level so there's a lot of times where kids are not fortunate to have those kind of uh accessibilities and um so that really hit me tonight like to mention that but again in the history and again my subject is being that I was you know third generation here and went to the the schools and the issues of history of changes that I've seen and so my my Approach is not an attack full approach it's an information approach to know that some of us went through some really hard times with uh you know the discriminating of not knowing who we were not knowing individuals we could have somebody in the family member not doing something right or uh a teacher student problem and you know unfortunately sometimes it it brought us here to to the to the city to the uh School Board to have a long time ago we used to fill this place up and and for me it's just to get resolve the problems and to meet with you guys and then have you guys just understand that we need to have uh a lot of things kind of like working as Community leaders and all that together with the school everything comes from the kids as they grow up as we get older and um but just as much as that there was a lot I wanted to say but I'm not going to tonight I wanted to reach out to some information to give you guys but um this tonight was great to hear all this other stuff so I just like to commend all those kids and you know that's my that's my whole life is the youth keep them keep them in busy and keep them out of trouble thank you very much thank you next up is Masa happy indigenous people's day October 12th I going to read something that Virginia um wrote this the family respectful reminder to all of you date November 15th 2021 let's move Anaheim towards a more exclusive and dignified future by removing the mascot the name colonist many schools and national sport teams have come to a rational understanding of the negative impact of mascots that are offensive and harmful they have chosen in a spirit of respect understanding and for the better benefit of communities to remove their distasteful mascot names such actions in our country demonstrate the removing of longtime negative representations of Oppression racism and in equality are a step to a healing the persuasive and historical injustices towards minorities especially Native Americans and Indigenous peoples chos IO Central Americans there is a historical disconnect between the quote colonists as depicted by the Anaheim High School mascot and much later German quote colonist in anakim colonist arrived on America's East Coast in the early 1600s and were never in California colonist predates the establishment of the United States and democracy quote colonist quote worldwide took indigenous lands as their own under violent dehumanizing unscrupulous methods raids and warfare which is the reason the word should not represent high school students in 1857 the Germans plan and project to move to Anaheim were in fact investors was the local Native Americans indigenous agriculture that would made it possible with water supplies and land preparations for Vineyards so the Germans could Prosper 3 years later when all was ready the Germans arrived and make their homes on unseated land during the same era Local Natives barely survive incursion having suffered 90% loss of population under horrifying attempts to completely exterminate indigenous peoples and take the land for Native Americans the term quote colonist is a reminder of a cruel and distrust treatment of our ancestors and I'll end it right there we had indigenous people's day this Monday I did send a couple emails or messages to Facebook including Jessica Guerrero but I know all of you are very busy and um but it was beautiful it was nice to see uh uh Carlos from the city council of Anaheim present and even stepen Fel so two councilmen were there and all we were waiting is for some of you to show up but with time I know we need to uh work a little harder to invite you guys there we just came back from Nebraska Iowa Kansas South Dakota Minneapolis met some of the George Floyd's relatives we talked about the Anaheim colonist the petition the YouTube video of Virginia Caro and so many more things that we're fighting for I went to a meeting last night and I was happy to see that they did take off once a Col always a Colin that was beautiful but when I turned around the building I saw it was it was there once a Col always a colonist to us native people it's like saying once col is always the rapist the child or chomo standing of our land and shooting of our people by Anaheim Police Department there's good cops and bad cops there's good people and bad people in every skle in every religion thank you so much for listening and I just want to give this they want to meet with you guys two important uh business cards of the tribal council uh who can I give this to so we can set up a meeting thank you so much for your attention next speaker um is it looks like Pas pascet is a parent yes yes thank you thanks so much and first of all thank you so much Trustees for the time and opportunity in recent years like many other parents and Educators I have actively stood behind ethically and healthly education policies with the passing of ab329 which sparked a fiery discussion in our school district in 2019 that Journey reached a turning point at a crucial time our school district made the decision to pause its ties with Planned Parenthood for two years in response to parents' concerns I am sending I I'm standing here again asking for your support as we prioritize several urg concerns one the security of our schools is a major concern for us parents are understandably concerned about the alarming alarming rise in violence and Drug overdoses particularly those involved like fenal what is the district doing to keep our school safe any initiatives or awareness towards fenel two sensitive student data we are aware that our students must first create a username and password to access a thirdparty BLM task for website parents undoubtedly want to know that the P that the personal information about uh of their kids is secure does the school district know how the thirdparty vendor is securing and storing the students data is it true or false that this outside service provider is monitoring how program is carried out for both staff and students is the Task Force really necessary have all parents received information in their native language about the service provider and its implementation practices for their child parents are interested in learning what information the district has provided give me one second has provided to outside vendors through OKO a school initiative initiative caught our attention despite the program's claim of success we as parents must take steps to protect our children from unsupervised and unbedded third-party providers is there a grant is the district using funds for this initiative we will find out I use these two illustrations on how School District must deal with unre regulated vendors our school district needs to be more transparent when it comes to disclosing private information screening all members from outside vendors and informing all parents of processes and procedures implemented by outside vendors in response to these concerns I've started collaborating with dedicated parents to launch an accountability I'm almost done an accountability campaign much as like an efforts in 2019 our objective is not to criticize or F or to criticize the district but to foster a collaboration with the district we firmly believe that a robust parent uh partnership between parents and school district is essential for our students success and improving our community in closing we kindly request a response from the district regarding concerns despite the challenges we Face we remain optimistic that by working together we can build a brighter future for our schools a safer uh for our schools and students and a safer Community thank you for your time and attention excuse me all can can you give us your your name and how to contact you I sure will all right please do that and give it to our parliamentarian here I sure will all right thank you uh next speaker uh Linda Martinez good evening thank you for the opportunity of speaking before you guys um first of all I want to remind everyone that um the reason why I'm here is because I truly care about our students and definitely I care about my daughter's safety at her campus and at any campus that she has walked in through this ahsd District um for doing so I have been targeted by District officials had had meetings with Mr Roberto salivar and Mr um jiren freed Mr Michael matsura and it has not been very welcoming let me just remind you I'm a parent I'm a parent and you cannot stop me from voicing my concerns one of the concerns that I brought up was about violence last summer we met various times and I stopped coming to these meetings because I was attacked by Robert salivar saying that I was threatening him absolutely not I never threatened anybody all I did was bring up those concerns because there were so many things going on at Sycamore junor High that were just like escalating Beyond point one of the things that I want to address here is that you know I truly care about the students Jessica you know you are the person who represents us I've never seen you really do anything but just take pictures with people I want you to do something about it because if not we're going to recall you you need to start moving you need to start looking at what's happening at our schools at Anaheim and at Sycamore the safety of our schools is so so important I'm not here against anybody here at the district what I am here for is concerned about the safety of our students parents parents are not being able to collaborate with with school officials and that is not okay it is give me one more second it is very very important that this collaboration exists regardless of the differences that we may all have but but with respect you know give the parent that you know area where he or she can be able to express their concerns another thing that I want to say is is this that you know when we talk about collaboration there's always a language barrier I've asked for translation I've broughten people um here that speaks only espanol and um the secretary Mr Michael matures told me she called me and I have it on my voicemail that those um you know District uh papers are not available in the Spanish language we need to break those barriers you know it's very significant for the parents that do speak only espanol you know I speak English and Spanish but it's very very important and that we start collaborating you know enough is enough about this you know hate and bullying parents you know I mean a lot of you might not like me but it's okay we might have differences I still respect you so I expect that same respect you know and that we work collabora for our students thank you moving on to Educational Services School sponsor student organizations we have a motion moved motion and a second and pardon me yes Daniela Ruiz she will be part of the voting on this one um any questions any yes thank you are there any questions or concerns yes no no okay so um we have a motion in a second all favor say I I opposed that's 60 thank you resolutions number uh 9.2 resolution number db-5 request for proposals for eate year 27 data Communications equipment cyber security software and other related electronic equipment and apparatus and services that's a mouthful I'll that mouthful you're going to move it I move it a motion second are there any questions no okay seeing none it's a roll call vote Miss Jessica Guerrero I miss Pierce I miss Smith Smith I miss Randle tro I and I vote I that's 60 next item uh 9.3 resolution number 2023-24 D- e-09 Great American smokeout Escape The Vape day 2023 so moved motion and a second we have any discussion any questions no okay this is a roll call vote and Danielle will also vote on this so Danielle Danielle I okay Miss Guero I miss Percy I miss Smith I Mr R tro I that's uh 6 Z next has been pulled item uh 9.4 has been pulled uh before we um approve the agenda 9.5 agreement fifth asset Inc DBA debt book so moved second motion and second any discussion questions seeing none all in favor say I I I opposed that's 5 9.6 agreement Transportation Fairmount schools moved second Motion in a second any discussion seeing none all in favor say I I opposed that's 5 Z 9.7 membership Orange County Hispanic chamber of commerce second Motion in a second questions seeing done uh all in favor say I I I opposed 5 z uh 9.8 agreement Fullerton College learning aligned Employment Program H move second Motion in a second questions discussions seeing none all in favor say I I I opposed 5 9.9 agreement csuf College of Business and economic student Consulting program so move second motion a sec motion and a second any discussion yes oh Guero than you um I just had a quick clarifying question I know this is a strategy geared towards orang V junior high school and Western High School I just want to check if they would they would be part of the um committee or meetings of the marketing strategy as well as the community schools of orange View and Western yeah I'm going to turn over to Mr salivar who's been working with Cal foron in this piece yes so so both orange View and Western admin some of ad uh admin Representatives will be a part of the meetings um with the folks from this department so the student Consultants from this department so um once this is approved then we have I believe six meetings minimum which they will both be a part of okay thank you and my question was just how did this come to be so we've worked with them in the past um so when we were building our biotechnology program and our the IAB at Western High School um through our partnership with Kelsey Fullerton uh our superintendent matsuda um uh was uh referred uh to to these folks to help us with um building and marketing those two programs so the logos that you have seen for those two programs and some of the The Branding stuff came came from the student group at that time um and so so having this relationship we you know superintendent ask us to reach out to them again to help us with um the consolidation of both orang View and Western High School and looking at two different options and making a recommendation whether it's it's um having them as two separate sites on one site or or merging them together as one as one site all right thank you so all in favor say I I I post 5 z 9.10 a memorandum of understanding mou Savannah Elementary School District SV sa a v SD second motion a second any discussion see none all in favor say I I opposed 5 Z 9.11 agreement nattis house DBA neutral ground Inc slow moved second Motion in a second discussion no oh uh not a question just a comment I just wanted to thank the services team for working with our sites to bring this item forward thank you um I did have a question and I part of it was answered in the U previous question but um we're going to have some schools will have somebody there two days a week and some will have them there three days a week so they're not all full-time at each school so they're going to be and so how are we determining who will be there two days and and the other three days in other words so this is brought to our District's uh steering District Community School steering committee along with our ed services team and what happened is we based on the work that we've gotten out of Dr Hernandez's office and student services we've seen the level of gang activity so we have our schools kind of lumped in tears based on the volume so as this pilot goes uh the schools that have the most activity will pilot the three days the schools that the lesser amount are the second tier will have the two days I was wondering you know okay so we say okay this school only needs it two days but then let's say there's not much happening there but then the other school that he's at three or she is at three days has a real let's say conflux of of activity and they need to be there is there going to be some flexibility yes so so just um one of the um benefits to working with this group here um there was a couple of other groups that we're looking at is that we are they're very flexible on adding additional days um so we could easily go from 2 to three um from a school that's at zero to one or two days um and they're they charge based on the uh number of days that they're servicing our our schools where the other group that we're looking at it was either all or none so so so again just very flexible with their pricing and and the number of days and how they service their schools okay well this is my other question because when we I was looking at the pricing okay um it was kind of estimated almost on five days a week okay so that you know and so if it's 5 days a week that's the number of of days okay so it's a total number of days is what inter what indicates the total amount we're paying right correct I mean it's it's so it's it I believe if I if if I remember correctly it was about 13 to 14,000 um for for one day um I'm not sure we have Dr one day a week was 14,000 right yes and then seven five days a week was 72 but I was reading that to mean it'd be one person at that school five days right and then how many schools are we doing this at say seven here like seven total schools okay so but it's it's basically based on the number of days we have somebody at a school yes correct that is correct all right I just want to make a comment I think this is um a fantastic idea uh to kind of you know hit it head on and you know not waiting for a reaction but uh you know getting ahead of it so um were you initially part of choosing this so yeah Dr sorry that was a little loud Dr Cruz Dr Hernandez along with some of us from Ab Services were we're all collaborating to to work with this but initially Dr Cruz and Dr Hernandez was meeting with the group I think they were referred to us by was it Jose Lara from Gilbert that maybe first Lara because initially we had been looking into kinship which is a more expensive less flexible program and Santa Ana School District I think used kinship along with neutral ground and when we found out about neutral ground became a way more flexible and more cost-effective option again going back to what truste Rand TR said is also in a proactive effort right that in partnership with what the work our great SRO are doing in building relationships we're hoping this will have an impact in reducing things that happen on a campus and building capacity in students so they're less likely to be recruited join into gang activity fantastic yeah good great okay all in favor say I I post 5 uh 9.12 agreement Barnett Barry so moved second motion and a second any questions seeing none all in favor say I I opposed 5 Z agreement Freight Farms moved second have a motion and second any comments it's a interesting concept looking forward to seeing the results on this having a farm in a trailer basically they can generate more capacity than than the square footage on the ground so yes exciting so this is in a trailer and it will be at the at the M ma Farm is it going to be next to the chicken coop a natural fertilizer it's middle right that's yeah it's in the middle right that's yeah okay Amy working closely with the yeah it's actually a shipping container so it's a 300 square foot shipping container um but inside is decked out with a lot of technology that allows so there are Farm in a boxes that are you farm within a shipping container but this has a specialized technology that allows us to grow 2 and2 acres worth of food in a 320 ft shipping container with only using 5 gallons of water a day wow and so it's the combination of the urban farming and the technology built into the shipping container Hydroponics are really interesting uh where is that trailer going to be placed is it going to be at the far south end or will it be at the North End of the farm because it depends upon where the water well five gallons isn't that much it doesn't matter really it's in Phase elri um directionally [Music] uh right right so that part that we have not developed yet okay that's the north part yeah okay thank you okay thank you all right all in favor say I I opposed that's 5 z uh consent calendar anybody wishing to pull yes I would like to pull 10 103 10 uh 13 okay that's okay anybody else I have 10.12 oh there she comes wait a minute okay PLL 10.12 10.13 10.12 GG only okay uh 10.13 and 10.15 okay move for the balance second Motion in a second all in favor say I I opposed okay let's go with uh 10 point 12 GG so move second okay motion a second all in favor say I I I opposed abstain 401 okay uh 10.13 so moved second Motion in a second Miss Guerero I will be abstaining okay uh all in favor say I I I opposed abstain I I that's 302 okay 10.15 moved second motion and a second and I have a a question um looking at the uh comprehensive needs assessment components I think is page number two it says of those who responded to the 2022 23 elap student survey 81% uh n equals 269 strongly or recommend strong or somewhat agreed uh the school provides the resources they need blah blah blah and then 79% n equals 271 strongly or somewhat agreed that they understand the graduation requirement so those that's the the percent that uh strongly or somewhat are we able to determine what the other percentage was and why they said they disagreed do we get that kind of information during the survey no we don't I don't believe we get that information is is that type of information available not now because we don't have it but in the future to be able to make better decisions yeah we can look at the survey and okay trying to trying to determine where where we're deficient why aren't we getting 100% instead of the 70s or 80% yeah okay very good okay okay all in favor say I I that's 5 Z okay we got to the consent calendar and now we're on to superintendent and staff report Mr matsuda okay that was Quicken just so everyone knows he is in Atlanta representing our district he was on the Das at a conference with essentially educational transformational funders who are looking to for organizations that are trying to transform education so he was representing our district in fact I think he was the only superintendent invited uh typically these are just business folks and he was on the dis speaking to the work we're doing but also engaging with folks who are interested in spending money to support districts in this work so that's where he is love that so for my report real quick I know Amanda kind of stole my thunder I was going to obviously share my immense gratitude to our incredible Ed staff team for just the logistical aspects and the instructional leadership with not only our Ed Summit um and obviously we we can spend a lot of time just on the great work that happened in Anaheim but there was also incredible work that was taking place at Kennedy and hope with our instructional AIDS and our moderate to severe um teachers and then we also had Dr Adam Hernandez and his team at Savannah working with our campus safety AIDS we had senior admin and some office staff in here being trained in mindfulness uh just incredible work our counselor social workers and psychologists with I know Amy Quan Amy Maya Lauren clater Dr Adel Cruz doing the work u in Amanda at um Cyprus so just incredible and then the next morning on top of that we had the College and Career Fair that we were planning for for that night which you Carlos and his team I know Patty ard's not here I know Allison and Charles I don't think Charles is here but just incredible Scott our transportation director I mean just again really cohesive coherent process with all of our departments making that happen and then uh so I'm not going to go more into that because Amanda did that eloquently sum graduation yeah summer graduation oh my gosh summer graduation like we did three a trifecta in like two days then Adam's team the summer graduation which you know we were contemplating should we really look at something that we do in the spring and just allow them to participate but after going through that experience we're like no we can't do that that those students would have never gotten an opportunity to shine the way they did that night and and they all have stories as to why they needed that extra time so we took that off so we're going to continue with that that experience because we thought it was impactful we want to create that experience for students who maybe have that kind of a need um but the one thing I want to share is on top of all that we're in the midst of planning for another busy week we have two visits one from a group in Oklahoma who's coming to learn about the work that we're doing that's transforming education plus we have have as you know we're a transformational deep learning leading and learning district for the state um we call it a demonstration district for for folks to make sense but we have our estac which is the UCLA Center uh plus the two other transformational Deep dive districts agencies plus the racs which are the regional centers that are coming to be with us on the 19th and I think on the 20th uh so for two days of leading and learning with us um which is important because it's not only us who are leading that work but we're going to be able to learn from hopefully uh the other districts that are also doing this in different parts of the State uh so we can really refine and continue to grow our practices uh so again Carlos and our Comm School effort teams I'm just super blessed and excited for the work that we're doing and then you guys know on Tuesday our ed services will take you on a three-hour tour to go over the board retreat um and all the different things that we're doing and get your input on a number of initiatives so lot going on in Services hour only three hour well I'm sure if You' give us more we'll take more but but yeah I know I know they don't necessarily want that but we're all in so anyways thank you for that opportunity we're excited did he say that anybody else no report no report no report oh excuse me so um I did attend the Cypress High School homecoming game as well as their 50th year celebration so it was a great event at the Asis High School um I do do want to take this time to thank inam high school for hosting the Ed Summit as well as the team the operations team um and a lot of the staff over there they worked um tires Le over the weekend and to that uh to make sure the size is in great shape but uh in a home High School um the principal and everybody else on their team their students the Bros everybody that were there early in the morning help everything set up so just want really want to shout out to that team um to host everybody there that day so thank you and that's my report thank you sorry so I'm going to jump on that bandwagon and just really give a lot of kudos to Diana Fujimoto and our curcum specialist and our 5c for again an amazing um showcase of of of really the the the skills that we have in our district with our teachers and teacher leaders and our staff we had over 50 workshops going on at one time um Al we walking through those workshops I know some of us were all there and just just just the level of energy and and the capacity that was being built for a lot of our staff members so just just an amazing job and also just we've taken I'm sure you guys know this we've taken our principal meetings and our staff meetings on the road um and so we've been we've been visiting some of our sites on on you know our our our Friday s staff meetings and our bi-weekly principal meetings um so we visited Sycamore um loera um burkers uh tomorrow we're at catella high school and it's it's been uh just really nice to get back on on on those campuses and and be around students and and staff members and you know so again I know that that was one of the recommendations from from from our board so thank you for that for the reminder of of connecting back with our campuses it's been really nice to be on our campuses and and and just really see the the Synergy and the energy and all the great things that are happening and at the same time take care of business while we're there so thank you thank you for your report next can I make a comment on that uh the principal's meeting I noticed you were having at Dale and I think that is you know moving out onto the campuses because some of our principles never get to these other schools and they don't see those schools and and so I think that's a great idea um you know and moving it around and now what is the other group that you were talking about sbac our Ed staff staff meetings on Fridays guess Ed staff our Ed division meetings okay yeah well yeah you guys belong I mean I okay it's a good thing you're visiting but I I I really you know sometimes I think you guys ought to be on the campus for a whole day we're there for four hours for four hours well that's a good chunk of time that's a start start well well so our meetings are there and of course both at the principal meetings and Ed staff meetings not only we we have automatic break so every time the Bell Rings we we going out and supervising the Pass rates so we're we're modeling but we're also you know our commitment to safety culture and climate uh we want to make sure that we're visible and we're also getting assessment and the lay of the land in terms of how things are going but then the other commitment that our team has made is that we're also on campuses as individuals serving whether it's the principal as a coach or the title one specialist it doesn't regardless of who we're serving our our D dual language program Dr Bryan's on campus all the time so we're making a commitment to be on campuses regularly uh through our own roles uh within the Ed division in addition to as a team and you also then if you're on the campus and you're out during the passing periods and you get to see these kids and their behaviors you know to remember what it's like to be on a campus okay yeah that's important all right all right next up is uh board uh report Miss Guero yes thank you um so I had the pleasure of attending anim High School's uh 125th alumni car show as well as Cypress High School's 50th anniversary celebration that um happened to land on the same day um and then I tended the back to school night for Savannah High School Magnolia High School and Dale Junior High School and then this past month uh we had the pleasure of um opening the grand opening of Anaheim High School's Market uh the brand new permanent Pantry aims to provide a valuable resource to our students and ensuring that members of our school Community have access to nutritious food um as the Anaheim High School alumni and the truste that represents the area I was really proud um that that was opening I want to thank all the partners that were able to make that happen including our Community Schools team and I am High School staff in the Second Harvest Food Bank and then um I also attended the trifecta the AUC educational Summit um got to honor our summer graduates at the graduation ceremony this past week and then I also attended the College and Career Fair um and I would say the last time I was at at the College and Career Fair was when I was a Avid student at ahsd and it has grown tremendously since my time there so I want to thank the board's leadership in making that grow and um of course our all of our district staff and making that grow and um I will say the transportation aspect I think is a great addition to that I think as the students and the families really appreciate that so thank you I'm just just curious since you just mentioned that Danielle did you have an opportunity to get to the College and Career Fair I did towards the end but for the first few hours we were just passing out the brochures and welcoming the families and the kids but towards the end we did get a chance to go and check out the boots oh good uh what about your participation uh with the uh Ed Summit oh yeah so our call time was 6:00 a.m.

roll call presentent Melinda sasy Charlene Diaz here Fred rushon here Myer ziki here Shaya Barnett here okay 1.3 update on the partnership with instructional empowerment and related data I've been waiting for this one I know you have been Madame President and board members it's my pleasure to introduce uh Kevin McDonald oh he did come yeah Kevin's here from instructional empowerment and he's the uh the team leader for the district and also one of the coaches for uh one or more of the sites and he's going to share some information with you about what's been going on and um and we uh we consider th those folks now part of our Bullhead City Bullhead City School District family they have they are embedded in our uh in our lives so Kevin's got good stuff to share Kevin I'm glad to see you're here because I asked if you would ever show up so we could meet you so yes thank you well I'm glad that I can be here with you guys uh school board members and also our honor guests it's a pleasure to be with you to be able to talk about our progress so today what I'm going to be sharing with you um is a comparative of when we came as a team from instructional empowerment and did our school comprehensive me back in Jan if you remember and we followed up with helping to support working on your fishbone and your school recruitment plan and um we use this one of the pieces of the school comprehensive needs assessment is our rigor appraisal diagnostic which is a very highly a research-based tool that we use to help to measure rigor in our tools we use that same tool in our rigor appraisals that we do for throughout the school year Kevin can because we have an audience tonight could you could you possibly explain what rigor is so that people would know oh great okay so when we speak about rigor we're talking about how rigorous the instruction is which is how uh how the how the teachers and the students work toward reaching those stfe standards so the rigor of the instruction is how challenging how uh the productive struggle that students experience uh how they are able to masteral Mastery of standards and our movement toward really attaining Mastery of our state standards and as we know our state assessments are all based on our state standards that's what our St St State assessments measure so riger really deals with our students in the classroom really engaging in text engaging in computation calculations that really help them to get to that Mastery quicker and be on that on level or above level does that make sense okay great thank you okay thank you all right so the rigor appraisal we did our first rigor appraisal at the end of August so if you go to the next slide um before I go into the next slide go into the rigor appraisal I just kind of want to briefly go over the things that we've done since we've started working again with the school district starting in July so go to the next slide and then we're going to jump into the the data of the rigor appraisal so just so you get an idea of the work that we've been doing with the schools here um the first thing we did is we had our designing and measuring implementation so one of the things that we really believe in is it's a systems approach to school-based change and part of that rigor appraisal helps to measure how those systems are reflected in the instruction within the classroom so we did our designing and measuring implementation at the in July which led to our model of instruction 101 which is a professional development we had two days of that with our teachers to help to get them the tools in their hand to in order to support them doing rigorous instruction with our students um our faculty coaches which each school has a faculty coach that works with their school have done coaching days with our instructional coaches uh using a look and learn tool which is a coaching tool that helps our teachers to get feedback and our teachers have really responded to being able to get that feedback on how is my instruction moving forward um and then also with that there's a model of instruction coaching tool which our instructional coaches and our principles and assistant principles get to utilize to help them to give those coaching points to our teachers then we had the rigor we have like I'm going to talk about now the rigor appraisal data we also have our school leadership coaches which uh I'm part of that team each school has a school leadership coach and we we visit classrooms using our classroom riger walk tool to gather Trend Trend data and help our schools to create an action board with a 45-day goal with our administrators and coaches so I encourage you whenever you do get an opportunity to get to our schools to and you engage with your principles and assistant principles to have them take you to where their action board is so you can see the different action steps that they're taking in their schools to help move them forward and keep their school focus on instruction and learning on their campus and then we also provide uh communities of practice with our principles and so we on this slide it says we have had one but in actuality we have had two since we've had I created this slide that we do once a month basically where the principles gather and they discuss what challenges they're having with implementation of the model of instruction and what can we do to create e eacy across our campuses um how can we generate that sense of urgency so that our teachers are making the instructional shifts that they need and then the last thing is we've also added support working with Gen lot to support our instructional coaches to how they can work together and collaborate to support teachers these are just a few things in addition to when we're here and we're visiting classes now let's go forward and talk about the data because that's where we get to see uh the numbers so our rigor appraisal next slide rigor appraisal is calculated through a consistency there's basic basically a 12-point scale that we have 25 questions so it's part in in part based upon what we see in the classroom but also what types of Works our schools are doing around data how are our teachers verifying for Learning and all of these measures and each of our five pillar scores are then averaged based on these 25 questions so let's go to the next next slide so let's do a comparison so when we did the initial School comprehensive need assessment which is the scna we did the rigor walk which is 10 classroom visits and we visited 10 classrooms in each of our five schools which would be 50 classrooms and then we did the same number of classes but not the same classes when we did our first scna here in um the fall so when we do the next scna uh sorry the next rigor appraisal sorry when we do next rigor appraisal we'll visit another 10 classes and those classes are randomly selected each each of our school leadership coaches randomly selects it because you want a trend data you want to capture that across the entire campuses okay so you can see the breakdown you can see how we try to hit a variety of different classes uh when we did the scna we included music and social studies and science classes uh but when we did the uh rigor appraisal um which is rd2 on here we focused mostly English L uh e Ela mathematics science and social studies okay let's go ahead and go to the next slide so let's look at a comparative of where we were in January and we didn't do very much of the coaching part from January it was just really consultative really focused around helping you guys to create your school Improvement plans but we've been hitting the road since August and since school has started to help to coach implementation so as you look here the there are five pillars that we have five pillar scores the first pillar score there on your left is the conditions for learning rigorous standards and so that's a measurement of how are the conditions in our school what's the environment like around which students can engage in rigorous instruction is the school welcoming is it friendly it is engaging do students feel like it's a safe environment now you see that from the first which is the blue column to the second column we had a slight drop on that area of our scores however take in mind when we did the uh scna that was in the midpoint of the school year so classrooms were much more established at that point and so now you're talking about the very beginning of the school year the end of August so that's going to be a little bit dropped when we do our second rigor appraisal we'll see that increase and continue to move up as we Implement our teams as our schools Implement our teaming now you look at the second uh second pillar score which is our standards-based student evidence you can see that we've already seen an increase from 3 to four now standards based student evidence refers to R our classrooms and our students engaging in standards aligned work so our teachers have done a great job of beginning to dig into standards and really begin to deepen their understanding of the state standards to make sure that the taxonomy level of what they are actually putting in front of the students is at the same taxonomy level or approaching the same taxonomy level as the actual State Standards that's a really big deal we use taxonomy Marzano's taxonomy scales as compared to what the state us just uses as a do and we have in the back of our a tool that we provide um is our crossw walk that compares the taxonomy level the do to the uh marzo taxonomy level so you already see an increase just in the little time from the beginning of the school year to the end of August compared to the beginning of the year the next thing that I'm super proud of is the activating student teams to achieve the standard so our model of instruction is truly built around students working in teams and collaborating having that actual academic discourse together is really one of the key powerful pieces to students really being able to attain to rigorous standards and rigorous learning you can see that we had a a large jump from 1.7 to 3.2 which really shows how much our teachers and our instructional staffs are really grabbing hold beginning that process of being able to understand and Implement in their classrooms that real rigorous learning with their students so we're activating student teams and we have an increase of 1.5 then we go to the next column which is where we have verifying learning to take action and that means are our teachers seeing what students are doing and adjusting their instruction during the lesson to make those instructional shifts to move student for learning forward in the classroom okay and you can also see an increase there we have a little bit of we have a little bit of decrease in tracking student progress toward the standards because it's August and our teachers are still getting to know their students at that point we've seen a lot of growth since that point um and I look forward to seeing what our rigor appraisal to comes into you have to know what the students are to be able to really help to track them and Implement those systems then the last one is um the average and you can see the average goes up from what we had at the school at the scna up to where it is now where it's at 3.6 so you do see that increase across the board where you see that overall we're making that progress toward having a more rigorous environment in our classrooms in our schools so let's go ahead and switch to the next slide so far any questions I don't know if I have time for questions but I'll keep going at the end I'll let give you time if you have questions to ask okay so here you have a breakdown of the average rigor appraisal scores and you can see the different schools and how they scored and you can see the different changes um across just give you a few seconds to look at that as it says in the bullet points Bullhead City Middle School saw the greatest change in walk average from January to August they have really begun to um do the work of really embracing those student teams in their classroom and really looking to embrace using those standards to drive the work and if you remember from our data before that's really great to see Bullhead Middle School really and those teachers really getting in deep into the work you can see that the average riger score has increased from 3.2 to 3.6 but the biggest thing the biggest celebration is that all five schools went up in activating student teams pillar okay and from our research and one of the things that we do is part of our agreement with the district is that we look at your Galileo data that you have that you collect and your state assessment data and we compare it to our rigor appraisal data and we know that when we where we have schools and we also we do this work across the country which you knew from when we first signed the contract and we first introduced ourselves we know that when we see an activation of teams the schools that have the most Improvement in the activating of student teams that's where we see the most growth most growth on their performance in state assessments especially in the area of ela because that discussion that rich discourse that they have their ability to really get into text is enables them to be more successful and a leing State Standards okay so that's really positive thing you can go to the next slide okay now this is another thing that's very powerful is the shift that we've seen in taxonomy level so if you're not familiar with Marzano taxonomy scales uh you have retrieval which is very similar to your do1 comprehension is very similar to do2 analysis do3 and then knowledge utilization is the for we're very big on the fact that we want to actually see students engaged with text every day that's our goal we should see students engaged with text all the way from our youngans all the way up to 8th grade and that's one of the key powerful levers so when we did the first scna 47% of our classrooms our students were sitting not engaging in text they were just sitting and hearing the teacher talk the whole time like I'm talking to you and the students are not actually engaged in doing the work the shift from that appraisal to the last appraisal in August to where only 16% of our classes walked there was no student work that's a huge shift so our students are getting text in hand they're getting math problems in hand and they're beginning to do much more of the work because you know he who does the work is the one that's doing the learning in the classroom right so if teacher is the one talking the teacher's gaining all the knowledge because they're really like going over these standards and the kids are just sitting back there but if the students are working then they're the ones that are doing the work you can see that that shift has mostly for the beginning of the year moves into retrieval but for the beginning of the year that's very common because a lot of our standards were right at the very beginning especially in our primary grades it's very much at that retrieval just the basic computation 60 to 70% of the state assessment questions are at that do level too on your state of assessment so we really want to see as we move forward us moving more into those comprehension as far as our taxonomy level of student works if our students are doing comprehension or higher work then they're working at the level of what they're going to be assessed at next slide so this breaks down and you can kind of see how that is spread across the schools as far as where we saw um the most student work on our first appraisal and where and the difference I mean look at that no student work column you can see how many classes I mean 30% was the the lowest at that first uh appraisal and now you look at the second um in August 02 20% only really 20% of our out of 10 classes um really having no student work in front of our students so that means the the teacher could have been teaching but the students were not engaged in text so you really see how our teachers are really beginning uh to to make that shift we have comprehension was observed in at least one of two uh in one at least one classroom at two schools and then we only had one classroom where we had analysis observed at Bullhead City Middle School in two classrooms but I know as we continue to plan and work in our plcs we're going to see more of that develop over the uh over the course of the school year next slide that's just a picture of some of our students engaging in uh teamw work discussing text you can see they're talking about it they're working together and that should be what you should see as characteristic of when you go into our schools is you should see students engaged talking working around text working around math problems and working together to really um to really tackle that rigorous learning and go ahead and go to the last slide which says thank you you have have any questions about the data that I just reviewed took up a lot of time that's was more than probably five minutes it's okay oh was absolutely can you go back to the Marano thing yes the page yes oh go forward oh right there there you go yes ma'am okay um Fred do you understand this stuff I believe I do okay I believe that uh you know looking at this that we can see comprehension if if I'm understanding this correctly com comprehension decreased decreased yes it decreased because analysis increased so we had Z percentage of analysis and now we have that TW 12% of comprehension is now really is split almost between comprehension and Analysis yes okay on the other hand the the retrieval if I'm understanding that correctly that's the students ability to recall and repeat and uh use the information they've been given in their work and then then of course the the decrease in the no student work I think that's that's really remarkable because uh to go from almost 50% to down to 16% uh that that's quite I think that that shows a lot of progress yeah so this is impressive and I think retri I'm sorry Fred I think uh you know I think that the longer we associate with instructional empowerment that the more seeing the benefits and uh we're we're really grateful to have you here helping us thank you thank you thank you yeah and retrieval is when we are asking students to basically just recall facts and dates you know in 1971 this happened you're just retrieving information or you're doing basic computation multiplication division you're just doing very basic facts comprehension requires me to synthesize information I have to comprehend what is the text trying to to get me to understand and or for math I have to read word problems and then I have to comprehend what is this problem asking me to do right so it's a higher taxonomy which means it's a higher rigor level because we're really wanting to engage our students in more tasks like that and so um even today I was at Bullhead City Middle School during plc's and I mean the the teachers brains were hurting because we just kept plugging away and like okay we've got to get to the deeper understanding of that learning Target so that they can really if the teachers are really able to understand what the students need to do with the standards then the students they'll be able to translate that into student work which is what we're looking at yeah thank you you're welcome any other questions I have some questions so looking at this taxonomy level we want to get up to the knowledge utilization obviously yes ma'am where is the state standards in comparison to this so I don't know how to put it into words like is most of what they're doing is it most at the comprehension level or is it mostly at the utilization so 60 to 70% of the questions on the state assessments are at do2 which is mostly comprehension it's not an ex we're not the Marzano scales are not an exact comparison or alignment we do have a tool that we we can make a copy for you where you can kind of compare and I have a deeper understanding of you know where it kind of goes across so our goal is to get to not more knowledge utilization it doesn't always lend itself because one of the things that we have to do is we don't want to exceed the content limit of our standards you guys remember you understand that so on the state assessment our standards are somewhat bracketed within how uh what that level of understanding of complexity it is and we want to really truly prepare our students to attain to that and then go beyond right that's where we really grow our proficiency Within in our school so if our students in our school by the end of this year if we see ourselves where 50 to 60% of what we're doing as far as the the uh taxonomy level of our student work is in that comprehension range that would leave us with about maybe 15 to 20% in retrieval and then another 15 to 20% in analysis or knowledge utilization then you're going to really see uh our hope would be that we would then see a lot of high performance on our St assessments right there's no guarantees right we just going to make sure our students are as best prepared as they can be but the understanding is that knowledge utilization in order for me to have NOS utilization it means that I have to have not only an understanding of the standards and the content I then have to utilize and apply that knowledge to a task and that's probably the harder part to get to is because the students really have to have Mastery of that standard and then take that Mastery and apply it to something different that that takes time that takes time that takes a lot of work a lot of planning a lot of really rich discussion amongst our PLC teams we'll get there we'll get there though and then my other question um why do you think Bullhead City Middle School is being so successful is there something they're doing differently or is there more effort on the teachers part or just just out of curiosity if you can put your finger on it well I would say so first of all I would say the leadership team in the back which most of them some of them are there the principal um they and Miss sharp and Miss SoDo put in some extra work over the summer without pay uh some of them did to really take the things that we talked about um working with the scna and I worked oneon-one with uh Miss with Miss Julie and also worked with her virtually on a lot of the concepts around the things that we will need to do for the fall so theyve put in a lot of extra work over the summer to really prepare their understanding so when they went into pre-planning they were ready to launch into they had a jump start we had a jump start if and I think also too like when we met when I met with them in the spring and we did the Deep dive of really trying to unpack the fishbone that faculty in my opinion has a lot of hunger now Desert Valley has just they've been doing the work for a while like Miss Cassie just really has been digging around and she already has that school in a place where they're very receptive um but she didn't get the extra time that we put into um the district put into the way that they structured the contract because you know you know where the data was for for Bullhead City and you knew that there needed to be some extra attention there right to help get that school to where it needs to be so um we put the extra time in we put in the extra work and we're starting to see those results okay any other questions um I Cass would you go back to that very first picture this one oh this one this one okay so one of the things that I want you all to understand is um uh when you go into our classrooms uh particularly the classrooms that are um really already moving in this direction this is the kind of thing you're going to see more of and less of teacher talk that doesn't mean that there won't be teacher talk we all know teachers have to teach but who does the learning and so you're going to see a lot more of this Kevin were you the one telling us about the kindergartener the kindergarten math thing that was Cara oh it was Cara do you remember that uh what she said or do you remember Jen yeah would you because this is an example so would you share that story about the kindergarteners so she was in um they were observing a kindergart clroom at Diamond back and they were using the math and the children were learning about the number eight so she had them on their Ms they had to figure out all the ways to get to represent eight so there were some children that were drawing circles or pass marks but then she had some that were drawing arrays or who were doing groups and that she had some that were even almost doing equations so without even knowing it some of those kindergarteners by introducing the number eight were already doing Simple multiplication addition problems and things like that so but that taught them that if they have this kind of U handle on the number eight do we really need to spend a whole day on just nine and a whole day on just 10 probably not so it also help them to see you know the ability of the students and that may so much concentration on that basic and I think the other key part from that observation was excuse me um was the students the four students were at a different level of their understanding say of of the the number eight the concept of eight um but the one who the one of the students who really already kind of had that concept was teaching the other two or three in the group and um and so they were really as a team figuring out how can how many ways can we represent eight and then he was kind of and he's pulling them along you know so by the end of the lesson those kids in that group were someplace totally different than maybe the rest of the class was um uh and that's that's the exciting thing that um that we're going to see so obviously classrooms like this are going to be a little noisier than traditional classrooms um because we're going to have conversations going on and that kind of thing so um when you go to visit be ready to see some different things yeah and I mean I would just Echo the sentiment that if you when you're in the classroom a lot of times as teachers I might say it a hundred times to the students and they just don't get it but then when that peer says no what he's trying to get you to do is this and that's where that productive struggle in working together interdependently is where the students are able to help each other and they still have independent time we don't get rid of independent time there's still an independent time for the for the students to show their own Mastery but that teaming time really allows them to learn from each other and then help them to master the standards thank you thanks Kevin thank you Kevin thank you you're welc thank you very much so I have uh I have some other good news for you that's why the item says information about ie and other data um a week ago Jen received from um from one of the people that she works with at the state department the information relative to how our students grew in the subgroups where we had them in TSI or atsi in other words our groups that needed to make huge growth um uh uh for and I think we had what 12 12 Al together 12 12 or 13 altogether Cass if you'll put that other chart up please Jen had to tie me down because I wanted to start talking about this the day she gave it to me but we couldn't it was embargoed until I actually got the letter a superintendent got the letter saying woohoo look at your information so you can see here um our schools and the subgroups that they all had been identified as needing to make uh needing to make big changes and um uh those kinds of things so you want to move your cursor so that little oh it's jens's it's on the thing sorry it's a screenshot okay so um in the column that says school name I want you to notice how many are crossed off we're down to three so from that whole list of subgroups from uh fiscal uh from school year 22 to school year 23 uh We've made the growth necessary for those to no longer be in um TSI or atsi and so I then would call your attention to the two columns uh of uh fy22 and FY 23 points and then the growth so uh example for the Middle School um excuse me uh EF those are El students um at the at the Middle School uh in 22 they were they scor scored at 2.1 and in 23 they scored at 28.5 n now the Target to get out of TSI is was 22 points okay what does TSI stand for tar TG support and Improvement thank you thank you I'm sorry I didn't say that but look at their growth 26 and a half points wonderful okay um so you can look down the whole group and see that um uh the reason that we're that we only have three groups left an an improvement here um one of them is because the growth was only was only I'm sorry but I think 17.06 is pretty significant but it did not get us to the 22 the two with the N simply means that the number of students in that subgroup was too small to be um statistically um to have a statistically significant number and so that leaves them in uh that leaves them in TSI U but I would call your attention to uh how many of these were and the growth was in double digits and um so um this is we celebrated with the leadership team or the instructional team this week um called a special meeting a special virtual meeting to share these data with them and um and to C have a little bit of a celebration um now we recognize it's not where we want to be you know we being at 28.5 or being at 4431 um or pick any of those numbers is not necessarily our Target but this amount of growth in one year's time was significant and um certainly worth some celebration so um I wanted to be sure that you all saw this and um um would have an opportunity when you see any of our folks at our schools uh to give them a pat on the back because they they worked hard for these subgroups and there the subgroups are e um uh special ed um we have there's a group called Hispanic there's there's the group for um one of them has to do with low uh reduced free and reduced lunch and ie one and two and of course that's all of our students so you know it's kind of like well okay um and so these some of these groups overlap the students in the groups overlap so for instance two or more races um and I will tell you that's not a group that we would particularly Target because I don't know that any of our teachers pay any attention to that kind of thing it just says that they've been working hard to help all of our kids grow and and that group happened to grow a lot so um uh you know and as I say there is overlap you know there are kids who could be in multiples of these groups so um so Diamondback has uh has one target left and Fox Creek has two and um but nobody's going to rest on their Laurels because the target changes so the target for this year was to have a growth of 22 points the target is determined by what's going on Statewide so the target for next year might be 27 or it might be it might stay 22 who knows but the thing is we can't you know we're not just going to rest on this little celebration as being oh where we are where we want to be um it's a celebration of what growth our kids have done U but we're not going to back off so and if you have questions please address Jen thank you w that was quite a meeting um do I have a motion to adjourn our Workshop I make a motion we adjourn the workshop I'll second that motion all those in favor I'm Alinda sabraski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon i v preser ziki i Sheila Barnett okay I call to order the regular meeting of Bullhead City School Board on Thursday October 12 12 at 2023 it looks like 605 is it am I right I have 604 604 on the screen so all those are present I present Melinda saski Charlene Diaz here Fred rushon here Barb Zar ziki here Shila barnat present would you stand and say the Pledge with me I pled aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for [Music] all all citizens present um I hope you have signed in at in the back of the room so that we have a record thank you please print your name on the or on the attendance slip um we're in to call to the public at this time the public you don't need to read it remember oh yeah you guys did that for me okay and if you don't have any you really don't even have to have it read do we have any oh okay then we'll move on item 6 point or 2.6 adopt option of the agenda do I have a motion to adopt the agenda as presented I make a motion we adopt the agenda as presented I'll second that motion all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon I barbariki I Sheila Barnett it's interesting that that um we have taken off the donations here but when we were looking at the the papers online and I'm trying to find the the name of the music teacher Miss STK is that how you said Miss Durk was giving excuse me an award by the sun Watts education grant by a sun Watts education grant for $2,334 from mve Electric Cooperative and I know that they haven't got the money to us yet but I really was very proud of her for doing this so thank you very much MEC superintendence reports 2.

yep I second and a roll call vote Anis I I Katherine Jersy guy and on on uh the last vote I always ask for Amanda Hayes I and Trisha Kenda Trisha kendai I so we are done thank you good job is that your first one it is oh wow how do you feel you felt like a natural

or 3.01 uh after 2.01 I know okay is this all this okay so I made so I so motion to to approve the um what was it modification of the agenda to table I item 5.01 to the November meeting November regular meeting and moving items 8.01 02 03 04 05 and 06 to be considered after item 2.01 so I'll make the okay motion by uh trusty Chavez I have a second second by second I I had a question but yeah second second by vice president herrer Lera I just want to make sure that we mention the 501 yes okay yes yes okay yes okay very well uh having a motion in the second uh uh was it uh I'll call for a vote I'll uh call you and say see you chusty Chavez hi vice president Herrera hi and myself voting I uh motion passes three to zero with uh uh trusty Quintero absent and I mean clerk cono absent and uh truste for Shelton Not voting okay very well so we move to item item uh was it uh 1.03 welcome and explanation to the audience any person may adverse the board on any item on the meeting agenda persons who wish to speak on an item on the agenda we'll have an opportunity to do so when that agenda item is introduced and presented during this meeting there's a limit of two minutes each for each speaker uh the board has the right to limit total public comment on any agenda item to no more than 20 minutes persons who wish to speak to the board about any matter within the jurisdiction of the district but not on this agenda will have an opportunity to speak during item 2.01 on this agenda as stated below so uh is Carlos here to provide an explanation okay I see caros members of the board super in for those people who our Spanish speaking um members of the public we have interpretation Services uh with two of our district interpreters in the back thank you BL okay thank you so much Carlos okay with that uh uh we'll move on to section two public members who wish to address the board uh item 2.01 public members who wish to address the board on matters not on the agenda request to address the board provides members public an opportunity to speak about any matter under the jurisdiction of the district but not on this agenda at the subject you wish to discuss is already on this agenda please provide your comment when that item Act is called during the meeting those who wish to speak on a topic within jurisdiction of the district please know that the brown act prevents the board from discussing any item not on this published agenda but the board May refer the staff for follow up any formal written requests that are brought before the board at this time there's a limit of 2 minutes for each speaker the board has the right to limit total public comment on any agenda item to know more than 20 minutes written matters may be placed on a future meeting agenda so with that uh you know we now open to public comment good evening Dr members my name Isa I'm here tonight because at the last boardon there was a presentation done around um harassment um for students in the community and I am here tonight to ask what are you doing to also protect teachers from harassment in schools um it would be nice to know that there's a plan in place for when parents or other community members come and attack teachers during their work hours thank you thank you jel Herrera I graduated from Madson Middle School I want to share with you a letter on District letterhead and signed by eladia Bower and it's stated October the 4th the first paragraph I'm not going to read but it talks about hiring a new principal for adante sharing the news it's addressed to Dear adalante Community I do want to read the second paragraph and it reads like this also at Monday night's board meeting the board took action to dismiss a school administrator after the administ the administrator RW their request for a hearing and no longer contest the charges against them the charges were for immoral conduct dishonesty evident unfitness for service and for persistent failure to for persistent failure to obey the laws of this state and the district's policies and regulations we believe this action was an important first step and it goes onia she's running out of money she has spent $80,000 of her own money to defend herself it wasn't that she didn't want to contest it it takes money to contest it the district has Deep Pockets we're talking about a farmworker that worked with all her childhood was denied by her parents to go to school in high school because she had to take care of the kids and she still managed to get a university education and become a professional that's the kind of person that you're mistreating ladia you're doing the wrong thing you're doing the wrong thing I ask that you do the right thing hang on Mr Mr her you know I you know there is public comment but you know I have to warn you about personal attacks here oh no this is not personal this is something that I just read that's happening it's not person I read a letter that went out to the whole Community president man I I okay this is a public document how can you call that a person's but is doing the wrong thing you done yes time is up thank you got to take my phone cost money thanks uh okay seeing seeing no further public comment we'll move to uh item 8.01 uh disclosure of major provisions of pive agreement including cost to be incurred in current and subsequent fiscal years approve and ratify tenative agreement with between the alamro Union Elementary School District and area for the period of July 1 2023 through June superintendent I just want to thank the teachers uh for a fair and uh robust discussion around the contract and I very um grateful that we were able to reach an agreement in a very professional way so thank you ARA for that okay so with that uh I'll open 8.01 to public comment I was going to do it a little later but I come up so I just wanted to say that this was um hard work on both sides and at sorry Sandra ver area president this is hard work on both sides and um we're happy with the successful terms of this agreement and just to let the board know that this was the highest turnout of area member participation we had 76% of our members who took um action and voted this time and so out of it was 361 members out of 476 so with a 90% ratification rate the teachers have voted to pass the tened of agreement so we thank you for this time and we encourage you and hope that you will see to also ratify thank you so with that I'll open the questions and comments by members of the board okay you want go for you wanna go I saw try Flor shell there um first off do we have a motion not yet questions and comments so you want to make a motion at this time you you may do so yes I'd love to move approval of the contract between ELO school district and area second motion from trusty Flor Shelton second by vice president Herrera Lera alrighty I'll just oh yeah so I'll just say um uh very happy this day is here um we wish it would happen sooner but we are here and I just want to give my thanks to Dr Bower her team um uh Mr Cho um for moving this forward and for the great partnership and um great I I hadn't heard about the turnout um and 90% is is great so again progress uh moving forward wish it was longer but you know I know you all be back at it again so thank you okay uh vice president Herrera Lera thank you so much and I also want to um recognize Joseline right she was here when we started this process um of negotiating I know she's no longer with us but she was also a part of that so in addition to all the people that um were recognized and then uh Sandra for your leadership right coming in I mean brand new and it's like a couple months well actually we were in negotiations when you came in so um the reflection of your leadership um is reflected in the numbers so thank you so much uh for that um as a union member you know I I know how uh much time and also um you know those that wait for the outcomes of like you know hopefully now hopefully now I know I know how it is so I'm happy that we've come um to this point uh and I look forward to supporting this when the time comes um with a vote um and you know thank you for the countless hours all the staff that spent day in day out um and doing this process that um should should be had right on both sides and um I see this as a you know U that bridge right the Bridge Building between our uh District unions and staff um and all that are a part of um those conversations that are had even though they're long and tough get to be had and so thank you to those of you that are at the table making um your uh points across um preparing I know it's not easy uh but where we're at now um it feels good and I I look forward to future you know it's kind of like I think when I first started it was like uh negotiations but now it's I'm kind of get it gets exciting right I'm kind of excited for the next one um hopefully using this as a as a model um and of course as a you know as a trustee being able to support as much as we can and you know I'm proud with the amount that um we've come to um obviously I mean you know we always want to be able to have more to be able to do more but um I'm proud of where we're at so thank you so much thank you board president okay thank you okay uh I'll just wrap up with you know uh I've always said that you know we have the finest teachers and classified staff and I I am very very glad that we have an agreement you know uh I you know I think teacher teachers and staff know that I have always been uh committed to their well-being because I you know I know that a you know uh you know what you know that we we ought to do what we can for uh the finest teachers in all of the East Side here uh at negotiation is like what is it that that Phil Colin you know I think Phil Colin saying the the the mo U modern version of it you know love certainly doesn't come easy it's a game of give and take and I know that you know it took you know it it took a while but we're here we we have a deal I'm happy to be able to see that our teachers or and our staff will you know will be PID what they deserve to be paid so you know I I I you know I uh C when when the time comes I Ur my colleagues and joining me and approving the uh the item so with that I see trusty Chavez um whether we vote yay or no a lot of times that doesn't mean that the teachers aren't valued or they're not appreciated and that they haven't done good work sometimes we have to look at the budget and see if we're going to be 14,678 60 639 in the whole then me I've always looked at the fiscal responsibility but that in no way reflects that I don't appreciate all the work that the teachers do and everybody else working in the district thank you okay uh you know I I would just want have a question for trusty Chavez where did you come up with this number right here where it says in 2023 14,678 if you look at is this the are those the UN actual what it did you did you read I did read it but you know it's when we get there you'll see it oh well what would you would you know can you tell us what page could you tell us what page 702 I item the last page on 702 where it says the general fund and about on the right hand side where it has parentheses that means that it's a negative it's on uh there there was a modification agenda so item 8.0 uh so whatever the number is uh I know that there was a modification but in my book that's the number that it has so right here it's says 703 and the page in front of it and it's in a little bit about a third of the way down and I highlighted in pink I don't know if anybody could see that can I ask a question yes yes um and just to make sure I'm looking at the number it's the one the line item named what is the name on the left operating Surplus and then when it's in parentheses you're operating in a deficit okay I just want to make sure so it's has parenthesis so we will be 14 million almost a little bit close to 15 million in the whole if this passes so can I ask yes sorry um and maybe um can I ask Mr CA Mr C can you um clarify operating Surplus deficit and I think just I mean especially just focused on this um if you can explain to us in my understanding that's not what that means but I just I want to make sure that I'm understanding it correctly you um yeah this document just shows the financial position and the impact of the uh agreement uh for all units including management um and it just shows you that you know at the beginning of the year we started the year with a combined general fund um reserve of $ 71.5 million that's what we started with the impact itself uh we are spending down the reserve from 70 from 71 to 57 uh so it does reduce the reserve by the $14 million for this year and can I continue to ask question um I know that I mean we had many discussions um many many many discussions as a board to come up to this and we had a lot of opportunity to you know bring some of these things up but I'll ask you know since we're here in public um are we as a district able to cover this these agree the agreement that we're on right now I mean financially uh you know obviously as as fiduciary our responsibility is to make sure that our district is able to cover this and again I know we've had several discussions but are we as a district able to cover this what we're up right now what we're the agreement that's before us so part of the process of um Collective bargain agreement is that you we the district itself has to submit a disclosure to the county off will support second I viw um and we do that for the current year and also for two years out we call that multi-year projection um the county has responded um in terms of a financial position um and and the requirement for every District's be solvent is that they maintain at least a 3% requirement our Reserve requirement based on our current agreement um and cost impact we are able to do that for this year and the two subsequent year thank you um yeah and and you know I I feel comfortable with the questions that I've asked in the long conversations we've had um you know and obviously we all get to vote Yes or no and you know I I look forward to doing that at that point Thank you and so you know just to clarify you know uh one of the responsibilities of the board president is to receive the letter from the county superintendent you know notifying the district you know whether or not it's in positive qualified or negative status so uh the last letter I received was that our budget was in positive territory and you know question to Mr changen uh with this agreement uh we are am I correct in saying that we are still in positive territory thank you very president uh yes we are still in positive um certification and the county concurred that with the letter that they sent us I believe Tuesday okay wonderful okay and I see trusty Chavez before Co hit we were supposed to do reductions because we were going to be at around the 22 million deficit so when the co money went into the Coors of the alen mock School District they got an influx of millions and millions of dollars that was going to be onetime money and Santa Clair County Office of Education also said that we had to make reductions so is this doable can we make payroll yes but at the expense of cutting costs in 2024 so everybody is entitled to their own opinion everybody's entitled to vote the way they want so thank you very much uh I see trusty far Shelton thanks you um thank you trusty Chavez for just pointing us back to the bottom line and I think what I um just want to clarify for myself given the the question on the table is that I see how this operating Surplus um we go from an existing 7 million to an existing 14 million deficit given that we're incurring a $7 million cost that we that I support I support those but the the projected ending balance back to sort of just clarifying the bottom line is that we still have an ending balance of $ 57.2 million correct that is correct okay so that gives me Comfort that we have these new costs that we're incurring um because it's the right thing to do and yet at the end of the day we still have a fund balance of over $57 million so I just want that thank you yeah you know uh so with that seeing no F comment I'll with having a motion in a second I'll move for a vote I'll call you say see you trusty shavez no uh vice president herrer Lera hi firsty FL Shelton yes and myself voting I IEM passes three to one with trusty Chavez dissenting Ando not uh absence moving to item 8.02 disclosure of major provisions of tenative agreement including cost to be incurred in current and subsequent fiscal years approve and ratify tenative agreement between the Alam Union Elementary School District in CA chapter 305 for the period of July 1st 2023 through June 30th 2026 superintendent Bower I ask the board to respectfully approve this this is part of a me to Clause that will bring csca to the same um uh increase that area yet received move to approve motion by vice president Herer Lera second second by uh crust for Shelton I'll open 8.02 to public comment uh good evening president men yeah members of the board super pretended B members of staff I I think I missed my opportunity last time to come in and speak so I I catch it this time I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank um our labor partners and the work that we did together uh I especially want to thank Sharon Fontaine and Robin Ard with CCA um Tom Fu who's not here this evening and Al Dy who I've worked with for years and then lastly Sandra ietta and and Chris Clark with ARA and and also Charon that we began this process with I just want to say this um without beling this I grew up in little farm worker town called of Campo uh just uh north of Loi I was a farm worker my parents are Farm Workers and if it wasn't for teachers if it wasn't for the bus driver they got me to school if it wasn't for the cafeteria workers who bed me uh if it wasn't the SCH secretaries who made sure I had all the things I needed I wouldn't be standing here today just because of them and it's because of our labor partners that we continue that kind of struggle for our kids especially in a district like this and that's why I was invited here in 2017 like you Old Sock you can't get rid of and but it's because they're children here they they kind of reflect me so I want to thank the board for your leadership I want to exe you thank the superintendent for her leadership I've before I've worked for about I think in my career about 15 superintendant is one of the best one of the best if not the best so thank you for the opportunity and thank you for inviting me to your District um and thank you to all our labor Partners again thank you so much thank you so much Jess okay so with that having a motion and I'll so with that I'll open the question and comments by members of the board and I saw trusty shavez and I forgot to mention that our the teams that are always constantly um trying to negotiate with the labor unions they do a fantastic job they're very cordial and respectful to one another and I like the fact that Jess has done such an amazing job and I've said it before the people here here are all for the kids I just have to vote my contents because I don't want to be here another in a year and a half making cuts and not to me to start cutting teachers or anything else if it's needed I'm a little bit more conservative so I see the bottom line what could happen and there's no way that I don't want everybody to get a race but is it doable to me you're going to get it because it sounds like two board members want it and that's fantastic but me I still have to vote fiscally conservative which is why the voters put me here because I try to wear both sites but I that is in no way my vote of a no in the previous one or the maybe the ones to follow that doesn't mean that I don't appreciate all the work that everybody does and all the Care that they put into kids and the kids' lives that are going to be affected if these teachers leave or they stay I just want everybody to acknowledge that Al does its best to do a job under the circumstances that they have with the little resources that they have they do an amazing job other districts have a lot more but I still have to be here at the board making money decisions so I want to thank everybody and everybody is appreciated just because somebody votes no and you don't agree with the no doesn't mean that they don't appreciate everything you do thank you okay uh vice president Herrera Lera thank you board president uh I'll just add uh you know thank you Jess for that um message and uh it really brought me back to when I was little and my dad worked in the fields as well and then got his first union job and I remember the the difference that that job made for him and I remember even more when he got a 10cent raise yes it was many years ago you know I'm in my 40s so I mean now I'm sure it would be equivalent to hopefully dollars but he got a 10-cent raise back then and it made a huge difference in my home um so for me you know I I will continue to say it publicly if we're able to give our teachers you know the money you know I'll continue to voice to be to give them the most right um the most that we can being responsible enough as a board member to ensure that our district will be here for another hundred years plus um and so you know I think it's moments like these um I mean there's always something to celebrate but it's really moments like these I think that you know really highlight the importance of um those that are in leadership roles wherever we're at so again I can't thank you all enough um those of you that worked hard um you know super intendent day in day out um and trustees you know we got our share of calls and emails and um it's it's not an easy time but it's necessary in order to you know be able to give our teachers and staff the best here at alen Rock so that our teachers want to continue to not just work here but want to come here that we continue to be a model for other school districts um and not one that people just want to run away from so um you know there everything is important everything is important and I mean we don't have anything and we don't have our teachers and we don't have our staff you know at the end of the day I mean you know we are nothing without you all so um as a as a leader I signed up for hard decisions in my first meeting that I got appointed I had to make a vote on Cuts hard decisions but it's not easy and you know um that's why you know there's some of us here and some that aren't um and this I mean today I want to celebrate you know it's it's not a hard decision for me at least it's an easy one to support our staff and support our teachers um you know that I know that the differences paycheck will make I know will help their families their homes and to be able to come to work the next morning with a Brighter Smile and I know that that helps lift Morale on and on and on so um as one of the five I am extremely proud to be here and to support um what we're doing tonight thank you thank you okay well I will wrap up you know I didn't have a you know I my off I want to express my appreciation to area CSEA uh Teamsters for for sticking with us and working us and I also want to express my appreciation to the administration and our bargaining team for you know as I said earlier you know love certainly doesn't come easy it's a game of give and take and it is you know and you know we're always you know but at the end of the day we have an agreement you know that's well you know within our within our budget you know and you know it it behooves us as I said to do do the best we can for or you know uh East side's finest classified teachers and staff and I add one a one more thing and part of it is you know um part of part of the you know one of the mandates that that I I taken on as board president is always to uh do do my fair share in LW for the district and to uh see where I I can you know I am you know the superintendent Administration can find ways to look for additional resources for this district and you know and as I said and also to think of ways to uh make the best use of our dis existing District resources so that we can you know uh make make packages like these possible as well as to you know I I you know uh I've never believed addition by subtraction but you know I I do want to you know I and I encourage my colleagues as well join me and do our part in you know working to make sure that you know we you know where we can avoid the cut we can't avoid the cut you know uh by getting extra resources for our districts and so again uh as with the previous item and future items you know I I'll be you know I I vote Yes and I I hope my colleagues will join me in doing so so uh seeing no further questions and comments uh I'll call for a vote I'll call you say see you trusty Chavez no vice president Herrera loera hi trusty Flor Shelton yes and my voting I item passes 3 to one with h trusty Chavez dissenting and clerk Quintero absent uh moving on to item 8.03 ratify 2.1% salary increase the teamst bargaining unit members pursuant to me to provision Mo approval a motion by trusty Flores Shelton second second by vice president Herrero Lera superintendent b i respectfully asked the board to support this okay okay I'll open 8.03 the public comment seeing none I'll move the question and comments by members of the board all righty see none our truste shavez um I'm glad it was mentioned that um there are Cuts made by a couple of the trustees I want to inform the public on something so Alam Mar lost control of fiscal responsibility Authority Santa clar County Office of Education has control of the bank accounts and the checkbook why because this is a fiscally distressed District when they took it this is why there are outstanding outside administrators controlling the bank accounts of alumrock districts must demonstrate good management before returning to local control fmat which is the fiscal crisis management assistance team which was here in the district uh in starting in 2007 17 when they said that all this happened um because of poor fiscal responsibility so in order to get the the bank account back as well as a checkbook bcmt sets performance standards for the district in five key areas financial management student achievement personnel management facilities management ment and community relations and if me control is given back I am hopeful that alen Ro gains control back for the fiscal services and oversight and the checkbook and the bank accounts thank you okay vice president Herrera laera um and I'm gonna ask Dr bar a question and I just there's so much happening so can you um remind me Dr Bower um I probably don't have the date or even the year but I do remember being board president and US receiving a letter that we had gained that ability back so I don't remember the month or the date but can you refresh us I just want to make sure that we don't leave this meeting thinking something because I know that I worked hard as one of the five you know as well as the rest of the staff here worked very hard to come back from that um nightmare is what I'm going to call it that our district went through um and so can you just refresh my memory I it was under my I was president at the time I remember receiving that letter so I'm gon to answer that in two parts thank you the first part was the bonds program because we had a contractor that was defrauding the district uh there were some challenges in the fiscal department and I will ask overa to answer the whole thing about um the the sko coming and helping us this is not a takeover per se what happens is districts as they do declining enrollment we're not the only ones by the way I just want to be very clear with the public that this is not about taking over this is not about they control the purse because obviously we bring to the board you know for approval we didn't have have that control you would not be approving contracts races and all of that stuff so sco doesn't tell tell the board how to spend the resources we they don't have that control they have like they have a monitoring service for all the districts including San Jose Unified and other districts that have their own you know their own system um but they they don't control they're they they're not they don't have that fiduciary responsibility over Alum Rock I'm going to ask you you're a lot more familiar you work in sco why sometimes it's best for districts like ours in terms of the size to be uh working with sco in terms of um uh handling the the the paychecks and things like that thank you Dr bar so um just a little bit of a background um to be a fiscally there's two type of districts in this County or throughout the state fiscally accountable and fiscally dependent um fiscally accountable is that uh you run your own financial and payroll system really that's the extent of it you can run your payroll check whenever you want your AP checks whenever you want being a fiscally dependent school districts is that you operate on the county system so the county has a financial payroll system that districts can jump on or participate in and that's where they process our our payroll warrant our AP warrant and actually the dependent school districts more common in this County and throughout the state than fiscally accountable of the 31 school districts in this County um only three districts are not operating on the county system and there's a lot of benefit on being at the county system you can tap on their resource they actually do our tax filings for us they do our garnishments um so there's a lot of support um being a fiscally accountable or dependent District um we did lose that um that ability to be fiscally accountable um back in 2017 when the county revoked it but in my opinion I think I mean it worked well for the district we were able to rely on the county for other resources support um typically a fiscally accountable District really big District like sounds a unified who has about 30,000 students east side is the other one in catino um all three I believe are well above 15 to 16,000 students that they serve and you know being big districts it there's a benefit of being able to have that flexibility to run those AP checks or payroll warrant um but for a small school size like us and 27 28 other school districts uh there's a lot of benefit being on the County system um the when we were going through all that um back in 2017 through 19 um the county did a sign a fiscal advisor um I believe it was 2019 that the county did um remove us from that uh advisory role and so we're now operating um independently from the county the county do have fiscal oversight not only our district but all the districts in this County um and so even the bigger districts that have their own system uh the county still reviews their budget they still review their interim report their on on actual report their Auto report and so there's still that component and oversight fiscal oversight uh between the county and all the districts in this County okay uh well I had a you know and so just to clarify and superintendent Bor Mr chain and you know um you know feel free to answer uh you know at the the bottom line is the the the dis the the district is able to receive funds and disperse funds to spend on you know to spend on the needs of the district H you know you know as as needed in order to maintain the operations of our schools and the education our children yes okay and the fiscal advisors also I wanted to be very clear because the fiscal advisers were assigned to the alumrock because of the bonds program I just want to be very clear that we don't lose track of you know there were very challenging times but I think you know let's not forget the cost of who what created right we had somebody you know and we're going through the process right now that was not doing what they were supposed to be doing thank you I see trusty Chavez I'm very glad that Santa Clara County supports this District because the grand benefit is is that they ensure fiscal responsibility so they can't go too far left or too far right but there's been letters also not only the year that one trustee said but in other years that they said you have to make reductions you're overspending and there was several other things and don't just take my word for it look it up and you could see it it's um a letter from Santa Clara County Office of Education um if you can't see it on the website then you can search further uh but that not that took place in 2019 so because like I said earlier because of the coid money we had this huge influx of money so that actually saved the budget because if everybody remembers that we had that big deficit and we had to make Cuts we made layoffs but they excuse me we made Cuts we we cut staff but that never happened because the governor said you couldn't lay off people during that time or else it would have happened so I'm just saying that this is not in no way that I don't support the teachers the workers the admins the superintendent I'm just saying that I as a board member have to be fiscally responsible because as several others mentioned there were cuts that had to be made so you have three four one against that's fine everybody will still get it but I still have to weigh my vote by what I have seen in the past and what could potentially happen so as a business owner for 37 years owning two to four businesses at one time I know that if you overspend you could be back at the table talking to the pick ma crisis team and be in the same position so I'm hoping that will never happen but it's a possibility especially with decline in enrollment thank you I see trusty Flor Shelton yeah I just had a question in terms of whether um it might be a good idea for our um letters from the county office or fmat to be published on our website so that it's just very transparent as to where we've been and what our current status is so that there isn't misunderstanding of um and what um assistant superintendent CA thank you the the accountable and dependent it's sounds complicated right so you know I think just having something that's very plain for everyone to see that we can all point to of what our um our status is and that we are not you know we are locally controlled right we are making our own fiscal decisions and that that's crystal clear to everybody thanks custy Chavez as well as who has final control of the bank accounts and the checkbooks thank you yeah just vice president har um I just uh you know for me it's important I think there's five of us who are elected to vote you know and we get to vote anyways I that's been said several times including um trusty Chavez mentioned it and yes you know I think absolutely we all have the right to vote any way that we want um I think I think it's it's important also to um make sure that when we speak and say something that is truthful and I know um there was something mentioned about 2020 and Dr bar I just want if you can help me remember because it was a crazy year for all of us um it was a pandemic I was a president at the time and I don't remember having to make cuts and the governor telling us and I mean I I was board president so you and I had a lot of meetings and we had a lot of discussions and there was a lot so I could have missed it but can you please uh tell me the um if we were going to live like if we were going to make and then the so trusty Charice is correct in terms of the in the pandemic um I'm trying to to remember the exact words because I don't want to mislead anybody so I'm looking at CA because there was do you want to help me with that please I want I want to make sure that I I got it right and before you answer so so just in case I do remember when I came in in 2019 literally I think it was March we discussed the cuts and we had to make cuts and that happened and then 2020 if you can help me remember specifically in good okay yeah so when the pandemic hit and for us it was around March right I remember having a board meeting and the next day we had to shut down um and keeping perspective the timeline on the state's budget site or timeline in May is when is when the state us the releaser May revise this is the most you know Current financial position update um for the state um before they adopt their budget in June um from March until May of 2019 everyone was projecting that the sky was falling and it was the most case scenario and so what the state was advising at that time was that there was going to be and I I believe it was 10 10% it was a 10% all across the yes the board cut for everyone um for school districts and so that were the assumption that we were using um come 2020 you know the opposite actually happened the state's Revenue was you know booming um they were actually funding lcff at a much higher rate and so we didn't have to implement any of those cuts just because the state economy was in good shape and it happened like that for the next two years or so um up until this year which is where you know the states already same like you know most most um school districts um who are facing um a deficit as well so from 2019 when we're projecting the gloom and doom to 20 2020 2022 um you know there was a reversal and kind of the the the sky falling projection to actually the state actually doing a lot more which trickles down to giving um some additional resources and funding to school districts thank you co can I just add one more just more of a comment ca I mean I was sitting in the audience when you were here during the nightmare right and I know that you've gone through this district and helped us you know get to a place of where we're at you know talking about giving our teachers races and U making sure that our uh we're conservative right you we just talked about the budget a month ago I mean you projected out and we have the responsibility to ensure that financially we're good but you do that job to ensure that we have that information to make sure that we're there so I just want to thank you for your work BEC and everybody know right we all have our roles but in this case um that you've done so much to get us to where we're at um and to be able to be at a place where we can you know um support what's before us um and then still as we've talked about be financially uh well enough to look in the future so just thank you for your work and all that you've done to get us to where we're at if I can yes for president if I can add a comment yeah you know as someone who used to work at the County office and was a person who was writing those letters to school districts um you know school districts bud are cical I mean they they go through a high and a low um and that's why the county and the state has this three-year window where um they have that oversight in place where the counties is that second eye right and so if the county seees something wrong or see anything in concern then they'll have that conversation with school districts so you know that's why we do the three year projection the current year and the two years out just to make sure that um you know if be if there's any adjust ments that we need to make we still have that window to make it um and for school districts you know I mean we're serving kids we can't make drastic decisions in one year and that's why you need to look three years out to make those um tactical decision and methodical decisions so there's an impact the students um in a very negative way I see trusty Chavez so I'm glad that uh Mr COA mentioned that we did make the cuts in 2019 uh some people remember some people don't but like I said before the cuts did not get implemented because the coid money that all those millions of dollars 20 what was it 22 21 million so that was onetime money so we were saved by the coid money in that respect but is there going to be another Co around the corner that we're going to get that kind of inlux of money I don't think so because the state doesn't have that amount of money anymore so like I said it's not that I don't support the teachers but I do support fiscal responsibility thank you Mr Chang um just to clarify uh we did bring a resolution back in 2019 that we implemented cuts that took place in in 2019 so those cuts did happen we're going to have to make a second R of cuts because of the co situation and to projection that you know the sky was falling and it was boom and doom um when the economy ver itself we didn't need to make any additional cut but we did make those cut in 2018 uh which was the first loan um and then we because of the economy we you know we we avoided the any additional cuts that needed to happen but but as well the governor did not allow school districts to make Cuts or layoff people excuse me lay off people Mr CH we didn't have to do that in the first place thank you all right you know with with that uh see no further questions and comments by members of the board I'll move to road I'll call you I see you trusty Chavez no vice president har Lera hi uh trust4 Shelton yes and my self loing eye item passes 3 to one with the trusty sh des senting and uh clerk quo abson moving to item 8.04 ratify 2.1% salary increase the csca bargaining unit member pursuant to me to provision move approval move uh motion by trusty foror Shelton second by vice president Herrera loera superintendent bow please support this item okay I'll open to public comment seeing none questions and comments by members of the board seeing none I'll move to a road I'll call you I see you trusty Chavez no vice president Herrera laera hi uh trusty Flor Shelton yes and myself loing I I am passes three to one with truste shavez dissenting and clerk wio absent move to item 8.05 approve 7.1% increase the salary schedule and 2% onetime off schedule payments for certificated management classified management supervis supervisory and confidential employees for 2023 to 2024 school year super net bow I respectfully ask the board to please support this item move approval okay Mo by trusty Flor Shelton second by vice president Herrera Lera okay I'll open the public comment okay seeing none move to questions and comments by members of the board seeing none uh I'll move to a ro I'll call you call you as I see you trusty Chavez no vice president Herrera Lera hi trusty Thor Shelton yes and myself voting I I am passes 3 to one with h trusty Chavez descenting and ptero abson um move let's see here I don't know if you move 806 but it would be if it's okay with the board if you want to take care of that as well it's the same so I'll motion to reopen the agenda and move move 8.06 motion to move 8.06 after 8.05 okay thank you having a motion motion by trusty shavez I have a second for that second second by vice president Herrera Lera do I have to take public I don't think so okay uh okay seeing okay so with that seeing for comments by members of the board I'll open the motion to a vote trusty Chavez don't we have to get public comment if the board wants to hear public comment on the motion on the moving it's on moving right now you're voting on moving 806 after 805 not on the item yet yes but we I think to be clear and concise that we should always get public comment because I don't want to come back later that that we didn't get public comment all right I'll be thorough take public com open the public comment on the motion seeing none I'll call for a vote I'll call you see you trusty shave hi vice president Herrera Lera hi trusty Flores Shelton yes and myself running I motion is approved to so we'll move to item 8.06 approv classified substitute pay raises effective October 25th 2023 I'll open 8.06 the public comment seeing none okay do I have a motion on the item 8.06 motion motion by TR vice president herrer Lera second second by trusty Flor Shelton questions and comments by members of the board stay none I'll call for a vote I'll call that call you as say see you trusty no vice president herrer Lera hi Cy FL Shelton yes and myself voting I I am is approv 3 to one with crusty Chavez dissenting and cl cono not voting so with that we finally get to item 3.01 uh presentation highlights a distinct F trip to SAC to the state capital in Sacramento in honor of a California Native American Day celebration and indigenous people's day so with that superintendent B I'll this is another happy item uh and I'm going to ask Miss Garcia and Miss Ral Cava to give us the highlights of this field trip can I get the ability for the P PC to share screen good evening H board president Sam Dr bow TR and community members my name is Andra Garcia and I'm the director of State feral programs for Alam and oops sorry I'm here this evening um to share some information on our recent uh field trip that we took to the California Native American day at the state capital in Sacramento and I have here um on my side Katie W who is the coordinator of equity diversion and diversity and inclusion and L alava who is the coordinator in state federal and they will be co-presenting with me I'm going to start with um um is telling you why we took this trip so um in late August we received um a memo about this event happening in Sacramento and I quickly went to Dr Bower and I said what do you think she says yes let's do it and so um we uh quickly got to planning and talked to our after school providers um to see who would be able to take a group of kids to Sacramento we realized it was a short amount of time to plan this type of trip if we were going to make sure that we prepared students well in advance and so um think together in YMC we're able to get a group of students um that uh to were interested in um going to um take part in this special day so um the day was about expanding student awareness of the Native American Experience in the US and also a celebration of um protecting our people through sovereignty past present and future um took place on September 22nd and again at the Sacramento state capital um we were able to take 45 students um to this field trip uh we had students from AJ dors Elementary from Miss Madrid's class uh fifth grade class uh students from the YMC expanded learning program uh from San Antonio elementary and then seventh and eighth graders from hubard media arts academy from our think together group prior to the trip we um were able to meet as a group and uh discuss uh lesson plans that were put together by um Miss Wyatt and EM Ro Gava uh to for the students to learn about the um MMA alone tribe um some of the lessons included a learning about land acknowledgement how it is done how to honor this practice in the classroom the school the district and the community and learning about the trib's contribution about Native American people and culture and also just providing some discussion starters so that while we were prepping the students that we had some meaningful conversations about uh why they were attending this event and um having some background information um to take with them on on the trip and so that they would it was more meaningful to them just wanted to share that in uh September of 2022 um uh Governor Nome made uh this um uh he signed AB 1312 to support the California Native communities uh to build on the work to promote Equity inclusion and accountability um in this area and so um it's really important to know that there's there's a lot of traction behind um supporting um Native American um people in California so what I'm going to do now is turn it over to um Kate um Wyatt and she is going to talk a little bit about um the lessons that we provided for the students prior to this event no she thank you so much evening Katie Wyatt uh coordinator of diversity equity and inclusion I do just go by my last name of Wyatt thank you so I was extremely excited when this opportunity came my way um because I kind of saw it as an opportunity to sort of have a little mini pilot of the sort of pedagogical design that I'm hoping will be behind our ethnic studies progr overall so the design methodology really honors the shifts that were moving into our classrooms in the instruction honoring the HSS framework and the ethnic studies pillows uh I really spent a lot of time on this even though it was just a short little blip I wanted to try out what my theories were of how this could look um all of it was universally designed it was inquiry based we used localized history that's why I zoned in on the mo Mone we used authentic resources primary source documents to Center traditionally imaginized or excluded perspectives while we were trying to in two weeks time try to grow our students agency to impassion them through the empathy that they built from the lessons and then being there that day on local issues so that it could hopefully motivate them to take action in their Community to put their knowledge to work and make a change in the world that they live in so we started with land a acknowledgements because I think it's something that is pretty common and we want to help our students to understand that we want to go into action beyond the words so we looked at the money tribal members speaking at Stanford we listened to this friend who was asking the question why do we do this what is the history behind these um we then looked at the technology ment that was co-designed by some tribe was with the San Clair County Office of Ed and HED in on some of the vocabulary there trying to understand what it is that they're sing so we did some notices and wonderings on Jam boards and then I was thinking about well where might they see this in the world around them and it brought me to my own neighborhood downtown where this gorgeous mural is right underneath the B Bridge and what it says is we are still here in both English and M Marone and I was wondering if the students understood why they might be saying that phrase what is this about of course they're still here but what is the history behind why they feel the need to say that out loud we then go into this incredible map um nativ lands.

we were at a got up at 4:00 a.m. to get ready um so yeah 6:00 a.m. all the ambassadors were there welcoming staff we didn't get to eat the breakfast until 8:30 but that's okay and then um I got to do the Pledge of Allegiance which was a surprise was not waiting on that but Mr matuda came up to me and he's like you're doing the pledge I'm like I am I am okay so that was fun and then I got to do the same thing at Kennedy at the graduation I also got to lead the pledge so yeah good good thank you thank you you went through the mindfulness did you know oh I also went to the mindfulness uh with the ambassadors the mindfulness representatives and the ASB presidents at every single School site we were all there it was a three-hour mindfulness training and I enjoyed it a lot we did a lot of exercises that I needed from being at that school from like really early um and yeah I really enjoyed it I really enjoyed it yeah you're good Miss Percy okay I also attended the Cyprus 50th celebration but I have to say that I didn't get there on time and I was upset and that was because of my niece who was spending the had spent the night and she graduated from Cyprus in 78 and so I said well come along well she waited until the last minute to get ready so I was a few minutes late but I couldn't say anything because I had invited her okay so anyway it was really good she got she enjoyed it tremendously they had all these old yearbooks out and a lot of pictures and there was a group of teachers who were there and uh you know from a long time ago who had retired and came so and I talked to some people who had graduated and well from different areas I mean one guy was from Huntington Beach and another guy was from Iowa or something you know he moved but somehow he was in the area so it was really really well done and enjoyed it and then um I also which is not necessarily part of the my duties but I also ended up helping Cypress ban with their pancake breakfast the next week okay then I attended the Aries Workshop which you know was great I I learned and now I understand Aries and E Cadence a lot better so I I may not be able to use it but I understand it much better so um Western varsity talks I went to that breakfast and that was a really good presentation um they get a grant for that and it's a really a neat thing they had this woman who had been a graduate she was an Olympic star and they had you know two other people I don't remember what they were but it was a a really nice presentation um I also uh attended the summer graduation it was very nicely done I was kind of disappointed there were only you know maybe 40 kidss that came out of what 200 141 how many 141 141 graduated but yeah but I'm sure there's all kinds of reasons and so and then the College and Career Fair which was really well done I love the new location and the space I mean we've had it at the convention center but not in Hall e but I have one comment okay I made a mistake of wearing regular shoes and I should have had tennis shoes because you've got polished concrete and that long haul and walking I needed rubber tennis shoes or rubber sneakers or whatever my legs were killing me by the time I finished and also one comment Carlos there got his pencil out okay there's seating on the outside of the building of outside of the room but nothing inside and I think we need to put a few chairs in between some of the areas you know not a whole line but maybe two or three in a group here because some of the parents that are with the kids when the kids are standing in line they may get a little tired and they might like to sit for a minute so that's my suggestion you know and uh because there's plenty of room to put just a couple of chairs in the middle it's not going to be a permanent thing and not a whole line but a but a few here and a few there so people can at least cuz I was ready to go and steal one of their chairs you know I'm getting old want oh anyway it was phenomenal though I just and I was really glad to see all the junior highs there and they had and the asbs were supporting that and they brought in you know games and and stuff and one of the uh one of the teachers there said yeah it's supposed to be for the elementary kids she said that are com along he says but we got more high schoolers here playing their games so anyway and then I have something else I want to say about the College and Career Affair but I'll wait until we have you know future things to do all right Smith after the last six days coming here tonight to hear the wonderful opportunities young people are getting in this school district and building their life experiences and I was thinking about how very much I appreciate what we do and what we do in this country and how fortunate we are and you look at the news for the last six days and it leaves one broken and sickened and I just want you to know that someone complained to me bitterly about an insignificant problem the other day and during this last six days and I said do you think the people in Israel or Ukraine would be bitterly upset like you are when we have so much here and my last words are if you love someone tell them you love them and hug them and be good to each other thank you for your patience fro thank you Katherine that's a good reminder uh I attended um the opening of the market which is just fantastic uh number two on our I'm sure our long list of um projects for our uh school districts um but I heard uh we already had 120 people signed up uh and you know was it had just opened and so 120 families already making a difference and I'm sure there are more signed up uh we also learned when uh we took a tour that uh the city had to re um to repaint the sidewalk because it was red and so uh they gave us the permission to um to open that up for old parking for our family so that was a little little something we didn't know so we thank them for that uh I attended um the uh Cypress uh 50th and somebody you know was there at that event your papa um having a good time it was really a nice H celebratory event and um uh the kids did a fantastic job and uh they were all um giving tours around the campus um so they were very proud um I attended the back to school night at uh Gilbert and um I just wanted to say uh I'm just enamored with the way that they they do things over there it's uh might be a little bit different but they're trying to do everything they can to connect to the students um and that night they had like a little um uh fashion show um counselor there uh knows a fashion designer of kinetta dresses and so um she asked if he if they could borrow some and she thought well you know I think we saw this uh was on the news and they are our uh feed but it was also on the um on the news um because of uh uh not only the designer but uh famous were phenomenal uh Jenny Rivera a famous singer family was was there to narrate to serenate the girls um but the designer brought so many dresses a lot of those girls were had had they said the counselors said that the students were just kind of having a tough time and uh humming and haing of coming to school you know day in and day out but that really lifted up their Spirits they had something to look forward to so those girls were really excited to do that and um and I think you heard on the tape that a couple of them uh hadn't had their kinetta and so it meant a lot to them to be able to um dress up and uh present to the to the to the families that that night and getting serenad by um the Rivera family um our counselors are just amazing these connections um but Jenny Rivera's mom spoke and she told the audience there that Jenny Rivera had gone to a continuation school herself um and that she really applauded the work that is being done at Gilbert and uh I got to meet her and she said that she will come back anytime that Gilbert needs her so I mean just amazing connections um and if you ask you might get a yes right so uh that's a it's a wonderful story gives you Goose pumps um I attended of course the trifect the graduations summer graduations the uh Ed Summit I stayed for the whole thing um I want you to know uh because I I do that if I can because I really want to be able to speak to the work that we're all doing and um you know visiting and listening to the conversations that were were had um boy do we dive deep and um before uh at breakfast um sorry I got to eat breakfast before you you uh would have brought you something uh but I was talking to one of our teachers and um she uh incidentally has uh been uh involved in an administrative uh credential program but not ours and I I because I asked her of course are you involved in ours she said no she purposely wanted to not go with us not because she didn't know that it was wonderful she said she wanted to see the difference and and she said that not that she regrets but she says the conversations that we have are tremendous but she's also talking to her colleagues out there and they do not do the work that we do um it's unfortunate uh for those other districts but again validates the work that we're doing you know from a different um aspect um attended our Roop meeting last night and um uh I was going to say oh I wanted to make sure that we um you said the bus drivers I just really wanted to um make sure that everybody knows that was uh uh I saw students and fam standing outside of school districts uh School sites you know waiting for the the transportation so it's really meaningful work um you know just even driving somebody to and from uh an event it's very meaningful and I know our bus drivers drove our staff to and from the Ed Summit too so we want to do a shout out for them and John you are amazing the work that you do and thank you so much for putting up the work that our ambassadors do because I really wanted to make sure that our audience here and our audience um uh watching uh gets to really see and you didn't mention all of the things that are going on because there's a million things going on but I really wanted um everyone to see that so thank you John and your staff is amazing and thank you everybody have a good night okay um quickly I ran uh went to the Kennedy choir show and I have to say this uh for the first I think it's the first one of the year to have such wonderful voices on stage compared to other years at the same time where you got the squeaky ones you know and they just got but this was just wonderful I was it was just amazing I thought wow wait when was going to be like on the last show of the year um then uh nitish Patel family he's a on the Lama city council he uh put on a a staff lunch at Kennedy and I attended that uh also attended Lama Community Foundation fundraiser for the every 15minute program at Kennedy and Dr Dean was there staff from Kennedy and from Walker they they were in attendance also um I went to back to school night Savannah Magnolia and Dale which was the end one the last one I have to say that the the Dale back school night was phenomenal uh there were so many people there all crowded in the early front quad and then after after the principal spoke they opened the gates and it was just just a flood it was just a sea of people it was wonderful to see I don't think I've seen that many people on that campus before so it was really nice to see um attended the opening of the Anaheim uh Market Anaheim High School Market um and I want to along with Miss pery thank uh Eric Greenwood for his tutoring of e Cadence and the Aries getting a little tip of the iceberg a little better understanding uh so thank you for that attend of the an Anaheim collaborative at Fullerton College for a while and good speaker and well attended so I was it was nice to see uh boys and girls can you explain what that is what what is oh labor yes it's where parents uh adults come together and they learn about um what how they can I guess guide their students uh through the through the college process in the future maybe you can elaborate so first the anim collaborative is our partnership with our higher ed Partners like Cal State flon UC Irvine and our two local community colleges Cypress College and flon college it's also our partners the city city of Anaheim tigerwood or tgr OK Capa Etc um so so that that pledge creates number of opport opportunities uh that we guarantee or we promise that's our pledge to our families and our students and as part of our pledge is there's these domains one of domains is parent and family engagement so as part of this domain we have U kind of on a rotation these parent Summits uh where we build capacity in our families and caregivers in terms of how they can support their students with the college going future and what that process or Journey might look like so this first series was at um flon College where we had an Dynamic um keynote speaker from Chapman University uh along with the parent workshops or sessions that both our staff and the the collaborative Partners held to build their capacity so and it's going to rotate I last year culminated at UC Irvine with parents actually spending the night in dorms or res Halls so that's what this was the first of of the several series for parent capacity building but it's do our highered collaborative partnership that was great thank you um and then I attended U it was a backpack school supplies and and sneakers uh giving to the Boys and Girls Club at greater Anaheim Cypress at the Cypress facility and that was donated by the NES Patel family again uh I tended the Hope homecoming um and I was asked my wife and I were asked to Crown the queen and the king and it was it was what a surprise yeah we weren't expecting that so we we pinned them and put a little thing on their wrist and put the crown it was really my my wife just loved it yes that's NE uh well we watched them a little bit and then we left yeah they were bouncing up and down too much so we had to leave um uh Anaheim uh educational Summit AT just this last week and it was great and wonderful got around to some probably 8 to 10 classrooms after to see what was going on in the classrooms uh the the summer uh graduation was wonderful uh the speaker from from the uh graduation from that summer was you know it's it's um it's very interesting to hear what what they have to say because it's not the normal Cyprus or Kennedy or even anahim high school or tell it's very it's different but the wonderful speaking they um they prepare themselves well um College and Career Fair and last night and not last night but Tuesday night I was as was blown away with a number of CTE uh demonstrations I walk back there I thought holy Ma and just row I guess you call them cubicles or sections after section after section I think there were three sections of it and it was just it was wonderful to see how many opportunities there were the different trades so that was great and then last night was the uh our Roop board meeting so that was my life uh just a couple things here and there as everybody else so next is Advanced planning we have um future meeting dates and I have a request to make um I was informed by my son who lives in Texas that on December 14th which is our board meeting date he's going to be conferred his MBA and I'm so that morning I'm flying out the next day I'm flying back but I will miss this board meeting and I request that we move the board meeting to either Tuesday before it which will be the 12th or the prior Thursday which would be 14 plus 7 be the 7th so I'd like the board to consider probably one of those dates uh Paulina and they would like it I think actually the Tuesday would be available the Thursday date is not available is that correct I would imagine the Tuesday okay I'd go for that okay is I'm fine everybody okay on December 12th Tuesday the 12th yes okay great thank thank you I really appreciate that all right yes thank you um any other things on the dates no we haven't gotten to the next one Anna I haven't turned the page all right next item 13.2 suggested agenda items I have yes I know you do okay um I spent quite a few minutes um talking to Allen and I don't know I don't remember Allen's last name in the e sports section oh okay so did I and did you I did too I did too did you too yeah yeah yeah and the um young man okay the teacher's name I didn't write it down Jason Jason Jason Jason evidently yeah Jacob when when he was three years ago he was new and at the orientation I was talking to him and he remembered me and he glommed onto me and was talking he is so excited about teaching this now what I want to bring up I got all these flyers about it but I would like to have a presentation on the Esports because to me beforehand basically Esports was just playing games yeah okay but it's so much more okay just talking with him and looking at these flyers I mean this is what I have been working for for you know and always thinking about is uh creating you know teaching uh Pathways for future jobs you know which which we do already and this is another one and so I would like to have him maybe or give a presentation and to the board to you know and explain all about what Esports really is and how many areas it touches and not just games okay gam I'll second that because uh it was one of the um uh the classrooms that we visited and uh this teacher was teaching everyone um what he is the the uh curriculum that he's built on Minecraft and how well the students are engaged with that um and how well they perform on these um tasks um and uh and and how much they learn because it's something they enjoy yeah yeah so yes I spoke to uh um oh thank you I spoke to Scott Randell uh after the College of career Affair so I have a L written down in January I think because of the number of presentations we have lined up okay um super so I'll work with him on that piece okay very good they were all excited yeah yeah a really nice you know spread they had about six TVs going I guess but but it was you know and some really good Flyers really good Flyers so yeah I was impressed yes thank you anybody else okay uh motion to adjourn so move and second motion in a second and I'd like to uh uh adjourn this meeting uh in the uh memory of Jordan Brandman who is a former board member uh not only on or board but Ro o board and he passed away last Friday night so in his M we Jed thank you thank you

eight Madame President and board members uh we have the usual board reports um student uh enrollment comparisons uh discipline and um facilities and um uh financial information uh if you have any questions about any of those I'd be happy answer um can you bring up the student discipline for me sure the you mean the cumulative yeah the the the summary there you go I I don't know how much you guys remember last year MH but this is phenomenal change um definitely is there a chance that next time you could put that up with this comparison absolutely because the people out there may not understand or may not remember how bad it was last year and how much this has improved sure would you be okay with um instead of doing like um by grade level just adding a line where the totals are for each school and compar just the totals for each you know that would be perfect that be okay all right we can do that be perfect um I just think that people don't realize it I mean we do because we can actually go back in the data but um this is very impressive and I um whoever is doing this needs to have a bunch of Kudos and I think it's important for you for everybody to recognize too that the more you engage students in the learning process and hold them you know that they're participating and that they're accountable for their own learning of behavior issues be tend to become less yeah very impressive thank you thank you Cassie um if you don't have other questions I have a couple of updates for you um first of all um uh Ethan back there is uh always interested in graphic things and uh came to me a month or so ago with a proposal that g our district doesn't have a banner maker and we could be uh we could be advertising good things about our district and you know promoting ourselves if we had uh if we had some way to do that an additional way to do it so convinced me to get us a a banner a big banner maker so this is his first sample just a sample of what it can do oops oh pretty cool yeah neat very nice so he you know he took all the logos and and and printed out one okay so uh he's working on a banner uh for the uh the the groundbreaking on Monday yeah um but um we you know that's that's kind of a new big event for us we've not done those kinds of things so we thought we needed to advertise that a bit so first of all this is our new Den Lo logo okay and we have produced chachki bags that we'll be given out and I know some of you won't be there on Monday so we have the district logo on one side the den logo on the other and then a flyer inside about the den project thank you Ethan thank you R thank you very much so this is what we're supposed to put the first rock in that's right how cool is that well thank you neat this is really neat so that's the first thing um uh secondly a little more serious um if you recall not too long ago you approved policy jcj which has to do with use of electronic devices particularly for taking photographs and videos on our campuses but just general use of them um once again that's been kind of an issue and so uh our sites have um stepped up enforcement of of some of those things um and we've been trying to inform uh and advise parents that we are taking that all very seriously and enforcing it um the main reason has to do with furpa and that's the federal law that has to do with protection of um uh personal information and and identity and so um we've we've been gently remind we've not so gently reminded kids necessarily but we've been gently reminding parents to please not say to your kids oh take out your phone and and uh record what's going on in your classroom um because that's a violation of furpa and and violates the rights of the other students in the class so we are we're enforcing that um and then the other thing I have for you is um that I've been selected to be uh on the council uh Western Regional Council for first things first for Mojave and laaz counties to fill out uh a term for someone who resigned and if you recall first things first is one of the funding streams that we have for uh our uh uh preschool and our uh Child Care Center so I'm I'm uh pleased to represent the district and to repres represent this part of Arizona on that Council congratulations job that's a good thing to have somebody with a ground ground experience feed on the ground yeah do does anybody have any questions for our superintendent okay then I'm going to move on to board member updates has anybody on the board done something that they'd like to talk about how many plac this month you quiet month it's been a quiet month well quiet in some ways but quiet okay all right moving on then [Music] um we are in the consent agenda and we let just hang in there for just a second let me get this oh here it is we received in the consent oh I should pull these first huh okay I'd like to I would like to pull the expense voucher from the consent and um I think this is the m thing isn't it yes okay that's well that was part of my financial report yeah but I need to that's okay does anybody else have anything that they'd like to talk about on the consent agenda lots of things happened at the schools yeah anybody want to talk about any of those okay then I need a motion to accept the consent agenda as posted except for the expense voucher which I have a question on which is 3.5 yes okay I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda um as as presented except for 3.5 is there a second all those in favor I'm Alinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon I Barb Zuki I Sheila Barnett okay my question to about this is that we received in in part of your the M budget okay and then I receive a a voucher thing mhm how do these go to together okay so um uh the expense voucher um covers the things that we are spending for uh things okay you also get you also not salaries then it's no so you see I know I understand so so let me be a little more clear about that so when you look at this agenda item you have the expense vouchers and you have the payroll vouchers mhm okay okay so the payroll vouchers are um the actions that are taken for uh to pay salaries okay the expense vouchers include everything else so like benefits um uh facilities Transportation fuel uh uh things that we need to things that we need to purchase or services so I'll make that a little more clear so for instance um let's say we made a payment let's say we were making monthly payments to IE we're not but we don't do it that way but let's say that's what we're doing so part of what you would see in that expense voucher would be what would include whatever we paid uh you know for that monthly fee for that um uh in there I will tell you are because we monthly pay um utilities we pay uh the the lease on the leases on all of our xrox machines um uh the leases that we pay to operate our technology so many of those payments are broken down by month and and so you know we get an invoice and and we pay it or it's a it's a standing amount of money okay and then the so payroll is simply payroll and um uh and then the expenses are everything else is that a little clear clear so I guess I guess having trouble with today was putting these things together um okay so in Cas if you'll go back to the superintendent report and if you would pull up um uh m o please so that the people in the audience and maybe make it big enough that they might actually be able to read it there you go okay so um down on excuse me so for instance 6100 m MH okay so that's salaries so you can see that for the year our budget is 6,296 and this is out of M only this is not any of the grants this is only out of our maintenance and operations budget and you can see that um uh we've paid so far u a million and we have encumbered I think that's the label at the top because I can't see the top but let me see um yeah we have uh encumbered uh in line 61004 million in other words what we've done is we've said here's what we've committed to pay for salaries here here is the amount total amount of uh contracts and work agreements for all of our employees um and so that's encumbered it means that it's not just out there floating around it's it's already tied up it's not been paid yet but it's tied up and then you can see that we have um uh the um the total and then what the balance is okay so um and then benefits so that's 6200 and um and then those other things uh on down that list on down that list are those expense V vouchers okay so the expense vou basically is everything except 6,100 roughly okay okay all right and then when you see um so for instance tonight U we have three expense vouchers so um uh we we pay for the most part we pay expenses twice a month um just like we pay payroll twice a month but we also have some things that come in kind of at odd times and um you know and we don't want time limits or 30 days to go by between when they've sent us the invoice and we need to pay and and so there are times when we run an extra expense voucher to make sure that we're not uh being charged interest on things or that we're not um uh ruining our our uh credibility with some of our vendors okay yeah great question that's I just needed to have that somehow put my brain does anybody um have any other questions on that kind of stuff okay thank you thank you very much sure so do we we have to have a motion to accept the V vouchers then right yes you do I need a motion to uh ratify the vouchers then please I I make a motion that we ratify or accept the vouchers is there a second I'll second the that motion all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rusher I barbariki I Sheila Barnett so I'll go to my first here we are now in Old business um policy or excuse me 4.1 policy G or HG staff meet and confer organizations uh Madam president oh we don't have our example there um this is the one that where we were making the change of U making sure we added technology to be represented in confer and uh and to uh you know to clean that up to make it match what we uh what we're really doing minor change but still representing another part of our we took out Transportation no transportation oh yes yeah uh no transportation is still represented in meet and confer um Food Service oh that was it Food Service yeah because we went to an outside Serv yes yes I remember uh do I have a motion to approve I'll make a motion that we approve policy HG staff meet and confer organizations is there a second I second two seconds all those in favor I'm Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz it's your turn I'm sorry sleeping the switch good evening uh hi Fred Rush hi barbar Zuki hi Sheila Barnett can can I make a motion that we turn the air conditioner down or up or off or something I'm freezing here sure thank you me too thank you Barb we have some have second from the audience it's interesting that 75 degrees is not the same from room to room no many keep we're now in Old business 5.1 we're going to convene into executive session consideration of student discipline pursuant to ARS 384 31.03 A2 discussion or consideration of Records exempt by law from public exp inspection including the receipt and discussion of information or testimony that's specifically required to be maintained as confidential by the state or federal law and AR ARS 15840 a 15 841b D and 845 843a and F through G regarding suspension or expulsion of pupils do I have a motion to that's an H not a g that was an H instead of a G oh shs let start over do I how about if I just start with 15843 a N FH regarding suspension and expulsion of pupils today has been a bad dyslexic day so don't be pushing your M do I have a a move do I have a motion to move into executive session I'll make a motion that we move to Executive session I second it all those in favor I'm Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon I barbariki I Sheila Bernett okay we are in executive [Music] session [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] 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changing the dates right yeah and then the the that last big part that's crossed out actually is a recommendation from um U because asba um changes in the state law led asba to change some things in this policy particularly that long section that's crossed off um and they had recommended some different dates um but I knew that you all wanted these dates instead so you'll notice that the C is also the copyright is also uh removed from uh the recommended uh revision for this so part of it it comes from the as from the state law and part of it is um based on your decisions okay okay we are not making any motion at this time policy CB evaluation of the superintendent this is just the Madam president and board This was um we found when we were looking at that policy Cassie and I found that the old uh evaluation instrument was still in our policy so um this is just substituting uh that new document that you all approved uh earlier and so once again making making the exhibit match practice okay okay we don't have and and you can approve this when it's an exhibit uh if you want to if we want to well I mean you don't have to wait for a second reading you can do this one on first reading it's an exhibit so regulations and Exhibits don't have to have second readings they can they can be approved immediately all right do I have a motion to approve policy uh cb- e evaluation of the superintendent I'll make a motion to approve policy exhibit cb- evaluation of superintendent I'll second that motion all those in favor I'm Alinda sabraski Charlene oh I sorry I was reading hi Fred rushon hi barbariki hi Sheila Bern must be catching FR R yes you did just trying to make me feel good item 8.3 retroactive approval of disposal of old assets Madam president and board members um you know that most months you have uh some of those items in the consent agenda for removal of old assets one of the things that uh we one of the things that needs to happen as we're wrapping up the financial report for the year uh is that those kinds of things need to be cleared and they need to be cleared before that AFR is presented to you so um um this is one of those uh like a couple of other things where we know it's going to be on a succeeding agenda for you to be aware of but uh requesting your approval for uh in this case retro active to the list that um had to be done before the AFR was completed if that's sufficiently confusing sometimes we have to take action because there are timelines that we have to meet meet and they don't match some of the other timelines and and board meeting dates is this the stuff we would normally put out in the shed we haven't built yet yeah but it's coming but yes some of this is yes yes soon soon do I have a motion to approve uh the retroactive disposal of old assets I make a motion to approve the retroactive uh disposal of old assets I'll second that motion all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon i b Zar ziki I Sheila Bernett item 8.4 annual financial report FY 23 Madam president and board members besides the budget that you approve for uh an upcoming year or a current year um the annual financial report is the other significant uh action that the board takes relative to the finan cial status of the of the school district so um excuse me our fiscal year is July 1st through June 30th and um and so um uh official business is completed but there are frequently outstanding invoices and those kinds of things and so uh we don't actually close the books uh until um uh the end of July so then that means that our financial uh folks in the business office then have to um make all you know look look at all those numbers make sure all the reports are in the right place make sure all of the coding is correct and all of those kinds of things um that we need to have done um to wrap up the year and then submit that final report to the uh to the uh state auditor General's office and to uh the Arizona Department of Education that then becomes the basis for the uh single audit um that is done each year by an outside uh outside company so um uh what you have in front of you is uh had in front of you or have in front of you is the summary of that AFR and um uh the documents to be signed relative to that wrapping up fiscal year 23 can you show us the summary Cassie I will tell you this is a one-page summary of a document that's about 30 pages long and the numbers in red are are deficits right yes and um but you'll notice that that's Federal projects and so for instance our Esser uh Esser 3 um uh goes through September of next year okay and um and uh and then we also have one that's in red that I that is 691 it doesn't have a number next to it but it has to do with the sfob so uh they can approve projects for us that's the one that's um the building renewal Grant uh and so they there were projects they approved that we completed um for which we've not been reimbursed and so that that will get covered but it um uh in terms of you know wrapping up last year uh it it ends up in the red because they had not paid us yet any questions do I have a motion to approve the annual F financial report for school for the fiscal year of 2023 Madame President I make a motion that we approve the uh 2023 annual financial report summary that we just looked at is there a second I I seconded all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon I barbariki I Sheila Bernett okay item 8.5 we're going to create some additional prepare professional par professional positions that's three PS right in a row for the remainder of FY or fiscal year 2024 Madam president and board members um uh we have big enrollments and we have need for uh some additional uh assistance in some classrooms and we have the grant funding uh to do this so it would these would be positions that would only exist until the end of this fiscal year one for one for title one at Desert Valley and one for uh the preschool program at Coyote Canyon and it's only for this fiscal year it's only to would be through June 30 actually it would be through through May 26th does it Val what was the other one the preschool Madam superintendent do you have uh applicants we we can't we cannot post the positions until you approve them I understand thank you do I have a motion to create these two new positions care professional positions for just school year 25 or 24 23 24 23 24 F year is 24 I I'll make a motion that we create additional pair of professional positions for the remainder of fiscal year 24 I'll second that motion all those in favor I'm Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon I barbariki I Sheila Bernett can you really find pit people who will only work for that long um yeah usually we can we don't usually have any problem uh partly because once folks get their foot in the door and other folks leave somewhere along the line then you know if they're good employees we're going to figure out how to how to keep them keep them good job item 8.6 Revis the classified salary schedule to comply with the change in minimum wage beginning uh January 1 24 Madame President and board members um based on the information that we had last spring uh I thought that the salary schedule that I had you approve for this current year uh was already at what the new minimum wage would be uh in January um well okay surprise surprise it wasn't uh and so um so we find ourselves in this position uh to to bring this up um I'm never willing to just increase uh step one box one sell one on the chart to meet that uh if we're going to if we're going to increase minimum wage then we need to do so across the board so um uh so you can see the entire everything on here has been uh every cell has been increased by 10 cents to reflect that because we had already increased uh uh above that be before why is number or line four or column four why is it highlighted uh because we want to uh we kind of want to emphasize bus driver positions in those uh those situations understand that any questions for our superintendent I need a motion then to revise the classified salary schedule to comply with the minimum wage beginning July or excuse me J January 1st 2024 Madame President I make a motion that we accept this revised uh classified salary schedule to apply to the change in the minimum wage effective 1124 I'll second that motion all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rush I Bari I reading ahead change uh item 8.7 change principal secretary's positions from hourly to salary beginning 1st of January 2024 Madam president and board members um principal secretaries were uh on that salary schedule that you've seen have been on there um but we also have uh at least two of our principal secretaries who are already salaried um and their work schedules are such that um paying them hour hourly is just not the best thing so they had asked me to consider U moving all of them to salaried positions um and um and they made a good case for that and I think it was an appropriate thing to do and the timing works because we're making this change anyway so uh uh what I'd like to do is have them um then it becomes a a daily rate based on uh it's it's based on what that hourly rate would be that's on the salary schedule um but it becomes a daily rate and um uh and based on what the annual rate would be so when I come to you in the spring with the salary schedule so like the one you just looked at uh the teacher salary schedule the uh other professional salary schedule which is principes and coaches and those folks I will also have uh two more salary schedules for you to consider one for the secretaries and uh and then well several actually uh but actual uh salary schedules for a number of our classified folks who don't fall on that um that classified schedule so some folks who are already on Sal salary for instance uh James mcnut as the Director of of Technology um Mark Scott who's the director of facilities and uh our um our homeless coordinator and and those folks so that instead of it being an hourly we're paying them hourly it will be an annual salary so we're moving uh in that direction and then it won't matter what their work calendar looks like so for instance um site secretaries um their their work agreement is 19920 hourss a year the way the calendar works sometimes that's going to be 223 days like this year sometimes that might be 225 days so the daily rate would adjust based on the number of days but but the salary for the year would stay the same so you know or increase as as needed so uh this is a step toward what uh what we're going to be proposing for next year and this would then move them to would be the same based on the based on the same hourly rate they're paid right now but be paid by the day for the number of days left in their calendar for this year and um and actually for most of them working it out there's a very besides the 10 cents there's a very slight increase because I wanted to move to some round numbers so that we didn't have things like $3 36,42 you know so um that kind of thing it cleans it up always thought they should be cerated anyway yes do I have a motion to approve um putting the principal secretaries on salary as a salary position I make starting January 1st I make a motion we change the uh Principal Secret AR's uh position to a salary position beginning January 1st 2024 from hourly I'll second that motion all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon I barbariki I shella Bernett okay we're this is item 8.8 asba policy advisory 748 to 762 there's a lot of them not as many as last last year that's true I think we had double this number last year um Madame President and board members these are uh recommended changes in policies based on uh legal changes that were made by the legislature during the last session and um uh when you look at them sometimes it's one or two sentences sometimes it's more than that and this year it seems to be pretty much just the one or two sentences and those kinds of things um and I've only put in front of you the ones that apply to our district uh for instance since there is one policy that change uh that the recomend has a recommended change um but it only applies to school districts with fewer than 600 students doesn't mean we so we don't need to change our policy the policy can stay the way it is so it's not on this list um so these are these are all based on changes in the state law and it is first reading so uh you have time to uh peruse them before next month okay good so we'll let that go item 8.9 discussion and possible action regarding a joint resolution expressing concern and disapproval regarding the recent uh executive director appointment process conducted by the Executive Board of the Arizona schools boards Association I ask that this be put on the agenda because originally I was part of it um I saw what was coming down and what how the vote was going and how the the room was divided and I basically said I can't do this so I immediately quit I immediately took my name off the list so I'm no longer um an executive board member but basically um this is explained just like it happened uh I came in and I talked talk to do Dr Stewart about about this and explain to her why I had taken my name from the the role and um I think that this is pretty much what I told you um this came to me from um these these 22 past presidents for the executive board then they have seen this happen and they they're concerned and I am concerned about where asba is headed Integrity To Me is everything is is one of the most important things honesty is one of the most important things you can do as a human you can make a lot of mistakes but at least if you're honest about the mistake it's okay you know we can get by it this is not an honest mistake um they've got proof that this guy did not have this does not have this degree and he needs that degree to be for that position yeah he doesn't have the credentials or anything that he said he did um Madam president I'm not sure that he has to have a degree to be the executive director I'm not sure I don't know what was in the job description or in the qualifications the J he had to have a degree okay for this he didn't have to have a degree for his prior okay so but I think part of the point here is whether if that you know whether that was was listed as one of the qualifications or not I think from my reading of the letter from the 22 presidents is the fact that that he uh did not tell the truth yeah the real issue is the false is the dishonesty yeah yeah and his story changed several times and so what what the 22 presidents past presidents did is they came up with a um um resolution yeah a joint resolution there it is joint resolution thank you uh concerning this and so excuse me what I'd like to do what I'd like to propose is that we um basically approve of this and take action on it and and then send it to the appropriate people would that mean we're basically doing the same thing we're just just writing our own we're we're supporting Pima County and other places have done this for the same reason right um honesty out there in front um and that's what this is U Madam president if I might add um part of part of what is said in the letter that came to you all um is the fact that the 22 former presidents have have gone to the Constitution and bylaws of asba and it authorizes in in with certain stipulations that the membership of asba because of course the asba is literally owned by the districts that uh that are members you know it's a client membership thing um and that the bylaws allow for the membership to call for a special meeting to discuss these things with a certain number uh of of of um member districts making that request so this resolution uh came to you as a board um to say you know will you be one of the client members who uh who support having this special meeting that's really what the resolution boils down to and I say that partly to help the audience and the public understand what it is you all are considering not that you don't understand but I think the public you know probably wonders what is this all about Cass can you go up to the top so we can make a motion I'm just to make sure yeah so basically we're just adopting it so I make a motion to adopt the joint resolution expressing concern and disapproval regarding the recent executive director appointment process conducted by the executive board of the Arizona school boards Association I second it all those in favor I Melinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rush I barbariki I Shila Barnett okay thank you for that 8.10 governing board self survey we were all given a copy of this and one of us failed to read her email but we won't mention any names Charlene what can I say but she she uh basically has indicated to us that she AG she's in agreement with basically what's going um Can the people see this can you show you I we don't have it loaded up oh we don't okay no [Music] um can we give a copy of these to that's your choice would you guys like to see this can you pull it up you can pull it up oh okay even though we didn't have if you'd like yeah I think people need to see that we we we' figured out where we need to go from here this was a survey that went out um via email and there were like 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 questions that we had to answer and um first question was this one and obviously we all kind of agreed that we we try do everything as professionally as possible and the next one is still um that's very much professionalism yeah I think I think we don't get into hot water until we get to I wouldn't even call it hot water then no no keep going keep going there here's our first one um next PA the efforts basically I think that we're taking care of this starting tomorrow because we have um would you like to explain what we're going what's happening tomorrow well tomorrow is the second uh meeting of um a fairly large committee 20 28 or 29 folks uh school district and Community folks uh for strategic planning so uh in June uh that group met to uh uh first of all celebrate some things some points of some points of Pride and then areas of need uh to be addressed by the district and uh tomorrow's meeting will uh involve that same group of folks um then prioritizing identifying the the areas of need that that you know that they really feel need to be addressed uh and prioritizing them and then writing smart goals uh for two or three in each of those areas if if that's what they choose to do so it'll break into small into subcommittees to to be addressing those kinds of things and then after we've done all that stuff stuff and then you have a plan then we have a plan we're going to publish that plan yes absolutely publish the plan and um just that process helps with this item for you agreed so I think that I think we are working on that yes definitely um can you go on back down to the one there you go here's here's one this is big in red yeah um we do have a problem with with learning new names and learning about new personnel and we always see lists of people and we always see that kind of thing I'm just wondering and this a a possible solution what would happen if Dr Stewart were to invite the new hires to meet with us for five or 10 minutes before a board meeting just to shake hands MH so we at least look them in the eye and say okay welcome name to a face um and then when maybe when we pass them in the grocery store they'll recognize us or we'll recognize them and we'll be able to say something was that would would you think that would be a start to to correcting this yes defitely because we don't get and when we get out into school sometimes I've noticed that we wear a hat we wear a Schoolboard hat and people are nice to us they're kind to us but um you don't really get to know them where a 10-minute session of shaking hands might be just what we need MH and I think there's just I was one of the ones who said we needed Improvement and it's more my for myself as a member of the board not necessarily the board of myself going out to the schools and actually meeting the people and actually looking them in the eye hey we're here for you and this is why I'm doing this kind I'm one of the red people I'm one of the red people and I cuz I basically and I get out to the schools but I still don't know enough people Unfortunately they change which makes it hard but but you think it's a possibility absolutely yeah I think that would be really nice now another uh possible idea is when they have an all district professional development day that we are able to come to the meeting and meet the teachers at that time too and stuff come during the the morning breakfast type area or time you know and make sure that we get the M&M so that they always get you got it okay I can do that thank you for that suggestion Barb can you go to the next H there we go we I I feel that we get these periodic re reports but somebody doesn't well we get the reports but the periodic visitations to the schools I think that's that that was a part that threw it off us because we do get the reports all the time but we never get out and really visit the schools and stuff so that was personal thing for me I need I need to do that so Dr Stewart Carolyn um was actually doing this a little bit when she was asking people to come in and do reports yeah cuz I can remember saying tell me a story tell me a story and that's that's basically I think what she was doing here we might want to continue that oh absolutely and what you had in Workshop tonight is even though I didn't know what you all had done here but that's part of it is you need to know as a board you need to have some information about what what it is we're doing to get to the place we want to be and that was one reason that I asked Kevin to come um you know you didn't need to hear his information from me you needed to hear it from him because it's you know his his good stuff so I anticipate asking him uh to come back after that next riger walk um and and show you what the chart looks like then those charts look like after you know a few more months so I think that's but I also appreciate Dr Sheila's comment about you know that you recognize that this is not something you're asking the schools to do or principals or teachers or me to do this is something you're recognizing for yourself and and I will tell you that our employees um uh will appreciate um that uhu that self-reflection from you now Dr Stuart how could we um like Kevin brought up you know come over go over and observe a walkthrough the principles just calling the principles inste arrange it with arrange it with the princip princi and we can go that was my next question yeah arrange with the principal okay um they're doing they're doing walks a lot on you know on their own not just when IE is here although I is here a lot but um uh you know it's part of their part of their growth to be out doing those things themselves and um uh yeah just arrange with them okay thank you okay any other suggestions on that one M getting into school is okay it's just getting your behind in in the car and getting there yes um again this goes back to tomorrow yeah uh we have several Community people and of you know in positions in the community um and there they are going to be talking somewhat about the well part of it is the instructional program absolutely because it's on that it's on that list do we we have any other way that the the community can talk to us other than email that we get in this case um each each site has a site Council and so those are parents who are U you know who are meeting at least quarterly uh with the with the principal and some of the teachers and and part of that discussion part of that is the opportunity for principles to be sharing with parents and and with community members uh what those programs are um and um so so some of your feeling of responsibility about that actually kind of devolves to the to the site level um uh you know because for you all to be able to even you could be asking parents and community members for lots of input but I don't know how comfortable you would feel if they said well talk about the social studies Comm uh social studies instructional program at uh at the middle school at sixth grade level um I will tell you even I would have difficulty doing that without a little homework U because really you're talking about the expectation that you would be able to answer questions about literally every subject we teach at every grade level so um I think maybe in this case instructional program might Focus Less on the curriculum and more on what you were hearing from uh what you were hearing from Kevin tonight which is about how we how we teach students and I think also the goal that you all have that we're working on which is the grading is we're really going to need your support and your um uh explanation and and your um growing knowledge once that revised grading system is presented to you for approval for you to be able to knowledgeably speak about that to the public because grades abcdf has been ingrained in in all of us for you know over 100 years and to be making some some changes in that even minor changes in that um requires some selling if you will um certainly some explanation and and why and those kinds of things so that's going to be a really important piece for you as a board and as board members to be able to uh reach out to families okay uh the next one is Community Information we talk about this almost at every meeting yeah uh and you know just explaining the the voucher thing to me tonight should have helped anybody who was listening to understand that that they do are connected and that how they work um I don't know how we would inform the community about that stuff if they weren't listening or at a meeting well we certainly could do some workshops I there was a very well-written letter to the editor recently about uh you know poor salaries and and those things and specifically mentioned our district um and uh the letter was very well written and the information in it was accurate as far as it went um but it also pointed out that um there's a real need for what I've called to you when when I've presented things to you all in the past U school Finance 101 and you know some understanding that um because the the person for instance in that letter said you know the board determines the budget and and determines how it gets spent which is the truth except that you don't really determine the budget um uh the state says here's your pot of money you know here's what you get period and uh and then what you and I do is we decide okay how can we get the most how can we get the most bang out of that out of the Bucks in that bucket and um uh so you know sometimes helping people understand um maybe at some point offering a offering a you know a town hall for Budget relative to how budgeting Works um and and not making it boring but helping people understand so uh if you recall in one of our conversations not too many months ago uh where I where I showed you a chart that showed the difference in uh the spending in different school districts where districts like ours just can we just man we do what we need to do with m& with the with the state money and the you know the tax money and our grants but that there are districts that have four times that amount of money that they can that they can budget and use for things because they can do overrides they can pass override tax overrides in their Community or bonds or those kinds of things uh Lance sent in his daily um uh daily news items to uh Jen and me today an article 45 of the 58 school districts in Maricopa County have at least one override in place because they are property Rich districts and their voters support those and and so overrides can be used for things like increased salary schedules um you know for those things that are not fixed costs or they can use them for capital projects um uh we have we have another Plumbing project at the middle school that has to be done has to be done um Mark estimates it's going to be 50,000 okay now in the scheme of in the scheme of our combined M and capital budgets of roughly million 50,000 doesn't sound like a lot U but it's not necessarily been budgeted right you know it's it's not like 6 months ago I knew that we were going to have to have this $50,000 project and it's not the kind of thing that we can submit to sfob it's because the campus is old old okay it's 50 years old and uh um and so we can anticipate that those things are going to start happening in you know particularly the older the facility is so in that article that Lance shared today a couple of those districts were talking about they're asking for a second override okay they already have one in place they're having on the ballot a second override for capital capital projects and why are they having to do that well because sfob doesn't have the money and to you know to to help them fix things so that's just an example and it's the kind of thing that the general public doesn't know um and and and they don't probably don't know never mind can't don't think about the fact that we are not a property Rich District it would be highly unlikely that we could pass an override um which is one reason we don't even try um uh you know if if you if you have a pretty good idea going in that it would be 7030 no kind of difficult to justify doing that to waste the money and time to do it so U so you know uh but that's helpful for people to know um so you know that's just one example and it just happened to be an article today and um of course it's the kind of article that Ruffles my feathers because I you know I keep thinking but we have kids in need and and not that those districts don't have kids in needs don't get me wrong but that you know that there's only so much we can do well maybe we should look at the Town Hall then so you know I can I can still remember the one we did back a couple of years ago where you did the marbles and stuff and I mean that that just brought it to life where people could you know having been in education for all my for 40 years plus you know now it it brought it to life cuz you know I've heard about the MOs and I I I knew there was restricted budgets but watching you do the marble thing it really brought it to life so that you know the audience and the general public could see exactly what we're going through and stuff and I think it help would help thanks Barb for that I I appreciate it those marbles are sitting on my table they're they're there ready for me to use anytime somebody comes in to talk to me about these things um um but um but the real message there is you all don't get to decide how many marbles are in that are in that bucket we just get to help you figure out where to put the marbles exactly how to how to you know how to how to use those marbles but um and and I think that's a I think that's a critical piece too okay maybe a town H [Music] um some of our priorities yeah here you go more qualified teachers I think every all three of these list the more qualified teachers certified teachers more staff how to keep the staff how to um I think that we're all there and we have talked about low test scores and what was the other one um no go back up there Cassy thank you um greatting system you we've talked about that lack of community involvement and leading to negative Community statements thoughts Etc that was me I our community and this goes back to to them being informed about funding and whatnot probably going to get in trouble for saying this but they don't come to the meetings where are they but yet they have all these negative comments on Facebook and negative comments of people just oh you're on the School Board where are they so that's what I mean by that there's there's no Community involvement but yet they want to complain so I don't know how we fix that the town hall I think would be a really great first step but we can't fix things we can't explain things to them or show them things if they're not here so the lack of the community involvement even parental involvement concerns me you you know when my kids were growing up this place would have been full and we only had about 1 1200 kids in the school from K to 12 and it would have been full and we don't have that here and we have how many students 22 200,000 yeah maybe if we got Fred to dress up in a funny hat or something a red notse I just had a carnival theme I've got all kinds of really cool cost so um you've got you got a real point I think Fred inviting some of your friends to come is a good way too the more people the more people who come and learn things and go out and say things yes uh somebody used the example uh the the metaphor for me the other day and said it's like the ants you know one ant goes and finds the food source and then takes that information back and then brings the ants so it's kind of like that you know if if each one bring one then when those folks go out they're more informed and and um you know can can share the information the proper correct information yes that's my biggest thing I did and obviously have learned so much in the last six months to a year but people aren't people are people are that's what they are but if there was some way like to offer them that incentive to come and help us we we want the help as much as as they're complaining about things we want them to come complain to us so we know how to fix it yeah or we at least have an idea of the needs that they're seeing that we might not see I don't have children in school anymore right and I'm in a whole totally different state than where I went you know my kids went to school come tell us and I think the flip side of that Sheila is is um that they find out that maybe what they think is a problem isn't you know they share with us what they what they think are problems and if they are then we can work on things we can't fix things we don't know about right exactly you we can't fix things we don't know are broken the flip side of that is is letting them know that some of the things that they think are broken maybe maybe are not broken or aren't are like the whole state funding thing A lot of people do not realize that whole state funding thing and they think that we're withholding funding for these kids we just don't have it we're not withholding it right okay um going down a little bit listing any weakness I think that when we bring something to our superintendent it gets fixed yes one way or another or explained yeah you know most definitely so thank you for doing that significant things oh my gosh trans who who put this one in transactions with the cities I did yeah I had forgotten completely about that thank you Fred that was thank Dr Stewart yeah right um we I hope the city doesn't realize how much we won um don't tell them yeah no we haven't signed the papers yet uh I I think that you know we we added the den project we've added a a child child care center um we've changed the carpeting out we've fixed the plumbing we've done all sorts of stuff to make things safer and I appreciate that and the the school district is really trying to to do the right thing and I think that we're part of that so absolutely be um you're giving yourself some pets on the back um is this something that would be good to publish somewhere that's up to you how do you guys feel about it doing what publishing it letting people know that we do a self evaluation that we we actually talk about things that need to be done it could go on the web page there's a there's a governing board web page mhm I think that might I think it' be a great idea I don't think yeah and there wouldn't be any expense involved that's right we definitely didn't say 100% for everything we at least tried to be as honest with ourselves as we could make we can make that happen and make sure that you mentioned that Charlene didn't turn how about how about she gets a chance to add her her add hers before Cassie sends it off to the web page I think that's not fun okay yeah that's probably the best thing to do okay if I can find the email you want to resend that to me [Laughter] Cass okay let me make sure I'm on the right thing um 9.1 future topics do we have anything that we'd like to have on the agenda for next time or in the future maybe just coming up with ideas of everything that we discussed in the survey maybe just revisiting now that we kind of know what we think maybe coming up with some ideas of how we can improve ourselves if we don't if we don't have um a real important thing to do in the workshop that might be just sitting here and brainstorming a brainstorm Workshop would be good thank you cila that's a good idea ah oh my gosh upcoming board events well our next meeting is November 9 is everybody going to be able to be here no I will not be able to be what's November 9th you won't I'm going to be up in page quitting my little finger anybody else not going to be here no I'm good I'll be here I'm looking Barb you could call in if you wanted to be at the meeting I'll be busy making a pen cushion at that time okay I'm good all right so we'll have a quorum so we we're good for November 9th okay um I guess that's we have a ground breaking tomorrow or noay Monday Monday ground breaking on Monday Monday at 1:00 and it's up by where you live great yes it's um uh yeah you turn off Silver Creek on Corona Vista there by the uh by the dentist office okay okay if you know where just before diamond in son yes okay Lance said a really nice email you want to look at the map I printed it out there's a map I'm a map person and we have and we have uh we have actually cast tried to contact all of the owners of the vacant Lots nearby for parking actually had a nice conversation with uh one owner and then Larry tforce owns a vacant lot on Corona Vista that's about about the same distance from our property and and people can park there as well because there really is not room to park on the street and um and the property is not particularly accessible by cars we we have a clear enough place to have the tent and they have the groundbreaking but there's not really a good way to to drive up on the property yet okay so yeah so a a block block and a half walk comfy shoes tennis shoes yeah yeah that looks good no 9.3 we set the time in place it's here um and then I you should have also gotten information about the asba uh annual conference uh if you want to look over the agenda and if not Cass can send it to you to see if it's something that you're interested in so to attend okay I have a h choir concert those two yeah we both do or all three of us do excuse me there's another one down there that is is true that's what is the dates yes I'm 7th of December that's our Christmas I guess I'm not going I was thinking about going but I guess not no you're for those nice oh I already have it on my calendar so you must have somewhere known that we were doing that what voices of the river no the conference no you your two voices I told you I have to do everything six months to a year in advance so when I know there's something there I just block it off good for you well you can go and then report back to us I probably could yeah I don't see any reason why I can't planning and zoning is that night are you going to Planning and Zoning that night no she's singing in the choir too that night so we may have to let them know how a time there might not be a quum for that um anything else for the good of the order okay can I have a a motion to adjourn this meeting I make a motion we adjourn the meeting I'll second that motion all those in favor I'm Alinda saski I Charlene Diaz I Fred rushon I Barb ziki I Sheila Barnett we are [Music] adjourned [Music]

co.gov where you can all of these are hyperlink and you can open up and it opens up a whole cache of amazing resources about many tribes tribal bands and Nations and pausing to see what is it that they name so far and then we were diving into some vocabulary pretty deeply so you can see the Universal Design is in multiple options of how they engaged with this is it in text is it in video are they speaking about it are they typing about it are they writing about it and then we went on the actual field trip right coordinator for state and federal so now yes we mentioned we took 45 students um they had a chance to partake in the 56th annual Native American day in Sacramento they witnessed the flag ceremony of various Northern tribes in California they learned about music oops they learned about food and other clothing uh how the clothing was made and much more they heard from local dignitary elected officials education leaders the event featured various tribal organizations federal agencies offered arts and crafts and other cultural experiences for all the attendant of whom these were our students that partook in many of these experiences these are some of the photos and some of the activities in some of the quotes we had a student said that this field trip was actually fun uh she said because the trip was long however it was a long drive U bus a fun bus drive I'm just kind of um paraphrasing here one thing that this student learned sorry I can't see this over second please thank you my field trip is actually fun because the trip is long and they're a Native American people one thing I learned about is that there're are that there is a shop and they sell lots of stuff there were so many incredible artists there second I witnessed Native American dancing and traditional music lastly the food was great I really had a great time from an eighth grade at tie on perfect thank you and now uh one of the program staff from thing together also shared their experience they said that the trip was amazing um it was an experience for for the for the staff and also for students they all loved everything from the nice fancy bus and the SM drive to all different creative booths who of different culture some quotes from other students were this is cool and we need to come back next year and that was from Shaya Silva program leader and now speaking of next year the learning didn't stop at the field trip they continue to um learn about various uh Native American people we have developed continued lesson plans some of for example um missw has shared earlier uh about the landing management but what is it what does it look like and how is it going to look like in our after school space and also in the school day so they're having continued conversations on how they can bring the tribes culture and customs to our schools and in the after school space and as we head into next month's um next month being Native American heritage month we will continue to celebrate and recognize indigenous people past and present and we will rededicate ourselves to honor honor tribal sorry to honor tribal sovereignty we hope to seek board resolutions next year for Native American day and orange shirt day also offer resources for classroom lessons and activities thank you so much thank you very much and hope to expand on this uh experience next year and either take more students or just kind of bring the lessons into the after school space um as a part of the expansion of the schol B thank you thank you so much so I'll open 3.01 the public comment all righty seeing none I'll open the questions and comments by members of the board uh vice president herrer Lera thank you board president uh thank you so much for that wonderful presentation I was bummed when I saw the date I was like oh I want to go and I was like I can't but next year hopefully I'm able to join you all um as a WEA myself indigenous person of the Americas uh of a region knows known as SAS Mexico um you know I I actually uh participated in land acknowledgement today with our sister Julie Dominguez from the mo Malone and it's very important to me I mean um it's it's you know and not to go through the whole history plan right but regaining who we are as indigenous people um in our entirety right um and so I look forward to continuing to support uh you know field trips like this and um as a trustee I'd like to you know meet with you all or one of you to uh discuss a resolution for you know next year um and I look forward to continuing to support yeah our school district in this thank you I see trusty Flor Shelton um thank you and thank you for your leadership and jumping on this and it's exciting to see our new um are we calling it EDI coordinator okay our new EDI coordinator in action so Wyatt welcome and um great way to jump into all of this um you know our resident expert on um the indigenous Community as well as land acknowledgement I saw uh trusty UHA Loretta in action today and I'm always grounded um when we do um we just grounded in the tradition and the ritual and and so I really am kind of interested in How We Do incorporate it um the Pledge of Allegiance is very important but so is sort of taking the land of knowledgement maybe to another level so I am interested it seemed like you were kind of thinking about that as another level so I really do support um how we embed this into our classroom culture um because I think that's where you know we can do the talk but now we have to walk the walk right so um really supportive of that and I just also want to share um you know my father's um family we come from the southwest where New Mexican which you know is just a baby state right it was only became a state in 1912 but you know it is the land of the Apache right we um my dad grew up very close to the Mescalero Apache reservation and um my dad's dad side comes from um Chihuahua and so you know there's always this talk of we are Pablo we are we are Apache we are t ma and so you know the story is right and that's these are the stories they just get passed down so I've always been very um close to you know the southwestern culture people and I'm just always reminded what we missed when we were growing up you know growing up in San Jose you know you didn't really that was the 70s and 80s was kind of a a time of kind of suppression and not really a lot of of movement here again there might have been I just was not connected to it my family and just think about even my own kids who are not that old but there was not this ethnic studies um movement so it's just so powerful and wonderful that we are taking these steps as late as it feels right we are ready to take these steps um for our current kids and our future Generations so so exciting and again thank you for your leadership and moving this forward and I have that feeling from 45 kids you know it'll be 90 kids next and and we'll keep doing it the alrock way so thank you okay uh trusty Chavez I'm glad to hear that everybody had fun and that you guys want to do it again and the good thing is is all 45 came back good job you know uh I'll wrap up what you know I I want to you know thank state and federal and miss Wyatt for uh uh the for the field trip uh the state capital uh you know is has a has a place in my heart having worked in the state capital so uh I'm glad that our children had a great opportunity to uh to celebrate Native American day and Indigenous people's day and uh in you know the the great for the great for of the Californian people people uh and you know as I said you know it's uh I you know besides learning about history I think it's a wonderful uh handson lesson and cpic engagement and uh again I hope that all 45 of our students had a great time in Sacramento and I hope that uh you know uh more will come in more will come to Sacramento in years to come so with that thank you again thank you so much and now move to item 3.02 uh presentation learning communities for school Success program this item is information only so uh you know I I wanted to preface this uh you know uh Dr or to thank Dr artiguez for her work in securing a million dooll grant that enables us to you know do these things and this is what I mean about uh finding more resources for our children so with that I will give floor to Dr artigas you can just give us a quick oh yes on I know isn't that the story of our lives whatever happened to the old what it slide projector know I was in I was in Middle School and we last use a slide projector in seventh grade are you know when you saw slides of the the great pains in you know art class and it's like and they were Kodak slides some of us went back to the Blackboard okay don't judge me on the number of emails I have I promise you I've read them all while we're waiting yeah say something I'll say something thank you so much for president president for the warm welcome I really appreciate it um so good evening uh sorry board president fam good evening uh bo of Trustees Dr Bower and Alam Rock Community uh my name is Dr Ana artez and I'm the proud director of the social emotional learning Department uh and tonight I will be sharing our annual report for the learning community's for school Success program as well as talking to you a little bit about what we've done uh as a department with our Wonder counselors that are working with kids every day so so we're going to talk a little bit about the background uh and then we're going to talk about the annual progress for this last year as well as budget expenditures uh the fact that we got renewed we are going to be cohort 7 uh so we got renewed for another three years to bring more seal to schools as well as restorative practices um and then also I wanted to make sure that you heard student voice so we have some testimonials from children that have been able to really benefit from the kis program as well as teachers so a little bit about lcsp uh we were uh granted this about three years ago and it gave us the opportunity actually to begin to build oural Department uh and so historically where it came from was Proposition 47 and its intention was to make sure that there was a reduction in recidivism as well as make sure that we were keeping students in school and addressing chronic absenteeism uh and so the goals were to find and support evidence-based ways uh in terms of non-punitive ways in terms of uh building practices to really work with our students uh and also uh to make sure that it was aligned with our uh elcap goals and so what we're looking at is the total award was a a little over a million dollars uh we had year one year two and year three and like I said uh we are really blessed and we got uh extended for another three years and so this is all of the things we've been able to do and build since we've uh received the funding and become a department we've been able to continue expanding mtss so for those of you who are may not be familiar mts's s's multi-tiered systems of support it gives us the ability to expand service and support not just for children but also for our families as well as our staff uh it helps us to look at them from a tiered system uh so that we can make sure that the services and supports that are coming in are appropriately leveled for what they need um and in terms of that we uh also were able to work closely this last year with our school administrator Roundtable uh and focused on really giving them some exposure to mtss as well as seal uh we conducted resource mapping which resulted in the development of the arud or arusd resource map uh which at some point in time I'd love to show you but it needs to not be done on a big screen because it's really difficult to navigate uh and so we are now utilizing that map to conduct Gap analysis so that as we build towards our community schools which you'll hear about later on we're able to really ensure that what we're bringing in is what's been missing from our different communities um we also developed and implemented Wellness Wednesday workshops we started that last year by introducing kimoi running restorative circles uh and teaching parents how to work with their children when they were in distress uh and we did a little work around diabetes management and hypertension management as well uh we actually just had uh one yesterday and it was at aptitude we're going to try to rotate through schools and yesterday's was focused on uh violence prevention domestic violence prevention and intimate partner um violence preven ition uh and so that was offered in English and Spanish as well as Vietnamese uh we also developed and implemented our newsletter so every month we're sending something out and we focus on uh one one point of Wellness so this last one we sent out was about domestic violence about how to get help here resources and phone numbers the next one for this upcoming month is going to be all around diabetes because it's diabetes Awareness Month uh next month um and then we also have been able to uh provide districtwide accessibility to social emotional learning programming so we have kochis uh we have Sky schools uh and we have restorative practices that we've done uh through seeds and then we also have uh one that we're looking to partner with a little bit more which is zwn to grow uh and so these are some of the things that we've been able to bring to the schools through this funding we've also been able to make sure that we're providing the Frontline folks with with ongoing support So Aaliyah has doing a lot of uh trauma informed practice and Workforce resiliency with our staff they started off last year by working with school counselors and Community Liaisons uh but they've also started to work with our different departments because one of the things that we really deeply understand is that everyone's been impacted by what's been happening the last several years and sometimes what people need is space right they need space to be held for them so that they they can uh move forward and continue to do what they do for kids every day uh and we also have our monthly school counselor plc's and again this has all been funded through um BL uh Blended and braided funds right so this is a a mixture of the lcsp funding uh as well as outc cap funding and uh crisis response uh this last couple of years we were able to really work and mobilize a rotation of counsel when we needed them at our schools and uh I can't begin to tell you I how much that really meant uh as a former school counselor and also as a former School administrator when there's a crisis at a school one of the things that you need is that support right and you need to know that it's built in and so we were able to actually provide that support uh and I think it was integral to a moving people forward uh this summer we were able to do ki training we did it last summer as well as this summer uh and so we're continuing to expand uh the number of people that are learning how to use this and bring this into the TK to five classrooms and continued Partnerships and expanded uh to conduct Wellness checks not just for our fifth graders but also our sixth graders so last the year before we just worked with fifth grade this year we worked with fifth and sixth because we wanted to see what the data look like for our kids from last year to this year right we were trying to uh make sure that we're looking at data from from a longtitudinal perspective so expenditures uh staff salary uh extended Duty and so extended Duty that is particular in particular for folks that took advantage of the different trainings we provided the Kochi training uh when there were seeds training so that extended Duty was given to teachers and other certificated staff um and then professional development as I said uh all of these different groups that you see represented here have provided some level of professional development to staff as well as families uh I know that Sky schools uh has really worked a lot with not just staff but also brought families into it into the work uh their focus specifically is around uh teaching mindfulness and uh teaching a little bit of yoga with some breathing strategies and it's really helped students at the various schools that they've been at uh the other thing that it's been spent on has been materials and supplies contracted servic as well as licenses so as I said earlier we've been awarded a three uh additional years uh and it's going to give us the ability to really give even more access uh and uh just really build and develop more uh and we are also uh well I'm gonna say Kristen BD's doing this part uh she's working with Ned from kis because we're going to establish an AR USD portal so our teachers can go directly to it um the other piece too that we're going to be doing with this is we're going to be bringing in a child welfare and attendance person uh to work out of student services because one of the things that we really want to make sure we understand is what is getting in the way of our kids getting to school right the more that we know you know the depth that we begin to understand it from the more able we are to support our kids uh and then so to grow we want to uh this year we're going to be expanding pilot across uh four four to five additional schools um this program has a capacity to serve from TK all the way to 8th grade uh and for right now we're going to be expanding it across the majority of the middle schools just real quick yes expanding from what to so right now Sant is only at one school that's at Shephard so this year we are moving it to Shephard George Renaissance at Fisher hubard Renaissance at Madson did I say Okala in Okala yes so we're trying to expand it across uh all the middle schools and a couple of the Kates thank you so here are testimon uh there's nothing cter than this like I I can't yeah I can't compete with this so on the left side uh uh Miss roacha who is our counselor out at dorsa worked with her kids and she asked them to you know write testimonials about why they really felt kimochis were important um and so this one on the side was written by one of our third graders and he decided to draw a hero so hero actually is the Kimi uh that we use when children are dealing with grief and Moss uh and they feel a deep connection because hero even if he's really struggling is always trying to find a way to be brave right and so um this is the picture there and then this little one is one of our kiddos from Linda Vista uh and Miss Palomo uh who is our counselor out there does a lot of work uh with our kids to really get them comfortable with the CI giving them opportunities to really Express themselves if you take a look at her little hand in her little hand there's a little uh feeling that's what those are those so those are feelings so what you'll see is there's a face on one side and if you turn it over there's the feeling written on the other side and so often times what our counselors are doing are you know having the kids choose which feelings they're feeling and then they put it inside the Ki and then they allow the Kochi to talk for them about why they might be feeling that way so it's really given us an opportunity to build our kids' ability to tell us you know how they're feeling and and why they may be feeling like that and I feel like uh counseling has become a richer thing uh in the elementary schools because we have access to such good content so here's the testimonials so I like kimis because they show you how to treat someone and show a lot of infection and emotions I like kimis because we can share our feelings I like learning about kimis because they helping solve problems and they are cute I like KES because it teaches me about feelings and how to handle them I like kimes because they have feelings that we have I like Kim because they teach me how to be kind I like kimis because they always solve problems together also they do teamwork a way Kimi has helped me is knowing I can say sorry in a more nice way a way Kimi has helped me communicate more in the not fighting way kimis has helped me by saying it's okay to be mad but it's not okay to be [Music] mean how kimis has helped me is by helping me calm down focus and last but not least I like kimis because it shows us how to become nice and like I said um you know when we're talking about kochis and we're talking about this curriculum it hasn't just impacted the students I think you know it's given teachers a way to also have conversations around emotions I think emotions are complicated right whether you're a child or or an adult and so it's given them you know a proxy also that they can use to talk to the the kids about emotions uh and so these are some testimonials from some of the teachers uh particularly Russo mckinty so thank you so much Russo Macky for that um and so I'll just give you like a minute or so to just kind of read through these and this was a little bit about St to grow so like I said uh at this point in time the school that's been using it with Fidelity over the last several years has been Ram shepher um and the team put this together these were some of the the results that they've had uh in terms of what is begin to look like for kids and so if you take a look at the top right what you'll see is what kids see what once a week for 15 minutes slot the kids stop you know they they start their day with their teacher by going on this and basically telling their teacher how they feel right so if a student clicks on very sad emoji or a sad emoji or an angry Emoji it gives them a prompt to tell their teacher about their week this gives teachers uh immediate opportunity to give kids feedback and if a student is clicking on this consecutively then it also alerts the counselor and the counselor is able to check in with a student so you know like I said they've uh really liked utilizing this program uh and another piece of this program is if there's something that's presenting that's kind of a pattern across the grade level for students there's actually lessons that are tied to it as well that they can bring into the space to begin to address it so uh I wanted to talk a little bit about our counselors uh in our counseling services so we're going to talk a little bit about the demographics of the students that we served uh total number we served uh and then how many were unduplicated we're going to talk about some of the themes that we found uh and then we're also going to talk about our ress checks but I would be remiss if I didn't take a moment to thank all of these people because these people make it happen every day um these people all of the work that they do they do it with heart and they do it from the heart because honestly you know being an educ everything has to be from heart uh and I feel like you know school counselors maybe have just a little bit extra it could be a little biased who knows but like I said I just wanted to do a shout out and thank them so much because they're an amazing team uh and they yeah they've done great work yep especially our former director who's in that picture at the time okay so what have we done uh we we have given individual counseling we've done small group counseling to focus on different things like social skill issues uh behavior management uh um emotional disregulation uh We've also done crisis response and intervention as well as guidance lessons uh you know on any given day you can walk into one of our TK to fs and we'll most likely see a counselor pushing into a classroom doing a guidance lesson with kimuchi or maybe doing one on how to be a good friend um they've done individual counseling they've done it around personal counseling academic and College and Career uh small group counseling as well focused on conflict resolution communication like I said earlier social skills one of the ones that's been uh really uh necessary across our schools has been around grief and loss because a lot of our kids uh dealt with a lot of grief and loss even coming back from the pandemic and then transition to middle school as well as transition to high school and then like I said in terms of the guidance lessons those are some of the guidance lessons that they've done but I'm going to tell you there's a list and it's ever gr because every day they're finding something else they want the kids to know and understand and they're building it out and bringing it into the classrooms so what did we do so there's 8,9 last year there were 8,094 students we served 83% of those kids we serve 6,743 students with either individual counsel small group counseling Wellness checks or guidance lessons of the 6,743 students that we served 85% of them were unduplicated so these were kidds who had identifiers of uh El or ell which is English language number a foster youth mckin vento uh social economic status uh or sped this is what we found uh we've been starting to collect data to just really get an understanding of what's happening for our kids this year what we found uh that students were struggling with the most was emotional disregulation um and it was resulting in things uh such as kids crying uncontrollably or experiencing really overwhelming emotions that they didn't know what to do with or kids Feeling Just disconnected and disassociated um and so uh that's something that our counselors have been working really hard to address in the classrooms that's why so many guidance lessons are taking place and that's why there's this push to do more small groups um and then uh so 1,349 students out of the 6,000 some that we served um were presenting with emotional disregulation which is what brought them into the counselor's office uh and then the other uh biggest number was grief and Moss uh and when we talk to our kids and this is from TK all the way up you know what they're talking to us about is losing somebody uh some from coid and some just losing families from illness um but they also talked about abandonment and divorce they talked about incarceration they talked about deportation as well for some of their family members and separation so partnering for student wellness uh this is our Wellness checks uh and in terms of the wellness checks uh this last year was our second year doing this uh we've been partnering with one of our partners uh and in terms of what we did the first year we only worked with fifth grade students we assessed a total of 676 students 31% of the students that we assess scored as either borderline imminent borderline and imminent risk so just to kind of give you a sense of what this looks like it's a 10 question assessment and basically they're asking about feelings in the last seven days I have felt sad in the last seven days I've felt mad in the last seven days I've felt happy so this is what they're asking and then based off of their uh answers and based off of the scores that they get um then we are following up as a counseling team and assessing the students to make sure that they're not at imminent risk for any kind of harm okay and then so for this last year what we did was we partnered again and we were able to work with our fifth and sixth grade students because I wanted to see what it looked like a year later for our fifth graders from the year before so we assessed a total of uh 1,289 students uh 592 were fifth grade and then 697 were sixth grade and 41% of the students assess scored at borderline imminent borderline and imminent risk okay uh the other thing that we did we broke it out by grade level so of the 588 fifth graders 2 241 of them scored as you know uh students we needed to follow up with which was 41% of that group and then 275 of the 696 7even which is 39% so what I want to bring your attention to is that these KD that are sixth graders that are scoring at the 39% were the kiddos from the year before scoring at 31% right and so being in middle school as long as I was one of the things you know and understand is that sixth grade is hard sixth grade is transition time sixth grade is getting used to being the new kid at school instead of the big fifth grader in elementary and so a lot of kids really struggle with that transition which is what I feel it's a contributor to you know some of what we saw but we also did drill down this data right of the 1285 kids that we served 241 in total were the kids who we found that had some level of risk so what we did was we followed up called parents got students connected to Services through our SLS um coordinators and here were some of the reasons that they were uh feeling anxious or worrying so this is fifth and sixth grade the types of abuse that was identified as they were talking to us uh when we were doing the assessments types of grief and loss that they experienced as well as uh some resource support concerns that they had drilled it down even more um and so what we found was when we broke it down uh this is kind of what was happening in terms of the reasons for anxiousness or worrying the majority of them are for friendship issues uh and and then the second highest was academic issues right but as you go down the line you can see um and again when I'm talking about these percentages these percentages are from the 241 students we assessed not the larger number of students that we did the original Wellness checks with this is the follow-up Wellness checks and this is the information we were able to collect uh from sitting with our kiddos and talking to them to just really understand what was happening so just a little bit more uh like I said see some of the questions that they asked and so you can see um the numbers in terms of what the responses look like uh so I just want to bring your attention to the very first one which is nervous uh what we found last year was that was also a high percentage our kids have come back from the P pandemic with a little bit more of a struggle around uh worrying around anxiousness uh and so that's been reflected now two years in a row in doing sance checks just more data um and so I wanted to talk to you a little bit more about what's coming up what's next so first piece is our school counseling interns have been deployed they were deployed in August uh we have a total of nine with two more joining us in January which will give us coverage for almost every single one of our schools so they're at uh our schools uh one day a week some of them too uh the providing extra support and working closely with the school counselor uh to support uh different activities that take place at the school so we wanted to talk a little bit about uh ccpp so California Community Schools uh partnership program uh we wrote a grant for the planning piece and so we were able to actually take these last two years to begin to plan we've been working with our guiding Coalition and we've now started working with school sites to help them begin to plan their site plans uh the way the grant is put together there need to be specific site plans per school as well as an overarching one for the district uh and it is due on February 9th so we are uh working diligently towards getting uh all of it put together put in place and turned in and just a little bit of information around what we're planning to do so we're planning to start with uh 11 of our schools out of of the 22 uh and we took about six months to conduct and develop the resource mapping uh which we're using now for The Gap analysis uh and then uh all of the schools that are involved at this point in time are in the midst of doing surveys so that we can also hear from the people who are living in the community as well as from the children what things we may not know we need to have as we build out Community Schools so this is mive like I said uh I'd like to show it to you at another time when I can actually use a smaller computer and a smaller monitor um because it's not always easy to navigate but I wanted to show you this specifically so uh if you look at this what you'll see is that uh the little pin has a number two on it and that denotes that there's two different types of services within that space so on the left it's HED media arts academy is what's shown but on the right you see that there's also the resource center and it's at hover okay and then School based Wellness Center grant program so that's something we're currently working towards it is due October 20th next week uh so we're working with our schools uh to help them build their site plans and we're also building an overall uh level one for the district and the schools that we're looking to work with are identified below unfortunately with this grant they could only serve schools that had Middle School in it which is why we chose the TK to8 as well as our middle schools and this is what a Wellness Center could look like in Allen Rock um and like I said what we're looking at is really giving people the ability to get the support that they need whether it's tier one two or three whether they're a student a parent or a staff what we're really looking at doing is making sure that in every Hub there's no wrong door whether you're 0 to 99 you can come and get the support that you need stronger connections Grant this was a grant that we wrote a couple weeks back we're still waiting to hear there was such a large response that they're still going through all of the grants um I'm checking it diligently every day nothing yet right exactly and so it's GNA give us the ability to create more robots programming uh for tier one and tier two uh and that's why we're hoping KN on W that we get it and we wanted to close by cing directly so thank you Dr from your uhal crew your team seal thank you for developing and leing this department with such heart the journey that you started will lead to the continued provision of student centered Services family supportive environment and support for personnel in real time thank you for your leadership and for always ensuring that everything we do is done with students in mind you are deeply appreciated thank you graas and and that is that's my presentation thank you so much Dr artiguez so with that I'll open 3.02 to public comment okay seeing none uh move to questions and comments to members of the board I will note that this item is for information only so I see trusty Chavez um I do have a couple questions thank you for the presentation and also on the child and Welfare attendance program how's that going to look like going forward if you can give more information to the board sure uh child and Welfare attendance like I said that's going to be a collaboration between student services as well as the seal Department what we'd like to do is build capacity for our CWA to work with the community leison at the school and go out to the families and really sit down with them do home visits and really talk to the families to find out what the challenges are and obstacles are that are presenting that is making it difficult for the kids to get to school we're hoping that doing it in such a manner uh trusty Chavez is going to give us the ability to really begin to support not just children but the families because sorry great no go ahead I just like had a jerk but um I did have another question on the box where you had the four squares on the number two where it said neglecting abuse there was like a 4% what is something automatically triggered uh CPS uh District above so I'm GNA say that for every one of those and there's just a very very small number because like I said that was out of 241 my school counselors are trained and they know that if and when a child discloses anything that is harm ated that we make two phone calls the first phone call is to PD depending on what's presenting and then we make the phone call to CPS so they're very well trained um on that piece and they know what they should be doing and also on the emotional disre how long is a followup on that once you um have targeted it so I'm going to say that the emotional disregulation in relation to the data that we saw up there normally what happens is a student is going to come and they're going to be coming kind of in crisis right so you may have a child who's crying uncontrollably you may have a child who's maybe throwing objects or things like that so I'm going to tell you that uh sometimes that can be uh resolved in 20 minutes but sometimes it takes longer depending on how overwhelmed the child is uh and then the followup after that is a phone call to the parent trying to get Services into place first with the school counselor and then working with our SLS coordinators or our SLS supervisors to ensure that there's higher level Services being brought into place on behalf of that child so what does that look like if that's happening in a teachers's classroom and everything is kind of like getting out of control and your word for the other students as well sure so and I'm G to speak from my experience as a counselor and also what I've seen um and in the experience as a ccer and there's a child who is really struggling and they agressive or physically aggressive right or just feeling overwhelmed with demotion uh normally what would happen would be the teacher would reach out to either myself or maybe uh somebody in the front office that could go ahead and retrieve the child and then bring them if if we weren't readily available bring them to us so that we could work with them just to kind of deescalate them right um and so deescalation could look like a pack of ice that uh like an ice pack that's put to the back of the neck to help bring down the temperature right uh it could also be uh us doing some bur strategies um it could also be doing something as simple as doing bubbles with kids or Colony it's doing whatever it is we need to do uh to work with the student and basically bring them into their bodies because when they're disregulated what's happening is there's like a disconnection so I've heard scenarios and also one teacher came on the public comment and said what's being done uh to support the teachers that that have been inflicted you know by either parents or child does that follow on the the same scope or is that handled totally different so I'm going to say that um what we've done is when uh teachers are reaching out to us or other certificated staff or classified staff we work with everybody and we provide support we don't provide long-term support for them but we can provide res sourcing support where we help them connect with their insurance and help them get supports and services into place for themselves because if we want healthy kids we need to have healthy the adults and we're very aware of that so it's just some of the things that we do thank you of course than vice president herrer L thank you and thank you um trusty Chavez you had a lot of the questions that I had um and I think the only thing and not necessarily to answer today but I'd like to understand um better as uh assistant provider that works with like CPS and DFCS um is our relation ship like moving forward and continuing because obviously you know some of them they'll go and investigate and maybe close the case or keep it open whatever it is um and how how we either work with them right to bring the kids back to school um or and how can we even work better so not necessarily something to answer today but I'd love to have that conversation yeah I'm going to say that I love the question and I think that we've done a lot of building out and a lot of of case management to address some of what you're describing but I'd love to have a bit a larger conversation with you because I do believe there's always room to do more thank you okay I see trusty Flor Shelton thank you thank you um Miss arz um first off we need to figure out how to get kis for adults like vending machines or something the feelings ones right um and really interested in seeing of drilling down into that resource map right just I think that's so great in terms of the Gap analysis right that's how we keep kind of building the system and you know I can see how it all relates to our strategic plan and the whole child and so you know again the seal um growth is just phenomenal I will say to my fellow trustees I got a a primer I got a a preview of this presentation I want to thank I happened to be in a city county community meeting where um Miss artigas Dr Alazan and um Sandra Garcia presented and you know this type of data is so important right we know our kids right and when our stakeholders and partners understand the level um of how we know our kids how we're trying to meet their needs the family's needs um and then we turn that around and seek you know whether it's a wellness uh Center Grant right this level of detail um is probably Second To None right right now so um I just want to thank you for for sort of the way you're you're meeting our our kids needs but with a datadriven approach too right because we can tell these very very tough stories all day which we need to do again not tell them but again demonstrate right what why we need these funds why we need partnership um so my question is the the county Grant you know and I've brought this to everyone's attention right um what outcomes are they looking at right for us to compete for like a you know to bring a well a county funded Wellness Center due and again I can't remember if this one was due February I don't mean to this one next week then you should probably do what what what are the outcomes they're looking for so uh the outcomes they're looking for thing it's so what I'm finding a lot is a tioch chronic absenteeism right and so they're looking at reducing those rates but they're also looking at um creating more opportunities for children and families to get support together at least that was what I took away from what I read uh they're trying to focus on uh schools in specific uh census track areas um and they're also looking to um potentially uh work with us having uh more access to like tier two and tier three support um that's kind of what it's looking like because most of the wellness centers right now as they stand across the county uh have at least a clinician uh at the wellness center like basically U keeping it open and being made available um so that's kind of some of the outcomes are going to be about doing those pieces but also Al us finding ways to sustainably fund it moving forward so that's some of the things that I saw and the sustainability piece yep after three years uh so for the wellness Grant it's two years uh but we are also student services and ASL Department are working very closely with County Behavioral Health Katherine and sparis um to talk about and understand more deeply how we can uh do sustainable funding streams through Lea Bop through ma as well as through um managed care which is coming down the line in about a year or so um so there's there's some conversation about it already because uh we want to build it and we want to sustain it the kids need it and they deserve it and so that's the direction we're looking at great so thank you for that and I think you know as there's so much activity going on in the world right you know as a county but then in our district and trying move moving from you know trying to see what difference is it all making right so that's why I think the Panorama data is really important but you know how do we make sure that our infrastructure here because we we can collect data all day right and I love how you're going from fifth to sixth grade right but you know the city and county are looking at like you know lower detention rate lower you know all the hospitaliza all those you know I mean the violence right the Firearms the DV so just trying to figure out how we fit into that right and how we tell our story about going from investment to what difference does it makes right that's the results based accountability model you know we can figure out president um you know back to the advocacy and you know because how else are we going to be able to make a case for sustainability right we do all this stuff but if I think it's going to make a difference how do we show that and it's just that it's tough but um I'd be happy to Think Through how we how we do that yeah I I would love to to also sit down with you and and think through okay uh one one word you said just kind of jogged my memory another highlight which I forgot to put on there is that um the California Department of Education and West Ed has chosen Alan Rock uh to theal department and all of the work that we did uh as a case study so we're going to be case study for the lcsp and how to do this work and do it well okay so they're interviewing us in a couple weeks great uh and I have uh we have a Wellness Center at aptitude I do I went to aptitude yes so there's a clinician there yes oh okay yep there's a clinician and there's also a liazon uh who works closely with the parents uh and in conjunction with the clinician as they're working with the family okay yes and the other question is because I work at Kel cast Bay uh so are we a placement site for their counseling program we started to be this year so we have our first one and we're about to potentially pull our second one um so yes because they have a dual ppsc and The Lure so we're pulling them in for the ppsc and hoping to build out for the lure as well okay yep well if there's anything I can recommend to my colleagues when I go back go back to work in know you know Monday morning please let me let me know so I will I will what's a ppsc a ppsc is a pupil Personnel Service [Laughter] credential okay well thank you so much Dr Ortigas for the good work and Dr Amazon for all her efforts and you know uh I look forward to hearing you know the next steps and you know as always if there's anything I can do I'm always happy to help thank you so very much thank you so with that we move on to the next item on the agenda item 3.03 this I approve the long range facilities plan superintendent Bower this is a almost like a a dream come true in terms of our strategic plan right um we want to know you know we wanted to make sure that um the decisions that are made around the diet are based on data and all levels and so this is around facilities for the district I want to thank LPA for being the partners that help us um kind of capture the process and uh finally get to the point that we can say this is what we are recommending to the board this is a very organic process this is a recommendation in terms of this is what it looks like today this is not meant to be static in terms of three years from now if we decided something today but it doesn't fit um what the needs of the district are it it has the flexibility so I just want to to say that from the very beginning so that we establish for the board and for our community that the recommendations in this particular plan are as it stands today with a feedback of the community and the different stakeholders as of today and as we move forward you know if that they need to be adjusted or changed there is the flexibility for that so thank you very much um with that I'm going to turn it over to Andrea pipin so that she can um bring the board into what what we're presenting for you today thank you very much superintendent Bower uh thank you for allowing this opportunity uh president fam and other members of the board I of course have Andrea Pippen educ hello educational facility planner with LPA joining me is our um director of school facilities planning Mariana leeto so um as Dr Bower mentioned we are here to request adoption of the 2023 longrange facilities plan this is a document that serves as a long range Vision um aiming to support your mission and your own District Vision by the built environment through a lens of equity um it is to serve as a road map you know identifying this long range um Vision by and identifying the first step to take towards implementation um that is to set you up for than the actual implementation which will occur after tonight's hopeful adoption um with this long range Vision um you know we kind of keep saying it's a 15-year road map but we don't want to just adopt it tonight and not visit it again for another 15 years it should be um Revisited as again Dr Bower has alluded to in fact the California Department of Ed recommends um a revisitation and an update to this longrange facility plan every 3 to five years it's at the discretion of a district um to make sure it's still relevant to make sure that everything that goes into this plan that went into this plan um still holds true as you move through the years um especially demographic projections that these projections are in line with your actual enrollments um among all the other other um facets that go into making this plan before any projects actually you know before you break ground on any of these projects the facilities Department um as well as other facilities uh Consultants will be analyzing this data going through the recommendations um of board priorities um and the facility condition assessments all of the documentation that goes into this and taking specific contracts forward to you all for approval you know as they come down the line just as any other contract is approved so um the approval of this long range facilities plan is to set these um eventual improvements into motion so this deliverable is a is in a digital website form um which is fantastic uh not too long ago it used to be very fancy looking binders that were uh really nice collectors of dust um in the wrong hands um but luckily with this um digital deliverable it is a website anyone with a Wi-Fi connection or internet connection has access to it um it is it can be updatable without searching for those said binders and printing out more pages um but it the most important part about a it is it increases your transparency like I said anyone with an internet connection can access it your families your community your your parents your students your teachers and your future Consultants who may want to do some research before going into your interviews um so it's a very important uh communication tool to help build support for your District um over the long range's see uh so the website piece of it and we'll kind of after my Spiel we'll show you the website um but it starts with what we call the surface kind of for your people who just want to kind of see what it's all about they can scroll through and explore the website and this surface um piece can be translated into any language through your your web browser I think Chrome is the best one to use for that um and of course the intention of this sort of surface level of the website is to make your audience feel welcome it doesn't get overly technical um it's something to that hopefully is easy for everyone to understand it has beautiful photos of your own students um and then if you want to dig it deeper into any of the topics there's additional links to click um that take you to what we call lookbooks um that can be downloaded they can be printed um or just bookmark it and have it forever so um there is a broad effort um made here so that this document is accessible to all and so I mentioned that surface level of the website is um you know able to translate into any language the specific lookbooks um the ones that are more public facing will be translated into Spanish and Vietnamese as well um the lookbooks that we call the F plan um which is a broader overview and has uh links within it to um other materials the executive summary project prioritization lookbook the campus plan summaries and the workforce housing studies because we have rolled in a couple of the um Consultants work that were part of this process um so the um five lookbooks that I mentioned are the ones that will be translated into additional languages other things like the design guidelines are more intended for um the future consultant the future design you know Architects or whomever who may be lucky enough to um um get be awarded some of these projects they can dig into um these other materials so again the more public facing ones will be translated broader um for got to mention this website will officially launch to the public October 26th so what you'll see um tonight um we call the beta version that you'll be able to see and get a feel for how it works and how it looks um but it all doesn't just live on this separate website we we will be tying a lot of this information to arusd.org um at a at a level that hopefully should build some excitement for people to want to go over and visit that long range facility plan website so um your your own uh website it folks are are working on um adding additional modules and functionality so that when you go to arusd.org you can go to a specific page dedicated to this longrange facil facility plan where you'll see a wonderful video by Dr Bower to hopefully build some excitement um we won't play it tonight don't worry thank you and uh it also living in in duplicate on your website are the uh some specific reports um like the uh design guideline visioning Workshop report and focus group reports these went into the development of the design guidelines as well as the report for facility PE condition assessments for each of the campuses just the executive summaries so that will live on the district website and then hopefully we'll entice folks to then jump over to the long range facilities plan website to really dig deeper and see all of the good work that's gone into that and the the long range plan uh moving forward so some highlights um of the plan um that is sorry push the button so the um the the design guidelines you know I mentioned a couple times and this is a document that was made to um support equity and consistency districtwide as projects are implemented they'll all follow these same um design guidelines so that you know eventually all well all Learners will have equal chance to thrive in in Equitable environments um this is a reflection of a postco era and you heard it from the previous um presentation more Focus um the facilities are reflective of that deeper focus on social emotional learning and wellness um so I I that that was built in there to reinforce um just how important that is um as well as dedicated spaces for RSP Specialists and other support staff to you know really get that well-rounded um well-rounded experience for for children um this plan incorporates the updated demographic enrollment projections uh right sizing the schools for that um it reflects um what it would look like from a facility standpoint if you were to transition to full day transitional kindergarten programs um it meets new energy uh California energy codes and rolling in the Strategic energy plan by um Arc Alternatives that has you know kind of been one of those other processes that has been happening in Tandem and of course that Workforce housing component um and how that measure s will be supported there the process that we took to get to this point now um it started last November so it's been almost a year of meeting with you all and learning about your community um we've been ever since that time we've been meeting weekly with the steering committee uh Dr Balor Co Bara Barb your your leadership groups representing um all facets of your District um to help guide the process make sure we're connecting with the right people making the right uh decisions um the facility development committee which which is a single group but representative of a broader uh spectrum of your um whole Community we met with them five times throughout the process at very pivotal um decision points um I mentioned the design guidelines a few times we had a kickoff Workshop um with educational leadership as well as a series of focus groups of um with Educators and students as well we had campus visioning workshops so that we can get to know the campuses on a on a more intimate level you know it's great to to pull back and look at things districtwide but then it is uh appropriate also to push in and see those sight tosite campus nuances uh we held three town halls at multiple locations within the district to get the word out and get additional feedback on the site diagrams um after the town hall meetings we had additional meetings with site admin and other stakeholders to follow up make sure the plans really are relevant um and meeting their needs and um receiving again from them their top priority projects if they were to wave that magic wand and decide what was to go first to have the most impact on students rounding the bend we uh finalized the diagrams have our cost estimate put together um and with that turned that cost estimate into an interactive dashboard which we used with the facility development committee um for a project prioritization uh exercise all of those priation data points were then brought to you the last time we officially met um for the um board study session on September 7th um so presenting those data points um you did your own activity with the stickers and a lot of great discussion um so we can see uh or you had um asked to show uh the alignments between the school site committee priorities and the projects that they selected um spec the two and the projects they selected that specifically address safety um safety being you know of course top on everyone's mind and as we were going through that discussion you know some things like field repair was selected due to safety concerns and other things like uh utility repair can be qualified as a safety concern so I think the question was of all these very different priorities set which ones were said in order to adjust safety um so we took another look at those um individual priorities and 67% of the school site committees had priorities selected because of safety items um so 67% of your sites about two-thirds of your sites raise safety concerns and these are due to you know fencing site security hard court and field repair and utility needs um half of your school sites selected um priorities just to address General modernization and upkeep of the facilities so from the data that we had already gathered from our other stakeholder groups and then from the conversations with you in our last study session um we have vetted this all with District leadership group our steering committee um and have Incorporated those into the board priority lookbook that hopefully you've had a chance um to look over if not we can review that as well with that I think we're about to open it up for discussion and question okay thank you so much so with that I'll open item 3.03 to public comment all right seeing no public comment share the first oh okay I was just go on my script so this has also been like a dream come true it's a lot of effort to create um a website uh LPA has been doing websites for many years I joined about uh 15 months ago and um took on an initiative to reimagine the website so alumrock is benefiting from being the pioneer of this website also being patient with um The Journey it took to get to this so um what I'm sharing with you tonight is called a beta website just because it's 95% complete there's a little bit of coding left to do um like things like adding the the Spanish and Vietnamese button functionality so I'll just share it with you more just for the look and feel I'm not going to walk you through every part of it uh so this is uh when you start at the top here I go to the hamburger if you go to about and you go to welcome this welcomes you here and these are the photos that we took of students where uh Lupe ruak Alba helped us um coordinate and get um students in the summer program to volunteer to be models and get their parents to give permission and the parents um got uh professional photos of their kids um but basically the idea of the website is it's very uh easy to to go through and it works as a an as an executive summary so it's not so much information that you don't know where to go or where to start you can just hopefully come thinking I'll spend five minutes and maybe you'll end up spending an hour because you get so excited about it and it's easy for you um to go and share with others so we're really treating it as a as a campaign as a public relations piece to communicate to the broad audience parents family staff as as Andrea said and the future design team teams to get what they need and get it um easily so always at the bottom there's a a a get in touch is there a blocker maybe here well yeah I I I tested it on mine and it was ready so get in touch will pop up and you can plug in um your email and then oh sorry I'm doing the wrong one stay updated was working yeah you plug that in and then get in touch oh I know why because your email is not connect so it'll pop up with your email say info arusd.org and you can send a message making a comment or asking a question and the district will um how do I get rid of that okay that one and then that one thank you all right so um always back to the hamburger then uh building blocks shows you the four um components so I'll just go over improving our environs um so hopefully it's an enjoyable experience to keep learning and being inspired by this to see what the district is doing and what this is about um this is a an important quote I'll read out loud only one the plan has two paths the Here and Now immediate needs and the mindful path forward with a transparent process and pragmatic use of funds so um again it's just like not a lot of reading um I'll show you where you can dig deeper into the the lookbooks um these links will take you to things that are part of the district because that's part of the overlay so your board approved strategic plan is here when you click here it'll take you there your elop goals are here click there it'll take you to that and then um the these are the buttons that will take you to um the lookbooks I think I'll think I tested this one out and it is working so this is an example of a lookbook um the beauty of the lookbook is that the user can immediately um read it and um they also have the option to download it so here you can just download it if you want to print it and read it or if a future architect needs it they can um print you know they'll want to mark up if they were awarded say um designing a Wellness Center or a library they they can jump to that page and start highlighting it and sharing it with their team so then to go out of a lookbook um we're still in the the improving our environs and then I'll go yeah these these buttons are not functional yet but when they they'll be next to the lookbook so go back to the hamburger so full plan um so these buttons will let you jump directly to things they don't force you like Ikea to have to go through every single section that you maybe just came for something you can go straight to where you want to go or you can scroll down um so full plan is here um links so links occur I'll get to the the bottom part that shows you all the lookbooks where you could just jump like you're going to a library to see the topics but as you go through it also jumps you down um to the lookbook library so we just have some quotes that came from folks that were part of the process so here we are in the the library uh long range facility plan library of resources so um there are 11 books and you can just um keep panning through like you're in a library to see what you're interested in and just click on it and open it um or download it so this is where I saying the the Vietnamese and Spanish buttons are missing we just have like about 5% more coding details to take care of and the website will be live live by the 26th and we're coordinating with Lee and his team to finish um connecting the pieces to the a usd.org that need to get connected so now we're ready to open it up that's everything we have to share okay okay so with that I'll take public comment on item 3.03 see then I'll open to questions from members of the questions and comments from members of the board okay uh vice president herrer ler thank you so much for all the work not just the presentation today but um I know it's been a long time coming um and I have a couple things I think um thank you for that you know website that we get to go in deep and you know click in but I think um and I don't know if we're able to today we're able to look at that like the actual plan and I know I think there was a like Di deep in like a summary view is that want diagrams of the S I mean just uh because I haven't you know been able to dive deep and then the presentation that we had here you know we couldn't click in and go so I would like to see the plan if that makes sense like I see the website and not um I don't know if you were able to go in or if it's well um available maybe you had trouble we we provided all the content so all 11 lookbooks were provided to the board in so you can click on it and you can open all the books so that's all that's on the website the website is just how it's packaged got it got it okay and then also um I I get that we don't have pictures of like our sites because you know that's the long-term plan um however I'm wondering if and and I wouldn't have said this if it was going live tomorrow but since I hear the 26 I hear an opportunity um if you well you do know our district because you got to know us um we are very proud of you know where we live where we uh go to school where we um Thrive and um there's a lot of historical like marks that necessarily won't change and I'm wondering if we can include some of that local to Alam Rock um and I'm thinking in that one page where there was a quote about the cultural something I don't remember the entire quote but I think it reflects to that right like even uh some of our community members you you quoted that so maybe in there um and maybe the site or that picture that you put there on the site is from this area but it doesn't look familiar to me um I think there's very kind of General pictures that maybe we're taken from somewhere else which are beautiful but I would love to see something reflective of our area here um if possible so in the design guidelines we have a whole section on wayf finding and using murals and we put in photos of your campuses and the murals and put it as a guideline to make sure to have the schools reflect the culture and the ethos nice and I'm thinking some won't click on all those like we probably will we'll you know go deep into it but most probably won't go there so we could just bring it out into that General one where you're just kind of scrolling through because I see that you know like the field right and it's beautiful but I don't know that's representative of our area um and then there's another one where there's like a river through where it specifically talks about the culture of our area and I think you know that piece would be helpful okay um yeah we can look at um swapping out a photo it's a it's a template right now so we can't add to the surface but we can do that yeah make it more prominent thank you thank you he TR thank you um I'm I'm loving the look and feel the Simplicity um but cleanliness of it because I think I just know how everyone's just like fast fast fast fast right so I think um getting to the point right that's what I think I'm getting a feel for and so I appreciate that support um vice president's comments as well um superintendent I'm just trying to think back to the study session right and Andrea too the study session so tonight we are approving that kind of prioritization that we did that said deferred maintenance I can't remember you know can you just recap sort of where the the study session and just because I'm sorry I I'm with vice president on just sort of the the volume that we're like what's the ask tonight right um thank you so much for the question um correct you had a study session November 9 I believe September September September and in during that session the board was presented with the specifics right and we really went into the how much we have how that's going to be allocated we talk about um the need and that's that was the the the whole concept of the two Paths of the quote the here and now and the air conditioning that needs to be placed in in some of our sides and that's included in in this plan vers and including you know and the other path of the future including Workforce housing including how some of our sites are being recommended to be redesigned because that is the other possibility right and being very mindful that if we were in and and collecting you know the the wishes and dreams of all of our stakeholders who participated in site meetings Town Halls um um [Music] um the uh groups the focus groups thank you so in all of those places you know there was a a that generated a whole list of wishes and wants for alumrock and if you recall during that presentation the amount to fulfill the wishes and wants exceeded a billion dollar and I'm saying it because that's kind of if you were to put a dollars and cents to how much would it cost for our district to provide every single idea every single need that's how much it would be and it's it's embedded all of that is embedded in that the complete plan then you have an executive summary that takes the viewer into you know these are the the the buckets of you know how it was developed how it's going to translate into the here and now and then into the future so you're approving sort of like that detailed presentation from September right thank you so the immediate needs we kind of coales around what I remember sort of like the guts right yes right like the pipes and the they all got to work right before we start making stuff look pretty on top so um can you just recap that I can't remember what yeah yeah and unfortunately that's the one lookbook that's not working right now it was yeah the immediate needs as identified by Bureau of veritos and the facility condition assessments those are the things that are currently broken and disrup pair that need to be fixed um Bureau of verest was not able to get underground and check out the pipes and plumbing and all that sort of stuff so we did had more um conversations with the district to identify the sites that needed to make sure that those dollars were captured in our cost estimate um through our conversation on the on the sixth though and hearing okay we need to to roll in everything related to to safety security um including you know the roofs that that you know will leak or the utilities that that aren't you know causing backups so in this prioritized list of projects you've got the immediate needs which was like 4.5 million the um the utilities as a one lump sum for all of the sites that are that lists them and then um other safety and modernization items so right now it's cost that we've identified and we call it in our cost estimate modernization but that's is the part that I mean is needing additional vetting by the the district facilities department and your Cummings Consultants to see okay here's the dollar allocation District wide and I can see it as LPA Has It by site what does that really mean what does the most important thing related to safety that I need to do per this prescription of prioritization you know on this page there's other priorities on the list that are play structures um Roofing as I mentioned is specifically called out and those are the things I can think of off the top of my head thank you that's helpful I I'm I'm remembering that night yet again so thank youy Chavez um I like that the immediate needs will be addressed and if the money isn't there you can pivot and address other issues that aren't going to cost as much so um I'm glad the facilities plan is moving forward and um we could just vote on it with and feel kind of secure that should we need to shift you know shift that we can make that shift without it costing a lot thank you I just had one other comment that I thinky Flor thank you just back to superintendent your comment about the ion dollar price tag for you know being mindful of the community process um you know our community gets asked about their dreams and hopes and aspirations a lot and then that can create expectations right so we're coming way down off of that it's great we're gonna have it on not a Dusty shelf but in a beautiful website um and I I saw it was 20 three to 2023 to 2038 right so so this is a living document you know I heard time and time again you know we can we can re revisit it but what people have to understand is we're basically gonna spend money on looking under the hood right we're not putting it's not a new you know and that's kind of it can be startling to people right so how do we be mindful about thank you Community we heard you yes we want to redo our parking lots and we want to do all these things right thinking of Cassell and hubard and all you know um we hope to get there right but right now we have to look under the hood and take care of some the unsexy stuff right and so I'm just want to be mindful of that kind of expectation that we set and how do we communicate the realities of it all right in a in a respectful way because the voters you know have helped us get to this place and we will need the voters to help us continue to move through so I know I think you've all done a great job of of communicating you know through the years um and yet we have another we have this process that we have to continue to be mindful about communicating you know again vision and expectation management yeah okay super B thank you so much for saying that because one of the things that is part of this process is a newsletter of our to our community to say this is what we've done and the only delay in this particular cycle has been that a lot of our projects are through DSA so I I want to wait until those are all approved and in motion and that we can go and take pictures and we can show the community versus one day you're going to get your playground and I know playgrounds are very popular in Alam we visit schools and board president has been asked by our students regarding our playgrounds so I'm going to use that as an example that because it just the process right that um to me a picture is worth a thousand words and so when we communicate with the community I want to be able to send a picture of something that has already been done done so that people can say oh okay and I'm going to call out mullum little children in mullum that reach out to us very professionally very appropriately and said to Bo President we want a brand new playground it's coming and so we want to make sure the picture is there right so that we can say you know with all of exactly what and in addition to the playground is the roofs that we have been waiting for for a while you know to get fixed the air conditioning to make sure everybody is comfortable absolutely the alarm systems that we need to update all of these under the hood very important items are taking precedent that's that's very important for us to make sure that we address that okay I'll wrap up with you know I want to you know thank our partners here for for all their work and help helping us get to this point and I also wanted to you know in acknowledgment of uh was it having been through Kitty me the Press you know it's when you know when you know when you vice president Herrera Lera has to gabble again you know sometime and then when when it comes time for you trusty floor Shelton have the gamble I hope you both of you will have your turn in front of the kidy Meet the Press as well but I think the the issue is yeah you know the long-term plan represents our commitment to the people of alen rock of uh maintaining and renovating our School site so that the children of alam Rock have a you know have a place to learn and great PL great place to learn and you know one of thing you know H yes I I get it it's about taking uh we have to take care of the nuts and bolts and at the same time you know uh you know I'm always a believer of walking and chewing at the same time right we can walk and chew them and you know I I'm hoping that you know at you know work for teacher and staff housing is part of this long-term plan and it's always you know uh taking care of the nuts and bolts but also so uh showing that we can you know bring something new to the table bring something to uh bring our community together again and also uh using our you know using our existing underutilized uh real estate resources so that they can provide uh a benefit to our teachers and staff but also also uh end time uh some you know something to help us with our our our revenues in the future so uh with that said uh let's see here uh thank you so much this is a uh a big step forward and you know after so many so many years of the the great uh soap offer as Alan rock turn we we are we are at this point uh you know on the cusp of something of you know uh you know a brighter future over to Hill for this District so with that do I have a motion motion to approve the long range facilities okay I have a motion a motion from vice president herrer Lera and second from truste Chavez than know for comments and questions I'll move to a vote I'll call you as I see you trusty Chavez hi vice president Herrera hi uh trusty Flora Shelton yes and myself voting I item passes 4 to Z with uh board clerk quino absent so thank you so much so with that we move to Second for comments and communication item 4.01 do we have Teamsters Tom here oh okay well we have the teamsters well hello everybody um we are here to say thank you and representing um Tiner saying we're happy to everybody finish the negotiation we benefit out of it but thank you very much and we maybe we're not too many but we're Mighty and then we have the good heart to keep helping our community and of course this I kid thank you thank you so much all righty love your spirit by the way okay item 4.02 California School Employees Association oh my good we're very well good evening sh uh you know for S on thank you good evening pres superintendent bow and president B members of the board other staff everybody um I'm happy I'm here tonight and I did want to something personal first before I start on CCA um I wanted to thank the board and um Dr Bower for understanding of my situation this past year I have hair it's coming in yes I always because it's a little while that goes on its own but and I have made it through my treatments so I'm a so now to CSA um thank you for approving our contract and ours was more than salary however I do appreciate all your comments regarding the budget and all that I was an accountant here for 26 years so I kind of understand where you're coming from but we were full contract this year so we had several items as you read in our contract and I want to thank the management staff we had a few days of negotiations and you know we went back and forth but it was compromised and I think we came up with a fair contract for our members and a fair contract for the district so I do appreciate in everybody's hard work even my team they're not here but we worked I think together pretty well and I you know came out with something that works for everybody and I'm unfortunately not going to be able to stay for the home meeting I have an hour and a half drive to get home and it's the days are still long for me as I still work toward my recovery but hopefully I will be able to make it to many more meetings I'm going to listen and I'm gonna listen on zoom on my way home though so I can even though I haven't been here and I have watched everyone I take my notes I always want to congratulate the new people that are hiring even though I can't do it in person as long as they know and everybody lets them know that I do I do take it seriously that I am csca president is just it's been a challenge and so I do appreciate your understanding and I want to say I congratulations on on your on your cancer for you right now not about me it's not about me but I did want to say thank you because I know that I have missed since you went back to inperson several meetings but that's the reason why I just couldn't do it that's oh wonderful well thank you so much and we look forward to you know good years with C all going to be good yeah thank you thank you Al righty moving on to 4.03 the Allen Rock Educators Association good evening Dr Bower members of the board and the public good evening Sandra what a what a few weeks we've had but again um thank you for ratifying the contract like I said earlier today we had a 76% member turnout and um 90% uh agreed voted to ratify the contract and so I know that the teachers are already posting in our group and are very happy um to have that news come out to them today so although they are not here because they are home preparing for school tomorrow they are listening via zoom and they are appreciative so thank you for that um as the school year year has gotten off in two um are we like eight weeks into school now um some of the issues that are facing this teachers in the classroom um you heard about tonight um Dr artiguez has done a fabulous job in the Seal program but we have a lot of students with a lot of needs and it makes it really really tough in our classrooms and so I've spoken to a lot of teachers who are trying to figure out how to manage you know classroom class size with these conditions that are coming in they want to help the students but when you know you have 27 bodies in a classroom and three and four and five of them that are coming in are emotionally disregulated it makes it really hard for one teacher to try to focus and help those students in need and get the teaching that is done as well so as we move forward we would like to try to partner and see what we can do to better benefit both the teachers and the learning environment for all of the students and also get the help that the students coming in need because as we're going moving forward more and more disregulation and behavior is interrupting the learning process and we would like to see how we can partner together to get that um manageable for all sides the other thing that we have started seeing is that a lot of not a lot but you know leaving of the different teachers staff different people um and it makes it really hard to try to make cohesive campuses we're all kind of surviving on crisis mode and that's just not having that Solid Ground and that solid bottom um so trying to figure out a way and as we have just ratified our contract hoping that this will try to attract and retain some of those highly qualified and um highly dedicated teachers here in the alumrock area but trying to figure out how we can start building those communities again getting stronger staffs um working together to create those Partnerships whether it be through um you know inner School type things or ways that we can make it so that the communities feel stronger and more content in where they are and other than that I would like to wish you guys all a very quick rest of work Sandra yes may I ask you because you ask me if you can say this publicly and I think it is appropriate to clarify when you say I need to be at oh yes okay so it's important for everybody so for everybody for the record um some of you may know some of you may not know there is one Disney Store still left in Northern California and that happens to be at the Livermore Outlets and I am actually wearing a dress from there tonight $30 on clearance right now there have been times when I've been talking to teachers and staff and I say like oh I can't do that on Wednesday because I have to leave to get to Disney I am not in Disneyland um I am doing my 405 minutes starting very early in the morning so that on Wednesdays I get to drive from here out to Livermore and start my shift and I go from last night it was 5 to 9:30 and then I don't get home until 10:30 so just so everybody knows I don't constantly go to Disneyland all of the time um but I do work for Disney so I am there during the week and on the weekends if you want thank you all I'll say is I'm still in trying to look for The elusive uh there's a was it Disney issues Disney Dollars and oh there is the elusive 50 Disney dollar bill and unfortunately with all of the cast members you have at the store you it will stay [Laughter] elusive okay thank you so much Sandra okay item 4.04 alamro administrators Association good evening Bor of Trustees Dr Bower uh USD staff and the Alan raw Community my name is Dr silia Cario and I'm the principal of Meer Elementary School I'm also the president of the alen rock administrators Association it is a privilege to speak tonight to represent a group of vibrant and dedicated Educators administrators who work tremendously hard in service to our schools and Community there are exciting developments taking place across arusd and our administrators continue to work to serve the represent respective sites since October our schools are vibrant with activities engaging students parents teachers and communities with events such as Book Fairs fundraisers fall festivals trips parades and a scream Fest outside organizations like always dream program reading Partners the city peace project somto's literacy program and the Marin Community Foundation are working alongside our schools to support and enhance the work we are doing for our schools and families the special ed department is starting the second round of udl training and working towards the goal of having allspeed teachers earn level one udl credentials and if I may put in a little extra plug Meer Elementary will be presenting arusd by installing an altar at the Mexican heritage Plaza aen alares October 28th please come by and see it finally on behalf of the alen lock administers Association we are grateful that the board approved action item 805 especially during the week of school administrators thank you again and good evening thank you so much okay with that item 4.05 superintendent Bower thank you so much Dr Kio I wanted to wish every single administrator a great school administrator week because I know just like teachers and the rest of the support staff I'm very honored and humbled to work with an amazing team from the individuals sitting uh in front of you to the people who are getting ready to Sandra Rivera who just left because as you know as a single mom she has to take care of you know business and she has to have two jobs so I admire that a lot right this is not just you know people who come here for a paycheck and I have to say that and I think this is people who are really committed to the district but most importantly are committing to the kids so I want to thank you very much for that um I have to the only other comment that I want to say tonight in addition to my appreciation to all the staff members 1,200 of them in Alam rock is that the decisions that we made as a team as a governance team are sometimes difficult some of them are very easy but some others are very difficult and I want to say to our community that this board and the superintendent will always make decisions that protect kids always there is no other intention there is no other goal except to keep our kids safe and you might see we have the the the vibrancy of democracy around this dice you can see board members who have their own opinions and they don't always agree with each other but I I think that that is good because you can see your community represented in these di but the one thing that these board members and your servant will always be in agreement is with kids safety and so that is the reason that this is something that I wanted to highlight to really share with everybody that in that regard when it comes to our kids safety we're always going to be unanimous so thank you so much Bor for making my job as a superintendent making very difficult decisions easy because without the support that I feel from you it will be very difficult so thank you for that and thank you community for entrusting your children in our hands thank you okay thank you so much so with that comments and Communications from members of the board I am 4.06 so I see I'm left-handed so that's why it's all like I you know well so my that's why I should be on the that's okay no I like the spot thank you okay so so my turn yes yes thank you very much I'm so glad Dr B said that and a lot of times I don't agree with everybody but I do agree with what my conscience is telling me and what I know in my heart is best for the kids and if I believe in my heart that that's what the way it's going to be then that's what it's going to be it could be a for of one vote every time it doesn't matter it's just like you're entitled to your opinion I'm entitled to my if you don't disagree look at all the evidence and proof and if anybody wants proof of the letters that I have that I've collected Through The Years from from scoe and um how the budget went I would be more than happy to provide them and also the fact that Dr Bower mentioned that there is one thing that we always agree on and safety of the kids every single time we make a decision that is always in Forefront because the kids to me are number one and you have to make sure that they're safe period anything that will divert from that forget it that's not the way my vote will go everybody else can vote the way they want but I'm here to protect kids and I believe I really believe that we're all here we may not agree on nothing else but on that we do thank you thank you Andre you have nothing okay I see your head just making sure yeah so Vice pres her thank you I agree thank you so much and I also I just want to thank um the board and all of the administration too um an exact you know uh um that uh bless you that if um you know there's anything that we find out that doesn't align with that that we jump on it and do something about it and that we again all align so thank you um and I just want to mention some of the highlights this month you know there was a lot um we were all I think all of us were there at the back to school uh back to the district night which was exciting to see so many students and families in the board um and we even got to hear Dr Bower singing that night with our mariachi that was a highlight for sure um so thank you all for attending that our community who was out there um I also want to thank our board president mfam um for organizing along with Lor Chavez with East Side new High School District to together the uh board presidents and vice presidents to come together you know and work together as we talk about right we don't have to agree on everything and we shouldn't um but we get to know each other respect one another and work together on behalf of those who represent so thank you board president for organizing that um also we had a hike this month with our Lee Matson Community which is awesome I got to uh go my husband came as well we got to hike at the alen Rock Park which was led by judge well she's not a judge it wasn't judge it was by Julia I have to get used to using her first name Julia lento who serves our community as a judge as well but wasn't there as a judge that day obviously um so that was exciting and I you know I'm excited to see what more is going to come from that and um as we know when we connect with nature you know uh we talked about some of the ways right distressing um that's definitely a good way so our students had a great time uh being out there and then also I got an opportunity to be at the Silicon Valley Education Foundation Summit um the first annual where many leaders in our community in the education field came together looking forward to many more annuals um also got to participate in the San State Native American indigenous fa convocation put on by the Native American Service organization there so I look forward to connecting uh our staff with the organization there and maybe taking some of our students out there to um check that out also got to uh be at the annual safety Summit and I got to see um Andrea Flor Shelton there ensuring that our community ities are safe right um so thank you Andrea for your leadership to ensuring that that work happens on your day job um and being the boss out there um and then we got to go to the to the African-American um Community Service Agency Gala and I got to hang out with some of our staff um which is great and then we got to see our student um our god what do I call him our um they're genius genius SL famous like you know famous student um and I'm bling on his name I know Tyler yes um Gordon our artist um which just makes me proud to be connected to him right and there's just so many stories of him through our district that you know um supported him because obviously he has an amazing mom by his side that was was there and you know so many others uh but that Foundation that he got here at elmrock that also supported for him to be where he's at so just proud to be a part you know small part of his life you know through alumrock um and take pictures and get in line and you know that was that was great and to hear all the exciting things coming of a possible book and things like that just so excited um and then just last but not least in regards to you know um our time like we talked about the nightmare time and right now I just feel the sun just like booming on Alam Rock I'm so excited you know I know there was a time where it was like well we need this and we need that and oh you know I don't know when we'll get there but um you know we shifted to some of the action time right where like I remember championing some of the conversations around ethnic studies and we need you know to reinvest our our money from ending the contracts with the police department and not having police on our schools to really investing in the social emotional well-being of our students and to have those two presentations today you know really like it just fills me with such joy and knowing that um our work you know even though it's been a lot like finally we're seeing the results of it um and it's not just you know obviously the board but the staff that are like I mean that's that's why we're all here right like what is the best um Services education everything that our children deserve they they deserve the best and um we're all giving it all we got in order for them to have that so I just wanted thank everybody you know from those that open the door you know the first one to come in the schools to make sure that the you know uh cafeterias are are fully stopped and the teachers who are prepping right now to make sure they have the education plan and um you know everybody to Dr Bower who's leading our organization our agency um I just makes me proud as a trustee to you know support um in the little ways I get to this amazing district and stuff thank you okay so boes down to me uh first of all I I want to say you know uh as board president I I want to reiterate and I you know and as my colleagues have said uh you know the interest of this you know district is first of mine and all you know and among that uh you know I heard you know that we're here to educate our kids and to do so safely and in manner in a manner in which you know uh our community can afford while uh making the best use of the resources uh that our community affords us I can I can tell you this isn't for a faint of heart I mean you know I I'll quote County Supervisor AO Lee when he said you know we're definitely not IND this for the money because if it if it were you're really bad at now that's supervisor I can I can I can safely say you know uh I wish I did win yesterday power uh but I want to you know uh you know that it's you know it's been uh quite a a journey in many ways since I was first appointed to this board in January of 2021 what is it to be to to be you know name to name to fill a vacancy in this District in the middle of coid you know before you know the vaccine and to face all all these decisions and I'm glad that you know someway somehow you know we we we've made it to we're on our way to our better place you know that there are still you know of course with with this District you know there there are always challenges but the but for for once I I feel I am confident in saying that the what is it the train is moving forward right so I'm very grateful to to all to for our our residents and amilies who continue to trust us to be the primary 0o to8 Education Agency of this region and also all those who serve Alam Rock and I've always compared this to a theater production right superintendent is the director we have our assistant directors uh who is that the teachers our Central you know our our actors on stage and our classified staff are our technical theater right people who keep the lights on P the curtains and make sure to you know uh kind of like you know I'm thinking of you know my days watching uh high school plays right and and know when when when to change set and so you know if it wasn't for all we would not be here for that I am sincerely grateful uh you know busy busy month uh you know um so since the last meeting I had the you know the second leg of my tour of Al third annual tour of Alum Rock was the kieron George and Linda Vista I got you know I got to join the drum line and you know uh playing the drums and I did story time at Kon and uh was it got to see our kids at Linda Vista and I look forward to the next leg of the tour of alam Rock which is tomorrow so what is it uh the sayar shave is Early Learning Center Renaissance at Mat Lucha and San Antonio so I look forward to visiting visiting our our next set of schools tomorrow um let's see I you know it was a great night at back to District night we had was it nearly 600 600 600 you know parents and children one of our best turnouts ever uh you know I am glad to see you know not just our our schools and our staff out there and you know representing the various you know departments and what we have to offer for our parents but also uh all the outside Community agencies that came to be part of back to District night as well I think it's a you know uh you know I had a great you know you know being able to tell our our to a wider audience you know the progress our district has made especially uh teacher and staff housing which is you know as part of our long range facilities PL plan you know the the largest single investment in this District in over 50 years since the completion of Okala Middle School in 1972 uh so and I you know side from that wanted to highlight uh our Mariachi Man was on stage and our our Alan Rock Jazz man was on stage and you know celebrating their 50th Anniversary so uh you know uh know and also I got you know and always enjoy was it raffling off 10 bicycles to our kids you know but I you know uh all in all a great night not just for our school but also for our community uh as you kindly mentioned uh vice president Herrera Lera uh had a successful uh meet you know uh meeting at the east east side Alliance of board presidents and vice presidents and yes uh you know uh you know it is a form of democracy and action you know we may not all agree on everything kind of like uh you know uh like ice cream right we all we all know we want ice cream it's just that there's always the debate between strawberry chocolate vanilla and Rocky Ro mint chip as well got to be strawberry but you know I but the important thing is that it's about it's about our common shared interest as school districts uh revolving you know relating to uh local control of our School site and I'm hoping you know as you know uh as we you know we find you know more common ground we have an opportunity you know with with our shared history as well as you know our our shared relationship with the S High School District to do you know eventually do other things like you know curriculum enhancements and uh you know partnering up where we can on on where we you know where we can better serve our parents so I'm I'm grateful that you know uh you know board vice president support you know and you know bringing you know bring bringing our our fellow neighboring districts together for the big family reunion uh let's see here um you know uh although I did not have the opportunity to attend uh you know uh the africanamerican gala I was at the Moon Festival where I had you know uh you know in support of uh our very own painter Vietnamese dual language imersion program go up on stage against uh the competition with is windmill Springs you know everyone's a winner everyone but you know it was a great time at the 32nd Moon Festival our kids held our own you know they held their own and you know I you know again uh you know uh it shows you know what you know we're what we're bringing it to the table to you know to address the educational needs of our community and yes I hope that next year you know a sure knock out you know you know we you know a knockout wind against windmill spring next have a little competition yes that's Franklin B their board Vice President George S was there that night so you know there's always a bed or something EL course not the superintend was her earlier if I could say I missed because I had to leave early but he he he missed it because he was like we should have a competition with Alam Rock Vietnamese so he's like next year we're going to win sounds like we already won we always win yeah yeah you know uh you know heav money's on that's exactly what we all want to here for ging speeech speech right sorry shining on us you know I you know I also had a great time representing our district at the Democratic Victory dinner on September 23rd uh you know they all had the elected you know Al you know always had you know the most important business is always the side conversations with with our representatives and yes the it was the world you know I call it the world's longest Congo well we all have to line up and introduce our all the elected officials and candidates have to introduce ourselves instead of the the traditional clap for every name right so hence it ended up being the world's longest Conga LA but on that note I I want to encourage uh our parents uh to uh uh was it uh one week from Saturday parent University at Shephard I'm going to be there you know I I you know as always uh what is it uh you know uh it's always about showing our community you know that you know what Alam Rock has to offer your family and your children uh you know so I encourage all Alan Rock families to uh you know take advantage of this golden opportunity uh to you know to see you know what our district can do for your family so uh on that note uh you know oh and last thing I wanted to mention um my I also hosted a meet and greet for our uh you know and all staff recognition for our staff we had a nice little turnout and you know I as board president I always believe that it's important that you know we recognize the efforts of all of those who serve Alam Rock and also that serves the way for me to get to hear you know in a you know less formal setting a more relaxed setting you know what you know what the needs and the aspirations of you know all our teachers and our classified staff and was it sometimes the best you know the best uh ideas you know uh you know actually come off the cup so you know it was a I think it was a privilege to host that and you know on that note uh you know again I look forward to tomorrow's leg of the third angle tour of Allen Rock so with that uh what's it item five uh has been tabled to the next regular board meeting so we move to section six I am 6.01 uh superintendent Bower yes um I will be asking the board to please approve this item but I'm going to turn it over to Mr CA because believe there's a a modif a a a type or something happened there that we need to address yes thank you Dr bow um and yeah before we introduce the item uh we would like to make a correction um to the contract value um that amount should be changed from $14,700 to uh $114,700 and the new breakdown is the consultant service fee is 10 14,700 the allowance Remains the Same at $10,000 and so the new Total contract value is1 $114,700 um and with that the administration is um requesting approval of the contract with PS PSS um in the amount of $114,700 and this is for um some additional um certification that we need to do with the non-certified projects with DSA thank you okay move to approve Consulting Services by project support services for additional non-certified projects requiring certification as required by DSA for $14,700 second okay so motion by uh vice president Herrero ler second by trustee shavez I'll open the item to public comment seeing none questions and comments by members of the board seeing none I'll call for a vote I'll call you see you trusty Chavez hi vice president her Lera hi first Shelton yes and myself voting I item passes four to zero with clo abson moving to section seven instructional surfaces item 7.11 approv School sponsored F tripl superintendent approval okay motion by trusty Flores Shelton second by uh trusty Chavez superintendent B you want to approve please approve the list of field trips okay I'll open item 7.01 to public comment being none I'll open to questions and comments uh from the [Music] board oh well I'll just wrap up with say have fun and B voage and with that U I'll move to a vote I'll call you say Ste trusty Chavez hi vice president Herrera Lera hi trusty Flores Shelton yes and my SE voting I item is approved 4 to zero with board clerk mono absent move to item 7.02 approval okay second motion by trusty Chavez second by trusty Flor Shelton approved quarterly report on Williams uniform complaints uh super bow please approve the quarterly report okay uh I'll open the public comment seeing none I'll open to questions and comments by members of the board seeing none I'll move to a vote I'll call you as I see you trusty Chavez hi vice president herrar Lera hi trusty FL Shelton yes and myself voting I item is approved four to zero with clerk quento abson okay with that I move to item 8.07 resignations this item is information only uh I'll open the public comment saying none I have questions and comments by members of the board seeing none again item is information only moving on to item 9.01 approve the contract with kadango Incorporated uh for the 2023 24 school year uh contract will provide a license California state preschool program at Cesar shavez Early Learning Center and Cesar shavez preschool Center uh in the amount of 2,882 99920 motion byera uh second by trusty Flores Shelton I'll open I'll open the public comment seeing none I'll move to questions and comment by members of the board seeing none I'll call for a vote I'll call you say see you Tristy Chavez the item number again please 9.01 I okay uh vice president Herrera Lera hi uh trusty Flor Shelton yes and myself voting I item is approved we move to section 10 to consent calendar move to approve the entire consent set calendar okay motion I'd like to make an amendment i' I like to um pull item 10.05 uh the approval of annual developer fees uh I accept Okay so the maker the motion accepts second accept Okay and the seconder accepts so there's a motion to approve items 10.01 020304 and 10.06 070809 10.10 and 10.11 open the public comment seeing none move to questions and comments by members of the board seeing none all right I'll call for a vote I'll call you I see you trusty Chavez hi vice president Herrera Lera Hi H trusty Flor Shelton yes and myself voting I items 10.01 through 04 and 10.06 to 11 are approved for to zero with clerk Quanto absent uh okay so item 10.05 approval of annual developer fees so uh the reason I pulled this is not not because I I am against it but uh what I would like to do is to uh take this opportunity to you know uh have a short discussion and you know uh ask some D you know and provide some direction to Administration uh you know since these fees have not been increased in nearly a decade I you know part of you know uh you know seeing where we can increase revenues for the district uh you know I I would like to quote the idea of D directing the administration to uh look at uh you know uh to begin uh a you know to begin and Implement a a study to increase the developers portion of uh the developer fees from 32 cents per square feet to 35 cents per square feet and I believe that you know it's a small three you know we it might not be three but a small you know increase to the business portion of the developer fees as a way to uh what is it increase revenues for the district while uh protecting residential home owners which make up the bulk of our district so at this time I'll open first 10.05 the public comment seeing none so uh I'll take uh questions and comments from members of the board yes uh Christy florell thank you president fam um so interesting um I guess I have two questions one would be for staff in terms of if you could give us an example of how we're generating the fees to dat that would be my first question the second question is President fam how did you come up with three cents because just I can't remember the other one I was like oh well while we're at it let's go more you know I what's the what's the The Benchmark for that so I'll take like well you know I mean a pro that's a for for BS you know I mean that's an approximately 10% increase for uh commercial development fees for square feet in you know in in this district and also you know it's always a what is it revenue is a balancing act and I say this as someone has worked for two State Assembly members uh you know we you know you know to to to in to in to enhance revenues while providing the you know least possible uh disruption you know I should say to to continue to you know uh incentivize economic development in our in our neck of the woods uh you know while uh of course ensuring that you know that uh that their revenues are sustainable generated and also uh do not fall upon those least able to uh bear those costs which you know in this case of our homeowners in reflection of uh you know uh residential home prices in the you know in the of our area in general but uh you know there there seem you know there is you know how you say some wiggle room in the commercial you know given that you know uh our district is you know um you know uh top you know topheavy with the res you know as as a portion of taxable Parcels uh what is it um largely residential based as opposed to commercial based you know which allows other school districts who have larger larger portions of their District uh having commercial commercial parcel you know greater latitude for uh so I don't disagree yeah I I'm not so thank you maybe I should have taken the staff answer first just to understand it but I think my question to you if I can just say it one more time is uh because I don't disagree with you on any of the premises so far it's more again how do we just how did we come how did you come to the conclusion that three three cents I get the 10% but that is a threshold or there's a back stop to that in terms of um what's the source of that the tolerance level because maybe it's four cents maybe it's five cents you know and I think that could be addressed by by a further study right and I say but you know the study could come back out a further you know but it's always good to provide you know some initial guidance aiming mechanism and also what is it a a rate that's uh how you say uh large enough to enhance Revenue but uh how you say uh create you know without creating too much disruption you don't want to chilling effects right you don't want it to like you know put things to a a stop right yeah yeah I understand thank you yes no can I get the staff answer on what's the thanks I'm G to turn it over to can you repeat your question trust sure so um not really familiar with this developer fee and um so just saying what would be examples of how we're currently generating right A B we have the the fund balance of 276,000 but yet we had 14,000 the year prior how do we generate it where's it coming from yes so the um the are generated from two two areas one the residential if they're adding let's say additional units to their to their property um they would have to pay the county um actually to us um the the rates that were set um and that goes yes that comes to us directly at the county um the County County County um property uh division actually oversees that they make sure that you know before they can build anything there's a permit and they this is the trigger where if someone remodels their home over 50% or builds a brand new home or builds I don't know I'm gonna say like if a shopping center popped up right right that's all going to trigger these fees correct and the shopping center would fall in a commercial correct right but the residential I'm not sure the threshold in terms of what triggers um them to pay the develop but um we can get you some details uh once we go through the study itself but that's the wish the boards to move forward with thank you okay s trusty shavez is in yeah um so in doing this in the developer fees especially on commercial buildings that are going to be rented out to the public it's already a high cost area to live so the developer is only going to turn around and give those cost to the renters so you might be increasing in one area but you also are putting an extra burden on the renter it may not be much three cents for Millions doesn't sound much the developer going to incur but they only pass that they pass the buck to somebody else is going to have to pay it so that's the way I look at it because you have to remember who's going to pay for it in the long run thank you okay well you know and and I I'll put in my two cents you know well you know there used to be a three cent point you know so I guess okay a three cent coin was it was once called a time actually uh but uh you know in terms of you know and I you know and as I said this is an incremental move you know this is is you know I I I you know as all you know my parents are homeowners I you know I am you know Comm committed to protecting our our residents to the extent possible so that's why I I wanted to make clear that this there would be no you know I'm not proposing a study for the increase of developer fee rates in residential property so you know when you you know that's why I kind of found it odd that when you said okay you know um an apartment an apartment building is not a commercial building it's a residential building so you know in that case you know the renters would still be protected because I'm not you know I'm not proposing a study to increase you know Residential Properties but uh you know um businesses benefit from I would say businesses benefit from an educated Workforce and alen mo is part of you know uh one of the two primary uh primary local education agencies in you know conjunction with the East Side Union High School District so uh you know as you've always me you know uh this is about this is about you know making you know augmenting our revenues you know you know also in a way that is you know as I said the least you know that provide how do you say Max you know as much stability as possible for our um residents and you know some and certainty to uh you know commercial developers that you know again this is you know uh you know there's always there's a long-term benefit to revenues to school districts in the form of uh you know uh Stronger you know stronger educational opportunities for our children which blow back into our community so it's you know I'm having a hard time with the you know concept of you know what you bring up about you know the the rent you know the rent or paying it I you know um we're we're trying you know our our you know our cost you know uh costs are not stable you know and you know as as as we as you know mentioned about you know your your take on the financial situation obviously differs from my take but I think that it you know it it we do have an agreement that you know we our district is of limited resources and you know I you know a study is you know I think that you know this study would be timely in you know in in looking to see where we can strengthen strengthen our Revenue base yes trusty sh okay for example there's an right there sorry um it look more like a spider anyways for example like me if I was Max if I was the uh the uh contractor I would put rentals on top for homeown for for people who need a home as well as putting commercial downstairs so maximize your profit right so how would it work does that mean that the businesses would incur the additional cost or the ones who are running on top or both because down the line somebody's going to pay for it in addition to that prop your mama prop might be under prop um 13 this is not a property Tex it's developer fee so you're talking about your Mom and Pop's home this an example because you gave the example so on that if they're over 65 they could do the exemption and maybe we should see how many exemptions there are and see how many are going to fall under say the new tax La that came in into uh effect of 2021 being the ones who inherited the inheritance tax that's also on the table maybe it's next year coming up so get all those possible in coming in before we start raising three cents here two cents there that's that's it first before superintend did you have I just want to I don't know if this helps at all but I think if we go through the study you will have a lot of those U scenarios perhaps addressed and the board will have a better you know set of information on which to base decision right now I think that I myself don't know what the process needs to be so we need to figure out I know the board cannot just raise them right we need a certain and I'm GNA turn it over to K just so that that also the public can know kind of what is what what is needed before the board can even consider this yes train yes thank you as um board president mentioned earlier um we do need to go through study to be able to justify any increases um in the rates itself for both commercial and residential um I think you noted here that uh you know the last time we did the study was back in 20145 so it's been a while um if if the board desire we can engage with a consultant who does this type of work um either to get more information or to get a proposal um to be able to start this process firsty FL thank you um because it's statutory is that why we need uh is that why we need a consultant we can't really do it inhouse because we really don't make the call at the end of the day um to be quite honest we don't have the expertise inous to do the study itself okay I I guess I was just thinking it'd be some love little bit of analysis um before we you know like the potential before we go into like getting a consultant spending money on a consultant I again I'm just I'm gonna it feels a little bit like left field left field and so um but I like where you're headed I'm just all of a sudden I'm hearing consultants and then I'm like what are we gonna pay to recoup Revenue but in reference to Mr Chang you know because we lack the expertise to do it I understand so you know you know we do have you know so in order to find out the possibilities you know we we do have you know uh you know it's advisable that we have you know have a consultant you know bring in the consultant to have the study and to you know see where it leads us so with that trusty sh is so I move we table it till more information can be given to the board well uh I don't see a second for that but again I'll second because it sounds like that's what we want right now we're not approving this guess is there a timeline go ahead go go ahead I was just going to say the item needs to be approved okay all right this item the way it is the way it is because you're not the the what is up for discussion is to change it this is the current fees this is already something that you that it is the additional no no that's what I'm saying okay no race what I'm what I'm asking for is you know do we do I need a motion to direct the administration for a study no not really I just you wanted to discuss it right and so you had discussion okay my recommendation is approve the item because no changes to approve as and and and may I you know and and you may say as a board and please staff bring us more information and we'll figure it out we'll we'll figure it out you know whether we you know you need more information and we need more information yeah vice president H over and so that makes sense because it's for 2223 some in place but I hear board president and let's study let's let's see if we can raise this for the next ohy FL yeah but I'm not comfortable in saying you know go off and spend money on a consultant I'd like to hear back like what is this level of expertise how costly is this level of exp that's that's fair I mean we can I turn it over to if I may board president um staff can bring back a summary of the process and outlin and may be some estimated cost for you know to provide to the board just for informational purposes and then the board can decide what how to move forward on not great don't take trusty Chavez can we also get a itemized amount from Larry Stone's office ta syst tax yeah yeah I know who deliv what how much okay should the should the cost be increased what's the dollar so my understanding this isn't this isn't property tax this is developer fees and so that's the part where I just wanted to confirm this is when if so for um for commercial purposes I own um Andrea's Fabrics okay and I'm going to uh Remodel and expand and add 3,000 feet to Andrea's fabrics and so that triggers right so I'm I guess it's a question mark that triggers then because this is in my brain it's like remodels or new buildings that's when you would be developing something right Mr CH we'll try to get all that information captured all yeah for the board there's that fee right right later on the tax assessor will assess the value of your property and then sub but subsequently then then you would then Andrea's Fabrics I would have a new property tax right so that's separate than the development fee yeah so we're just talking about the development Fe yep no taxes right okay so do we so okay so first of all so do I guess do we have consensus from the board to direct Administration to provide a initial an initial study you know in house in in house study on the study please not just one side please if that's all right just the facts just the facts the facts are facts pro and con they're still facts correct yeah that's what she said the facts yeah yeah so is that is that is that a clear enough uh direction from the board to to be to to you superintendent vow or Mr Chang for me it's clear as mud check I think I have it right let's see here and want to honor that enjy you know uh you know you know hopefully something by by the next regular board meeting we'll try our best okay okay so okay so what my desk so we have a motion from who from as is yeah and then there was a second from okay so motion from prusty chavz second from Bo vice president Herrero Lera seeing no person comment I'll call for a vote trusty Chavez hi vice president Herrero Lera hi uh trusty Flor Shelton yes and myself voting I item is approved so with that we move to second1 close session uh okay so 11.01 announcement and public comments regarding items be discussed in close session superintendent M conference with legal council on for potential es 11:04 uh the different updates as uh provided on the agenda um 1105 um conference with Labor negotiators uh employee organization area 11:06 Public Employee discipline dismissal release 11:07 public employee performance evaluation superintendent and 1108 public employee appointment employment operations manager administrator of fiscal services and they will not be a uh interim principal okay so with that I'll open to public comment for items and to be discussed in close all right see none at this point 11:02 the board will recess to close session at 9:21 p.m.

uh Open Session will Zoom at the conclusion of Clos session also the board will take a 15 minute recess so the board will resume in close session at 9:37 thank you very much they like um that's for you too I'm one week older than Dr same birthday don't you remember when we went to lunch and we said oh yes yes in San Diego right yeah yeah remember come on one more quum are these souvenir for yes yes I have a little there's a little baby I might give them [Music] to so is everybody parked that away that away I parked by the office where are you back there are you going to be okay yeah I'll fine Lind he scared the guy in the LI he's not the person he's not all righty so uh board has reconvened from H session at 113 so now Part 12 we can the Open Session uh 12.01 report of action taking and so session Mr too thank you board president on a motion by trusty Chavez second by vice president AA Lera and by a vote of 40 the board unanimously approved Tyrone Armstrong as the new operations manager on a motion from truste Chavez seconded by truste florus Shelton by a vote of 40 the board unanimously approved Maria Bonia as the administrator of fiscal Services there are no more items to report from close session okay thank you Mr too so SEC we move to part 13 future board agenda requests uh item 13.1 .01 request from uh the board of tristes and or from the public request shall be submitted in writing to the superintendent or designate with supporting documents and information if any at least one week before the scheduled meeting date items submitted less than a week before the scheduled meeting date may be postponed to a later meeting in order to allow sufficient time for consideration in research of the issue so with that section 14 adjournment I will adjourn the meeting at 11:03 PM uh and our next meeting is November 9th 2023 thank you so much have a good night done

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the son of Chad and Lindsay Carter participates in Cross Country basketball baseball Golf and power liting he is also a member of FFA where he serves as FFA president in his free time Oakley enjoys hunting fishing with his grandpa and riding four-wheelers with his best friend and his dad our kindergarten attendants tonight are Mr Xavier zarag goza and Miss Thea Richardson Thea is the daughter of Kelsey Patterson Thea's favorite part of school is recess her favorite school lunch is chicken with barbecue sauce when Thea grows up she wants to be a paramedic our kindergarten attendant is Mr xier Channing zaragosa Xavier is the son of Jordan green Xavier's favorite part of going to school is seen his favorite teacher Mrs sprow Javier's favorite lunch is bacon when he grows up he wants to be a police [Music] office our first king and queen candidates are Mr Luke KT and Miss Arley [Applause] hodkin Arley is the daughter of Chris hodkin and Curtis and Lacy Huber Arley is on the cheerleading 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Veterinary [Applause] our next king and queen candidates are Mr jermiah Prince and Miss py [Music] sers py is a daughter of Marvel sers and Chase sellers py par participates in volleyball basketball and softball she is also active in stuco FCCLA FCA Letterman Club National Honor Society she is serving as a student council vice president in her free time paac enjoys playing volleyball going shopping with her sister Haley and spending all their mom's money watching her little brother rodeo and hanging out with great great Duncan any chance she gets her favorite High School memory is having a blowout season here sophomore year and almost beating Pittsburgh Cen in the substate championship her future include playing volleyball and finishing cosmetology school at Independence Community College after college she PL to start career as a licensed cosmetologist at her own py is being escorted tonight by Mr Jeremiah Prince Jeremiah is a son of Jason and Amber prin Jeremiah participates in football basketball baseball and track he's also a member member of suco FCCLA Letterman's Club National Honor Society and the Blue Devil news in his free time Jeremiah enjoys hanging out with the boys going to the White River and slaying fa with his dad brother and the boys talking and learning all his grandparents life lessons and knowing his mom and making memories with the best class that ever came through sedan jerem favorite High School memories for his entire sophomore year After High School Jer Jeremiah plans to attend pilot school and become a private Charter [Music] pilot our final king and queen candidates for this evening are Mr Tristan Wade and Miss Abigail Campbell Abby is the daughter of James and Rachel Campbell Abby isaku volleyball cheer track and power liting she's also a member of stuco FCCLA FCA Letterman Club National Honor Society and yearbook Abby is serving as a senior class president and student council president in her free time she Eno enjoys working out spending time with her little sister AA going to Sonic with Jasmine and hanging out with Dal After High School Abby plans to go to Central Methodist University on a cheer scholarship while there she plans on getting a degree in pediatric nursing Abby is escorted this evening by Mr Tristan [Applause] Wade Tristan is a son of Crystal Wade at sedan Tristan plays football basketball and baseball he's also a member of stuco FCCLA FCA FFA Letterman's Club National Honor Society and the Blue Devil news Tristan is also serving as a senior class co-president in his free time Tristan enjoys hanging out with family and friends bullying his sister and being Blake big bro trist's favorite memories have been all the pranks the class of 2023 has done past four years after college CH plans on attending a uh After High School he he plans on attending a college and playing collegiate baseball in college he plans to get a degree in business and earn his lineman certificate let us hear one more time for 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Roy Potter number 45 Devonte Harris number 55 Andre [Music] W our by [Music] head now let's meet blev starting line number four Junior c number seven Junior Jack D number 11 number 12 Senor jiah Prince number 13 senior Luke her number 14 senior Tristan Wade number 56 Junior Lucky Jericho and number 70 sophomore Jacob daro your beevil are coached by head coach Nick Hol and assisted by Jared Blakemore and John [Music] pre your officials for tonight's game your referee is Randy Bogel your umire is Chad Orton your back judge is Mr Mike Welty your head linesman Mr Pat Lockwood and last but not least finishing his 44th year as an official in football here in the state of Kansas let's welcome Rick Stanfield [Music] been up here all night [Music] ready at this time I'd like to ask every fan to please stand remove your hat for the playing of our national anthem by the sedan senior and Junior High School [Music] [Applause] band [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] la [Music] hey you're in big trouble [Music] for [Music] the Spartans will receive the opening kickoff F the South goal you good will kick off and defend the north Co Rebeca that's funniest thing I've heard in a while that's right that's right up there with mine Jamie maybe 14 Tris and Wade will be kicking off of the Blue Devils Back deep is number two Vick fit the Spartan T you Spartan Blue Devil fans let's get up for the [Music] [Applause] kickoff on the return BL double tackle 12 Jeremiah Prince it'll be first and 10 for the Spartans ball spotted at their own 20 yd line 195 and [Music] 255 25 Roy Potter on the carry Blue Devil tackles Jeremiah Prince and Luke her gain a short yard it'll bring up second and nine [Music] complete to five Henderson Blue Devil tackler 14 TR Wade ler no gain it'll bring up third and nine for the Spartan [Applause] Chris the number 25 Roy SP Luke Herd on the stop for the blue Dev gain of a yard it'll bring up fourth down and eight C the RO [Music] de 18 Henley back in punch formation for the Spartans Prince back deep for the Blue [Music] Devils return for the Blue Devils the first and 10 for the Blue Devils B spotted at the Spartan 27 first down blue Dev [Music] passes complete from Wade to number seven Jackson D Braden Henderson on the tackle gain of five it'll bring up second five for the Blue Devil Jackson B on the carry gain of a couple it'll bring up third and three for the [Music] BL I couldn't tell you [Music] [Applause] [Music] Prince on the carry get to three is going bring a fourth and a short one for the blue [Music] devs ball resing at the Spartan 17 yd [Music] line Prince on the carry that's going to be enough for a Blue Devil first down ball spotted at the Spartan 6yd line Vic pitch on the tackle for the [Music] Spartans [Music] [Applause] Jackson D on the carry 18 Dante Henley on the tackle little no gain in the break up second goal blue Falls incomplete it'll bring a third and goal from The Spar six Y [Music] Line want a want a is out of [Music] bound loss of a couple it's going to bring up fourth and goal for the blue [Music] passes complete to 12 Jeremiah prin touchdown Blue [Applause] [Music] Devil [Music] attemp the [Music] P seven Jackson D in for the two-point conversion 75 for the first quarter [Music] blev [Applause] [Music] 14 t w will be kicking off to the Blue Devils Back deep for the Spartans number two Vic Fitch hey All You Blue Devil fans let's get up for the kickoff [Applause] [Music] sit on of you TR

[Music] growing up you come to Friday Night Lights and you watch the games week in and week out dreaming of the one day that you get to play on the field and for 11 of our seniors tonight they're going to take this field for the final time here at Columbia multi-purpose field it's senior night we got 11 football players we're going to be honoring the cheerleaders honoring the Roc and the flag personnel as well it's a beautiful night we thought we were going to be soggy tonight but it's okay weatherman held off Mother Nature's on our side we got the Eagles and we got the Cougars coming up here in another kokia conference matchup and week eight football and in a weekend that we didn't know what to expect we thought that this might be a huge pivotal conference game and instead it's going to come up the Eagles are going to be trying to play spoilers trying to enjoy their senior night and trying to have a good night all together coach dermaine he's got his work cut out for him as you see right there getting the guys ready to go he's got his work this Central offense is going to put up a ton of points so Jared we come into this game senior night like I said what are some things that you remember from your senior night and all the senior nights that have been in the past as well I can't really remember who he played on senior nights but um I know I know we always came out with a win my sophomore Junior and senior year and what was most important my senior year so um It's always important to to come into these senior night games and I mean just have fun out there um it's knowing that you're one in six this season um haven't won a haven't won a conference game since uh two weeks ago against SE saltwood River um and then you got probably one of the best teams that we've ever played um in our conference Brie Central coming in tonight to to mess with us so we'll see how we do from from that well welcome into the booth here on kchs the aces wild pregame show Alex L and Jared Germaine coming to you once again in our final time up here at kchs we thank everyone for listening and joining week in and week out Aces wild our pregame sponsor they have live music coming up tomorrow night so if you're in town looking for something to do make sure you head up and listen to some live music going on up there so Jared tonight's game though we're coming into a game we're coming off of a huge great fight out of our guys they uh I think we said in the second quarter man we don't see any figh in our guys and uh insert foot and mouth our boys did good in the second half yeah they proved us wrong uh that first half wasn't really pretty by us I think it was 20 to6 at halftime if I'm not mistaken um and then we just got we got going in the second half I think they scored again to make it what 276 so we were down 21 points uh scored three touchdowns unanswered and tried to go for two to win it um but came up a little short and that's a big thing like you said the the fight the stringing some things together one thing that we've talked all year we don't really get much offense going and we've progressed we've talked to Coach horer and Coach Jermaine both in the holton's uh coaches show when we talked to them and they say every time you know our guys are progressing when we started the the year off there was games we had 60 yards of offense and now all of a sudden we're getting 60 yards in two drives so it's kind of nice that we're able to string some stuff together and get some drives going that we typically weren't seeing early in the year yeah and I think our offensive line has gotten a lot better throughout the season um I think we were talking in the first three weeks I'd say um we were getting the line of scrimmage and already getting pushed back most of our running backs and quarterbacks so um I think tonight and the last two two three weeks have looked a lot better um hopefully tonight we can come in and keep that push going some big things that happened last week we had Hudson Bryant scoop and score I think that was our first defensive touchdown this year and it came at a crucial time you know that gave a lot of momentum and we went into Salem we never lost to them at all in the six games that we played so when that kind of got the wheels turning a little bit for the Eagles Mason vagley I think he did a great job sometimes when he shows a play action he kind of just shows it real quick and he pulls it and he had one that he ended up I think it was like a 40 yard run he really rode the uh the running back a long way and then he ended up getting a big run down the middle of the field so um he did good running the football and then throwing the football I think he completed 75% of his throws something like that had a great night through the air so like you said everything's progressing for the Eagles and it's looking good in the future and unfortunately this year comes across as a a one in six season currently so hopefully we're able to put some stuff together on this very good Breeze Central team so another thing you look at that last Drive last week started with the big run I think we had 9 5 yards ahead of us in the final two minutes we get down we score really quick then you got to go for two we we talked you said Alex I don't want to get ahead of ourselves I didn't I didn't let you get ahead of Drive even started I was saying I didn't let you get ahead of you but I just agreed I wasn't going to go for overtime so let's go back to that two-point conversion play there was a lot of moving Parts some things kind of fell apart some guys fell down and ultimately didn't get the job done yeah and it was a formation that we haven't seen all season I think coach Warner put it in last week um we had three running backs back in the backfield with m and vagle um I think they were just going to try like a a sweep to the left with vagle and it just no blocking really didn't work so uh came up short so when you look at that play we kind of talked on our way home do you go to a play that you know you've done good on like in in our world we knew a flow and a flash were two plays that we had done well on last week do you go to a flow and a flash or do you go to a new something new that they've never seen before I think if you're one in one and five going into last week I think you just got to have fun with it um you got to throw some new plays in there and uh maybe May some trick plays that we added in and that's what coach Horner did um we know we're not going to get in the playoff so I mean these last three weeks I think he's just been trying to have a little fun with the guys and you're going to see what you got coming up for you as well in the future here as you can see there we have the cheerleaders coming up you started the broadcast with the football team so now we have three cheerleaders the flags and RC is going to be rounding out the top there so whenever we come back we will talk about this week the conference and this matchup that we have with the Cougars we're going to send it back down to the field for senior night with everyone else we will be back with the Ace of wild pregame show right after this what did you say let's introduce senior Knight for our senior cheer leaders flags and Roc we'll start with our cheerleaders starting with cadence Johnson she's with her parents Courtney and Garrett Johnson her plans after graduation are to attend Old Miss to study physical therapy favorite memory at Columbia High School senior homecoming week biggest accomplishment while at CHS is winning ICA junior year AA rmer with her parents Amanda rmer Robert rmer her plans after graduation getting her master's degree in architecture favorite memory at Columbia High School a senior homecoming week biggest accomplishment while at CHS was placing State placing second at State [Applause] forer Reagan search with her parents Tyson and Amber search her plans after graduation are to attend Western Kentucky University on the pre- dental track favorite memory at Columbia High School is cheering at the football games in the Chicago Cheer Camp Senior Year biggest accomplishment while at CHS is maintaining a high GPA to remain in NHS while balancing cheer family and friends with our flag team Molly Pitman along with her parents Michael and Sarah pman her plans after graduation are to attend Swift for two years then attend SIU Carbondale to study zoology favorite memory at Columbia high schools meeting the best German ex exchange students she could ask for biggest accomplishment while at CHS is making it to senior year Bridget wayy with Jessica Janet plans after graduation are to attend school for fashion design favorite memory at Columbia High School is planning Spirit Week outfits with her friends biggest accomplishment while at CHS is winning first place Color Guard at the pville parade Emma wer with her parents Heather Henrick and Mark wer plans after graduation are to attend a four-year University in major in aerospace engineering favorite memory at Columbia High School is going to Disneyland for the first time with all her friends and being able to perform with the marching band biggest accomplishment while at CHS surviving AP k our ROTC member William goodr his parents Liz and Dave Hornell plans after graduation to attend a four-year University and major in history favorite memory at Columbia High School is going on the ROC trip to Colorado Springs biggest accomplishment while at CHS is taking the SAT and completing Anna balti with her parents Jennifer and Timothy balti plans after graduation are to attend swick for EMT and fire academy favorite memory at Columbia High School afj RC trips biggest accomplishment while at CHS winning a letter for afjrotc drill competition let's hear it for our senior student athletes cheer flag and RC [Applause] members welcome back to the aces wild pregame show as we continue our senior night festivities and Jared um we'll talk a little bit about our senior nights here uh when I we already talked about this um you got the victory you got the upper hand I was uh I lost 2720 debris Central and in a game that you know this usually like I said earlier has a lot of implications to it so what do you remember and what's your message to the seniors as they come in tonight and where they're going in the future so I mean some of these kids have been playing since they were five six years old in kindergarten so um all that I could really say is just take it all in uh it's your last time playing on this field uh you grow up to play Columbia football um and you always dream to play Columbia football so um it's your last game in front of your fans in front of all your friends so I think just go out there and just have fun that's a big thing we talked a lot about about the blue crew and what they do tonight they've got their construction and highlighter yellow clothes on I don't know what you really want to call it I I guess we'll call it construction but you know they've done a great job supporting the kids throughout the year um they've always got the the stands packed up and everything too so the school does a great job with the blue crew not only at football games at volleyball at basketball they're they're a great student section so they do a good job and and that's what makes it fun too typically these stands are full I think tonight they might be a little less full just because of the weather that I said that we weren't going to have and then as soon as I said that my phone went off and said the rain's on its way so I think tonight maybe we won't have as many fans but typically these fans do a great job coming out and supporting the guys yeah and I mean all the kids parents that you have up here uh supporting throughout the whole season is always great to see um having uh the purch out there um before every game is something that's always great to see them tailgating before games so um I mean it's the last go around so try to get a w out of this one yep so let's talk a little bit we'll uh talk the conference schedule and recap what's going on tonight really isn't anything that's out of the norm uh roxan shells are going to be the conference representatives are currently sitting at 7-0 and unless they I don't think they're going to them aren't they yeah I don't think there's going to be much of a t alert yeah upset alert maybe so but rox's going in 7-0 uh wood Rivers 0 and seven the game that we got circled though Salem and freeberg yeah they're both what I think they're both no yeah they're both four and three so whoever wins tonight um could likely have a a playoff spot so it's freeberg um we'll have we'll have to be looking at that score and updating people on that one cuz that's that's one to watch for sure and the we'll stick with the conference here last week's Conference Championship game roxan and Bree Central and a game that we watched at the halftime show we said man it's 2221 I think it was and then all of a sudden you looked back and it was 57 to 22 so the kokia conference shaped out like we expected it to and hopefully we're going to be able to get another kokia conference Victory here tonight we're going to head to a break and when we return we will talk about the central cougars who are coming in tonight at 4 and2 we'll be back with the aces wild pregame show right after [Music] this welcome back to the aces wild pregame show where I just said the central cougars were 4-2 they're 5- two they're coming in tonight and uh we got our hands full here whenever we come into this game you heard it from Howie though we're going to go through hoe naps little notes that he's got this Series dates back to 1974 and other than one year the Eagles and the Cougars have matched up he didn't have the the record off the top of his head today but this is something I think freeberg is the longest standing matchup that we have Breeze Central is coming in the second longest and Coach Herer coach Germaine coach short from Breeze Central all get along well and all have a lot of respect for each other yeah and if you can even remember last year uh that was probably one of best game of the year I'd say um I remember Don Bley had three carries for three touchdowns for about 160 yards so um that was a fun one but yeah going back with against coach shorty and all these other guys um on that side of the ball I mean it's it's always fun um it's always a battle I know this this year might be uh we'll see what happens but um yeah over the past I'd say 10 15 years every time I've seen these two play it's it's a battle so I'm excited centrals coming out they got 13 coaches on their sideline over there I think Columbia we got six so they got the upper hand on the coaches but I think take the the brains and the uh the tenness from our two coaches and coach horer and Coach Jermaine this is an even matchup this is the first time that Columbia 618 students 620 for Bree Central so somebody that's pretty much our side it's going to be pretty even a lot of times we're playing some schools that are bigger than us which kind of blows my mind because I thought we were always big but there's a lot of other schools that get a lot more feeder programs so we're coming in 618 to 620 and like I said we've played all along so let's go back to last year's game you think of Dom vagle and his runs I I don't think I'll forget about seeing uh Logan Hicks coming from the backside they went they went for two at the end of the game to win that game Logan Hicks comes from the backside makes the initial contact Dom vagley comes up and uh cleans everything up at the end and makes a big tackle I think of like the one or two yard line it wasn't it was close so that was a fun game and hopefully tonight we're going to be able to have just as much fun here tonight coming into the game so we look at them on the offensive side of the football and the stats that they're booking up get ready to run we got to get going quarterbacks thrown for over 1100 yards 17 touchdowns only four picks on the year um 77 completions so I mean that tells you they're going to throw the ball lot um they got two running backs that they like to give the ball to one of them's got 465 yards the other's got almost 400 yards 11 touchdowns combined so um D line and linebackers are going to have to be uh playing well tonight against that offensive line and shooting gaps um and just trying to get in the back field make plays and when we watch film we saw couple different formations that they're going to have we're going to be watching keying in on one guy it seems like he took the ball majority of the the time where he took you to the ball the guards can go number 36 I couldn't remember his number glad you're here uh but the guards can go one way if number 36 goes the other way who cares what the guards are doing we got to go follow the ball the other way and then they got another goofy formation with putting a guy 15 yards deep you got to figure you got Canadian Football League out there you got to honor that guy being over there but he might be a decoy too so coach raain going to have his hands full but he understands this stuff and he's been doing it I think just as long as you've been alive pretty close to it so they've got everything figured out over there so when we look at the defensive side of the ball and our offense uh we're going to have our hands full we're going to have to move the ball and like we said we've uh progressed farther and farther so hopefully we're able to keep things going and uh get some points on the scoreboard and we've done a very good job on the turnover battles this year I feel like uh last week we had one big turnover big fumble um but we still ended up even I believe it was because of Hudson scoop and score so tonight we're going to have to hang on to the football yeah that just reminded me last week on our ride home uh we said that muffed punt and then the blocked Pat and we we probably would have won that game I don't want to say that we probably would have won I think we would have won that game um 10% of the plays make 90% of the outcome on special teams we've said that a Tim or too You' said that but yeah and I also said you know Keegan hasn't missed a pat all year and you you could hear it on the broadcast you knocking on the uh on the on the wood but it was too late I already said it the PA Jinx so going back to last week sorry about all the technical difficulties Salem was the game that we decided we weren't doing video on Road games anymore we seven broadcast last week yeah we kept it going so thanks to Josh he kept the broadcast going cuz I was about to give up on it so thanks to Josh for getting everything up and running and thanks for everyone for understanding that too so tonight coming into this game we also have a couple more thanks that we have to give we have to thank the electrod door for getting tonight's meal from the Columbia City Saloon that went to the uh players their pregame meal and we'd like to thank the Columbia quarterback club for getting the meal also from the Columbia City Saloon to the volunteers that get here before the games and get everything up and rolling we're going to head to one more break real quick as the band comes out we'll bring you the players coming out and we'll bring you the national anthem from the Columbia multi-purpose field right after this [Music] welcome back to the Columbia multi-purpose field where the Eagles and the Cougars are about to get ready and set here in another Kia conference matchup we're going to send it back to Mr chrisan AIS Rouse and the Eagles marching band for our national anthem head here place your hand over your heart as we pay respect to this great country with the plane of the national anthem the colors are presented by the Columbia High School's very own Air Force Jor Roc the color guard is commanded by kette Lieutenant Colonel Carson C flash other members of the color guard include kette major Xander noell kette senior master sergeant Hannah balti Cadet senior master Sergeant William Goodridge Cadet staff sergeant Hunter corvis and Cadet senior Airman Sarah tutter L and Gentlemen The National [Applause] [Music] andem [Music] [Applause] [Music] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] welcome back to the aces wild pregame show as the anthem just finished up and we're about ready for Eagle football T time sorry Jared I took your line there on the first night that really feels like fall it got a little chilly on us last week but uh I think we've had a very good oh yeah fall this year and uh blessed with that weather oh man couple times it was pretty brutal how cold it got but this year been a good year for us so hopefully tonight we're able to uh become Victorious as the central cougars make their way out onto the field and they got a little guy running up coming in at the 40 he's coming in hot got little legs it looked like Jared back in the day running out there once again we missed the uh coin toss so we'll see what happens here with Coach Kendall miss it every year don't we game yeah one day we'll get it we only got a week to figure it out but if not we'll get it to you next year we promise that'll be our that'll be our change for next year Eagles are going to come out blue tops blue pants white helmets and the Cougars are going to go all white tops and bottoms with their purple helmets and a look that really never changes out of the Cougars it's always the the same look out of them and another good game and another good two programs that are coming in play in tonight's game here yeah and I feel like every time I feel like Central has almost overtaken a lot of other uh teams in our rival I know in volleyball um in basketball it's one of the biggest games of the year that you circle on your schedule um and football's been that way uh for a long time now too I believe the Eagles beat the Cougars last night in volleyball I think had a clean sweep out of all all three of them so good job out of the uh Eagles volleyball team going to Breeze Central never yeah never easy to Wi and win in there so great job that's in any sport it's so hard to play there they they do a great job down there and with their facilities with everything they have they're still doing upgrades and renovation so always good to go down there so enough with the aces wild pregame show we got Eagle football time as the Eagles are going to be receiving it looks like it's going to be Jason Nelson and dton rainwater back deep I would assume that is rling and Keegan Thompson standing at the 30 and doing the kicking for the Cougars is number 63 Griffin Thomas the senior 59 184 he sends it deep it's going to bounce at the 19 gets pass rainwater he picks it up at the 15 not much blocking for the Eagles he makes a man miss he droops out of the way of another he's got the 30 yd line up to the 32 and that's where this Eagle offense is going to take over there's a senior getting his first touch of the night number 34 Rainer on the return for the Eagles good field position here for the Eagles brought down by number 24 Nate dton rainwater is going to be going to a trade school when he completes this year for HVAC Eagles are going to be let out by quarterback Mason vagley we talked about in that pregame show had himself a good good week last week let's see if he can carry it over this week doubles to the right side sniffer back right running back right looks to be cam janick they fake it to him it's a pull he's going to put it down get to the 30 keeps his feet moving a quick whistle there out of the white hat as he kept his feet moving could have got rid of that ball he had Andrews on that little arrow R but decided he put it put his head down and try to get some yards with his feet ended up losing two vaguely thrown this year 55 for 105 52% completion ratio seven touchdowns six interceptions 672 yards s comes out now it's going to be second and 12 this time he fakes a hand off to Hicks he's got a wide open hole he's got enough for a first down he's got the 50 he makes one man miss he's going to try to get to the 30 yd line he gets down there before he gets brought down from the 30 to the 30 it's good for 40 yards first down Eagles that was just a simple pull there we've seen that all season long and he does do a pretty good job of putting that ball all the way in his running back's belly and pulling it out able to find a great hole there and burst through the middle of the field for one of his biggest runs of the Season ball on the right hash doubles to the left side sniffer back left no Defenders out there we see if we're going to be able to get to the outside that's where Hicks is going he gets to the outside great job blocking out of the outside there by number four for the Eagles Denny and he gets probably close to a first down we'll see what they're going to give it to him and they do first down Eagles the tackle for Central good blocking there by Denny and good blocking pulling there by Joe Kish getting out there as well yeah that I think it was that left tackle I can't see who that is over there 71 might be Owen minky did a great job just sealing that edge giving enough space for Hicks to bounce it outside and cut her up field doubles this time for the Eagles four down linemen three linebackers going to be a fake once again vaguely pulls it nothing going this time as he gets stood up and popped by number 62 and 18 for the the Cougars keeps the gain of nothing second and 102 look like Janet going to check in now in for Hicks at running back you're going to be in a double set 10 minutes left here in the first quarter doubles ball in the middle of the field same formation here as the defense lines up quick little slant to Denny good job making the catch [Music] gain of seven we'll call it maybe six we'll call it six brings up a third and four now you're definitely in four down territory with that completion there that's a great play call right there and good job all the way around by The Eagles cuz early in the season when we had second and 10 it probably end up being third and 14 yeah Eagles are going to have a tight end left sniffer back left com one of your chick plays Alex got a guy walking showing a blitz fake the hand off to Jace vaguely goes to the right side he's got the 10 lowers his shoulder five nearly gets to the pylon before he gets knocked out at the three first and goal for the Eagles simple play calling so far for Coach orner running simple RPO action looks like they're going to line up in that same position probably run the same play I wonder vaguely right there if he's reading that defensive end on what he does same formation for the Eagles probably the same play it's going to be quarterback keeper to the right side touchdown Mason vagley in the [Music] [Applause] [Music] Eagles how about that first drive on senior night Eagles go marching all the way down takes him two minutes and 50 seconds to go probably close to 70 yds and gets into the end zone first Keegan Thompson on to do the kicking once again Mason vagley to do the hold good snap good hold kick is up had a lot of guys coming through the line of scrimmage but that's okay it's good that takes the mny Maguire group scoreboard Columbia seven Bree Central zero that's another $100 from George Weber Chevrolet as well so thank you to George Weber Chevrolet we're going to head to break when we come back we'll see what this Eagles defense can do right after [Music] [Applause] this [Music] welcome back to the Columbia multi-purpose field where Keegan Thompson's going to send this one deep great kick by Keegan gets over the head of number 21 and it checks up Eagles get good job getting down the field by beltman he's got a touch at the five breaks a couple tackles to the 15 is number 21 for the Cougars and that is Carter D we'll go with the end to the 15 let us know where you're listening from we've got people from coast to coast so far so hopefully we'll be able to get some more people listening so make sure you follow comment subscribe do everything so we know where you're coming from and where you're listening from right here on kchs great to see Brandon Jackson back out there tonight the senior going to be a run play up the middle for the Cougars number two he's got the right side he's going to have to make a couple men Miss there's two guys for the Eagles chasing him down looks like Payton Andrews and vagley so they go from the 16 yd line down to the 36 big play for the uh cougars on the first play of the game we got some slight rainfall now coming down got the umbrellas out cougars up to the line of scrimmage once again they got a quick snap there great start out of the Eagles offense off sides there yeah hard count what is that formation that they have right there is that like a double I don't even know what you call that we're going to call it a double sniffer they got single receivers to the outside 36 is that inside sniffer so that's who we got to keep our eye on tonight wherever he goes that's probably where the ball's pass play here for number 15 he's looking to the end zone he's got number 19 over there pton Andrews gets beat touchdown Central Central did a good job there Griffin Becker getting up 62 145 Jr does a great job getting up and getting the football looks like there might be a flag they already set the ball in a three that ref had no idea what was going on I never even saw I didn't either Becker's got 29 catches 5501 yards seven touchdowns on the season that would have been his eighth there great ball by the quarterback looked like they're just going to call a simple false start on that play So I saw none of that happen I did not either maybe it was out of one of the uh the upbs I think the the outside sniffer back ran wheel route so maybe he was trying to get a little extra juice out on the outside so now it's going to be a toss to the left side good job there getting in the back field madx stefen loss of four good job firing the Gap right there and taking on the Block making a tackle for a loss he just went on a simple Blitz there usually lining up in that outside linebacker position but came right through the middle of the field great play there by madx stefen bring up a second and long call it second and 14 just got a text listening in AC's Wild tonight listening to the game rains really coming down now doubles to the right side tight end left number two's em motion man to the right side it's a roll out to the right side quarterback's going to keep rolling out he tries to throw it to number two where goes incomplete brings up a third and 14 Jared I'd be interested last week they really picked on pton Andrews it seemed like last week and he had his back to the to the uh quarterback a lot of times too so I'd be interested to see they keep going that way yeah they already picked on him once like to see if an adjustment was made there last week he was sitting sometimes 10 12 yards off and look at right now you got a third and 14 wide receiver standing at the 42 he's standing at the 32 man I just don't understand that eagles look like they're trying to send somebody over there to help and they do delay a game on the Cougars looked like Brandon Jackson was going to run out there and maybe press number 19 their number one receiver you've got to do that I don't know I forgot what that's called uh maybe 44 somebody that's listening could quote me but whenever you have a linebacker go out there and press that best receiver just to have a little help over the top with your corner slow him down a little bit especially now you have third and long so you got to think they're either going to run screen pass here or maybe even just take a shot down field quarterback's going to roll out to the right side nothing but verts on the outside and it's going to be low and incomplete they went after Payton and a good defense there he was right there on the heels of the receiver brings up a fourth and 19 now after the five yard delay of game penalty and a probably a pun and down if you are the Cougars got a listener from Columbia Missouri go Tigers who do they got this week Kentucky at Kentucky now we got to see how it's going to be catching a punt looking up into the raindrops little bit of a rolling to the right side good punt spiraling bounces at the three ydd line over the head of rebling and into the end zone for a Touchback we're going to stay here with you and see what the Eagles offense can do after a very good 2- minute and 50 yard drive or 2 minute and 52 yard Drive earlier great stop there by the defense after going up seven nothing after that first play it was a good stop I forgot that they forgot about that play happening Eagles are going to go doubles to the right side sniffer back right is that Janik yes as the pistol back running back with vagle four down linemen three linebackers two safeties it's going to be a run to the right side just a stretch play to the 35 second and five on the right hash now for the Eagles just a simple play once again Jared yeah coach Warner looks like he's going to be run heavy tonight especially with his rain coming down now had a great first drive offensive line getting a good push and we have three different running backs that we can cycle in through so that's always good to keep guys fresh in and out same formation for the Eagles this time into the boundary second and five running same play good job putting his foot in the ground coming back up field was janick third and about one maybe two we'll call it one that was Hicks that time on the Run coach Herer last two plays running into the boundary see if he wants to use that wide side of the field over there going to have single coverage looks like up top with Dalton Rainwater he's going to have doubles to the right with the sniffer back right hard count nobody moves on the Cougars nobody moves on the Eagles Janik moves to the other side going to be a handoff janx going to get enough for the first down Eagles gain a five good hard run first and 10 for the [Music] Eagles rain really starting to pick up here Alex he's got to turn a light off just so he can see out the window see through the reflections here I'm looking at the screen now it is absolutely poring I haven't seen a game like this since the 2009 SE well the 2009 Breeze Central game before the turf I remember Kyle brightenstein coming off the field you couldn't even see his number on his jersey doubles for the Eagles this time going to be a pull to the left side we're going to throw it to the right picked up by rling he keeps his feet moving but his knee was down he didn't look like it but ref was standing right there you could see that ball come out of Mason's hand like a little duck so the unfortunate loss of five second and 15 there was nobody around if he makes that catch cleanly yeah just simple bubble route that we've seen all year from rebling able to get outside but ball was a little low had to go down and get it knee unfortunately hit the ground when he did trips left Bunch now only two rece or two Defenders out there running back to the right side going to be another pass play vley is looking to the left side he tucks it down he's going to run get up to the original line of scrimmage maybe an extra yard third and 10 I liked how it looked over there though with having trips left Bunch you had a corner and basically a safety plane and that was it on those three guys we've seen that kind of all year when we have that trips Bunch they bring out two guys if you just throw a simple little now route out there get some yardage but haven't really seen that all season doubles the left side making a motion man is rbbl they nearly run into each other bagley's got to step up now he's going to have to try to make something happen he tries jumping around it's going to be a fourth down and nine as nothing happened Kish loses his helmet here's a question Alex as a quarterback when you I mean I know you want to throw the ball but does it make you mad whenever it just starts raining and you're like oh we're probably going to have to run the ball the whole game not really I mean he would like to throw the ball a little bit more but as quick as Mason is I think running the football for him may not be the worst thing either yeah and that first drive running the ball looked pretty good so 440 left now in this first quarter Central going to get the ball back oh and it's and it gets [Applause] blocked it's going to be picked up by the Cougars into The End Zone touchdown Central on the blocked [Music] [Applause] punt that's a momentum changer there yeah that guy was unblocked right up the middle Mason was doing his rugby style punt got the ball off but big man put his right hand up in the air great block scoop and score great job by the central see with the pat it's a low snap and if they're going to have to fire number 10's going to have to scramble he throws up a duck and it falls incomplete so we can see what the rains doing already low snap 10% of plays 90% of the outcome Eagles still lead this one 7 to six on the Mandy McGuire group scoreboard we're going to head to a break when we come back we'll give you the rest of the first quarter right after [Music] this [Music] [Applause] welcome back to the Columbia multi-purpose field where the Eagles lead us 7 to six rainwater is going to catch this one at the 12 yd line he's going to try to go that left sideline keeps his head moving goes straight ahead and gets to the 34 where he is brought down so we'll see what the Eagles offense can do is they just had the blocked punt we'll see what happens they actually give them the 35 yd line first and 10 for the Eagles 428 in this first quarter I can't remember the last time I've seen a block block pun or kick return for a touchdown against us to be honest with you the guy who actually did the block did a great job of stepping in front of Mason and not letting him pick up the ball and he let the other guys come and get the touchdown doubles to the right side sniffer back right pistol back is Janik they fake it to him good job blocking that is not a hold on the official Mason's got a great run that is not a hold out of pton Andrews oh man that is bad call I didn't see a hold unless he shoved him over I guess but from this angle that was a rough call and on this side of the field Mason had a lot of green grass he was able to pick up that first down but the holding is going to bring us back somebody's got a backup beeper sound so it's going to be a loss of 10 what could have been about a 20 yard run I think you said that about our offense earlier this year like a truck backing up at times this year it was yes it was we've been put it in Drive lately though same formation for the Eagles same defense for the Cougars it's going to be vaguely again he's going to try to make a guy Miss makes one miss takes three guys to bring him down after a good hard run number 19 once again we've called his number a couple times Griffin Becker was the first defender in the backfield stand correct is number 18 Owen showmaker where'd he come from is he he's a linebacker yeah he's on this think he's a middle linebacker NOP outside linebacker on that other side so he flew all the way to the other side of the ball looks like the Left End defensive end for Central brought his practice jersey with him tonight trips to the left side ball in the right hash probably going to be a roll out here and it is Mason throws it real quick it's going to be high but it's going to be brought down by Denny good play call good execution out of the Eagles third down and six now much more manageable good play there out of the Eagles offense and that's where we've seen Mason all season long uh pretty much throwing the ball he's got to roll out just to have enough time to look downfield and give his wide receivers a chance um I'd say the last three four weeks have looked a lot better on that o line he's had a little bit more time not a lot of pressure iner his face so uh see what we do here on this third and five doubles now for the Eagles running back to the left side vagley didn't need to run and now he's going to just Chuck it up and throws it away and that's where you got a Young quarterback that all year hasn't had a lot of time there was nothing that he needed to run away from I think you heard the footsteps of and got a little scared so fourth down and six now for the Eagles hopefully we cleaned up that last punt able to find who blocked that one get a hand on him this time and on these games you can't afford to have those kind of mistakes fourth and six 307 a lot of cougars getting the Back Field once again but this time it gets off and it's going to go out of Bounds at the 39 yd line so good field position position for the Cougars as they start here so let's see if that defense can get another stop as they lead this one 7 to6 301 remaining in the first quarter and Jared we talk about this offense here for the Cougars lot of weapons and so far they've kind of moved it around to a lot of different guys yeah they're going to take a shot here I bet uh on this on this drive again um looks like we have rain oh no that's built him in and then you got rebling playing that other Corner slot over there so uh pton Andrew's out on this drive see what central wants to do trips right Bunch motion man number nine they're going to do a Jet Sweep with him and everyone's over on that right side of the field now he's going to get a good eight yards number nine on the play there Benny Layman gets the reception good for nine yards second down and one I'm liking the play gos by both head tonight spreading the ball around especially for Central getting the ball in different guys hands and then Coach Herer heavily on that run tonight going to be a run ISO right up the middle good hard run for five yards first and 10 Benny Layman on the last play this season six receptions 150 yards for 25 yards per carry and I bet it's on that Jet Sweep I bet that's his play that's his go-to that was the second secondary running back right there Cole Davis number four 45 rushes for 400 yards first and 10 they're going to fake it to him bootleg to the right side quarterback's looking deep rling does a good job covering deep what happened there I was looking down make sure riing was covered all right good the rain quit falling but it's done enough damage so far second and 15 now after the loss of five and that's I feel like I played on uh Turf and grass whenever it was raining I feel like Turf is way more slippery though cuz I mean you you have the mud and stuff in the in grass but I don't know the turf is just man sliding all over the place vaguely comes off rainwater goes on Layman's the motion man and an absolute Sprint and he's going to go deep they're going to throw underneath to him though it's going to be number 19 he's going to get to 30 tries to get to the 25 brought down by Brandon Jackson and built him in good job by Jackson getting over here making the tackle I think number nine just ran a 50 yard dash in about a 46 he was scooting between the motion and then just the dead Sprint vertical or wheel he gets to go over and take a breather going to be another first down here 121 left in this first quarter quick snap there by the Cougars they got a man down deep number 19 throw it and he gets just over his hand built him in there was the corner and Denny was the safety over there only one yard away from being a touchdown though great route there by that receiver kind of ran yeah kind of like a a Sluggo fake your slant and then get back on the outside turn it into a a fade or a go he had built him in beat but ball was just a little overthrown trips right quarterback's going to roll to the right side they're just going to throw it to number nine goes through his hands incomplete third and 10 now that's the language that you and I differentiate right there I I was going to say it was a fake in and then a go you call it the Sluggo you got the official wordage what you got a hard count here if you're Central yeah most likely and I think they're going to roll out again to that right side maybe see a trick play here here got a find number 36 and find number 19 right now I can only see 36 I can't tell if 19 is even in the game 36 is going to be your sniffer back it's going to be a run this time and it's going to be taken down great job Hudson Bryant loss of three I tell you what that's somebody who has impressed me more and more week in and week out for just coming in he's not the biggest guy in stature but man does he take on the Block and once you get a PA on him he's pretty good at making the tackles yeah and last year had him as our starting running back um basically converted him into a d end uh this season so um he's got some speed that's hard for those left tackles and tight ends um to get hands on so whenever you have those quick guys on the uh as as Edge rushers um you can get in the back field a lot quicker the left tackle comes in at 245 Hudson's 155 it's going to be a straight pass back for the Cougars Jose Miller on trying to make a tackle and it's going to go off the hands of number 19 good job defending there by Dalton rainwater turnover on Downs good job Eagles defense with 20 seconds to go here in the first quarter looks like that rain water is working in our favor tonight oh you like that one eag Eagles are going to take over at the 31 yd line probably going to run one play and take us into the end of the first quarter we thought that last week going into halftime though we might have to talk about that at this halftime blitzing backer pulls off now two running backs back with vagley it's a blown up Play Somebody didn't remember that they were supposed to get the football and vagle is going to run it for three he looked to the right side tried to give it to Hicks but Hicks was just going the lead block three seconds to go in the first quarter and that's going to end it with the Eagles leading this one 7 to6 on senior night Eagles trying to get another Victory we'll see what happens here whenever we return to the Columbia multi-purpose field after [Music] this [Music] welcome back to the Columbia multi-purpose field with this second quarter just about get ready to go underway the rain has officially stopped now The Umbrellas have gone away cheerleaders got the ponchos off and the Eagles are going to try to get something going here on this second down in seven from their their own 34 yd line doubles to the left side sniffer back left running back is number zero Cam janick he's going to get the football he lowers his shoulder gets up the middle get stopped up by the by the official there and they're going to give him enough for a first down Eagles first down a Becker on the tackle there for Breeze we've said their name for the last 17 years feel like when we play the Cougars that rockers I think they got a uh doubles to the right side sniffer back left running back left is Janik fake it to him going to be a bootleg vagle is going to set his feet step up in the pocket now he's going to tuck it and he's going to run he's got the original line of scrimmage gets to the 45 tries to get to the 50 keeps his feet moving gets picked up and pile drive down to the ground but that's okay first and 10 for the Eagles after the big run by Mason vley he's running hard tonight you can tell he's fighting for every yard putting his head down Mason on the season 60 attempts 266 yards four touchdowns Andrews comes off buman goes on Eagles have first and 10 from the Cougars 49 yd line doubles to the right side empty backfield actually built a manzer motion man it's going to be absolutely smoked in the back field loss of five he tried to set his feet and wait for that guy to go running by and slipped that was a defense of back I believe that just come shooting out like a cannon loss of six and he was on a blitz there and I mean that's just a great great defensive call on a on an offensive call that really didn't work there had built them in in motion one of your Speedy guys were try trying to get the ball in his hands see what he can do with it but sometimes just doesn't work out second and 15 now for the Eagles doubles to the right side sniffer back right running back right they're going to fake it pagle is rolling to the right side throws it going to be caught good ball good hands out of number four Denny brings up a third and eight that's something I'm impressed with tonight we get we get we lose four to five yards and then get ourselves back in the manageable third and fourth Downs where in the beginning of the Season we were going backwards pun yeah punting the ball more than any uh first downs we were getting so big play here on Third and eight Denny 12 receptions 179 yards 15 yards of reception doubles running back to the left side vaguely steps up good job throwing it right away that was a complete timing route it went low Mason's going to be mad but love the timing on that play all the way around if that's a catch that's a first down Yep this is just a simple out route over there I couldn't tell if it was Denny or rainwater on that route but I think it was rainwater the timing was there ball just a little low I think it was rainwater but I thought it was buil in last week for the touchdown that was rainwater so Mason going to be back doing the pun gets it off goes over to the sideline going to be out around the 20 yard yard line I don't know if he tries to kick it out of the right side line every time maybe he needs to shift to the left a little bit try to get it in the middle of the field Cougar's got 80 yards ahead of them 935 remaining here in the second quarter Columbia coming in one and six trying to get in the wind column going to be all sorts of guys in the Box here for the Cougars and the Eagles a quick run right up the middle good blocking out of the Cougars and finally a tackle was made about seven yds deep second and three there's a lot going on in a hurry on that play Eagles once again outsized on the defensive side of the ball second and three at the 27 yd line same play once again going to the left side number two showing great patience and then explodes after he gets through the line of scrimmage from the 13 or from I'm sorry from the 27 to the 45 gain of a lot first down for the Cougars 903 left now Central going to throw a lot of things at you use a lot of different formations rling gets credit for the tackle there same play once again with number two going to the left side following those big lead blockers number two coming in I think he is the primary running back he is Kaden rakers averaging six and a half yards per carry Keegan Thompson gets the tackle Jackson comes off Eagles fans trying to make a little noise here second and four going to be a pass play this time they're going to look deep to number 19 it's bman over there and bman makes a play oh they're going to call Pi on that they're going to call Pi on it I think that was two guys going for the football there great defense there by belman he ran with them the whole way knew when the ball was approaching made a great play on it I don't think that was holding or nothing you can see coach Germaine and coach or are not happy with that one both with their hands hold on it guarantee I bet coach that's terrible back in the day he said what's his what's your address I'll send you a film so it's going to be a 10 yard penalty for the holding now you can just show him the iPad yeah 10 yd penalty first and 10 now for the Cougars from the Eagles 38 yd line Central's ready to move the football they're ready to get up to the line of scrimmage and go number two once again this time it's only going to be for four be late got a little acting going on at the 43 yd line he almost threw that flag too hardli got a little upset there thre a man to the ground after the whistle but Hicks and Jackson get the tackle there second and six 745 remaining in the second quarter this time it's going to be a bootleg with the quarterback getting chased back by Hudson Bryant they flip it over the top and great job there Sam Denny High pointing and tipping the football knocking it to the ground third and six now surpris he didn't call it rough in the passer Hudson get him late oh yeah hit him low too after he got the ball out of his hand Hudson third and six Hudson's been moving around it looks like he's going away from number 36 it's going to be a toss to the right side lot of lead blockers here for the Cougars he's got the 30 first down 25 gets to the 20 that tackle and gets brought down but it's going to be a first and 10 as the Cougars get into the Red Zone nope not into the Red Zone yet they're going to be at the 21 need the 20 to get in the Red Zone first and 10 regardless 730 now on the game clock Scot Hansen at NFL Red Zone Eagles are still trying to get their defense set and cougars were going up right away Jackson built him in just absolutely put that wide receiver on his butt did he yes Columbia was trying to rotate around they weren't setting time on the defensive side of the football second and four I'm throwing a jump ball to 19 right here he's at the top of the screen with buil on him coverage up there they're going to hand the ball off to number two makes a juke move good job there by Josiah Miller making the tackle might have been enough for a first down though we'll see what the officials give them they're going to give it to him like he was pointing his finger forward for a first down going to be first down do not think it's first and goal yet I think they're at the 12 with 625 left now in this first half Eagles leading 76 Eagles sending on a blitz right there they go right past number two the running back but it's all right couple guys stayed home it's going to be Denny coming off the pile and I believe Josiah again gain of three second and Seven Central just coming right at the Eagles here and got to have that bend don't break mentality doubles to the right side sniffer back right that tight end to the left side that running back looks like he's getting a head start going forward good job making the tackle there near the first down marker they've just been leaning on Third and one leaning on rakers this whole Drive watch him though he looks like he's moving a little forward it's probably not enough to call anything but he's getting ahead of steam going before the uh snap looks like they brought a little heavy set in going to have two fullbacks two sniffer backs number two is going to be the running running back did he get in I don't think so they're marking him short going to have the first down first and goal now good job by the Eagles though only giving up a yard there and if I'm bre Central I run the same play yeah it's just simple Wildcat action but again on this one on this one here watch number two he's going to be moving forward or at least falling forward see what happens here with number two oh that time he waits he fumbles a snap and the Eagles are going to stop him there once again good job there out of the Eagles defense loss of one on the place second and goal and I think he would have walked in right there but ball just fell right out of his hands Hudson Bryant and vagley on the tackle you saw vagle come all the way around and pull him from The End Zone same formation here second and one they're going to try it again this time they're going to go a little bit to the outside and this time he gets in touchdown Central [Applause] [Music] I don't know where that train horn is but I hope it's not behind the stands nobody can hear anything looks like the Cougars are going to go for two now after they had the missed Pat after the first touchdown send one man out wide they're coming this way quarterback hard count see FSE start though false start on the Cougars lucky there cuz then they'd probably just run that same Wildcat again now they're bringing in number nine and number seven for the Cougars but now you get a more little bit more space to work with those wide receivers moving the ball to it looks like the call it seven or the eight yd line called the eight ball on the left hash yet and I have a feeling these wide receivers out here are just going to be a decoy on this play I don't understand what the officials are trying to get ready it's a loss of five now they want the ball in the middle of the field so we'll see what the Eagles can do here if they can stop the two-point conversion doubles running back is going to be in the pistol formation quarterback's looking to the left side he's got a slant over across the middle and it's going to be knocked down good defense there by belman making the two-point conversion a fail bman is our senior tonight he wants to study physical education or join the National Guard we're going to head to a break real quick whenever the special teams get out on the field we're bring you a kickoff right after [Music] this [Music] welcome back to the Columbia multi-purpose field where the Eagles Trail 12 to7 now after the good defense there by Jackson belman on the two-point conversion knocking the ball down from number 19 Central is going to be kicking off this time into the wind so we'll see what happens here as the kicker sends it deep and it's going to be caught by Jay Nelson at the 15 yd line he's got the right side over to the 30 yd line where he is brought down kicker on that play we'll have to look at his shoes he got one dark one and one white one I don't know if he's got a soccer shoe or what he's got on guarantee that's probably it all right big drive here for the Columbia offense stalled out the last two drives so Central starts with the ball in the second half so we'll see what happens here in coach Warner's thought process doubles to the left side running back left tight end left we're going to hand the ball off and go to the left good job there by Hicks pulling around or I'm sorry Hicks Hickson Kish coming around gain of four second and six great patience there by janic last year he probably would have wanted to bounce that one outside but this year good job staying inside and stay in vertical second and five same formation once again for the Eagles four down lineman Kish leading around again janic nowhere to go he needs to lower his shoulders and drop the B boom on him right there kind of stopped stopped running his feet no gain on the play going to be third and five now look like we're going to be in trips left coach horer letting the clock go down a little bit I think he realized there that yep those two plays were pretty quick timeout here he wants to get a first down on this play I think that is his first time out of the half see what he draws up here third and five now for the eagles need to get to the 39 yd line let us know where you're watching from we had Columbia Missouri so far and Aces wild here in town so I'm sure we've got one down in Florida Miss Harris is always listening to us down there so let us know where you're listening from have to give a shout out once once again to the volleyball team talked about them at the beginning of the show here going to Breeze Central and getting a victory always a good impressive win when you can knock off Central especially at their home home court in volleyball got some scores 815 left in the first half Roxanna leads East saltwood River 28 nothing looking for this freeberg score cannot find it they don't have internet out there in Salem OR they're in freeberg so they got internet there eagles are going to come out in doubles running back to the left side I believe that is Hicks four down linemen three linebackers High snap vaguely gets it down steps up and he's going to keep his feet moving got the 35 he needs a 39 he gets tackled at the 37 he stayed in bounds which is huge because that keeps the clock moving but the Eagles are forced to punt and like you said for that timeout that's a big big three plays there you know coach Warner wants to at least get a couple first downs so Central does not get the ball back in this half but under three minutes now they're going to get one more chance in this first half punch one in you have to have to have to get this punt off here if you're Mak not much pressure that time out of the Cougars it's going to be returned though at the 32 yd line Hudson Bryant's given chase another slip up there as the turf monster brings down number two rockers at the 45 yd line so Breeze has got 55 yards 240 pretty good field position Eagles defense needs to make a stop here keep it a one- score game going into halftime we'll bring you that live Community Church halftime show the band will come out and do their final performance of the year so make sure you stick with us for that Life Community Church show first and 10 for the Cougars they do a hard count got them and the Eagles jump I think that's the third time the Eagles have jumped be discipline I think Hudson kept himself on the right side of the football now they only got to go 50 yards and no time went off the clock based on their reaction there out of of the Eagles end I think he jumped over on the far side dropped This Time by number 19 he had built him in on his backside but just run a quick slant second and five now Central got a pretty good crowd Grand stands are packed fence line from I'd say goal line to goal line quarterback's going to drop back the pass on this second and five throw to his left side going to be over the head of his receiver and out of bounds look like Alex schmer throwing a ball back in the day that thing was fired out there third and five after that incomplete pass clock stops 232 left far look how far off these guys are on the ball over here going to be a run this time nothing going for the Cougars as the Eagles get in the back field led by number 88 Hayden Hera timeout now from The Eagles I like that especially when they're punting into the wind I like that even more clock stops at 223 now see if you can get a rush back there and maybe get a hand on this punt go Little Blue Block here you think yeah but watch the football CU then if they get to Fourth and two fourth and one likely to go for it look at the flag over there at the 50 yard line on Central sideline that thing is whipping that thing is a straightest can be right now who we got on the line's crew tonight out we got Kenny Matthews right there it looks like he's the one in charge of the down or the uh the spot on the field Alfie longra on the down marker Scott St Messer and and I believe that is Mark Jackson those guys have been doing that for long as long as I can remember fourth down fourth down and eight see if the Eagles can get back there block this one and we got a lot of guys back there nearly blocked by janic it goes straight up get out of the way now Eagles Peter Peter and it gives a huge Central bounce and goes to the Eagles 23 yd line cam janick was in the back field nearly got a hand up there I don't think central was ready to snap that ball right there cuz the Eagles were flying back there so they got a good jump we know Mason's got an arm he uh he's got two arms actually but last week I think he threw it about 50 yards in the air so you give him the wind at his back too looks like we're to go empty here with the running back playing as the up back [Applause] in the motion man they fake it they got verticals down the middle Mason steps up he's going to try to get to the sideline getting to the 28 gain of about four maybe five he had a lot of guys down just running verts down the middle of the field and I think that's a safety number 18 whenever he sees that jet motion is absolutely crashing Eagles bringing three guys rotating a formation here Hicks is going to be the running back tight end right sniffer back right is Janik fake it's going to be vaguely tripped up by his own man as him and Hicks tangle up their feet I'd be surprised if coach short doesn't take a timeout and he does as Hicks and vaguely just got their feet Tangled Up on a design run there for the quarterback so now you got 144 on this Paul Cory scoreboard Cory Pharmacy scoreboard here at the multi-purpose field now you need four yards and you hope to just run out the quarter if you're not able to get all the way out there yeah I think that's what uh that's what coach orner was trying to do on that last Drive um just trying to get downfield and wasting the clock just to get in the halftime only down 127 um to this second best team in the ca conference but now there's 149 on the clock they add five more seconds third and five here see what coach Warner wants to draw up if he wants to take a shot down field I have a feeling he's gonna try to keep this clock running I think if you're yeah I don't want to but I think shorty might have one more time out if I'm not mistaken so at least we get the With the Wind now look like they're going to send a blitzing safety and they do they fake the handoff vaguely runs right underneath he's going to gain three coach short does call the timeout at 141 fourth and two not horrible there you wish that I mean I mean they sent all the bliton guys there but you'd like to see the Eagles get a first down there but at least it forced pre Central to call that timeout drives me nuts when teams go to pass right there and you basically give them a extra timeout yeah I like the play call though make them use their timeout so they don't have them on the offensive side of the ball look like the crowd was going to file out when that rain started to come but everyone mostly stayed here Eagles got to get this punt off now 141 they got the wind to their back already had one blocked in return for a touchdown all starts with the snap Mason back to do the puning little high he gets it down gets it off great great punt it's going to get caught at the 30 number two is going to catch it he's got the left sideline tries to make a move but nothing going as built them in rainwater rainwater and Nelson all roll over there to make the tackle minute 32 54 yards 53 yards to go for the Cougars so what's Coach G here going to be aggressive do you go defensive looks like he's got manto man over here with a single safety going to go cover three they're going to go quarterback's going to roll up to the left side throws it he's got a man wide open 3020 gets keeps it in bounds I think that was a running back number two yep just snuck out someone missed their assignment there usually one of the linebackers is locked on to that running back that's a huge play yeah able to sneak out out of the back field and get inside the red zone now first and 10 now you got 122 to work with to get 12 yards ball on the 12 First and 10 quarterback's looking to the left side big number 19 throw it up belman's there belman good defense goes incomplete they threw it up to number 19 they've been targeting him a lot coming in at 62 yeah belman only 510 great job to go up and at least get a hand on the ball make it tough for that receiver to bring it down clock does stop 117 second and 10 from 12 these two receivers out here to The Far Side don't really mean much of anything they're going to hand the ball off a little counter go to the left side number two as he gets in for a touchdown [Music] go for two again here if you're Central I don't think you have anything to lose yeah you're 11 right now I'd kick it I'd make it 12 field goal uh touchdown two-point conversion ties it up they are going to kick it eagles look like they're going to try to come off this left side and they get a lot of guys in the back field but not enough to block the pat so that takes the Manny Maguire group scoreboard Bree Central cougars 19 Columbia Eagles s on a real uh Downer exchange of drives there eagles offense had an opportunity to kind of put the first half out of any hope of a score happening weren't able to get it done and then the defensive first play of of the drive goes I think about what 40 yards CL 45 yards yeah really haven't seen much from the Columbia offense since that first drive 19 nothing run by the central cougars got themselves a 12-point lead now still enough time if coach Herer wants to take a couple shots down field but I think being down only two scores to Brie Central right now almost just take this one in halftime and be happy with that good thing is the two guys in the back are pretty speedy and the two guys up in front of them are even Speedy as well you got Jace Nelson and dton rainwater standing at the 15 Keegan Thompson and Lucas rling standing at the 30 number 63 the left footed kicker little bit of a pooch it's going to be caught by Nelson at the 25 yd line he's waiting go good patience there getting to the 45 nearing the 50 yd line so now if you're coach Horner I think I'm taking a chance yeah I think you do too I was saying if you get the ball inside the even the 30 you can go in halftime but now that you got it near Midfield 46 never know if you take a shot down field get a pass interference or a holding call start off and trips left I'm going to expect a roll out to the left side here the wide side of the field running back to the left side little bit of a slow snap coming back vaguely has got to step up now he's going to try to run to the right side throws it away could that be intentional grounding and it is no receiver in the area I don't know why he wasn't rolling continuing to roll that left tackle for the Eagles wasn't able to seal the edge I don't even think that's the correct intentional grounding signal I think it's supposed to be I think it's supposed supposed to be two hands he just did one hand yeah I think that would be more roughing the passer motion yeah regardless it's a spot foul and a loss of down so it's going to be second down and now trips to the left side the clock does stop at 102 tried to run the same thing if I'm coach owner here it's just a bubble out here to built him in a little high but he catches the ball he's got the 45 50 yd line and he's going to get out of bounds good job getting out of bounds gain of 15 third and one 55 seconds to go now ball in cougar territory great catch by beltman yeah that was just simple uh bubble route there and we've seen that two or three times for Mason throwing those bubble routes a little high for his receivers but buman able to go up and get that one making into a manageable third down able to get out of bounds stop the clock 55 5 Seconds rainwater to the top side of the formation it's going to be a handoff though all we need to get is a first down the clock will stop and it does gets two first and 10 49 seconds Eagles running around now going to switch the field rainwater comes over here to the left there's your trips right Bunch formation it's going to be a roll out to the right ins side throws it to Denny a little high but that's all right he brings it down keeps his feet in bounds then he gets out of bounds stopping the clock gain of seven second down and three why can't that's always why can't we do that on the last two drives we wait till there's under a minute left in the half to actually get something going we did the same thing in the freeberg game feel like we're always better whenever we're playing two scores down 37 seconds to go in the first half trips to the left side ball in the right hash running back left is Jace Nelson vaguely steps up makes a couple men missed now he's going to try to run and he's going to get tackled fed and we fumbled did they recover it in play or out of out bounds the clock stops at 26 seconds this is going to be a big decision right here if it's still Eagles football way it's showing it is going to be Eagles football third and and four now I've been waiting for him to Fumble one of those when he does that little swim move with the ball in his hand not a great way of protecting the ball but did make a guy Miss took a big hit luckily the ball rolled out of bounds third and four 26 seconds trips left Bunch ball on the right hash slow snap gets back to vley he's going to step up into the pocket he still needs to get a first down to stop the clock might be a block in the back they don't call it it's a first down for the Eagles and vaguely gets out of bounds to stop the clock at 20 seconds now rainwater came in a little late gave a shove in the back to the defender I guess the official was blocked we'll take it doubles now Jason Nelson still your running back two safeties now still about 15 yards off of ridling down here in the bottom low snap bigley steps up penalty flag is thrown and Mason has no time by the time that he stood up from Catching the snap he was already having to run forward and you're going to have a hold there as well push him back 15 seconds remaining now in this first half still got plenty of time Mason's got a strong enough arm to get it down there 10 yd penalty brings up a first down and 20 20 coach wter not happy some of the offensive lineman were still down in their stance and Coach owner is already out at the hash marks and it's a pretty one-sided conversation here from coach Horner as we've seen a couple times this year that's got to be the most frustrating thing as a coach you you go all week setting things up and then you get to game time and you can't execute them especially on those two-minute drives uh that mean that mean a lot during the game um anytime you get the ball under two minutes and you're down a score two scores to make it into a one possession game or maybe even tie the game up um every every second matters and every job matters on the field so um yeah can't be happy there but at least he gets to go out there scream at him a little bit think he's talking to his offensive line right there saying hey boys we're going to need a little bit more time than take a snap and run so Eagles 15 seconds 41 yards ahead of him definitely need some time here though empty backfield trips to the left side doubles to the right Begley's got time he's going to try to step up now he's got to scramble to the right side he Chucks it down the field and it goes incomplete nothing wrong with that though it falls out of bounds and incomplete but he still got a chance at another play eight seconds left now probably good enough for one more play and if you're Central you know they're going to be going deep got second and 20 most likely the last play of the first half motion man is Nelson they throw it out here to him go get out of try to make something happen nothing going as he gets tackled at the 31 so that's going to do it in the first half a quick start out of the Eagles not much going in between all of everything but at the end nothing really going as well on this final drive Eagles are going to head into the Life Community Church halftime show down 197 we will come back with the Eagles marching band performance on senior night at Columbia multi-purpose field after this [Music] nah [Music] [Applause] [Music] for your halftime entertainment the Columbia marching Eagle band will perform their halftime show Call Me featuring music by Blondie harle Ray Json and Lil na X the band is under direction of Mr christianis R coach Jessica Jan drum major Amy vosi and Noah Parker take it [Applause] away [Music] you [Music] you [Music] on [Music] to [Music] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] wo [Music] s [Music] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] la [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] f [Music] you [Music] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] w [Music] w [Music] actually [Music] [Applause] [Music] let's he if your Eagle Marchin band [Applause] [Music] w [Music] welcome back into the Life Community Church halftime show Alex lmer and Jared Jermaine with you into the halftime show here and the Eagles started off with a bang we were excited we saw that first drive Eagles go about 70 yards two and A2 2 minutes uh 2 and A2 2:45 something like that a quick drive and then after that stut stalled out uh blocked punt led to a touchdown for the Cougars make it 76 and then it's been cougars ever since then as the Cougars now lead it 19-7 in this halftime show here so Jared you go back and you watch that first half what are your thoughts on it what do you think we can change coming out into this second half I loved the way our offensive line looked uh that whole first half especially that first drive um play calling was pretty good um first quarter second quarter we kind of stalled out a little bit um but I think our o line need to be a little bit better on those pass passing Downs Mason has no time to throw the ball um so hopefully we make some adjustments at halftime on that but overall uh defense is looking decent I mean they're starting each drive around Midfield so it's kind of hard when you're um already backing up in your own in zone so um I mean overall it's been a decent first half but still losing in this one I think that first drive you know we go down the field and we're we're running the ball we're doing the options and everything and Mason did a great job polling making the right reads and that was like music to our ears whenever he was you know going down and he made the right reads and got where we needed to go and then after that kind of still out there that was a little knock there we had some music still going in our ears so had to let Mr Nickerson know that so you know that first drive though we go down we're making the right reads we get into the end zone and then after that we started trying to throw the ball a little bit more and not having the time uh kind of hurt us and it it showed there at the end and we've seen that kind of all year uh I said it a little bit earlier in the game but Mason when he throws the ball has to be a roll out almost every single time so um you would like for him to have time to stay in the pocket and throw the ball downfield the rainwater Denny rebling or belt him in I mean we got four wide receivers that can go up and get the ball um so hopefully he just has a little bit more time there in the back field to throw the ball down field defensively though nothing wrong with what we saw there uh I think number two I guess the one thing I would say is when they pull those two I'm going to call them the Right Guard and the right tackle when they pull those two guys are on the left side number two gets it and shows great patience and when he hits a hole he hits it hard and he gets up field in a hurry I think our D line and linebackers are doing a great job tonight filling those gaps uh the big thing is is are we going to be able to compose number 19 on the outside because they like throwing him the ball and then stopping number two up the middle I feel like those two have uh really been their whole offense um this whole game uh like you said earlier that block punt that turned into a touchdown that was really the the whole factor of that first half I think made the momentum change a lot so hopefully we can get a stop here on defense coming out they get the ball first um and grow some momentum there I think last week whenever we watched the film Payton Andrews got picked on a lot whenever he was in single coverage they picked on him that first drive and the first play they had had a trot at a touchdown and I think we came out right after that and we brought belman in and I think belman's done a great job he knocked down the one two-point conversion um so great job there by buam in making those plays and we're just going to have to continue to do that we got about a minute to go before we start this second half if you could join us once again right after this live Community CH Church halftime show we'll bring you the second half right after [Music] this [Music] welcome back to the Columbia multi-purpose field for the second half of the Kahoka conference matchup between the Eagles and the Cougars it was all cougars the end the first half as they went 19 unanswered points and carry in a 12-point lead here in the second half thanks for joining the live Community Church halftime show we'll bring you one more this year when we go to Jerseyville next week for week nine action but until then Eagles are going to try to play spoiler here and knock off the cougars who are already eligible for postseason play they got the five wins is the minimum that you need and they're going to try to get the rest of the way out and get that good seating Keegan Thompson going to do the kicking from right to left this time has it teed up at the 40 yd line he sends it deep it's going to be caught at the one yd line Central's going to do their typical reverse it's going to go to the left side nothing going on now the Eagles just got to make a tackle and they do inside the 10 bringing them down at the five the reverse was about the goal line and that all started with that kick out of Keegan Thompson if your coach dermaine here this is uh yeah this this is something you can back him up here maybe even get a safety out of it but no matter what uh the best thing out of it would be field position so hopefully force a punt here and get the ball around Midfield which we haven't really had all night long Eagles get to play with the wind right now to their back so Central would have a tougher time throwing the ball you imagine they've got everybody in the Box for the Cougars Eagles are bringing everyone in it's going to be a run to number two on the left side I believe that's number two it's going to be a gain of six second and four see who gets off that was actually number four that time for the Cougars look like Denny slow to get up there did make the tackle but walking with a slight limp going to stay on the field though for the second and we'll call it four Denny one of our seniors tonight going to go for engineering next year going to be a run once again to the left side nothing going this time as the Eagles sniff everything out maybe a half a yard brings up a third and we'll call it a long three big play here up third third down if you can get a stop here force a punt like I said get some good field position everyone's looking like they're going to be blitzing Keegan's going to come off the top Brandon's going to fire in looks like the a gap Hicks directing traffic Eagles are coming it's going to be a run nothing going short maybe a gain of one fourth down now good job there by Hicks making the tackle we got fourth and one from the 15 there's no way they're go for it right I mean they can they don't have anything to lose but good job Eagles defense coming out of halftime see if rebling can redeem himself from last week having that muffed punt late in the game P off off off Keegan Thompson coming off the edge good punt here going to be wave fair catch at the 45 yd line where the Eagles will take over after a great job on the Defense 2 minutes and 6 Seconds come off the clock 9:54 Eagles offense see what coach Horner and the staff did at halftime little confusion there on that punt pton Andrews was supposed to be off could have had 12 men on the field I don't understand how you have that still in week eight I know unless things change all the time I don't know what goes on in practice but doubles to the left side sniffer back left running back I believe is Hicks and it is he's going to run to the left side he's got the 45 gain of three positive play HS the ball carry takes up three for columia 19 back number 19 all over the place here tonight makes the tackle second and seven looks like we're going to have doubles into the boundary here Payton Andrew is going to be your sniffer back pistol back is Hicks bigley's going to get the snap fake it got a Crosser down across the middle is rainwater it's caught at the 1510 house touchdown [Music] Eagles little post drout down the middle of the field like a double double play call by ass I'm sorry I cut you off no you're fine don't do it again you can do it anytime you [Music] want Keegan coming on to do the pat you never come out and say hi how come on good snap good hold kick is blocked again and it goes out of bounds is that aive ball until it crosses the line I don't know or is it rules score Cory Pharmacy scoreboard now reads 193 chevolet cougars Co leading it talking to the refs saying that guy might have leapt over the the center which is illegal I didn't really get a good look on that but had about two or three guys in that back field in a hurry yeah it's another $100 from George Weber Chevrolet great two first drives there by the defense and the offense cut it to a one- score game now you just need your defense go out there and get another stop here comes a fake reverse this time I think it's going to be another good kick by Keegan I'm saying Touchback look how they have everybody up close here the first two lines Pooch it around the 25 oh man that's a great call maybe go get it central standing at the four yd line and then at the 37 so there's a big area there I'd send this baby deep though and he does great great kick once again caught it to two and there's the reverse they're coming right at us here and loses the Edge by oo number 30 and it's going to be good swarm tackling though Cooper white is the initial guy to come down and make the tackle ASO nearly lost the edge Rainer tack ball going to be on the 19 yd line for the Cougars see if this Eagles defense is able to get another quick stop 905 remaining in the third quarter going to be a toss to the left side they're trying to get out wide good job there by rling forcing it in Brandon Jackson makes the tackle gain of four second and six no play maybe two defensive line doing a great job there getting in that back field did gain about four there but able to open up a lane for those linebackers to flow to the ball make tackle going to be pistol back behind the quarterback sniffer back to the right single receiver to the right and to the left quarterback's going to give it right up the middle going to be four five Eagles there going to be maybe a gain of two going to bring up a third and four great job there by like Josiah Miller Hudson Bryant Mason Bagley back there as well caught third and long four here good job by this defense so far in this second half and to have doubles to the right sniffer back right look like they got the tight endend to that left side going to send running back in motion over here to the right quarterback's going to roll to the right going to throw it to number nine going to be enough for a first down makes the catch at the 31 yd line will move the sticks first down Central other action for the Eagles tonight the boys soccer team central first started playoffs they played Metro East Lutheran Columbia is the number one seed the number seven seed through Lutheran that game was at 4:30 still looking to find a final on that one tonight doubles the left side going to be a reverse coming right at us again it's going to be good for a first down big gain there by Central first down looked like it was going to be a speed option out to the left and they come right back on the counter great play call there another first and that's something you'll probably only see one or two times throughout the whole game but usually works on those counters when you're not really ready for them first and 10 ball on the 50 yd line going to be a toss this time to the left side lot of bad blockers there Keegan Thompson making the tackle getting cleaned up there by Brandon Jackson K rockers on the carry to Eagles on the tackle for No Gain brings up second down no gain on the play second and 10 maybe they got a yard out of it half of a yard and to go doubles to the right tight end to the right first time I think we've seen this formation hard count Eagles don't jump on the second and nine 630 in the third quarter quarterback's looking to the left side and he fumbles it and it's picked up by the Eagles hean Thompson was was there to make the sack he picks it up Eagles are going to take over at the 41 yd line quarterback Dro back the pass he us that popcorn at half time I guess going to throw a simple slant route it looked like across the middle of the field whoop drop something going to need that Eagles take over at the 40 yd line taking a shot I think you do anytime you get a turnover on or any turnover take a shot downfield you got three guys over here to the left only two guys trips left running back left man man it's going to be a fake it's going to be a screen to rling he's going to have to get up behind his own you go Leman he gains second that's a setup play right there Alex two after second and one after the nydd game we're going to come back to something like that but we're going to run a go or a wheel out of it corner is going to think oh I got to I remember that play I got to come up and Tackle this guy oh watch this guy behind you doubles to the right side now sniffer back right pistol back is Hicks we're going to hand the ball off to him good job there a they called the hold well going to be on rebling looked like a there is no denying that penalty as three flags come in kind of Dr him to the ground a little bit flag on the play big penalty there yeah and I I don't think we've had too many wide receiver Holdings this year which is is really good cuz stock blocking is one of the hardest things to do as a wide receiver but all you have to really do is just stand in his way for enough enough time to have your athletes make a play there Ebling just got a little bit too engaged going to be a holding call so now you got second and 11 oh here it comes trips to the left side Hicks is your running back to the left of vaguely safety's going to drop buman drops it throw another flag if they call that block in the back that is terrible I think he was just riding the guy right there they're going to call it on Denny I think he was just riding the defender holding on the Eagles so you went from second and one to now second and 21 can't be having that or do they you think they decline the penalty and give you third and 11 declined third and 11 now thank you yeah I'll take that all day this is four down territory you only need five yards six yards here for the Eagles and you had second down and 21 you get a stop there you're looking good and you're going to have some good field position there so thanks shorty appreciate it Eagles are going to have a tight end left sniffer back left 19's blitzing off this right Edge it's going to be a handoff we're going to try to go underneath of them Hicks keeps his feet moving he gains four going to be a fourth down and seven we're going to send the hands team out now bman rling and Denny go oner on the tackle for cougers Nelson Hicks and Andrews come off trips to the right side here comes a hard count look how quick we got to the line of scrimmage oh fooled me trips to the right side rolling to the right side and nothing we had Sam Denny was wide open at the sticks just didn't have time to get it over to him and it's going to be a turnover on Downs like that was Joe Kish there couldn't really get out outside of that D end mdon kind of got in that back field and took Mason down turn over on down Central will take over with 440 left in this third quarter in that soccer game today the Eagles were victorious 8 to nothing over Metro East Luther so they move on I believe that was a regional semi-final game so they are going to move on to the regional final now at father mcgivney douche backfield doubles to the right side option quarterback RPO there going to throw it to number seven across the middle on a triple option there there's a lot going on there that's complete to number you have four different plays out of that right there give it to the running back can fake it run like a little play action RPO and you have option off that as well with your other running back out of Back Field or the quarterback can just keep it himself caught second and about two it's going to be a run this time with number two good job there by the Eagles forcing it out wide he's going to have the first down needed to get to the 49 I think he got there both refs are saying move the chains it will be first down Central now that there's all these turf fields there there is hardly any measurements anymore yeah first and 10 for the Cougars 340 remaining in the third quarter Eagles still Trail this one on the Mandy McGuire group scoreboard 19- 13 Central right up to the line of scrimmage it's just an ISO right up the Middle with number four gain of two you're laughing and shaking your head as the lineman just laid on top of our our defense and then yeah I mean then you just have to lay there and wait for him to get up yeah K musop was the one on the bottom there and the lineman kind of just laid on top of him and K just laying there on his belly second and nine four down lineman for the Eagles now it's going to be a bootleg throw it low thank you for throwing it low intended on the play was number 36 for the Cougars mdonalds up third down number 36 is Logan McDonald the senior tight end fullback 61 200 [Music] lb third and nine Eagles fans are trying to get into it here and this is a big play can set up a long fourth down here ocean man's number four it fake it to him they're going to keep rolling looking for number seven good job there Sam Denny read it like a [Applause] B fourth and nine and if you're Central do you try to pin him here I think you do you're kicking into the wi 256 great job by Sam Denny though to close that separation in on him and the receiver and somebody's got to come out get his left hand out there to block that ball away fourth and nine now clock stops at 256 look like the eagles going to get this ball back Keegan's coming to try to make a block Jackson gets back there it gets off and it's going to bounce at the 23 and go of Bounds at the 20 yd line some seniors that we haven't mentioned Payton Andrews he is going to be going to college going for business SE horn is undecided if he's going to go for business or welding Hayden Hera is also undecided Brandon Jackson going to be going to swick for welding Joe Kish going to be a sports journalist Lucas riing going undecided he just wants to play college baseball Ben Simmons is just going to be going to college he's undecided and madx stefen will be going pursuing a trade school so that's the 11 seniors that we honored here tonight on senior night Eagles now have 80 yards 248 in the third quarter number 19 steps up he's reading run he comes in hard and it's going to be vaguely trying to make something happen but no time to do anything loss of two on the [Music] Play 3 saw I'd like to see a good D drive here sorry to interrupt you but no you're fine just think Mason tonight doing a pretty good job of doing those reads but there the end came right at him couldn't really make a play second and 12 doubles to the left side Mason's going to have to scramble again loss of two maybe one on the sack don't know if we were setting up for a screen there this is where I like the roll out's been working for him the last two drives so I think you got to go back to that roll out get him on the outside of those tackles and let him make a play it's kind of hard when you got three or four D linemen and you're trying to look down field make a good throw and you got third long trips left Bunch two Defenders still on our three offensive guys bigley's looking this way he's going to have to step up still looking this way throws across the field it's always a dangerous throw and it falls incomplete off the hands of rling what are we doing what are we doing Rel as soon as he says go it's like a Civ of Defenders coming in getting in his face I think even if you're Mason there you don't throw that ball no cross cross field didn't even know who the receiver was that he was throwing it to yeah and rebling almost came down with it but that's a play that it's scary almost another I think that one got tipped that got tipped but luckily we get a good bounce in a game that feels like nothing's going our way we're only down six outs rolls out at 40 yd line so that keeps to score Breeze Central 19 Columbia 13 in more Regional action the Highland Regional for cross country is Saturday October 21st with the girls race starting at 9:00 a.m.

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boys starting at 10: a.m. and the only other sport we have left is volleyball and on the next change of possession we'll be talking about the volleyball Regional that's going to be coming up there comes a reverse to number two another reverse good job defending down the field and number two how you doing [Applause] pton gain of there's a flag 20 currently hopefully it's a hole they waving It Off pton Andrews instantly looked to the sideline while the play was still going while the play was still going on he let the running back run right past his face while the ball was getting thrown over his head so another blown coverage leads to a 20 yard gain first and 10 now for the Cougars as the penalty flag was waved off I don't understand how you can wave that off cuz you're the official standing on the side of of the field Central going to burn a timeout as that play clock was running down you're the side judge in that instance and you throw the flag and then you wave it off you had to see something so that was a triple reverse pass there on that play good for 20 with the volleyball team starting their regionals they are in the Nashville Regional their play begins on Tuesday Columbia is the three seed they will play the winner of Nashville and Sparta the 5- 11 the number two seed in their Regional is Breeze Moder day so that is always a fun program to watch in Breeze mod day so hopefully the Eagles are clicking on all cylinders here on all sports as Regional and postseason play begins well tonight for soccer and next week for the other sports obviously obviously football will not be in it but we will have one more week of football as we go to Jerseyville I believe Jerseyville only has three wins this year they'll be trying to play I think if they get need a couple wins here they go to Highland tonight Who's six and one so they got a tall task ahead of them tonight going to be a Pitch to the left side Keegan Thompson good job making a Pursuit making the tackle after a 5 yard gain so we will bring you the aces wild pregame show it'll be audio only once again for all road games at 6:30ish next week we'll try to not have eight broadcasts for you next week we'll be sitting outside so we shouldn't have any buildings interfering with our cell phone hard count there for the Cougars nobody jumps see what the Cougars do this time they're running three guys pulling the football over to the left side number two two Shifty they've got two lineman pulling plus number 36 is pulling over that way too so like we said 36 is taking you do the ball almost every time he's being that lead blocker for number two rakers he's looked pretty good tonight 71 attempts 465 yards six touchdowns on the season with a 6 and a half average so he's averaging almost seven yards a carry I bet it's like that tonight Wildcat here for the Cougars are going to try to run to the right side keeps his feet moving and he's going to be short by about a foot second and goal and that's going to take us to the end of the third quarter so the Eagles got a score early had a chance at scoring again to tie the game up but they're going to go into the fourth quarter trailing 19-13 we'll be back with the fourth quarter right after this [Music] welcome back into the kchs broadcast of the Eagles and the Cougars 1913 Eagles are going to need a big stop here as the ball's on about the one foot line talk about reversing a field right there going from one end to the other Central going to go under Center no run Wildcat again they're going to run to the right side and it's going to be good for a [Music] touchdown that thing is absurd I wonder if ours is that loud when we score no it's not even close well I'm just thinking maybe because it's coming right at us that maybe they're going to go for two and make it a 14-point game so this is still a big two-point conversion it is right now you're down 12 you're pton I'd like to see pton he's stepped up a little bit hard count nothing going could run a simple out route over there to that right side right now yeah he's still five yards off pylon now you're going to have to you're supposed to bump that quarterback's going to keep it himself lower his shoulder get into the end zone and the two-point conversion is good so that takes the Mandy Maguire group scoreboard now after the two-point conversion Breeze 27 columia 13 eag 2 so now you're in a must score drive here if you're the Eagles offense you got 1158 remaining in the ball game so that was a big two-point conversion there for Breeze yeah puts him up 14 now Eagles will have to score twice make both Pats but also going to have to get a couple stops after we score so hopefully we can get a big return We we've seen a return out to Midfield maybe the 40 yard line I want to see one close close to the other side of the field get to the other 30 other other 20 maybe even score on one of them I don't think we've had a special teams touchdown yet this season not that I can think of now I know we scored our first defensive touchdown last week with that scooping score by Hudson Bryant looks like rainwater and jce Nelson back deep standing around the 15 and 10 yd line did number 63 kick with his left foot no it was his right he just lined up differently oh it's going to be caught at about the seven by jce Nelson he's going to get to the 20 tackle where he's going to be brought down so Eagles offense now going into the wind and that's going to be pretty big too if it gets late in the game and the Eagles got a chance of throwing the ball down field heav to throw into the wind just a tad not too much of a breeze it's died down a little bit looking that at that flag across the way on their sideline it's kind of sitting sitting still now so be able to take a shot down field hopefully big drive here though down 14 doubles for the Eagles running back is janic to the right side of vagley low snap gets picked up he rolls to the side where it is dropped by a sure-handed dribbling look at coach Horner there that has got to be a timing play that you don't even really take steps back you just you're squaring your shoulders up getting rid of it and the footwork on that like I said you don't really have much footwork you're just dropping your right side so that you can square your shoulders and let her go Andrews comes on buman goes off four linemen three linebackers safety's creeping up staying at about 10 yards [Applause] deep Eagles are going to fake the handoff and throw to a Crossing route with Denny it's going to be good for 13 yards and a Columbia Eagles first down great ball there by Mason fitted in that little pocket there between the safety and the linebacker Sam Danny got to that perfect spot right in the middle of them got to have a little urgency here if you're the Eagles try to get something going too I mean you're trying to Hicks in at wide receiver now this is a new one here it's going to be a handoff with Janik keeps his feet moving gets to the original line of scrimmage so it'll be a second and 10 now 1120 on the game clock lineage Hicks comes off now riing comes on I don't think we've seen hick line up as a wide receiver all year he kind of just went in there as a decoy went in the block a little bit but reeling checking right back in ball on this right hash like you said you got to have a little urgency we're under 11 now you still got to score make a stop and get something going play action bootleg to the left side got him sets his receiver just a little high there is intended for pton Andrews third and 10 now that's a big play there you got to get at least four or five yards there INE brings up third down columia and if you're third and 10 here throw another incomplete pass might have to punt it rainwater comes over here to the bottom of the formation he's on the ball two receivers off Denny is going to be on on the Trip's left side janic running back on the right side Begley's looking to the left now comes across the field he's got a slant to rainwater in a great catch by rainwater first and 10 for the Eagles I think that was a one-handed snap there great ball there by Mason again waiting for him to make his break it was kind of a dig route turning into kind of a post need to be getting these play calls in right now Mason's 10 yds deep yet still trying to get the play call in let's go clock now at almost 10:30 it's almost a minute every time we get a play call in trips to the left side same formation here still only two Defenders over there we're going to fake the hand off igle is going to keep it himself great job there by number 84 holding his position and staying there gain of one I don't know if he saw a motion we didn't have any motion there so he just did a great job stepping up I guess it's one of those if you're lineman goes away you got to fill that hole especially as a linebacker coming up same formation still second and nine going to be a slant once again it's going to be dropped had the slant once again I think Dalton ran a little deep there on his slant he's got to come straight across there he don't have much time coach hor telling him right now run a little deep there yep cuz that safety is creeping you don't want to get all the way over to that other safety that's what he did there great job there by rakers at that safety position though to come over play Help side now you're at third and nine most likely now you're in four down territory so two plays here to get nine yards keep this drive alive trips left Bunch motion man is rling they fake it to him looking deep for buman number 14's going down he high points it and incomplete at around the 20 yd line fourth down and nine now up by number 21 see I don't I don't know if I like this is where you need to have one of your trick plays and I think you run that on third down now you're stuck at a fourth and nine where you don't have a lot of plays and you can give the ball right back to him right at Midfield down 14 where they can just run this clock down biggest play of the game right here so far trips to the left side under 10 seconds now on the play clock eagles need the 36 yd line they're starting at the 45 bagle steps up makes one man miss he's going to have to scramble he needs a lot of help right here and should have flopped yeah tackled out of bounds only gains about five and it's a turnover on Downs bely scramble get out of bounds first I didn't even see did he have anybody open on that or not really no so the Cougars are going to take over 935 we need another scooping score here out of the Eagles here central with 936 we're going to try to run this clock down as much as possible Columbia still has Believe two timeouts quarterback's going to keep it himself and he's going to get to the 49 gain of eight Hudson took on the Block there too much on first down you can't be given up eight yards on first down especially down two scores going to need a stop here around Midfield try to get this ball back N9 minutes and Counting hson Bryant going to go put his hand down on the right side Hicks is stepping up on the left going to hand the ball off this time to number four and nearly gets brought down in the back field by Bryant but inste it's going to be a gain of 10 first and 10 for the Cougars as they get into Eagle territory at about the 40 Davis y LG first Den on the tackle for columia clock keeps kicking not the Eagles friend at 8:45 now doubles to the left side sniffer back left they're going to run it to the left side as two big linemen or Poland it's going to be another hole there still not called and it's going to be good for about 15 first down for the Cougars again saw two holds there on that rebling Bas we got tackled like he did earlier on his holding call no call going to move the chains 820 now in this fourth quarter Eagles trailing 2713 after we were up 7 nothing early they proceeded to go on a 19 nothing run that's 2713 after rainwater caught touchdown pass man how do you have that if you're Central Time Out Central Central Burns a timeout we're going to run to a break 801 remaining in the game clock we'll be back to the Columbia multi-purpose field right after [Applause] this [Music] welcome back to the Columbia multi-purpose field where the Eagles and the Cougars are in a week eight battle here central leading this one it's going to be a sweep to the right side Hicks is going to try to chase down number four misses a Sho string tackle and it's going to be a gain of three second and seven coming up the Eagles 750 on the game clock it's not on their side right now yeah and I think you're in a position now Alex where hopefully coach Germaine said something about it but anytime you're going in for a tackle try to strip that ball away put your helmet on it start punching at it try to get a turnover get a little momentum on your side with only 730 left you're going to need to score two touchdowns you don't even have the ball doubles on the left side they're going to hand the ball off up the middle number four is going to go straight ahead lowers his shoulder goes over the top of igly and it's going to be good for 10 first and 10 now for Central at the 15 yd line [Applause] 717 on the game clock same formation still looked like that was just a little bit of a counter there out of central probably going to be the same play the next nope throw going to go to the end zone here going to number 19 and it's going to be incomplete now that's the kind of defense that we show good defense there by pton Andrews got to say that first that's a defense we saw earlier that they called the holding penalty on buman yep and he basically yeah cuz Andrew's there had his hands on him I mean both guys kind of just fighting for the ball good job there by pton Andrews go up and try to High Point that ball incomplete pass stops the clock at 7:03 second and 10 look at that Jinx y a Coke going to have tight end in the game now motion man number nine this is his specialty it looks like good job Keegan Thompson Tak it on the Block making the tackle lost a [Music] three we're excited for him going to see a lot more of him in the next couple years really a guy that's stepped up at as that outside linebacker position not afraid to stick his nose in there also doing a great job on the kicking this year so now you got a third down and long see if the Eagles can make a stop here going to be another pass play quarterback's looking to the right side he's going to the end zone once again and it's going to be caught touchdown for the [Music] Cougars vley was there just a step off good catch there out of the central receiver third and long there great ball there by the quarterback too putting in an only spot where that wide receiver can go up and get it low kick low kick Line Drive no good so that's still a 20po deficit for the Eagles Mand McGuire group scoreboard Breeze 33 Columbia 13 62 five remaining in the game so you're still down three scores so need to definitely need the hurry up offense here once you score you're going to have to go and get an onside kick score again get another onside KCK get another onside kick then go score and then go score and and don't miss any PHS we'll go home smiling Mason was right there on that defense it was just a good catch and like you said the quarterback threw a ball that I his wide receiver go up and get it and I was kind of wrong on that possession I thought they were going to run the ball a lot more they threw four or five times stopping the clock 625 left now Columbia's got enough time for I'd say hopefully three drives but thinking only two if we can get that ball back after we score thanks for listening once again here on kchs we'll bring you one more more week of Eagle football next week when we go to Jerseyville 63 sends it deep again going to be caught by rainwater at the five he's going to go to the left side gets the 20 to the 25 where he is brought down at the 27 officially so now if you're Mason you just gave up the touchdown there now you got to clear your head and get down the field going showmaker on the stop forers see what the Eagles offense can get going here Eagles line is set up I'd like to see Sam Denny try to get in the end zone here hasn't scored all year rainwater's got three belman's got one that other senior wide receiver try to get him in the end zone rolling out to the right side going to be caught by Denny at the 30 gets up to to the 32 out of bounds gain of six nope gain of five has three touchdowns on the season second and five now for the Eagles sticking with doubles ball on the right hash now running back is Hicks to vag's right side going to be another quick out route once again by Denny this time it is caught yard short I don't think he got out of bounds either I think the clock keeps going they keep it going yep 605 saying first now they're saying first down down now we're losing now we're losing time so that was a 15sec runoff right there it's still run because the officials didn't know what was going on looks like the eagles are going to go trips left this time nope they got Andrews in so typically he's going to be your tight end sniffer back why do we have no awareness right now doubles to the left side sniffer back is Andrews to the left they're going to hand the ball off try to go up the middle it's going to be Hicks he lowers his shoulder he's got a first down now the clock's going to stop at 524 get up to the line of scrimmage first down good play call there nobody's expecting a run going to go doubles this time ball still on the right hash running back right he's moving to the left Hicks knows he's got to be in a hurry Begley's looking to the left side he's got no time whatsoever loss of 10 at one time there's three linemen pushing their guy in the back towards vaguely loss of 10 on the play second and 20 yeah you even had Logan Hicks trying to step up make a block or two for Mason vley but three of them able to get there and make a make a tackle shall I say sack for almost a 12 yd loss I'd be interested to see how many sacks we've given up this year doubles to the left side sniffer back left running back going to run to the left it's going to be Hicks he's going to try to get to the outside like him to get out of bounds does he no sign out of the official I guess he stayed in then going to be a third and 14 four down territory for you're the Eagles 412 on the game clock Hicks comes off Janet comes running on doubles to the left side into the boundary ball at the 45 yard line going to be a low snap they're going to hand the ball off but with the low snap throws off the timing then it's a fumble it's still bouncing around we'll see who they give it to I believe it's going to be picked up by the Eagles number 52 good job there by Casa musk up there to make the fumble recovery janic now comes off not putting any pressure on his left fourth and 21 empty backfield trips to the left side doubles to the right into the boundary 315 oh watch your back all sorts of pressure once again same story face mask too and they missed it Mason complaining about it as [Music] [Applause] well Mason all night really has had no time in that pocket down trying to throw the ball down field do anything he can just to give his wide receivers a chance but not even enough time to get the ball out or even get out of the pocket on that one so turnover on Downs once again for the Eagles backto back drives 310 remaining for the Cougars offense 25 yd line Central is going to go doubles to the right side sniffer back to the right pistol back is the running back a slow moving play right there gain of two maybe three brings up a second and seven looks like mostly all the seniors are in right now on the defensive side of the ball so that's always good to see Andrews see rebling over here D out here BR furo that might be Ben Simmons actually you got herli on that right side as well going to the left side with a pitch good job there stepping up make a tackle Hudson Bryant was there in the back field missed the tackle it's going to be a gain of two gets it to the third number 75 for the Cougars is slow to his feet Bradley strubhart the 59 215 and if you're Central here you got the playoffs coming in the future you've got a game that's won only 220 remaining in the ball game so if you're Breeze you're you're thinking about getting guys off the field as well yep you don't need any stupid injuries in week [Music] eight not sure who they play next week but looks like they're going to move to six and two on the season after this one 4- one in the conference Eagles most likely going to fall to one and seven one and four in the conference and I was looking for that freeberg Salem score all night no sign of it I could not find it central is going to come out for the third and five now clock will start 223 remaining balls on the left hash tight end to the left they're going to run it to the right though with number 47 who's going to get to the 17 going to be a fourth and two now Central will be playing at Haron next week Haron typically has a good football program knocked us out of the playoffs a couple times I think we've played them twice in the playoffs and they beat us both years in the playoffs back in 2003 and 2011 so fourth and two for the Cougars trying to put the game away 140 on the clock they're going to hand the ball off up the middle they're going to get the first down and they'll be able to knee it out now and that's going to be Victory formation now 47 Jonathan Moss once again thanks for listening to us here in week eight from the Columbia multi-purpose field Eagles are going to lose this one 3313 we're just going to do a quick postgame show right here we'd like to thank electrod door for supplying the dinner tonight from the Columbia City Saloon to the boys for pregame also like to thank the Columbia quarterback club for getting Columbia City Saloon here for the volunteers as well we honored our 11 seniors the ROC the flag personnel and our cheer leaders here on senior night so the last game on the uh on the field for some of these guys it's going to be a a tough loss in another game that I think were a couple plays away from a totally different ball game yeah that first drive we came out looked pretty darn good going down the field especially making a stop um on that first one too but um that that block punt really I think changed the whole momentum of this game Run the clock but I mean going to the next week jville never really know what to expect with them don't play them I think we've only played them I'd say six six seven years maybe now so um it's always a fun one going to Jerseyville um but going to take the loss here tonight 3313 um but overall I think we played a a decent game up front I just think we didn't have enough time on we ran the ball okay ran the ball well yeah I just think whenever we were trying to throw even pause even when we had uh him getting out of the pocket and trying to throw on the Run uh looks a lot better but he he had no time standing in that pocket um trying to throw the ball down field well that's going to do it we're going to be one more broadcast for you all it's going to be the audio only so thank you to Mr Nickerson for doing everything here on KCs whenever we bring you the the camera angles and Josh rushing as well for doing the camera angles for us Eagles are going to fall to 1 and seven on the year after the 33113 loss here in Columbia for Jared Germaine I'm Alex slummer we will see you all next week with the aces wild pregame show at 6:30 live from Jerseyville go Eagles [Music] baby all more [Music] nothing

days out are youur middle of the night just last night just last night great uh good evening we will call this meeting to order for USD 348 Board of Education I would invite everyone to rise to pledge allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all uh approval of the agenda a couple of amendments to that one is striking item three under recognition for recognizing uh Miss notton we're going to do that next month instead because she's at musical rehearsal duh so we're going to do that next month instead so we'll strike that and then also I would ask if it's all right with the board's blessing to just add not a deep dive into sort of opinion or editorializing um but because there was a chamber of commerce Forum on District property uh this last weekend to just give the opportunity as part of the superintendent report to correct some factual information people can then do say believe whatever they want about that but I do think it's important for statements if if they are incorrect for whatever reason that we just give that opportunity to provide on paper hand to God what the actual information is if the board is comfortable with those two amendments again striking item three and then adding a fact check in um not in a combative way just in a very here it is do what you want with it way as part of the superintendent report um if you're comfortable with that then feel free to add a motion our move we U approve the agenda as suggested amended okay Andy has moved Anton has seconded to approve the agenda with the two amendments as suggested all those in favor please say I and raise ra your right hand I I motion carries 70 organizational items parent family and Community engagement opportunities principles Andor announcements anything you would like to come and share please feel free to do so just a reminder that the junior high will be having parent teacher conferences this week we still have some spots to sign up for uh so parents at home you can call the front office at the junior high that's the easiest way to do it the secretaries can pull up the the schu and and fill you in for a time slot to meet with any one of the the grade levels that your child happens to be in um again that will be this Wednesday and Thursday Wednesday is from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.

it just went out of there we got it stopped could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance of the United States of America and to the for it stands na indivisible andice for all everyone oh sorry Steve could you I was Terry is not with us tonight so Steve is going to step in and could you please call the sure thank you frost here no here ysph here s here gon here moons abs and Ty here six present right thank you very much and there's no correspondence no correspond okay so Kos you're up thank you all right so uh in the month of October and through the second half of September we've been through a lot I think the biggest thing um is our steon homecoming which was actually the most ever um attended Homecoming in steon history we had over 3,000 students presents it was awesome um so these are just some pictures from the actual unless you were chaperoning than 3,000 um and then we had a neon out football game which was also really highly attended and then um one thing that I like to talk about was actually like the PWC steps um obviously this is a very new like addition we've had it last year and this year's homecoming and I think something very unique about this is that like I like took a break for example from the M like I walked out and I see like hundreds of students like sitting on the PWC stairs um and it's like this kind of opportunity for people who maybe don't really I mean obviously we have like the patio outside but people who want to be in the building to kind of sit and just relax and unwind on the PWC stairs something that I don't think many other homecomings have access to so it was a really good opportunity um I just like wanted to feature the fact that like there was a lot of people using those PW awesome um in terms of Club um updates over here we have our Congressional debate team um who actually did really really well at icda I think placing second um in large uh School the large school delegation um our Italian club's collaboration with cooking club um for the Bretta creation event and then we actually had our operation snowball um attend a conference at Northern Illinois University on leadership development um and they kind of got the opportunity to develop student Le action plans um so that they can actually employ these on their trip eventually later in the school year so a lot of great um co-curricular happenings as well um some more that I want to Spotlight so over here our best buddies Club did an animal welfare fun riser for their Furry Friends um and they raised a lot of money um it was great over here is Catalyst Club a picture of two of our eboard members so I'm the director of policy at Catalyst and this event was a huge success so essentially what they did was they actually went around um it's an event called sticker shock so it happens um the preceding week of every big school event so prom homecoming turnabout um and they actually go to different liquor stores and cannabis dispensaries to promote non-use messaging um by placing stickers on different alcohol bottles and so this is is Tanner and Kendall who are our um community outreach coordinators and then over here we have um our students helping soldiers they actually participated in a like 11 Mile March uh to raise money and funds for um and awareness for uh the high suicide rates amongst veterans so really really great stuff happening um and then supporting our community we had our NHS uh blood drive um which was also a huge success these are three my friends who were on NHS board uh and they they said it was a great really really great success and then over here we have our upcoming uh Key Club uh event uh for Halloween so and they're going to feature different service clubs and stuff as well trick or trunk yeah um and in terms of academics there are a couple things that are important that I wanted to Spotlight so obviously here at Stevenson we value like the different ways of success like how different every student has success in their own way and I think this like this slide kind of encapsulates that so we have students who maybe their success is defined by like standardized test scores and so we have like a lot of students who actually qualified for the National Merit Scholarship and then we also see students who success means like actually applying that learning and doing it through experiments and this is our AP Physics team um actually they did an experiment where they had to like calculate the the drop height from which they could drop a water balloon um and then calculate the speed at which their teacher is walking and eventually if they got the calculations right they got to drop the water buing on your teachers and then over here is our 23rd smunk conference at Stevenson um by our model United Nations team and this was a great success one of the most attended M conferences and so um I think this is just great like different people that are kind of pursuing their academic interest in different um in terms of sports successes we had our um football team partner with the Bears to do um an awareness event at the like last football game pink out for um breast cancer awareness and and at the bottom we have our girls field hockey team um which continues to do really really well um and then in terms of the Arts over here we have our bully play that the patri theater company put on um not only did they perform at Stevenson but following homecoming weekend they actually performed at the different um middle schools and feeder middle school so that was really really awesome that you know these middle schools are kind of getting to see the amazing work that our Patriot theater company is doing um on the left we have our spark play which continues that they're continuing to perform in so that's also really really good um and then F Arts concert we actually have choir concert going on as we speak um that is really exciting and I think this whole week is going to be filled with a bunch of concerts we had our band concert last week I believe and then our orchestra concert also coming up this week something that I heard um I actually like I was talking to a couple of Orchestra students they told me that the orchestra concert is taking place in the PWC this year which is awesome I think the PWC is going under like undergoing some renovation sorry Pac is undergoing some renovation because they're putting like electric fly lines so um they've transitioned to the PWC and I think that Mr villo the director was staying h he's super excited because it's going to look great I saw a couple of pictures so it's awesome and then as always I created a new video for this month uh the question that I asked is um what is your favorite Stevenson club memory for the club that they're representing club we played b ball that was really fun um everyone seem to have a good time um my favorite memory from shsv is the first time I held the sideline camera my favorite memory for table tennis is competing tournaments against other schools I'm representa from girls and Ste and my favorite memory was my favorite memory from best buddi is out with my best friend I'm representative for robotics I my favorite memory the just working on the robot with other people like every day you get to do so much stuff every day it's um you know really crazy what we can get done after a fews hi I'm s I'm part of sassa and my favorite event that I've been a part of was Indian night last year where we had a lot of celebratory activities like games and different games to get people engaged hi [Music] I'm so yeah something that was unique I like to kind of do like a wrap up almost like these different students I like I think eight students um all of their different like favorite Club memories were so different like some of them were about like getting their favorite book signed by like an author some of them was about like The Saga dance or some of them were about like like India night so like all these different like experiences they're so different um yet they're kind of binded together by this one ideal of like community and kind of creating opportunities for to kind of explore their own passion so um that was really really great to learn about and that pretty much wraps up this month's presentation the the students who were remembering their memories they recalling their memories were those seniors Juniors what everything were all grades because I took the videos at our student leadership advisory council with last week and they like especially the Saga when I remember he said he was a fresh or he's a sophomore um and then there are some people from like that are freshman as well so that are like kind of experiencing the club as I don't know if you noticed a certain someone's face light up when she saw the Italian club's shout outs in the saying that Pia is the new club sponsor so a what event they a great group they are a great group it's really fun so K what Saka stands for um I think it's like student straight Alliance I I I forgot I forgot exactly what the like the acronym is for but it's for like um exploring different sexualities and stuff yeah wonderful as always thank you so much do we have any visitor statements thanks all right well actually can I say one thing turn over I just want to give a little shout out to the foundation for an amazing event on Saturday night we were able to attend I know some others were there it was so much fun they did such a good job and Matt thank you for heading up the sound team these were professional musicians writing songs they were talking about Miley Cyrus and Aeros Smith and and you guys did the sound and it was fantastic fantastic and our partners at sedexo did food and it was just kind of an all Stevenson all hands on that kind of event it was really it was really fun so if anybody gets a chance next year I would check it out all right um so we're going to begin tonight with some Ambassador Awards um I think we have some students here to celebrate uh and the ambassador award is always fun uh it's one of the uh highest levels of recognition that we give here at Stevenson uh usually to a team or an individual that has achieved at the first place or highest level in state or national competitions and or students who have achieved uh at the highest level academically and so um every once in a while we seem that lately it seems to be every month that we have students who have received perfect scores on either the act or sat and tonight is no exception so I'll turn it over to Mr Goble to celebrate our students yeah hi everybody this is a just a fantastic opportunity to recognize some amazing work by our students and I'm going to start with the uh perfect scores on the act so our we have two folks who received a perfect score on the ACT in our last Administration first Jaden Shen is here and Julian Tong congratulations I don't think there were here now we also have a perfect score on the SAT Audrey said but hold on a sec so any of you happened to be here last month Audrey actually received an award for getting a perfect score on the ACT last month then she took the SAT and got a perfect score on that as well I I don't know that I've ever heard of a student at Stevenson in my 12 years doing that so how about a big round of applause come on thank you congratulations congratulations very proud of you thank [Applause] you can I can I ask you a question H yes um why did you take both tests uh was this because of the schools that you want to apply to some require uh they didn't really require it because nowadays schools are trying to I think colleges are trying to go away from requiring SAT and ACT scores but I wanted to take it because um i' had been studying for the SAT for a while because I didn't know how well I'd do on the ACT and I thought that you know if I did well I had nothing to lose right so I think that's another way saying when they're that easy why wouldn't you do it's only a couple hours it's only a couple hours why wouldn't you you didn't do much practice actually really am it's okay another question so B study on ACD and sat what else you do in your life I mean do you do something other than study well I like to I do a lot of drawing I'm in a lot of the clubs like I'm in U I do table chop games clubs so I'm in a lot of and I'm also an EB member for the math team so I'm doing like organization Stu great that's great and also you might we might see you back with the math team not gonna jinx it questions no no no um well thank you and congratulations um and with all due respect to our up coming team presentations this was the very best part of the meeting if you're if you'd like now would be a great time to maybe find your way home um we will not think twice about it so but you're welcome to stay as well so totally up to you congratulations than you we we also have three other students here tonight who are coming for their government class to observe Civic work in action so um their assignment is to get a selfie with the principal at the board M meeting so we've all we've taken care of all that for them and what a horrible it is they don't have to look at it they just have to take it so we are uh get extra credit if they get a picture with the superintendent and the president oh I don't know that's that's that would be upbe after the meeting yeah all right so uh we are excited to the second best part of um to have our Communications art team uh communication Arts team here tonight presenting on um their work we in relationship to Sal so D can I turn over to you to introduce your team absolutely this is our sophomore College Prep team um and so uh we have a nice uh mix of experience we have a first year member of our faculty and we have a nice crew who are now Milling around to find a good spot so uh Joe Flanigan uh Jackie Cen our team leader Edgar air Elisa Galan and Aaron Perkins are here tonight and they do a fantastic job s in come on guess we'll look over we're all looking over there um so first and foremost thank you for having us uh I think it's wonderful that we have this opportunity to share with you what we're do on our teams and how we're innovating um in particular with social emotional learning has been a big focal point for all of our teams uh but in particular uh our team has been working on this obviously we already got our introductions so thank you Doug for that appreciate it now what are we going to do for the next 10 minutes um so a little bit about our team mission one of the things that the sophomore College Prep team is committed to doing is adapting and innovating and creating uh new supports for students and finding a way to uh reflect them within or reflect their identities within our community uh one of our goals this year was to have them find their voice and to have students connect in new ways to our curriculum uh especially seeing how our curriculum factors into their everyday lives and it really is all about agency uh you're going to see in the things we share with you this evening we're in down to three specific areas identity I didn't see this motion stuff efficacy and proficiency and you can see those aspects you know none of these are are more important than the other they're all vitally important but in in helping kids uh think through some of the social emotional ideas we're trying to integrate and to influence our own work it's been helpful to drill down a little bit um people can take action here and we know whether it be EBR or anything else as you guys have been thinking about this we've been thinking about this getting kids involved in the thing makes it better for them it's integral to the learning process engaging this this dialog this dialogue about how we learn how we process and we want to get them involved and so and so influencing the curriculus way has been very useful for us as well um it's really the same thing get kids involved and uh it turns it into a lot a lot better process we'll see that in the things we're going to share with you so our conversation really started when we looked at our student voices survey results from last year and as you can see the valuing of subject that's not a great score but when we drill down on this a little bit more we start to see okay how well you want to do kids want to do well in our class um and yet there we go so dramatic um you're on the EDG of um we see that kids may not see a practical daytoday like how can they take what we were doing in class and apply it to their life and so that really made us start to think about okay what can we do how can we change that equation so that kids do see the practicality of what we do in class that they are somehow reflected in what we're doing and they can connect in it to it in an authentic way so once we figured out what the data was telling us we could actually develop a starting point for ourselves so the data that we pulled from the student voice survey essentially was telling us that students were having a difficult time identifying with the value of the subject in their daily lives so that was kind of the idea that we were trying to focus on there was clearly a disconnect between the reading and the things that they were experiencing every day so our action plan was meant to kind of Target this starting point which is where we're pulling our data from so we started to really think about ways in which our reading could actually focus on things like efficacy and proficiency so not only should students understand what they're reading but they should also have some kind of connection to it so we looked at our text and we started to think about ways in which the text itself could become more accessible to students and then we looked at those diverse perspectives we have a student body that is incredibly diverse so our text should also match that diversity to create these windows and mirrors with spaces for students to not only see themselves but to encounter other Spa other people as well and then we looked for more opportunities for early reading success so we realized that if students felt like they were successful early on and they were more likely to want to push themselves and have success later on in the year as well and finally we also took into account that student choice so what we saw is that when students had a say in the things that they were reading they were more likely to want to continue to do that on our own so our ultimate goal was really kind of Empower students through their ownership of their own reading um and this kind of became the Target that we had in connection withal so that being said Jackie is going to pass out the books that we or the book that we chose um for our students it is a book or an anthology book of several short stories with um diverse perspectives in multiple different authors of different color um and different gender identities um we covered kadam's Ramen Shop One Voice Don't Pass Me By um and superhuman which we'll get into a little bit more superhuman is a short story about um ex who is a superhero who has gone Rogue and has decided that he is going to destroy Humanity um and the government has chosen one teenager named Serita who was the first person he saved to convince him not to do so and so this story really delves into and deals with kind of the limits um with empathy and sympathy and how as a society can we push past those limits um what can we do for one another how can we um look at one another and really take a moment and ask ourselves like what can we do for each other um other issues that we cover within the stories is related to representation um individual voice kind of like I said earlier racial identity and racial discrimination and so one of the things that we really wanted to do with those those selection of short stories is again provide them with more perspectives that they could look into that's where we use that metaphoric windows but also more mirrors in which they could see a reflection of their identity because if students could see themselves within these stories then they could relate and connect and be uh driven to read the stories uh more passionately and so we definitely saw that with superhuman oddly enough I don't think any of our students are uh superheroes but I haven't checked um but that seemed to resonate with them the most um and in addition they also got to choose a story uh that was not on that list obviously the Anthology has quite a few short stories uh with that choice they were then able to demonstrate their knowledge to their peers which is where that efficacy and kind of proficiency come in students knew that there was something of value that they were presenting to their peers through these short stories that they had read they kind of became the experts and we able to share that out uh with a gallery walk uh with their student Choice uh story and what they sh share out I think has been rather profound I can I think we'd all attest to that we it started with kind of a this character values exploration which is kind of a chart we have many manifestations of it that's just one example but everything from an image of Drake or H Lil Tekk who I'd never heard of before and it just a way of huh I'm well versed right I didn't know who it was the very first time after Drake but just give me a call next time class right we're not going to fall down the rabbit hole that uh that that throw it on between Drake and let's up but kid you know that's that's one but it was really just kind of this old chart that points to the eyes what does the character see points to the heart what does the character care about it points to the shoulder what burden does the character carry just little rules of we call them rules of notice those things you can notice when you're reading that might Express a value and getting students at any level to discuss something they value can be can be a difficult thing especially given all the madness that's surrounding us from day to day and some and some of these stories are really allegorical or they're an entry way a superhero story but it's an entry way to discuss some of these really serious issues and we've seen tremendous traction from the discussions that have been engendered by this values exploration kids are warming up to this idea I you you value this I value that what do you do with someone you don't agree with what are some values what are some opposing values that we're experiencing right now we've seen some real um thoughtful uh dialogue emerging from that that those conversations so again part of our go goal with this was just to make sure right that our students are seeing themselves within the stories that they're relating to these stories and that they are now starting to see that there is an interplay between their personal lives and the work that they're doing in the classroom these were some of the results we invited some student feedback uh take it away yeah so we invited student feedback because of course like we can intend all we want we can intend for them to connect for them but we don't actually know if they are connecting with it unless we ask them and so part of that efficacy is asking them how if they connected or liked even the stories that we gave them so like we said superhuman was one that they mostly all connected with 72% of them liked or felt connected to that text on average of the four texts we chose over two-thirds of the sophomore English students that we surveyed liked or felt connected to the four chosen texts um then on average 95% of students found at least one story they liked or felt connected to so then to follow up on that we um asked them will tell us a little bit about how you connected because it's one thing to just click yeah I connected I connected but when we look at some of the responses and these happen to be three different stories than the one that we've been highlighting they really noticed how the lessons in the text spoke to them about overcoming challenges standing up for themselves connecting to the character in some way and being in their shoes and understanding what they um were going through so it really reinforced for us that these these stories at the beginning of the year really spoke to them and they were highly engaged I would ask kids on a fairly regular basis different kids as they came in my room I what do you think of this book these are really great stories I like every one of them and so they're gonna you know read additional ones that we might not um talk about as a whole group so it's been highly successful so then with that we obviously have next steps this is just one small step that we're taking to engage our student students with our curriculum and making sure that they see themselves that they're able to find their voice within this curriculum our next step is to obviously evaluate that SVS results uh for valuing the subject and see what happens from last fall to this fall see if you know we've been effective in engaging them with this text um from there we want to continue to grow and expand we noticed that our students really took to that uh superhuman story and experience they engag with the question and so now a big question for our team is how do we expand on that how do we engage them further in that conversation whether it's through an exploration of that concept of humanity and empathy and make that connection to other stories or through connections to the real world and then uh we want to continue to explore that success with the short story format a main goal that we had when we adopted this text was to give students early success with reading uh again these are students who have struggled traditionally with reading and so providing them with that short story format made it accessible and they were still able to engage with some pretty neat content there in some uh really important uh dialogue and then of course we will continue to invite questions uh and the obstacles that come from uh finding out how our students engage with our curriculum so that's kind of our commitment moving forward we don't have data that says how this has changed it's coming soon uh we just gave the SVS uh survey uh recent so we should know closes tomorrow they'll have it next week any questions for us so is this brand new this year this is brand new I have you typically taught novels you mentioned genre and being able to work with the short story format is this a departure for all of you a little bit I think right um usually it has been lengthier novels and especially at the beginning of the year we have students that are transferring in and out of classes still trying to figure out where they want to be um or there's just changes in the schedules uh so one of the big benefits of having that short story is that students were easily able to engage within our classroom community and not feel like they were lost because they haven't read the first five chapters of a particular text or sometimes even 15 chapters in right now they're able to come in and engage with whatever short story we're in at that given moment so how long how many how much of the of the session uh of the six weeks did you spend reading the short story uh it was probably I mean I think it varies depending on team member but roughly between uh four to six weeks yeah because a lot of it has to do with the recursive training uh reading the text together was a was a big kind of focal point for us making sure that we're setting up the strong foundations for reading skills early on um and having kind of that recursive practice with those reading skills did you have um any students that were uncomfortable I noticed you had the question that you couldn't relate or you didn't like I'd love to know how many couldn't relate and how many didn't like um were those separate questions that you just aggregated for purposes of this or was it one question that you asked on that I think we had a couple of different questions um one of the things that you'll you'll notice in was right here that on average over two-thirds of the sophomore uh class felt connected to one of the four texts or one of the four short stories that we chose which is pretty good number but then in addition they read some independently and said that uh on average 95% of the students in our classes um were able to relate to one of the stories so obviously there are going to be stories that don't resonate with all students um but we wanted again to provide that opportunity for students to be exposed to multiple perspectives and to be able to find at least one story so if this and by the way I should preface I'm asking the questions because I think this is fascinating and I applaud what you did and what you're doing I I think is fantastic let's say it comes back you take this and you do your questions everything's positive is that going to change how you teach the rest of the course how do you incorporate this it's not going to be a course uh that you're only reading short story so how how does this relate to the other part of your normal curriculum that's a great question um I think again part of it is to set up those early foundations if the students are feeling fairly successful with the with reading as a skill in general early on we're hoping that we see a transfer of of that moving into our other CH texts so right now we're actually tacking tackling uh letter from Birmingham Jail which is a really difficult text um we're hoping right that we see some of that transfer of those skills those an analytical skills annotation skills and just being able to Grapple and engage with reading in general uh as we move into the most the more complex text that was part of why we chose those short stories right we wanted kind of a training ground for students to reengage with the process of life it does get to this other I mean we talk more but where how do I find my place in the world uh those are other questions we've developed and have worked through and have devised other student centered methods by which kids come to grips with that question doing some research about where they're going to head after Co after After High School what what they dream of what they hope to see uh happen uh looking at that portrait of a Stevenson graduate uh focusing on ourselves our learning and other people those are overarching I think questions that kind of tie things together as we go but it does emanate from this idea of thinking about uh how I can discuss something of value with another person write about it and express myself and get a better sense of who I am I would just add after a letter from Birmingham Jail the kids read dear Martin which is a young adult text that's based on a character's reaction a contemporary character living in Atlanta as a African-American senior in high school faces a lot of the same struggles that we see in society today so it's it's not as heavy a material as letter for Birmingham Jail but it it leads us to someplace where they can eventually make that connection again so it's a bridge if you had to guess just as a percentage what percentage of the the readings would be fiction versus nonfiction in our class in class in this particular class majority is fiction yeah yeah 8020 70 30 60 40 50 90 901 that's fine I curious and then I would also mention that there's mention letters I was just curious but we do various research elements within the curriculum so that I think that's like the other element of it too is that because we have a text that at least at the beginning of the year allows us to have the flexibility in terms of what we're trying to get students to read and focus on then that allows us to bring in some other supplemental work so things that are non-fiction or to have discussions or to have conversations surrounding just what is happening with students and how they're experiencing the world so I think a big part of just the success of what we're seeing at least right now with this set of students is that that flexibility allows them to imagine a world in in a space right where they're not necessarily the center of it but they still identify with that person or that group of people and so by the time that we're reading something like letter from Birmingham Jail then then saying something like this is historically accurate this is something that happened someone wrote this letter with this intent and this purpose feels I think more accessible because they recognize those same things and kind of um moments of resilience from that original text that they read that was fiction but now here it is materializing itself in a text that may have felt inaccessible but all of a sudden is actually very real to that it is pretty great to see the 72% of the students got connected with the text and I do see another 28% which is not connect to the you know the content whatever the right so do you collect those feedback from student with within the 28% that do you why they're not connected to the book or so when we asked for feedback that 28% if they didn't connect to that particular story superum I checked back and looked back they did connect at least with one other um with one other text that we did read for most of them the trend of whether or not they connected to one or not was most of the answers was like there wasn't much action just a bunch of people talked which like it's like okay that is real life um but it was like very revealing to us though too of like yeah what what gets them interested in the text as well and I think superhuman was a really great like story because they also just talk in superhuman so it's Al it's one of those moments I gu question if as far as a student voice survey it seems like you interpreted the valuing of subject to indicate how your students see themselves as readers and what their self-images as readers are and I guess my question is are you able to parse out from the data or just from your classroom experience what their self-images are as writers and as thinkers and what are sort of the broader implications outside of your sophomore English class for the way that they are finding themselves in the learning environment more broadly I think that's a uh sorry that's an entire other presentation um when we were really trying seconds yeah we've been making some changes who are writing assessments as well thinking about how we can incorporate student voice and student opinion into that so that they're not just writing some sort of literary analysis paper for the teacher right but rather trying to reach out to a wider audience one of the things that we been playing around with is the format whether they're writing an open letter or whether they are writing some sort of blog post or something that has the consideration of audience uh that's something that has been more tangible to the experiences of our students that we haven't really tried before and that uh could have been a presentation but um we wanted to focus in on um the great work that we've been doing with freshing so I thought it was interesting how how you mentioned looking through windows and mirrors and and when you said that it occurred to me that you probably have to deal with one of the major headwinds is probably how most students consume or how most students read now which is so can you address like do do you guys how much of an obstacle is that and and how do you address the difference between scrolling and and reading you're like this book is broken I mean it's but but you know there I mean I mean it really is like like I would imagine I didn't think about this until tonight but but you know when you're when they're looking at Tik Tok they're looking in a mirror yeah or a window they're they're looking for Content that is them right you know so I mean I mean is there a relationship to to how you're teaching short stories like that I think there's sorry go I think there's a relationship between how we are tackling some of the topics so one of the things that that we discussed as a group was just kind of addressing issues of you know what is the difference between pity sympathy and empathy so this was something that was common I think during most of our classrooms where when we were taking a look at a story we were kind of asking students to go through the process of like no we nobody likes that feeling of like someone pies you and most students are able to recognize that they don't want that emotion right associated with them in some kind of way even if they can't quite Express you know why they know they don't want that and so once we kind of get to there then we talk about well if you don't like that feeling how would you want someone to understand you if they haven't had the same experience that you've had what does that look like so we're really trying to set them up for the conversation regarding sympathy right and so the idea there I think is you know most students to kind of go back to one of the other questions is like they have to start by viewing themselves as readers so they can experience somebody else's emotions and sentiments and if they can get there then they can start to have those conversations where they're being critical thinkers and where the um perhaps like the kind of that reaction that they have to scroll through and to not connect maybe starts to become a slower one or a pause at least to think about what does that person feel so part of I think our connection back to the valuing of subject is is that's question specifically is if they value the subject outside of our classroom then maybe they will slow down right when they're thinking about some of the images they're seeing or the things that they're coming in contact with um whether that's through social media or something else so I think a big part of our conversation is how do we get these ideas into students uh so that they can access them in a way that's meaningful to their lives right because that's the area that we were largely focusing on as being an area of growth for our students is seeing the benefit of thinking about other people right um as being more than just stories themselves so if we can get to that then that was kind of I think the connection back to the valuing of the subject I think there's twofold right approach there which is building that empathetic muscle um and having them sustain that relationship with characters in those short stories but also just building the stamina to stick to the page uh for longer than 10 seconds definitely something that keep in mind and to go back to your question about writing and it kind of ties into your question about the reading one of our new first writing assignments this year is they had to take a perspective on whether or not we should still teach traditional language art skills like should we still teach you how to read should we still teach you how to write essays they had to take a perspective and at least my students overwhelmingly said yes we still need to know how to do that so it's [Music] like wonderful to hear that was it was wonderful to hear them because they had to formulate their own position on on the issue and um I think everybody here would agree that that is what their students well that's why we're still in school yeah we still need to know how to and how to manage reading online material and how you need to adjust and look for different things when you're when you're reading in a different medium so that's great well that is probably a great place to to add thank God yeah thank God thank you guys so much really amazing well done [Applause] nice job everybody cookie on the way out thank you I can smell the Irish whiskey in there just saying so to our students do you notice how everybody just seems to leave like 20 minutes from now it's just going to be the seven of us and you three so en you're enthralled this is good for you all right we're gonna work on that to shut down so oh ohy just get okay we know we're be last last excited she just stayed logged on did you get it all right well that brings us to um our student achievement report so just so that our board members know um generally speaking every October uh we present to you our student achievement report and October might seem like a kind of a weird month to do that but generally speaking we do it in October because um by August and September we'll usually have all of the data from the previous years's um State and National assessments so October seems like uh generally speaking it's a good month to be able to share this with with you so um tonight we have Tony um and Wendy here to present our annual student achievement report uh just a quick hit a note you do have a copy in front of you you can follow along in paper or you can follow along online um or you could give your undivided attention to Tony and Wendy who will take it away right now you are the third best part of this but again Sean knows maybe maybe more like fifth you might be like fifth or sixth it depends see how it goes here we go so are we good now yep oh yeah uh so we're here to kind of bring you some awesome information and data around our three goals that we had for this is based on last school year um but as you can see our goals are still the same as they are this year as they were last school year so we're going to talk um through some data points um and give you opportunity to look through and ask questions around our first goal of our um college readiness our second goal on students oh sorry first goal of our SAT our second goal of our college readiness and our third goal of oural our goals so let's first take a look at sat our SAT goal is all students will meet or exceed expected growth on the Illinois High high school college readiness that's the PSAT 89 the PSAT and the SAT so just as just to see kind of a year in review this last year this year is very similar of the timeline for when our students take these exams um we just took um this year in October we just took our PSAT that's our Junior students um in March they'll take the Illinois Science assessment and then April is a big month for our students with um are freshman sophomores and juniors um and honestly any seniors who haven't completed the SAT um because that is a graduation requirement um in April and then in May gets our fund of AP paloa so just to kind of give us some context of this of where our current um Junior students are so our class of 2024 this school year so our graduating seniors this is these are the tests that they took um as freshman sophomore juniors so as you can see as freshman they did not take that that was our our out of school hybrid year so our current seniors when they took this inform took these tests as Juniors they were the ones that were the first or freshman that really didn't get the Freshman experience coming in we will obviously know about no more by next school year when we're kind of back on track so um this is where you might want to look at your handout so just kind of want to give you that information um of our SAT data in review so it's our um English reading and writing our mathematics and our total score on the top but what I want to focus you on is towards the bottom so everything is white is Stevenson the stuff is kind of the browny color as we wanted to show you the data from the Illinois and the national sat for both the 2022 school year and the 2023 school year for comparison because one of the things that we saw if you look at the bottom and compare the total score the math scores and the English reading and writing um between the 22 and 23 we took a slight drop not much of a difference but a little bit of a drop and that was across the board for Illinois and nationally and so Tony and I were talking this morning we saying like Okay what my be some hypothesis of why this would be and really we're not going to probably know that until we get a little bit further down the road but we suspect that these are our freshman students that didn't get the PSAT as freshman um and then they their first test was as a sophomore and so forth so with that said if we look at what the benchmarks were up at the top for English reading and writing and for mathematics and look where our students scored and look where our students scores in comparison to Illinois as a whole and the nation as a whole our students are still doing wonderfully well it's it's incredible so even with the big Co blip our students really hung in there Qui consideration to the amazing teachers that were just in this room yeah the work that those folks have done over the last three years I think is really key to why that's happened for sure is it can I just say quick I know Troy you've dived into all this data as well but is the differential of two so we dropped six points uh the rest of the state dropped four is that significant in any way shape or form for anybody who's noticing that I don't think so I don't think so either somebody would ask though yeah okay security I mean think about it you have a non-co here where you drop I just mean in comparison yeah yeah can it doesn't seem significant to me at all so other things to consider is as the as we're looking at as we go into more of the data our class Siz is getting a little bit bigger um we're getting more diverse student populations and so some other really interesting things coming up here in a second so what you're looking at here if you look at the top where it says psat1 these are our current seniors their J their sophomore year was that they took the psat1 and then the junior year they took the PSAT um the MNS QT and you could see where percentages of how well students did the red being the students that did not meet and either or both in the green meeting the number the percentage student that exceeded and then you saw that same groupings of students which was 933 um go from the MS MNS QT to the SAT so the really amazing thing that you could see is between Junior and Senior year the percentage of students that did not meet went down a pretty nice percentage and the exceed went up one more question just absorbing it okay um so just some other pieces of information that you might find interesting um we have tracked the past five years you probably go back further if you're really interested but the one um interesting piece of this is if you're looking at this data on how students have done on the SAT keep in mind that of our 2024 graduates 597 of them only took it once and it was our test day last spring you have additional students that take an additional time and you get more we had four students that decided they wanted to have the fun eight times um but it's just really interesting that trend of students feeling comfortable and confident of taking their sat here at Stevenson um we take that as a huge compliment to how we do things and just for the base of comparison that number of kids only taking it on the ACT previously on our day would have been much much smaller much smaller I do think a little bit of that data as Audrey mentioned earlier is there's more test optional schools right and so I think many of our kids with really challenging curriculum listed in their course selection and good grades are assuming that's they'll take it the one time and they take it again they got a score that was like fine and they're ready to in the old act days kids would be taking it over over and over and over eight eight would or four or more would not be unusual right like there be hundreds of kids doing is that tracking also in terms of uh what you know about students doing like test prep programs either at Stevenson or outside of Stevenson we don't really have that much data about what students are doing outside of data or outside of Stephenson but inside we still have number of students that take well advantage of our summer school School courses and our test prep through Stevenson we offer a lot of opportunities for students we definitely try to Target students too say hey this might be something that you would be interested in um to help the students that really could use the extra boost um but I don't so like those students in the red for example like are you encouraging the students who are like in the not meeting to Avail themselves of the sum offerings don't forget we have an in the school year offering for them got it for before they took it most likely we would have identified them at time right so this is a lot of um data up here but it's just showing if you look at the top the average um English reading and writing mathematics the average total score then their average Super score and Troy would have to explain or Tony have to explain I've still figuring out what super score means um and then the percentage of students whose last score was their highest it's just some interesting pieces of dated just to see um a how well our students are doing um so super score is your best science score that you ever took or your best math score and your best Reading Writing put it together it could come on different tests and some colleges will accept to Super score so you take it three times take the best the best of each CH but what's fascinating is if you look at the 2024 the super score is 1227 the average you know highest score 12 24 difference not much they're flattening out and they're not taking it as many times in the old days we would get kids taking it six or seven times moving up two points and two points you know what year again did you transfer from it being act 2017 so none of this data reflects that this is all since the SAT has been our test yes um just some side note information I thought I would highlight because we're very proud of this in my office um is we just took the first digital sit on last week um we had 90 96% of our junior class that actually took the test even though it's technically we don't force them to do it we tell them all that they should they all come um and we took it digitally most almost all the students it was to say more the most came ready with ex with their iPads charged with the app downloaded and ready to go which is that's huge if you have like 16 17 18 year olds in your house um we did have about 200 on standby that um Nancy hunon and her group were able to provide to us we had no testing delays due to technology we were worried about that we may be the only School in the country for the that's one slide up here this is like fantastic National delays oh well there were National delays but schools themselves totally screwed this up that's like Doug Taylor and his team were amazing we did about 900 in the Fieldhouse my God because we had we were going to we had school day so we were limited on our spaces so we had 900 um juniors in the Fieldhouse testing together we got a little bit of late start just helping kids no you you got to stop you got to keep going to on here like on the pre- admin things so we had to do a lot of poking to keep them going but we had no um delays due to technology that was fantastic and all students were submitted we had no submission errors which is awesome and what I think is probably the most the best that this could give us is all our accommodated testers so students with IEPs or five fours usually for SATs have to take it over two days like the ones that have 100% extended time or 50% extended time they're having to go over two days just by the administration of the test all of our accommodated students were able to test in one day and because the accommodations are linked to their account when they log in they automatically get the accom accommodations they've been approved for and so you you get exactly exactly what you're supposed to get and there's no opportunity for human error for human error in like missing the time or something and that was one that I was really worried that they were C for would be able to do it was good it went well some just some things we're going to work on rearranging the Fieldhouse generating some more detailed tasks for the RO Proctors creating more visual supports and provide our substitute teachers with a stens device on that day so we're already working on how we can even be more efficient with those days you happen to know if there's any data about about uh paper and pencil uh take exam taking and digital exam taking with the with the SAT like do you know if they've done so they don't know it's first time well what's what did you say it's first time first time so there's no they didn't try it out with a a test group The the yeah like other countries yeah I'm saying somewhere na I'm just wondering if there's any data College Board doesn't says that there isn't any significant but they would never they would never tell us otherwise they want to do want to stop they never tell us otherwise so it'll be really interesting to see but it's going to be really hard to pinpoint whether it was the technology or the changes that they made on the test which would be the causation of that did like did anybody say anecdotally of any students give you any feedback anecdotally about how did they like it better or you know than the PSAT that they filled in or they did um College Bo did ask a question at the end because I was looking over a shoulder of a couple kids that says like what was your how was your experience but I think a lot of kids didn't take it as my experience for the test on the iPad just my experience for the day so it's going to be really interesting to see when they send us that feedback how so hopefully we're going to get that feedback to kind of give us a little bit of insight yeah you talked a little bit about accommodation is there a paper accommodation for students who don't want is there is a paper accommodation and how are you within the logic of the school day if you're running a regular school day how are you supporting students who have like environment accommodations like who need you know a small test setting like how is how are you running that yeah so that's not very much different than what we've done in the past so depending on whatever the students accommodation is um there may be some one-on-one um settings that students have and we did have some for the PSAT um oneon-one like one Proctor one student settings and the same we give up fig sometimes over here we'll bring them over here so my testing team find every small space at Stevenson my office we can put kids councel office is our off yep they make it so those change so there are we didn't have any during the PSAT that took a paper one this past October I have a feeling we will have a few for the sit a little bit higher Stakes um but they it has to be an accommodation now so now a school has to prove purpose for the paper copy so college readiness so I think I'm I got to speed things up so I'm going over my 15 minutes um just some things with college readiness um by division every um division in Stevenson offers some college readiness course whether it's an AP course a dual or articulated credit course um of that during this past school year and 90.7% of our students so 1,000 um 64 of them took some college at least one college level experience um in their four years here at Stevenson High School so if we look at the college level experience against our course skills uh that we grade on in our uh eart classes kids who took at least one college level experience before they graduate their skill proficiencies in their courses are higher than the kids that didn't take college level experience while they're here um so we can continue to correlate um you know jumping in the pool and taking rigorous classes and taking that college level experience does translate to higher skill proficiencies in Reading Writing analyzing we can you know I just highlighted a few of the common ones here but we can break that down here it's just there's a correlation here not causing yeah you you yes um did you have another question no if I did I wouldn't ask um again we had our highest number of kids taking uh highest number of AP exams written highest number of students uh taking AP exams so we continue to climb um and we had 66% of our Juniors and seniors take uh at least one AP exam that's 5% higher than last year so we to climb in each of these numbers uh 88% of the exams that students wrote meaning the exam itself 88% of them were three or higher and 90.8% of uh AP students earned at least one score of of a three so um those are right on par in the years's past um I don't have the historical data in here but that's right right in line with how we and keeping in mind that our goal is written that we want students to have at least one college level experience not necessarily taking the AP exam we want them to have those experiences because we're the data shows that that's going to prepare them for their post-secondary experiences um with that said many of our students are yeah and looking historically here here's some of the historical numbers again we continue to climb in the number of exams the number of kids taking the exams we've had kind of a wild ride with virtual here and because of coid and all that but we started with virtual exams only because of Co in 2020 then we are a hybrid of virtual and paper exams and now Wendy and her team done a great job administering the digital uh exams in sat and that's going to uh continue to happen going forward more of those digital formats so uh we're riding that technological wave right now we did offer one um an English digital AP last year it went swimmingly um our students did really well and we did get feedback from students because they were able to go back into their classrooms it says that they actually love WR the digital format really is has the College Board published a timeline at all about not so much every the past couple years they release like they're they're going through each one kind of methodically they they released the first group last year a second group this year but I already warned the AP teachers is as the SAT keeps going pretty well for them it's going to be a fast track for all the APs too got it okay uh and then looking at by division AP exams you see that the majority of our AP exams are in science and social studies but when you look at the performance the percentage of uh exams that are receiving three or above or evenly distributed amongst our divisions and one thing it gets back to what our goal is we found this data interesting is that we shows the middle column is the percentage of students who are in an AP course who are getting that college level experience and then the number of them who who took the AP exam last year we saw a bit of a dip um I think because of the the new trends about well this AP score why do I want to spend this money and time if this score is not going to do anything for me to get into whatever University I am so students are picking and choosing and I think as we talk in a moment about um students social emotional um learning and health they're making some wise choices for themselves so we're not very disappointed in the number that they took as less than the number in the course and just distribution by uh you know grade level so freshmen again very few take it usually those are just kids who you know speak Japanese or Italian they sign off for those tests directly and then as kids um uh age and go through majority of our exams are Juniors and seniors we will see just planting a seed we will probably see a little bit of a jump um just a slight of the Freshman with this year AP uh college board is offering the AP um my I lost my mind um preal they're going to be offering that so we will have some students that will be wanting to take that exam and then just a dis uh distribution of numbers for exams taken um for our students those who took 1 to two 3 to four 5 to six and seven plus I think it lays out I think pretty well you know the the word you know the stress of like every kid's taking seven APS well a couple a few are but it's not overwhelming but if they're taking seven they're telling everyone about it they are they are and then around our dual and articulated credit we had 634 students that took a dual um credit course 84 of them took an articulated course the number of courses we have it's growing a little bit every year about 28 um different courses that we have and you see the list of uh colleges that we have articulation or dual credit agreements with College Lake County Harbor lyola and North Central do we quick question do we I know we have our um senior surveys coming up next month um student satisfaction surveys we do in November typically do we have any data on how kids are using the articulator in Andor credit do we ask anything about that I don't think we have a question on there I do know that Sarah her Crow because of some of the changes that are going that we talked about last month um we're adding some questions and things in there so I could check with her to see if we're gonna be I would just be curious you know we make a big push toward making those opportunities available to them for dual credit and accelerated or articulated do they do anything with it I'd be curious yeah all right sorry just kid uh moving along because we're a little short on time um grade distributions uh first first semester second semester uh sorry first semester between 2021 22 and then uh last year our grade distributions are pretty uh uh steady our kids do quite well in our courses A's and B's predominantly um if we look at sem 2 again 2021 22 to 2223 same distribution so I know there's a lot going on in this graph but our kids are awesome they rock it in our classes and it stays steady year to year um one quick nod to sealed by literacy our kids continue to seek out this seal and this commodation uh coming from World Language myself as a teacher I know how it's important it is to a lot of our kids to speak one two three languages so I'm really excited uh to see that kids continue to seek out this uh this U foundation in SE so and we're starting to see a little bit sharper um incline of students um working towards this which is pretty which is pretty exciting yep and at the bottom there 31 about you know 31% of their graduating class received you'll rece either a seal or compation so and you know it's interesting as you asked a question about duel and articulated how are they using that this would be another one to find interesting of you know how are you using this and and towards what um our last goal um and thank you Lori for hanging out a little bit um is oural goal and we are offer we are offering um voice surveys through three venues one are student voice survey which we're finishing up in all of our classrooms so all divisions all courses all teachers are expected to um ask students for their their experiences in class here in the fall um we also do a school climate question year that comes out of student services division and then we have Trish does an amazing job with our Athletic program and asking them our student athletes for their thoughts feelings opinions um in their world up Athletics so this school year we really focused on two um we focus on classroom belonging and Bing of subject as you may be discovering with conversations um of every board meeting when teams come here they usually pick one or two or both of these to talk about and that work has shown an increase so as we look at that what I think is the one of the more exciting things is where the Circ uh Lor you circled is the 18,061 different entries in when we think about when we started this charge a few years back it was hard to get students to provide this they didn't want to take the time out to do it and so students are finding it valuable to give feedback and as you could see go back one more go back as you can see how we spent some time and if you look in the fall like look during the coid years we took a big old dip which we would expect and now we're moving our way back up in the in the world classroom belonging and I think just to throw in the team that you saw here and how passionate they are about connecting with kids outside of what they presented just just each one of them just oozes like we care about you we see you and I think you know that's just who we have here and that's why not free that number going up just to uh point out something that may be obvious but although there was that Co dip of what I can't see 11 points 15 points I don't know just to be clear during coid While most kids were at home in the fall of 2020 still 60% of them felt connected and had a sense of belonging virtually to their teachers in their classes that's pretty impressive you know that that our teachers were making an effort virtually and our kids were making an effort virtually to stay connected so whenever I see this I feel like I have to point it out so yes and to our teachers all of our teachers like 76% that's not good enough like why why are we only at 76% and and Lori gets that all the time I'm sure right and so then we had to bring things into perspective a little bit so one nice thing that Panorama has is they compare you can compare Stevenson to other Stevenson is places so we're trying to measure Apples to Apples and when we do that we're at the 99th percentile when it comes to um sense of belonging in our classrooms did you have the question no the I was just wondering the slide says grade six 12 oh that's just because so the survey data that they take nationally the questions are graded if that makes sense which questions are appropriate that we're asking and so the bank of questions that we ask from is six through 12 student voicey survey questioning that's all we tell your teacher you are playing close attention good get extra credit for that you can take two cookies I make I get it [Laughter] I he's 11 moving right moving right so the second one valum of subjects which you saw um this team the english team talked amazingly about the work towards that we're moving we just contined to move up and what's really interesting about that one is that we didn't see as big a dip in that like during the co years and so with that we're still moving we're still moving up and again you know our teachers like 74% that's not great well it is great um because we're sitting in the 99th percentile we're doing some amazing work in our classrooms and so I don't know Lori if you had anything to add amaz questions thoughts additional it's great it's great you guys and you know there is far more data that we have um do this is really just the tip of the iceberg a lot of it you have in your end of year report that you got in August um this is the most upto-date current data that we have um but Tony and Wendy pull together all all kinds of other data so this this report we do at the board meeting every October because it's aligned to the three goals in our gpis um so we felt like this is important to do each year in October tied to our gpis goes into a formal board report um but you guys did a great job so thank you crushed crushed crushed crushed it Mark crushed it thank you you guys all right uh next item is our current enrollment report so uh you can see that uh if you clicked on that document um this is a pretty standard report that we get daily from uh Wendy's office actually um and we take a snapshot in time I think Sean this is the sixth day enrollment is that right correct Yep this was a snapshot taken on the six day on any given day this enr enrollment report may be off by one two five students if for some reason kids moved in or moved out Etc but generally speaking you can see that uh on the sixth day our enrollment was 4,623 students um those are all kids that were educating either in the building or out um the best way to think about that number is that whether they're in the building or out of the building we are responsible for $4,000 623 kids that's the best way that I like to think of whether they're in out no matter where they're at they could be at a day School in Colorado they could be wherever we're responsible that number is 4,623 uh we are waiting on Final site or uh yeah decision Insight decision Insight um that data should be coming in the next month or six weeks but it's in line with previous years but we think it's going to be in line predictions estimates whatever you want to call it and the upper end of that enrollment could be around 4,800 within three to four years yeah correct given the economy and what may or may not happen you know with uh inflation or housing prices or the market you know those are all variables that play into an x mean what does what mean there's an X in building out of building and then there's just an X just one student yeah the bot Tuesday that's it's just an error in Infinite Campus okay that was probably a kid that just got added that particular day in the middle of I see okay okay um we also have a first reading for the uh board policy update on accounting and audit uh procedures or policy that we mentioned at our finance committee meeting so if you have any questions about that between now and next month uh please let Sean or I know and that um I'm going to yeah away please um so I I noticed in the letter in the draft of the letter that you shared in the finance committee so what's being recommended here is essentially right in the middle of what they're so they're recommending based on um size of school and what we're come what's correct they they look at any number of things and and some of it's left up to the district to determine really how much do they really want to truly capitalize we we had a really low capitalization threshold of $500 for a long time and that means that literally we got to tag everything that's got 500 bucks or more so now we're we're doing stuff that is less consumable um and has a useful life that will extend a period of time thank you y okay um so we'll bring that to you next month uh you can see a uh the Personnel report uh with a usual selection of items in there for you to review some of which will be part of consent and that brings us Sean to um approval of the uh Seaman contract which was the first reading last month and being brought to the board for approval today correct and uh just to review um Seamans we have a contract with Seamans uh to provide um really their expertise as it relates to our building automation system and uh which they call the SEO uh and the software um and the equipment that is attached to it um and so uh while the uh cost of the contract has gone up some uh it has um also included multiple new um sensors new controls uh things that we didn't before such as our indoor air quality sensors which is new um it does include the annual subscription cost which we would have to pay for anymore anyway just like a site license um and then of course the number of uh days that a technician is in fact on hand um this is something that you know we we negotiate and work um hard with uh our vendors to try to um really get them to sharpen their pencil every year but um with the cost of um uh the cost of employees and really the lack thereof good employees um in the engineering field um we did have to a little bit of a higher um renewal than we want um but uh it is a small compared to what we were paying last time uh and the CPI at that point in time so um tonight we are recommending that the Board of Education approve uh the new three-year Seaman contract has presented can I get a motion so moved second any other questions for Sean I know we talked about this already but yeah okay okay no I Ben I um AB yes Gordon I uh moons is not here tyer hi and frost I passes excellent thank you uh our next one is also uh a an approval item that we talked about um previously which is an upgrade to um the cellular network uh inside the building um as great as uh 5G is um 5G does not penetrate um it operates at a different wavelength and has difficulty penetrating the buildings um while this might not be as big a deal uh the reality is that many of our public spaces where we have non Stevenson people uh on a daily basis um can't um access uh not only their phone but um can't access dialing 911 in an emergency and we actually had two instances um where it took longer to actually make a call um than what would have if they were able to get a cell service um so we did call out a couple of different vendors um and a couple of different options um and one of the options was tying directly into um the cellular line that goes to the nearest Cellular Tower um that was quite expensive that was well over a million dollars um to do um they offered we asked them to give us a quote on a different um option as well um they were higher than the option that is being presented tonight um connecta USA is um the solution after um some thought with uh myself and Doug Kaylor and his team um agree it's going to be uh best suited for the district um it also phased so right now we are just doing the large public spaces if you think of the pool the Performing Art Center the Patriot Wellness Center the sports center those types of things um so uh we are recommending tonight that uh following any discussion the Board of Education approved the upgrade to the cellular network with connecta USA at a cost not to exceed $245,300 as presented can I get a motion to approve so moves second thank you any other questions for Sean Sean this this wasn't initially in the budget however well we had uh we had a bit little bit of a lower uh amount um it was originally budgeted for $150,000 um but our one of of our other purchases is uh close to $350,000 under budget um so we have plenty of room in our budget to meet up the uh extra added cost thank you of course any other question could you please P okay s hi woron Hi l is not here tyer hi Frost I no I Ben ysf I pan okay Sean say have one first read in two info items correct yeah so the first uh reading today is uh looking at uh the school fees for the 2024 25 school year it's kind of hard to believe that we are already at that uh process in terms of planning but we are um and as you can see that we are recommending um that uh right now it uh remains consistent or flat if you will um so we'll have a little bit more uh opportunity to discuss that uh between now and our next meeting um also wanted to allow or make the board aware that it is also tax levy time um this is what uh we believe it's really kind of based on the um equalized assessed value for all the properties that are in our community as well as the uh CPI or the cost of living increase um and then what our actual tax extension was this year so um you can see uh we'll have a today we're just kind of talking about some long-term projections um in November we'll have an actual first reading and set the truth and Taxation hearing if we need one and then we'll be acting on it in um December with a finance meeting in December as well so I just want to give the board a heads up that is kind of the timeline and the second one is also um a timeline we talked a little bit about it today um but this is uh we are uh kind of in the uh preparing for a big viid phase if you will um white has white and company has completed the construction drawings has turned them over to gilbane gilbane is creating a gilban is our construction management light and companies our Architects um they're com uh completing the bid packages to go out they'll hold the bid we'll review the bid and then present it in December as well but I just wanted to give the board ah heads up thank you and you can see the plethora of foyer requests okay could I get a motion to approve the consent agenda items please so move second um it's a please P okay gorson hi moons not here tyer hi Frost ey no hi Ben ysf hi s hi p okay uh and then finally uh just a couple quick items uh you can see uh under our report there's some interesting articles uh that I thought you might be interested in especially a recent Court ruling around um teachersfree speech rights on personal social media uh I thought that was interesting some articles around uh developing assessment capable Learners um again just some interesting articles that uh Troy and I were reading this month you can also see the class of 2023 um graduate report and a lot of interesting uh information there as well so thanks to uh Dan and Sarah and our student services division for pulling all that together I think it's just interesting uh if you look at our 10 most popular four-year universities um the Midwest is I think well represented would be an understatement right um with the U ofi with u ofi being our uh I guess we're their number one feeder I think is the best way to describe it um not even close not even close so more than 10% of our kids uh go to the University of Illinois uh so you can see that uh really great information so you can take a look at that uh at your leisure um also uh each year right around this time we also present to you uh a professional development report um and we always find this to be interesting each year um we ask uh our human resources uh Department to put together a report that um identifies all of the professional development that teachers have engaged in over the course of the previous year so the these are not career um kind of PD opportunities but they're uh it's the PD that teachers have engaged in over the course of the last year and it's important for us to share this information with you because um um to be honest the PD budget or the PD line item in the budget is um not small uh we really value kind of the work that our teachers do in the area of professional development um and we feel like we should share that out with you and you can see some of the amazing uh work that people are doing so you have a hard copy of that uh please take that with you and um take a look at that when you get a chance um you'll see an interesting um uh article uh and round up from Robin Schwarz uh related to uh the legislative Roundup rather related to uh what's happening down state there is an ELC um update as well and then um each month uh we facilitate uh parent engagement meetings and uh this morning um Troy had to go solo I was at PT but Troy had to go solo and did a great job and we actually had a parent uh send this in this morning and thanks to Pia for uh getting it in there but a really great kudos to Troy and um and Jamie was there as well I think um for the work that you guys did this morning and uh there's small group meetings usually of about four to five parents um but it's usually an hour well spent um they walk away pretty happy so and then you'll see some student profiles of some of our amazing kids oh yep please um so I'm just that the comment um that me put in uh complimenting Troy um I'm just curious is your sense generally that people are aware of all the different sources of communication that you're using to communicate with them or was this this was a this was an email from a parent who was at the who was at the meeting this morning but I'm just curious if your sense you know when you start talking about these kinds of things at the meetings that you are having are you getting a sense the families are are aware in using it or are you getting a sense that this is like news to them when they hear about it at these breakfasts no they use it they use it all okay great there's almost an insal appetite for information from our parents and if if the PB is it available are and I think I assume all these things are available to the public anyone in the community who wants to log on to this can go on to the website abely and log on to all of these things MH parent engagement even has their own social media and they they yeah there's a lot of information out there they Mara has twice monthly um sessions for parents to get involved and Mark works with Mara on that like they're yeah it's a lot as the kids say it's a whole thing is that my right about that is that I don't think the kids say that anymore not anymore it was I think that was they still say it all right I'm hip not can we V well that's a problem too that's why I was in PT this morning and had to miss the meeting so all right we need to end this meeting all right so um you can see a wellness club uh video there that's really great and that's all we got oh any other questions comments no I just want to say that Wendy took um time out of her day to take myself and Grace and show us around at Tech campus and it was really awesome and informative and for our board colleagues if you haven't been there yet it was really wonderful and you and the principal at yeah if you haven't done it I would I would recommend it okay could I get a motion to adjourn so all in favor very

okay I've got 630 Julie can you call the rooll pleas Cara Caston here Ken Dawson here Chris Espinosa here Cheryl Fuller here Jenny hagstrom here Terry pavich here Don Runner here and N M here thank youum let's stand for the pl agents I aliance 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 allent uh first up is uh Mark marandola with North High School hello good even everyone uh as Dr th mentioned my name is Mark marandola I serve as the Director of Student Activities at North High School uh before I was director of Student Activities um I had the privilege of starting a leadership group at North uh which we call Elite uh the name Elite stands for everyday leadership inspired through example and so that's what we really strive uh for with our students is being everyday leaders um serving as pos positive examples to other students so about 10 years ago um I started a lead with another teacher U Miss Megan Gilbert um because we identified the need um to have positive leaders in our building um at that same time we had a really great uh leadership opportunity uh where we would take students up to the outdoor Wisconsin Leadership School um in Wisconsin um and at that time that program was called belief to behavior and so Dr Ken senson had started when he was a Student Activities director um and so um through the elite program we saw a need to continue that program and so we call that our Elite fall leadership weekend um as well as our Elite leaders um that are involved with a number of things throughout uh the school year um and so I've invited four of those students uh Miss uh Izzy Cervantes pie Fischer uh Drew Hardy and Addie Potter to come and talk to you guys a little bit about uh Elite um what it means to be an everyday leader at North as well as our fall leadership weekend um which took place a couple weeks ago um so I'm going to have the student students step up and and tell you guys a little bit about Elite and our fall leadership weekend uh the next sign please sorry um so who are Elite leaders so the elite leaders at North it's 30 students we are Juniors and we're seniors we go through an interview process our junior year and it includes an application that you need to get some teacher recommendations for and then there's an in-person interview which is a group of kids and we go through a scenario that Elite leaders would have to go through and Miss Gilbert and Mr mirandola basically just make sure that we are cut out to be elite leaders um and then all of us as Elite leaders are usually involved in other activities such as Athletics we have theater choir we have a wide range of people that are involved um and then all of us every day are committed to Leading by example throughout the school be it through our activities we're involved in or just by our academics um and then we we all try to help everybody else around the school realize that they can also be leaders that you don't just have to be in a leadership position to be involved in leadership there's other ways to be leaders throughout the day oh sorry um then that picture is of all of the leaders that are currently serving as leaders and then the next slide is of everybody who went to the elite leadership weekend this year all right very good okay so the fall leadership weekend is the annual week weekend that we have up at Williams Bay Wisconsin with all the students the leaders the owl staff um all of the new Elite incomers um and then this year we had about 120 students grades 9 through 12 attend and the largest chunk of that group is actually freshman which we really take pride in because it's really good that they're getting out there literally less than a month into the school year getting their hands dirty with leadership opportunities and then each year um in June a couple months before the fall leadership weekend the leaders go up to the camp and train and do the same activities that they're going to do maybe a little harder because they've earned that by becoming a leader and some of those activities include the rock ball which we can see on the left which everyone does and it's good to show like bravery skill um teamwork cuz they can sometimes Tire rope between a couple people and they have to work together together to climb up and then on the right side we have the 12T wall which is the most Monumental of all the activities we do because it takes everything we've worked so hard for during the leadership weekend and really puts it to the test um the most important thing is what do these students learn from the weekend um because we're putting these small groups um and about like two to three leaders per group you get to really connect with each of the students and um those freshman can look up and see a friend in those upper classmen um when they're going through the hallways through school they're able to see a mentor figure um all throughout the weekend the um owl staff and all of the teachers who are there emphasize it's a challenge by choice if you don't want to do an activity you can choose not to do it but you can also push yourself to go a little bit further um it teaches them importance of communication and Trust um you have to learn to become friends with all these new individuals you you might not know um you're brand new into school um and some of the freshmen get to meet some of their classmates who are going to be in their classes um there's various ways to lead so you don't have to be the person out there um rallying the whole group together it's just as important to lead by example or sometimes you just got to be the one to follow the leader too um which they say and emphasize is equally as important um we learn about effective leadership so um how to then lead that group through the activities um most of the challenges are timed so you feel the stress um but you work through it with your teammates together and I feel like that really helps when students go back to North and have to deal with stressful situations on their own um they're better and stronger because of it all right so on top of our fall leadership weekend Elite participates in many activities uh throughout the year um in Downers Grove and in the in Downers Grove North and the community in general um one of our um things that we do is we work with Student Activities to improve the culture in our building and student experience um this also ties hand inand with us helping plan Spirit weeks and assemblies um all of the elite leaders are extremely involved not only in separate activities but in the Student Activities office itself uh we all are constantly in there uh helping Mr marandola and Mrs mamula and Mrs Gilbert uh we help with so many different Spirit things like the assemblies like Spirit weeks uh things like that we also periodically attend leadership workshops or have leadership workshops come to us um like this top photo up here is one of the leadership workshops that um a lot of our leaders went to last year um at LT which was extremely helpful um for us to learn more about leadership which then can help us the leaders get it out to the rest of the school population and then the bottom picture is what a program called evolve where uh they actually came to us and they taught our leaders at school about um school spirit and Leadership which we can then share with this uh student population all right thank you all so much for listening to our presentation and I hope that you all enjoyed thank you so um talk a little bit about um how the experiences at Elite have impacted your experience at Downers gr North and how you might use some of those skills As you move on to Beyond High School yeah absolutely um um I did not do Elite my freshman year because of coid um my or my sophomore year um but I became an elite a leader um as a junior and a senior uh I applied for it because I really wanted to become more involved with my student atmosphere I was already involved in um activities and sports um but I wasn't really involved in the actual School culture the school climate the school spirit so that's why I really wanted to get involved um with this organization because it got me so close with these students and also helped me grow as as a person which I'm sure everyone else could say the same uh I've grown as a leader and as a person through this organization and has really impacted me I feel like everyone else so um yeah I did the uh Elite weekend as a participant to start off with and it's definitely a different perspective I was pretty intimidated by all of the upper classmen coming into North um but going into the weekend afterwards I just felt the north love like it was a very good experience for me um because I felt like I could have that friend who I could see around the school and I was like oh I know that upper classman they were my elite leader and they like wave high to me in the hallways and made me feel very good so that's one thing that I was like very very good thing about the program and overall just like working with the challenges in general like you end up getting frustrated during the challenges and you see like different sides of people that you normally wouldn't see in a school atmosphere and I thought that was equally important to see what people go through on the other side I can answer also as long as there's not another question um but I I mostly got involved cuz I'm the one who like I said is involved in like the choir theater kind of thing so I sort of stay in the Fine Arts sector of Downers Grove North a lot of my time so I was looking for other ways to like Branch out like Addie said like to get involved in more of the school unless just like a smaller part of it and uh one of my my at the time Junior friends who was a leader before she graduated she told me she was like like it's perfect like it's really fun and the leadership weekend sounded super fun to me and I was like oh my God like we get to go to the lake I love the lake so I was like of course like I'll try and then when I got in and I became a leader my junior year and I realized like how much we actually like help this school and like how much we get to be involved in Student Activities and all of that I realized like how much I enjoyed my decision to apply awesome and then I guess I can answer too um I wanted to become a leader since I've been in like middle school I had a friend or my neighbor actually who was an a leader and he was a pretty cool kid so I was like okay I want to be a leader too and then like one of my friends in the grade above me was a leader and he told me like go apply go do it you won't regret it so I applied to be a leader and I just I love it it's great um just like being able to learn how to talk to people uh just be somebody that people can like look up to and just make somebody's Day by saying hied them in the hall like I think it was PA as he said so yeah thank you thank you for your all right we're going to Vite for the Grove Express uh Foundation Junior board members just got to put other sh a good change uniform change well good evening superintendent The District staff and board members as you all know again my name is Addie Potter and I'm a member of the gr Express Junior board along with the rest of the students next to me uh my name is Gina Lou I'm a senior at down Grove North I'm also on the junior board hi my name is Ma kinus I'm a senior now but I was also a junior that joined the Grove Express Foundation hi my name is Sarah Ryan I'm a senior at South U my name is Cameron Gillespie and I'm a junior at South my name is Joe grippa also Junior at South all right and we are here today to talk to you about the Grove Express race our role in the race our future plans and more all right so the Grove Express is a non for-profit race that raises money that goes directly back into the community of Downers Grove so that includes um local businesses or local organizations schools and businesses um the race has taken place on Thanksgiving morning and has bringing the community together for 20 years okay well what do we actually do here the junior board of directors was a new addition to the Grove Express Foundation last year and this was really just an opportunity to connect to the Youth of Downer's Grove we've also given many opportunities to high school now to high schoolers now so they can learn what it takes to build and run no pun intended an organization just like this in order to give them opportunities post High School um within the Grove Express Foundation there's different community uh committees that you can join and it's really based on your interests and like what you want to pursue so we have different branches of what we do and we each have picked our own committee and what we chose to be a part of Additionally the junior board is responsible for collaborating with each other um to accomplish other goals and activities like advertising to our schools and to the community we also coordinate uh volunteers we help with ideas and we also help set set up and execute race day and we also help with so much more and we basically just help wherever we are needed this year the junior board of directors have many new plans that we plan on collaborating on we plan on making instructional videos to inform our volunteers of their duties additionally we will be interviewing our race participant families and board members alike on why they choose to participate in the Grove Express Foundation this year we are also starting a competition between North and South schools where students from each school will represent their school community on who participates the most in Grove Express foundation in our volunteer activities as well as in race participants the school that demonstrates their participant participation in our race day will earn a token of our appreciation that they will get to hold on to throughout the school year until the next Thanksgiving Day race all right well that's all from us thank you so much for listening we are very excited for the the upcoming race and all things that come with it uh stay tuned and we hope to see you on race day and now we'll take any questions if you have them uh for those of you who participated last year the seniors now can you talk a little bit about your experience last year and why you came back yeah absolutely I'd love to um last year um when I was applying to The Grove Express board um kind of similar to what I was talking about in Elite I found myself in a lot of activities but not exactly being involved in my school culture and by extension of that in my community's culture and my community itself I wanted to Branch out more and do a service to my community and when I saw the opportunity in my email I uh applied and I didn't really know what I was signing up for I'm not going to lie but as soon as I went to the first meeting um I the board members they were all great um I remember having like lining up like what my duties were and having to work on it but I also remember just it being like the most fun thing in like the October November time frame of my my junior year last year um it was a ton of work it was a ton of time but I enjoyed the community that came with it in the board and I enjoyed what I was actually doing to benefit the community of Downer's Grove yeah so I actually was a race participant in the 2021 race year um and just going into my first ever 5K it was incredible there was this sort of energy that you can't really describe anywhere else there was the idea of Thanksgiving and family and just connecting with these strangers that you're running the 5K with and it was just just a beautiful experience for me and that's what prompted me when I saw that email in my inbox to join the Grove Express and apply um and I can attest that family aspect happening within our board it's really we're a close-knit community that again gives back to our community um we put everything we have into it basically so yeah um so I remember when I first joined last year my first thought was that these people are really passionate about this whole thing um and that's honestly what made me want to keep continuing doing this and doing this last year um you get to see the passion from all the people working to create such a beautiful race and the work really does pay off when you get to race day and you actually see thousands of people all coming together to race as a whole big community and it was honestly really nice and inspiring to be especially coming from a family that wasn't so really connected to the Downers Grove Community and it was just a nice like perspective to have and yeah I'm back so I guess I'm one of those passionate people it's cont um when I saw the email for joining the gr Express Junior board I honestly had don't idea what it is either but I um had never like once I joined I did not realize how close of a community we become and how close of a family i' become with all of these adults and all my peers who lead with me and um I just love seeing all of the community that we can bring together I've learned a lot of things from our adults like Nicole and Don and just the real like Hands-On Community experience is just so um so fulfilling and you really get to see results and it's really nice we appreciate you all previewing the new t-shirt cuz that's always the big an last year's t-shirt I thought last year's was the BL 22 the next year this oh it's still a secret oh I was going to say big reveal big reveal any other questions um I I don't know if I missed it but how many people do we have normally come out for something like this um so last year we had just over 5700 we should probably have over 6,000 this year awesome yeah and in the two years previously that the Grove Express Foundation is um organized and administered the race we've raised over $250,000 that we given back awesome well thank you guys for all the work and I love seeing our students participate in things like this helping to organize it for the community thank you [Music] absolutely okay hello everyone so this week well today or well okay this whole week is homecoming week so today we started off with our pajama day just so everybody can participate but for those of you who don't know our theme is Barbie so we're throughout the week we have come up with a bunch of different themes to fit that such as tomorrow's career Barbie day so whichever career you want and then another fun one is on Thursday it's Ken day so K day so which is basically like Kasa dojo man house day which is Western if if no one's watch or if you haven't watched the movie but other than that um we're going to end off the week with our dance on Saturday and then on Friday is going to be our football game and during halftime there's going to be a nice firework show as well so that'll be exciting to see because normally the firework show is during homecoming like the dance but this year they decided to make it to um to the football game because our dance is going to be indoor which actually is ever since the changes of the outdoor versus the indoor dances and then talking about sports our golf cross country both girls and boys and then our girl world's tennis team all are conference conference champions so they all did very good in their program and actually one girl from the tennis team is going off to State this weekend and two people one girl and one boy from the golf team competed at State last weekend and they and they did from what I've heard they did really good for for what they had and then um the principal the first principal student advisory council meeting was last week with principal lip and there's going to be one more during Halloween this month and that that council is more for like a different variety and diversity of students and they all come up together and with and speak to the principal on different like improvements that could be made at dgs so we are I'm part of that committee as well so we are just brainstorming ideas that we can Implement in the next semester or so and then with this our research Club three members have been researching on implementing a reconstructed Prairie at South just like Downers Grove North and they actually just got the approval to build one so come spring there will be we are going to start implementing this reconstructed Prairie right in the corner of norfol and Dunham and then and we will have this in come 10 years we'll have this awesome Prairie Garden so all in all this month has gone off strong and we're excited to see how homecoming week is going to be and then we're excited to see the other improvements of the school than very good thank you fantastic yeah I like the Prairie idea okay next item on the agenda approval the minutes um can I get a motion for the Board of Education to approve the minutes of the September 18th 2023 business meeting and the September 18th 2023 Clos meeting so moved second Terry move Chris second Terry pavich I Chris Espinosa I Charelle Fuller I Jenny hagstrom I Cara Caston I hen Dawson I don rer hi motion carries U moving on to the first reception of visitors Julie do we have visitors have slips but let me see if there you be sir uh none have indicated that there's anything for the action or consent item of the OB all for the second session yes okay then moving on to item six recommendations and reports from Dr the getting there all right uh a few recognitions this week uh first we are uh in that time of the year where we rep uh recognize our principles and this actually recognizes all uh building principles and leaders Deans athletic directors throughout the state activity directors Mark m is here this evening uh so we recognize all of their hard work this week uh we'll recognize them with a little bit of cake this week as well um but thank you to all of our building leaders our two principles are actually off this is the week where the principes have their conference uh so they're off learning with their peers for the next couple of days as well so I thank you to all of them for all of their hard work uh We've also received as a district a couple of recognitions the board uh was recognized uh for their effective uh Governor behav governance behaviors and learning practices over the last several years uh there's an application for this and uh we were recognized at the ISB IB division meeting uh a few weeks ago so uh every every year we've been eligible for this since 2017 we've receiv it uh we also probably received our last award for the master facility plan uh this one from uh the American Institute of Architects from Northeast Illinois uh both North High and South High received their merit award uh for those projects so Don and I were able to go there and receive those Awards all right into our reports for the evening uh the first one is insurance premiums do you have this or do I have I think you were doing this one just making sure I didn't want to step on your toes R so uh our insurance committee uh met uh in the last month to look at what the recommendations are from Hub which is our advisor for our managed insurance plans uh we also have uh or self-insured plans we also have a manag plan which is an HMO plan that we don't make decisions on uh Blue Cross Blue Shield does so you can see the insurance committee is recommending uh a few changes uh in deductibles to help manage plan costs and uh also uh that will impact premium costs and you can see those uh total premium costs reflected here the actual costs to the board and individual employees are based on their employee groups um and you can see kind of the increases below as well for dental insurance in the PO plan um the insurance committee that comes together made up of a cross-section of all the employee groups work really hard to balance these costs and make plan changes um the PO plans that are self-insured uh those increases are not uh extremely different in percentage than our managed plan that's controlled from Blue Cross Blue Shield so the insurance committee feels that all of these recommendations are in line with indust industry Trends and these are up for approval this evening uh are there any questions that either Rob J or I can answer those pretty self-explanatory yeah all right so that's an action item later this evening I'm going to turn the floor over to Gina to give a preview uh well actually some information on some sat data and some preview of what we believe is coming uh at the end of this month thank you Dr th so last month you may recall I reported on advanced placement dual credit and Capstone courses this month I'm going to talk a little bit about sat data some of which is um restricted to cohort data and some of which is going to be on the school report card which will come out or is expected to come out on October 30th next month we'll talk about more school report card data after it comes out so this first slide here you may recall several years ago the Illinois State Board of Education decided that freshman would take the PSAT 89 sophomores the psat1 and juniors the SAT the SAT while all the tests are required the SAT is required for graduation from an Illinois public high school so all the tests are required but that's the one that is the one that is really the accountability Factor and quite frankly we were really excited about that because we would be able to look at scores over time for what we would refer to as a cohort of students a cohort of students is the same student taking each test right and seeing their growth their scores from one test to the other and Co hit and the testing kind of paused if you will so one exciting thing is that for the class of 2024 so our current seniors we actually do have some growth data this class took the PSAT 10 they did not take the 89 they took the PSAT 10 as sophomores and that was in April of 2022 and what this slide shows you is what the average score was on that test so the average score there's two parts to the PSAT whether it's the PSAT 89 or the psat1 there's two parts and one part is called the evidence-based reading and writing test the state refers to that as Ela so when they're talking about Ela on the school report card they're not necessarily talking about the PSAT but they're referring to the SAT so Ela is often times how we refer to it test is actually called the evidence-based reading and writing the other part of that test is math so there's two parts to one test and these were our average scores we compared that to the College Board Benchmark because the college board says that for a a student should be at this level or higher and as you can see in both cases both the evidence-based reading and writing as well as the map our score was higher than the Benchmark for the College Board this is just one class of students students the class of 2024 our current um our current seniors a was it unusual to see the um reading and writing score being higher than the math score G it it actually is a little bit unusual because in in the past as the board may recall we've had the average be higher in math than it's been in the evidencebased reading and writing section or the ELA section this could be unique to this class mhm right and we don't have a lot of years of data because again Co HD and some of the testing stopped could you clarify is this just Illinois College not taking questions from the audience on this thank you so um so yes that was a little surprising they're not usually different if they were if there was a wider Gap then um that would be be more surprising okay so again the class of 2024 this is the average score for the SAT and again we're looking at the cohorts so these are students we're only looking at the students who took both of these tests so in April of 2022 they took the PSAT 10 and April of 2023 they took the SAT so they were our students minimally for 13 months or something close to that they may have been our students all three years right but they were our students in April of their sophomore year and our students in April of their junior year right and again the scores on the SAT were above the College Board Benchmark um and as you can see here math is higher which tends to be if you look at our scores over time like on the report card for example you'll you'll see sometimes that they they are higher um but again higher than the Benchmark for the College Board can you can you comment on the correlation between the scores and the PSAT versus the SAT I mean does it mean when I look at the scores of the raw data the p satat and I compare that to the 531 score of the sat on English reading and writing does that mean that is a class that they've improved upon their test taking or are they just totally different in how they score the test they're not totally different in the sense that they're completely desparate but they are expected to grow in the scores and so we would expect to see this growth I would be concerned if we did not see that growth okay so in this one we're looking at again the cohort so it's only those students who took both tests and we looked at the difference in other words the growth between their average score on the PSAT 10 and their average score on the SAT and then we looked at College Board metrics what the college board says the range of growth should be so what is the range of growth a student for example who gets a 495 what should their range of growth be what would you expect on the SAT because that's a PSAT score right what would you expect on the next test and we looked at how many of our students of this group met the expectation met that criteria met that score range and that's where the 85.6% comes up for the evidence-based reading and writing and 89.1 for the math so this this slide is is attempting to show how our students grew and are they're growing the way that they should be growing and meeting the standards set by or the score range standards I should say set by the college board and how does that percentage of students meeting expected score range compared to Prior classes is that we don't we don't know okay and I truth be told I really wish we had the PSA t89 for this class as well um and in future years we will right but for now we look at the data that we have so starting with current Juniors you'll have the three years is that what you're saying yes okay yes and that you know the state initially said that sat was the requirement and it wasn't until later that we were able to get all three tests that the state said all three tests we were really excited about that because that gives us something that we can follow and we can look at the cohorts of students um and so that's why we're excited to have this will the illino report card show these percentages for other school districts in our area so that we can see how other school districts are performing so the school report card only provides data for the SAT and it does not from PSAT to sat they and they don't show necessarily in in the case of test scores they don't necessarily show cohort data so we can only compare what the College Board is suggesting our expected grow sh as opposed to comparing it to other school districts exactly okay exactly now this SL is not a cohort data slide okay this slide our students vast majority of 11th grade but remember I said it is a graduation requirement so sometimes there will be a senior a few seniors not talking about hundreds but some seniors who for whatever reason missed it as a junior will take it as a senior so this is April's test data it is considered uh preliminary it has not been released it's considered preliminary um but this is data on the SAT only not PSAT cuz remember I just said they don't even show that data on the school report card and this is all test takers and this is all test takers so even if a student wasn't with us for that year maybe a little over a year they would be factored in here so a student who comes to us for example in February of their junior year is going to be factored in this data unlike the data that I shared uh in the previous slides and so you can see how the average District 99 score compares to the College Board Benchmark and when the school report card does come out expectation is the end of this month it will not necessarily show the College Board Benchmark it will show however comparison to or it will show Illinois benchmarks and it will show comparisons to other um you know percent meeting and exceeding and then we can do some comparisons to other districts in the area like we typically do but we can't do that until the report card comes out the report card comes out it's more Illinois focused is that what you mean by that card is illino focused this is like a national number okay got it College boards National comparison when we get a report carpet against Illinois absolutely College Board sets the Threshold at the number that they expect that students should be hitting it that grade level where Illinois has manufactured a different numberers sets it higher got it Illinois set it higher okay or that St okay and again this is preliminary data yeah this slide shows the um we typically look at 5 years of course 2020 is missing so um because it was not administered um but looking at um averages and comparing them to the percentile for that average for both the evidence-based reading and writing and math again this is all students who took the test this is not cohort data and again the 20203 data is preliminary data so um while I believe the data is accurate it is preliminary the other years are known not preliminary accurate data and so what this basically shows is uh our percentile for all the years as well as the score so if the board will remember when we talked about this last spring looking at a score doesn't tell you much right especially year-over-year the best information of looking at year-over-year is that longitudinal data where you see where student was and where they ended up uh looking at a student at a student class year-over-year uh SAT scores for the last 40 years tend to change and decline year-over-year as sat rorm tests and adds new and different questions and those kinds of things so this allows us to look at each class in comparison to all of the other test takers in the country for that specific year right so when a student gets their scores back it tells them what percentile they are in this then shows if our school district was a single test taker what percentile would we fall in and this if you saw wide fluctuations it would cause us to look at it and see you know what's going on as we compare to that larger data set uh where just year to year on a raw score is not something that's an effective analysis so then we present it this way to oh it's the same it's the same data I was just going to say that I should have said that that percentile data is based on the College Board mhm and this is just showing it in a slightly uh different way you'll note that I removed 2020 from it um because the test wasn't administered so it's the previous chart basically the same data just shown a little bit differently so you can see over time for the 5 years for which data is [Music] provided all right any questions the board oh sorry I was just going to say and we'll present more on that as you present school report card next monely any questions from board members all right this is the preview next month is the big dat of presentation Christmas your Cofe thanks all right uh hiring update this one I definitely turn over to Rob this one you definitely turn over to me yeah uh I'm just giving a a quick update um we had some questions at the start of the school year about uh what we're doing to fill some of our hard to fill positions so we'll start with guest teachers also known as substitute teachers um can I think at our previous board meeting you asked what are you doing to try to build a sense of community for them cor uh Jeff and I were making the rounds uh talking to people and we stopped into the sub coordinator's office and we saw this sign here so we thought we'd share a picture with you to show you what greets them um at South and a similar experience at North uh they also get one of these on the table there uh it's a coupon for a free lunch so District 999 welcomes them uh our pay is uh at market rate now uh and then they also get a lunch and um we bought them t-shirts at the start of the year so uh they've got their swag they've got their identity and our goal is that now that we have them we want to keep them um as our subs so we have a uh a really good problem now the exact opposite of what we had last year last year we had 78 people on our sub list and if you remember I said before just because they're on the list doesn't necessarily mean that they're choosing us that day uh because they're on multiple lists in different school districts um this year we have 97 very eager uh substitute teachers who are constantly looking for work in District 9 so um we did a big heavy lift of adjusting the pay last spring uh Jeff and his team did a lot of work this summer doing career affirs uh and spreading the word and finding those substitute teachers um and now we have them so now our work ahead is keeping them and making sure that uh they feel like they're a part of our community so that way they they continue to choose us uh to do their daily subs next slide here's the other one which is uh a good success story and work that we continue to have uh I want to back up that story a few years uh as we talk about pray professionals and job coaches this has been a big challenge of ours over the past few years uh one of the first moves that we made in this area was actually Scott with the Department chairs the special services department chairs uh they put in a process now that's closely tied to our sectioning for our teacher FTE that happens in the springtime uh where they go through all of the requirements they go through IEPs and they they get a really good understanding of how many positions do we need legally uh and that gives us a a clear defin number of of what our Target is um so he did a really good job they do a a thorough process in the springtime now uh to make sure that our number of our need is an accurate number that's there in the 2122 school year you can see uh we had 27 unfilled positions out of about 80 positions um so a good chunk of our pair professionals and job coaches uh positions were completely unfilled the students did not get the adults uh that we had budgeted for them for their needs uh and that year we had uh 11 new hires so even with the 11 new hires we still had 27 unfilled positions which brought us to last school year uh when we were trying to figure out how how do we fill these positions where do we find people to do these roles uh we had 18 unfilled so when I say unfilled what I mean is that there was absolutely nobody that was in that role uh even though we had 12 new hires that year but one way that we backfilled some of those positions was we hired 11 agency staff so uh hiring the agencies is far more expensive and they're not our employees um and so our students don't get our employees they get somebody who's an out uh outplaced person like that but you can see um 11 of our positions were staffed by agency 18 were still unfilled so overall last school year we had 29 positions that didn't have a District 99 staff member uh that was in it so um from our view the situation was getting worse and we were trying to figure out uh how do we get the students the adults that uh they deserve so last school year in second semester is when we started studying this and trying to figure out what what do we need to do and our big learn from that was that we need to compete with Private Industry in the area um so we started looking at what starting rates are for Employers in the area in hopes that we could compete with them with the great benefits package to uh draw more people into um into the positions uh we worked uh very collaboratively with the support staff Association to find a way that we could increase the starting rate uh for the PA of professionals and the job coaches um so we got that into place uh and then this is this is a really good story about when you have people who are striving for one single cause they can all rally and do their work uh to drive it so uh a lot of kudos to um Jeff and his team in HR uh they put on job fairs over the summer we found in addition to paros and job coaches we found some other positions that were tough uh to staff um in Partnership Jill and Lauren and Communications broadcast out uh uh information about the job fairs to attract people into those um and then as soon as we had people that were uh applying for the positions uh Jory and Alyssa our special services Department chairs Carolina are chair over at t99 um and then their administrator Partners So Lisa Balo Ken Soren and Omar Davis uh they got right to it because they knew that as soon as somebody hit apply we need to do our best to lock them in so that way uh we can make a commitment to them before another school district makes a commitment to them uh so through all of that work uh I'm happy to let us know that as of right now we have only three unfilled positions so we went from 18 last year empty seats we're down to just three empty seats uh but that still does include nine agency staff uh so our work is not done yet um you can see that uh we had 22 new hires this uh summer which is almost double of what we have in a usual summer uh so the teams have really really worked um their tails off to get these these seats filled and we continue to have new applications that come in um the HR team is still uh hosting job fairs still finding creative ways that we can get uh the message out um so there's really two pieces now is let's continue to recruit and find ways that we can let the community know that these are really good positions with comparable pay and great benefits uh and then the other thing too is that the people who chose to join us um creating that sense of community that they then start to tell their friends hey you should come to District 99 uh so our goal is that we have all of our positions filled by District 9999 staff um so we're getting really close to the point that we can start canceling some of these agency staff and filling it in with District 99 staff so a lot of work over the years a lot of creative thinking a lot of people who just rallied around this cause and um it looks like we're we're on the right path here so that's what I have for substitutes and parapros and job coaches I can take any questions so congratulations on your efforts but it's just a question I would imagine this is like a number that's constantly moving right because students graduate and we have freshman class with a different set of needs right so is that that's just a constant challenge you never know what the number is we're going to need because yeah it is that's that's why Scott has his process in place now is that once we do sectioning of teachers then he can go in and look at the ratios and determine the number of PA Pros that we need yeah challenging but congratulations on your work oh it's not it's everybody yeah yeah it's a group effort it definitely kudos to the whole team everybody involved it's amazing you guys all working together over extended period of time towards one go the great Improvement and this is something that our students benefit from on a daily basis so it's a big big impact area so thank you thanks I also want to recognize with the board and we have some of our support staff leadership here that uh in order to do this they were willing to sit down and negotiate with us mid contract cont ract in recognition of you know the needs that we had and the market and everything that we were working with and that's not an easy thing you know to do to sit down and pull out a specific part of a contract and have that conversation and go back to your membership try to explain why we're addressing one high need group instead of the whole group so we appreciate Maria and her leadership team of coming to the table and helping you know ultimately you know this is to meet the needs of our students right and some of our students with the greatest needs and uh that their leadership recognized that that's what this was about and we're willing to uh do the hard work to help us get there thank you thank you great and obviously your data on the marketplace was accurate it was because we were seeing results immediately yeah so that's good yeah there there's some pretty big Employers in the area so we were aiming for a certain dollar amount uh to entice people to come here and uh Jeff I talked to Jeff first of all that's the genius here so you um it turns out that most of our new hires this year came from Private Industry uh did not come from other school districts but came from uh local employers and they were looking to come here Amazon drivers is that what you're talking about or Amazon Amazon yeah questions that's great all right uh Freedom of Information requests uh we have received them and responded to them on our website they are all listed and they can be found on the foer page uh before we head into the consent agenda I just want to point out that in the information you're about to discuss that uh the report that was first posted last Thursday changed uh and was updated in the public document online and that is a Michelle Roberts was removed from the appointment classified list okay item seven on the consent agenda before the board votes on the consent agenda is there any agenda item of board member would like to pull out of the consent agenda for further discussion hearing none can I get a motion for the Board of Education to approve the consent agenda as presented which includes a Personnel report appointments classified trans for position classified B Personnel report retirement certified resignation classified C July and August Treasures report in September Financial Pages d student trips tours e acceptance of Grant Illinois press foundation and F acceptance of donation District 99 Education Foundation so moved second moved 10 second thank you Terry pavich hi Ken Dawson hi Chris rinoa hi charal Fuller hi Jenny hagstrom hi I herea Caston I and Dan Runner I motion carries thank you to the Ed foundation and for their generous Brant donation although there are a couple of those tours that I wouldn't mind going yeah St tours look good this that one to Italy sounds kind of tasty uh moving on to item eight recommendation for Action um can I get a motion for the Board of Education to approve the calendar your 2024 medical dental and vision plans and premiums as presented so moved a second moved Ken second thank you Chris Espinosa hi Ken Dawson hi Sherl Fuller hi Jenny hagstrom hi Terry pavich I Hera Caston I and Don Renner I motion carries thank you item number nine old business uh returning is the second reading and approval of board policies these were all reviewed a month ago at the last board meeting uh since then I haven't had any recommendations for changes or follow-ups uh from board members or from the policy committee so they are as presented last month and up for final approval okay uh no new business item 10 excuse me we need to take vote on the policies if you take a vote apologize um can I get a motion for the Board of Education to approve the policies just present so second jny jny motion and thank you Terry pavich I Chris Espinosa hi Cheryl Fuller hi Denny hagstrom hi Cara Caston hi Ken Dawson hi and Don Runner thank you no new business on item 11 reception of visitors excuse me they are uh yes we have four okay before we take reception of visitors just like to take the time to say this is the second reception of visitors which is intended for audience members to address the board on any topic pertaining to Comm Community High School District 99 comments will be limited to 3 minutes to provide all visitors and equal opportunity to address the board individuals need more time should submit their thoughts and writing to the board secretary visitors addressing the board need to submit a common slip to the board secretary and will be invited to the microphone prior to addressing the board audience members should State their full name proceedings may be tape recorded for the purpose of producing meeting minutes the board's presiding officer reserves the right to modify these Protocols of circumstances warrant audience observation of these protocols is appreciated too fast all right uh first slip is for Eileen Bryan good evening Eileen Brer resident what is a woman chromosomes of XX are female and XY are male that's an objective truth immutable that's science it's not a social construct yet you teach gender is a social construct and even fluid how can you be male one day and female the next this is crazy and destructive to the individual and society as a whole feminists are sadly recognizing the erosion of women's rights by the trans phenomenon girl Sports locker rooms bathrooms women's shelters and even prisons are being invaded by women with penises why is gender dysphoria not treated like anorexia anorexia is treated with love compassion and treatment not affirmation of the belief that the patient is fat the argument most put forward for gender queer and other sexually explicit books that's is that if teens do not see their feelings presented in print he or she will commit suicide even the Trevor project does not list reading about transgenders as a preventative for suicide even gender reassignment surgery does not lower the risk of suicide following gender reassignment surgery individuals become 19 times more likely to commit suicide than the general population let's stop kidding ourselves gender queer and other book folks like it groom vulnerable students to begin a lifestyle that can become irreversible I suggest you buy books with a different Viewpoint to include in your collections like the diversity delusion by Heather McDonald and gender Madness one man's devastating struggle with o woke ideology and his battle to protect children by Ali London thank you next slip is from Paul draic hi my name is Paul draik I'm a veteran and a father of two young kids in Downers Grove I came here during the pandemic when you were masking and quarantining our kids without evidence for what was effectively the flu the measures you enacted have all been proven to be bunk social control initiatives which was apparent when we told you so I stand before you today to request the resignation of everyone on this board including the superintendent the parents of this town have had to watch as the ratings from us news and World Report among many other outlets have shown the decline of District 99 it's no wonder when we find out that there's pornography in the school library I listened to a recording from a health class where an activist from youth Outlook was spewing nonsense about the gender unicorn and suggested that a person can find out that they are gay at 60 and a fourth grader can choose their gender through Foya we find out that the school never even ran a background check on this person you put tampons in the boys bathrooms and you just follow and locks up with the state policies because as I learned from our state representative the state controls the money so the children are going to get the propaganda that the state approves gender ideology is a social contagion and and where have we seen the bathroom thing go wrong how about Virginia where a girl got raped there have been two genders since time in memorium we didn't just wake up a few years ago and realize we were doing it wrong cityology is seated by special corporate and political interest in order to divide us just like race political parties and religion gender ideology is pseudo science look at the amount of Youth that identifies as lgbtq it is skyrocketed in the last few years it's statistically impossible if it was a natural phenomenon the rate would be proportional to the population in time if there's a social contagion you would see exactly what you're seeing now being gay or trans is trendy and you are underwriting this ideology to kids you're sewing confusion and sexualizing children it's despicable it's disgraceful it's destroying their ability to think critically and it's showing in the ratings and the test SC I had a mother tell me that her sophomore at Downers North had to write an English paper through the lens of a Marxist feminine or queer what does that have to do with English and writing this is Marxist indoctrination you have teachers teachers who are pushing a collectivist group think agenda you should be teaching kids to think for themselves to challenge Orthodoxy America is about the spirit of debate it's about the sharing of ideas in the public forum instead we have activists coming into our classroom and teaching our kids that everything is relative and you can choose your gender on a day-to-day basis you are stealing children's innocence and indoctrinating their mind with pum you are wrong and you don't have the courage to be intellectually honest about it parents are speaking out more not less we will protect our children at all costs and by the way put this meeting back in the auditorium I think there's over 50,000 Downers Grove residents this is ridiculous and inexcusable next slip is from Mr Nome Terry Nome I'm the president of uh parents involved in Ed education in the state of Illinois I'm an elected committeeman Lots changed over the last couple years since I've been here um a lot of lies have been exposed since I was last year last year I'm going to appeal the pornography in the school d99 educational outcomes have dropped significantly as we heard about the SAT scores tonight Force masking and vaccines are considered ineffective and harmful School lockdowns proved to harm our children's health education and emotional development follow the science only counts when the left Ed fake science results to justify Co lies while ignoring science when it defining what is a woman 2021 Hank theel requested law enforcement to attend our meeting for political theater there was no threats antifa was sitting in the audience matter fact the only threats that came out of the meeting were directed toward parents of d99 myself other parents they got threatening letters put on their driveway from antifa leftist like Garland Hank theel Sean casson's attempt to use law enforcement to harass parents did not work it only emboldened parents to defend their kids Hank theel falsely claimed G gender queer images showing a strap on being sucked as not being pornographic as since been debunked the the's own buddy Sean Casten and Secretary of State Jan is public Ally admitted jender que's porn during a recent radical leftist book Banning Round Table hosted by Caston he admitted that these images are porn on the floor a recent Senate hearing janulus also admitted gender que's pornography recently the author of the book gender queer M kbli stated that she didn't publish this book for kids or children two years ago the claimed to be a mind reader yes a mind reader he said M kblo me was intent wasn't to stimulate or arouse those reading her book question to the board who's right Hank the who claims to be a mind reader gender queer does not meet the den definition of porn because the claims the author's intent wasn't to stimulate or Rouse we hear some quotes from that book that theal claims do not intend to stimulate or Rouse I got a new strap on harness today I can't wait to put it on my favorite dildo you're going to look so hot in that I can't wait to have your in my mouth I'm going to give you the of your life then I want you inside me this is the most turned on I've ever been in my life I'm dying you never tasted yourself you should try this is while a juice is dripping off a finger or should we believe Sean Caston and Julius who admitted that these images in gender quer are pornography we don't have to read the author's mind Mia kbli said the world that told the world that this book was not written for children it's in her own words two weeks ago we've been told by Straight radical leftists that these pornographic sexual images must be available to make gag children feel included we are told that suicide rates of gay children are higher therefore we must have books showing strapon being sucked to reduce the suicide rates of many gay kids that's a lie it's an insult to gay children gay children are children like any other child just because they have different sexual preferences doesn't mean these children are sexual beings being defied defined by and finger your time has expired thank you last uh slip for this evening is Ed Brer good evening uh Ed Brer D Grove resident we've had it with our high school sexualizing and IND doctoring our kids they're our kids not your kids rather than concentrating on teaching math science and reading d99 is Allin with governor pritsker and the teacher teachers union forcing teachers to comply and concentrate on teaching promoting a radical graphic inappropriate sex at Agenda incorporating books like gender queer all boys aren't blue and others for example here are a couple passages from the books favored by d99 promoting this radical sexualized agenda we've just heard a little bit about gender career so I won't repeat that one from another all boys aren't blue I put some lube on and got him on his knees he began to slide into him from behind I pulled out of him and kissed him while he masturbated he asked me to turn over while he slipped on the condom he got on top and slowly inserted himself into me parents do not want our kids exposed to this content or agenda d99 under Mr thy and this board think this pornographic content is perfectly okay no it isn't d99 is in favor of child sexualization important over Math Science and reading parents want math science and reading wake up d99 parents defend your kids defend your kids that concludes all the slips I've received okay number 12 Communications and announcements um Jenny can I get a report on Len yeah um the first Len meeting for this year was Friday September 22nd uh we had several state senators and representatives on hand to discuss uh what was happening in The veto session and what they might expect in the new session of the legis lure uh they also were meeting in small groups with the attendees to discuss any concerns that uh we wanted to bring forward in the local districts um a few of the key points that they discussed included uh polling place legislation um there's some discussion about needing Schoolboard approval to use Public Schools as polling places um it would be sort of as a last resort um and they would need to come to the board for approval uh we are still continuing to work through the school bus driver licensing legislation um was brought up last year but it didn't get through um they're revisiting it again and hoping it'll Move Along further this year um there's continued discussion of dual credit classes and elel dual language programs they are looking at expansion of those programs and trying to work on teacher credential requirements for each because in many cases we we don't have the staff that have the established credential requirements to teach um the amount of kids in those programs um they didn't think there were any education bills that were at issue during the veto session um and then we kind of broke out into small groups and talked about some District concerns which um in my group touched on teacher shortage uh the pension system funding for Al day kindergarten um and attendance concerns and um mental Health days so um the next meeting will be October 27th I think is that right yeah that's right so thank you Jenny um next to report on sassin Cheryl nothing new from me I've only had and my meeting is Wednesday this week I just know we're really looking at uh the hiring process for the new director is really our key Focus right now and then Terry a report on the Ed Foundation yeah um um we uh went over the um decision making for the uh Mark McDonald's uh scholarship Awards and um I think we've kind of narrowed it down but we haven't had our meeting yet to um finalize that uh report and then um we've got several new board members who are interested in uh joining our our group so that's really exciting because uh um uh share the share the wealth and and make light work pardon many hands make light work yes it does yes it does and it'll be good so um you'll hear more about uh that in the future is there anything that I missed no I think you covered it okay all right but I I did notice one thing um that Friday is um bus driver appreciation day so I just wanted to say I don't know if I don't think there's any bus drivers in here today but um thank you very much you are greatly appreciated and if your student Rides the Bus please be um thoughtful to them and uh say thank you because they are a very necessary item um for our school and so I just wanted to point that out so remember Friday so thank you jry mhm and then finally Ken for report on the iasp uh the annual convention is coming up it's just a little over a month away November 17th through the 19th there'll be great speakers great workshops officials from all across the state so it'll be a excellent opportunity to learn best practices which are being used in other districts and network and meet your colleagues from across the State and looking forward to it thanks k um upcoming board meetings uh our next board meeting will be November 6th for a workshop meeting at 6:30 here at the ASC and Then followed uh November 20th for a regular business meeting at 6:30 again here at the ASC I think uh at that point I think I can call for a motion to adjourn oh uh you know what before we adjourn sure um I think to remind everyone um that we have the ribbon ribbon cutting ceremony on the 23rd uh at uh 3:30 and uh then it's also the open house at North on this Saturday at yeah the 21st at 9: to noon yep so um and The ribbing Cutting is a week at 3:30 right week from week from today at t99 at t99 so I just thought I'd remind people because unless unless you get a reminder sometimes you forget and South homecoming and the parade is uh Friday hopefully there will be no liquid sunshine and um then the game following so that should be a busy day it'll be a busy week for us yeah yes yes so sorry to do good now can we get a motion to adjourn yes so mve okay Terry moved in Charelle all all in favor I I I motion carries we adjourn thank you everybody for your service thank you enjoy your week

amen roll call a thief vul yes henil yes Nolan yes papis here vote Yes Gorman uh we need a request a motion and a second to approve the agenda so moved second Fulk yes pil yes papis yes vot yes Nolan yes please join us in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge Al to of the United States of America for it stands na indivisible all thank you for joining us tonight in person and for those um online um we'd like to welcome this to this evening well it's nice to see we've got a couple of our Union Representatives here so thank you guys here Kira and Dave for coming some administrators some great uh community members uh so thank you for coming out also thank you to those that are listening to us on YouTube um we appreciate that you're taking the effort to to hear us out so thank you for coming is is Brad here Starks talk about that's okay want to do want to do public comments first yeah just we'll start with public comments then and potentially come back to uh to Mr Starks here first up is Jean Meyer sure is it on scen yes hello Jean Meyer homeowner School District 301 Christian I've been attending school board meetings since Jan January of this year since that time I have felt very frustrated at the lack of seriously important topics of discussion on the agenda I have seen very little to no discussion on most topics and then heard yes yes yes from the board members perhaps I have heard a no vote once or twice seems like a sham what is the purpose of an elected School Board we live in a state with a constitutional republic and these United States with the consti public Republic in opposition to a democracy in which the mob of people would vote on every issue we have elected representatives at all levels of government we should choose these individuals carefully that they might represent our values and the input we get we give them we the people need a clear and concise way to get the full information of how our schools are being run what is being taught and that nothing is done behind the backs of parents and taxpayers we need to know that our elected board is in charge of important decisions and not committees and employees of the school circulating the community is the attached picture are these new plans being designed this year for an upcoming referendum what happened to the plans for the referendum that failed the attached picture is evidently the plan for a floor for the school's proposed new high school it includes a large Bank of inclusive bathrooms by far the vast majority of taxpayers would be opposed to this in nine months I cannot remember hearing a discussion about an addition to the high school when were the plans completed and who gave their approval what was the cost did we try our best to make it adequate so we would not need a new high school we need to take into account that Illinois now has the distinguishing honor of being the most flee state in the Union a declining population we are here hearing how school districts Across the Nation and in Illinois are helping students transition to another gender without parental consent is this happening in Burlington remember the now 18-year-old California girl who was suing a Health Care system for removing her breasts at age 15 she wants her breast back she said paraphrased they never tried to help me feel comfortable in my body they only affirmed me I just heard a school board recently or a school district recently paying out $100,000 for just such a thing helping a young person transition without parental consent or knowledge the topics in the last three paragraphs are topics that should go to our elected board and not decided by committees our School Employees we have no press news reporters at these meetings please direct me how to really know what's going on in the district how how can we vote with knowledge for our school board if they do not vote on the most important issues and if there is no way to access what is really going on and I hate to be a thorn in you guys' side but thank you thank you you uh next Annie dogen thank you very much and good evening everybody my name is Andy dogen I'm a parent of a third grader at Prairie and I'm here tonight to express concerns about the plans for the new high school it is clear from the new houses being built to the mobiles at our schools throughout the district that something needs to be done to address growth that's happening I'm a licensed architect with 25 years of experience in public sector buildings and I've worked on about 20 referendum campaigns in my career I don't have any major issues with the concept that architect is developed and I know from experience that the district is in good hands with its construction manager so why am I here tonight I'm not here to talk about bathrooms I'm here tonight because this process seems very rushed and in my opinion structured in a manner that inhibits transparency as far as I'm aware the population projections and considerations that led to the decision to pursue a new high school were developed by District administration for a series of just three focus groups in November 2022 in comparison district 303 is making their future facility Decisions by carefully and intend Ally hiring a professional firm to complete an enrollment in facility capacity study and following that study with a professional facility master plan that evaluated several Alternatives in detail to Pro address projected growth before arriving at a preferred consideration each of these steps in 303 were done intentionally with Community engagement and feedback after each step if this was done here in 301 there's no public record of it that I can find why wouldn't we slow down and do this and why is there such a rush to go right into a new high school the second concern I have is the structure of the steering committee that is guiding the design and planning of the school as I understand it the steering committee is formed of Administration staff three parents and two Boe members this structure with just two Boe members keeps it from having to comply with open meetings act requirements and the transparency that comes with them I ask all of you is the Board of Education to restructure this committee so that it is accountable to you just as you are accountable to all of us who voted you into office and I ask all of you involved in this process to slow down develop guiding principles for the design of whatever you decide to build get more feedback evaluate more Alternatives engage the community in your findings before you arrive at the results you think is best find out if there are issues with what you are pursuing like flood zones or soil conditions before you start designing and showing the community Concepts don't spend tens of thousands of dollars in architecture and engineering fees to be bid ready for something you don't know for sure is the right solution be transparent and diligent all the way through you may very well end up being back at the same place but you will know and the community will know you are making the right decision for our children's Futures right now we're not sure my daughter is taught in math at Prairie View to slow down and show her work we as parents and District taxpayers ask tonight that you do the same please slow down and show your work thank you very much thank you um next is Moes contes hi good night to everybody so my name is Moises um and I am here because I am concerned about about also I know your plans to build a new high school and to expand the room for everybody because yeah we we are we are having some room issues and that's fine so your design is is is a looks amazing in the 3D on on the ples and everything but most of the things is I am concerned about the the plans for for the schools and and what uh was mentioning before about the the all inclusive uh areas about the all inclusive bathrooms I know that it's not only the bathrooms so is the Fed rooms everything is going to be like all inclusive after that because if it is a bathroom way know the for the sports the shower everything is going to be all inclusive so that's why as a father of a four beautiful girls I am concerned about their safety and their privacy so I I don't feel comfortable with uh with my by my girls being in a room with another boys or people Shar in the same area as a teenager I have heard the testimony of some teachers which are adults having issues to have privacy with little kids from kindergarten grade in the in the bathroom imagine a a little young lady trying to have privacy among other teenagers or everything so that's my main concern so as a father I am in charge of the safety and take care of my family my kid my girls and my and my wife so that's why I'm here uh to to to express my my opinion and is my main concern so to be because we are restricting like the the the areas the yeah the the the spaces for the for the more probably more vulnerable which are the ladies sometimes they are having a little space spaces or areas just to do to have their own time their own latest thing to do so it's is something that I'm concerned about so losing that we have been seen that in other things like sports so now the ladies are not the the the winners of the Olympics so it's it's it's something that we are losing and so that's why is my main concern please uh when we when we you are planning and when we are planning because we our community so we need to make decisions all together it's not you only you not only us but all together so I would like to keep a that that that space and that area for ladies and mens so it's it's something that is needed so and and that's all is thank you thank you thank you so we'll have um communications director R wal come we'll talk about the award for uh Brad Stark's here good evening uh he had said that he would try to be here but obviously uh he is just kidding he U he will uh be receiving this reward award um uh at school at some point during the week so hopefully we get to bring that to you on social media um last spring a birdie told me about a wonderful project the kind of educational assignment that shows creativity and it list it's an emotional response this is the ideal formula for Content that best describes what the educational experience is here in central 301 Mr Bradley Starks has a lesson in which he has his students write letters to him themselves that they will open 10 years later in this case we're talking about the 2012 2013 second grade class at at Country Trails the students wrote letters in May of 2013 addressed to their future selves and on that may Friday morning this past spring those students met with Mr Starks at Central High School just a few days before their graduation they said hello they hugged they reminisced and they opened and read the letters for the first time since many of them were eight years old the feature video that we did for the Country Trails Elementary School second grade teacher was honored with an award of Merit by the Illinois school public relations Association inspra in its annual Communications contest this is the first time that Central 301 has been honored by instra the state recognized Agency for its messaging Communications and more Stark's idea is a rather unique level of creativity to highlight students self- understanding of their own progress inside the classroom so we wish a congratulations to Mr Starks a central alum and I think you will all appreciate this that he now knows that his commitment to this project will keep him busy every single May 10 years after he retires because you can't just do it and then not open the letters so our congratulations to him we'll move on to the consent agenda uh motion and second a requireed to discuss and approve the consent agenda second does anybody have any questions about the consent agenda tonight no no all right go ahead um included in your board packet are your revenue and expenditure reports um revenues are currently at 27.9% compared to 2788 um expenditures are at 17.54% compared to 17.01 a year ago um this past month we received two months worth of impact fees we last month there was none but this one we have August in the amount of $1 38,8 1968 for 15 home starts September came in at $77,200 uh motion and second or required to discuss and approve the overnight trip for the CHS boys golf team to the ihsa golf state playoffs uh that occurred October 5th through 7th so moved good evening Mr JY sent his uh apologies he cannot be here today so he sent me with the Athletics updates for the night so this is one that already happened our boys went down to Bloomington um played at webring golf course and we sent six of them they qualified as a team which is pretty amazing Matthew kwick cam cello Tyler samon samon Ben chzn Luke seik and Tommy wise they qualified as the team and finished ninth in the class 2A competition the other amazing thing that we are happy about with that is none of them are seniors so we are looking forward to a even better year next year and so are they and I would also just mention along with that we did have Ariana R from our girls golf team qualifi to play sectionals not going out of state so not worthy thank you Mr Hil yes papis yes vote Yes vulk Yes Nolan yes a motion the second a required to discuss and approve the overnight Tripper FFA students to attend the National FFA vet science competition and the National FFA convention scheduled for October 31st to November 4th later this month move second questions no questions good no okay looking forward to again hopefully we have another national award winner like we did last year how many kids are going not have that right in front of me now we have two teachers I believe that it's probably around 30ish okay that's just a rough estimate off to my head though I can get that to you though all right thank you good luck papis yes vote Yes Fulk yes Eno yes Nolan yes a motion in a second uh required to discuss and approve moving forward with consulting services with EO Sullivan for Community engagement with the vision for future enhancements and Investments as we plan for future Challen growth challenges so second so this is a recommendation to hire a consulting company to assist us and uh working on communication plans one of the challenges as we continue to hear is that they don't believe that uh communication is as fluid is that what they would like it would provide us the opportunity to be able to push out Communications quicker um as many of you are aware we made a big transition in terms of district office staff I'm brand new as a superintendent um therefore learning my job as well as trying to take on some of the elements of communication uh although I'm doing my best job I can uh it is a new role for me and so therefore it would be beneficial to have some other party assisting in some of that work so um I'm looking for you to approve us the U opportunity to be able to work with another agency to assist us in some of the information that really we need to get out to our community members in a more fluid basis when you think about what um we're most consistently hearing I think it's a a delay in how information is coming out it's not enough it's not frequent enough it's you know what's your we think about what ultimately we would want them to potentially assist us with I think um much of the information that I'm seeing coming out either in the Facebook pages or communication nobody's reaching out to me so let me be clear about that I'm not getting a lot of communication from people uh but there is a lot going on in social media what I'm picking up from other individuals who are keeping me impressed uh it's really about stuff we covered last year so information we did in the focus group it's information is on the website it's information in terms of um when I went to focus groups as well as I went to all PTO in every building I went to businesses I went to uh different agencies churches uh last year community centers um and talk to individuals but I think it's just trying to re get that back out there and trying to get it in front of everybody so they understand what we had gone through the process um on the website is clear the options that we had um but maybe getting that back out to community members as well I mean you know something that I would certainly be hoping for be you know Clarity and accuracy right to making sure that there's consistent information and so if that is you know community members saying like we don't know what we're hearing or I heard this thing over here and this thing over here how do we make sure that there is a you know for lack of a better description a Clearing House of sorts right where like we One Stop where people can go to get information about whatever they need to get information for and also the facts laid out correctly yeah well that's exactly the point that's the bigger thing because there's a lot of misconceptions out there so I mean I I you know I I look at this cost and say all right well what what are we going to be getting with this and so that's something that you know we we have we have it in here um certainly look at the board book if they're so inclined um you know and I think um you are still in discussions with what something might that might like this might look like to mail down I basically gave you a range because we asked for some pricing and gave you a range uh it's kind of a ly of what we decide we need uh right now I'm still trying to work on the menu of what we might need or don't need and trying to hear from community members listening to what I'm getting from other people um I think I'm getting a pretty good menu uh and once we get that clear then we'll kind of refine it to a general price that range is really broad somewhere in that range is where I'm looking um probably in what it's going to cost us why was this company chosen this company has been utilized I talked to our legal team as well um we had two different agencies we looked at this one Dana and Dana can address it a little bit Dana had been in a couple presentations had seen some information regarding a couple vendors um and talking to both our legal team as well as other superintendents who have used these agencies this one came up as one of the top agencies out there is there anything data that stood out to you since you were part of those as well um I I just their expertise and I think their um their percentages they they were high they were in like the 94% for you know just impr yeah and a lot and they had come in and um you know on second rounds and and came through and won so their success rates pretty pretty good there um they don't just I mean they do the Long Haul ones too and stuff like that but yeah they came highly recommended how do you think you had you had that our legal team knew what about uh Builder and I Che just just out of curiosity they work I've not talked with them regarding this because it's marketing Communications right right do we have a clear delineation between Mr ral's you know overall position and how this would be you know like what that would look like and separation well one of the things I keep hearing is that communication in our district is way better yeah I keep hearing that from a lot of community members but I'm hearing on the on some of the areas not so much so obviously Matt is used Mr rwal is used in terms of District communication trying to make sure we're staying on top of things that are happening great inside the buildings happening you know doing things relevant to activities that are going on with within the district um keeping the website up to date some updating all of those types of things so trying to inundate him with additional elements is problematic so it's just trying to kind of split the pie uh we have a lot of new people a lot of people trying to move us forward and trying to hear what we're hearing from community members it's a way to help us it really is a way to assist us in trying to get these communication pieces out that our community members are asking us for makes sense should this go on should this have been a competitive bid process no it's any agency any group like this does not go out to competitive bid look like our Architects it comes through this way does not have to go out to bidding great question though so my first question for everyone is do do do you feel comfortable do we feel comfortable voting on this tonight there are five of us here not seven of us here so we could table this until next month if we thought that was necessary um if anybody had more specific questions we can certainly talk about it now eser can answer whatever she's able to answer um we can vote we can vote we can choose a not vote we can table it I don't I don't see the reason to hold back I mean my my my you know the community wants to hear more I think this is a way to get it going and get the topics rolling you know I mean if we kick it down the road 30 days that going to well and and one thing I did ask Esther already was you know is there a way to do a kind of alart thing if we realize that one aspect of this is not something that we need and so even with the range that we have in front of us if we end up deciding that you know what this chunk whatever that percent 20% right of this total cost might we might say you know let's see how we do before we add that in I as long as there to me is some flexibility within that that we say here's the contract for the services but we might might might not need a certain type of support right right until a certain time we find out that we don't need it based on whatever engagement you know we have with the community or improvements that we see in otherwise so that's that's the flexibility that I would want to have that brings up a really good question as you said our communication is improving and this is a big chunk of money to me asking to be put out with improving communication and hearing things so I beg the question like if we're not going to use it if we find that communication is getting better maybe the public needs to come a little more towards you versus them just doing it on social media then that communication can be brought to light without necessarily having to use a consulting company correct I mean it's really a means to Pro I need approval before I can move forward um if we decide that we don't want to move forward we don't have to uh this is really to kind of help us keep getting going in terms of the process of moving forward with even Contracting with this this company maybe to clarify so we give you the approval to continue to move forward and then we would continue me obviously a signature I'm assuming from me or Jeff who is you know a part of the that and kind of going contract we with that you know as far as kind of how depending on when I'm assuming it would be before the next board meeting so it's not something we obviously wouldn't talk about that here we're approving it here um is that something that you know you could communicate you know however it is that we're allowed to do that of course you know individually if anybody had specific questions about what that looked like and again as long as you know we continue to move forward and have these conversations like this to make sure that again and to be fair we to minimize the financial outlay while still meeting the ultimate goal right that to me is the point of this of this type of conversation about um this specific thing and so what would so we let's say there's a yes of the five of us and we move forward and then you would continue to hone in on a contract that would be x amount of dollars um and again is to me we I would want there to be those stipulations and about the ability to say this is not a service that we inquire any longer whether we initiate it and truncate it or we don't initiate it because we say we might not need that so that's the flexibility that I would expect so before you know we sign anything we make sure that there's some clarity about that is there anything else that anybody else would want to make sure that Esther is having in mind if if we choose to move forward with this so to be clear we're not moving forward to spend money you're going to go into negotiations with them and come up with a contract in a more concrete payout you're moving forward with giving me the right to move forward with a contract um with clear definition in terms of all card and those types of things we feel like it meets the needs of that so it would come through you're proving that I could move forward with the contract but we would work on specific tasks and have it signed off by either je Eric or Jeff so let's make sure I mean obviously you know when there's a contract that comes through to make sure that everybody everybody has the ability to take a look at that and then individually people could reach out to me if any if anybody had any questions specifically about that um what happens if this doesn't happen for you like what's the challenges you face well I think you do the best you can do where I mean I'm I'm trying to communication out right now you know most of the information that people are asking for we've already done I can resubmit it out I can link it anywhere it's on the website um people aren't calling me so I think helpful to have call me um so I can have conversation with people call anybody on the cabinet team for that matter more than happy to to walk them through anything or explain it to them um but I think first there got to be some communication so that we can continue to move forward otherwise I I am basically getting information from other community members that are sending me what's being stated you know and then I'm going to try to be responsive to those uh the best that I can be so what Communications from the community go to this consulting company it would probably I would be feeding them what I'm getting they would have be working up on the what how they're going to respond to it to assist me in they response I mean I think the other prac it's not me writing it completely right now I'm putting all the presentations together working on all the bond debt putting together the graphs uh doing all of those types of things this just helps with some of the person helping do those things and they would be doing those I'm still supplying information yes and so I think even if just like point I think maybe being a little more specific about you know with you and Todd being there together for many years dropping out the our orc Orcs chart has shifted significantly with reallocating titles and responsibilities and so I think even speaking to your you know asking like what what if we don't do this what happens I mean I think a little to that I think could be helpful as far as just what you're doing now and and having this off of your plate with a system from somebody else what that allows you to sync a different amount of energy into more productively or that we could again just strategize a little bit differently for you in your time y so that's that would be my hope too vote I'm okay to vote and again any other stipulations and what I would say too obviously if anything you heard what I had to say about what I want as a stipulation in there get specifically related to having the ability to leave Parts out is there anything else that even would have to add to at least continue forward with this or allow her to move forward with this I just think the exit clause would be Uber important at any at any at any point in time so that's St payments and right no fault like we're done right like if we only need it for a month we're done right right if it's not if it's not we looking if it's not specifically benefiting the community then we're off right I think that's so we continue to move forward with that and we'll take a look at a final contract when that happens yeah I think I I I personally think time is of the essence so so then do you want to take a vote once we know that or just she can't move forward unless we need to that's why I so that's the case we do need to vote now but then again if she comes forward with a contract that we don't like we I mean yeah I mean that's something that that has to be considered again individually you guys would have to reach out to Esther if there were specific concerns and Jay obviously not being here tonight and we don't have contracts opin Jeff and you or any of the board members see it and have pause we communicate directly with her yeah pick up a phone call Esther immediately but even with that though it's not like you can take your vote back like it's like youve move forward rather not but we can move we can choose to not sign contract not to sign a contract contct to we can still make that decision not necessarily saying yes to the contract so I would again depending on who's still you know in this position it's me or Jeff if when this comes up I will I will probably reach out to each one of you separately to make sure and then if there's any questions that I'm not able to answer Jeff isn't able to answer of course obviously we put you eser before anything ass signed okay why don't we go ahead Mandy papis yes vote Yes Fulk yes Hil yes Nolan yes um so we're move on to information items um first up Mr Glenn Ericson with Ericson engineering to provide information regarding the roron road property so we have Glenn Ericson here from Ericson engineering thank you for coming out to the board meeting to um to discuss this um basically in 2008 the rorison road property was purchased we did purchase the property uh knowing that there was a flood plane in the property but as we've been getting closer and closer some of the elements that are relevant to this property I wanted uh Mr Ericson to come speak to the board about so thank you for coming okay thank you as Dr mongan said the property has been designated as having flood plane on it for very many years when you actually acquired the property when the District board acquired it it the flood plane Maps were out there at that point in time what unique first of all about the property is that you do have pingre Creek coming underneath roron Road off let me point this way so you can see it from here is that easier well you do it for do this way do this do it there so everybody can see it sure sure and one thing I was going to ask for those that are in the room and and on YouTube that maybe don't understand what a flood flame you can explain that I know what it is but maybe others may not necessarily understand what you're saying when you say that certainly what ends up happening is you have a stream that flows around the outside perimeter as shown in this General location like this and it comes underneath worson Road right over in this area here as you as many of you know the land surrounding the parcel of land which the school district owns has now been acquired by the Kane County forest preserve District so they are in the process right now of modifying this stram Channel which was a very very tight Channel and by that I mean it was subject to flooding when there were more extreme storm events and when we talk about flood plane that's typically associated with what we call the 100-year storm which has a 1% chance of occurring in any given year that being said the rainfall data in the state of Illinois keeps changing every couple years so that statistical study is constantly moving along okay so the property as I said Forest Preserve District right now is completing a project in this general area up on the North side where they have taken and widened out the stream channel and that means it's going to have more capacity to both flow water as well as store water and on your site there's kind of a unique thing taking place here with the flood plane and what it means there's a restriction right here underneath rorison Road where the water oh let me explain better this map that we're working with was not really an engineered study it was something that was originally created in the mid 60s it was based upon what they would call flood of record and these are just aerial photography aerial imagery that basically said in this area we saw there was water on the top and and these maps are not done using detailed topography like what we have now you did commission a topographic survey of your property and you can kind of see contour lines representing one foot intervals throughout the property property when you take and overlay the flood plane map on the topography it doesn't line up perfectly it's relatively close but it's not exact so what you have here uh this this is an area that first of all this is off your property now this is the forest preserve so there's your corner of your property and then it shows a finger coming down to the South all the way to rorison Road and then it shows a finger coming back to the southeast corner of your property we do not disagree at all about the fact that there's flood plane in this location here but this finger of flood plane we couldn't figure out why they were designating it as flood plane a long long time ago and in reality what we think they did with the mapping and what we think is going on at this point in time is that the water flowing underneath the Culvert that's here is the Culvert is causing the water to back up in this general area here and there's a spot in the farm field to the South that is about four feet lower than the elevation of rorison Road in this location now as you see the map they showed the flood plane going right over the road well we've surveyed it to that point and said no it's not happening in reality when this restriction chokes up water it rises in this area here where the railroad tracks are as well on both sides and there is a big wetland in that location then it goes up over into this what we call a saddle and then it flows back northeasterly to this location here and you can see that there is crop damage in the field over in that location we believe that they saw some water in this area here I mean we're Rising several feet but we believe that they felt that the water from this location was contiguous with the water from this location back in the 60s what all this means and I don't want to get overly Technical and I could because this is a very uh interesting but not unsurmountable issue is that to get the maps modified to remove and I do believe we could remove this section of flood plane or alter it and move it around that process takes about a year and that's starting from right now or whenever we're actually authorized to do a hydrologic and hydraulic study of this area the permits that you're going to end up needing is you have to get a letter of map first of all you get a what's called a conditional letter of map provision we would be doing a study on the stream and we're still trying we believe the Forest Reserve District must have done some study on this but but at this point we don't have the documentation they did not need to modify the the maps even though they were working in the flood plane because they weren't filling they were Excavating they were making it bigger so one thing that we do suspect is that when they increase the capacity to carry water through and store more water in this area we believe the elevation of water over here was lowered in all likelihood which which means then the water over here can pass through when there's pressure it'll push the water through one water level another higher water push it through further if that's the case the water May no longer even be able to jump this Ridge the farm field but we have to do all you have to commission the studies associated with that to be able to see what's really taking place and the approvals are going to be starting with the uh K county is going to be the first government agency that's going to have to review the work and agreed and after County it's going to need to go to the uh state of Illinois Department of Natural Resources that will be they'll need their approvals after that it's going to go to FEMA the Federal Emergency Management agency again all told this is typically about a one year long process until the study is completed we can't say with certainty that we how much of the flood plane we could get out of the property we do believe that we certainly could relocate it around wherever you decide and right now there's been no plans done in terms of really site planning for putting a building on that site more focused on needs and satisfying what the district in all might need or need going forward so that's probably the single biggest challenge associated with property again not insurmountable at all but it is a time consuming element and there's no guarantees until you start the process any one agency can go well we don't think that's right I mean we just actually we've been holding on this and I will say the district commissioned a little bit of additional survey so we were able to come over here and we commissioned they commissioned survey in this location so we could see what the water level would have to jump to and we did survey further into the Farmland on the south side of Rison Road one thing we did find is that in reality the road area is about six in higher than another little saddle in this Farm driveway coming into here so in reality it's going to start jumping here first rather than going there and then there's a series of little pockets in this area here and it leads to a point right down here where there's two 36 in diameter culs so there is water coming through in that location again we just saw that today because we went back and looked at it and said wait till we point that out to everybody but again process has to get going and what's the ballpark of the process we'll call it the Hydraulics and all this the Hydraulics and hydrology I mean start to finish start to finish yeah for there's no way of telling or rough typically we would end up having the because we now have survey we could get going it pretty quickly and just getting the data put together to be able to say what the status you know what you can and cannot do probably about a I'd say probably about a six week period to get that looked at to be able to have enough information one thing again we do want to do is get from the Forest Reserve District their consultant is not going to give us information right they're working just like you me it all has to be clear yeah I would like to see what they did when they developed plans for this if they did a study I think they probably did something but we haven't seen it yet and we need to get that from the forest preserve District but uh it's it it would be the first step would be the first six weeks and then it's a matter of starting to think about how you want to move forward from there it's a long process it's an alterative process you move forward and then somebody can place in well what about this and then you go back and look at it a little bit but we've been through this process many times in the past yeah you can address this that this is probably the one it's it is the most sign and when you say discussion of challenges with the Ron property this is this is the challenge and really over in this area here not a big deal over here not a big deal this is a little bit it when we looked at the survey in reality the Swale goes right where I'm pointing here it doesn't even go up that way the Contours don't match the mapping unfortunately you have to prove that all the agencies they each want to look at it they each want to pick it apart but it is pretty obvious that the low point is not where they showed it on that any other questions for now question for how much does it cost to change the map process ass well the feeds associated with at least the study and the mapping and that is in the area of 30,000 35,000 something like that in in the context of what you're talking about that's not an insurmountable enough but it is something that you have to do and it falls upon the party wanting to make the change to have to get the map done you know it's not like somebody else is going to do it for you so it's not necessarily financially consuming it's just time consuming it's just time consuming so the federal agencies that work with you FEMA Army Corps there's no cost associated with their services that's just there's going to be a little bit of permit Fe but it's not I was not a million dollars no no no it's not that more time it's time and and costs that are going to come from what they you know when if you were talking about building high school campus in this piece of land you know you can have athletic fields in flood plan we do that all the time I mean we've done projects where the Chicago River drains right through it and it's all flood plane built some of the best athletic facilities in the state of Illinois it's just a matter of time associated with achieving it and uh you know like I said if if the study looks encouraging then you start proceeding into more design of the site itself saying where do we want to put a building down how would that function with the needs of the district and the needs of the community you know but then they the two processes would kind of go together for a little bit and then because you have to show a reason why do you want to move that finger of flood plan Well we'd like to put a building in that area you have to prove you have to show them what you want to do so and again like I said the forest preserve District because of what they did they built the new Wetlands they widened out the stream channel I gotta believe they studied the stream so that there would be some data but I don't think they've been bothered looking at what we saw here they don't care about that finger running through your property they only care about what was going on in theirs but if we had something to work with to start with we can off and we don't know when they acquired it if any of this stuff was discussed at that point I'm assuming it was oh the school district I don't know we don't know I know that the maps have been out there a long time right but again like I said those Maps were not really created based on the detailed Hydra they don't spend money on detailed hydraulic studies of farm ditches out in the mid more rural areas only and they have studied penre Creek but they've studied it starting much further north outside of the limits of this drone and then heading out to the Northeast from there they have studied it there they just haven't worked it all in that much detail back to this point okay where we are and nothing would be able to be until this was rectified at this property nothing would be able able to be done until the map was and there was a new map well I can tell you if you were to place a building in this location here you could go ahead and get going do the normal engineering associated with it and be able to get a physical building started but is that the correct location Bas on what we for the building exactly or is or is this the correct location for the building where it's a little bit higher you got to kind of look at those things and really site planning is the most important thing you got to develop a functional right school that satisfies your community up until now you have not been doing details kind ofuse for a little bit thank you thank you for your you appreciate that uh Dr M will share information regarding the possibility of selling the district's property and Plato Center so we talked a lot about selling here in Burlington and had got approval from the board for moving forward to try to sell some of the property off here um to the Burlington Park District at this time I have understanding that there could be some interest in purchasing the property somewhere nearby uh The Plato Center it is currently only seven or eight Acres I'd have to have it check I think we think Seven Acres um so it is not feasible for another elementary site if you remember uh when I talked to architect they say about 13 acres now is what is typical uh for the least amount of land you'd want for an elementary building so it is really not a good piece of property for elementary or for us to hold on to uh so as we're trying to figure out how to manage some of the things within the district be my recommendation for me to go ahead and move forward and trying to look to see if we could find some buyer for the the property there in Plato So so obviously knowing that cdbl has used those fields since you know I was growing up and played baseball in those fields in the 80s um what would what would it look like what's the process for selling that kind of property so in a school district we can sell property directly to a government agency uh we can swap land with a government agency so if Plato Center wanted to buy it from us we could work with them because it's a government agency uh when it comes to selling to a um third party person or a resident or anybody like that would go to a bid press um and we'd have to work through the bit process in order for that to be sold we know there's been I mean would assume I not the answer for Plato Township you know with since that's really the only entity that exists there I'm assuming there's been no interest in I don't not reached out or anything like that have no idea if there'd be any interest in Playdoh Center purchasing it or not I know they have Park District there but I I don't know but I would definitely reach out to see if there's other parties interested or anybody interested and so is this something that we obviously information we could put to vote next yes month obviously yeah I I think it's something that I mean obviously it's out there we know cdbl uses it a great deal they've done a lot of um updates to the field um they put a lot of time and effort into it um we we just can't outright sell it to to that kind of organization we can surely go into a bid process um government agency I don't know about pler Center um but I do think at this point it's really not for us it's land that our you know our maintenance crew has to try to work with and work between and it's just easier if we can kind of you know say let's get rid of that property it's really not usable for us at this point only being seven acres it's just not a piece of property that's in our best interest to maintain and keep and in the sealed bid process presumably if we go to that as a public entity we would have to then accept the highest bit or was it still at our discretion I have no idea I've talked our legal to it's a question I can't answer that at all okay all right um we'll move through the rest of information I we're gonna embarrass Mr Starks right here who just came in so will'll happily do that um so we'll move on to the enrollment report Dr M we review the en enrollment report included in the board packet so the enrollment report we've shifted a little bit just to give you guys a picture of what's going on so compared to what we usually do you can see the the current total enroll that we have in every single building but one of the things that we never really take into account is all of our residents who are actually um non-residents hosted inside District 301 so we have Mid Valley programs although most of our Mid Valley programs where we give them a room or two are most of our students um I would say 85% of those students are actually our students but being serviced by Mid Valley Personnel um and you can see the number shift there we're at 4887 with our nonresident house in District 301 you can see we're at 4933 so about 49 35 so almost $5,000 getting close to or 5,000 uh students um below you see out of District not house so we have some students who we pay our residential facilities then they go to Mid Valley those districts that are not serviced inside our doors uh you can see those numbers too for total out of District not housed in District 301 those students could come back to our district um so it's always a work in progress we're trying to hopefully get them back to our district as soon as possible but currently they're being serviced by a different agency uh because we just cannot meet their needs inside of our doors um so we added that to the enrollment just so you can see a full picture of where on our students are um in terms of enrollment um so you can see the top one is the total District those are actually kids that are seated right now inside of our doors uh non-resident District that could be EF that could be Mid Valley numbers and then of course the students are being serviced outside any questions about that it's just a different way to look at the report as as we look at our projections moving forward especially with the data that we had a year ago it's kind of you know drove a lot of our conversations about future options um and I guess this is partly a question for Dana too just looking at our projections for the budget this year our home starts for this you know we had 30 whatever in this you know when we look at the number of houses that are going up at this point particularly in the Highland Woods in that neighborhood in particular seems like the one that I see the most um do we have any idea using our one point for kids we8 kids per like what does that look like as far as projected home starts by let's say August of next year as far as what Al is you know licens what's going on do we have anything short of the um occupancy permits or the transition fees to know what that looks like no shorted driving around and see what's under construction we have we have the number and they keep changing remember country trial shifted they had originally talked about being um 50 plus homes they changed those to be more apartment or condos uh which those mean more students to our district versus what they originally had planned with Country Trails so we are absorbing more students than we had actually anticipated um that being said I mean the issue right now right is that every single building is almost at capacity uh Central Middle School cannot take on two grade levels it can only take on one it's not large enough even with the addition of the high school which was approved last year by the board um and we talked about it came out of focus group we can't even house our high school kids currently in our current High School the 20 class addition allows us to get our high school students this year we're bringing 80 more kids in next year just was Zero increase in enrollment this where we live today so we need those classrooms for our high school students today um so that's why that 11 uh 20th classroom Edition is going on um we're trying to adjust to make sure that we have like the best plan that we can moving forward to a lot for every single grade band needs something different iteration so we need to have an iteration at grade low at elementary at middle school and at high school we're trying to find the best solution uh for that at the cheapest rate and for the longest for the longest distance for our taxpayers uh that's kind of why we landed where we landed from the focus group but I think enrollment will continue to be a challenge for us um we are still getting students in our district it has not stopped enrollment is still coming in we are lower we're at 1.83 right now so we were at you know we sit somewhere somewhere between two to 3% every year uh we projected out last year at 1.2 and I projected out at 3% so we're right in the middle of those two ranges so either way either one of those 1 point two or three we're in trouble I think if we look decade over decade we talked about this a year ago it was like from the 60s through now that's been consistent growth and shaki or Ed is that his name shaki Ed shaki superintendent way back he had a quote that we have which was a throwback which was that we were growing at 3% uh so we have continued as a district to to grow at a rapid rate of 3% consistently year-over-year so I mean again with the with the uh the flood plane now too pushing that back and that could present certainly presents a major problem complexities three years from two years from now even especially the grade school level one of the things I asked our architect was our architect our SM Shel MCN was how much is this going to cost me moving it out a year because that was the big concern um and it's any anywhere between seven to 10% so if I just take eight% it's a 15.6 million ticket to us to push this out another year at that point I don't know what we'll do uh it's really not worthy of that I am trying to look for other Solutions at this time because we try to absorb another you know 15 or16 million on 195 there's no way we're going to get that um passed and so it's is there a different alternative that we can think of or or come up so I'm continuing as you are aware of some of the um things I'm working on I'm continuing to work on some challenges or some ways to solve uh the problem that was brought forth by Mr Ericson about a month ago so uh facilities update director PA to discuss an update on construction projects thank yous I app but he's not here Mr principal um short and quick uh the high school edition we've got all of our permits in place um so concrete's going footings um getting concrete foundations in last week's weather Panic through a couple monkey wrenches in the in the plan three plus inches of rain in a we is not good but we're working that so we should still be on Pace to get everything under roof by winter which is our goal we do have some contingency money if we suffer some winter conditions and have to do some things we do have that in place um some other things we've also worked with our um engineering partners and shs we've done and did some value engineering on some components in the project so we are you know looking to do the best we can with what we have and make sure we stay under that budget we've uh We've allotted um as you can see district office remodel projects kind of moving at a little slower place than we'd like um material things and trying to get some materials and vendors lined up hopefully by next month you'll see some drastic changes that's my goal so when you come in you'll be surprised and things will look more complete so we're moving forward on that um and then next month I'll be bringing um we're expecting generators January of 24 for uh Prairie View hbt in Lily Lake so we're going to probably put a bit out um month for the electrical work associated with that so it'll be a fairly small project we'll try to do over days off and breaks Christmas break and kind of be ready for those generators to to show up the transfer switches we've already received and paid for but the generators themselves were were 24 to 30 months out when we place that order so that's all I got any questions about anything thank you thank you thank you principal bagorski for an Athletics and activities update beyond what we already discussed Beyond um so without Mr Jessie being here I'll start off with a joke the uh flood plane that we just talked about I think it is does exist and it's in Hampshire because at the football game this past week that would be my first starting point the football team stayed alive for playoff hopes um if we beat Huntley this week that would put us into playoff eligibility with five wins and then it goes to point system we talked about boys and girls golf already cross country and we're at the season basically right now where everything's wrapping up where we have our senior nights and our our playoff uh regional series cost country will be running in Woodstock on Saturday tomorrow night at badier our boy soccer team will be starting their Regional play um volleyball we are hosting a regional on the 24th and that pretty much wraps up fall Sports we had our Bring the Noise concert last week which was a soldout house packed gym for our band awesome to see I'm amazing to see what Mr strike can do with getting kids in there creatively and getting them on the stage and running up and down uh the pathway we had our choir concert right after that for choir and coral and then coming up around uh Halloween like the 30th no 1st that first week we will have Puffs as our fall play so those are all the things that are going on from a sports activities standpoint there um winter sports meetings starting to happen Winter's coaches meetings starting to happen so excited to get everything started once we get through the fall season and playoffs and hopefully go pretty deep with some of our teams I took my kids to the cross country to the conference meet only because it was in my subdivision I could get there very easily it was crappy weather but I think they did a great job especially running four races on that course everybody had a wonderful time um saw some people one of the uh track coaches Mr poock was like this is what like your memories are May you're an adult you're remember running in this weather and it was a lot of fun to see so many people out there cheering on and and the kids all seem to have a great time despite the win and the r couple people SLI flooded borderline speaking of flooding it was fun so that's for fall Sports and activities to stay up here for oh yeah uh for the CHS receipt of the AP honor roll award so the AP honor roll award we were awarded this is actually one that I get to do not just stepping in for Ted the AP honor roll award we actually got two Awards there one is the AP Equity access award and essentially College Board doesn't give us any stats there but what that award signifies is that for this population of lowincome or minority students underrepresented students that we proportionally pass tests with a three or above with that population so it's just proportional to our population it's a good sign of equity in our classrooms which we're proud of and then the AP access award is an award that I believe for the last few years we have scored in the silver ranking of it and we are actually making gains and growth to get into the gold aspect of that what that essentially means is how many of our classes are this is all based off the senior class of last year I'm sorry class of 23 it's how many kids take one AP course before they graduate um how many earn a college credit by scoring a three or above and then how many kids take five or more AP classes between 9th and 10th or ninth and taken one at least in nth and 10th grade five total across their whole High School career so we're in the gold categories for taking five or more at least one ninth or 10th grade year we're in the gold category for um getting college credit where we have 40% what we are a little bit behind by making gains in is having one or more of our kid or a kid take one or more test which to me is the going along to the Equitable one and the easiest to fix and we made some gains there going from about 40 to 50% so 65% is the threshold there to get to the gold a question for the two of you do we are we having any issues with space in classes if kids want to take AP classes have we had any issues with with exceptions I certainly understand that the vast majority of times if kids want to take them it's not a teacher shortage we're sorry we have 15 kids who can't take it because it's not a teacher shortage but remember we do have class size limitations so we try to maintain so if we don't hit those class sizes we try generally speaking we adjust make sure we get every AP student getting the access to those AP courses the thing I think that you know uh principal poori talked about was and we have talked about it at the board but never made a determination is do you start to have people test if they take the AP courses remember right now we give choice they don't have to test so it is difficult sometimes to determine how is it how are we performing an AP for all of our students as well as getting the numbers up so that you know we are hitting those markers and continue to show the growth we have a lot of kids that take AP uh but don't take tests um and so the question is you know we had talk the bo at one time five years ago um about five years ago right and we had talked about you know do you reward kids if they get a three four or five you kick back a little bit more of what they paid for that AP exam if they you know HD that so that they had the the purpose of why do they need to take these but it is definitely a benefit to our um our families if their kids get the three four or five it saves them a lot of dollars when they go off into college because they get those college credits automatically um in it's ill Illinois school it may be for not necessarily in the content area that they're in but at least some kind of college credits that they need so it's something should discuss as you said what we say 40% for took the test for the test I took the test they take the test taking taking one course is 50% getting to three or above we are there at 40% 35% is the goal threshold and we don't know how many kids actually take the exam up top my head no but talking last year been a Ginter who runs all of our testing there's I would say out of the kids who are in there there's probably 15 20% that might not again that's just anecdotal so most of them do large portion do but then it's also just a discussion of how many kids might might not be taking the class in general too is it secondary discussion but I could get the exact number again that's just anecdotal guesswork not looking at all the registrations thank you than thank you I would have Mr Ral come up now and maybe before the steam presentation so Brad's not so inclined they talk about the first time so let's see if you missed the jokes um no you didn't nobody really did yes you're right um if you mind come on up here because I want to present this to you in front of everyone else um this is the award of Merit by the Illinois school public relations Association this organization uh really liked the video we did and the reason that they like it is because of the lesson you put together that shows true interactivity and um a great understanding of self-awareness and progress in the classroom so this I hand to you all right congratulations encourage all of you to go watch the video on our YouTube channel we are always looking for subscribers Central 301 and Matt you might want to give him your presentation that you gave because he missed all that he may want to read that so especially the last yes thank [Applause] you uh so director Burke M will provide an update on the elementary steam roll out for this school year all right just wanted to touch base and let you know an update on how things have been going this year this fall if I can connect suddenly that one paused it must have been she couldn't get so it must be oh here we go all right so we had started um you heard last spring we were going to do our roll out this fall so just wanted to kind of touch base and give you an update as to where we've been where we've been heading this fall uh steam we're focused on not just the Science and Technology but that integration across multiple content areas including math and the Arts so we've embedded all of those components within our programming um this year our instructional coaches at back to Hill had presented some of the robots that we have um that were using this fall so they did a wonderful job of offering a variety of different pieces um the dash hurdles uh build a boat which is the design and Engineering projects and then we had the marble run as well so that was highlighted [Music] here and then we tried a little uh different spin on it this year rather than um you know to reduce some of the anxiety and and overworking we really took it from an approach of putting in each building would have a steam team so we have roughly five to seven grade level teachers as well as service providers content Specialists anybody that was of an interest of being part of this team would uh be our steam team within each building and so to kick that off we had two meetings over the summer June 1st and August 1st to really acclimate those steam members what are the tools that we have how are we utilizing them really build what the structure is going to look like in each of the buildings so that roll out would be very smooth um in August in September those steam team members went ahead and kicked off in each of the buildings to talk about what are the resources that you have available to you how are we going to organize the supplies and those types of things then this past month in September each of our steam teams and with our instructional coaches also went to each of the buildings and rode through each of the um activities with the students so they got acclimated to what do you have in your fingertips how do you use them we called our driver ed so rather than your driver ed at 1516 we did it here in our elementary schools here is an image of our steam team this was from our June 1st meeting um again it's maintaining those Frameworks what are we using how are we using them in addition to that they're also the eyes and ears to add additional support So as somebody comes across an activity they want to implement these steam team members can also be additional support as planning is is U moving forward and how did you become a steam team it was volunteer basis so we went ahead and put it out um and we got a grade level rep from each grade level as well as service providers so we have art we have our media Specialists we have a variety of an El staff member anybody that was interested in being a part of it we opened arms and let's let's dig in and get these things in our classrooms is there any like training on the curriculum and yes yes so that's what we as we're meeting in addition to our our two meetings that we had over the summer we're meeting monthly so this um coming up Friday we have a few hours in the afternoon as a steam team to dig in a little bit more ni yeah and then our steam team also after they're receiving that training they're taking it back to their building so at a staff meeting or a morning meeting they will pull together and Implement that material and talk through it with the whole staff here's just some fun images um as we're walking through various projects we've captured some pictures there of Staff again here walks through what we have so we have blue bot that's captured in our K2 it's more of just the physical coding they can push forward um and have those robots do various tasks lots of card maps that are followed through we did um add additional supplies that they can manipulate on those Maps so you'll see the blue bot on the left side and then we have Dash that's mainly covered in our third through fifth grade it's more the block coating as we're as we're building our cating skills they'll be um coating those robots and actually um participate in different activities here is storage so storage was also part of an issue like where are we going to house these things so our media Specialists opened their arms we had uh various materials that were purchased to store them so we've done the best we can they look pretty good but they're definitely getting used which is the purpose of this so again you'll see what they look like from the outside here um at the very top we had those mats those are used for our block coating um I should correct me that is a physical coating to start as we move towards the block coating so we purchased those wall mats so that the weight would cover them and it would go a little smoother as we're working through our Dash um and our blue bot and then the bottom two carts that we added in the design and um technology components we needed those supplies they're consumable based so we added those carts so that they are movable throughout the buildings and then this again speaks to our engineering and design projects and materials again they're more the consumable pieces as we Implement various projects uh these are being utilized and then um uh fulfilled if we need more additional pieces and then here are some of our staff rollout so activities that staff got to engage in before we rolled through it with our students our staff had an opportunity to participate in them here's an example with them it worked and then here's Dash in action my kids did the one in fifth fifth grade last year now it was summer it was in the school year it was it was they Dash you know they had a lot of fun with it kids had a really good time too a lot of fun and we'll continue to expand it every month like I said we're meeting monthly with the team as we're trying various things and expand this programing so we'll definitely keep you a breast to how we're changing in and and um and uh implementing materials but just want to give you a quick brief update on the roll out so far questions for me thank you thank you uh next we have our foyer requests for the month uh we are pretty busy with foyer requests this month as you can tell um in the board packet uh we had Mr Boss who had received we received a request for information regarding the release of the athletic director trainer athletic trainer sorry uh we did not have responsive records to release um as trainer was hired by a third party and therefore it was obviously Personnel so we did not release any information Miss osas we received a request for information regarding certified Librarians in d301 um we were able to comply with this request but she sent a secondary request asking for a clarification regarding her initial request uh was she wanted just a list of names of all certified libraries we had in District 301 and we're able to comply with that request uh local Labs again which is the lab that always sends information to us that we can't verify received a request from information regarding our El students bilingual staff and migrant Asylum Seekers um we request a verification of a secure email address and of course we have not received a response uh which we generally do not Mr Griffin we received a request for information regarding radon testing and Remediation in District 31 we were able to comply with this request however we did not have any responsive records uh we do have not done Ron testing uh Mr Doan re we received a request for information regarding the steering committee and contracts for the possible new high school we're able to comply with all of his request and Miss czy we received a request for information regarding bid tabulations for the Central High School addition uh bid number two um and we were able to comply with that request as well nextcell any questions guys so motion and a second are required to turn to open session and move to close session second vote Yes sorry faul yes Hil yes p yes Nolan uh yes let me just restate that a motion at second are required to adjourn Open Session and move to close session for the following sorry to clarify I had one word mixed up apologize thank you everyone for joining us

[Music] all right folks are we about ready I see the room is packed all right well let's stand up anded Al flag the United States of America to the for it stands one nation God indivisible and Justice all right I will bring this meeting to order at 6:31 today is October 16 and we're gonna start um with the call to order for our special hearing the additional appropriation hearing of General obligation Bond proceeds um how do we need to start yeah so I'll just do a quick summary as you know we have spent several board meetings discussing um the Appropriations for the upcoming bond that addresses the two projects the main projects at the middle school which is the secure front entrance and the hbac um so tonight's hearing is just the recommendation to approve two resolutions and resolution a is the additional appropriation resolution and that just means that after um after this hearing to be able to provide public comment on this resolution the board will approve the appropriation of the bond proceeds to be spent on the project cost before any bond money can be expended um so basically the appropriation is just almost like asking for permission to be able to spend the money so this resolution is saying that we cannot spend the money before we appropriate the money to the specific projects and then um resolution B which is the final Bond resolution this um resolution just details the amount to be borrowed the maximum term of payment maximum interest rate um it has all of the very specific details of the bond um in it and that's why you'll see that it is 15 pages and um those are the two resolutions um that we can have public comment on tonight and then in the regular session I will ask the board to approve both of those resolutions approvement here you'll sorry not in the regular session you'll them here in this this recommendation what I thought that it okay so unless there are any um comments from the audience on these specific resolutions then Amy you can go ahead and move for the recommendation Clara you have asked to speak are you speaking on the bond or you speaking during the general meeting General okay all right so not here to talk about yeah no is there anyone here who is here to talk about the bond issue today hearing no one um going to number two here recommendation to approve resolution a the additional appropriation is there a a motion in a second for resolution a so move second is there any discussion thank you for all the work that's been g into this absolutely and we've spent a lot of time learning about um what we need and I'm very excited to have the bond to do the improvements to the middle school I think that's going to be a huge any other comments let's do roll Amy yes Carol yes Vicki yes Stephanie yes yes all right number three is recommendation to approve resolution B the final Bond resolution which includes approval of the third supplement to continue disclosure undertaking and registar and paying the agent agreement is there a motion to approve resolution B I still move is there any discussion heing none let's do roll call Amy yes Carol yes Vicky yes Stephanie yes yes all right is there motion for adjournment of the appropriation hearing so moved thank you any discussion I think we've done our business let's do wel Amy yes Carol yes Vick yes Stephanie yes yes right let's call that our meeting adjourned and the bond has been approved um going on now to our regular agenda I call that meeting to order I should give a your time 6:35 on October 16th um are there any modifications to agenda we have one consent agenda item for the appointment of vand in elementary school after school care Shauna custard level one hour that parttime no benefits effective October 16 2023 uh this is a replacement for Ashley Miller all right is there a motion to modify the agenda any discussion let's do roll call Amy yes Carol yes Vicki yes Stephanie yes dou yes all right number three we're going to do recognition of visitors and comments from the audience and I have um a registration form from CL Stanley who is here on behalf of PTO um CL do want to come up just make sure that everybody can see and hear you okay and also for the camera here and then I'm going to set the three minute timer so second yes I I came here to actually share very exciting upd about Bron county middle school PTO uh we just had a meeting and it was one of the biggest number of parents participating in my history of P parents pure parents attended meeting and we shared a great uh uh you know agenda and we are super excited to have our superintendent miss Emily Tracy visiting the Brown County Middle School PT on November 6 we're going to make a bigger deal that the reason I I'm telling you this that Brown County parents are involved and they want to get more and they are behind all what's whatever going on uh to be our parent I mean our students and step teachers just want to share that we are here uh that represent the power Divine and support behind thank you than you all right any other comments from the audience all right moving on uh we have a presentation tonight uh from Shane Killinger and Abby mag mangner sorry Magner Magner well so that's why I said it wrong thank you that's okay um so about screw Elementary and uh getting and working on stem certification so we're going to Tribute over to the two of you she's doing all you are okay so SP has been working on stud certification um before my time my wonderful mother was this stud teacher perform me um she started this but we really took off with it in January of this year after suggested that all of work for station so I just want to read to you off the's website so you kind of understand what stem certification is because not everybody um does it every day you so um in this last sentence it says and a constantly involv in World St education will prepare all students to contribute to society through in problem solving as the Next Generation thinkers creers advocats and entrepreneurs so he's gonna go to our website so the due requires that you make a website if you want to be stem certified and they send you the template they change it frequently so I think it gets updated every two years um we got this one over the summer after we had already left online for a while in the spring but that's okay um so we built this site as a stem team there are if you'll go back to school information um there's more than just myself okay so we have um our superintendent our principal and then I'm here for we have our mission our vision to have get letters of support so we have one from Miss Tracy one from Mr kinger and then we are partners with C so we have a parent who works at Comm and who gladly support us as a community partner and then our first team is Miss stunley Miss East and Miss hiin um we meet every single Monday and we talk about about not just this but how St improved so now we can go toown and then executive summary we um these are all requirements of the state but we have enjoyed honestly I really enjoyed put in here so it just highlights who spica is how awesome we are um and how awesome our kids are so we have the school overview we get to describe ground toown to the state and and we brag about the hills and the tourist and I'm a Brown County you know BN R so we enjoyed that Britney actually wrote that part you know Britney she is also morning raced in so that was fun um our Sim focus our program description you really highlight the stem lab that we have at spica you never been should visit it's it's amazing and we focus on that in this paragraph okay we're gonna go back to the drop down there are four domains within the rubric each domain has different elements that you have to check on um according to the states rubric within those 21 elements in those four domains you have to delete three um a total of over I think it's 54 points to be able to become stem certified if you don't get a three and the 11 essential element categories you don't even have a chance it's certification so we really worked hard to get threes in every single element because I'm perfectionist and they are too so um the first one is culture I want to highlight 1.3 this is our sustainability plan and Sh we on that so the state wants to see how you sustain stem for five years or longer to get a degree in that category and we can easily say that we can support stem for five years we are than cway um corporation which helps us a lot because I think St certification in the state is based on Project processes um I went to a conference at perie and they were like you must be this this and this it was all projectly mied Stu so I'm thankful that we're projectly this so Shan if you on that this is the sustainability plan that we created it shows the training that we have in place from 2022 and then projected all the way to 2027 obviously we don't know every detail but this is what we've started and what we hope to continue we show our funding um career exposure what our kids get to experience I just want to highlight a few of these because he really cool so retired um Navy fighter pilot presentations one of the many things that we do this time I bring in people from all different backgrounds and careers and I Tred I really try to make sure they're from Brown County so our kids know I can do that one day so we have our career exposure here um and T okay we have our Community Partners these are people who are willing to um provide funding or just come and visit read with our kids be a part of stone and then all of our technology so the state wants to make sure that I mean you know what St stands for the t is technology right so they want to make sure that that techn element Asing your building and we I can gladly say have tons of AD technology for our students okay let's go back to the actual site and so these are all built by SP of people okay this is um not something the state produced this is us we are producing this I love this one I wanted to show you this one I have loved this one since the day that we made it that this is all about our Partnerships and I spica does a fantastic job with this element of it so we have stem focused events we tried to make them every month of the year within the stem GR curriculum calendar so they're not just like someone coming to talk to the kids about random things they're actually involved in the project or the activity we're doing instead that one per grade level which is really neat if you'll go to the next slide so these are just examples we have The Invention Convention which I know as Tracy visited us there um our vith graders get to create an invention and show it from scratch and we have Comm members that come and judge this is M young that came judge she's a former teach we have conservation officers that come and we have a robotics Club these are just examples of the many St Focus events we have there's our biomed program from the high school came fif graders this year on infectious diseases we had derell come and talk about car seat safety and then my kids made egg car seats so car seats for eggs and did Collision testing but they got to hear the experts first which is really and then what's really cool about these slideshows is they're interactive so the doe is going to be able to click on folders like this and see hundreds of examples about that one event that we and that's for every single event we linked folders um we'll go all the way back Shane to building houses with the big which is a Le Flo with the wolf puppet awesome all right so 2.1 is curriculum integration and we'll go ahead this SL show so this is all about project Le away being our primary curriculum for St for all Ground huny Schools um spica like I said earlier I'm so thankful that we do that because project already does APD so Shan you'll go to two more sides yeah so it's problem based on you not necessarily project they want to see that you do activities is the a projects is the B problems could be problem based learning so in every activity my students do in stem they're solving the problem when I went to preview to this conference was like asking we have a stem lab and we do like all the kids come to need for a stem you make it sound like we need this in every classroom because a lot of schools don't have a stem that and they said well we kind of want that in every classroom so spica took it on that all of our teachers would be educated on AP they would all do project practices in their classrooms so Shane if you'll go to the right before I go to that one of the things that what we have noticed with the staff is we go it's hard for us to let kids struggle and when you're when you're doing this model that's part of an it's part of its failing and not all the kids things work out perfect or they don't build something perfect and then they learn from each other and that's been a really big shift in the mindset with our staff oh yeah and I mean it's really cool but it's it's taking a few steps yeah we do that in stem all the time and so the kids are more used to it than staff members they're I've got to guide them and the kids they really know how to do all right we'll go on it says there we go um so this is from Project's website and so I was able to teach our teachers I created this website sh click on that for our plc's we got to have Shane was gracious enough to let us have ST plc's which was fantastic so that's where I taught our teachers how to use AP and all the project processes so can you think on the general can you tell us what AP is yeah so it's activities projects ands and that is straight from project um but all of the teachers learn nams and then we applied the a process in social studies language arts math everything um and so all of them have used that and they all had to create an integrated stem lesson not just for this but again to learn how to use questions um we hadu ego man they made the process posters for every single classroom in our building I call do this orain at the middle school and they did that for us which was amazing and so all of our teachers have these beautiful posters in their classrooms with the project processes on Litt can even tell you the steps oh they know yeah um let's go back all the way to um the last thing that I wanted to forget to mention is the time um so all of this has to be turned in on October 27th which is like crazy that it's actually happening we were working on it for so long so we get to submit next Friday I like have Jitters about it and we don't find out until tentatively May 6 which is crazy you know it may not be May 6 we're gonna have a party either way right so um we get feedback though which is really nice do round with feedback you can make directions as needed U we based ours off of model schools that the do has given us like they give examples on their website so I feel confident I think that this will be successful um if not we know that we have two different rounds of to go through with that they do complete a site visit to Shan if to the farthest tab to the right this is the evalu that they use when they come to visit us so we know what to expect if it's in dark gray if we don't get a three we don't get which so we are going over this with all staff members we'll probably do another STC just so they can prare because we do these things we just want to make sure we show the I I I don't there is no way in this small small presentation that you could understand the amount of hours that Abby and the team has put put in for this so I just want to say thank you you know she's I know she she's not supposed to but she works on it at home she worked over fall break with Mom yes that was really fun my mom got to review it you have an outside person with an email that's not linked to your school check every single link check every single gramatical ER which not have to do that but I asked her to um if you know my mom she of course wanted to she to be the St teacher she was teacher of the year at one point so she and I went through for four hours last Sunday and just SP every single nit thing and then we did it with the St and I had our secretaries do it and then I keep fcking on things so I changed what Shane had said you know at the beginning you said that this was the goal that we put out there and want three elementary schools in the Middle School to um become stem certified it's an initiative from the Department of Ed and he said 2025 and Abby you and your team have taken this by the range and they G to get it done an entire year before and you truly are leading the way for the other school so I I can't thank you guys enough for the hard work and it looks amazing yeah and we've even had collaboration with hord but I just absolutely love Jody and she teaches stem at hord so she and I got to collaborate it's been wonderful so that's been really neat it's it's provided a lot of other things that I know also used ouri connections because South one of wonder if that was one of the model schools oh and she's already has questions ready for me when I go visit next Monday to ask him about the presentation thank you so much I have and everything one com I appreciate because it is us we are small we are Rural and we are might so thank you for that I remember the year we did this at the Middle School uh was the junior high at the time and I remember the site phic day I remember the lessons that we all did um but it it was a lot of work but it was um even in Humanities I learned a lot in how you know I'm like oh that's science right that's over there but um again as you said the processes and the way that you're teaching and the way you're thinking about it I think it's important and I think sometimes even though like we're now calling it St but I don't know that it really is necessarily about that I think it is just method of teaching and I like you talk about um you know kids have to fail they all have to fail at something to learn something so I think that's important for the problem based type of so I think it's great it sounds like like amazing work really so I know how long all that takes so B was d uh so the state has a uh Governor hul has a uh award and Dave picked one student for stem and they picked a as the T in his seni year and he got I think $1,000 in his 529 um but we got to go meet with the governor and it was a pretty cool day and he got a letter jacket that he never wore because he was graduating but it was it was very cool and it was but just meeting the governor and and you know really that was pretty yeah so yeah thought it was well because he was a computer he's a computer programmer so he was part of the team and I think somebody sent us that application um like out of blue like your your son should apply for that so he did so I think that that's really neat though but yeah I think there are a lot of those opportunities out there and I would say even I really loved our corporate projects at the middle school um because it did you know we all got involved and um you know I learned a lot through that and I really loved I didn't get to do all the community partner stuff as much I didn't get to go to Cs and stuff but I really do think those are TR the the public speaking piece that we work on kids with is so and and we'll go pedex as well but you know that is a huge piece of what kids need to learn um you know how to present themselves how to speak clearly um when we talk about the skills for life I think those are super important so the more as say we just integrate all these different things in there well it it looks good to us I'll tell you anyone else have comments or questions no I think it's wonderful it's so great is it shamee to see a student come back and do you know you see the Next Generation taking over for yeah last year there was a time where I told her I was just watching this little girl was this amazing job I just kind forgot well I'm excited and I I'm I'm glad that you know as as we each School helps each other because this is a big task to take on and it shouldn't be an individual thing it should be a collaboration so the the models you guys develop really to the other two schools to say Venture down the same road so that's great thank you all right let's move on um we have listed discussion and nothing right and then approval of the public session minutes for October 2nd 2023 is there a motion to approve is there a um discussion is let's do roll call Amy yes yes Vicki yes Stephanie yes yes all right number seven action needed items we have recommendation to extend the maternity leave for Courtney Fowler by 10 days original return date was October 16th which is today uh her new return date is October 30th 2023 is there a motion to extend the attorney I move second any discussion let do roll call Amy yes Carol yes Vicky yes Stephanie yes yes all right number two is a recommendation to approve the 2024 budget Ordinance do you want to talk about that at all do oh is there a motion to approve that so I'll second I'll second all right now discussion and I see Don is ready I was just jumping the gun we good so um I've got quite a few ordinances for you tonight the first one is the 2024 budget um nothing has changed from what we have uh had in our public hearing a few weeks ago so this is the adoption of the budget and as you said we've been talking about this for the last several meetings several meetings this is just the formal approval this is the formal approval so would you like me to go ahead and go through the other ones that I have as well them all once wait would approve each of them yeah separately yeah we got do separately all right any discussion or questions for Don let's do roll call on the 2024 budget ordinance Amy yes Carol yes Vicki yes Stephanie yes St yes all right so number three is the recommendation to approve the 2024 capital projects plan resolution yes so part of the budget adoption is we required to submit Capital um projects plan to the dgf and uh as we talked about a few weeks ago this is simply giving us that broad spectrum to where we can have all the projects covered so that's what's included with the is there a motion to approve a all right any other discussion and questions right let's go Amy yes Carol yes Vicki yes Stephanie yes dou yes all right the last one is the 2024 bus replacement plan resolution uh is there a motion to approve second is there discussion or questions or comments from so the bus replacement plan this is where we uh basically kind of take an inventory of all the buses that we have and um Dennis Mills match them up as to the years that they technically are eligible for replacement so part of that bus plan shows every year as to when we can replace them and as we spoke last time um our transportation department does an amazing job with keeping our buses um mechanically sound so we can extend the life of some of those which really um it saves US money any other questions or comments on the bus replacement plan right let's vote Amy yes Carol yes Vicki yes Stephanie yes yes all right I was wrong we are not done number four five is the recommendation to approve the Brown County School's present year budget reduction resolution um that's to a motion to approve that I move and is there any discussion or questions or explanation from them so what this uh resolution does is it gives um Emily the authority to reduce our appropriation so if we need to reduce it in 2023 to be able to to spend more in 2024 we or however we need to adjust so if we have a fund that um we don't but if we had a fund where we're going to be spending too much in 2023 we can reduce the appropriation to where it frees up that money to be spent in 2020 any other questions or comments let Amy yes Carol yes Vicky yes Stephie yes Doug yes all right and then the last one truly the last one this time is a recommendation to approve the 2024 transfer resolution is there a motion to approve so Mo and any comments or discussion so kind of a definition of what this is we are held legislatively to where we are not allowed to trans for more than 15% from our education to operations and so this resolution allows um us to be able to transfer up to that 15% any other questions or comments Amy yes Carol yes Vicky yes Stephanie yes yes all right thank you Don thank you number eight is our consent agenda items for personnel there are no separations yay we have some appointments and no transfers um we're starting out with Brown County High School varsity wrestling Coach Andrew Reid and ending with h vanan elementary after school care shaa kuster is there a motion to approve I move second is there any discussion Amy yes Carol yes Vicky yes stepan yes dou yes all right and we're up to sep superintendent report yeah thank you my only report is again to thank spica chain and Abby and your entire team um that is quite evident of the work and the passion that has thank you enough for my whole heart for taking lead on that um it was great to be back from fall break um it was a crazy busy day and as much as I would have liked to be in all the schools to see some kids and some staff members I was stuck in meetings the entire day but nonetheless I got some pictures sent my way um one thing that that we've done um this year is to be able weekly to send out pictures from the week before so um I was a little nervous that the week the fall break I wouldn't have very many pictures to share but t pictures like at some point I got to shut it off and you know can only put so many pictures on the on the email but um so just glad to to be back and and hopefully our staff got time to to relax and rejuvenate um and hopefully have some adventures with their loved ones um I did want to remind the board and and the public that our third issue of our quarterly magazine of the Eagle Eye Is on the website it is we have a few copies in each of the buildings and across some of the businesses in town so um I've given each of you tonight um your copy for that and just please help us spread the word um on the magazine they're really really cool and F with pictures um wish and hope one day we get to a point where we could give one to every family um and send them home but for now they're getting shared on our website um and then through parents Square digitally and social media um and then there's a few different copies so that's all I have excited to to get moving um I went to the Ted women conference again want to thank you for the support for that um Endeavor it it was like um something I had never been to before um absolutely incredible and just really excited for our kids to get this opportunity um so I'm sure we'll have updates along away May 18th is our official event day so um that is a Saturday and I need as many people to hold that Saturday as possible to come come out and support our kids to be determined trying to do it at the music center but it's not secured yet you said the 18 the 18 and our theme is is just press play so be interested to see what kids take out of that okay um we need to approve the claims is there a motion to approve second any discussion about the claims let's do roll Amy yes Carol yes Vicki yes Stephanie yes yes and is there a board update got all right well um I am pleased with our positive press this week and last two weeks in the Democrat and um it is certainly I'm I'm excited to see the story big story about Tunica and um you know we want to be getting the good news BR schools out there so folks have story ideas and things we need to be getting out there we can put it in Eagle ey and then we can also be getting it out there in all of our other forms so it's really good for us to be able to just share all the great stuff that's happening so thank you that's all I have anybody else all right is our motion toer any discussion let's do call Amy yes Carol yes Vicky yes Stephanie yes