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you don't think so good evening good good all right good evening everybody it is October 25th and I will start as always by reading our vision statement the Ashland Public Schools is a Forward Thinking District that cultivates the academic and social emotional growth of each student through a supportive collaborative Innovative and challenging environment students will develop into self-motivated resilient lifelong Learners who Embrace their role as responsible contributors to a global Community this meeting is being recorded by waca cable TV our order of business this evening call to order opening procedures agenda review and adoption there will be time for public comment our administrative items include the superintendent goals um we will not be discussing Mass masc resolutions this evening uh superintendent update if there is one assistant superintendent update if there is one warrant approvals minutes from October 11th 2023 gifts and donations committee reports of activities member updates action items and then we will adjourn um so I will take attendance and ask if everyone's okay with the agenda Paul yes Ain Erin yes Mark hearing yes hearing yes uh Tina is absent this evening um Lor do you want to clarify why we're skipping the m m yes I I was going to do that when we get down to that but essentially um number two Mas masc has been taken off the agenda because there are a number of conflicts and nobody is available to do that so we are not going to be discussing the resolutions or sending a representative um to that um so there's no need to talk about it there we go all right um I'm going to ask if there are any members of the public I don't see any here I don't know if you see any online Mr um who want to give public comments seeing none um we're going to move right into uh the major item on our agenda this evening which are the goals for the year for the superintendent great thank you I'm just going to put this in full screen mode so as you know each year uh we have to set superintendent goals uh for the year and at our last meeting we discussed the Strategic plan and where we were with the Strategic plan and that we had identified nine IND indicators object strategic objectives that we wanted to focus on for the 23 24 school year so basically in essence creating a district Improvement plan for the school year and then taking those uh objectives moving them forward so in the next few meetings we'll have the schools bring their uh School Improvement plans forward to discuss uh with the board but coming out of the Strategic plan as well as the district Improvement plan and and Mike and I actually had a meeting with with our consultant Prem uh was it actually Friday of that week uh that we had the school committee meeting and he he actually watched our school committee meeting uh and said yall are spoton in terms of how you're approaching pulling out the objectives and calling it The District Improvement plan for the year um while you want to show all of the objectives eventually on the website as a 3 to 5e plan you can also then you know tease out the plan the objectives that we talked about so which is he said it's a really good approach and then as it relates to the superintendent's goals it's really keeping it in totality don't focus on one specific thing within the objectives you should be focused on your job because again a lot of stuff falls under Mike's purview Things fall under the purview of of Britney and for special ed or specific building base for literacy and my job is to to ensure that all of the objectives are being met the resources are being provided uh and that as we move forward that it is being accomplished so so you'll notice that one of the goals relates specifically just to the plan uh and I call it the district Improvement in here um for the year instead of teasing out nine different potential goals um so let me start with any questions on that component of it so let me start with one that we hadn't even talked about um initially and it's the first goal and that first goal is um very clear uh clearly written I hope that during the 23 24 school year the superintendent will work with the high school principal to reduce chronic absenteeism for its high needs and low-income students by four percentage points with a target of 27% as recommended by the department of Elementary and secondary education and I'll post this online but I'm providing here all of the the definitions of what it means not only for chronic absenteeism but what the rates mean what the target means that we're supposed to be hitting as a district and I will say that we had a a meeting with the commissioner a week ago and he actually emphasized that all districts across the Commonwealth need to be focused on chronic absenteeism so teasing out exactly where you want to focus for us at the high school level there are two sub groups and I'm going to I'll slide down here and you can see this I highlighted them in red our high needs population and our low income population um have uh a target the target that we're supposed to meet is 27% so that means 27% of the population has less than 10% or would be at 10% of the total absentees for the year so 18 days if you will 180 days right so currently we've got 26.5% in 28.4% um excuse me 30 30.4% and 35.4% the second column um of absenteeism so that's what classifies it as chronic absenteeism for those subgroups and so that what that means is 30% of the population has more than 10% of the days absent for the year does that make sense I think I think the way you just described it was better than the first correct after right so I apologize but but yeah so so you're saying of that demographic that's the percentage of people that uh are absent enough to qualify 10 or more 10% or which is which is 10% which is 18 days right so more than 18 days um but assum but I'm assuming it's it's calculated for based on how far through the year we are correct if we're halfway through the year and how the number of students so students might come into the the district halfway through the year and it's really based on the number of days they're in District en correct the number of days they have available um and you'll read if you read through the the the definitions they have to be enrolled for at least 20 days to even be a part of uh that calculation so what the the state has put is the target number right so we need to be at a target number of 26.5 we're at 30.4 so that's the so when I'm talking about a 4% decline that's what I'm talking about we're trying to get to the state Target number similar it's 35 for low income and and it's at the goal should be 28.4 I put 27% for all for both of them you know rounding up the 26 and a half but going down a little bit for the 28 does does this counter allow for you just sort of taking students out of the mix if for example they're out for long-term medical no so the way the state calculates it is it's based on excused and unexcused absences yeah so somebody don't care about the reason correct out you're out right so we had that conversation with the commissioner is there are students who have legitimate medical reasons why they're out how come they count against you so you can actually appeal those as well towards the accountability structure um but well and and do the from from the commissioner or the state level is every subgroup have the same Target uh for for absenteeism um no okay so it depends on your district and where you were in the past no so I'm talking about the subgroups because for instance oh so the subgroup I see you're saying Paul because because because someone that's a good question High needs or something like that might have more a higher rate of students that might have medical reasons to be out yeah yeah I me it could be remember there's the other group of students with disabilities which I was thinking about the same thing right and depending in the circumstances yeah so so so these groups that we we're targeting might also have more leg legitimate reasons in those excused absences that are counting against the statistic but are it's a good question I'm not 100% sure how but I I if I pulled up if Mike pulled up the desie profile of say Medfield and pulled up their chronic absenteeism I guarantee their target rate's different than ours yeah so I'd have to go back to see why they actually have that Target rate for us right right so and and it does but if I understand it from what you said before oops the actual figures are going to be a function of sort of the proportion of the days of the whole so for example if we had either really good numbers or really bad numbers as a district or as a school yep the amount of people or the number of days that are are sort of that make somebody High RI um excuse me chronic chronically absent is going to change right if everybody's here every day and you have one person who's out five days and that's everything right like that person even though it's only five days even over the course of a year would show up as being chronically absent because of the proportion but the whole correct but they look at the subgroup um and and that wouldn't necessarily qualify right so the rest of the subgroup meets the Target right therefore you'd still You' be meeting the expectations that they have so so that's really like I said what they're looking to do is provide so if slide down about what's our measurables with this it's it's really I talked to Kelly about this is reviewing last year's data to say okay let's pull those kids out who are absent more than you know 10 days you know or 18 days which is 10% start with that population but start with the population of the low income and um the high needs and okay why were they absent let's look to see okay some start teasing them out here's medical here's suspension here's you know some other reason maybe they um just called in right sick or they called in student called and they're working so one of the thing that we're struggling with obviously is our population has changed dramatically and we've got a lot of students who work and and are not coming to school because they're helping provide for their families and and and don't we have uh families that take uh trips back to either India or other places time and those would those would be and those count against you yeah right and so and it doesn't take very many you know those trips because they don't go for just a couple days no they go for months at a time so yeah so so we've we've are trying to part of the conversation again at the state level is with the grant is giving you opportunities to have these conversations with families creating forums using the money to have a forum if you will to say hey this is why it's important for your child to be in school when you miss x amount of days you're losing um um the ability for student academic growth right over time so it's important to be in school we have to look at our discipline policies and procedures to see how are they impacting absenteeism uh as well and so while the state looks at it as absenteeism I'm looking at it as credit recovery as well as academic recovery that's more important to me um so how are we going to use the funds and the grants and that's what we're going to look at as applying for the grant for that and I assume you can probably first Target the ones that are I'll call it doubly chronic and that they would meet chronic for the last couple of years right because those would be y obviously the ones that probably need to need to be here more because they've missed so much right and and and for a longer period of time right yeah and again I think part of this goes back to what what Kelly's been trying to do with the high school is think about the schedule right and think about how do we create a schedule that is better for our student population today than it was 10 years ago or 15 years ago when we know we have five 8 10% of our students who are working during the day who need to work and who leave and out of school at noon so they can go provide and help provide for their families are we are we finding a schedule that can work for them and that might mean night school it might mean um if they're working during the day it might mean a Saturday school opportunity but the commissioner doesn't have an answer from the absentee standpoint for that yet right we're talking about credit recovery and we're talking about academic recovery but and growth but we're not necessarily talking about how this impacts um the accountability structure of chronic absenteeism we need to fully understand the challenges that that we face as a district for these particular kids and then also have strategies to and you can see I mean I I don't want to just you know think we're doing a poor job if you actually pull up our data um and this is our data we've done a very good job in the past two years of of getting our students back in school um so the 20 you know all students we've reduced right I mean we met the target line we've exceeded the target line for for certain subgroups as well um so it's really important that people understand we're got to select population that we're going to focus on this year can I just ask on that point Jim the um I'm looking at the data here for the category described as Hispanic Latino yeah and those numbers look I didn't that should be on that list too Mark yeah that's where I was I agree with you 100% okay yep no I that should that will absolutely add to the goal yep thank you yeah I I was choosing the declined and I just missed that yeah if it was red versus black or whatever correct Y no good thank you so we will add that into the goal yeah I think the benefit of this and it it might sound like a or seem like a might be a completely lazy you know Thing by the state but I think what the good thing will come out of it is now we will potentially get resources from the state to look at this and understand it better right and be able to say is where where are these problems right if we get down to the point where hey we have this and we can I can identify that it's the ones that are working and we can identify you can potentially either say hey there's no solution to this maybe we get down to it's this percentage that their families travel right we we can say that it's important to stay here but we can't tell them corre that they can't travel but and then we'll be able to address the ones we can and and and maybe that changes and if that goes up to the state they'll actually have some data because right now they have essentially no data other than yes no data right whatever we're putting into iPass yeah and submitting so one of the one of the factors and we've T had this conversation about when students are leaving for a month or two months at a time you know what do other districts what are their their practices right and some districts used to just unenroll the kids and say fill out a home you know homeschool form and now therefore the students are out of the record They're Not absent They're Not absent um but you know and and can't ask our teaching staff to provide two months worth of work for students who are going to be in India for two months if you will right um and and we're not doing any remote learning it's it's it would be one thing if we were you know that hybrid model we're not nor do I want to be I me but my point is what's really happening though when if people are leaving four months they are really basically unenrolling correct you know they're not here they're not able to do the work um but unless we have you know where they if they're not enrolled in another school system right in another District or in another country um they're still our responsib our responsibility yeah so so so it have to be it's not just un enrolling it's it's doing the they have to apply for homeschooling correct yeah and there are some folks who do are doing that some some folks choose to do that cor but that's not you know but I think I think our population that are doing the long-term family visits back to the home country that that's probably smaller than the high needs population who and I what I guess Jim in in your venture to do this is just a best practice that I've learned in the data analytics is get overly granular yeah like with these kids anxiety we know causes a lot of times fear of school and a hard time getting out the door and you might get them there by 9: but they weren't there for first belt right and and getting really granular with the data where you can even with the medical is it Dental is it not like then we start conversations in Middle School be like try to get the braces off before high school like that's something I wish I know and I'm an informed parent I didn't realize how important just like missing one class in high school can be and I wish I didn't have these stupid braces appointments but again I think 3 o' in the afternoon right I me it's hard you're missing practice it's a challenge right so it's but I I totally understand I I think that's where Kelly will be able to you know we by choosing now three three really specific groups right we can actually get that data to be very granular and to identify exactly the students we want to identify and see if there's a pattern from year to year as well or um to see if there's a pattern that previously existed right we're not focused on the other schools right now we're focused on the high school because we're concerned about our dropout rate as well at the high school level that that has increased over time partly with the change of our population I just say I'm amazed at at all the groups I mean what the The Chronic absentees and numbers are for all students y you know that that just I mean the 16% last year 16 and a half% two years ago 14.8 last year yeah I guess I was think this year 23 but year ending yeah so either way you know even if it's 15 14 that to me is astounding we have that number of kids who but depending on how we're counting it they're sick a couple times and all so right so that's what 120 kids approximately something like that um that are absent more than 10% of the time and I would I would look to Jim potentially at when you do find these kids what are the bus registrations especially for freshman and sof year when they're not driving theoretically and are they not registering because at that age group there's a fee right right yeah no fair point yeah so so that's really goal one um unless you want to continue to have a conversation about it but that's the state has determined well no they're I mean they're recommending it and I wanted to you know when I talk to Kelly about it have some Digger deeper digging to we do um and finding Solutions so good so those are you know like I said the measurables are review of the data the trends Outreach uh evidence of letters and calls what are we doing making sure that we're reaching out application for the grant uh and review of that iPass data uh yearly and and as you come back to us I know this is what it is and the reason for it but as you focus on those three maybe also understand because I'm I'm assuming it's not uh you know almost 700 kids because there are some that fit probably in all three of those groups and so uh so when when you come back I mean this is what it is and it's for the reason I'm not uh but when you come back try and understand what how many how many students are really talking about that exist that were that were that are in this in some combination of so the high needs so theoretically right not theoretically High needs includes all the low-income kids that's how it it works anyway right so they just tease them out um at the state level but High needs does include low-income all low-income kids but it also includes disabil disabilities but also includes um former El students um so so there's a population in there that's above and beyond that's why that numbers 306 versus 212 so and I know Jim this is your goal have you considered it all punting a piece of it to Dave so that you're looking at the seventh and eighth graders and to kind of once yeah it's once we set this Kelly and Dave actually all buildings will be focused on this it won't just be you know focused I wanted to to narrow it in on the high school because we're we were concerned at the high school level as well as that dropout rate we're not seeing dropouts at Warren or or the middle school right they get to the high school and they they potentially drop out so um so goal two relates specifically as I said to the Strategic plan and what I am calling now the district Improvement plan Paul you talked about that last time but that's really what it is and that Prem was really good with that um you'll notice I I just put a link to it uh and I changed based on some recommendations from um committee members um individually um there were some some metrics that that we talked about that that we didn't talk about last week see if I can pull it up um for instance under uh Resource Management um let's see here come on I'll slide down it's the last one isn't it Equity come on there it is right here so um so part of the conduct conduct regular safety assessment secure funding to create action plans identify safy safy protocols train all full-time temporary staff how are we going to measure that and and so Chris and I actually had that conversation you know whether what's the data we're looking at to ensure that everything is first of all folks are being trained that's step one uh well we have our ared which is our platform that we use to ensure that all uh trainings man mandated trainings from the district not just at the state level but district-wide trainings are are accomplished so we added that in here that 100% of our faculty staff temporary and permanent will have all of that training done by December 1st so something finite that we can that we can measure um also our record of our fire drills that are required by state law uh as well as our shelter and place drills that that we conduct with the Ashton Police Department you know how are we doing what's the feedback from them um meetings with the Safety Committee things of that nature um so so we added that in there um based on the the feedback um for the um for the resource management and another piece from feedback um from Tina um and and actually Mark a little bit was how are we looking at the dcaps and the baps how are we actually able to assess that they're one successful to what that data looks like and so in this component we just added um reviewing a student IEPs um in 504 specifically at the high schools what what Tina was asking asking um how how are we doing there uh with those um uh IEPs and 504s uh how an analysis by the end of the year and actually throughout the year of the baps is it consistent Mike has done presentations at all the buildings with all the staff and he's done it with specific departments to say this is what it looks like this is what we expect you to do so now we've got to then take that data and compare it so if science teacher math teacher whomever participates in the bcap process we can look at the baps to say okay is there consistency uh similarly you should be able to do that from building to building to building a couple times a year where Mike and Britney will sit down and and actually the assistant principles who helped really develop all this to say okay we did it well here but we didn't do it well here it's not consistent so that's sort of how we're going to look at the um the baps and decaps but I think looking at how many we had last year compared to this year what and what does it look like what are our numbers are they improving are we finding more students who get on the vcaps then we don't need to push forward to the IEPs so go ahead mik as well as be able to see are these baps successful in terms of our students who are receiving these sort of accommodation plans are they improving with their achievement right so be able to look at that data as well so those are again we added those indicators to this um to meet this obviously this goal right so my goal is to to make sure it's the implementation but we added the indicators based on our conversation from last time thank you yeah um and goal three um again specifically relates back to the conversation we had here um and I and I I don't know if it was necessarily intended to be a goal but I think it's it's appropriate that now that we have the Mendes building built we had an education plan that we put forth to the msba uh and while some things were were accelerated because of coid um they're still um reporting out on what that plan looks like and ensuring the the Fidelity of that plan that we submitted uh is actually being adhered to it's doesn't mean everything's going to be accomplished in the first year um we actually pulled out the plan we have it on our desk to look at to to ensure that whatever model we were saying we were moving to is going to be um constructed and some of it's already being done it's not like it's not it it's just we we need to report out on it we need to talk about this is what we said we were going to do and I think that the community needs to hear that um and here's where we're headed on other aspects of it because certainly when we when we made the choice to unify program there it was you know a very important topic to a lot of people so I think even just here's where we are here and and and throughout the process soon you know that we we made good on what we said we were going to do right right is there are there other elements of that as far as the building space usage like the outdoor classrooms and the collaborative spaces in each grade Wing that plan and I think that's probably the reason you chose the the msba ucational plan because that justified all the building that that's how we got them to participate in our square footage is because it supports the educational right so so I added that in and then goal four which was the final one was we years ago this probably how long ago we do this probably five six years ago seven at least so we used to do learning walks and learning walks in essence are administrators coming together uh in each building to walk with one another to go into classrooms and look at the evaluation tool and so you three and you three get together go into different classrooms see uh a class for 15 20 minutes write your notes out then eventually we come back and sit in a room and talk about okay what did you see how would you write this up as an evaluation what what recommendations would you make to this teacher what commendations would you say to this teacher um so that one of the the concerns that always exists within um the bargaining units is is there consistency across the district in how we're evaluating and if we don't spend the time calibrating that and making sure that we have the same language um because we've all been trained differently in how we do evaluations but uh Mike's doing a good job with um working with the principles assistant principles and um to talk about language and what does it look like and you know Mike will go in and and write up his commendations and recommendations and then you know Paul might have a different thought on it okay great how do we make it consistent though when we write up that stuff for teachers um so we're going we're going back to doing that we've already done two um so far um and we'll continue out throughout the year so um and those were really the four goals and I think goal two again has nine components of it if you will so I didn't want to make it I just wanted the implementation of the of the the plan so look good to me yeah okay appreciate the the attention you gave to the feedback you received both at our last meeting and and I know I had a conversation with you yesterday and um you know thanks to the commissioner for making sure we had four you know right right so um so I would just ask that that you approve the goals based on the changes I need to make with regard to Hispanic and Latino students in goal one I would move that we uh approve the superintendent goals uh as amended second all in favor Paul I Aaron I Mark I I great thank you thank you we'll get that published and posted online and uh as we do that we'll adjust some of the website information that seems to be still incorrect so that people have shared with me yes yes yes names and such right so I've heard that a couple times no I so have I congratulations not on the board have you also gotten the feedback that the mobile site sometimes is not working no that I have not but that's good to know so all right cool and you don't have anything additional by way of update no the only thing I want to say is I had a I had a really fun day yesterday part of my job is I get to go places right so I spent a better part of three hours at maplegate golf course yesterday um watching our I was going to say you at a golf course right me and a golf course imagine that uh watching our team play which was great um Kevin Mr Anderson was over there as well in the morning um started about 9:00 it was nice and cool and and uh it's fun to watch some of our kids um traes around and uh and play it was a beautiful day um and I had one parent um our we have probably our best player on the team is um Rebecca griman and she's a sophomore and she's really good and and uh I I picked up her up on I think the sixth sixth or seventh hole and her dad was like Jim you know she's not playing all that great today and and then all of a sudden she reels off like three straight pars and I'm like I'm going to go catch up another girl no you can't leave yet like she's playing well good luck and and I I just remember Rebecca and I said this to her dad I was like she was four she was like this big and I remember she played at the same golf course I did and she was always there and here she is now a sophomore in high school and and just watching the development that she had and the commitment she had it was just fun to see and um so it was it was a good time that was my only update it was just it was a fun time um so and tomorrow evening is um well I I can't be there Mike can't either but it's NHS induction tomorrow evening so yeah I can't be there either but that's really it for the updates so thank you and you're all set Mike uh just last night was able to participate when the the ash packs lighting the way ceremony which is always a wonderful event uh they honor many of our teachers parents nominate teachers who have made an impact in their children's lives and it's always a you know a great opportunity to get to get together and um honor some of our great Educators so I appreciated that happening um other than that we've got conferences coming up for elementary students so uh K12 K k25 conferences means half days are coming on the 31st early release before lunches to remind folks who might be watching at home uh October 31st November 1st and November 2nd our early release before lunch for our K5 students so plenty of time for costumes in the afternoon plenty of time for costumes in the afternoon yes thanks Mike any warrant approvals Paul yes between September 27th uh well hold on I probably got to need probably need to read both of these right we didn't have our 27th uh meeting um she gave Paul I'm sorry I just want to make sure it's prek to 5 early release so I didn't want so it's pre to 5 not just K to 5 we sign off on two ones right so so the blurb says from 2 the 27th but we didn't have the 27 so I need to read both uh both those please so give me one second to bring that up we do donations wait P that up hold on but we had the we read we had the 11 October the 11th we read one right last time we were here you said that we didn't have we didn't have one for you to speak to we had no update last meeting then I don't have one now right between the 14th and 27th was the last one this is 27th and the 25th okay yeah so this should be right oh in October 25th okay correct y so it overlaps kind of the 11th then which is odd that's what's throwing me off here so maybe it is only this one but I think it's correct based on the minutes from the previous meeting yes it's accurate okay uh all right so between September 27th 20123 and October 25th 2023 I Paul kandle authorized by my signature payables the amount of 6,926 this includes general fund expenses of $226 827 45 revolving expenses of $430,500 hi Mark hi I gifts and donations yes we have a few uh decisions at every turn in the amount of $46.74 the a high school student council and uh plan to Aid residuals of $49.29 uh for miscellaneous gifts and donations for a total of $463 thank you motion to approve the gifts and donations so moved second all in favor Paul hi Ain hi Mark hi Hi and then we are already up to m updates or student updates do you have anything you'd like to share a lot to share awesome so okay so about two weeks ago homecoming was a was a really good time um at first we thought that not too many people were going to show up but over 500 students bought uh tickets so it was a good turnout and it was very fun now there were free baked goods pizza was for $2 and there was a photo booth so everyone had a lot of fun with that um sorry the town manager just walked by in the pumpkin costume for the record it's a heat meiser costume the heater sorry look like a pumpkin from I think I'm going to call him pumpkin from now on person you know that's that's oh that's okay no worries um the night before though unfortunately the football team did lose they lost 38 to 17 but it was still a really fun game um and the team is also playing hollison this Friday and it's actually hollison senior night so it'll be an interesting night um last week uh Juniors and sophomores took the pcts while the uh seniors were able to go on their they could go on College trips or work on college applications and the freshmen um were require required to do some community service hours um some of them went to like different schools around town I know my sister went to the middle school and she helped out with one of her I think it was her last year's uh math teacher and she was there for the whole day or maybe it was only for a couple hours but she lots of the freshmen got to do that um so let's see uh the fall SE fall season for sports is kind of kind of winding down cross country has their tvls this weekend and field hockey is down to their last couple games this weekend this week so hopefully they get a couple more wins before the season ends um student council is also organizing uh the high school's Thanksgiving rally uh this is also the time of year where we have our traditional power Powderpuff game so that's with the seniors and juniors so I'm not sure exactly usually it's football but this year I think there was talk that they might do a volleyball game which would be interesting but um I think the details are going to be finalized this coming week so that would be exciting and I'm excited I get to participate um the school play uh she kills monsters is getting ready to perform in the next month uh the show will be uh performing the 17th 18th and 19th of November um the first term is ending soon so grades will be closing so kids are starting to like wrap up assignments and tests uh this coming for the end of the month and then early ction deadlines for seniors are November 1st so I know a few of my friends are like all set they've done everything but then some have like seven or eight more essays to write for the application so yeah somehow it all gets done yep even if it's the last minute so that's all I have I'm just going to follow up the tickets for the uh fall production are actually just went on sale as well so excellent um so an email did go out from Mr Harrington I don't know if you all got it but it should be in should be in the newsletters as well yeah so just they just started just so you know excellent thank you that is a lot going on anybody else Paul uh so let's see uh at at MES we still are on track to turn over the Bus Loop and the playground before Thanksgiving which is going to be a big deal uh the the the surface was completed last week week before um and so they're now they're doing the the landscaping and other things around uh around the surface uh I did send an email to everyone updating them on some issues we had last week with our Paving subc one of the paving subcontractors just again apologize to the neighbors it was uh ridiculous uh and that subcontractor is no longer allowed on on site anymore so and we're correcting and even through all that they did a bad job so we're redoing it this weekend with the so out we we hire the site contractor who subbed it out to a Paving contractor they subbed it out to this other one the M the main Paving sub the main Paving contractor is taking their team and doing redoing it this weekend and committed to doing it during those hours so who covers the cost of they do they're eating all that um so yeah so again apologize to uh to the neighbors nobody signed up for for what happened last week so uh um let's see also tomorrow I believe is the Halloween parade that will be ending up there so it's one of the first Community uh kind of events that will be going on there and then I think Friday is uh first Koo uh in the new building that new building can withstand that we'll see little bit of chaos as I recall yeah so uh well we have more spaces for them to be in that are conducive to the some of the craziness right um so yeah I'm sure there's handful of things I'm I'm missing but uh those are the ones I can think of well I'll give the full Koo report um on how the first one in the new building goes because I am one of the volunteers and so I will be there from pre-opening God bless you um hey you know when you're painting faces for three hours straight it goes by really fast um that's the fun job it is it is a great job I will take that any day um yeah so so uh I was a volunteer uh at the clocker club homecoming game which is its own level of like chaos and Madness but that was um fun um Koo on Friday along with what you mentioned the football games The Freshman are I think at 3:45 and then the varsity game after that um there was one other thing we have our safety committee meeting scheduled for November second fourth second second okay I did get it right um and I feel like I'm missing a thing but um we had our first uh High School site council meeting this afternoon um they've got a few new new voices at the table um and a few returning voices um most of that was spent sort of bring them up to speed on where like the Strategic plan and and the specific um strategic objectives and and indicators to at a sort of high level um and sort of sharing that out um some of the things that that were identified as sort of points of interest for discussion over the course of the year are picking up the conversation that started last year about our graded our weighted grading system at the high school um blanking on the second one and then one of the topics that came came from the floor so to speak today was um cell phone use at the high school and in particular concerns about um a lot of different concerns some of which are that it's inhibiting socialization because it's not as much about the disruption during the class day during the period as it is this becomes from the second they can they're this walking past paying attention other students um Miss colan shared that the library used to be really noisy because people were chatty and you have to worry about that now they're like they all just sit there with screens doing whatever they're doing Alone um a lot of discussion about sort of how Co has influenced different age groups um that's I'm not sure where that's going to go but um so any those are a couple of topics that that the site Council talked about I said I'm blanking on the the third one at the moment it's probably really important too um but if you remember we'll come back to you yeah it'll come up next time too so anyway it's good for them to to get get going so the cell phone policy um and cell phones in general again are actually a Statewide uh initiative at the commissioner's office again um looking at there's been talk of enacting some rules and regulations at the state level and what the expectations are um so it's it's certainly a concern that they're focused on in terms of socialization more than anything else so just FYI that's that's one of the the Hot Topics at the commissioner's level um we I'm uh the liaison for the Warren site Council and that's going to be starting up soon um I got a notice today for the meeting November 6th and I also talked to Jim about now that that the site councils are back in action and we're wrapping up with our Improvement plan it'll be time to bring um everybody in to tell us what the um the plan is um I also attended the light the way last night um Mike did a great job speaking they did a great job on the event I was standing in for Tina who's the liaison to ashack um but honestly I've been sorry that I have have not attended that event before last night because it was really fabulous um there were all the administrators were there from the district Chris was there um a lot of teachers and it was really nice to see them getting recognized by parents in the district for the impact that they've had on kids more of that um which is is really great uh esmer was there hopefully she can highlight some of that um and great job to Britney anybody else didn't think of it I'll take a motion to adjourn move to adjourn so moved didn't know he did that it was so second so second is you think after all in favor doing hi hi hi hi thank you good night everybody good night

[Music] hello everybody and welcome to downtown cavid Street for the Halloween Street we're here with everybody who's going to be showing off their great costumes I will be Superman for the next few hours and I'm here with hello my name is madam cat day I'm here with Superman and we're going to be interviewing all the little residents of Beverly that maybe you didn't know about such as grinches and Jokers and creepers and oh my oh my so uh in case we have any lows I did pull out the jokes so let's see what we got for a witch joke all right hold on here you got witch jokes just I did Superman knows all right hold on one second we're going to go to the internets for our first witch joke okay W what was your name Madam cater day Cat Day Madam cat it's nice to meet you uh all right here's the first witch joke how do you make a witch scratch how do you make a witch scratch [Music] I don't know you take away the W oh my God all right we're going to keep that right here this is going to be the next two hours folks and I'm going to go out and find some people which to talk to you want to talk to Lucas our cameraman first we can talk to Lucas our cameraman first Lucas our cameraman do you want to talk to the wonderful people at watching at home Lucas the cam Lucas here is dressed up as a classic cameraman of bevcam he's got this wonderful purple t-shirt which is very utilitarian as well as the the look of a camera person who prefers to be behind the camera as opposed to in front of it Lucas how did you come up with such an ingenious costume for today um mostly just uh inspiration from being a cameraman all the time that's brilliant taking inspiration from daily life to come up with your costume today thank you so much for joining us do you have anything to say to our viewers at home I'm glad to be here we're glad to have you thanks for all you do I believe Superman is going to be getting us our first interviewees you'll be seeing our interviewers come over here in order to be talked to we've got we've got little tiny dinosaurs and skeletons and some Ghostbusters and we just need them to talk to us for candy which is really the best kind of bribe I think so Spiderman and hello there hello my name is madam cater day and who are who do we have here I am MJ melanic are youman yep Spider-Man thank Peter Parker specifically thank you so much for joining us how did you come up with your costumes um I just thought of it you just thought of it just inspiration out of the air that's the real magic how did you come up with Peter Parker last second Amazon shopping oh my goodness Amazon shopping that is the real magic thank you so much for coming here I hope you get to take some of our treats for the tricks that you did here thank you happy Halloween happy Halloween oh we've got a skeleton Duo do you want to be on TV come here why did you stand right here and you want to look right there why don't you tell me what you're dressed as today a skeleton a skeleton you look so great and is that your dad over there yeah yeah and what is your dad dressed up as a skeleton you're a skeleton Buddies thank you you so much we say happy Halloween happy Halloween thank you go and get some candy from Superman hello hello you look positively Royal can you tell me what you're dressed up as today I dressed up as Eevee as Eevee from what from descendants ooh powerful descendants too no three three that's an extra sequel on top of the sequel that's how you know it's good and how did you come up with your costume today what made you want to dress up as Eevee um I just thought of it and I really wanted it to cuz I like that movie well you look great thank you so much why don't you say happy Halloween and wave into the camera happy Halloween go get some candy from Superman hello hello we have a banana bananas are really really nutritious and we need to show all of our viewers at home how healthc conscious the Kids of Beverly are hello Mr banana can you give us a health food tip for today bananas bananas that is positively brilliant thank you so much I think everyone at home is healthier or just by listening to you do you have anything else to share any wisdom to give us bananas bananas thank you so much positively poignant go get some candy oh we have a little witch do you want to be on camera do you want to be on TV oh and first we have somebody looking positively powerful can you tell me look right into the camera and say who you're dressed up as Halo you're from Halo are you going to save us all from the aliens yeah thank you so much for the the brave work that you do go get some candy from Superman we've got so many people here wanting to say hello to the folks at home hello look at you now I think I know a Disney movie that you remind me of who are you dressed up as why don't you look right here Mir oh how wonderful Mirabel you look beautiful do you want to say say anything to everyone at home Happy Halloween we love you all so much thank you go get some candy from Superman we are here live from downtown Beverly and we've got somebody dressed up as a scream princess and we have somebody who's positively radioactive Hi how are you do you want to come here and be on TV look straight at the camera and tell us who you dressed up as today I'm a army pilot you're an army pilot can you give me a salute at EAS Soldier go get some candy from Superman thank you so much oh we've got a shark I just saw oh and a baby shark oh my gosh do who else do we have around I see a family of crayons family of crayons would you like to be on TV today I'm hoping we can get the Crayola family here they're very famous I've been using Crayola since I was just a little witch ooh we've got somebody really spooky prepare yourselves at home this is going to be very scary why don't you come on to the screen wo I told you it'd be scary I had to warn everybody at home just in case they would get scared can you tell me what you're dressed up as today a costume something scary something scary can you guys give me your best scary noises ARF bark slay thank you as I said I did warn you all at home it would be very scary so hopefully there's no one too young watching have you guys gotten any good candy yet yeah yeah Charlie what's your favorite Rees probably the Charlie perfect well I think we've got some over there if you want to get some from us thank you so much why don't you say happy Halloween into the camera happy Halloween play thank you Crayola family crayon up we have two crayons and it wouldn't be complete without the paper that it writes on can I have all three of you here we have on TV we have the whole Crayola family can you please tell me what color of crayon are you dressed up as today red red and what color crayon are you usually since I know this is a costume Just For Today orange orange well you've done a great job of dressing up your whole color I would never have known that you were orange normally and Mom crayon what color are you dressed up as today I am purple that's one of my favorite colors and what color are you normally dressed as actually red wow we've got a family mixup and Mr Paper can you tell me the hardest part of your job in this family oh boy having to get drawn all over all the time I guess it is a difficult job but somebody's got to do it thank you so much Crayola family wave to everyone at home for us I hope you get some candy happy Halloweeny hallowe the Crayola family I just it's like seeing celebrities I never know what to do with myself a witch a fellow witch and it's Captain America it's like my birthday would you like to be on camera today get on I hope you get some candy thank you for anyone who doesn't at home this means thank you in ASL thank you who else do we have that we can talk to I see a giraffe I see a rock and roll star I see an Army soldier who would like to be on television today who wants to come and talk to us about their costumes I see another skeleton and a panda bear those are getting rare here I have another witch you have another witch J what do you call witches who live together together witches who live together usually I would call that a coven but I think you have a different idea broom mates broom mates Superman get out there and do your job good gracious what are we going to do with him do you guys want to show your costumes on TV hello hello you are very scary my name is madam cater day and who are you today oh I'm the ugie Boogyman the ugie Boogyman oo are you here to scare everybody into the holiday uh no I'm here to get candy ooh I hope you get lots of candy what's your favorite kind to get a the spiky ones oh yeah I hope you get lots thank you so much why don't you say happy Halloween to everyone one happy Halloween thank you go get some candy hello we have I think I know who you are can I guess say it again I'm rainbow Bri you're Rainbow Bright you're one of the best superheroes and what are you doing today as Rainbow Bright um I'm making missions thank you that's a really good job make sure you go get candy another princess hello you look like the beautiful Belle am I correct yes Belle you are just gorgeous we both have red lips do you see yes do you want to say anything into the camera for everyone at home yeah what do you want to say hurry happy Halloween why don't you get some candy thank you so much Belle always lovely having princesses and royalty on here I think I know who you are you're one of my favorites you guys we have another celebrity about to come onto the screen I'm very excited please I am honored to introduce the hungry hungry come here caterpillar hello can you give us a twirl do you want a twirl can spin around we can spin around oh I think the Hungry Hungry Caterpillar is shy so I think the Hungry Hungry Caterpillar is going to go get some candy to help with how hungry they are ooh I see the big bad wolf is coming around the corner and we have more creepers I'm very scared of the creepers because they have a tendency to [Music] explode oh and I see we've got goofy over there and we've got the Riddler it looks like there are so many celebrities out here in Beverly today I just don't know what to do with myself and oh my goodness I found Waldo Superman do you suppose you could go get us Waldo over there I know it's going to take you a while to find because Waldo's in the of a bunch of people but I can use my x-ray vision your X-ray vision to find Waldo you think yeah I'm not seeing him you're not seeing Waldo say hi hi there hi you got to look at the camera we're saying hello and happy Halloween to everybody at home all right hello everybody at home I want being a b s I got Hometown pod peace thank you so much it's always really really great to see how happy everyone gets whenever there's free candy just free flowing in the downtown look at it all woo we've got Lilo and Stitch and oh I found Waldo again how convenient do you want to come and be on TV it's it's dead moss Lilo and Stitch would you like to be on TV yes so if you stand right here here and you look at the camera why don't you tell everyone at home who you dressed up as I'm dressed up as Stitch from leoan Stitch fantastic and do you have anything Stitch like to say to everyone at home um make sure to watch the Leo and Stitch movie it's really awesome the Lilo and Stitch movie is really awesome can you say can you say blue punch buggy for me blue punch blue punch bu thank you so much happy Halloween would you like to be on TV we are working on getting our next viewers sure thing hello there this is David my name is madam cater day hi David you say hi can you say hi at the C can you tell me who you're dressed up as today I'll speak for you I'll be your spokesperson I am Spider-Man Spiderman Spider-Man Spiderman does whatever spider can can he swing from a web yes he can cuz he's Spiderman happy Halloween David thank you thanks why did you wave everyone at home hi hi thank you make sure you go get some candy from Superman over there YouTube thank you so much 1073 three and channel local channel 8 so if you're tuning in that's where you can find us why don't you ask himim right there Hi I love your costume can you please tell me what your dress up as today you can look at the camera and tell everyone at home okay today I'm a llama I have my little pom poms and my tutu a ll with a tutu I didn't know llamas wore Tut does it happen often in the wild no it doesn't ah I see well you look great as a domestic llama I had no idea that domestic llamas were Tut chos but now I know yeah do you have anything to say to everyone at home hi go get some candy brother you can both be on here if you'd like can you tell me who you're dressed up as today I am Michael Myers Michael Myers very nice and who are you planning on killing later um him oh wow that was very brave to admit on uh local television uh so when the police find his body later can you tell us where to expect to look that's a mystery oh it's a mystery folks thank you so much do you have anything to say to everyone at home Happy Halloween happy Halloween go get some candy are you ready you can put your mask on if you like keep thek on everyone it's going to get really scary hello hello can you tell me who you're dressed up as today um I don't know exactly but I know I'm a killer clown you do look like a killer clown and I heard that Michael Myers wants to kill you later is that true probably oh it's going to get bloody later but it is Halloween so sometimes we just have to just have to roll with it and uh so are are you prepared do you think for the great Halloween battle later uh yeah okay great my money's on you I hope you have a great time do you have anything to say to the folks at home no he does not he is a man of few words thank you very much go get some candy hi there and like um like actually have another house and um like are you talking about where you stash all of your candy and weapons no I mean like well I have another house on mild Street mild Street's a beautiful Street why don't you tell everyone who you dressed up as I dressed up as a ninja wonderful ooh you've got a great weapon there are you getting a lot of candy I see your sword I see thank you more celebrities I come you can all come absolutely one of my favorite things on this show is just having the all primary colors right here in a line why don't you guys come right here so you can be all in the picture I think we are there we are and so I'm going to go one two three and you guys tell me who you're dressed up as um I'm dressed up as Elmo from Sesame Street Big Bird from Sesame Street uh cookie mty thank you very much and did you guys plan to do this or did you all just come and we're surprised that everyone else dressed up this way um we uh came planned you all came planned that's a really good idea and what kind of candy are you really hoping to get today I'm going to start with big bird probably like sour candy uh gummies any gummy really I have great news for you guys we have gummies and sour candies here so do you guys want to say happy Halloween to everyone at home Happy Halloween happy Halloween thank you so much you can get candy from Mr Superman right there hello we have a killer banana on the loose it looks like who are you dressed up as today um Mr suspicious banana Mr squishy banana suspicious suspicious banana well I got to say I'm very suspicious of you do are you doing anything suspicious today maybe it looks really suspicious that's a very suspicious thing to say as well do you have anything suspicious you'd like to share with everyone at home today um no not really how suspicious thank you so much for joining us today why don't you say hello to everyone at home happy hallowen go get some candy hello we have the Boston Bruins bear how are you today are you uh a bear or a hockey player bear you're a bear does the bear also play hockey yeah yeah yeah and what is a bear's favorite Frozen treat um a banana a banana I got to tell you I've seen two bananas walking around today so um if you could make sure you got a lot of candy from Superman so that you don't feel like you need to go and eat those bananas okay okay okay yeah this bear is very honorable that's how you know that the Boston Bruins are going to be a good team can you say anything to everyone at home I'm going to have a good day oh and a polite bear too thank you so much go and get some candy hello everyone oh we've got a whole bunch of people here all right everyone stand along here and you're going to face that way there are three sets of twins here I need every all of the twins have to stand next to each other okay so if you're not standing next to your twin I need you to you can be my twin hello why don't you stand right here and why don't you stand right next to them okay I'm going to start over there and we're going to go this way and I'm going to ask what all of you are dressed up as are you ready I'm special offs I'm a Christy crab worker Charmander I'm a sea monster I'm Stitch I'm do fatal I'm an alien oh my goodness we have a just a managerie here are you guys all getting a lot of really good candy today I got oh my [Music] goodness all right now I need I need everybody to face that camera and I all want you to say happy Halloween on the count of three are you ready 1 2 3 happy hallow thank you so much I think we can hook you all up with a lot of candy today you can see it on YouTube later I'll show you if you stand here there you are this is our alien princess thank you go get some candy one of my favorite teams hello who are you dressed up as today myself you want to look at the cam there as yourself and how did you come up with that costume I have football practice in like 30 minutes so oh man that is that is very practical I applaud you for that and uh what are you excited about during [Music] practice I know I put you on other getting to hit each other well I hope you do a really good job have you gotten a lot of candy yeah kind of good I I think we can hook you up with some more thank you so much anything you want to say to everyone at home follow your dreams follow your dreams what a great football player hello do you want to tell me who you dressed up as today yes I am Wednesday my name is cater day so nice to meet Wednesday it's great to meet you too and what are you excited to do during Halloween just a to dress up it's my favorite thing to do too thank you so much you want to say happy Halloween to everyone at home Happy Halloween thank you I think I know what you're dressed up as but why don't you tell me a whoopy cushion say it a little louder a whoopy cushion and what sound does a whoopy cushion make that was a really good one that was a really good one thank you so much make sure you prank lots of people later with your whoopy cushion Antics okay okay okay do you want to be on TV you all can come now I really feel like a real witch because I have a wonderful kitty cat here what are you dressed up as today cheeta a cheetah and how fast can you run super fast super super fast people not just fast super fast and what are you excited to do today I'm excited to go trick or-treating ooh that'll be fun thank you so much for coming anything you want to say to everyone at home no you heard her wise words thank you so much go get some candy hi there and oh goodness I think normally you're dressed up as Mike from Monsters Inc but today on live TV you're invisible can you say anything to everyone at home do you want to say happy Halloween happy Halloween wave at the camera now they can see your hand and your head do you want to do a little dance go ahead and do a little dance good job thank you you can go get some candy hi come on in again I feel honored now I'm a real witch with this black cat here and what a beautiful black cat you are how did you come up with an idea for this costume so my mom thought of a cat and I was like I like Catwoman when I watch the show oo so she's not just a cat but she's a cat burglar right yeah I am a cat burglar a cat woman so you can be a cat burglar my name is Madame cater day as opposed to Saturday so the both of us together are catw women do you want to strike a cool pose just like Catwoman would very nice do you want to say anything to everyone at home hello hello thank you I hope you go get some candy uh super b super ban Superman oh the great Michelle is here to save us our our portable set was threatening to to blow over on us you guys look great why did you come on over here well I don't think we've ever had anyone on this show who has been this smooth looking can you tell me who you're dressed up as today I I'm not dressed up as anybody I'm a disco dancer he's a disco dancer can you show us any really cool moves yeah work it very nice well I wasn't alive during the era of disco but I would have to say I think you've brought it back yes yes yeah I've tried do you want to say anything to all the folks at home what's up what's up indeed thank you so much I hope we get some candy oh my gosh another celebrity I am going to faint I think it's I think it's I think it's Taylor Swift am I right yeah oh my goodness Taylor thank you so much for being here on bevcam you've graced us with your presence can you say anything to all the folks at home asked Taylor schwift thank you what what do you think do you have any words of wisdom for all the kids on Halloween this year be safe be safe she says Taylor Swift is such a sweetheart sweetheart like your glasses do you have a favorite song um 22 oo that's a good one that's a good one thank you so much I hope you get candy do you want to be on TV oh my goodness hello crossover episode I think this is a crossover episode between bevcam and Beverly Main Street are you ready for Halloween folks I'm ready Captain a A can I ask you a question yes do you know what a pirate's favorite letter is I would guess R but I feel like this is a trick r no you think it'd be R but it'd be the sea it be the sea would you like to would you like to share anything with the folks at home about Beverly main streets today well we are your fun little friendly neighborhood nonprofit we're putting on some more great events this year um our next big one is the Winter Market which will take place on cabat and ranol streets go on our website to learn more about that and subscribe to our newsletter if you haven't yet we've got tons of fun info and upcoming events in that that sounds awesome and a little bird a little bird somewhere told me that we might be able to get hot chocolate at the Winter Market do you think that'll be true it may be true it may be only one way to find out there really is so make sure you check out the Winter Market tell us those dates one more time December 8th and 9th this year thank you so much for coming on our wonderful show and gracing us with your presence is there anything else you'd like to say to the folks at home just a big old happy Halloween everybody happy Halloween thank you absolutely a patient little devil thank you for coming here why don't you stand a little closer there you go and you can look right in the camera why don't you tell me who you're dressed up as today um um a devil as the devil I love the glitter on your face and thank you and is there anything you want to say as the devil to everyone at home oh my goodness I got scared for a minute that was really good that was really good are you planning on getting a lot of candy today yeah yeah good I hope you get lots and lots let me see your bowl let's show everyone at home I think the devil needs more candy than that don't you yeah yeah absolutely go ahead and go get some thank you I think I know who you are I think I know can I guess is that okay are you Mario yes can you give us a Pap Pap very good that's a one up if I've ever seen one and how are you doing today good good I'm always glad to hear that Mario is doing well and tell me how is the Mushroom Kingdom these days good always good to hear are you keeping Bowser in line yes perfect this is the best Mario we've ever had keeping Bowser in line do you want to say happy Halloween happy Halloween thank you we've got some more people who want to be on television Sarah Sarah you got to come here because the murder victim has asked you to why don't you guys stand right here and make sure you're looking at the camera why don't you tell me who you're dressed up as today I'm dressed up as um a creepy waitress and you Taylor Swift Taylor Swift stopped my Beating Heart it's so nice to have a celebrity on here Taylor thank you so much for joining us today I appreciate it do you have anything to say to the people at home no do you have maybe any any words of wisdom to share with our murder victim or does the murder victim have anything they want to say I would stop singing your song oh goodness the murder victim says to stop singing Taylor do you have any to say to her for that actually listen to Taylor Swift oh shots fired and you guys want to say happy Halloween to everyone at home Happy Halloween happy Halloween thank you go get some candy hi look how colorful you are do you want to Flap Like a Bird shows your wings no that's okay and what are you dressed up as today a parrot a parrot and what sound does a parrot make I don't remember parrots can say a lot of things can you say hello hello that's the best parrot impression I've ever heard do you want to say happy Halloween happy Halloween thank you so much you can get all the candy you want now thank you go ahead and go grab some candy sometimes parrots get shy too you know hello hello and you guys look like a couple of celebrities who are you dressed up as Taylor Swift and for you Taylor Swift oh my goodness Taylor Swift in double in Stereo I can't even help it can you guys tell me your favorite Taylor Swift songs um I know I put you on the spot Karma oo that's a good one and for you um new Romantics also a really good one so I see that you got you you went sparkly and you went Fab did you guys have any any issues with determining who would be sparkly and who would be Fab no no no you just get along really well because you're both tailor so you think alike right yeah yeah well thank you so much do you does Taylor have anything to say to the people at home today happy Halloween happy Halloween thank you so much go get some candy oh my goodness it's Dorothy you look lovely I love your red shoes can you can you stand right here for me could we get the camera focused on these gorgeous shoes and why don't you give us a click click of your heels perfect it's positively magical and what made you want to dress up as Dorothy today uh I don't know you don't know that's okay you just were struck by inspiration that's wonderful what kind of candy are you hoping to get today a chocolate ooh we've got lots of chocolate do you want to say happy Halloween to everyone at home Happy Halloween thank you so much go get go get your candy hi there I think I recognize you but why don't you tell everyone at home who you're dressed up as youi oh this is my brother uh my name is Greta and basically I'm dressed up as Reena Rouge oo Reena Rouge you look great and can you tell us what does Reena Rouge do basically uh she's a holder of a miracula the Mir of a miraculous and basically I have a special power of using my flute oh my goodness a mirage can you play the flute oh it's not really playable that's okay oh gosh I think a spell was just put on me and I'm a witch that's really saying something that was some powerful magic you're casting oh it doesn't do that it's just a mirage I was tricked by a mirage thank you so much is there anything you want to say to everyone at home well maybe happy Halloween happy Halloween perfect thank you do you want to say anything to everyone at home oh that's what he said don't forget it it's not TV this is live TV you guys are on YouTube and cable are you so you know don't do anything you regret don't kidding you guys are made for TV you just look great on TV why don't you guys go get some candy thank you so much by bye come on you guys want to look at the camera so so stand next to each other and we'll let's see I'll start with you and then we'll go this way what are you dressed up as um an enchanted ghost and you um a vampire and the oh gosh now I'm doubly scared we have an enchanted ghost and a vampire what made you want to dress up as these things uh I thought it was just cool because it is very cool um I just wanted to be a vampire do you want to show us your your cape I think you have a cape oh it's a hood that's cool and you want to show us your ghost Wings very nice very nice and uh what do you guys want want to say to everyone at home today uh I hope you have a great H Halloween um happy Halloween happy Halloween indeed from the scariest people on the street thank you so much I hope you get lots of candy go ahead and get some candy from Mr Superman hello there why don't you stand right here and face the camera and who are you dressed up as um I'm Mary Sanderson and my friends are going to be Winford and Sarah ooh o and what do you do basically just steal Souls from children you steal Souls from children well today is a really great day for you then because there are a lot of children out here today yeah did you plan it that way sort of ah how diabolical absolutely evil I don't know what to do with myself what are you what are you hoping to achieve today other than like how many Souls do you think makes for a really good day at least five at least five that's a lot that's a really good day's work oh I hope you meet your quota today anything you want to say to everyone at home um stay safe and beware stay safe and beware thank you so much go and get some candy and don't eat too many Souls hello hey now I know what you guys are dressed up as but I got to tell you you in particular are very special because if you look at our screen over here oh it worked I'm impressed usually you would disappear because you're green but it worked you must be magical do you want to tell everyone at home who you guys are dressed up as I'm Alvin I'm Simon I'm Theodore and you together are the perfect I don't suppose you guys uh prepared a musical number for us today yes we did yes you did yes we did oh my goodness it sounds like somebody's prepared do you want to perform it or I guess not no I can not that's okay we'll be on YouTube later and you know guys if you ever want to you know make your musical breakthrough and record in a professional recording studio you can always come down to Beth cam at the high school and we'll record for you uh do you guys want to say anything to anybody at home today have a good Halloween happy almost Halloween sleigh Queen SLE Queen thank you so much go get lots of candy thank [Music] you oh my goodness oh my goodness all right we want to stand in our row here and face the camera so that we can see everybody you got to stand here oh goodness we are hurting skeletons and you want to face the camera there hello everybody all right you want to tell us who you are today fosa Ghostbuster x-ray skeleton oh my goodness all right everyone give us a little dance perfect why don't you go get some candy thank [Laughter] you you want to say happy Halloween H happy Halloween and make sure to listen to Thriller when you get to your houses everybody everyone listen to Thriller when you get to your houses that's what the skeleton says do you want to say anything to the people at home make sure you watch Jurassic world perfect perfect go get lots of candy guys go get lots of candy but watch out for the wires no no no not that no no no no you got to get it from Superman woo I do say I was almost bowled over by that uh plaur Tyrannosaurus it was a skeleton that's for sure folks you know this job is actually quite dangerous that's why I keep my bodyguard Superman around because as a witch there's only so much I can do uh in a fight against dinosaurs versus witches uh dinosaurs would definitely win witches weren't around during the dinosaur period for a good reason do you want to be on TV hello there why did you stand right here here and face the camera and tell me who you dressed up is today a pirate a pirate do you know what a pirate's favorite letter is s r you think it'd be R but it be the sea I already told that joke earlier so everyone at home knew but um what are you expecting to get in terms of plunder today any good candy yeah what what do you like best gummy bears gummy bears yeah do you want to say happy Halloween to everyone at home Happy H thank you go and get some candy make sure you go get some from [Music] Superman hi there hello hello we've got a very special guest here we have a Bev cam baby do you want to tell me who you are hi Nathan can you say it a little louder this is Nathan hi Nathan say hi and you look like a skeleton today is that right what do you think you can tell he's a bevcam baby cuz he already wants the microphone mama you say hi [Music] Mama and uh Beth cam baby daddy who are you today I'm uh bevcam baby daddy what a wonderful costume you've put together thank you um I thought a lot about it I thought I should wear a hat uh to protect my head from the Sun uh and a shirt because that's what you do brilliant absolutely brilliant I hope you get lots of candy today Nathan is there anything you guys want to say to everyone at home before I let you go you want to say anything say hi da that's all happy Halloween thank you so much before anybody else comes on I just really quick wanted to say from Madame cater day hi Mom she's watching me right now on YouTube I hope everyone else is watching us on YouTube or on cable channel as well but uh if my mom's watching hi Mom I'm on TV Isn't that cool hello there oh my goodness we're going to have to make some room you want to face the camera you guys look great can I ask who you dressed up as today I'm a vampire Spider-Man I'm a you're going to have to speak a little louder I'm a shark you're a shark D [Music] Cho and uh what are you guys planning on doing today um I don't know chicken cheating are you getting candy today actually yeah trick-or-treating ah trick-or-treating and uh what how did you come up with the costumes I tried matching with my whole family how' you come up with your costume uh I don't know it just came to them just Brilliance out of the air my right yeah do you guys want to do a little dance for everyone at home no that's okay you you don't have to dance but the shark wants to get down I hope you guys get lots of candy today you want to say happy Halloween Before I Let You Go yes happy Halloween happy Halloween thank you go get lots of candy Superman you want course how are you so I'm going to take over now here for a little bit who do we have coming up to talk next on bevcam you guys coming up how are you you want you to look right at that camera there show off your costume and tell me what what's your costume today um I'm a medieval princess do you have a name um Sarah is that your medieval pr princess name or your your present day name or both um it's my medieval name my my actual name is Camille oh hi Cil or Sarah and you um hi I'm Cassidy and I'm an evil mermaid oh you guys look great today what so did you sp make them yourself uh no no you got them at the store yeah oh you guys look great you have anything you want to say to folks out in the TV world like happy Halloween happy Halloween hi hi thanks guys go ahead and get some candy who's up next oh we got a banana Chita and uh what are you a pickle you're a pickle and you are Michael Myers you're scary you watch out how you doing banana good nice to see you guys so what have you guys been up to you having a good time look at the camera don't look at the monitor that's first rule of Television you look at the camera not the monitor oh there we are the yeah you are did that make you headless your see-through your see-through all right so what are you guys names uh Travis Mason uh miles you guys want to wish everybody a happy Halloween out there happy Halloween happy Halloween happy Halloween of course subscribe to the alone banana YouTube channel There You Go Des subscribe to illumin all right thanks [Music] guys that's yeah no no no that's all that's right it yeah how you guys doing you see the camera right there say hi show show them your costume all right so tell me your names what Calvin Wesley Howard John that's great and what do you guys what's your costume executive chef and you mine's a skull trooper from fortnite all right can you show the show the talk to nice job guys you want to say happy Halloween to everybody out there happy hallowe thanks guys grab some candy and uh we'll see you next year come on in you guys you want to come in how you doing Red Sox yeah nice particular player um rapael Des oh there you are yep how about you um I'm jaul Laura nice from I see my friend over there so I just wait for say hi to yeah say hi to the TV audience you see the screen down all right you guys having a good time yeah all right you want to say anything else out to the people in out there in TV world Happy Halloween happy H happy Halloween all right thanks guys have some candy all right we're having a great time down here on Cabbage Street we're live who we got Batman what's going on Batman nice to see you all right we got to talk to my my my friend here Batman how you doing good good you want to see the camera right there and say wave hi all right and who do we have here um um Samara from The Ring yeah you having a good time yes want say happy Halloween to everybody out there on TV world Happy Halloween come in here and get in front of the green screen so you can see yeah girl see now look at the background we got oh look at you candy yeah you want getting some candy what do we say say trick or treat trick or treat all right we got candy over there guys thanks for coming hey say happy Halloween to everybody happy Halloween Batman go stop and crime all right yeah say bye thank you thank you thank you all right [Music] byebye all right you're next huh come on in here tell me who you are Wednesday Adams your Wednesday of the Adam's Family do you have thing with you no good cuz that thing scares me yeah um what do you want to say to everybody out there happy Halloween and I have a show you have a show Wednesday show and you can do the dance all right I don't know it but you're good wn's got it thanks wesy for dropping by say happy Halloween everybody happy Halloween all right thank you it looks great grab some candy Wy all right all right who's up from May how are you are you a candidate for mayor yes and C for mayor cat for mayor how are you what's your platform my platform is more cat beds a town for all the cool cats I think it's a very s clean up the litter box of Beverly there's no litter box of Beverly meow meow well thank you for coming and you want to say anything to the folks back there in TV Land vote for cat firir on Instagram there you go thanks a lot have a good one Super C how are you good wait a minute I got to take my glasses out people think I'm know there now I'm really Superman I don't look like car CL how are you what's your name my name is Barbie and you're Barbie and you are lla lla and what's your C it's just the um the darkness of the princess of Darkness oh yeah so did you call me Superman Ken yeah are all boys Ken yeah oh I see except Alan no Alan's not which is my brother Alan's your brother cuz my name is call cool his name is Alan you guys want to say happy Halloween to everybody out there happy Barbies all right thanks did you get some candy thanks for stopping by watch out for that cable who's up next oh I'm going to put my glasses back on so I can see I don't look like Clark Kent do I when I put the glasses on do I okay good cuz I'm Superman okay don't how are you good what's your name Lucy Margo Robbie very nice costumes guys did you work hard on them yeah you have anything you want to say out to the folks TV Land hi Barbie's so you get see the it's called Green Screen you know all about it right cuz you're TCH sa kids these days all right well thanks you uh thanks for sing Vibe Barbie and are you Barbie too yeah two Barbies well done girls thanks all right bye yeah watch that way oh careful who's next you guys are up all right we're going down low here how are you what's your costume you want to say hi well hi say hi to the [Music] camera oh he Blends in the green disappears what's your yeah got a floating hand there hi what's your name my name is Logan and what's your costume it's a it's a Minecraft zombie oh yeah a sticker uh it's yeah I got it what about you come on in here so we can see your costume you [Music] what want show the camera I'm Dylan and I have a off M oh yeah can you show let's come out this way so you can show the camera walk right out this way and wave to the camera say hi hi say happy Halloween hi happy Halloween all right guys thank you get some candy thank you oh all right who's up Mario all right come on you you putting your back to the camera you got to come this way step back right up against the Green say hello to the camera tell us your name my name is Jameson and where are you from Beverly Massachusetts and what are you doing today trick or treating at one second I'm going to tell you a joke um what' you get if you cross right in water I don't know what do you get dust you want to say happy Halloween to everybody at home Happy Halloween thank you Mario all right who's up you guys next you don't want to come you will excellent so you want to tell us what your costume is um I don't know I just did random yeah it's pretty random it's a sunflower isn't it oh it's a daisy oh it's a daisy oh it's pretty uh you want to say happy Halloween to everybody at home Happy Halloween well thank you all right good job bye and who's up you guys are up next come on in sit in front of the green screen here who are you Danny and what's your costume ghost face yeah it's pretty scary have you seen the movie uh no but I'm going to watch it probably tonight oh yeah it's pretty scary are you okay there's blood coming down your face that's pretty cool effect I mean if it's not a effect all right you want to say happy Halloween everybody happy Halloween all right thanks how you doing I think these guys were I think you guys are next come on in oh how how's it going what's your costume uh a clown a scary clown not a funny clown right no what's your name Evan Evan how are you good you enjoying yourself tonight yes did you get a lot of candy yes okay you want to say hi to anybody out there hi all right thank you well done with the costume you guys are up you're next come on M my name is Tyler hi Tyler how are you doing good what are you up to nothing just getting candy yeah what's the costume a clown scary clown yeah you want to say happy Halloween happy Halloween awesome nice job who's up you guys are up next you want to come in oh yeah Mario's next and then you're next okay all right Mario you want to say hi hi oh I told you how you guys doing I've just got informed we're out of candy already hope you guys got some did you get some candy already yep let me see what's in your bag you got some well I got a pillowcase and that's where all my original candies but I got one lollipop from you guys that's all it's in your bag is one lollipop yeah I got it from over there at the back oh you got some more somewhere else all right well you want to say happy Halloween to everybody happy Halloween all right thank you how about you guys um I'm doodle bob look at the camera and say hi wave you having a good time did you get lots of candy let me see your bag oh yeah you probably don't want that do you you want me to take care of that for you I'm just kidding you I'm just kidding thanks for coming in you want to say happy Halloween happy Halloween a great who are you Astronaut Astronaut that's a great one have you been to space yet no are you planning on it that would be awesome have you been you know you're weightless up there have you ever been weightless before yeah have you I can fly I'm Superman did you know that you canly sure I [Music] can it was quick it was quick all right want to say happy Halloween to everybody out there happy Halloween all right thank you that's the as look at you can I get down here and say wow that's a great C hi can you tell me your name um Elena Elena how are you you have a good time yeah you get lot of candy what's your costume just a witch you have a witch name um Elena Elena AR of the north Elena of the north this is the witch Elena of the north you want to say anything to the people on on TV Land happy Halloween thank you did you get some candy all right going that way oh man hold on I show the folks at home what's your name do you talk no okay okay anything you want to say just a wave you don't have to [Music] talk now Superman doesn't scare easily but that was a little uh little iffy there so okay you guys help me out I'm a little scared here come on who's coming in what what how many are you well I'll get all in front of the screen and show us you going to [Music] go all right you got four of us that's good scooter scoot right so you're all in front of the green screen all right you want to go through tell me your names Payton Belle Anna CeCe all right and then costumes uh Superman Red Sox player specific player uh I guess Batman Crime Fighters all the way and you Captain America all heroes nice job you guys want to say happy Halloween or anything else to the people out there in YouTube world Happy Halloween happy Halloween happy Halloween happy Halloween thanks guys I don't know if we're out of candy but you go see what they got left all right who's up next here who wants to talk to Superman get right in front of the screen there so we can get you up there how's it look pretty good yeah looking good all right go with let's go with names first Gwen what's the name Gwen Gwen s Maya and costume I'm Spiderman crime Fighters all the way I'm dar dar oh I'm um Mia you guys spent too much time on your costumes I mean these are elaborate guys I think he went too much okay you got to tone it down next year okay all right all right well thanks you want to say happy Halloween to everybody out there happy hallowen Halloween thank you guys have a d good time all right who are we got up here next come right in and get in front of the green SC screen the green scream all right let's go with names first Eva Cassie Julia Katie you guys look great now two costumes um Gwen what is it Gwen Gwen a preppy cowgirl a devil uh construction worker that's the scariest one of all construction worker well you guys have anything anybody want to say hi to or anything like that you see what it looks like on screen all right you guys look having a great time candy yeah all right out to go thanks for coming stopping by all right guys yo Spider-Man what's up uh I can't share anything I can't share my secret uh identity okay Peter we won't tell anybody I mean uh George what is your name KJ my name is William come on get in front of the green screen here so we can have a look all right you going to spread some web can you do a web I have one in my back I don't want to it out right now all right don't worry about it how about you you having a good time yes you want to say anything out there no say happy Halloween happy Halloween all right how about SP are you Spider-Man um happy Halloween thank you all right do anything I wouldn't do I won't I promise thanks guys have a good time he guys come on in we saw a cheetah earlier were you here earlier that was a different cheetah you don't know you haven't been on TV yet all right let's talk to you first what's your name Issa and Issa what's your costume let me guess um Moaning Myrtle you're Moaning Myrtle oh yeah and you are chea what's your name Kenley and how about you I'm a werewolf and what's your name Anna you guys look great you having a good time you want to wish everybody out there at YouTube uh Happy Halloween yeah um say happy Halloween happy Halloween happy Halloween happy Halloween you guys see yourself on the TV is that cool all right have fun get some candy it replaces all the green with something else from our laptop it's pretty cool come check us out sometime hey how are you come on in let's talk for a second what's your [Music] costume go to her first okay what's your costume my costume is um a vampire I guess cuz I just I know that's pretty good how about you I'm a ghost you're a ghost hold on you're right here you're not a ghost you look like a ghost you want to tell us your name L yeah how about you um Juliana Juliana you guys having a good time you want to wave to everybody at on the TV and you see what it looks like on the screen up there all right thanks for stopping by guys since show want us costume you look great all right have a good oh man how's it going guys get right in front of the green screen so we can see everything all right well you guys look great can you tell us a little B about your costumes uh I'm a skeleton how really I'm a bear a bear um I'm a mysterious princess you know once you put the mask on you don't know who I am you know what I'm saying yeah um uh I'm just me yeah secret agent disguised as a mild mannered person y yeah yeah absolutely all right so uh what do you guys think about this event today are you having a good time yeah yes how's the candy selection goody yeah in the middle what's your favorite candy probably Reese's Reese's mine too what about you Snickers Snickers yeah I like Snickers too but ree's beat Snickers how about you guys um I like the Twizzlers you know something different yeah I like I like Twix Twix Reese's wins according to Superman all right thanks guys for stopping by say happy Halloween everybody out there happy Halloween all right check it out well hello you want to wait for somebody no were you just casting a spell on somebody what did you do I I made them grow a beard how do you do that um I just cast his spell do you know what the magic word is Aio beardo or something like that nothing like that you just do it like that and it works cuz you're that magical yeah cool what's your name Sylvie Sylvie and you want to say hi to everybody out there where's this video go it's on YouTube at bevcam so you can go home and watch it if you want yeah so you want to say well you said hello to everybody right what's your favorite candy um Milky Way really Milky Way is pretty good I like a little peanuts in mine but Milky Way is pretty good thanks for stopping by you look great all right take care oh my goodness got all right you going can you go down let's well let's put the camera over here a little bit more we're in yeah can we get on the why am I covering up the screen over there see where the camera hello I'm a fall guys I mostly fall you fall a lot yeah a yeah I act like a rag doll Bunch well your costume is awesome you definitely qualify you want to say happy Halloween to everybody out there and YouTube world Happy Halloween everyone thanks for stopping by how do you get to candy do you get candy oh yeah I cand well have a good time thanks for stopping by and showing us it's a great [Music] costume all right here we go we're good all right uh we'll talk to some of the crew here Chris what's going on oh you already on you showed your Michelle Michelle come on say hi I just want to take a a short second to thanks to my awesome crew here this is Michelle she's our content manager say hi Michelle hello and what is your favorite candy Skittles really I thought I had you Peg for a chocolate person no I hate chocolate that's right now I remember so if you have any questions about what's playing on Beth cam how do you watch a certain thing like the costume parade you just give us a call and Michelle will know that's me all right thanks Michelle thank you all right which you're going to come back [Music] oning up I don't know let's check my super time here folks let me tell you something impressive we bought 20 lbs of candy to prepare for today why don't you guess Superman how much candy we have left right now zero big old goose egg none we gave it all away all to the children the spirits and the Monsters of Beverly yes be early cuz we get next year we're going to buy more candy too you think so we need to do you think BJ's has more candy I don't know we'll have to go to Costco too go wherever there's candy we'll find it we will find it that's a bevcam promise do we uh wrap it up here it looks like the crowd's done we can uh we're out of candy should we say goodbye I think we can say goodbye Superman uh I forgotten your 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meeting order at 7:02 stand for plge of [Music] Allegiance and that was added today allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to The Republic which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all so we could just speak a little louder so we can be heard all the way around around since microphones La Teresa present Michelle here Kate present gladus is here but not here Lauren here Jesse here Bridget here Julie here present Al here Louisa here okay favorite part public participation anyone here for public participation no for once going twice gone thank you so much okay so count Bri would you read the first uh motion motion the Board of Education approve the items on consent calendar exhibits 23-1 through through 23-12 as recommended second motion made by Bridget seconded by Kate any discussion those in favor I any opposed any extensions motion carries all right flying through this here Representatives doesn't look like it no presentation thank God uh action items um so a action item a I make a motion that the Board of Education accept the September financial report in accordance with 23-12 made by Warren second second by Mr Russo any discussion all those in favor any oppos any exensions okay sounds good Lis you read the next one yes um additional appropriation request motion that the Board of Education requests a $400,000 an additional appropriation City Charter section 7-9 f for unanticipated special educ ation expenses resulting from Public Act 23- 317 an act concerning resources and support services for persons with an intellectual or developmental disability extending the age for providing special education services effective July 1 2023 as recommended by the finance committee in accordance with 23- second second by motion made by Louisa second by G any discussion I just reading the paper that the count we're asking to take it from or is that something we don't need to deal with at this time are we asking to take it from the school reserves or the city's oh yeah that was John Kevin go ahead or is that up for the city to decide where it comes from well uh two things speak up John we have no no uh mics um the way it's worded now we're asking it to come from the city Surplus but um a presedent may be a year ago when we asked for money for the um deductible for the insurance uh here at the high school when we had the Gin FL problem he asked for $250,000 also from Surplus um the mayor's office with the City Finance director felt it would be better coming from reserves so by the time it got to the city council had change a little bit um I think it's certainly um within their call if they want to take it from one place versus the other I think we'd be Indi where they take it uh indifferent possibly accept it I'd rather have it not come from our $5 million po of gold the way it's ordered right now is not okay thank you any other further discussion so I'm not clear Happ what I'm not clear what the funds will come from at the end of the day where say city hall or where we at where are we where are we asking what what where we going to get the money from where you asking to get the money from okay um so um the city has two sources of funds uh one is the city Surplus itself or fund balance uh with the most recent audit that was the undesignated part of that for things like this was about $21 million at close of the books that's one place and that it's Ed presently we're asking it to be drawn down from there uh the Second Source they have is on the city balance sheet are reserved specifically earmarked for educational purposes um we talk we'll talk about that in the next one uh but they could take that if they decided um it's up to the city council uh to release either of those thank you okay so any other discussion so I have a quick question John do we know um when the city council will tell this which um which one they will take and by when can we get access to this money well the um the agenda for the city council are set by the mayor's office so um we would know officially when that agenda is released how it's worded but I would imagine any change to what we're recommending uh they would talk to us first about that so um depending when they're getting the item ready I'm sure we here any further discussion okay all those in favor any oppos obain one exstension from Russo that's it Teresa can you read the c c education Reserve funds request motion that the Board of Education requests the use of educational Reserve funds in the amount of 202,00 $274 for unanticipated technology expenses as recommended by the finance committee and in accordance with 23-23 motion Teresa second by Julie any discussion all in favor I any opposed any exensions okay motion how can you read please superintendent gos 2023-2024 Sy motion that the Board of Education approve the superintendent goals 2023-2024 school year in accordance with exhibit 23-1 124 motion made by Al I second a motion second by Miss Cooper any discussion all those in favor I any opposed any exensions all right so before the superintendent report I'd like to um we see some student Representatives here would like to invite them up to speak and it might be some public participation that we missed and I ran over too quick um so I like to want to see as well okay so for starters um some of you recognize me from last time I'm Serena the vice president of Denver's Board of Governors um I'm Maya I'm the board of Governor secretary um as secretary I do a lot of communicating information to staffs and students I manage the social media accounts for our school and make flyers for all the events I also communicate with clubs and administrators to make sure all the events go smoothly at DHS so recently we just had our spirit week and homecoming week um it's two weeks ago um we had Barbie vers Oppenheimer we had Jersey vers Jersey Shore we had our class color day and we had orange and blue day um participation was really well from both students and faculty um our Instagram story featured reposts from dozens of students each day to Showcase their school spirit um speaking of Instagram our social media is going really well we have nearly 1,900 followers and it's a great great way to communicate with students and it's getting more students involved and engaged we also um had over 1 million views on our Tik Tok and we even had Microsoft comment that they really liked our homecoming so that was really cool it was verified um we also had a peep rally Thursday which is the class color day it was incredibly successful and amazing participation from in spirit from all the classes um the homecoming football game went well um de won in overtime um we had a homecoming court and royalty were crowned during halftime um the homecoming dance was themed Tangled in our memories after the movie Tangled um tickets were sold online this year in pric at $20 with nearly all 1,000 of them selling out um DHS and a students were allowed to attend homecoming to ensure the safety of students during the dance we also had a food truck this year the El Taco Loco and students loved it and the vendor earned a ton of money too um we also had the band Jamberry the same day as homecoming which featured like 10 plus schools that went very well um we're thinking about organizing possibly a winter dance to boost spirit all year round and allow for um the kids that were at band to attend the dance because last time they had a miss it for their Jamber um and all of this is of course thanks to our Bel advisers Miss Smith and miss spiron and anyone who helped them out they really helped us out by directing like you know us and what to do and we wouldn't have been we wouldn't have been able to make all of it possible without them and also a lot of thanks to all the teachers and faculty that helped us out you know directed kids at the pep rally sha the homecoming helped me set up the homecoming decorations cuz I I did need a little help with that I wasn't tall enough um and also the band for sacrificing like you know their time to go to the one School Dance is for all grades they did a spectacular job and that's why we want to do like that's why I specifically want this extra dance for them and for everyone else of course and we also put together a bog committee to help us with all these events and we do plan on utilizing them in the future but this time they helped us a lot with you know planning and decorating the pet rally along with decorating home and obviously huge T huge thanks to the custodians because they were the ones who helped us clean up and I had to clean up beforehand it was not fun so I can't even imagine cleaning up afterwards without all their big V machines so that was amazing aside from that we had our PSAT day it was October 18th and and freshman sophomores and juniors had to report to their assigned classrooms and take their digital PSAT which I admit there were some shortcomings because you know technical difficulties but it went well for it it went pretty well and during this time seniors um they had the option to arrive late but the seniors that got there they went the cafeteria we did our annual senior picture where we sit on the PES they take the big picture gets framed and we also took the one where we're like for we're formed into our um like the 2024 so that went really well and then we did our little senior mural with the handprints alongside it so senior events have been up we've been doing pretty good they were expected to go back to class at 11:00 and I saw a lot of seniors back but I also know that a lot of seniors weren't back so that's that but I do think that we did the best or like the senior class officers did the best they could to control that there are also a lot of other class events like um tomorrow the seniors are having a movie night and even the freshmen are getting set up we had our freshman elections today during our flex period and they should be closing by this Friday and a freshman Forum to help them get adjusted into High School aware of certain issues will be on October 30th which is in 5 days and it'll discuss very sensitive but important topics like awareness regarding vaping and the Damage it does to your health and also Suicide Prevention on a lier note our fall sports are wrapping up a lot of sports have had their senior nights which I believe is their last home game yeah okay so that means and we've had a lot of senior nights so far which means that a lot of sports teams have already had their last home game there isn't too much after that so the season is wrapping up and that includes football we have our last home game I believe tomorrow I mean not tomorrow the day after tomorrow and it's going to be a pick out in honor of breast cancer awareness and there's going to be a big sale during it lots of good stuff um and lastly in sports news our Danberry cross country team got second place in FCX which is basically the Fairfield County Athletic Conference so it's very impressive um also the PTO has been organizing a lot of fundraisers each week there's a certain restaurant where if you go to them during this specific um during a specific time frame and you mentioned DHS or VHS PTO Restaurant Week they'll donate um a percentage of the proceeds to the DHS PTO fun fact the last one is today so if you're a little hungry after this um pppa Sports Cafe mention DHS and they will they will give some of the proceeds to DHS PTO and that money is going to go towards teacher and staff appreciation along with Raffles gifts and prizes for the seniors and parent teacher conferences are going to be right before Thanksgiving break on Monday November 20th and Tuesday November 21st and there's also a lot of events coming up to support you know seniors like me that are applying to college like a financial aid night on December 8th and line by line fast f assistant which is a huge help and that's out there advertised through student Square parents Square should be going to all the students and parents emails so that's an option out there for them we just had a virtual caller tonight it went wow there was like like over a hundred people in attendance um and that was this Monday I believe um so yeah um aside from that the missed out policy which I know you guys were very curious about last time it seems to be shaping out well I do see a lot less people in the Halls still people in the Halls regardless but it's been a lot better especially compared to last year so that's a big plus um and that pretty much w up all DHS news anything that happened going forward so um you have any questions you Havey answer them I think you covered it impressive very impressive very detailed report thank youate that Serena and Maya thank you both thank you for joining us have a great night thank you want to stick around I got a it gets fun after that are you want to P us just tell us you're going to P yeah thank you bye thank you thank you all right so we we'll jump to public participation so the board welcomes public participation and asks that speakers please limit their comments to 3 minutes speakers may offer objective comments of school operations and programs that concern them the board will not permit an expression of personal complaints or defamatory comments about Board of Education Personnel in students nor against any person connected with danburry public school system and we'll just I have a name here um Tara R Raymond Del Raymond Del okay and at at the 2 minute 30 Mark we'll give you a warning 30 seconds left okay um good evening my name is Tara Raymond Deli um I'm a parent of two girls in pemrick elementary school a kindergartner and a second grader um my profession I'm a school psychologist with over 20 years in education so I'm bringing both fronts to my statement tonight um I was able to speak with Mr walon yesterday regarding the recent events regarding the pemrick investigation um while I do appreciate his time and his willingness to speak to me I did feel the need to voice my concerns to the board of ed as well last year you heard a plea of so many distraught parents beging for faster action and more urgency taken when looking into the bomb threats made to our school you heard stories about how children were being traumatized by these events it's now 10 months later and the outcome of investigation has devastated our community our children were left in a building with who with an adult who repeatedly threatened their safety someone who they were told that they could trust for months on end as a community as a district we cannot accept this and as a parent I am appalled that the district and the board allowed this to happen the district is charged with the heavy weight of keeping thousands of precious defenseless lives safe as well as those dedicated teachers and staff members that work with them every day we can't fix what happened but we can use this experience to grow grow while I do understand the unlikelihood of this happening again the daily threat of school violence is very real in our country we have the chance now to use this experience Sandy Hook yaldi Coline they were all tragedies that upon reflection had red flags identified let's not wait until Danberry is faced with an unimag unimaginable Devastation to improve we need the district and the board to take action so that this never happens again I urge the board and the district to increase security at Pembrook so that our students are safe while this individual has been released on bail in addition increase the emotional support to the students who are still dealing with the fear that this will happen again at school sending an email stating that support is available is simply not enough aside from the loss of trust we also lost our sense of community while I'm very happy to have P principal Perez leading Pembrook there has to be more done at the district level to support the school to rebuild what was broken increased communication with the families that Pembrook would be a start it's now it was not until almost 3 months later and four bomb threats that a meeting was held to address parent concerns during which we were faced with a combative board who showed no compassion or empathy we were promised weekly updates which ended within weeks of our meeting I urge the board to take this opportunity to review our districtwide safety protocols and communication with the families within the district we should accept nothing less than the highest level of urgency and response when one of our buildings is threatened this applies to any Authority that we may be working with our Administration teams and our staff as a parent I'm more than happy to assist in any way possible with any safety plans and I would appreciate any opportunity if there are building safety committees to be a part of that thank you there's only one name on the list is there anyone else that like to say anything okay thank you very much all right superintendent report okay we have three items as part of the update this evening one of them is regarding our budget calendar that was previously reviewed with our finance committee um and so I wanted to underscore for the month of November for the board November 1st starts really some activity that we're we're going to see it's really going to play a role in informing our ask and request for the 24 25 school year um until we have a sites and Facilities meeting on November 1st in which we plan to talk about projected enrollment uh facilities and projects technology and any security upgrades for the 2425 school year um you will also see uh we have carved out um I will be meeting with the leadership team at our next meeting regarding um reviewing our separate costs associated with the academies of danburry model um and so we will make sure we have that for our budget as usly requested and as part of uh superintendent's goals in the um later in U November uh we will have a draft of our request uh by looking to try to have this in your hands by November 10th ahead of the finance committee meeting um so that we can have an opportunity to review the draft budget presentation um and my goal really is to make sure the board as currently constituted has an opportunity to review the budget requests what we anticipate the request to be for 2525 school year um and so I think no I know in your packet you may not have theor version but in your packet you have the budget calendar and I just wanted to take this opportunity to walk you through some of the upcoming events you know there have been some discussions about grants and um associated with our budget for next year the toward the end gra the and and so where it says budget presentation the team and I will be working on the actual presentation and Gathering all the um details that we need to inform requests for 2425 um and again we will like to have that available uh for our finance committee meeting on the 14th and have an opportunity to review it in small group um and then uh be prepared to share our anticipated request for the 25 2425 school year at our Monday board meeting ahead of thanksg so I wanted to start there um and if I can board chair I can go through these three I'm happy to take any questions after I have um previously had talked about um and this is really an effort to try to secure a talent um given the um shortages and staff that we have across the district uh we are looking to partner with the Connecticut teacher residency program um I had a meeting with this group last week Kelly Tres and I um I think it was a really good meeting really informative meeting um I just received an executive summary about the program yesterday so I will forward that to the board's detention so you can have more information um I shared information in the previous communication with the board but I just want to now that we're here together tonight give you a little bit more update on what the program offers um so essentially what happens in the Connecticut teacher Residency program um they are helping us find people who have a bachelor's degree and it's kind of an alternate um rout for certification like program and so um people who have a bachelor's degree um they would be partnered we would partner through this program um they would help them get certification and um they will have the instructions to help them get CER vacation the commitment from the district is that we would hire these people at no no less than $50,000 um and I'm sorry $65,000 including benefits um it was salary 29,000 Plus benefits and we it could be higher if needed and then there's also a stien attached to the um Dam Public Schools teacher that would serve as the mentor um essentially the student teaching placement right so the cost the cost of the district I think we estimated it would be about $65,000 per person after fees after our cost associated with the program benefits Etc um and so um our quick math on this you know we could be in anywhere between $450 to5 00,000 um the board uh should know um there is actually a grant uh specifically that can be specifically leveraged for this purpose um and so we have every tend to think that um when we submit an application for this Pro using this program as one of the major major leverage points we think it's going to be accepted um so we will have some further updates for the board uh really soon but we're really excited about the program potentially what it can offer um we think we have we know that we have some path Professionals in the system now that we hope will be interested in the program um but you know there's also some opportunity to try to secure some talent in the region uh for people might be interested in coming to this profession um there and there are some nice incentives that Associated um with the program um they so if we have par professionals who are making 25 $28,000 number one it's an opportunity for them to be supported um and um hopefully this will address some retention efforts um that you know some goals that we have as well as a district um so really excited more information to come um some of the concrete next steps some of the concrete next steps um the expectation is after reviewing the contract agreement uh we would sign they would sign um and then we would have some some of those immediate next steps we'll get into the community I think January starts the cycle for this next cohort so we would like to get something secured before this next cycle because this could potentially mean something for a difference for us as soon as September the beginning of this school year um so really excited about that we'll have more information to follow and as I said I just received an executive summary from uh the representative from The Residency program I'll be sharing that with the board with some supporting materials um last but not least and just is a reminder um and I also want to speak about the parents who just left um just as a reminder the cmy of Danberry um Phase 2 construction update and walk through is on Thursday October 26 um I believe invitation right invitation has been extended to the board um and so just want to make sure if you did not have an under calendar make sure you have under calendar and it's 11:00 um at in front of the car building yes well it is in the front of the building yes yes it's in the back of the campus but it's in the front of the building that's corre that's and so last but not least I know we just had um a really concerned parent who just left um and we had along with um so it was Tara and jod had both on a call yesterday a zoom call yesterday and both had expressed uh really concerns about the process and the fact that um this information was released in a news article um last weekend ahead of the press release for the police department and ahead of our notice uh from the school district and as I shared um yesterday um in our meeting and certainly if we had an opportunity to do it over we would um going into to the arrest of this person um we had an agreement with the police department um that we would um side by side send out a press release and a notice to our families and the community and the agreement was the police department would go first and then we would go immediately second and uh we knew that she was going to be this person was going to be arrested ahead of our planned um notice to the community um and frankly did not anticipate that they we would have this article will release the weekend prior to Monday um and so I did share that with the family it certainly was unfortunate that the information was released before we could push out the information um and then you'll notice um if you look back kind of the timeline um on Monday I believe it was Monday afternoon the police department released their their letter their press release um and as as planned we had sent out our notice to the families um and um I believe it was a day later we had sent a follow-up letter uh to our pck families specifically making sure there was an invitation extended to them um if there were any any additional supports that we could provide for that Community um that the district was available to do so obviously through the principal um and then we would try to make sure we would deoy supports to that building um and so I we also had talked about um and I think one and I don't know if this was clear this evening um and I certainly understand the parents point and I'm sure some other the parents at pbrook feel the same way um and the question was um posed to me you know why was this person allowed to stay on if they were a suspect as part of the investigation um and I you know I clarified at that time and I know in the timeline in the newspaper um kind of share um the investigation timeline obviously it was missing a lot of pieces as part of that timeline but the reality is we didn't have absolute certainty until what well into um we didn't have certainty until this summer um when was it I'm sorry so we didn't have the the certainty that we needed um we had suspects um and there's an investigation unfolding and um I understand in the conversation with parents regarding the safety and Welfare of their children there's not really much I can say at that moment that's going to provide any comfort and I totally understood that um and I and I still understand that um we were working we were no longer the lead investigator in this in this case um it was made clear to us and I as I shared with the family um that once the um a someone outside of a child became a suspect uh we were no longer the lead investigator on the case um and so because of that we would take a near lead and waiting for information to come back before we made any Personnel moves here in the district uh we stayed in constant communication with the police department throughout this process um and in fact asked questions about um not really asking for permission to make a Personnel move uh but making sure we worked in collaboration cooperation with them uh before we made an HR Personnel life move um and so I I just wanted to also talk to share with the board that I know we've had some discussions in executive session as well about this um and so so I I don't really going to hear anything new this evening um but certainly I understand the parents and their frustrations and their concerns um and we did have a conversation as as both moms oh Jody didn't speak but as Tara had shared this tonight question um I'm pretty upset that they seem to think that the Board of Ed what was the tun they used was and not compassionate yeah I mean where did that come from from I mean we're not allowed to say anything when they're in uh speaking and I I I I'm just floored I'm just fled at that impression and I'm very very upset now I'm very upset so let me ask a question so what have we in the light of of you know it coming out and information what have we done at the school level to help offer support proactively had a meeting we school I'm talking about now it's out the person was arrested it's the school started it's out there what what have we done as a district right now proactively to I'm talking to anybody I'm not directing I'm not directing it to you Kelly I'm just looking at that so what have we done proactively to help support the staff the students I mean more security I mean what what what what have we done so we ahead of number one ahead of the press release um it was important for us to make sure we were at the school um to speak with staff um and which is what I did um along with the team um and um principal perz of course was in attendance um but frankly all this happened prior to her assuming the leadership role at the building but obviously she was there um and so we had an opportunity to talk to the staff um make them aware of the um press releasee that was about to go out um and and frankly um I think much like our entire penro Community uh they were upset and I think folks needed time to kind of digest what they had just heard uh because they like our parents who you heard frustration from tonight uh were also disappointed um frustrated upset I think mean there's a number of different words I think we can use to um Express they felt um but we also that evening that afternoon let them know that um you know through Dana Dana Perez the principal obviously if there's any support that we can provide for staff uh we're certainly here to make sure staff is deployed to help to support them um Penbrook um during the time of all of this um and just to remind the board we upgraded our technology and security um upgrades we made security upgrades during the Christmas break of that year um and so all that new technology is in place at the building uh we still continue to have an additional safety Advocate at that school um understanding that um it's a priority understand it's still a sensitive time on that campus um so those um those security measures and those supports are still in place at the building um as I had mentioned in a conversation with the parents yesterday um you know we had also spoke with um principal EO prior to her retiring and got feedback from her and the staff um about you know some of their additional needs to help keep the community safe um as you might recall we had a number of evacuations in that building unfortunate evacuations obviously U but we also had students outside who were outside in inclement weather outside for extended periods of time um and so it was important you know as per the principes that time uh to make sure that we had resources for staff to keep kids warm to keep keep our kids sheltered make sure that they were dry if there was if it was wet outside uh make sure the um evacuation plan was reviewed to make sure students were not uh pushed back into the snow or in places that were unsafe for them um so all those things were reviewed um post evacuation plans and um last but not least additional radios were purchased for the staff there um the board may not may or may not know we have a lot of par professionals at the school supporting students as well as teacher staff um and so additional radios will also afforded um to the principal and her staff um and to to just just help improve Communications over at the campus and Kelly I don't know if you had anything else you wanted to offer but I just want to make sure I she before we go on any further let let me let me just rephrase the question right after it was released that they found a suspect and she was arrested and removed from the building were there any additional additional um school psychologist counselors anything anything sent to the school to help with the you know the the uh stress and and you know stuff that's non-security related I know one safety Advocate does that make a difference probably not but um the the the psychological part of it that that that that's what I I meant we we went over as Mr wson said met with the staff um the cabinet uh Team uh we also had um increased presence in the building to meet with staff oneon-one um or in small groups um and then follow up for both staff and families in the days following so in the I have so many questions but um so you met with the families or the the staff to tell them this was happening but then we wait a whole weekend and and the families find out put the staff new on Friday and then no that's not the timeline but is that you're I'm I'm we're not supposed to ask your question but we can't address you directly a Q&A inside the meeting we apologize sorry but to my understanding that's what the parents felt happen and that's not what happened okay so we we went over to speak to the staff on Monday uh Monday afternoon we had a special kind of emergency meeting okay and this was ahead of the communication we just ahead of the communication we sent out um to the entire School Community um really just I think we shared it with the board on Monday and then we shared it with the right after we sent it out to the board we went over to the staff and person and spoke to them um and then of course the entire Community received the letter okay and then we push out an additional communication to the specifically for a pen parents I believe it was the next there okay so then just a quick followup up to that kind of Ralph's question you were there in the days immediately following this release but are we still in the school helping the families not just the staff helping and then are we helping the children that were at one point suspects that were brought in that were questioned are they getting any additional supports because that's a big deal for a kid that was questioned and quizzed and then questioned again so they also need to feel secure now and and then they went through that questioning so there's a lot of pieces and are we taking care of all of those pieces in addition to the staff and an extra radio I I'll I'll go first and so I I I think and I I was I was mentioning this earlier um I think we have to rely on the school for any supports that are needed at that building um and that that that invitation has been extended uh to principal Perez um and so um you know part of our message to staff that day um certainly and and our invitation to families at home um if they feel the need that um their children need additional support at the school mean additional meaning beyond the social workers school psychologist could provideed that building um and we've done this before and you know we will make sure um those additional supports are provided to the school um Kelly her team has done this before and if if the if there's a demand for it and the requests are made we'll make sure that they're out there but we have not heard many through uh principal Perez yet and if they come we we will make sure we have resources available so so they're here and if we have parents here there's parents that sorry there's parents that aren't talking and maybe principal Perez being that she's new in her position and she can handle it and I know that we have confidence in her that maybe we need to support supp her a little more and maybe she isn't comfortable reaching we don't know but we need to be there is my so I'm going to be done brid is there an opportunity um to adjust the curriculum on the K through five level just at pamber so that I know that we um have time each week uh for um social work time is there an opportunity to increase that time a little bit so that we can schoolwide not pinpointed to any particular question to um address some of this uh through the curriculum we already have infrastructure that's already there is is there a plan for that or is that something that we can do and I think Kelly as you um I just want to add quickly um we we started this we were intentional about this immediately after the incident um and trying to be proactive um about building community in a way through activities at the school um and so I I just want to remind you of that you know before you answer kill so so just on the support level just um we have two uh School psychologists and a social worker that are at Penbrook as regular assignments um which is more PPS staff than typical and part of that is due to some of the special programming that's housed within that building um so principal PR for those of you that that are not aware is also a former school counselor so has a pup Services background um and so she's been an instrumental support um I know between myself Mr Walston other members of the cabinet there's been daily ongoing communication if not multiple times a day um also inclusive of the chief of school so we are constantly checking in so for example who are we seeing as far as students how many requests are we getting as far as parents what staff members are needing support who needs additional follow-up support is that person best served to be a member of the Penbrook School Community or someone else and that is where we've brought in an extra um extra outside resources it's a it's a damber Public Schools employee but someone that's not typically assigned to penr to provide additional support so that has been done um the and will continue to be done we we have not found the need to have the person there consistently every day as we've addressed the needs um but um principal Perez is aware that at a moment's notice if she needs additional support we will push that in as we do in many schools across across the district when there's a crisis situation that resolves rises I should say um the other thing is uh the messaging to the staff was you know uh we we need to rebuild repair and I think that was said with the families um lean on each other and provide support I will tell you after the meeting that we had um many of our staff members kind of gathered together with groups that they were close to right and had conversations and many of us myself included pushed into those to to check in on people to have support there were followup conversations outside you you have to judge what people need in that moment um the message from Principal Perez has been to make sure that kids are feeling safe to take care of those social emotional needs in the classroom to seek out the outside support if so needed um at any moment to not be afraid to call and and seek out an outside resource um and so so that piece is there have we altered or changed the curriculum no not at this point in time um and um and also to make sure that we're continuing to educate and hold high expectations while taking care of that social emotional needs it's that balance right between addressing the needs as they arise and making sure that we provide consistency and normaly for our children um can I make one recommendation maybe um maybe hold a board of bed meeting at the school one night uh showing our support that way it seems like they think we're disengaged from all of this and I feel really bad what she said and I'm just thinking that hold a meeting there show that we care just by to yeah I'm going to say I'm very upset as well um because we did have a meeting at Penbrook and board members were asked to attend and we did and we got a lot of the information like the parents did I know that we've had executive meetings and meetings you know sidebar and always brought up what's going on with penber now the whole reason that we I think there's a lack of communication is it's under investigation was a lot of the time we didn't not get any real you know information because it was in process so you know I think that there is um a disconnect in understanding what the role of the bo was I mean as far as we are concerned we knew that as a parent how difficult it is to go every day go back to so when we actually had our meeting I was like make sure you reach out to the Citywide PTO Christy specifically and like let her know as soon as we were allowed to release information I remember making that stat so it's it's you know we we take it personally because we are we were worried and are still worried I'm on sites and Facilities been working with Mike we added a whole new um part to uh the program that we were developing for the security to make sure that we had the ability to reunite when these situations happened and they were outside and we could count people and who was going to you know really spent a lot of time in trying to you know some of the issues that we saw were happening and some obviously they're you know physical um the emotional obviously you know as you were saying it's kind of complicated but we feel your your pain and so you know I think that's why we're taking it personally because you know we're parents and we understand and you know whatever we can do call please our lines are available to speak to you if you don't feel like you're getting heard um that's why we're here you're sitting here for that reason so I want to thank you for bringing it out because if you don't we don't know so thank you and thank you for the time and I like to say if I was talking directly to someone the people that are here um you know I would say I mean obviously I was at that meeting and I I'd like to just say that um if it was my kid school um you guys were fairly calm well but we're not talking anyone specific Penbrook parents were fairly calm at that meeting based off of the lack of information that we provided uh I I would be well let's not say what I would do but um we were frustrated in the fact that we had very little information to provide because of the investigation and we were told by police other places other um institutions that were involved to kind of not don't say try to say something without saying anything and that that's a problem so anything we said that night my opinion didn't really help because we really didn't say much the only thing we could say and sometimes we don't do a good job of doing it and and is that we understand and we we we we felt for the situation but you know you can't and you know it's it was difficult believe it or not was difficult for us as well because we're sitting there and we want to go there to try to show you that at the highest level I mean we're the Board of Ed wo we're the highest level that we do care and we're trying to do everything that we could have done at the time with the information and and what we were allowed to say now being there just being there and kind of talking to everybody apparently didn't help much so I apologize for that but you know we did you know we we we we do care it's just you know I I don't I don't know else to say but I was talking to somebody else I I think going back we didn't want to wait until we had more and I think we were all there and really didn't know what to say to be honest and it was just trying to be I got you I got you all right I got you all right I'm out here for three more weeks let me say what I got to say all right me too Ral so just I me mean laughing now it's not really funny so I'm just saying is I understand but I I can't say I feel the way you feel because I'm not in it but the Pembrook Community is a strong Community I've been around a long time I mean my mom used to work at the school years ago it's a strong community so you guys were a lot calmer than I I think I would have been in a situation like that so we do appreciate that and you guys from what I understand I know Dana very well and even before that guys pulled together as a community uh School community and that says a lot about the P so I don't know if there was an apology in there somewhere but you know I I I'm just saying that at the time we thought we were doing we did whatever we can do thinking it would help but apparently it did so I guess I am apologizing for that go ahead thank you Ralph I'm also here for four weeks is that all us all right um Kevin is I was also at that meeting with Ralph where we uh engaged PE community and and I know it was frustrating for them because we could only share what you could share and I didn't even know all because if you shared more you would compromise the investigation and the person wouldn't have been brought to D Justice because the investigation would have been compromised so I I understand your intent I understand your actions and I understand the frustration of the parents being having six kids myself um there was a question I got today on the phone about uh once this person of interest was developed as a person of interest the delay and removing them from from the school I I had no direct answer I referred hopefully that they will contact your office I gave them the police officer side is unless there's probable cause for an arrest and you have mere suspicion you might if you defame someone's character that you're the only thing you could probably have done different maybe putting on paid administrative we but that may have compromised the investigation and they wouldn't been brought to Justice which is thank you thank you board chair for giving me my 30 seconds you're welcome now have we taken the opportunity to reassess our security protocols with without going into detail because that's not something we should share publicly but have we taken the opportunity to reassess since the arrest yeah thank you for that question um so in addition we do have an extra Advocate there we have I'm in almost daily contact with dber Police Department about a number of other issues happening just around the community making judgments about whether that's going to affect us um I've requested increased patrol around Penbrook especially since this news broke a few weeks ago so there's regularly control going through there especially around you know the peak times kids are kind of com going because that's when they're outside the building uh and we've had now two different meetings with the Police Department emergency services M's office as well as the recommendation of this board that we get back in touch with FCI because we had had a relationship with them back several years ago that I think just sort of petered out so we've now brought them back into the conversation too about having a potential evacuation site there should students need to leave the school we've also engaged T Farm which is just adjacent to the school as another potential evacuation site of students need to leave and we working closely with principal press on just rethinking her entire safety plan to correct some of these these you know potential gaps um additionally while going through this process we've identified certain things like fence areas places where Gates need to be um and potentially some sheltered areas that we're going to be looking at more closely so that we can build them into the budget and make sure they're priorities for the next budget cycle thank you yes go ahead um trying to get my thoughts together for pimbrook and the pimbrook family students parents um I don't know how to say how I would act react if that had happened to me but I guess what I would like to say from what I've heard and what Michael had just said I was going to ask about increased security how you if there's something going on with leadership there that we're not comfortable of how can we improve it how and it's not just hopefully that never happen to anyone of our other schrews what are we going to do moving forward to make those parents those students because at that young age constantly questioning questioning it mixes up a student so you have to have someone psychology or whatever you got say what we need to help those parents and help those students so pinook has happened we knew as board members there's certain information that we couldn't give out we know what the FBI and all these other people were doing okay and at certain point when we're giving the okay to talk about something that's when we talk about to the G I would like to know what are we going to do moving forward is there somehow that we can increase when we get to the hiring process and I know a lot of things don't come out until that person get in that position but somewhere there's a mark somewhere when people start doing things that we think that are not normal behavior where does it start at and where do we look at it as a district is it hiring testing what do we do to make it better and make sure that it does not happen to any of of our other schools can can you just talk about the the background check and stuff that we do when we hire people right um so we're required and we do um run background checks on anyone that's going to work with kids and that background check includes not only finger printing um which goes through the FBI system so we'll see any kind of convictions um have anywhere Nationwide it's also local um we also do a DCF check and these things are all required um by St offro when we do our hiring um and the DCF check requires the applicant to sign a release to say you know these are the people Liv in my household and DCF runs their check to see if these people are on the register or there's anything else that would be up that um in this case without kind of going into too long this was long-term employee so this was not something that would have you know I'm not sure what we would be looking for in the hiring process but it's not something that for this person anything would have shown up I will say that there are many times um that that particularly Kelly and I will partner together when we see um Behavior that's concerning from any member of our staff it could be a mental health issue it could be a physical issue it could be a a harassment environment issue any one of those things um obviously because we're so big those tend to come through a building administrator or a supervisor or a coworker um you know I serve as also your TP n officer so people who have concerns about the behavior of others in the workplace towards them um could be violence could be um you know harassment of some kind so those are all things that will intervene as part of the regular employment process so conduct an investigation do some counseling partner together with Kelly and her team to figure out if there's anything we need to be looking at so so it's it's a complicated thing um because you do have that bucket of new hires and you know a fingerprint or a background check is only going to tell us somebody that's got a background um so there's not much we can do with that we don't do any other kind of testing um you don't we don't do any kind of profiling or anything like that so so um we do check references um everyone is required to everyone who's a hiring person involved in the hiring process is required to make contact with several references um and often times we'll get some final hiring reports and I'll go back to administrator during the hiring and say I need you to try to find you know a more current reference or somebody from the employment process so we do what we can to find out at higher and then the second ball wax if you will is people who've been here you know for a long time and and people do go through different crises in their lives that causes behavior that you know we may or may not see coming and we try to identify and intervene not just with discipline but also with we have a very strong EAP program so if people are really struggling we try to get them employee assistants um or urge them to to work with employee assistants we've also pulled Union reps in with some people to say gee you know we could partner with you to kind of get some help for somebody who's really struggling so it it's complicated but it's really um it's event driven often times we're reacting rather than proactive and that's just because we can only you know respond to what we say thank Jesse has so do we currently have any type of program or Pro protocol MH to I I guess you should say prevent mental you know Health like if if somebody notices that somebody seems a little off there's a protocol that play to kind of alert and have that person maybe go see someone that can evaluate them right so we can't require people to do that but um he cannot um sometimes what will what will often happen is in the course of an investigation where we're trying to figure out what's happening with someone um and again we may be partnering with some of the PPS staff in a building um but we do and I do regularly work with these Union reps to say Hey you know this might be a good time for them to call if you go to my.com and everybody has access whether you buy our plan or not you have access to that and they have all sorts of now there's proliferation of resources so you could do virtual meetings you can do phone calls they can you up with you know people that you could go and see in person and there's a whole range of of things I can't require anybody to do that but I certainly can urge it and we have done that on many an occasion here and I think to great success I think it's been a pretty effective addition we've had that program for maybe five years um and and we see a lot more people now accessing it one of the things we do annually is we look at our insurance plan and instance impact um and we've seen that there are a lot more people in the district that are accessing those resources so um we also try to push out regular programming so through the benefits office in my office um our benefits coordinator will try to push out webinars or you know today's this month's mental health month and here's a webinar you might find interesting so we try to kind of get as many resources as we can out for our employees part because it's just good practice um it's a good benefit to be able to offer people and I think that um what used to be the thing that no one wanted to access because they didn't want anyone to know lots more people access now so I think that's a good thank you Teresa um were there in hindsight were there any red flags for this particular person I didn't say so nothing that came to anybody's attention just curious quick question do we have any idea how this um L to the newspapers prior to the the information they releas right I I I think because it's Public public available information the the news Times accessed the arrest warrant and the arrest warrant came through the judicial system and is a public document and so all of the timeline everything was pulled directly out of the arrest yeah so they shared exactly what was in that that's why it was detailed the way it was we we only released statement and and repeated that this will be our only statement so um moving forward do we have a way to prevent in case God forbid something like this happens again to prevent that the news I mean the conference the information that we're going to release hit the news first prior to the the information that you will release to this right so thanks for that question Julie because when I met with um moms yesterday um um upon reflection I think I would have pushed back on the police department a little bit more and say the minute an arrest is made Let's push out a press release right now yeah um and instead there was a little bit of time in between the actual arrest and um the press release going down so hopefully we'll never happen have anything like this again U but if there is cuz we you know we did work in collaboration this entire process um but upon reflection I think we would have been best to those an arrest get it out first um there was a couple of other moves that we needed to make ahead of this meeting um that we could not pull off so all the stars did not align uh but given the events that we're talking about this evening we would have been it would have been better to release it immediately I think that I don't know how much that would help but it certainly would have I think it would have been better received coming from us first the no doubt about it thank you take the last question from Michelle but I want to move on from this but I just want to say before that is anybody who's wanted to stick around and after the meeting ask any questions individually uh we're here for that so I just have one question and I know that you know we found out who was responsible through fingerprints right and there were a few suspects did everybody get fingerprinted that was suspected I think we had I had heard something like some of them participated maybe one or two did not so I don't I don't know if it's accurate we had a few suspects yeah I don't know that we can really answer that I mean the police drove that whole process so we we um our only role was to conduct kind of verbal interviews as we were trying to figure out this situation but the police were fully responsible for eliciting asking for a securing who they're going to you know was part of their investigation it was not it so theer I know all the answers okay so that is not in our wheelhouse that's the police and how the suspect whatever is okay thank you appreciate that all right Kevin you have anything else on the superintendent's report I do I just want to um publicly thank um Carie who had a deal with me setting this stuff up um for gladus celebration uh I'm sure it was not easy for her so thank you cara if you're home watching this and and Barry and and sedexo and his group putting on uh a nice spread and really did a great job with that and uh and for everyone who who spoke and was there to help us celebrate Miss Cooper um I think it was a great event and I think um and it's welld deserved Miss Cooper so um I'm just glad that you enjoyed it and uh if anyone else wants to make any comments before we adure Teresa and thank you Ralph for the ice cream yes it was yeah I just wanted to congratulate the office of family school and Community Partnerships they did a parent University program on Saturday um over at Rogers Park it was really a nice event uh well attended um it's a great opportunity for families um to learn a little bit more about how our District's working uh at that particular event they had uh fin cial uh literacy and College Planning program uh they did a reading and math literacy program so that parents could learn about the curriculum for young students who are starting out in the schools um they had a special education uh expert there who is uh sharing information about how to um get services for your students uh there's drug and alcohol use prevention program um a program about dealing with bullying um so I just would encourage um you know families who are looking to get a better handle on how the schools handle different things and looking to get a little bit more involved um there's going to be another one scheduled for April 6th 2024 that's the next one so we hope you'll be there Al you have something yes one last round of applause for gra scooper anything else motion toour think I like to a motion to adjourn second by

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this is the no um October 26th 2023 electronic meeting of the environmental commission here in an arbor this meeting is in accordance with the executive ORD set in place in 2020 by the governor to affect social distancing and mitigate the spread of Co the co 19 virus we intend to conduct the meeting similar to an in purpose iners meeting please be patient as there if there are technical issues public comment is welcome and will be via telephone only to speak to the public at public comment call 888 78899 and enter meeting ID 922 1644 this information is available on the published agenda in the Public Notices section of the city website and on the broadcast of this meeting on CTN Channel 16 AT&T channel 99 and online on at A2 go.org watch CN and um with that I would like to ask Sean to um read the land Heritage statement yes thank you chairperson Mitchell I acknowledge that the land the city of an arbor occupies is the ancestral traditional and contemporary lands of the Anish shab including Odawa oju and badmi and W and do peoples I further acknowledge other City stands like almost all property in the United States on lands obtained generally in unconscionable ways from indigenous peoples The Taking of this land was formalized by the Treaty of Detroit in 1807 knowing where we live work study and recreate does not change the past but a thorough understanding of the ongoing consequences of this past can Empower us in our work to create a future that supports human flourishing and justice for all individuals thank you Sean and would you now call the role please sure I do have um a phone number on the line that I don't recognize but if it is a commissioner can you please raise your hand so I will promote you um if you're not a commissioner keep your hand lowered but if you are a commissioner please raise your hand and the the raise hand is star nine uh star nine to raise your hand yes just in case somebody doesn't know all right I'm not seeing a hand rais so I don't think it's commissioner so I'll do the roll call thank you yes uh council member Amman here Ann Arbor thank you uh Vice chairperson Brown uh here in an arbor thank you commissioner caart here thank you commissioner Curtis here an arbor thank you commissioner Dale here an arber thank you uh council member dish oh looks like council member just dish just joined I'm going to promote them welcome council member dish we are doing roll call and I just got to your name I'm here in an arbor thank you that was good thank you uh commissioner Graham I'm here thank you commissioner guber all right uh commissioner here in Arbor thank you commissioner mki all right uh chairperson Mitchell here in an arbor thank you commissioner nrich Ken an aror thank you and commissioner whing all right uh and that is a quorum all right super great thanks everyone to um who's here at the meeting tonight um I would now like to ask for a motion to approve our agenda for tonight I see a hand Chris Graham and a second from commissioner Curtis um thank you is there any discussion of the agenda and if not I ask for a vote to approve the agenda raise your hand thank you looks like we have an agenda accepted thank you um I now ask for an approve a motion to approve our minutes from September 28 commissioner dish and seconded by commissioner Dale thank you um any discussion of the minutes from September see no hands um I call for a vote to approve the minutes from September raise your hand looks like uh almost 100% is there okay thank you thanks everybody okay let's go for it hey Rita I'm gonna abstain I'm gonna abstain because I wasn't here okay thank you thanks for letting us know good point um all right so that's um minus or abstain on one um but passes by majority vote so um thank you all um I would now like to move to the section of our meeting which is public comment I'm going to read a brief statement um and this is when Sean usually pops up this information on the screen as well um this is an opportunity for persons to speak for up to three minutes please call 888 78899 and enter meeting ID 922 1644 um City staff will select call that have raised their hand one by one excuse me calling the last three digits of your phone number in order to electronically raise your hand please press star n on your phone you'll hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak you can press then press star six to unmute your phone when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute any TV or background noises so that we may hear you clearly please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments and um do you have see anyone who is interested in speaking with us yes we do have a hand raised from caller uh ending in 411 again that's phone number ending in 411 I'm now allowing you to talk uh good evening uh uh Sher Mitchell uh can you hear me yes great uh this is James deore um multitasking with a phone phone and trying to read a statement so bear with me for just a sec while I I switch screens here and uh here we are and I want to thank uh uh members of the environmental commission and good evening my name is James deore and I speak to you as an environmental activists currently involved with several committees in the Michigan sier club and a former member of the City Planning Commission as as you know several months ago a subcommittee related to natural features uh um created a draft ordinance of a revised true ordinance to replace language in chapter 57 as I understand it the commission and others by uh were advised by the office sustainability initiatives to hold off on further action until the comprehensive land use plan is revised a question I ask here is this um major decisions on resoning and major new land Parcels have been approved this year by the city before the comprehensive plan uh revision has even been underway and the city has no hesitation in this area uh making these changes why is the question of protecting trees being delayed while other revisions of the city ordinances are moving forward there appears to be a lack of fairness here mature desus trees depending on the spey required Decades of growth to provide carbon capture and creation of oxygen yet recently I observed a public housing project clearcut all the mature trees on this parcel close to my neighborhood I should also note cries was proved earlier and OSI has been silent on this matter providing seedings and saffings OSI has done is doing especially as some of conifers does not address the climate crisis when short-term action is needed now there seems to be hypocrisy and oiz part or at least enabling it if we are truly to embrace taking on the climate crisis then part and partiel of that is protecting our mature tree canopy I'm surprised that Oris and transigence related to this considering the hard work that members of this body have put and created a draft ordinance and given the change as impact on our natural features in the years of comprehensive PES revision will be adopted and that's going to be a long process we really can't wait any longer we must move now in moving the tree ordinance forward and I hope this commission makes this message clear to members of this Council and to the council members here please take note of this and act on it folks thank you for taking uh uh uh consideration my REM s and may each of you have a great evening uh thank you thank you we always appreciate hearing from the public um Sean are there any additional callers I do not see any additional callers all right um I would like to now move to our next agenda item which is a presentation by um a guest speaker speaker Heidi trudell um I see her good um Heidi is a bird expert and will be um has been involved in a group called just save birds and more you'll hear about it and um this is really important information for us to take in um for our consideration as we advise Council moving forward on how we continue to live with nature um as we move forward as a city um and I also welcome Juliet Berger who's here who is our city ornithologist and I'm really happy to have you with us tonight Julia both of you Heidi um with that I'm going to stop talking and um ask you um Heidi to further introduce yourself as you wish and I know you have a presentation for us sure um thank you so much for having me I'm going to attempt to share my screen I hope everyone can hear me okay yes okay can everyone see my screen hopefully it looks is full screen um it is not quite full screen but if I go into slideshow uh okay maybe that works that looks good to me okay cool um yeah please let me know if there's any formatting issues on your end um anyway the the bottom line of this is there has been a lot of push back in a lot of places bigger than us and if they can do it so can we the list of tiny fine print places and organizations on the left um it's everything from colleges to actual States uh municipalities you name it these are places that have already passed some level of bird safe building code or ordinance um and yes I am wearing a lot of hats just save Birds is my quasi Consulting um site of life but I have been wearing the washed and off safe passage hat with Wasa I believe it's now bird Alliance uh or pending bird Alliance formerly known as Wasa otan but I've also been uh working in a similar window Collision prevention capacity with um safe passage of Great Lakes which is also updating their name from Detroit otan to Detroit third Alliance uh and I've been on the board with the bird center of Michigan uh as well as the conservation committee for Black Swamp bird Observatory pretty much all of these since sometime in 2015 16 or 17 um and there is a very long version of this presentation uh at the QR code so feel free to take a screenshot or photo now um because the the full version of this is over a 100 slides long and gets into a little bit more detail than I have time for tonight at least I won't keep you all night I'll try not to um course full screen I can't see the clock so you might have to cut me off at some point okay but um who I am why I'm here uh 20 years and two months ago in Southern Illinois I made the mistake of being a bird loving undergrad at a college that had Big Shiny windows and every student on that campus told me every time they saw a dead bird which was a lot turns out um so I started a collision monitoring campus on that project and after three years I got out of there because that was I was the only student on campus doing it it was a lot it was chaos um I tried to Branch out did Wind Farm surveys in Texas turns out that's also a lot of dead birds so um I I've tried I swear I've tried I've worked at zoos I've worked at libraries I've the tech startups um turns out there's glass everywhere and everywhere there's glass birds are hitting so on the side I've always been graning in window Collision activism and advocacy and then when I moved up here at the end of um oops the IPS salant District Library was like right there and I couldn't not check it so that's that's where we are today from from 2015 now I've just been dead bird researching my way through Southeast Michigan and Beyond um so yes that's a lot of hats and one of the biggest misconceptions regionally and globally is that if you turn off the lights the birds are suddenly safe and that is not at all the case um you can turn off all of the lights but that doesn't stop collisions during the day I will say that I am thrilled that an arbor has such a good lighting code and has made so much progress in that direction um there's obviously still a lot that we can do my second love is moths and moths are obviously very impacted by lights um but that being said it's not just Birds it's not just moths um light is bad for humans um a lot of bird people try to push for uh Lights Out programs doing spring and fall migration but like we have bats year round well up here they they either migrate or hyate but um further south we have BS year round up here we have moths during the summer and birds during the summer and people during the summer um and I know because an arbor is really pushing for sustainability goals responsible lighting is really good for saving energy reducing carbon emissions um like it's the easiest thing we can do in that direction but it does get way too much credit in the window Collision side of things um and to also address some of the additional myths um skyscrapers get a lot of press because when things go terribly wrong it's often that skyscrapers um I was unfortunately in Chicago on October 6th fifth was the day that everything went horribly wrong with birds at McCormick Place I was driving into Chicago when that happened on the sixth I gave a presentation um to Architects about birds hitting windows in Chicago um but the haric place a lot of tall building the ipsilanti District Library also not a tall building the average high-rise and lowrise generally kill between 25 30 Birds a year it's just with better Landscaping better habitat bigger Windows more reflection my worst low rise in Michigan kills upwards of 300 Birds per year Ipsy Library somewhere there are a lot of aspis asps um minimum 70 that we find but what we find is just the tip of the iceberg and for residential buildings uh obviously the better the habitat the more we try to make our yards attractive for wildlife native plants all that good stuff we are attracting Birds to an area that's dangerous unless we have fixed our windows so this is a problem that will only stop when we run out of birds and I'm not a fan of that idea but um yeah so just to to get this out there highrises are a problem they are not our problem so we need to address it where it happens this is a photo from somewhere on the U ofm campus uh I guess tap and Hall um from 2016 I believe if anyone wants to guess at how many birds it's the same photo on each side um if anyone wants to guess how many birds are there I will take a sip of water it is a trick question five it is five so basically because warblers look like leaves and uh leaves look like leaves it is really hard to spot birds that of hit windows we are also up against lawnmowers squirrels cats foxes coyotes you name it um what we find is a small fraction of what actually hits It's guesstimated that for every bird we find there are five to eight that we don't that could be because if it was lucky lucky in quotes um it perhaps flew away to die elsewhere of its injuries um but a bird flying away just if it's out of sight it just dies out of sight um full recovery is actually very um low odds another myth is that migration happens in nicely defined Flyway Corridor things the entire continent lights up at very different um in very different ways at different times of the year birds have zero regard for geography they are going with the winds and migration can shift very broadly from year to year so what we end up with is really cool birds that are not ours you know they're breeding in the boreal forests of Canada they're wintering in Central and South America and they're dying at our Windows because we happened to be there um I keep picking on the ipy District Library but that's been there since 2006 and minimum 100 Birds a year these are coming from all over the place half of the birds in the photo should have been spending their winter on coffee farms in Central and South America eating coffee pests so every time a bird hits your window 50/50 odds that it should have been preventing coffee pests from getting at your beans um so the more things we kill the more pesticide goes into the coffee um and then after I took the the photo went back to the car found two more hummingbirds on my way back to the car which is why there are two little ovals there so the birds we're killing are not house sparrows pigeons starlings um the vast majority our species already in Decline and this is an extremely tangible way that we can reduce uh our impact um it's no wonder why they hit um so to give you an idea of what my first full fall study there showed um basically if we were to fix just the worst buildings in the area Ipsy the library itself is as bad as the two other worst buildings combined so if we just fixed the worst three buildings that wash safe passage was monitoring at the time we would have taken care of the vast majority of strikes for the region again for every bird we find there are 5 to eight that we don't these numbers are staggering the species diversity is really phenomenal um this is a very biodiverse region and the fact that a handful of buildings are doing this much cumulative damage again Ipsy library has been there since 2006 has not been decreasing in bird strikes year after year they have no opportunity to learn things they live in Canada and you know next year they might be migrating further east of here um anyway so the the basics of bird collisions are essentially that if a bird thinks it can fly to something or through something that's how they die and in discussions with the actual architects of the biological sciences building they said they specified glass as clear as possible so Birds would see that there's nothing inside for them to go to however you will notice there's a very strong reflection of sky and you can actually see vegetation on the other side of the building um we do know that this building is killing birds um I am not on the inside of that I try to give them as much Elbow Room as possible so I will not be Uninvited um but I do know that they have a fair number of birds coming in uh to their collections as a result of striping so another myth is the more masonry of building has the safer it is people think they need to build build a perfect brick box to be safe for birds unfortunately even with a brick box if you have a window and it's not a safe box a safe window um it's still this is the natatorium on the EMU campus it kills as many birds as the other average low Rises around it they're all just concentrated at very narrow Windows because birds see essentially a tunnel that they can get through but it's not so you can build a fully glass box as long as it's a safe product um so it's there is Nuance here and unfortunately most people think that putting glass is a a light like oops you hit a window um I see this in media all the time pick a movie that has a bird in it the bird at some point Harry Potter Finding Nemo like every movie has Birds hting Windows uh unfortunately birds are moving head first at high speed and they technically hit twice when a bird hit hits glass it first impacts usually face first and then it falls it's really hard to study the injuries that birds sustain when they hit because we don't know if they end up with um poroid fractures dislocated the the injuries they still say are really not okay um this is why I don't do Bird Rehab I just pick up the dead ones because you can't stress out a dead bird um Bird Center of Michigan can rehab them all day but yeah the injuries they sustain untreated are more often than not fat um that being said it's if birds are lucky enough to survive they're up against people cats dogs squirrels um raccoons blossoms skunks protein is protein is protein and what gets me is through white froed Sparrow studies they have track how heavy the birds were that survived of course they pick up survivors weigh them rehab them release them the birds that died also got weighed and the birds were plump and fat and juicy and most likely to survive migration because physics is physics were the ones more likely to die because they had that much extra weight behind them when they pit which means that the thinner Birds we can't really say emaciated because if they were that emaciated migration would be a to begin with but that is terrifying for overall population Health if our plump juicy birds that should be making it to Central and South America in one easy go are the ones more likely to die on impact so this is this has broad ramifications well beyond um just like my windows can't be that bad I only get X number per year again for the ones we see there's a lot we don't a lot of folks also think that it's a quick death birds have a lot of extra vertebrae they all have floppy necks um the injuries largely if you're super lucky it's quick but there are so many that we find that definitely did not die a quick death um if you find a bird that looks like it's sleeping and is dead that was not a fast death if it was completely sprawled out it probably hopefully died on impact and then fell that way um it's really traumatic for people who deal with this obviously but um there's also so this misperception that like oh if you leave it alone it'll be fine whereas if we saw a kitten or a puppy that had been hit by a car we would know to take it to a vet um there's really not a good cultural understanding of rehabs exist for this reason so um yeah we we at least have the brid center of Michigan which is a phenomenal organization and I would not have agreed to be on their board had it not been fantastic um anyway so the good news is we can rely on a set of pretty decent products and fairly straightforward visual cues to indicate to birds that they cannot go in a par a particular direction um The Challenge there is that all materials with image formation and or transparency need visual markers the visual markers need to accommodate all of our visual environments and the entire surface yes all of it does need to be covered because as we saw with the natatorium you can have brick on one side or a brick pattern on glass on one side and if you have unmarked glass birds will just fly towards the unmarked glass um here so it's basically Traffic Safety but in three dimensions because birds are like that they will fly at full speed through tiny spaces and if the bridge is out one of these will be a more effective communication device than the other if you have one Hawk sticker in the middle of the window the bird will fly around it if you have a mosaic grid of Hawk stickers birds are much less like to fly around it because there's no around to go because they're too you the gaps are too small it can be Hawk stickers it can be pianos it can be Halloween stickers it can be Christmas stickers as long as the pattern is dense enough There's Hope unfortunately people put a lot of faith in products that do not work even though um a lot of products claim to work with just one sticker that being said if we need to pitch it to Architects it's actually not terribly hard because visual interest custom patterns artistic expression all of those good things can work towards ultimately saving birds and with the climate doing what it's doing um thermal performance is coming to be um much more of a a critical point in this stuff privacy there are some options that can increase your privacy uh some of them help with glare control obviously you'll be getting higher employee productivity if they're not getting distracted for 15 minutes every time a bird hits uh which also lends to occupant well-being but the thermal performance is really fun because depending on the product that you pick you can like the Justice Center has frosted stripes on the glass that's for thermal performance not for Birds but it's actually effective for Birds too so Architects are doing this anyway they just need to pick patterns that work slightly differently um yeah so glass is complicated and this is where we can't necessarily broadly paint a one siiz fits all solution if we are promoting products or if we are writing codes because because every single building is going to have a slightly different set of needs um this lower left corner that's actually Clear G clear glass um but because it's shaded there's no backlighting it looks black that's the same window at a slightly off angle looking completely reflective so the same spot looking very different just depending on where you are and so we need to pick a product that works in both of those conditions for that particular um set of windows so because everything behaves different differently Architects love this they love modeling thermal Performance Based on geography and this is their jam and their modeling will do wonders for the rest of us um but but bird products when they are tested and certified by the American bird Conservancy are tested under static conditions so quick crash close in glass most windows are double plane Birds obviously interact with the side that is on the outside surface one most low energy Coatings go on Surface 2 or Surface three and then the inside where we smush our noses is surface four things that we put on Surface four in most cases are pretty useless things on Surface 3 in many cases are pretty useless Surface 2 in some cases it can be okay but surface one is where the magic is most likely to happen if it's going to happen which is a challenge for the actual glass industry because manufacturing processes uh can be tricky and why do these surfaces matter um this is over here in the alen neighborhood um you can take a couple steps in a different direction slight angle change and you can see that a number on or a a marker on Surface one there's good visual contrast you even get some Shadow there it really pops and across the uh different angles you can consistently see it I did add a black and a white stripe to indicate like if the number was black it would actually get lost pretty easily in Shadows um stuff on surface for if it was black we would not be able to see it at all in most of these photos but um this is the difference between birds not hitting and probably birds hitting but again spacing is everything this is just letting you know how much uh visual contrast gets lost between the multiple surfaces the bottom line is if you can't see it they can't see it and the more you see it the more they see it so the Justice Center I guarantee you they were not thinking of birds when they did this this would have cost them zero extra dollars in their budget they did it anyway um yeah more of this you can also do different patterns again um if people are factoring thermal performance into their Design This should not be complicated for them but but with products themselves um tests and threat Factor scores are not created equal they do not work across all buildings not all products are appropriate for the existing test methods um It's Complicated tunnel testing is where most of the magic happens and while it's really good at what it does what it covers is a very narrow slice of that dynamic lighting range um and the resulting scores that come from it end up being used for code and you can still make these are not the greatest examples for what I need to say here but um The Limited information that folks are able to draw from to make decisions end up going in different directions um and if people are still hellbent on using clear products in things like railings it's not a matter of if birds will hit it's a matter of when birds will hit and how many so factoring in bird safety early in the design process will get you something that looks reasonable and not offensive as opposed to people have to take things into their own hands to fix it uh UV products are almost never a good idea there are very few cases when it's actually a good idea to use them um too many things need to be taken into consideration to suggest them as a blanket solution um but UV is the darling of everyone because people don't see it and birds supposedly do however not all birds see UV UV is a very short wavelength and birds that do see UV see the full visible spectrum that we see but also a hint of UV so it is really an uphill battle even for the birds that can see it for us to like this pattern is incredibly faint and this actual building has been modified since then anyway uh the bird Conservancy American bird Conservancy actually has a really good model Code 100% of build should be bird friendly for the first 100t and that is fantastic um you can have a bad bus shelter bus shelters on average kill between two to 10 Birds per year if their glass it's so easy to fix a bus shelter um a bad one could kill you know 30 Birds a year but Seattle has done an amazing job in acid Edge patterns um there was a study from Poland that says that graffiti saves birds like things like this um really indicate that there are some really simple changes that we can make in our community that can be artistic creative and actually have a really long lasting impact in a good way for Birds um and then they also suggest of course any of the danger zones danger zones clear walkways clear corner things like that need them to be bird friendly regardless of their height um and then the threat Factor down here is a little tricky so most regulations right now are really bad um Canada has a couple decent ones um but there's so many loopholes that you can build something that meets code and it will still be terrible for Birds um anyway the the fresh batch of Lead version five just came out last month um and at least they use the 2 by two inch spacing guidelines but it's still overly complicated and doesn't need to be but the way most municipalities have written their codes they don't seem to think that it needs to fly to most buildings or um you know they've bumped into like square footage um with retrofits New York is already seeing push back because uh folks want to replace 90% of the windows this year and then 10% of the windows next year to avoid triggering the 100% window replacement um that would kick in with retrofits we've also seen like oh if you're going to ret elit and replace 50% of the glass then it kicks in so they're doing 45% this year and doing 45% next year and then 10% the year after that so some of these regulations the the loopholes just never end um and when I talk about test scores and threat factors um a lot of this stuff is getting written into code when anything at 90 mm or 4 in anywhere is not going to prevent hummingbirds from hitting hummingbirds kinglets systens uh mat catchers some of the smaller wobblers it's like 20% of birds are not going to be helped by stuff that has 4 inch SPAC in so the reason these scores came into existence was through tunnel testing which could not test hunting birds so this is basically saying seat belts are great but only specifying that seat belts need to be in the front seat like who needs it in the back seat uh the 2 by two helps more than 4x4 with those size so breaking that down because people think rightfully so that a threat factor of 10 should be better than a threat factor of 15 or 20 but not only is that not necessarily the case because they physically cannot test huming Birds um but every building is different some of these products may not work well when backlit they may not work well with um a Darkly shaded complex visual background um it it really does depend and really Hammer at home this threat factor of 15 these Dots here that same pattern rotated 90° score a 20 but both of those do not perform as well as vertical stripes in the wild so in the test these I mean they still scored well enough to be used but these perform way better in Saving birds in the wild than the dot pattern that even though it was magically rot rotated 90 de and scored a different score the test is inconsistent and it's one of the challenges that the research Community is up against uh but in the meantime it's what we have and people are putting into code so yeah this is this is what we're working with um and this is where y'all come in because we can't solve it without a lot of communication and everyone is trying to reinvent the wheel in this space I fall somewhere in the research but not academic kind of Lights Out group but also there's a lot going on here and codes are relying on glass people and researchers but the industry is waiting for the codes to figure out what they need to build and Architects are just of stuck in the middle and I do feel bad for them actually um but getting best practices current and making sure that codes can relate to that um is is going to be a very interesting challenge the Canadian standards um put their bird code into effect in 2019 and their code is structured so that every five years it's up for review slash updating um I really like that because it means every five years they like hey what's Best Practices um but there's no indication of where they're sourcing that information um who's on the Review Committee like how that process goes so it's it's an interesting challenge because almost everything in the architectural world in the municipal code uh communication world all of that points back to the American bird conservancy and their test scores which threat factors as we saw can not be the most um broadly applicable stats out there so it's a kind of challenging spot to be in for all of us but um again things change rapidly all the information that I send out I add a note that if it's been if it's been more than four to six months then you know contact me something probably needs to be updated um but also the year is really important some of these buildings that I'm getting contacted about have been constructed within the last three to four years they did everything right and they're getting a ton of birds hitting but the materials that they're using they found online and best practices from like 2009 so there are a lot of myths and misunderstandings and there's just a lot of outdated information about collisions out there um and there are some combinations of things that can work but if it's on this list it's there for a reason um and yeah broadly applying any of this information um can get a little messy now when I say that New York did a great job with their code I mean they blanket statement said new construction and retrofits need to meet these standards so they have fewer loopholes in a lot of places um while they do still limit things to various threat Factor scores um the New York Community has at this point two decades of closely working with New York City ottan um to get some of this information understood in the architectural Community but uh it's kind of a mess out there because if you reach out to ornithologists they're looking at bird populations not necessarily picking up things at Windows if you reach out to biologists they are entirely in the dark because they're not paying attention to buildings at all Pest Control ends up getting a lot of the calls about these questions because birds are pests and clearly this is like a roosting problem or nesting problem or poop right um so they have a very different perspective Collision researchers myself sorry our plant life are on the timer um actually I can turn it off yeah close enough um forgot about that um so cision research have limited access to Glass industry Architects certainly are not um researching this stuff for funsies um beyond the American birding Association not American biring Association American bird Conservancy there we go um so glass industry is still restricted by the tests that the American bird Conservancy does and then cost and brand in wins every time because Hawk stickers are cheap and fast and you feel good once you put them up and like maybe you're getting less strikes now um so it's it's a challenge um risk levels are basically always underestimated um there was a study done in Canada last spring that found so the people who lived in the home thought that they had four strikes during the span of the study and over 30 were detected they had remote camera setup thing going on um because they just wanted to find out if people who live in their own home 247 because they both worked from home um and they did turn off the cameras when they weren't home like the vast majority of the strikes they didn't hear they didn't see uh there were only four bodies that they found out of over these strikes so we know that what's happening is way worse than what we're seeing up close in personal um and monitoring we're up against all kinds of different things and then when it comes to Architects working with clients clients hear like oh a bird safe building I guess that seems neat but how much extra might it cost if the architect hasn't planned in a design with their thermal performance they might think they have to go for an actual bird safe product uh separately which they assume drives up cost even though it doesn't actually um and it it's just this self self-perpetuating cycle of um you know things not being done right so then you have to put a Post-It note mural on the library every year or so uh so the children will not be horrified during story time when Birds hit but at certain angles the mural still looks like trees and Sky um anyway I think I'm neck deep in this and I think we this is the last slide this is the last slide y'all um so yeah collisions themselves can be quite complicated we have information on how to make it stop um the research Community we're still actually putting together the elephant we have not pieced it entirely together yet but if we wait until we've pieced it all together we will be out of birds by then um and so I I think we're in a really good position right now to say if if New York can do it and they're up against some of the most impressive uh construction lobbies out there um there's no reason we can't start factoring this into to new construction retr City buildings uh U ofm actually did in their July of um campus planning documents add bird consider or bird Collision considerations into their design guide um whether or not they use it as more than a bookmark we'll see but um you it's not news to them so I'm I'm semi optimistic that they will be considering it in the future at least but anyway I thank you for your time um I'm excited to hear questions that you might have about this and how I can help you help birds in whatever capacity possible thank you Heidi that was great um I would like to open this up for um I'll say up to 10 minutes of questions and I hope that we hear plenty of them from um our group here any any particular questions here we go um commissioner Brown um yeah thanks Heidi um when you say New York do you mean New York state or New York City or in this case New York City proper okay thank you misser Dale yeah hi Heidi thank you so much this is a topic I'm really interested in and I have been wanting to know more about and clearly have a lot more I still need to understand about it um I'm what I'm wondering is you know on one hand getting into the design guidelines and actually implemented in in new builds but what is the most effective way to to go back and retroactively get it into buildings you know is it something that can be applied to the outside of buildings at like a massive scale and yeah yeah um again per building you kind of have to to piece together what works best for it what the goals are of the occupants um it's somewhere between Goldilocks and Cinderella in terms of making sure that you get the right fit um but I will say there's a group called feather friendly uh they're pretty well known for their dots I would say um of course the slide that I left out of here for the UV stuff um is a great example if if you go to the the full version of the slideshow in the UV section there's a picture of my finger next to a bunch of dots that is feather friendly that's one of the most widely applied retrofit products um it's very highly effective um man if I got Commission on the amount of stuff that I I'm a fan it's super effective um they're not the only product that I adore but um it's it's pretty straightforward it works across a lot of different visual um situations and yeah it's it's generally very inoffensive to people um and it at scale can be applied pretty quickly too uh and honestly for most of the retrofits the challenge ends up the cost of Labor so it's really hard to get a quote on any of these products because they you it might be a dollar per square foot it might be $5 dollar per square foot but most of it comes down to do we need to rent a cherry picker to apply it practical comment anyone else Mr Graham this is a film that's applied to the outside or um it's it's a set of dots that are made of vinyl film um there's also a product that you know how buses have ads on the side but from the inside you can see out from the outside people can't see in um there's a film very similar to that that is often used in deterring bird collisions uh I will say though they make a clear product of that and I do not advise that whatsoever it's three times more expensive than their the regular Baseline solid looking stuff um but people love it because it's clear but it does not work because it's clear um that being said again as much as I love that it's a uniform surface that you know it's like looking through a screen what I don't love about it is it has a much shorter lifespan than feather friendly um but again it depends if people want to do uh like REI REI has an ad on their window like every six months with something different for marketing purposes if people want to do that awesome you can swap it out every six months and you will never have to deal with it you know getting crunchy after seven to 10 years um and you can get really creative with patterns with your marketing um art schools love it because again there's there's no limit to the creativity that can go into it but um yeah it there there's so many different options so it seems like there's just a fundamental conflict between clear glass and bird yeah strikes and and we haven't found a way to figure that out yet that's correct I am sorry I this is tough yeah missioner Dale another I have a lot of questions but instead of hitting you with all of them I'm I'm wondering two things and maybe it's just something you can point meet us to later or something um do you know of a list of you whether it's universities or other major institutions that have implemented it so that we you know might look at places have done that can I share my screen again yeah okay let me back here I want to say that um we can make available the full set of slides this was because we had our agenda yeah we'll we'll arrange for that so this spreadsheet is chaos uh it's just for funsies where I dump links um but IT addresses in part some of the places that have um in writing somewhere in their codes bird related things um I'm happy to email you this as well but like there are a lot of groups doing bird safe stuff and I would say more than half of them are campus-based and I'm happy to put you in touch with my my colleagues at any of these places uh some of them I don't have enough information on if you know anyone at uh Colorado State University or St lawence um I I have a a lot of Blanks on here like I I know they're doing things but I don't know who has enough information to to fill in the blanks on that but I I can I can hook you up I I would I would love to see as much of the spreadsheet as you're willing to share absolutely yeah I can send you link for it um just save birs gmail.com I'll I'll send you stuff okay okay thanks any other commissioner questions I just want to say that um Heidi first off thank you this is really great um I was kind of fascinated with the whole bus stop thing you know it's like a low-level Collision opportunity um and yet an opportunity to do something pretty good right um is something to think about and maybe we can work with our own bus systems here in town on things like that um it's great because you can engage Arts students you can engage various elementary schools you know here's your bus stop you get to decorate it however you want it can be as permanent as you want it can be as temporary as you want um but yeah if if you're trying to not scare Architects or whomever Developers um I'm happy to share this spreadsheet with whomever but yeah like it it doesn't have to visually be scary and it doesn't have to financially be scary right um we I am so happy that Julia you were able to join us I wonder if you have any particular comments that you'd like to add um because you know our area um and may have your own concerns and and ideas um my best recommendation is to make your windows safe for birds using one of these outside treatments out uh the exterior of the window treatment and um I can say that I left one pane of my screen door without dots on it and I killed a magnolia warbler this fall took it to the bird center it was still alive it was was very feisty and within 24 hours it died for and so there's so much more going on than we all know like Heidi said um there are so many birds that hit and fly off and then die alone somewhere else not by your window so each one of us can do something in our own homes um to make them more safe for birds and as for city ordinances and whatnot I'm um that would take a lot more staff uh consideration and consultation um than just my own opinion for what work has been fantastic and and and Visionary and the movement has grown up around her in our community yeah um a couple years ago John Lowry who's a member of wash otan uh shared with me that he had ordered poite Escape which is the solid looking material that you can see out just fine um but from the outside looks solid uh and he had gotten enough to do his entire house and so he did his entire house but had not gotten around to doing one of the smaller kitchen windows and it took 10 years before an oven bird hit that window but it's not a matter of if it's a matter of when yeah so if we all fixed one window that we know A bird hit like I I think I ran the numbers on this um since 2004 I have presented or in one form or another done Outreach for approximately 36,000 people and if each of them fixed one window that killed 15 Birds a year so this would be like a bad window um or two windows that combined killed 15 Birds a year that would be 530 something thousand Birds per year saved and like I have to hope that this link that I've pulled up right here um my current house has pretty steep overhangs so I don't really need to worry about rain directly hitting the glass but um a friend of mine colleague in Canada busted out a bunch of markers to see how they would do in the weather friend of mine and Dexter did the 2-inch white stripes on her house in 2017 or 18 and she hasn't even needed to touch those up yet and she has had no strikes at her house at all since doing this and it's just a $3 marker wow yeah it's it's just you have to get out there and do it yeah that's what I did as soon as that Magnolia warbler hit my little screen door was make 2 by two grid with a magic marker washable marker we can all do something um personally to save birds from hian glance yeah um oh I see two more hands commissioner Atman thank you uh what about screens like if you have screens over your windows that's good screens are great I love screens they have to be on the outside surface for some reason there been a lot of houses in Michigan that have the screens on the inside but yes screens are wonderful that explains why I have just one window that has strikes because the screens happen to be on the inside of that window they're they're certainly not perfect but they are so much better than the AL yeah than the alternative thank you commissioner Graham and I think this should probably be the last question for now but we'll we'll move on I mean we'll get more y so the stripes or dots or whatever two inches Max apart yeah got it thank you yeah you very much for doing of course yeah and about the screen thing um that's also the least offensive option for almost any HOA and it makes sense to them probably you know that's part of it yeah yeah um if they have any complaints at least with the markers you can wipe them down wait till they're not looking or you do them on the side of the house that nobody can see right great thank you um well I hope that this is just the beginning yeah of of some conversations that um that we can have on this particular issue and um I hoping that um Heidi and perhaps Juliet as well could join some of our discussions in our um newly um launched biodiversity workg group um because this may be something that we want to work on together um and bring something back to the environmental commission for f the consideration so um I'm hoping that that's the case that we can do that thank you so much for having us yeah thank you so much this is great thanks to Heidi all of her all right um all right so I'm going to move us on to our next item um and that is bringing us back once again to administrative um review of our um environmental commission bylaws we are almost done I hope and um we got some help from um the city's Dei office um diversity equity and inclusion office I'm looking for my copy here it is um and I hope that um you all have had a chance to at least scan um the redline document that we sent out um and I'd like to just quickly go through these um my goal for tonight would be for us to um look at what the these question these items are that are redlined um see if we agree with them and are ready to move this on to further review by staff and then the next steps which I think is legal team and then City council is that correct Sean uh I um would also recommend uh letting uh Public Works uh do a review of it as um that the new uh staff leaz on um uh the environmental services manager will be in that department um and just the switch of liaison from OSI to Public Works it seems to make sense to me for for product works to take a look but okay so uh quite a few months sounds like okay but let's what I'm hoping is that we get it moved out of our um uh review process and moved on to the next and shepher it through um okay Sean do you mind sharing the screen and um we'll just tick these off there are not very many but I did find a couple of um small things that I wanted to highlight for the group so in our purpose objectives and duties um there's a suggestion from the Dei office that we add the the final um statement which is the commission will approach their work through a lens of environmental equity and Justice and the commission acknowledges the historical inequitable practice against marginalized communities including but not limited to indigenous Nations who were shepherds of the land and water in Anarbor I have a a personal comment on that one but I wonder if if uh anyone from the group has anything um to call out or comment and I think M Graham is your hand still up or is that a an active question okay all right I'll just say my um my particular question um that I asked is about the use of the um word were as past tense because I think that there are indigenous people in our in our midst um and so I think what I would ask is how to craft a a a statement that shows that there's sort of an ongoing um stewardship or engagement that that we would like to encourage so I don't feel like um it's correct to word Smith is here at this point but I just raised that question about um stating this as as a past kind of thing and actually acknowledging that there are living breathing active indigenous people and others um a model for making progress and making real efforts in this area is David mechner's work with indigenous tribes at MAA Gardens m I don't know of anyone else who has done more or gained more trust or has leaped ahead of most of us in not just recognizing but in actually figuring out ways to do stuff and I don't know what the answers are for the city I I would just recommend that we have some kind of group come together and work on it um certainly the protection of the city's biodiversity honors the steward about 10,000 years stewardship of Native Americans here who presented us with an extraordinary environment when we arrived we Europeans arrived I our statement should be backed up with some actual work just my opinion I think that is excellent and like to see us take action on that um certainly we can we can work on language but it's beyond that right Chris it's more than just what's written here it's like living and and the um Bridges to cross to gain trust are very deep and very difficult I agree thank you um so let's just take that on as kind of like an advisement thing and I do like the idea of reaching out to um David mner um that would be very helpful I hope that we can accomplish that all right so our next change item is um in section 325 where we added um challenges to biodiversity as part one of our um items for advice to council and the city administrator and any comments on that that's really what we've been talking about for a while um let's just go down to number seven we added um to advise the city council administrator on matters relating to sustainable development clean production Environmental Technologies biodiversity and strategies of the A2 City's a20 carbon neutrality plan that are associated with solid waste and natural features we did to go on that I'm hearing nothing I'm G to move on to number nine um this would Now read to publish and present an annual report to City Council on the activities and recommendations of the work groups committees and the commission as a whole it leaves out a lot of some the the particular detail but I think it's more consistent with where we are likely to operate and um doesn't kind of box Us in too tightly what do you all think about this right oh let's move on to number 11 I'm going to take nothing no comment as yes um number 11 is to advise city council and City administrator on enhancing the awareness understanding commitment and active involvement of um skip locals of community members in ensuring wise stewardship of the city's natural resources and enhancement of biodiversity now and in the future through educational education volunteers some public private Partnerships and incentive programs I see your hand commissioner Graham forgive me I did appreciate the change made in the previous document that changed our original language I suggested to prove residency is the qualifying factor for um issuing a driver license to anyone and everyone regardless of citizenship status I appreciated the change whoever made it thank you sorry to okay that's in our that's in our um that's in our um lobbying document this is still our bylaws oh sorry yeah that's okay that's okay we're coming to that one okay that's okay I was okay um I wasn't getting behind no you we not you were way ahead okay um okay the next one down [Music] is got that okay um a new number 15 um to create a sub quorum to create sub Quorum work groups designated to report back to the commission as a whole with recommendations um and then there's a reference below but that's that's not to be part of the bylaw ultimately all right and then we would just renumber the subsequent items and then we're going on to way down to a question to our City attorney about um conflict of interest just how do we do the annual process if is there a paper or something we need to sign or some some way to acknowledge that so that is not part of the byw it's just a question to address the management of our conflict of in interest statement okay next one is pretty far along it is um article 7.12 there it is um this is just something that I just noticed that it was like our bylaws said that we we're going to have public comment for 2 minutes but our practice has been 3 minutes and and Council uses 3 minutes so I propose that we use three minutes for us in our bylaws see no comment if you have one let me know um otherwise we're going to move on to that the end not quite okay 9.6 yeah uh which is the commission may also create work groups or designate certain members to perform research or develop recommendations on specific topics without creating a committee committee is really a more formal kind of arrangement and um this is just to support our our more informal kind of activities and that's that so environmental commission any com comments concerns questions hearing none um I'm going to just ask if we have could have a a motion to proceed with management of these through the city process and we'll um ask Sean to give us some guidance and the legal team as well did I have a motion thank you commissioner Dale seconded by commissioner Curtis everyone okay with moving our bylaws forward as written thank raise your hand I see almost everyone Mr Graham are you voting okay with this or Y thank you okay we got 100% thank you all um thanks here we go moving at a snails pace our next item that we were going to talk about has to do with um uh preparing us really for our next session but but at least a brief discussion of things that we would like to ask our um city um what do our city lobbyists to work on um in the name of environmental issues um that we would advise Council to ask our lobbyists to move forward and so with that I um uh at commissioner Curtis's good suggest question um included the list that we had prepared in March um and I wonder if anyone has any additions to this um for natural features solid waste water quality pollinators I see commissioner Cowart thank you yeah something that's come up with the circular economy discussions is a ban on uh compact fluoresence uh because they contain mercury and encouraging the shift to LEDs ah okay do you see that as being like a state um level thing yes okay do you know of any um active legislative effort to date I've asked the new circular economy staff member to pass that along it was uh will is his name will Garcia who brought that up so as soon as I get some more information from him on that be happy to pass that along that's great okay that sounds great yeah I was worried about those bulbs on commissioner Graham of course uh there almost are no complex fluoresence in the stores anymore almost everything there is Led which is going in the right direction very fast I know there are some but and I think prices favor the LEDs yep um commiss Brown um regarding Solid Waste number one which is amend 115 to prevent organic waste disposal and landfills there's a complication here in that um almost all um Municipal Solid Waste are uh or you know wastewater treatment waste um sewage sludge relabeled as by solids they're sufficiently contaminated with posos chemicals that they uh that um our own city has no longer spreading them on agricultural Fields but um you know shipping them to a landfill uh pending you know pending um determinations of what the legal status is going to be because there are extensive Legacy contaminations there's been you know eiga has been resistant to test any agricultural fields or biosolids being applied on agricultural land so um this is a gray area right now that's probably going to fall um into a situation where most Municipal organic biosolids will not be legally disposable on agricultural lands so the land going to a toxic landfill Stephen or or are they going to Arbor Hills I'm not exactly sure I think um I City staff will have to be asked that question um but I you know part of the why this is all in flux is because um I mean EPA still hasn't acknowledged any of these as hazardous waste well there are farms that have been completely ruined by this practice that's correct the regulatory apparatus um moves very slowly seems like a good idea for us to provide a strong nudge any others in addition to what is included in our packet council member dish yeah I wanted to put in a plea for tipping fees um for legislation to increase the cost of tiping fees in Michigan because and this too comes out of the work of the circular economy slash formerly known as zero waste um working group because um if one of the barriers to um an effective construction and demolition policy um is if it's cheaper for people to landfill their stuff then bring it to the CND sorting facility and pay whatever fee they have to pay and get the value they get for that so um uh and I know that Yousef Robbie used to be very excited about tipping fees of course he's not in the Senate anymore but um I think that there's probably support from Senator Irwin and I know that there has been a bill on that um but I do not know what it is but I can do some checking and find out um what there is here um and I wondered did um when I I I suppose you've all looked at the document that Sean sent us Mr Reynolds sent us that has what the council's policy suggestions are with the policy committees formal program is they it's clearly very rigorously prioritized and it's clear that they got a lot of Staff feedback in doing it I me you could tell that sustainability staff had a lot of input because a lot of the energy policies that we need to reach a20 are foregrounded in that I'm wondering if it would be worthwhile um to prioritize these still further I mean our list or the one the one that Council has yeah our list because councils is councils used to be a huge long grab bag and it and I think that it was less effective that way and so I think that the policy committee this year or I guess at this point it's last year but anyway did put a lot of effort of thinking about priorities and really um connecting the suggestions to City initiatives that are seen as very high priority and that are underway and so I don't you know I think it would take some it would take some hard choices to do that with this list and so I don't know if that's the best idea or if it's because this is coming from a commission if simply putting forward everything that um you know that we can see as valuable and allowing the policy Comm to prioritize and weed out would be the best strategy and I I'm actually kind of posing that as a open question to anyone here what they think would be best um but and if people are amenable to um tipping fees I'm happy to keep uh to to find out more information about that and then I wondered if anybody could just illuminate what um what you take to be the current State policy on deer and what we would be asking for from the State Legislative discussion regarding deer management can yeah if anyone could just because um I am I'm confused I mean I know that a problem we have with the state is that they won't let us do a sterilization thing anymore that was a pilot project and they won't bring that back and that was effective and good and it was something that people could come together around and that didn't didn't activate so many of the um animal rights activists and they won't let us do that anymore so is that the discussion that we want to reopen because otherwise I don't think that they have a lot of bearing I mean like we could do what we want except we can't do another sterilization program it's more up to us so I'm not I'm not sure what the legislative discussion would look like other than a discussion around the sterilization pilot so did anyone have a what's the thinking behind that um I think that I I can't fully speak to the full range of this except to say that there is still concern um about um deer management in the city and in our region in general um and the effect that it has on um the the full ecosystem um y I totally understand that so yeah yeah but I'm not sure why that would be something we would lobby at the state level over unless we wanted to Lobby about but it wouldn't be the legislator legislature it would be Eagle that we need to Lobby about um letting us sterilize again um I mean this is a city issue um there's very little chance of that I the hunters hold heavy sway even in a democratic legislature that's there The Hunting Community was extraordinary offended by it offended by by the sterilization yes okay [Music] um so all I can say is right now this was a carryover from our prior discussion and so it I think it remains a concern of of our group and so that's why it's still on this list yeah I'm saying that I understand that but if this list is to be on the policy committee State Legislative lobbying I don't think this belongs on it because I don't think that it's I I don't think that that's where where the pressure needs to be I mean I am not I am as you know um concerned about our deer management policies but um unless someone could specify what they think uh we need from the state I'm not sure that it should be on here yesterday at the state parks advisory committee meeting I brought up the subject of the duty of the DNR and particularly the parks division to protect biodiversity on state parks and I suggested that we sit down with hunters and mucc and state parks folks and Wildlife folks and work out a way to deal with too many deer on our state parks which many of which represent the highest level of biodiversity in the state I don't know the answer but I think some of the things that we discovered in an arbor about how to go about these things things uh will contribute to that answer and um I think there's no doubt and I think the majority of people recognize there is no doubt in Southern Michigan we have too many deer particularly in our Urban and Suburban areas and there needs to be some serious work done to find a way to deal with this we were very successful in two parts of our city somewhat successful in the third part never mind sterilization we were very successful in making a drastic change in the damage that was occurring here and uh we need to get back to it and we need to do our best to inform other people in the state about how to go about it much is happening actually a lot of people a lot of places are getting very frustrated we did a great job and uh we have to find a way to get through this problem a lot of people say well we have too many cootes we have too many geese we have too many we have Beaver for heaven sakes nothing in any of those nuisance animals Rises to the degree of damage to our biodiversity and our ecosystems that deer are presenting us I don't I'm not arguing with you Lisa I am simply saying that uh we got to get there somehow so I agree and I'd like us to keep this on our list for discussion so we have another session where we can do this at the end of November and I'm hoping that we can have a um perhaps our discussion in our biodiversity work group specifically and see if we can come up with some suggestions and and some ways forward um that's what I'd like to take as an approach um I would like to add to this list um support for some legislation that is ongoing with respect to pollinators specifically um and it is some legislation that's being right now one one bill in particular with an Associated one um is being being um shephered through by uh representative Ryans um District 47 of the house um and it is um with restricting use of neonicotinoid pesticides as a class um from use on the state's public lands um so it's under discussion I know and I would just like to send support for that um to go forward um as an arber saying we support it that that is my one wish to add to this and at least it's specific enough and and has some um current activity anyone else with any additions um then I think with that I'm going to ask that um each of the work groups take a look at this and see if we want to tighten up any of the aspects of the the document um certainly that seems like a reasonable kind of thing to me um and um with that any other questions or comments about this particular thing on our agenda tonight because I think we are at a point to call for reports from our commission committees other commissions and Council okay um first up let's go with let's go with biodiversity Mr Graham do you want to take a lead on that we may or may not have we've met twice and um are inventing our duties and um um working through a whole set of ideas about what we might do and how we might do it um uh without I would say a huge degree of commitment in One Direction there's too much on the table still um perhaps once we get to the next meeting we'll be doing better but at least there's an interest in trying to gather a group of people who are extraordinarily well informed in this area to begin to talk with us about um what it would take practically and effectively to not just protect the biodiversity we have in the city but impr proove it and I'm very tickled about the bird presentation to tonight because clearly Birds particularly song birds and migratory birds are in great decline right now there are birds I used to see frequently I was a little boy I never see anymore in the city and including pheasant out my back window that was not a native species but nonetheless they're gone and gone for much of the state and so I I um we'll keep you posted I'm I'm I'm thrilled at this kind of reinvention of what we're doing with natural features in the city and uh think it will bear more interesting fruit and one really needs to thank Rita and Brooks for their um leadership in this idea and this way of going ahead all right thank you for that report um let's go to Circular economy sure I'll get it started and then Lisa please add whatever uh you'd like or I miss um so we meet monthly uh we met last week uh so let me back up where our Focus this fall or this year is on CNT corruption and Demolition and working on pulling together information analyzing that and thinking about is it's possible to move forward with some type of coordinance for that within the city and or in partnership with the county um we've pulled together a lot of information we've started to analyze that right now we are focused on conversations with other municipalities that have implemented C and ordinances last week we had a wonderful conversation with several reps from um Wisconsin Madison and the surrounding County and next month we're going to be talking with representatives from the city of Austin uh so that's kind of our Focus um there's a lot of good things going on but the main challenge seems to be you know do we how do we move forward in the best way knowing that there isn't really a facility now to take things at scale Lisa you are as always superb at doing this J hun um I would uh add that um I I think what Sarah Mason said at our last meeting was really that right now we're in a phase of deciding if this is even something we should be pursuing right now um because it does appear I mean unless it would turn out that our current murf could has capacity to take CND D waste with which I don't know that it does uh Madison has two sorting facilities so two murfs basically and so that would put it pretty far off um so still it is great to be exploring this and talking to other cities who've done this and Madison gave us really great feedback and inspiration around um how they how they're able to even without perfect reporting from the people that are that are participating and dealing responsibly with their stuff they're able to talk about carbon emissions that they're achieving from it and so you know we could do some good work but um I if I may just add an item to include it's just it occurs to me that there are a number of developments under proposal that will place a lot of buildings um I'm thinking of south of Packard toward Madison a lot of buildings that when I look at them I see these gorgeous carved Foundation Stones um from the 1800s and the thought of losing those just in landfill is kind of painful um and so I don't know what to say about that but it would be so great to um address that there are windows and doors there that function right um if there's any way to manage that um and and I know that timing is an issue right now right increased tipping fees back to our policy agent can that be done fast let's go for it he push okay all right um let's see uh all right I'm G to lose track but I think that next is harks hi that's me thank you commissioner maren uh we met last week uh the Parks Commission last met last week um we had a presentation on the city golf courses they had a huge turnout this year for golf uh set a record this year the number of rounds played at both golf courses um they also talked about the various um some of the stewardship projects that they carry out on the golf courses um the monarchs in the rough we have four acres of wetland on golf courses um solar panels are being installed at both both or have been installed at both and um they're working on using uh organic fertilizer to keep the the grass nice um and then we had pres a presentation on uh the Barton bamir tunnel Trail and tunnel project it's going to be done in two phases um this winter they will be Paving the section um in the Barton nature area that's going to become part of the border to border Trail and then late summer they hope to Begin work on the um underpass that's going to go underneath the railroad track to connect bamir to Barton um and then finally we had a presentation on a big project that's going to be happening at the Barton Dam um there's the embankment that uh forms the I think that's uh that'll be the west side of the Barton pond it's going to have uh it needs to be reinforced with it's an earn embankment and it needs to have more Earth um I don't know all the technical details of it but um uh this is work that's mandated by um uh the the federal agency I think it is that um um ensures that our dams are safe um and that project is going to be a long one because access to the embankment is via the parks uh via the the path that's in the park there because they need to go underneath the railroad track that um that uh is right that uh traverses right there between the embankment and here on River Drive so for this project is going to take about 24 months and during that time access to the Barton dam is going to be cut off like um right now you know Park users can go up to the dam and cross it so during that time they will not be able to do that um so that's going to be a long project it's going to probably start next summer 2024 and that's all I have thank you that's really very interesting all of it um okay I think our next one is transportation commissioner Amman yeah um I have a couple things one one resolution that was passed in our last city council meeting that first was passed by Transportation Commission and that was about um restoring uh safe comfortable walking and bike facilities across the eight Crossings uh across us23 that we have within the city um so that is a request of mdat it also calls for them not to you know widen the freeway in the process of this $250 million project that we should be instead investing in thinking about ways to facilitate mass transit uh on those corridors there's another one I guess this is my city Council report because this one didn't go through the Transportation Commission first but it is transportation related and that is the resolution that we passed calling on MD do um not to build a six mile wall I believe it was through an arbor along the railroad tracks um basically we're calling on them to you know we all want safe legal Crossing across the railroad tracks um there are better ways to do it than building a wall and I think that actually listened because the last I saw they had updated and said they're going to re-engage with u the different municipalities and the community I guess I don't know really what that means but it seems like we at least got their attention so that seems like a positive thank you so I have a thing to add to that which is a concern that that I think has been raised by people in that group which is um Wildlife Crossing of those areas that are right along the river it's just such a natural kind of thing and sorry yeah the that was one of the things mentioned in the in the petition that we cited too and in the resolution so thanks for bringing that up yeah yeah thank you um go for it um uh okay all right I have I missed um we do need planning and city council I guess are the two that I know and I may have missed another one uh also energy commission and water quality oh yeah thank you energy you want to hear from energy I know John mury is not here today so I think that's no info and I'm sorry Sean I did not hear the second one you said the water quality working group oh water quality yeah um let's see I just we have not met uh but I have two things I'd like to announce and one is that um the here on River Watershed Council you know is um working through its Mid Michigan partners Consortium to come up with tmdl recommendations for uh I want to remind people that the city is in a consent decree with eaga to reduce its phosphorus pollution uh nutrient pollution of the hon river which is causing harmful alal blooms or contributing to harmful Al alal blooms in Fort Lake and Belleville Lake Downstream of an arbor and so um they're working out a plan and there's there it's still on a draft form so there's nothing specific to report now it's going to be slow um the basic action that's mandated over the next couple of years is uh just Gathering more data um is what I've heard so far so I'll report back when I hear more about this um the second thing is that you know um yesterday there was a press conference um the uh Jeff Irwin our state senator has been driving legislation to bring back polluter accountability legislation so a whole package of bills was submitted simultaneously by Jason Morgan who's our house representative in an arbor and um you know who replaced Yousef Robi and so they've introduced a whole set of bills both in the house and the Senate and there was a press conference um held U um yesterday morning at 9:00 a.m.

I know nobody wants that Robin Lan Bus St it's just so far out there off of hope you turn you turn off of Cooper hope and it's like the first little yeah it's there little we're live so we let Lisa sit we'll go ahead all right want to call to order I'll call this meeting to order at 6:32 do the pleas Al to flag United States ofer stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all Mr Davis here Mrs re here Mr here Mrs alen here Mrs Hanah here Mr Golden here Mr julo here Mr Jones M here so we need a motion and a second to approve the Action meeting minutes of the September 28th 2023 meeting as present all those in favor opposed all right we're going to go into executive session motion and a second motion 633 give me one second so I can tell um Mr Cunningham to come and shut us down [Music] thank you all right you're going to mute [Music] foring are I'm unlock I don't think sometimes the kids come down to the [Music] front go thank you very much for everyone joining us uh we've already opened our meeting earlier at 6:30 for an executive session so we're ready to cck up with our presentation all right our first presentation going to be for our student role models positive behavior for students of the month of September I'm guessing that's why some of you are out here at smil what these what these little words POS behavior supports schoolwide approach uh for Behavioral supports in schools encourages all the characteristics that you you guys are trying to teach at home uh it it encourages uh good relationships between peers um kind of the golden R we all try to live by want treat each other right um but it does have an evidence-based practice to it's an evidence-based research it is a it is a system of supports and rewards and encouragements uh that help us have a better climate and culture in school and what we want from that is that our students enjoy School more they enjoy School more they come more often they enjoy it more they attended their studies more uh and so and so they so they do better it is a win win win tonight we get to uh select and and reward and applaud and thank uh a group of our students for being exemplary uh models of that behavior that we're looking for and awarding them certificate as a student so with your all right so on behalf of the board Mr Murphy Mrs bright and myself if you hear your name come on up students of the month um student of the month we have Samuel Church congratulations Nathan Negron Jen Marshall J Taylor sop Sterling Nicholas Adams Nelson Alonso Liam Simpson [Applause] con [Applause] [Music] [Applause] angelum ariela Ione [Applause] Char David Plaza S isab [Applause] Alvarez Miss anybody we all right congratulations [Applause] everybody congratulations to all of our students of the month and thank you all again for coming out uh we're going to take a short pause if anyone would like to take their kids home to start their evening rituals we totally understand you're more than welcome to stay enjoy the rest of our meeting along with us the sisters mat I got atast hello congratul thank you got it thank [Laughter] iation will be just as fun probably not as cute ofs Mr Gold is it okay for me to get started absolutely okay great um for those of you who don't know me my name Isa Bley cber I'm the supervisor of curriculum and instruction here at Berlin Township I'm here tonight to present our 20203 state assessment results so the results of the tests that the children took in this I'll go through um and point out some things that I've noticed and then if there's anything you want to talk about or point out as well feel free there me as I hit the wrong switch oh I hit the so we'll start with a little bit of an overview um in the spren of 2023 there were four state assessments that the students participated in the children in grades 3 through eight took the njsla in ela and math the students in grade five also took njla I'm sorry five and eight took njla and science are special education students that have a cognitive disability that excludes them from the NJ SLA What's called the DM the dynamic learning math and then our multilingual Learners is which is what we used to call our Ells who participate in ESL class took What's called the weda access 2.0 so we will go through each of those we'll start with the WEA access the access for Ells 2.0 is a test of English language proficiency so there is no actual passing score although the state recommends that if a child scores a 4.5 or better they can be released from their program with multiple measures so we are looking at their listening speaking reading and writing in English these are children that can have any level if they have just come to America we would consider that a level one no English up to a level six which is reaching proficiency here are the results for our Ells um you'll notice there are no individual scores up there because our population was so small I wanted to protect students privacy so they are in grade bands um entering would be our level ones that's the blue working up to expanding the purple you'll notice we have no reaching or bridging because if they had scored a five or a six they would be released from the program so this is typical this is what I would expect it to look like we had 23 total children in the program last year as of now we are at 38 for this year yes did we have any that were uh graduates from this program in this time period yes we had one yes so of those four that are in purple one of them was above a 4.5 and was R um the dynamic learning Maps again a very small population of children so I kept off as much identifiable information as I could um these are for the students with cognitive disabilities whose IEP States that they should be excluded or are not capable of participating in the njsla these children also learn daily based on an individual plan and different standards we had nine children participate eight of those children were in District and one was an out of District placement again no traditional passing score just to give us some information okay now we'll get into the good stuff NJ SLA Ela and math this is the the one you've heard the most about there are five performance levels the top two are passing so we're looking for a four or a five when I talk about passing our scores look something like this in ela we had approximately 40% of our children pass and by passing a four or a five out of five and in math we had about 25% on the graphs you're looking for the green dark green or light green is is passing taking those same children we had 418 students participate and breaking them down by grade level Ela is on the left math is on the right one bar for each gray level a higher bar means there are more children in that class and what we are looking for is as much green on the bar as possible the numbers are the amount of students that scored in that range so I can't see all the little it's third fourth fifth six seven correct okay third grade is doing the best on both B I'm sorry not third fifth grade that's that that's what you're looking for well that's that's an interesting yes interesting take Mrs re because by number of children who passed fifth grade is doing the best but you'll well actually their bar wasn't the highest either so by percentage they probably did pretty well yeah we'll get there on in a slide or two but that is what you're looking for the most as green as possible what's the brown on the bottom I thought it looked Brown too my apologies next it looks like they do stronger Ela than math I think that's Statewide what math program do we use GO Math on that M this is those same charts for Science and just because nothing can be easy right science has four levels instead of five so you'll notice there's no blue on these graphs because there's only one two three and four there's no cuss there and again the top two are passing we only have a fifth and an eth grade for science because the test is given every three years in grade bands so what did children learn in third fourth or fifth grade is tested in fifth and then what they learn in sixth seventh and eth is tested in eth and it continues into High School 9th 10th and 11th so putting all of that information those last couple slides were counts of children this is now percentages so the percent of the class that passed in each subject the purple are the ELA the orange are the math and and the pinkish maroon looking color is science okay so there were some pretty clear things that jumped out at me I I mean I'll talk about what I see if you see something different you please let me know but those were the areas that caught my attention they seem those numbers feel low to me and I felt like we needed to dig a Little Deeper to see if that was necessarily the case I wanted to know if 6% in fourth grade math 12% in sixth grade math or 16% in eighth grade math is typical is that what the state is doing as well or is that simply where we fall yeah so what I'm seeing is okay last year do we know how the fourth grade performed yes we do second to get there because then that would be fifth grade for this year and if you see like that's a really big difference just between those two grades yes it is and even third grade and to know what how those fourth graders scored last year your brains are going all down the same path that mine went on so I'm happy to go that way for you um this is how Berlin Township students did compare to the state so the purple bars are the state and Berlin Township are the orange so what we would hope for is that we are at or above the purple we want the orange to be higher so those three areas from this slide that we just talked about are right there now a couple things jump out here first being for science we were pretty close right so that might be a test problem that might be a change something that was what John was explaining to us this demonstration right but something changed with the way they tested it or what they learned in science versus the test yeah yes so in middle school science they give you all of the Middle School standards and you place them at the grade where you think they go and then they test them in eth whereas in every other grade they say like in third grade we're gonna learn this so the test is is the same type of test but the material they have to remember from three years previous um the state the state the state was at 19% we were at 17 so we we're right hanging in with the state that doesn't concern me as much anymore however those other two areas we had looked at um still kind of stick out in addition to those two I notice those two and my brain then went to exactly what you were talking about before is I see math four math 6 ela3 and ela4 Ela is up or four is up there twice right so the children that were in fourth grade appeared twice in the bottom of our data this is not to discredit those bars that are real high I am so proud We have those right but those aren't the ones I need to work on these are so I went Where Mrs Hannah and Mrs Reed's Minds went I was like well okay well let's see how those children did last year maybe it's a cohort of children that we need to talk about and not necessarily A teacher or a test right so this is our information from 2022 and 2023 2023 is the blue bar so what we are looking for is a blue bar higher than a purple bar to show growth that class we were just talking about is right here so they are our current fifth graders the purple bar is when they were in third grade our Baseline year the blue bar was last spring when they were in fourth grade and now they are in fifth grade so so they grew got so in language arts on the left you'll see they grew what looks like a significant amount I don't have the exact numbers it's probably in the 20s right but in math they did not which could come down to co and when they were learning to read well my guess but then you would see the same thing at the state level oh that's true that's what do you know what standards specifically in fourth grade that they were struggling with yes our scores were we performed before below the state in most of them if not all a lot of the standards they give us a breakdown of each standard yeah um so this is telling me that group of children who are struggling in math in third is still strug they dipped in fourth in math math specifically so they struggled a bit as a whole but math is really now where I need to put my focus right so I I had a some tough conversations and I mean I think our brains go to the immediate like did you talk to that teacher um and I did and she at first said I think it's co and she talked a lot about trying to fill gaps and when we got to the root of it she said she didn't get through the correc so not that that's an excuse but that's a good reason so now we need ways to make sure we are pacing to get through the curriculum so keep that in mind as we progress I'm going to talk about some solutions we have for that um before we leave this slide I also want to point out the other area where I saw that kind of dip and growth came um in what's now our ninth graders so they aren't ours anymore so I'm happy to report it it's giving us a very clear direction of where we need to go as far as Improvement they dipped in ela they did the opposite yes they did in math they did better but in ela they did worse I have a question about math also um does only one teacher teach math or there how many teachers teach math in fourth in fourth yeah there's one that teaches General and one that teaches special oh okay classes four starting in fourth grade we switch classes so in third grade the children go to one teacher and spend all day with them starting in fourth grade okay because in my district we what we have like we other fourth grade teacher that's why but I'm Ela but we have partner teachers um so like I teach Ela and writing and my kids go to another math but more than one person teaches math that's why I was curious understand no so from fourth through sixth grade children have three cours a day with three different teachers they have an Ela teacher a math teacher and a Content teacher who splits science and social studies once they get to seventh and eth grade they have four cores Ela math science and social studies okay I not finishing the curriculum that impacted every kid yes like every kid in that well yes and it's part of why they didn't finish the I don't know if you could know or say this is part of why they didn't finish the curriculum because they were too busy trying to catch them up on the Bas SK the teacher they were missing yes yes yeah that's what the teacher so will there be something put in place to monitor to ensure that the okay yeah if you wouldn't mind holding that I got it com 100% two slides ahead of me yes um this is our um free and postco data to give you an idea so um in 2019 that was the year before Co those are the the plotted points to the far left of each graph that's where we were by grade level we didn't have a test in 2020 or 2021 so the next year we took a test was 2022 we're now looking at that row so you can see there was a steady decline in all areas Prett and postco and I don't think that's a surprise to anyone what is now interesting is we are on the up swing of that right so if we can focus our attention and let's forget everything preco and focus our attention on what happened since Co so we are looking from 2022 to 2023 and it looked like this so most of the GR in seven of the 12 test areas it is going up yeah that's a little more than half yeah there are five test areas where it's going down of those five two of them were still above the state average which again brings me right where I need to focus right I mean I think we all see where those are right fourth grade okay and this is I'm sorry this is the current last same fourth grade teachers from year they the same from the year before I thought some of the fourth grade teachers didn't they move up from 2022 to 2023 is different teachers but from 23 to this current year are the same teachers I thought they had changed from 22 to 23 when they moved to jaet correct okay correct so my next question was did the state Trends look that same way did all of the schools have seven out of 12 trending up in about five cing down and the answer was no so Berlin Township is on the left New Jersey is on the right that we are looking at Ela passage rates pre and postco so you'll see in all of New Jersey steady decline down through coid and then spite turned back upward after I I will point out though if you go back to the L the last Slide the ones we're going up in we're going up more than they are yes we are so that's a good sign I I I think um it's I think next year's scores will be very important because then we'll have three consective to look at it's hard to pick a trend with only two points um but it's this is what we've got right so we're we'll work with what we have here's that same information for math again nothing too surprising in fact the state has just slowed their decline it really isn't yeah it's like barely going up really they're going up slightly but in our ones that are going down there exactly like the one especially the red line on that one way down where like the purple line is just continuing I it's purple it looks purple yes you're absolutely correct yep you're talking about um and even the blue line is kind of just slightly going going down at the angle that it had been and that's the one that we talked about was decreasing but was still above State average that's blue line yep um from there what we wanted what I thought we needed to do is dig into which kids are passing and which aren't and why and see if there's a trend that way we can't pin it necessarily on one teacher or one class even though we see where we need to put our areas of focus let's see if there's some sort of Trend in subgroups so this this is our subgroup data now at the size of our district if there was a subgroup with under 10 children in it I left them off the chart so if you see a blank on the chart that means there was either less than 10 children in that group or no significant difference in the stats so we'll go one column at a time if we're talking about gender our females generally outperformed our males in language arts not too much in math as far as ethnicity I could not find a trend there was a whole mix happening in ethnicity I think it's important to to mention to to everyone that uh while Dean is definitely diving into the data and every ways that that you should reporting to the board by these subgroups is required yes that this was not necessarily her decision to look oh yes yes this um presentation that's requ yes contains everything that is required so we can say um for our review that yes I've presented to you everything that the state has asked me to yeah thank you um by economic status now follow this one because it's counterintuitive but are not economically disadvantaged students did perform higher than our disadvantaged students so that sounds backwards in your head but it makes sense not disadvantage outperformed disadvantage which is kind of what you would expect it's exactly what I would yep exactly and then by disability so we are talking about children with IEPs and 504 plans got a little worried when I got to this column I there are a lot of areas here where you'll see 0% IEP where no children who had an IEP passed in that subtest that means in science no not one single black student passed eth gr science correct that includ my that includes my son well keeping mind 17% of our children passed so and yes yes but I'm glad you're making those kind of connections yeah so when I saw this I um I called a meeting with the child study team and we had a discussion about what might be happening with children with IEPs that seems to stand out I I didn't know if that was a problem in past if something had changed we had a 2% passage rate for children with IEPs on the test um first thing we thought of was how did they do last year last year we had an 8% passage rate so we did decline as far as that subgroup um and the child study team immediately wanted to know if they grew because these children have IEPs for a reason they need um something different than maybe their classmates so some of them might not get a four or a five 20% of them and 24% were in the three category so that's solid I'm okay with right it it's not as worrisome um on average they gained five points in ela and dropped five in that and are we comparable with that with the state do you have the record for I don't have I don't have the state information on that I can certainly dig deeper or wait until the performance reports come out um yeah I'd also be concerned curious I know you said that 8% increase from last year oh last year opposed to this year only 2% how did the kids with IEPs perform last year are up the kids with I so I'm sorry let me let me the graph kind of thing yes so CH looking at only children with IEPs last year 8% pets this year only two so that's excluding everyone with a across the board in every grade hold district is there grades where they were worse than others kind of thing from the year before or I should say like if they're in fifth grade this year or last year but they were fourth grade year before there are but the number is so few it would give away personal information but you know that I do you can at least make the change yes so I can tell you it is we're talking four students two of them are speech okay so I know who they are I know what their services are but I needed to have that conversation with the child study team to make sure I wasn't missing anything because that is not my expertise and when I got to talking with the child study and some of the special ed teachers they talked very specifically about postco there were so many gaps I needed to fill them in and it started to sound just like what I had heard from that fourth grade math teacher so same kind of problem I'm not getting through everything because I have to fill in all the gaps and so now we see where maybe our problem is um it might be spread it might be a little bit hidden but I think it's the areas where teachers aren't completing the curriculum for whatever reason because the children need something different or because they don't feel they can move on or they can't for some reason so Mr Golden as you were talking about we do have some solutions that we'd like to propose um moving forward using this information so the first one and it's kind of a biggie is at JFK we have an annual School plan um I don't know as a board how much you know about this process but basically that means we have a state representative that we now meet with regularly to make sure we are staying on Pace with everything we need to do her name is Caitlyn Allen she's very very nice and she's been tremendous in addition we've started a leadership team at JFK of teachers to make sure everyone is staying on track we have set five goals for ourselves as a school and they have been approved by the state you can see them written there in blue um we had a reading a writing a math a social OT and then one that was our free choice and we chose attendance good luck this year everyone's been sick and guess what the one we're already behind on all these they've been sick three times each already and it's what not even two months so we're we're tracking our chronic absenteeism we're tracking our reading and math scores and this year we are tracking them monthly because in the past we track them three times a year and by the time we C on we were too far behind to catch up so we are tracking monthly the first of every month Mr Murphy and I meet and we are answering them into the system reporting them to Caitlyn Allen and then we can make changes from that the staff at JK is all very aware so it's it's helping us get that conversation started um in addition it came with some money so we purchased some programs that to help boost those areas and we purchased the trainings that go with all of the those programs and we began an after school tutoring program so um for those of you that have children at JFK you might have gotten the letter already similar to what we call Extended RTI at DDE we went through the data we found the children who work performing up to grade level at this point we send them an invite to come stay after school and get small group tutoring with one of our teachers and we grouped the children by ability and by grade level so that hopefully they can can Target a little extra and get some extra skills to kind of boost this up um this school year we offered it to 70 children and we had most of them say that they wanted to come um in the end we did have to make groups a little larger than we were hoping for because we didn't have as much staff as we needed to run the groups so we had to combine some groups here and there but um we have the data ready and we have a plan to release kids from the program as they meet grade level targets that are listed there in blue when they meet those targets they can be released from the after school program and then the teachers can focus on those children that still really need it in addition because we were focused on that fourth grade class that's now in fifth grade we needed to put a little attention at DDE as well so the DDE extended RTI has a fifth grade math Focus this year you'll find groups that are centered around fifth grade math specifically and the DDE school goals are about aligning our assessments to increase the rigor to match njl now how come we can't get the same kind of criteria dve that we did at JFK like where you have the lady that comes out so that is provided based on our scores from the year before so the 2022 SC JFK was in the bottom fifth percentile of was and DD was correct so the state has identified them as a school in Le so that is where the additional funding comes as a focus to create that after school that makes sense yeah now I have a question I know before especially like you have to be on the classroom for your DD students does that not exist anymore it does it's called extended correct it does exist it's not just a general homework help for everybody anymore it's targeted they have to reach out to you I have a student personally that can use that extra help that no one has reached out to me um it is part of the RTI program but not 9p that doesn't make sense though us they usually don't offer RTI to correct keep out of the keep them from progressing into an no and I understand that so last year we had room so we opened some for children with IEPs but this year same as J we we were hoping for more rooms and had budgeted for more rooms then we got volunteers correct and by volunteers I mean we pay them right now the small groups that are supposed to be targeted instruction are larger small groups correct like how large 10 still small and what size was it initially supposed to be trying to the progam if you don't have to staff what do you do you do the best with what you have we can't force people to take that on after school you would expect that at the beginning of the year there will be a lot of children in it because they've only taken that star test once we only have one Benchmark score as we give get more and more information and more data and start releasing children we'll narrow down who really needs to be there um we can also take teacher recommendation once they're in that small group this child really doesn't need extra help they maybe just tested for and we can start retesting um but at least we'll have data at least we'll know what direction we're going in we'll know specific children if they're on target or not all year instead of and you'll know what's working and what's not and how to fix it sooner rather than later we also um in some cases the teacher is a teacher from from that grade level but in other cases it's purposely not so that the kid is learning from a different teacher maybe the teacher they have doesn't have the same type of style as them and a little extra boost from someone else might help so we did move some teachers out of the grade level they teach all day for the after school program Tuesdays and Thursdays are going to be reading support and Wednesdays is going to be math so the children were invited to certain days based on their scores and their needs some children were invited to all three some children one or two can I ask why it is there's two days for reading and one for math even though our reading was better than our math yeah I was thinking that because our except for in that one R level right so our reading was better but so was the stat our reading was better than our math but we were further from the state in Reading than we were in math okay so the state as a whole generally does worse in math so we did consider that we didn't have as many students score in need of intervention on the star math as we did in Star reading well and if you can't read you can't do math either I mean I hate to point that out math you can do if as long as you can read numbers for the most part you can't read their problem all strugg in ela but in math is their High one yeah every all five of them so I I get like you can be stronger in one and not the other that's why it's kind of funny to me that or ironic money but that Ela is higher but yes but it's it's high everywhere yeah are there any other questions I can answer for you how did you come up with the percentages on like math goal 85% of the students will be on grade level why did how did you come up with 85% yeah so last school year we sat with that lady Caitlyn Allen and we went through every students's Benchmark at the end of last year and we looked at where they started and found realistically how many we had meet grade level that year and we we chose a number between that at 100 and the state has been the state representatives have been amazing I mean they are so helpful and so knowledgeable I mean I haven't sat in on all the meetings but I was in for a couple of the introdu meetings and um constant Outreach constant followup I mean they really are remarkable and they help Dina and Mike to kind of set those realistic parameters yeah and will we be getting that support until we get at least very close to these numbers how does that side work that's a great question we're released from the program based on our NJ SLA scorts so these are our goals to make sure for us as a district that we stay on track but it's those njsla scores that will eventually get us off of being monitored So in theory we were told in April that we were going to be placed on this annual School plan and it was based on the test scores from the year before 2022 it was already April of 2023 at that point so we were just about to take the test again and hadn't done anything that they would require right we've done what we think we need to do um so they made it very clear if you test this year and you are no longer in that bottom category you could be released right now and if I recall one of the things too is because there's now a testable grade another testable grade at the elementary school that increases our odds because now we have something to compare to so the likelihood that maybe we won't fall into to this moving forward there could be a good chance did I interpret that right when she was speaking on so in 2022 JFK only went to third grade that cohort of children we had been talking about was in third grade at that time their test scores weren't wonderful we got placed on this plan then we moved fourth grade to JFK so now JFK has two grade levels worth the children that can get us out of being monitored that third grade class that got us in was in fourth grade they were still ATK right so you wouldn't expect we are exactly where I would expect us to be this year they're no longer at JFK so we have two Fresh classes of children and if they perform typical to their state peers we wouldn't need to be monitored um by Caitlyn any but I me well in a better spot because they have so many more testers so JFK only had that one grade level testing so they were weighted so heavily I mean that was a lot of schools would not have been in the situation where come the year coming out of Co first test of year coming out of Co they only had one grade level being tested unfair to those graders quite Frank and there was also that attendance criteria which if you remember during the year that they were tested that was a year where it was like you have to St like there were so many variables that not have really been pulled in as a consideration I think that could be part of the attendance problem too is because now people think that as soon as you start start showing symptoms right I went back to my pre-co ways you don't have a fever you're not thrown up you're going to school you got to live with it do you have any data that shows um it would be not really be for us I gu most for teachers that how how often a kid is absent compared to their test score so they can see if there's a correlation there yes so we have what's called onour analytics and it does all of that for us okay um I've never looked at the correlation I would assume there is one but I don't I've never done the um the study okay however um as part of the ASP our goal was to be under 18% chronic reaction and we are already at2 you know and it counts remember keep in mind it it counts all of JF so ones that are brand new in the district every cold well I feel like the little ones are even worse now because they were anywh building it up our highest um the younger the children the higher The Chronic that's because the older the kids the parents just want to get them out house teenagers are a pain so overall I just I just want you to see big picture that we are making positive progress we have found and identified those areas of need and are working toward making changes in them and what I really look forward to as being here next year to give you that three data points postco to see really what's happening for us does anyone have anything else you'd like to talk about or questions for me so for fourth grade are you somehow modifying how the pacing is to make sure they're able to reach all of the points in the pacing I'm not modifying the pacing because the pacing was based on the model curriculum which tells us that if they follow that pacing we should be okay what I am working on is making sure the teacher keeps the pace of the curriculum yeah the only problem is if the teacher hits a point where the kids can't do that then that'll totally and we've talked about I think that can be addressed with differentiation right it just because the whole class can't move forward doesn't mean the teacher can't right it can still progress to the next skill because if we stop every time the class isn't 100% getting it we we'll never get through it but if we push through it then you might have a lot of kids that especially in grade teach fourth grade as well and everything is a build on everything is a build on it's not simple addition subraction it's multi-digit it's no longer single multiplication it's multi-digit multiplication it's long division so like I find myself and we are like very stringent at my school about faing like they don't mess around but like I there are days where like we can't move on if you cannot do this like we have to sit here and spend like three doing I'm not say I'm not saying she shouldn't do that but at the same time they has to be aware and in their minds that this I mean this is what it is if that's the reason they're giving me I'm going to trust that that's the reason I've looked at the teachers in fourth grade observations to see their performance scores and they're performing well they're they're good teachers yeah so what I just need them to teach everything they possibly can I think but like I just want to P you back off what I think you were saying is like so making revisions to the curriculum maybe they don't need to teach lessons 2.1 all the way to 2.1 maybe they can do 2.1 and 2.3 like that's where I I am allowed and our district is allowed to go like well these are like something took you longer is that something absolutely there's there's things that are in programs that we purchase that are not in the stand you need to them out if you're just doing the book you're G to do way you're going to find out too late and that's you know I always want to AR on the side of that is what happened and we don't want that because that really compromises those kids' ability to even attempt fifth grade if they don't have this concept right and it's going to take them some time to catch back up right so if that group of children just did not have the math you know math wasn't their strong Su in third it's still not in fourth it's probably not going to be in fifth we just need to get them as close to grade level as we can and with growth each year so on that growth chart when we were talking about two 2022 and 2023 a bar that's exactly the same doesn't mean we haven't grown it means we've grown one year's growth in one year's time because they're taking a different test the next year so to see a bar show growth means they've gained ground not only have they learned a years they've learned a years and then some so um I don't have as many concerns as far as that I do see that we are growing and that we're gaining ground in the majority of our area and we are doing like curricular modifications in terms oh yes yes and the broadcast came out today um about the new new ma standards for next year so yes we are constantly making modifications and we will be again this year in time yeah just to set that teacher up yeah of course teacher and think of where teacher that automatically why it looks like that and know and being for grade and that's why such a huge benefit is because she was in the classroom for so many years um it's a huge benefit to have that like she understands and she respects what they're going through she's been in the same boat having maybe some of those different convers um they're not pretty but you try to to make it as productive as possible right thank you you're welcome you're welcome thank you so we're a motion in a second to open the meeting to the public despite not having any public and we're going to be discussing only agenda items I have a motion everybody all in favor see no public of Us close motion second all right let's find the superintendent report that's me that's you all right I think that V and I and I have had a couple of conversations about the about the data that's that that has been very uh enlightening I think she did a tremendous job and uh that that really has been the focal point of of leading the district missions and the district goals uh as the data comes in to be tarting that I think I so just to highlight one thing in that presentation when you look at data three times a year you're it tells you certain things when you look at it every month it's very different because there it's the opportunity to make adjustments the opportunity for really good conversations between teachers with teachers so I I think that is a that that's a that's a very uh strong highlight there I appreciate that uh the things that you circled on your slides were not the things that we were doing the best in we we like to P ourselves on the back and that's always nice to do but the most important thing is to Circle where we have to go and and what what has to get our attention because those are the kids that that need our need our help the most so I I AP you for doing for for not not trying to make it all unicorns and Rain saying here's where we got Roll by S so very much appreciate that uh everything else that uh was in my was in my update from last week um in I don't want to jump over just did the so y so Safety and Security all those drills were conducted I was present for all of them except for that sa that shelter in place which was um actually a drill that we were able to count which was truly a shelter in place on September 8th at DDE um but I was present for all of the evacuations and then the um lockdown and the fire drills um they all went really really well obviously getting back in from the fire drill I can it takes a little bit longer with those little ones um but they all got out really quickly and efficiently it was nice to see um obviously Eisenhower they've been doing these things forever those kids were great um bus evacuation drills we obviously have kids that like to just try to jump off the bus um so you know we s a couple back and say do it again um but they're always fun it's always fun to get out with kids um monthly reports I believe were uploaded on the portal for review I didn't hear anything from Joey specifically about any of not being turned in but if you guys know different let us know um harassment intimidation and bullying this is the instant report this is just a notification at this point as Dr pelli was telling you guys got hard copy this get um discussion item so uh we do have some policies and bylaws for some second readings these were on last month if I remember correctly yep so item one is to approve the second reading of these policies and regulations can I have a motion and a second motion any questions on those now that we all right Mrs orente yes Mr Jones yes Mrs Helma yes Mrs Juliano yes Mrs Hannah yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Allen yes Mrs Reed yes Mr Golden yes all right two is just to approve our use of facilities for play more sport social club they're going to use the Eisenhower gym uh dates of October 17th to November 15 6:45 to 9:45 for basketball um obviously if we have anything that would have to take place during that time um we would get the president so we would say sorry out a day um so we need a motion in a second motion uh any questions Mr Jones yes Mrs Helma yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Hannah yes Mrs yes Mrs Julian yes Mrs alen yes M Reed yes Mr Gold yes all right three is just to approve our scho volunteer so this is the previous the Advan approval um as you know the process has changed a little bit that it doesn't need to be in person so we're actually getting a lot more um done which is going to cause a lot less issues when all those school events come up can I have a motion in a second motion second any questions all those in favor I oppos or perfect moving along 10h is a field trip they're going to the new New Jersey State Museum and planetarium on December 5th this is for 8th grade um this is educational purpose there can I have a motion in a second motion any questions M Juliana yes Mr Jones yes Mrs Helma yes Mrs or yes Mrs Hanah yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Allen yes Mrs re yes Mr Golden yes 11a is just to approve the following cpen positions for the 23 24 school year um we had a resignation of one of our staff members that was the student government lead so now we have Mr tro who was the assistant advisor he's going to take on the actual advisor and um Mrs biss is going to step into that assistant advisor once we have the contract the salary guides from the contract I'll go ahead and we'll revise these again with the correct number but then we're not issuing contracts and reissuing contracts and all that craziness so we will re-approve with the appropriate rates but at least they can start their duties because they're approved at that advisor can I have a motion to second second any questions Mr Jones yes Mrs hel yes Mr Davis yes M Hannah Mr Juliana M yes M Alan M Reed yes Mr Golden yes all right B is to approve the following paid sck Le for a staff member is employee 1305 it's paid using sick time from January 16th to April 16 of 2024 can I have a motion to Second motion second any questions Mrs H yes Mrs or yes Mrs Julian yes Mrs yes Mr Jones Mr Davis yes Mrs alen yes Mrs Reed Mr Gold yes all right uh 12 we don't have anything for curul instruction already had her five minutes of f today um great job by the way um jump into my section so 13 a to d is the financial reports for August and September we're all caught up if you remember in our September meeting I was kind of stuck in July with wrapping up some GRS and things of that nature but we are all caught on track um with all of that so a motion in second to approve August and September Financial reports for 2023 um Mrs yes Mr Jes Mrs Helmont Mrs Juliana Mrs Hannah yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Allen yes Mrs Reed yes Mr Golden yes all right um 13e is to approve payment of the bills our finance committee did have a meeting this evening they reviewed all of the bills and sign off match them up with Bill can I have a motion second questions Mr Jones yes Mrs Helmont yes Mr Davis yes Mrs H yes Mrs Oran yes Mrs Juliano yes Mrs Allen yes Mrs Reed yes Mr Gold yes all right 13 F is to approve our September 2023 uh from source for teachers um the rates are listed below for each designation motion and second motion any questions I mean all those in favor oppose um motion for J is just to approve cafeteria dispersements for the month of September we didn't have any and that's because they have a new billing quarter portal through um reimbursements so we'll have payments starting in October for reimbursement um can I have a motion second on that one all those in favor opposed um care we have H uh care dis is for the month of of September this is um primarily summer salaries um summer snacks summer trips summer summer summer summer um so that's why it's a little higher can I have a motion in a second motion any questions Mr J Mrs Helma yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Hannah yes Mrs Juliana Mrs oriente Mrs Allan yes Mrs Reed yes Mr Gold yes 13 I is to approve travel and professional development for a few of our staff members there um I have a motion in a second second any [Music] questions Mrs H yes Mrs or yes Mrs Juliano Mrs yes Mr Jones yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Allen yes Mrs Reed yes Mr Golden yes all right J is just to approve um out of District tuition contracts these were both actually in the budget one is for a grade 11 student um at the cback school of the de and another one is for a Haden height School District um special student grade 12 plus um so that just means that they are over um they it's they go to school until they're 21 um so that 12 plus means that they are Beyond um the first year what I guess typical senior year um again these were all budgeted can I have a motion in a second motion okay any questions Mrs or yes Mr Jones Mrs Helma yes Mrs Juliana yes Mrs H yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Allen yes Mrs Reed yes and Mr goldon yes 13k is to approve the memorandum of agreement between the Berlin Township Education Association and the Berlin Township it should actually say Board of education um I will update that and it'll be written right in the minutes for the negotiated agreement for the period of July 1 2023 through June 30th 2026 we had a discussion on the details of that in our executive session so we just need a motion in a second any questions Mr Jones yes Mrs Helm yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Han yes Mrs or yes Mrs Juliana yes Mrs Alan yes Mrs Reed yes Mr Golden yes and L is also something that we discussed in um executive session it's a settlement agreement for a placement of a student um we need to obtain equal de approval from the county office for this placement I have a motion in a second second any questions Mrs Helma yes Mrs Hannah yes Mrs orian yes Mr Jones Mrs Juliana yes Mr Davis yes M alen yes Mrs Reed yes Mr Golden yes all right perfect old business I don't believe we have any old business business um new business committee updates BTA obviously we just Prov memorandum of agreement there are some um final um adjustments with language so we're pretty much close to wrapping that up uh the BT PSA the principal and supervisors Association um that contract expires June 30th so we'll be going um to start negotiations with that group um after the new year uh Finance we met like I said before um we reviewed the budget report they reviewed the bills we reviewed the revenue report report um we're getting our tax levy um Revenue our state aid Revenue always starts in September so that's coming in um out of District discussion was regarding the out of District placement for that Naples placement we briefed them on that that was not in the budget so um we'll be just eyeing our budget on on certain areas and and going from there uh no current funding information or concerns um final expenditure reports for all of our grants have been submitted um by their designated deadlines uh reviewed the bills list and then Assa accounts were collected from the schools and the child stud team that determines our state aid calculation and how much money we get for state aid um they've all been collected with the collection date of October 13th which was the deadline my Transportation report is due 11:15 I'm in the process now kind of comparing between my transportation software and our student software um to make sure everything aligns make sure I'm not missing any spit numbers or dates of birth um in order to upload that um also I sent a request to Camy County ed services um a couple of the board members Express um getting a late bu for clubs um at Overbrook just because we can't provide one and we have a lot of kids that stay after for um you know it could be tension it could be homework help it could be Student Government it could be but they don't want to wait till 5 or 5:30 for a sports bus so we did go out to see if they can bid um a run to see what that would cost and to see if it's even a viable option so that's it on my I think I can shut up school boards um New Jersey schools I haven't seen anything really that there is the conference this week we didn't sign up because nobody's gone for the past couple years you guys just need your training um we can visit it again next year when we have a seated superintendent and decide if anybody wants to attend but um and Services Commission no updates they're pretty quick um P Kim yes so um October the 10th we interviewed new board members two vacancies um we had five candidates I believe believe it or not I don't think we've ever had that many which was nice to at least have pick and um we picked two and they they were approved by us pending of course their background check so um next thing we did was we had the hi self assessment which was done um per each school which I kind of root down here um the high school hi self assessment we got uh High School self assessment was a 70 out of a 78 um the district was a 72 out of a 78 um the high school was of course the worst out of all of them but I have a feeling it's just because you got the older kids that tobly do the work so um they're using the PBIS in the whole District um now it's not just being done at over Brook and that's the positive reward system that they're using and it seems to be working it's hutting down on a lot of their problems that they've had in the past um we also went over njsla um spring 2023 assessment presentation and I actually have it here if anybody wants to he this I have the presentation right here if anybody wants to take a peek at it before we leave um you're more than welcome so we have a lot of working on to do as you will see in that presentation they're still working on curriculum getting a l to what it's supposed to be and there there's a lot of work that is going to have to go into that um let's see then we had our site council meeting here with me I got on my phone um it was October 17th the site Council just to remind you what it is it's parents teachers administrators board members um that all come in it's usually maybe like anywhere from five to 10 people you sit around the table and Mr Lee runs it and he goes over like specific things to BR which is I probably learn more about Overbrook there and I highly recommend parents getting involved I tell this all the time um actually one of our parents did go that to so it was me and her representing herin so that was nice to see an another parent there that I knew um we went over the more' parent newsletter Mr Lee's going to create that and um he wants to send it out weekly he just sent out his the new one so if you aren't on his reminds get signed up because you'll find out more about what's going on in school um the newsletter came up with the following things that we wanted to make sure was in there the attendance policy the athletic web page the code of conduct like links to all the stuff so the parents can look it up and have like access to their fingertips um club and activity descriptions uh the lunch menu project success which is their tutoring program after school um 21st SCH Century Scholars and the high school website link and they did did just redo their website there so the the trick was not to have to click on so much to get to one thing so I I can't remember exactly how many clicks they didn't want it to be more than like three clicks to get to one thing so that was one of their things they were trying to do I found it easier to use at least um Chromebook finds we went over because they're going to now starting um to do Chromebook finds because some of the kids were just thring their books around and wring them so now there's um a letter that'll be issued um and it'll be sent home with the student when there's a chomebook find it also be put on Genesis I believe if he said um we went over the PSA T testing which was today for the 10th and 11th graders that's why the nth and 12th graders got to go a little bit late um they went in at 910 well they caught the bus at 910 had to be there at 9:45 uh we went we went over the Renaissance and the PBIS student rewards uh we discussed both programs and how the students can earn points and rewards for doing the right thing and they can earn points just for getting to class on time like they earn them like just doing what you're supposed to do every day so it's not like they have to do something like outrageous to get these points um let's see Staffing they also went over the staffing issues short on bus drivers short on long-term Subs short on full-time teaching staff there's a couple staff members they're they're still struggling to get on how they're trying cross the board exactly um we're also are also exploring options to maintain um instruction throughout the year I know they had joury set up as an elective for instance and they've been on a uh online program but our German teacher that is going to be starting soon so they're actually have a physical teacher in soone take German will actually have a teacher which is I think a good thing um we went over question questions and answers if a parent wants to join the site Council they just have to get in touch with Mr Lee let them know and when I tell you it's from 6:30 to 7 7:30 he is done before 7:30 like it's not one of those meetings that goes well over 7:30 so if you're afraid of it being too time consuming it's really not and he's only doing two meetings a year now was so the next one I believe is in February I don't know the exact that that's we got I don't think anything for SCH but we're just talking about electives and trying to find things for electives something my head that um if you have a student in in the Middle School um they are starting to do an electives um course storing advisory so the kids are kind of selected in group and then they kind of rotate but um it's like sign language it's chess it's um there's there's so much and it's so exciting um to see that there's going to be an additional offering for the kids to kind of dabble for a little bit in something to see if there's something that they that kind of Sparks them I love it so excited to bring up I sent out an email the other day about theack training that that Pine Hill's putting on it'll be at their Media Center on Wednesday I'd like to get a head count if anyone's planning on attending so I can give it to them they do usually provide dinner to everybody um so they like to have a decent head count um and anyone that wants to go is welcome to attend I think Scott and Lisa both attended meetings before there with me um I don't know if anyone else has all edible I need question everybody Wasing it's gonna be held by Terry Lewis she's gonna be the one training on the qac but kind of what the board's responsibility is in qack which is kind of nice because I mean I've been board for eight years and there's only certain parts of that I so yeah sometimes they're board they will need a board member to come in and speak on a certain like policies and think that you guys are responsible like your main um tasks you know so it'll also get counted towards training um and towards your training and if we wanted to be a certified board we have that so many people trained in things and this will count for it um so if you could send me an email whether you're going to come or not would so I don't have to reach back out to everybody by like all right nothing else all right so let's do public comments again we all public but um we're going to go ahead and open the meeting to the public for discussion of subjects any can I have a motion second 8 would you like to turn yourself into public nothing else to say talking can we have a motion a second then to close the meeting to the public seconding so we're gonna go into executive session so at this point you can be exced I'm gonna let Mr Cunningham know to come and down huh of course you can that was the question was asking if you could ask a question yeah my mini bus is that you use that for um um the county the county school no we just transport our um our own student population to Kennedy and I so like students that need e on the bus or need some extra help to figure out yep yes and then we do have for over Brook yep that's for our certain a certain population that on our on okay right let me know thank you thanks guys 20 [Music] hey we're live live we just had an executive session we are going to add a motion uh for approval tonight it's going to be listed as 20a we're going to make our adjournment 21 um so the motion I need a motion and a second to resend the submission of the Berlin Township superintendent of schools contract to the executive county superintendent of schools for the county office review and approval I have a motion and a second to resend that submission motion uh Mrs Juliano yes Mr Jones yes Mrs helou yes Mrs oriente yes Mrs Hannah yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Allen yes Mrs Reed no Mr Golden yes 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[Music] public notice has been given by the secretary of the eam Township Board of Education in the following manner posting written notice on the official bulletin board of the eam township Education Office emailing written notice to the Burlington County times and The Courier Post filing written notice with the municipal clerk of eam Township Mr asenti if we could head to a roll call please Mr Bach here Dr Capello here Mr ficaro here miss Fox here Mr cath here Mrs null Miss Lee here Mr Thompson here thank you Mr rinti I believe now we'll head to the oath of office for our newest board member front and center yeah States or [Applause] all right thank you congratulations to our newest board member Dr wil um now let's head into one more roll call please Mr Bach yes dro yes Mr ficaro here okay Miss Fox here Mr kin uh here Mrs null here Miss Lee here Mr Thompson here Dr wil here we have a quum nice thank you menty I now need a motion um to go into executive session whereas in njsa 10412 allows a public body to go into Clos session during a public meeting and whereas the Board of Education of eam Township has deemed it necessary to go into Clos session to discuss certain matters which are Exempted from the public and whereas the regular meeting of the Board of Education will reconvene following the end of the Clos section at approximately 7:30 p.m now therefore be it resolved that the Board of Education will go into Clos session for the following reasons as outlined in njsa 10412 items 2.2 through 2.4 do I have a motion motion by Dr Capello seconded by Mr fysic Caro mrin if we could have a roll call please Mr Bach yes Dr Capello yes Mr ficaro yes Miss Fox yes Mr Kath yes Mrs null yes Miss Lee yes Mr Thompson yes Dr wil can I say yes no carries thanks mrin you we'll see everyone at approximately 7:30 [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] la [Music] pap [Music] w [Music] [Applause] [Music] pap [Music] oh [Music] 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strong Educational Foundation that will Empower our students to achieve their unique potential Embrace self-directed lifelong learning develop the skills necessary for appropriate risk-taking and responsible decision making respect themselves and others problem solve individually and collaboratively and become contributing members of a diverse Global Society thank you Dr wil I'll now hand the floor over to miss mulik for the state of the schools presentation good evening um Robin and I are happy to be here tonight to do our state of the schools presentation uh Justin will be joining us for a few slides as well uh but we'll get us started so we do this every year right around October part of it is a requirement per the state but more importantly when we give the presentation we go above the requirements because we really want to try and give a full picture um a snapshot of the previous year so in terms of the parts we'll talk about we promise not to talk too much hopefully um but we really want to start by just talking a little bit about assessment perspective and what makes that up um because here in eam it's not about a single assessment it's about multiple and and kids growth the second thing which is part of their state requirements is to report out on Esa uh we get federal dollars in different titles so then we're required to report on that each year we add in District assessments again for a little bit of a global picture standardized testing results State assessment is what we're required but we also have an aptitude assessment that Robin will talk a little bit about and then really just to give some perspective in terms of data review and Analysis what we do with that information so to get us started like I said kind of broad picture um these are all different types of Assessments that we use because again we want a total picture of the child not just a moment in time so we have districtwide assessments that we give both assessments that look at growth over time but also achievement and specific areas examples of that would be benchmark assessments which Robin will talk a little bit about uh we have like an mid and end of year math assessment we have different standardized tests so those look at achievement and aptitude classroom performance this is a big one because again this is what's happening day-to-day in the classroom so things like rubrics checklist portfolio anecdotal notes teacher observation and feedback certainly report card grades and then parent observation and feedback so really with all of those different elements that's really what we're reporting on and what our teachers are talking to parents about um but again tonight we're going to focus on some different areas so in terms of Esa so we get title $1 and basically what we use that for is atrisk literacy achievement in our district we use reading recovery um so our staff serve 96 of our lowest achieving first grade students at our six elementary schools last year of that 59% of the students who were in Reading recovery made what we call Accelerated progress um and the national average for that is 40.4% we also use literacy lessons in grades 2 to five and we have Title One literacy specials in our Title One schools in terms of title two and four those are focused on professional development and Technology techology so we use the funding to have different teacher leaders in all of our eight buildings math coaches Tech coaches Elementary responsive classroom facilitators PLC facilitators both at Elementary and Middle School uh we offer various professional development sessions uh last year we had about 78 districtwide workshops that were offered at different times throughout the year about a 100 participants in those voluntary sessions beyond the school day uh and we offer different sessions in literacy math responsive classroom technology and then miscellaneous areas and in those 100% of the workshops that had ratings attached to them scores were either a four or a five on those evaluation surveys in terms of title three so this is for what used to be eell is now um multilingual learner so so MLS so you see multi- Learners um English language learning in terms of number of students that qual qualify for ESL Services we saw growth in that program last year typically were around 40 last spring we looked at that numbers 57 52 in the program five were parent refusals um the number of students who completed access for L's was 54 and that included alternate assessments 65% of them because we did grow during the school year we're actually the first time taking that assessment and then 85% of the students that took it in previous years actually showed increase from proficiency level from the previous year I'm good C drop uh a little bit more about reading recovery so as I mentioned previously 96% 96 students were served overall 75% made what we say accelerated progress or general progress the 59.4 is what I reported on the previous slide that's accelerated progress progress so they needed no additional interventions after that 15.6 made progress um but students continued to receive some additional supports once they exited 10.4% were recommended for additional Services 14.6% had an incomplete program so whether they started at one point in the year and didn't get to finish or they moved out of District or something like that that's in that percentage we are a read and Recovery um site so we actually train both our teachers as well as outside districts so we had 20 teachers from outside districts participate last year uh generating 30 almost $31,000 in revenue for our district and then down at the bottom is just what a typical level is in the fall so for your typical student it's a five for read and Recovery student it's a one and then when we go to the spring typical level is a 16 to be considered on Benchmark and our mean level for reading recovery was a 22 so we're happy with that the other thing just briefly uh part of Esser funding we use to help us with summer programs the Ed Foundation also helps us with Summer programming funds for that and then we use some District funds as well so each of the programs we offered this past summer are listed on the left and so totaling about 800 students that we were able to serve and give some additional supports too okay hello everyone I'm Robin Collins I'm District test coordinator so this is one of my fun jobs to do every year so thank you for attending um up here what you see is you can I'm going to point to you um up here this is The Benchmark assessment the scores we administer a benchmark assessment to all of our first through fifth grade students um in the fall and in the spring of every year uh and this determines a reading level for our students uh we use it for a variety of purposes we use it to um inform our instruction to get information on strengths and needs of a whole group as well as small groups and for individual students um and we also use it for um determining tier three status um IP growth um uh inclusion in inrs um and things like that and um that is our going to hit you for your next slide so that's our Benchmark assessment that we use it's a local assessment um used for determining growth uh this is the end of year envisions math assessment data I'm not going to read numbers to you you can look at the numbers but I'll give you a little information about the background of this our end of year math assessment is obviously given every year at the end of the year um and it is it demonstrates the students um comprehension of the math skills throughout the course of the Year this is typical results that you're seeing here there was a dip in our fourth and seventh grade data um and the information that we get from that is used to our math department analyzes that data and uses it to determine whether we need to make adjustments on um content major content supporting content um adjustments to the pacing guide so that information is really used to inform our instruction um just take a note that our eighth grade assessment there's an aster there because this is for our eighth grade onlevel students our high school level course students are not included in this data okay this is uh a summary of our coat um which is a cognitive ability test it's used to um assess our students aptitude in the areas of verbal quantitative and non-verbal um and our students get an individual score but this is our Collective data so that you'll see that there's a bunch of numbers up there what that really indicates to us is that we are of a general aptitude we are average so you'll see at the bottom there's three bands of average the lower end of average average and high end of average we typically fall within average and high end of average range that's interesting to note for our district more importantly our coat data is um gives us in information about our individual students so we use this data in conjunction with other data points um to ensure that our students are making growth so um we use this to see if they are on track for again tier three are gifted in talented program CST IEP evaluations um and our teachers are also uh trained on how to dive deeper into the coat data so that you can see an individual profile um and that will help teachers to um inform instruction for small group and for individual um lessons so that students are getting what they need an aptitude test though it doesn't change dramatically from year to year for individual students that's why we administer coats every other year so you'll see that the data is for grades three five and seven and I'm going to pass it off to you thanks Miss kins okay so um we're going to switch to looking at the njsla data that's the these are the state tests that are given in the spring uh they were paused during coid so like this slide tries to give a a longitudinal sense and we have 2019 we have 2022 we have 2023 we don't have 2020 we don't have 2021 okay because of Co but um what I would say just overarchingly about these slides they're happy slides in a way right so what you can see is um and do we have a clicker clicker perfect perfect perfect what we can see is um I'm going to jump to this slide just for a second and I'll go back but um so there's three sort of overarching bullet points but our Ela average score scores were greater than the state average scores in all grades but grade three for ELA and they were greater than the state average scores in math in all grades so you know we know they're greater than all we we know they're greater in every grade except that that one uh in ela and math right so it's that's fantastic and it also means it's a little apples to oranges when it comes to looking at etsd student scores and scores of students around the state right so how can we look at get closer to an Apples to Apples look which is to comp compare our own kids against how they've done in the past and that's what this graph is supposed to show right so and where you where you can see like green if you see a green outline on different columns so when a cohort of students so basically like third graders in 2022 how they performed as fourth graders in 2023 if they did better then there's a green outline around their column and the larger the green represents the larger the increase in their scores same for the state we compared cohort grade three from the state in 2022 and then that's the same kids in grade four testing in 2023 same thing if there's an increase in the state you'll see an outline a green outline and the width of that outline represents the degree of improvement similarly if you see a red outline that means the score went down and the width of that red indicates the degree of decrease so over overall for example grade three in 2022 big increase in 2023 as fourth graders um and then like the fourth graders in 2022 slight decrease almost the same but slight decrease in grade five in 2023 and you work your way across another big increase was six graders in 2022 versus their scores in same thing for so what we're looking at here is uh the scores are grouped for njsla into five categories category five and four are exceeding in meeting expectations that's what we want all students to be able to do to me or exceed so these percentages are based on those scores and then this slide shows the raw scores so top score and that the uh the meting or exceeding is based on these scores and again you can see the green and the red around the columns to indicate decrease or increase as we w we follow those cohorts of kids from 22 2022 to 2023 overall etsd average Ela score went down one point and the state average Ela score went up one point now it's easier to go up when you're starting lower right it's easier to go down when you're starting higher and our averages are higher than the state averages one point is not much of a change either way on to math these are the percentage of students who are meeting or exceeding I will point out for eth grade math there are no there is no no red or green outline there and the reason is it's no longer Apples to Apples once you get to eth grade and the reason the eighth grade is not comparable is there's a variable different with eighth grade which is that in our district as in many throughout the state but in ours uh we have a a large number of kids who um are taking algebra and/or geometry in 8th grade so they're not if they're taking that course they're not testing the eighth grade math um njsl they're taking the algebra 1 njsla and for our students who are in both algebra and geometry at the same time in 8th grade they take the algebra 1 and jsla not the geometry so the algebra the algebra 1 test is the high school graduation requirement test and it always trumps any other math test that a student would take if simultaneously enrolled into high school math courses which algebra and geometry are both considered to be high school math courses that's why there's no green or red for 8th grade math and then moving on to the raw scores um same thing eth grade math doesn't have green or red because of that variable I was just talking about um I will say just while we're lingering on that grade even though our essentially top performing math students are not taking that test because they're in algebra Andor geometry our students taking it still compare very very well with the state raw scores which are just above 715 right and you can see we're um at around just just under 7:30 um overall our average math score no change from last year to this year year the state average mass score went up um by one so and looking at um this is algebra um the uh just comp it's not really Apples to Apples here because the kids are they only take it for one year the algebra so there's not a like if they were moving on to say algebra for two we could do a comparison but they'll take that at Cherokee um the um and our average score and algebra one actually managed to go up it's hard to go up when you're almost at the very top to begin with but it went up four points and the state average score went up two points yeah so like I said happy slides all grades um higher than the state average except one grade in the LA and uh I will pass it back to miss mulik perfect so just to say on njsla a little bit more um so you saw the different graphs uh this just breaks it apart a different way so you see all the grades on the left and this is obviously just for the 2023 data so as Dr Smith had said if we look on the right that's the New Jersey scores and then when you look at the column right next to it that's our scores so typically we always want to be above the state average and we are right here except in third grade so that was 42 and that's 39 but everywhere else we're exceeding the state average the next way that we just report out some data and we have this broken apart literally by like grade by grade so I promise I will not go through every single slide but I am going to give you just a quick update on one slide and then certainly if you want to look at it for a particular grade you're welcome to do that Robin and I just love talking about data so if you have questions or when you look at it on your own uh contact us at the curriculum office and we're happy to talk more about any any slides or questions that you might have but basically the whole point of the state assessment was for College and Career Readiness so that's why we we're highlighting eighth grade first because the idea is by the time they're in eth grade you want them to be at a higher proficiency level so you see on the top row is the state numbers our district numbers which we showed but now we break it apart by some common subgroups so you'll see general education is broken out so where our district average was 59.3 when we break apart at that generaliz subgroup we're up to 68.5 our special education subgroup is at 24.5 but again remember that they are taking an assessment at their grade level and in some instances they're a grade level below maybe more um our economically disadvantaged is another subgroup that we report out on so they're at 41% and then you see the stars for elll because if a subgroup is below 10 in any grade we're actually not allowed to share that data um but we do get that from the state so if there was one student or two students we have that data that we look at internally but we can't report that out to the public so then basically every slide after that will take you through so the same exact kind of framework for grade seven and we see similar Trends grade six grade five grade four grade three and then we go into math so the same thing this is kind of like an overall slide that shows the percentages again we're looking at State averages on the right right here and then we are above in each of those areas at all grades so if we break apart again and I'm going to actually not talk so much about grade eight cuz just did a great job of explaining these are highest achieving kids so yes we would expect them to be very high you see 98.9% um then just grade eight all of our other grade eight students who also take the assessment but it's a grade eight assessment so I'll just show you with grade seven as an example so same breakout we have the state we have the district number which is 43.7 general education subgroup 52.5 special education economically disadvantaged and the Els again are at that number that we can't report on but we do have that and look at that information and same thing it'll take you through grade six grade five grade four three excuse me this is interesting just that um we don't have the 22 23 numbers yet they come out in the performance report but the state does have us what they call accountability features in the areas on the left so they're looking at Ela proficiency math proficiency Ela growth math growth progress towards e English language proficiency so that's an access for L's and chronic absenteeism so you see we go back from 1718 1819 we didn't have the assessments 1920 2021 but we do have our most recent information was from 2122 so the proficiency rates we reported on but we just got those growth rates last year and they're important to point out because these actually do when when Justin was talking about Apples to Apples this is truly Apples to Apples because what the state does in terms of growth they're not looking at our kids in third grade and how they did in fourth grade on a different test or they're not looking at our kids in third grade and how a different group of third graders the next year they're actually taking our kids and grouping them across the whole state with other kids that actually performed like them so there's two years of comparative data with the kids who perform the same as the previous year so this is really one of the most important in my opinion and ours I would say indicators so again what we see for ELA we see 64% in terms of growth versus is more than we had pre pandemic and then we also see in the area math 89 which actually was extremely high growth last year so we're looking forward to having those numbers again and see and comparing that again not just with proficiency which is the app basic overall proficiency level but that grow grow level with how did they do with like Pierce excuse science I don't want that have okay all right I'm going to share with you some information about njsla science um this is administered to all Fifth eth and 11th grade students um and it assesses their uh students ability towards the their achievement in the um njsls science standards um the this is a federal mandated assessment and it assesses kids abilities to apply the science skills and knowledge not necessarily memorizing science content that's why it's not given every year um interestingly for this assessment 2018 was a field test year we did not get any data for it full implementation first time through was 2019 2020 the world collaps we didn't have that assessment the year later we didn't have that assessment so 2021 22 was the first year was back and this is our our second year of taking it so it's still while it's started in 2018 it's still a relatively new assessment and you'll see the data for our fifth and our eighth grade students um each of the uh questions on the science U the students are given a um a scenario or a simulation in which to provide some context for them to apply the phenomena of science um and each question is based on a science discipline which would be physical science life science or Earth space science um a science and engineering practice which would be um investigating sensemaking or critiquing and then it also addresses the cross cutting standards which is Concepts that hold true across all natural and engineered phenomena so that's our fifth grade scores and then e8th grade you'll see a similar concept um like njsla there are multiple choice questions that the kids answer there's Tech enhanced questions which would be like a drag and drop situation and there's also um constructive responses where they have to uh write out an answer so this is our eighth grade data oh one more okay um and this last state assessment is our dlm our D Dynamic learning Maps assessment this is an alternate assessment to njsla and it is given to um all students in grades three through eight for language arts and math just like njsla and and Fifth and eighth for Science and it is for our students who um based on their IP recommendations um and the decisions made by the I team that they would take the dlm in Le of taking njsla um but it uh again it it's it administered to um all students Ela math and just 5 and8 for science almost done expr last part and most important part so uh we just wanted to end by talking a little bit so what does all this data mean and what do we do with the data um so this is kind of our data review process and really we are looking and analyzing and making decisions all year long goals adjusting and working to help all kids obviously is our goal so in the fall is when we collect Baseline data on the current year students um so again like we talked about Benchmark DSi math writin different things like that classroom performance how they're doing we get get all of these scores in typically in the summer and we're looking at them at a district level so that's that District level analysis and review and we create charts and we look at comparisons and we're looking at where was their aptitude versus where's their proficiency level and then we have building meetings the three of us do a little stop at every single School meet with every principal and really not so much about the DAT the numbers while we show them the numbers and we talk in overviews and more specifically about reading it might be literary analysis as as opposed to narratives the writing whether it's writing conventions uh math is it major content versus supporting content so we go through this in more detail specific to their school but most importantly we actually talk about kids so kids who didn't perform you know very well on one assessment or multiple assessments kids who are approaching expectations but aren't quite there and we're having conversations with the school building administrators about okay so what are you seeing is this kid on your radar they made six months of growth instead of eight months of growth so those conversations are really important and we're really proud that our principles when we're talking to them about names and kids are like Yep this kid's getting this support yes this student's doing this this they can tell you but the nice thing about it is if there is a student who maybe wasn't on somebody's radar now they are so we're just saying take another look take a close look maybe it was just a bad testing day maybe it was something this way but that's an idea for them to keep their eye on so that students don't slip through so that happens at the building level and then we take it the next level and now do that with our teachers so all of our supervisors myself we meet with different teacher teams on our inservice day so that was in earlier in October and go through the data as well they get their school level data and then they are shown where it is excuse me Mr case our Tech coordinator puts it up into the system so they can look at current kids they can look at past kids and they can do a deeper dive into their actual students and then then that helps them when they're working in PLC teams which start in October to talk about students and what they're doing what are we doing for the kids who actually already met that standard what are we doing for the kids who haven't met it yet so again kind of taking a looking at collaborative goals that we're going to create as a team so that's that PLC team that works we do goal setting so every teacher has a PDP or professional development plan then each school has a skip committee so that skip committee meets and we talk about school level goals and then we look at the school level goals and we have a district PDP or plan so that we're then helping to support the schools so we're all working collaboratively to make sure that those areas of needs that we identify from all of the data are places where we're focusing on sorry and the last part of that is we design our professional development different things we're going in curriculum writing in a future summer um things we're going to change or implement we plan all that around found on an ongoing basis and that brings us to our last part I swear which is focus areas so then we have these different Focus areas that we we share out in each of the core areas so this these apply to all contents related arts it doesn't matter but the idea that we're talking with staff we're having conversations or they're talking in their PLC teams about differentiating instruction making sure that we're meeting students no no matter where they are the second that piece so that social emotional competencies are helping in terms of overall health and wellness because we know if if that's not in place the academics don't come uh the third is about teacher Clarity this has been an initiative in our district for a while it's based on visible learning uh so the idea that we have clear learning intentions goals what are kids working on and why success criteria knowing what success looks like and then getting feedback along the way to know when they're on track or off track and how they can get back on um the next bullet just talks a little bit about assessments so whether it's self assessments that I'm doing as a student or formative assessments that I'm doing as a classroom teacher to see where kids are what's the next step and then sorry cold um intentionally selecting tools for technology that are going to support the learning so we're not just using technology for the sake of Technology but that we're using it to actually enhance the learning in the area of related of ela so that reading and writing are across multiple texts uh that kids are being exposed to electronic text writer Workshop that it's being implemented with Fidelity emphasizing structure and purpose or audience um teacher language for that specific strategy use the next bullet talks about conferencing so the idea that whether it's reading or writing but how are we elevating the proficiency of the student not just in the text they're reading or the piece they're writing but in their writing in general or in the any book that they're going to encounter and then that idea the last one is about scaffolding so that you can be responsive to what kids know so whether we're adding additional scaffolds or taking scaffolds away in math some of the big areas are again that idea of differentiation we use a workshop model in District um so what am I doing when I'm meeting with small groups what are the other students doing um we saw kind of uh Trend across this year in the supporting content so that's like geometry measurement data how are we making sure that we're getting to that uh the next one is about myth math discourse that's math talk kids problem solving skills the next one talks about just your overall mindset and that idea of productive struggle that it's okay to persevere through a problem to not give up to carry that forward and then in grades 38 to eight making sure there's a balance of both paper pencil as well as electronic because that's what they're going to be exposed to okay there we go sorry and then science um surface to deeper levels of understanding making sure that all of those disciplines are being covered and connected the SE one talks to the content and practices in terms of assessment so what we're doing in terms of instruction matches the type of Assessments that kids are being asked to do and then the third one talks about again that mindset or nurturing that productive struggle similar what we have in math so kind of looking at that from an overall stem lens and then the last major area that we have is social studies so that idea of the social studies practices uh the second one talks about active citizenship and grade levels and different service learning projects we start them in kindergarten and go all the way up through 8th grade and then the third one uh connects to a variety of of perspectives and making sure that we're accepting of others and um very and inclusive and then that is the end of our presentation so thank you sorry it was a long one tonight uh but hopefully informative and if anyone has questions again you can contact the curriculum office this is also posted on our district website under announcements you'll see district and school assessments [Applause] thanks all right thank you Miss mul um we're now going to move into any questions or comments from the board good [Music] point no all right um now yeah good okay um now we'll move into public comment uh we have two public comment portions at these board meetings the first one is for agenda items only uh the second one is for any topic you wish to speak about um so the meeting will now be open to the public referencing any items of interest that are specific to the agenda however if your questions or comments pertain to litigation student Personnel items negotiations we would ask that you see the superintendent after the meeting me since we do not discuss these matters in public please limit your comments to 3 minutes per person would anyone like to comment about the agenda seeing none we'll now move to the approval of the minutes I need a motion to approve item 6.1 and 6.2 motion by Mr Thompson seconded by Miss Lee any questions or comments from the board referencing the agenda all right Mr renti roll call please Mr Bach yes Dr capalo yes Mr ficaro yes Miss Fox obain Mr Kath yes Mrs null yes Miss Lee yes Mr Thompson yes Dr wil obain motion carries thank you Mr shiny we will now uh move to the rest of the agenda we're going to do a consense agenda today um so I need a motion to approve item seven items 8 items 9 items 10 and items 11 do I have a motion motion by Miss Box seconded by Mr ficaro um before board comments I'll hand it over to Dr Smith for his comments thank you Mr canthon I'd like to start my comments by affirming that ifim Township School District is committed to the safety of all our students and staff recent events in the Middle East uh the situation there is horrific and terrible families and staff in our district which is the largest K8 District in the County serving the largest town in the county have connections even some direct connections to that region and situation as well as connections to many conflicts worldwide our schools are and will always be communities of support and care for all people all students of all backgrounds our mission now as before is to do whatever we can to support children to Foster safe and welcoming School environments for everyone and to take appropriate and Swift action to combat hate our staff and counselors are resources for students who may be dealing with stress related to these horrible and tragic on going events the work of our staff and supporting students and fostering kindness the work of our our parents and our families and supporting our schools has tremendous and real value locally and in the world as our children carry forward forward with them that kindness that empathy that care into every conversation every interaction every encounter and situation and experience here and anywhere on the globe to switch gears as this is our last board meeting before the November 7th vote I'd like to give an update for the board on our work toward our number one district and board goal of achieving tuition free full day kindergarten for all our schools our PT ETA and our ftk committee have been working to spread the word about our ballot questions community and committee members are attending this evening it's great to see you all here thank you we appreciate every ounce of that effort and every person helping in whatever capacity including through just having a conversation with a neighbor about why these ballot questions matter our district homepage also has more information I'd encourage everyone to learn more consider and remember to vote lastly I feel it prudent to share just a few words about a personal matter simply because I do live in town and am grateful for living here and how living here helps me or may help me hear see and understand our community uh a for sale sign may appear in front of our house in the next few days uh now that may not be of interest to anyone probably not but just in case uh so no one would waste even one moment wondering why uh my wife and and I are looking to buy the house next to Brad's Tavern on Main Street Medford uh when I met Alisa nearly 30 years ago she was managing a bakery and coffee shop in Eugene Oregon that was before her path to law school before marriage kids juggling family and career and all the while there was this maybe someday dream of a bakery and she has so much talent and she has made a lot of sacrifices most of all for me over many decades of of Decades of working that's me many hours not at home so her dream our dream so we may be moving but close enough I'll still be able to Drive Marlton roads before making a snowall and uh that ends my superintendent comments Mr canthon thank you Dr Smith uh we'll now move to the board any questions or comments from the board regarding superint items or anything from items 7 through 11 fgar just a uh just just a quick note here in terms of uh person uh Personnel um uh Mr renti I'm going to have a lot more to say uh to you in terms of of December but um this is this is a regretful uh regretful vote but I I wish you all the best with everything but I have a lot more that I will say when we get the chance later and I know that you're someone who does not relish the the the thought of the spotlight so I will promise to shine it as vividly bright as possible thank you I appreciate that I too will be ignoring um Mr rin's retirement for as long as I can uh any other questions or comments from the board seeing none roll call please Mr Rin I can just uh I just want to make a personal comment um and uh as uh Mr fcera said Mr ashiny we'll have more time to uh Shine the spotlight that you oh so love on you uh as we get closer to December but um be remiss not to say uh even though you be you may be elsewhere after December you will always be in my operational thoughts every day um as I think what would John uh what would John see think about this situation you know and uh and hopefully I've learned enough from you and your way of thinking in that time to be able to reproduce uh that if not I'll be calling you so uh the um and I would like to Pivot from that to um we had two uh Personnel appointments this evening many I want to congratulate all of our new hires and two in particular I just want to share a few words about first is uh Rob Cedar is here and Rob where where are you there bu there's Rob okay so Rob it's great it's just nice seeing you back in uh on etsd ground here as a parent I've seen you but as in official capacity uh soon enough so Rob will be our new transportation coordinator starting on January 2nd and he brings a wealth of experience and skills to this important role and everyone I so many people know that because without our transportation department school just isn't going to happen um he's currently transportation coordinator in bhe school district prior to which he was assistant transportation coordinator here in etsd and before that was an etsd bus driver Rob's bringing with him that inside outside bifocal lens of experience within and beyond our district we're super excited to have you back and uh even though in a sense you never left because um through all these steps you've been in Marlton and etsd Dad congratulations Mr Cedar um and because we want to make sure every board meeting has tons of positive action we have a second appointment tonight uh that beginning in 2024 uh and that's our new business administrator slbo secretary Jonathan Yates who's here Mr Yates thank you with his family and and Mom there too awesome um and uh Jonathan is currently the business administrator in Medford School District prior to that he was ba in Pinelands and Little Egg Harbor school districts the business administrator role is responsible for many important facets overseeing the business office budgeting facilities Food Service transportation and on and on it involves not just experience and skills which Mr Yates has in abundance including navigating through state aid losses due to S2 which as in case anyone hasn't heard that yet we are navigating that as well here and have been for some time and will continue to for one more year um but also on top of that on top of those skills and experience two other essential qualities that shine through and what he says and does are integrity and judgment and to top it off like Mr Cedar Mr Yates is a Marlon and etsd dad and your kids being here that just exclamation mark on that um and that detail has real value as the lenses that we look through in our work are manyfold and we do seek to walk in the shoes of any stakeholder affected by the decisions we make and uh Mr E would you want to share few words Maybe good all right good evening Board of Education um I won't take long I just wanted to introduce myself and tell everybody here that I am uh excited to get started I appreciate this opportunity I want to thank Dr Smith his interview panel and everybody who took part in that process um if I may so being a neighboring business administrator I can confirm John definitely doesn't like the spotlight but um he he is a knowledgeable ba he has been helpful for me I can pick up the phone I'll call him and he will if he doesn't answer he will call me back and he has provided some guidance for me so big shoes to fill there I wish you luck in your retirement um and I am a parent in town so for me um the ability to make a personal impact on the district in which my children will attend is important so I thank the board for their support thank you Mr Yates I have also found that either being named John or being willing to be called John is crucial to success in this District so that's another great uh point in your favor um any other questions or comments from the board seeing none we can move to a roll call Mr rinti Mr Bach yes Dr Capello yes Mr ficaro yes Miss Fox yes Mr Kath yes Mrs null yes Miss Lee yes Mr Thompson yes Dr wil yes motion carries thanks Mr ainy moving to committee reports are there any committee chairs that would like to share a report all right uh moving to Old business we have none moving to new business we also have none uh so now we'll move into our open public comment for any items of interest um the meeting will now be open to the public referencing any items of Interest however if your questions or comments pertain to litigation student or Personnel items or negotiations we ask that you please see the superintendent after the meeting since we do not discuss these matters in public please limit your comments to 3 minutes per person and begin your address with your name and address please is there anyone who wishes to speak have to walk me through this I forget how to do it um most of us are coming up for the same reason um we are speaking mostly to our community and not really directly to the board although we like you guys too but this is mostly for our community so I State my name and where I live right mhm okay Rachel Willie 200 Tomlinson Mill Road my daughter is a second grader at Mees we moved to Marlton when she started first grade the lack of free full day kindergarten was one of the main factors that kept us from moving here sooner I grew up in Mount Laurel and my spouse grew up in Tabernacle I was one of nine children and he was one of five both households were able to raise their families with a single income and allowed one parent to stay home now we are a dual income household raising one child and having to make difficult Financial choices about whether we can afford to live in the same area that our parents raised large families on a single income although my child is past kindergarten and this won't affect us step back I saw so many young families the other night at Savage Fields Trunk or Treat I was amazed by them as they came out fully Decked Out mostly in Bluey well done some holding babies as young as five weeks old I saw many parents with twins quite a few who will be going into our kindergarten classes in the next year or so the cost for those families to pay for Kinder Garden will be an immense burden on top of the ever increasing Financial challenges of feeding clothing and providing a home for their children Marlton is a special place it's a community and that's why I moved here our community is responsible for 97% of our schools funding we may not like it but that's the way it is I believe that we have a responsibility to our young families we need to come together and help in whatever small ways we can voting yes on this year's ballot questions is how we help it is how we let our community know that we are in this together we see how hard it is and we care thank you thank you hello everyone I'm Danel Remis at 39 Old Republic Lane I'd like to start off by thanking Dr Smith and the rest of the board for making tuition free full day kindergarten your number one goal uh this year we have two ballot questions the first is tuition free full day kindergarten as we know the education provided to a halfday kindergartener is not equivalent to a full day of learning let's not start out our early Learners education with with inequality the second ballot question is to maintain our Mental Health Services now more than ever our students need more support I'd like to address the public and let them know that it's in our hands I want to remind voters to go out and vote Yes to the two ballot questions on November 7th early voting starts this Saturday at the Gibson house and the last day to request a mail and ballot is on Halloween October 31st please support our Young Learners and future Learners in E sham and for more information you can visit our Facebook Facebook page is um Eve sham votes yes thank you thank you hi everyone uh Kristen nardello 94 K AV in Marlton um I don't have anything prepared to say I just want to say thank you to the board um to the community I think it's really important for us to kind of look at the community as a whole not just our individual selves um and I know there's some people who have kids who have already graduated or gone through kindergarten um and try to look for how this will um put our K will full day kindergarten will be just like every other community in the area um and I think it's really important for us to um push for that as a community and to look past what we individually need so um thank you guys for everything that you've done for this and um go out and vote thank you thank you hello my name is Dorian Carlton 130 Deerfield um and I want to thank everyone who's worked so hard to get us this far um we have a big hurdle to jump still we have to go vote and like everyone said before me um we are asking for a yes vote for these ballot questions um it won't affect my kids my kids are past kindergarten um so that's not my goal my goal is for all of our Young Learners to start off on the same foot the same foot for all of our families to be given the same opportunity um and we and we need to cross this Finish Line um voter turnout needs to be great we need to vote Yes for both they're both really important issues they benefit our town as a whole not just um Elementary age kids we're talking about improving the educational system which improves our property values which improves Our Town these are not issues that put us ahead of other towns we are literally just trying to keep up by saying yes and voting to have these programs so um I beseech the community to vote yes thank you thank you hello my name is Lisa Argus 31 Albany Road um and I've been up here a few times talking so I just will today my goal is to just ask the community to please vote Yes on November 7th for a full day kindergarten um tuition free um my kids are older now and this won't affect me financially as far as the $5,500 go but um it's more important than just the money I think it's also um you know mainly for our children and our youngest Learners um and I also think it's the right thing to do um you know and I could go on you know about the various other reasons why but um for me it just comes down to just being the right thing to do and you know for our kids um it's been very inspiring to me going through this um and realizing how coming here to these meetings and to the Town Council meetings and asking and seeing it show up on Dr Smith's PowerPoint presentation as an agenda item um it's just been inspiring to me to to speak up and when you really feel passionate about something to to come here and and ask and I also um encourage our community to to come to these meetings come to the Town Council meetings as well and speak up for our town if you think that something is needed or something's wrong or even just to give kudos to someone um and I think a lot can be accomplished if if we speak up um and you know my daughter has a soccer game tonight I think some of our other people here you know we missing soccer games and things to be here but um it's important and please vote Yes on November 7th thank you thank you good evening my name is Evan Scott uh the reason why I came to uh be in support of this Grassroots effort is because it did affect me personally so when I was in the military back in 2008 my wife and I decided to come to Marlton primarily because the schools were that good and so we wanted to be here it was a strategic choice to be here and then after our son was born in 2011 and as he's growing up and we're preparing for those you know times for school and whatnot we learned that there wasn't a three-year-old program which okay it is what it is we'll make do and then we learned that there wasn't a full day to tuition free kindergarten program and then we began to Crunch the numbers and on a military salary and on a military salary as a retiree trying to make ends meet was just not sustainable so we had to look outside the district because we not only needed the full day kindergarten program we also needed Aftercare and so we had to do the budgeting equation and unfortunately it didn't work out where we wanted to be here in the district so we were fortunate enough to find a private provider with a lot of help from other people to make it work so we were just lucky now I know that I'm probably not the only person who is not in the greatest financial situation or any situation that prevents them you know from partaking in the program so that's the reason why I'm here is to help pay it for board my son is now in 8th grade he's thriving we saw the change in real time as he was pursuing his kindergarten program out of the district I can't imagine what it would be in the district so I am voting yes for this I've been working with the group and trying to support their efforts in any way I can and the reason why I'm voting yes is because maybe we can give a little bit of certainty to Children and Families during uncertain times thank you very much thank [Applause] you I'm going to say pretty much what everyone else said uh I have a same kind of thing I have my child July 13th 2020 four months later was the uh the announcement of the emergency Co I'm one of the coid baby people we're all broke so full day kindergarten is going to be a huge huge help that is my second largest burden beyond my mortgage I have friends they're all having their first kids now and we've all had that conversation I don't know how I'm going to be able to afford this and I mean the amount of hurdles that we have have to do to upend our lives just to be able to get daycare down to a level that we can afford it um I didn't go to a great school I said my kid's going to go to the best school I can afford to send them to and that's how we ended up here and I'd like that to be true for the kindergarten he goes to for the prek he goes to and right now we're trying we're getting the best we can get with the money we have but I'd rather he go to a district school that has District standards so I'll be voting yes thank you [Applause] guys thank you to everyone who came up and spoke and and took time out of their evenings to to speak is there anyone else who would like to speak yes thank you hi my name is Aaron Gerson 67 Thornwood Drive Dr Smith it's nice to put a face with your name I haven't met you in person yet but I've spoken with you a lot over the phone um I didn't know that this was happening this evening but I want to add my voice to support a full day kindergarten and to that vote I have three children my husband and I have three children that have gone through the district here uh for over 10 years and I can attest to the fact that not having the access to full day kindergarten is a detriment to students they lose that foundational aspect and then both of my children my older two had to go through a read and recovery and I think you see it out larger or later for them in their academic career here if they had a different experience in that halfday kindergarten um I would tribute them coming back into the path they needed to be on with some of the teachers that helped them catch up later and I think what you can also see and this I think speaks to the points that we've heard tonight a lot of the students who go outside of the district for this then come in having had full day elsewhere Etc and then there's disjointed levels when they enter first grade and then teachers have to deal with that disparity as well um the other reason that the real reason that I'm here was just to involve myself more directly I've had my own concerns I know these are personal matters that aren't for this speaking moment um but I'm planning on following this a lot more closely and I've seen you know a lot with the data and you know frankly the jargon and all of the things that are reported here tonight something that I would like to hear more about is the professional development for teaching in this district and also for U the social and emotional competencies so where would you direct parents um to participate or to learn more on those two points and that's a question for the board and also for you Dr Smith I would say um and first thank you for coming if this is your first board meeting um I I know that came up as a theme in what our full day kindergarten uh committee members were saying and I can only underline that we have a large base here in and it's nice to have turnout um so as far as your question um I would suggest starting with the principle of the of your child school for that um because while we do have District um PD and as M mcul explained in her presentation um and each School layers on their own individual work and that would give you the best specifics for Where Your Children Are thank you having done that where do I go next because I think that that's something that I have broached with you we have talked about but I'd like to know the details of what all of those seminars and sessions that were available to teachers are those required what do those entail what are those benchmarks for teachers where do I get more information when I've exhausted my resources at school level that's a great question um once you've done that then you would go to the district level and then I would suggest speaking with Miss mulik who oversees our professional development thank you thank you for your time thank you again to everyone who came and spoke and took time out of their evenings to do so one more one more all right can't stay away hi everyone like you guys I have multiple hats um I'm back here Rachel Willie 200 Tomlinson I'm back here as a staff member and as a union member for our schools um I just want to let all our njaa members know um and everyone who supports teachers um in our community that our Union uh is also in support of the the two ballot questions and we hope you will vote yes thank you thank you before I say thanks again any other uh comments going once going twice all right thanks everyone again for for taking your time out of the evening the environment in the room tonight has been has been great and I hope that momentum carries on um over the next few weeks um moving now to board member announcements are there any board members who would like to make an announcement is no I just wanted to promote the E sham Ed Foundation designer bag Bingo that's going to be here at Dei um I believe it's uh November 3rd but you can find it on their Facebook page and I'm bringing it up it's coming up and also on tonight's agenda if you saw there were two requests for funding from the eam Ed Foundation that some of our great women here put together so it's important you know the eam Education Foundation as you know gives a lot of money to support our students here so um all for coming out and supporting the esham Education Foundation designer bag bingo I will try to make it here if my kids and husband allow because I love Bingo and I love designer bags thank you thank you Mrs null any other board members wish to speak all right I'll just take one more opportunity to thank everyone for speaking tonight and then our newest board member Dr wil it feels great to have nine of us here again um your time will be short but hopefully you get what you're looking for out of it and I know that from the board perspective we're definitely better for having you here um with that we can move to a motion to adjourn anyone with a motion motion by Mrs N seconded by Dr Capello all in favor I thank [Music] you [Music]

check 1 two three all right at this time I'd like to call the meeting to order please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one na andice I love hearing our students say the Pledge great job guys let the record reflect that all board members are present we will move on to item B1 Dr CTO thank you madam President we have an a great night ahead of us and we have a musical performance to start this evening and I'll have Dr asai introduce our guests we are so pleased to welcome the Elmer choir under the direction of Brian Jackson Mr Jackson is a first year teacher who is doing a phenomenal job with our music students at Al Mirage let's take it [Music] [Applause] [Music] away [Music] [Applause] [Music] n [Music] [Applause] a [Applause] [Music] la [Music] la [Applause] la [Music] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] it was a pretty good great job guys thank you so much ask a question yes I have a question for Mr Jackson or maybe Miss Marinelli Mr Jackson I don't think he can hear you where's Miss Marinelli she out there too I know I'm waiting for it to get quiet and hopefully she out in the lobby I'll just say is he been in this position that was an open position right he okay I'm I'm sorry that Mr Jackson left um I hope he can still hear me I just want I know that he's a long-term sub I know that's a position that we've had vacant over there at El Mirage and when the music first came on I thought oh my goodness it that it's too loud it's going to drown out their little voices and my good they just like projected and they were excited and just really want to think um Mr Jackson that you know this whole he his his his performance Drew such a large community you know response and he's a long-term subs and he is I mean he's already got them engaged he's got the parents connected they all came out and I'm just so thankful and I hope he recognizes and and the administration recognizes um what a gem you guys have in him I mean thank goodness he came to to the school to help that program grow um with that vacancy but that's amazing that he was able to do that oh oh yeah well I'm very thankful he's part of our district so thank him for me when you see him that was wonderful very exciting yes it was very good these kids Tango better than I do or were they doing the chaa either way they dance better than I do and they sing it's great all right we will move on to item B2 Dr crto thank you madam president uh members of the board uh cabinet and Community tonight we have another celebration uh and we're going to celebrate all four of our high schools who've been named best high schools by US News and World Report uh for the 2324 school year so congratulations to our four high schools um before we have them come up yes Round of Applause um they are selected each year um by benchmarks that you news and World Report uses High graduation rates high scores on Assessments in math reading science college readiness uh there are a bunch of factors that US News uh and World Report uses uh there are approximately 18,000 public high schools in the United States and only 40% of them are recognized as the top high schools in the United States so and we have four of them so that is quite an honor uh great job and we would like to and individually invite each School up we have a plaque for you uh the schools will also be getting a huge Banner to hang on their buildings um big we couldn't bring them in here tonight I don't think they'll even fit in here but um they'll be delivered to the school and put up on the building for them uh to show the community that we have amazing high schools so great job guys uh great job to our high schools and uh we're proud of you so Bard I'll ask you to come up and then we'll take some pictures uh we'll go in order start off with diceo diart then Shadow then Valley and then Willow so um one at a Time come on up diert you're up congratulations once again to our high schools uh we are proud of you it's quite an accomplishment great job thank you for being here all right we will move on to C1 we have no audience with individuals all right then we will move on to item D1 Dr CTO do we have a student update uh yes we do okay Madam president U Mr muy will introduce our student yes madame president members of the board Dr crto um at this time I'd like to bring forward Valentina Hermes senior Valley Vista High School that's going to provide us our student update tonight is it on okay um good evening Madame President superintendent members of the board I hope you are doing well thank you for letting me speak today I'm going to talk about what we talked about at our last board um or last meeting with dslc so starting off with shadow um Shadow had third dance on October 8th um so it was before fall break they didn't sell tickets at the door um but they turned out at the game and the dance went really really well so they and their homecoming spirit week also went really well they did a barbecue for the athletes before game and then they have a trunk Retreat coming up and then going next to daart sorry I'm like a little sick going to daart they had their spirit week also went really well um but they're tell Tate did not go as well um and they're working on their student section more um their Dance turned out not very well because of um their admin they have to so basically if you don't have good grades or um like they do a grade check so if you don't if you're not passing your classes you can't go to the dance and um it's apparently it's always been a thing but they didn't have a good turnout I think they had over like 300 kids um and so there the kids at student councils were complaining about it a little bit but overall they did like their dance as student council members but they didn't have a lot of people there and then they also have a trunk or trick coming up and then for Willow um they had uh 98.3 coming um during to coming to their lunches um I think it was this week they came and they really liked it um and then they chalked the school for suicide prevention month they left like really nice messages on every desk for anti-bullying month and it's it came out with like a good positive um attitude for the students and then they didn't have a powderpuff game um because of fighting so they couldn't have that one which is sad and then Valley they had uh their homecoming week last week um it went really really well and then um for their Powderpuff game uh you could either enter in for $2 or bring can food drive and the cans go to Valley food bank so it's good for the community and then the seniors won that one it was a really great game in my opinion um and then their dance was also really really well um I not because I it but because um uh because um well honestly every kid has been coming up to me and saying that was the best dance we planned so again not because we plan I planned it but it was really well and then we're also having our canned food coming up soon and we are really busy on working with state so we're trying to get everything else done in January cuz we also have January in state and we have hoop coming so we've been kind of just like on a hustle like doing that so that's kind of all the updates for now that's it thank you do I go s okay thank you next we will move on to D to Dr curto thank you madam president members of the board just three quick updates for you tonight um as as you know the boundary committee uh focused on the boundary for Sante prep uh they have met twice now in the last few weeks so uh it's been a great um great meeting Dr s Dr polling have been heading that up and they've done a great job they look forward to bringing you a recommendation we know we have a public hearing coming up in November as well as a final vote in December so uh that that uh committee is going very well um growing Minds uh great news from growing mins preschool uh they are rated every year by quality first um Quality first star rating uh we have been a three star in the past we are proud to announce that they are now a fourstar rating uh which means they exceed quality standards and they were about that far from a five-star so they are uh really going for a five five-star rating and they'll sure they'll get that next year but great job to Growing Minds uh it's a great accomplishment to have that fourstar rating and last but not least uh we are in huge anticipation I'm probably going to stay up all night like March Madness and everything but the school district labels and the school and the district labels are coming out tomorrow knock on wood that's what being told so we are looking forward to sharing that with our community um and sharing it with the board so uh we will doing that very soon and that's all I have tonight thank you Dr Coto we will move on to D3 governing board update me go first okay okay it's definitely been fall break um I attended the ceremony where uh Luke Elementary was named a purple star school candidate and you know this is a really big deal because it's the first school in Arizona to get this designation and it just shows how much the district and the school supports and is committed to supporting our military and coming from a military family um I think this is a great program and too bad it wasn't around years ago many years ago um congratulations again to all our high schools for this ranking that's awesome the bar is set pretty high and uh go Diamond bags I also attended the purple star candidate ceremony at Luke um a wonderful event and I'm excited that the district's involved um I also attended a school visit at Rancho Gabriella thank you for the warm welcoming and the great dialogue um with the students teachers and staff and then I also attended the CTE Expo that was my first time ever attending and I took my son and it was a great experience so thank you for the district for putting that on I also attended the purple star candidate ceremony um and it was just amazing to see how much our our district supports our military families um I attended the bond and override committee meeting the first one this week and I just want to thank all of our volunteers for stepping up for this very important role um in assessing the district needs thank you that's it I also attended the purple star candidate celebration at Luke Elementary and I will Echo what the other ladies have said it was so nice to see how much we support our military families because our our servicemen and women just do an outstanding job you know they go through things that we we don't even realize so I just appreciate how much we're supporting our military families um and I also attended the homecoming football game for daart high school and we won yay and I just have to tell you it was such a positive experience it was so familyfriendly um I I told Miss rush and Dr Coto I said we had students sitting in front of us we had parents sitting beside us and behind us and everybody was just so positive I didn't have any bad attitudes I didn't hear a bunch of choice words every other thing even sitting with students you know they they were so just happy the parents were there supporting their students and everybody was it's like every time they made a touchdown it was like yeah you know poor Donald you know my husband was holding him and then everybody would yell and my husband would yell and get excited and he' go whoa but but it was just it was so great to see our community engaged and how just how much they enjoyed seeing our students play so thank you that was a wonderful experience and we won just saying all right next we'll move on to item E1 I will motion to approve consent agenda items as presented motion made by Crystal Chapin seconded by Christine Pritchard motion carries we will move on to G1 Dr croo thank you madam president members of the board uh earlier in my update I mentioned the boundary committee but we've also had a bond override committee which uh this governing board asked to be put together and sanctioned to look at our needs and we have an update for you tonight and Mr mcy will introduce this item yes Madam president members of the board Dr Coto um as requested the governing board um had requested a bond override committee to be formed to assess the district needs this past Tuesday we held our first meeting with over 30 representatives of parents and community members from all of our schools after each meeting this committee will be updating the board um the committee did end their their last uh meeting with four people that were selected by the members to speak on behalf of the committee and provide those updates after each of our meetings those members are and we have four of them one of them could not be here tonight Megan Perez the other four members are Johnny Melton Patrick Campbell and Shannon Frasier and at this time I'm going to invite them forward to provide that update good evening Madame President members of the board Dr CAU uh my name is Patrick Campbell I'm one of four sorry I'm trying to get this thing tall enough for me here stay okay uh so anyways uh meeting was called to order uh we met Tuesday for the first time here and um my understanding is we're going to meet here we have several subsequent meetings scheduled uh seven in total I do believe plus tours of facilities and things like that um so the the uh they went over the the members that were elected the chair the co- chairpersons and or spokespersons uh for our group uh the facts of the meeting were it was called to order on time uh there was some good introductions about exactly what it was what our Focus was where we should be heading what we should be looking for things like that um there are 31 committee members in total um that were present um a general overview was given as far as the function the goals what we're trying to do as a subcommittee uh requested by this board um they wasted no time getting into the attorneys um covered uh Arizona open meeting laws um and you'll be happy to know they covered that in depth so there should be no questions about what's going on definite dos definite don'ts um things like that the District budget overview was given to us and it was what I would refer to as a 30,000 foot overview just a quick little synopsis where we stand uh I was impressed compared to other school districts where we stand on some of those things and it was it was good to know um there was uh a lot of positive feedback from the group as far as the um the proactiveness of this board to request a subcommittee so just know that the feedback so far has been has been very good um we did get into what is a bond what is an overview or what is a an override and things like that there was definitely some good interaction and questions that happened from the committee um and then as we wrapped up the evening we talked about future uh meetings and stuff what we'll be doing and then obviously the four persons which um which he mentioned were were um elected and then the meeting was um adjourned at that time so questions from the board if any anything else y'all want to add good um again just thank you so much for for stepping up to volunteer and even um you know being able to chair this committee or co-chair of this committee um I just wanted to ask what your you know or maybe I'm I'm just going to make a statement because I was I was present for it but um this is more to Dr Coto but again I just want to make sure that you understand how much I appreciate the transparency um even having this committee present their findings and information to the board um I cannot tell you how much I appreciate the transparency from from you and from the district on this um and so the ju and just the question so will you be providing updates then after Each Bond override committee meeting yes ma'am so the the the expectation to us and I love it um after every meeting obviously we're going to go into a lot more depth starting next meeting right um we do have two scheduled in November and then we'll be meeting all the way through the middle of March um every time we've get information back from that that information in more in depth will be given to the board um it's that way you know every step of the way where we're at how things are progressing and if there's anything else that we'd like to like to see as far as you know taking a left or right heading in the right direction so yes ma'am okay thank you can you share have there been any like just preliminary discussions at all just to get an idea of any feedback or concerns from the community regarding bonds and overrides one way or the other so we oh yeah please uh keep in mind as of right now the the committee just formed so we have not been presented any kind of at this moment we don't have we have not presented uh what the needs of the schools are right this is just a high Lev overview uh as for I think uh you asked about Community concerns um I I think that might be a little premature right now but um is are as we we just formed so as of right now no okay so I mean community meeting just the the group like the the your committee yeah no the the the it's a very very good cross-section of the community it's it was very it picked very well people represented through for every school has been there and they're all asking very good questions and they're all very tuned in and they're very interested in the information so did that answer your question any any further questions I will just echo my gratitude for our community and their engagement in participating in this committee I know it's a big time commitment and I know it's a very heavy load to carry as a committee making this recommendation but I do appreciate your time I appreciate your effort and I do appreciate the transparency so thank you you're welcome we're we we're equally as excited and I Echo the same thing as miss denmore the the openness and the transparency um and the willingness to open it up and say let's let's take a look at what really matters because this matters what we're doing right now so the work is is going to be long but it's worth every minute thank you thank you ma' thank you all right next we will move on to G2 Dr CTO thank you madam president members of the board um as requested from uh a board member we are here tonight uh to present you state assessment proficiency data our schools uh compared to the state and we have our director of research and accountability Miss Amy Harin is going to do our presentation and I'm gonna pull this way down because I'm so short no you're good I'm used to it all right I always look this way so I apologize because that is this is not my I'm right-handed all right so our state overview just as a reminder um of who takes which tests because we use a variety of um State assessments students in grades third through e8th grade take the aaay um the engl the ELA component has a reading and writing portion of the test and then they take math our ninth graders take the ACT Aspire which has an English reading math science and writing section the Juniors take the ACT which also has an English reading math and science um and writing section for the juniors the English reading and writing all get combined into an Ela score which we looked at um when we talked about those State proficiency pieces and then students in grades 58 and 11 take the AI which is the state science test we'll start with the third um through eighth grade data and um part of the request had been to see District or I'm sorry State averages so because of the different configurations we have for schools you'll see that the state average is different because it's based on what the configuration of that school um that school groups are and what grade levels test so when you look at our k4s which third and fourth grade students test um you have the four um kforce Countryside El Mirage Rancho and Western Peaks um and then you have our district average and our state average you can see that two of the schools were um above both district and state and um two were just below the state average for our middle schools which is grades 5 through eight and all grade levels on that campus test um the state average was 39 our district average um was well above that at 46 um with ranges from 18 um through 47% for our K8 the state average is 40% and the district average was 46 and those um scores range from um 20% up to 73% um when you look at those and the differences in those um State into averages um typically our lower grades score um in a higher proficiency than our upper grades thus why um you may see the ranges are a little bit lower in those um just straight middle schools because the third and fourth grade scores tend to help um when you do the K8 model when we look at math you can see that um the state average was 41 our district average was 47 and a half and those um range from 35 to um 61 and a half for our middle schools it is 30.75 for the state average and our district average was 37 and a half so um a good increase over the state average and those range from um 15 to 44% at the Kate 8 um the state average was 34 and our district average well above that at um 40.8 and again this um range from 18% up to almost 75% for a Sai um for the fifth and eighth grades um you will notice that the k4s are not on there because they don't have anybody who test that so these are representing our um middle schools in our K K8 schools um the state average was um 31 in our school school um District average was 39 we had a um strong increase as a district in our scores in science last year both in the fifth and eth grade level for our high schools um our ninth graders take the Aspire um and the scores what you see there represent um the C two categories that the Aspire calls ready and exceeding Readiness um they Define Readiness as students that are on target to demonstrate College read for the act by 11th grade um and so when you look at these you're going to notice the fantastic job that our high schools do when you look at where they are in Readiness by freshman year and what our state proficiency looks like by junior year so um when you look at um Math and Science are lower than our English and um reading and we are um at or above the state in most areas English being our highest area when you get to the ACT um we're going to look at it in two ways one is all the subject area scores in the composits and then the following slide will have the actual proficiency that we talked about with the state um labeling system so um we are above the state average in all subject areas including the composite which is that average of all of those together and all of our high schools um as a district our all of our subject areas went up over the last year when you look at our state proficiency this is the category that when the high schools did their CIP presentations to you we didn't have that state average yet that has now been released so that's been included for you um you can see that we are well above the state average in English proficiency and also above the state average in math proficiency um that Ela is that combination of their reading um English and writing scores and a student has to have a score in all three areas to get an English proficiency score and then the last one is um the high the high school a side data um and you can see we are right at the um State um average for that one and I can say um you'll notice that they are right there we have not um focused on the a side as much as we have this the ACT science of course two different tests the Juniors take both of them um on back-to-back days we have um put a focus on the a side test this year um and focusing on items that are um in line with that so that students are better prepared and we can show an increase in scores for that area this year and with that I will stand for questions thank you so much I appreciate this presentation you know when we're looking at CIP and data and it comes up as you know 39% for proficiency if you're just looking at it and you don't know anything and you're going 30 number wow this is this is crazy like only 30 a%c which we always aim for higher we always aim to be a little bit better next year than we were this year we always aim to grow so I asked for this item so that we could see where we were in comparison to the state average and it's very encouraging to know that in a in several areas we're above the state average um it's very encouraging looking at our high school data and seeing that almost all of them are at the state average or higher and it's very encouraging and I do thank you for that and I'm I'm guessing we have practices in place to for those percentages that are a little bit below yes so um the elementaries finished their first Benchmark today and um the high schools use a um released act system so that we have kids practicing um doing that for our high schools one of the biggest challenges is that they go from having untimed tests to the AC and the Aspire are timed test and so that is not um they have to start with that practice of how do I efficiently um and effectively answer questions versus taking my time which is a practice we teach for so long and now all of a sudden I have to answer qu questions very quickly thank you so I thank you for the presentation excuse me and just as I said last time not shooting the messenger at all you're very thorough and I always appreciate how you present d um so this might be more towards Dr Coto cabinet whomever wants to jump in I found like over the years I mean we're thankful that we most times are at or above State average but and which I'm thankful for but it's hard for me to get excited about a state average you know when we're looking at State averages of being 39% 37 or 30.75 per to then say well we're above State average well we should be I mean that's awful um so I know as Miss jaffin had mentioned I'm sure because there there's a couple middle schools I'm very concerned about um but in general you know what's it going to take for our district to be well exceeding this I mean this 30.75 that we we should never e we should not we should be well we should be surpassing that and so and we never seem to we always seem to be ing right around or maybe a little above but we've never been like even 70% and 70 is average in my opinion so what is it that we need to do to make sure that we're providing our our teachers with the tools our students with the instruction that they need to be able to well surpass a 30.75 u Madam president member Pritchard I think you're seeing some early uh beginnings of systems were're putting in place to handle that uh you've seen the summer workshop where we work with our curriculum alignment uh making sure that our teachers understand what the standards are uh looking at the materials they're teaching to their standards uh making sure they're aligned and making those uh changes uh that was a big process we started last summer uh we will continue it again this summer uh so a lot of those processes help and help our teachers become Familiar of the expectations of what students need to learn um I also think through uh the professional learning communities and the collaboration we have going on uh we are in early stages of relaunching that but again those are conversations and talks about student data with the outcome of student learning and the expectation of student learning so as we get deeper into those processes and we embed those in our culture um I think those two processes along with the amazing job that our um ed services does with our carec I mean their our curriculum is very well formed and and it's very well in place and so all those processes to keep it going and inspect it and make an awareness about it um will draw these scores up it just takes some time to do that um and it takes uh the experts that we have to uh make sure we are following our processes people understand that we have a Common Language uh towards getting to where we're going member prer if I may also interject um under Dr Coto we've been um encouraged to really look at our our results more I think we we've been here for a long time where it was nice to get by um you know Dr crto is all about accountability and that every student can succeed um ed services has made some changes under that um Miss Harin and Miss Noble oversee our Focus Schools project where we've identified schools that aren't where we need them to be because when you have schools that are lagging even though you have a freedom at the top that's well well above the state average I think they were number eight in the state last year which is where we want to be you know we know we have schools that need more intense support So this year we've gone in and done some really intense support um they've coached some principles going in and helping with systems because lots of it's about systems we've also revamped our TLS program uh which supports our zero to threeyear teachers we know lots of times our zero to threeyear teachers uh they'll leave and every time we get new teachers we have to do new training it impacts test scores so being able to allowed to pull the TLs one time a week to do training to do observational protocols to really look at data so they can support teachers in doing that I think we're going to see a yield from we have also we have a new math program math is one of my passions uh coming as a former principal from a stem School uh Although our results were above you're right they were four to six% above depending that's not where we want to be uh so we've really pressed our new math curriculum you'll see some title things being presented at our next board meeting that Focus even more on math so we can raise our math achievement and I have something else written down but I really can't read my handwriting so that'll you're anticipating my question that um that's it but I think it's a new culture of accountabil but accountability with support which is a good place to be it's not just hey I want you to do this in District you can support it's hey you're going to go out there and you're going to make sure this gets done and your job is to support schools not just feeling good but also making sure that the numbers come in and that students are achieving right and I hear you and maybe I'm not expressing it correctly and maybe you can help me with this like but not to age myself but so I was first elected in in 2006 D's always been around the same general area like I know it was a long time ago thank you Dr um it they we've never way surpassed the state average so when it's like well it takes time and we're doing all these things like it's been a long time that was a long I mean and we've so we've been working at this for a while and we've never seemed to really break away from a little bit above the state average and the state average is in the toilet as far as I'm concerned it's not where it needs to be so there's that um I and I know like and I I believe in Dr croto we've had we've had some good superintendent some phenomenal superintends in the past so I and I know they've been most of them have been about accountability um so that's there I've been in classrooms I've looked at curriculum I know we work hard so it's not like I feel like we have subpar curriculum or we um aren't in classrooms enough I I hear what you're saying and I know that we're doing those things so what's missing though because you can't say well it takes time because again 2006 and you can't it's not like well we need to do better and we need to be different things we can always do better specifically a couple of them that I know you know I'm following there's some things that some definitely need to be working on but we've for the most part like our teachers our administrators I go into these buildings and I read reports you guys send out and we're doing great things yet we're 37.5 so that so I'm honestly asking what is missing is it just that Arizona is in general as a state has work to do and we're you know kind of the byproduct of that I don't know but I mean there has to be something more I don't want to be like well it's going to take time because I've put the time in and well we're going to get these great programs because we've got great programs we've got amazing teachers and administrators what's missing I I think for a long time we left some of our staff behind um you know and we referenced this with a summer workshops that Dr Coto brought in is this is the first year this slat past year where we had everyone involved in curriculum writing I think over 85% of our teachers attended before that we took the best of the best we took the top 10% and the the rich got richer and the poor got poor you know when we talk about mastering a standard there's a lot within each standard and I'm not sure before if we really included everyone in unwrapping the standard and really understanding it I've been I've been here not as long as you have probably because I'm you know but uh but over time with that I think that our plc's haven't really not all schools have owned it we've had some schools that did that they were really our kids and teams addressed the children as a whole and we've had other ones where we didn't necessarily promote the PLC structure we didn't hold principes accountable for we didn't hold teachers accountable for it so it's kind of individualized practic and it creates an educational lottery and I don't think that's an option anymore and I think the ability to hold things strong and not make them Invitational but make them mandatory we're going to see we are going to see a great change this year we're optimistic where our benchmarks we just took Benchmark one for elementary you know the our we are seeing gains in it so far I believe at the schools I've talked to and practice over time is going to consistently go up so in the interest of time I won't keep talking about it I'm I'm still not hearing it though like I'd really like maybe Dr Coto can you just maybe you and I can talk at some point just there's there's that wouldn't account for we're at 37.5% after all of this time I feel like there's something still missing to why we're not and again maybe it's a state level thing and I just want to better understand that because again I I just feel like and we can certainly talk um but when you go back to 2006 too remember you're not comparing Apples to Apples it's not been the same testing system or the same accountability system uh in since 2006 but we've always had that though I mean we've always had those same issues we're talking about now we still had varying like the the State Testing changing over time we had aims back then we had all these other things so there there was always those same reasons and variables that we are facing in the moment but we are never able to break through that next level whether it's 2006 or now is what I'm saying may I also offer that our state test seems to change every year that's what I'm saying they always and that's not uh that's not a district thing I think that's a state department of Ed type of thing it's like as a teacher when you finally get something figured out and you and not only do you have to because there there's a disconnect between some of our tests and how we teach we teach for knowledge we teach so students internalize it we teach so they understand sometimes a test will ask a question that's not even like the process isn't part of the state standard so sometimes a test will ask a question that goes like two or three levels deeper than what your state standard goes through if if that's an accurate description or is that just not close I think sometimes we teach differently than we've tested and it takes time to figure out how they're asking the questions so one of the huge things we've discovered is when Dr and Sai and I taught when you taught summary you taught kids to write a summary they took key details from it and there wasn't a specific thing now when the kids are asked they're asked which sentence is the best part of the summary which one is the most important detail so when we teach it now we have to teach it with we're going to go through and the way you ask the questions to kids are different because you have to ask the questions and the way in which they're going to see it on the test so that they're able to access that material so I think there is some um legitimacy to what um Miss chaan is saying and the fact that it does take time for staff to get familiar with how the test is set up and the standard the way it asks questions um you are correct you know I've been here even longer than um you have been here so we have um you know we definitely have room to grow and um I honestly think if if we all had the answer to your question because I think what you're really asking for is what's the fix and I think we would love to know what the magical fixes to get everybody into the 70s and 80s because I agree I I would love to have we spend a lot of time and effort um in what we do and I certainly don't think teachers come to work every day to say I I want to go for 30% I you know it is just as stressful for the students in sorry students and teachers in just him now and he's in the 70s so I I know that that sounds like a bragging moment but I just want to make sure that everybody understands I'm the same parent same mom went from one dice art school to another all of a sudden my son's scores shifted tremendously and he's thriving and I'm I it frustrates me to the a little bit because I I know that that speaks to the leadership there and the teachers and and all of the wonderful support staff that that are there for for my child and all of the other students there but why why can't we mirror just some of that why I mean I know we can't clone you know some of our leaders but we can take some of those those talents we can maybe make a mentorship program I and I know that Dr Cotto is working on you know a lot of this through the plc's and um and I know that we're going to get there but I'm I'm glad to hear that you didn't use that excuse tonight but I have heard it in the past every year I got the same well okay I just wanted to make that point but I appreciate your presentation thankk you I have a question regarding the a science for 11th grade okay what are the challenges of this why I don't understand the the averages I mean the state average is 22% we're at 21 what what are the challenges is it the curriculum is it how it's being taught I'm very concerned about about this correct and um sorry now I feel like it's really loud um there are a couple factors one of them as I said is that the the Juniors take two science tests and they're different and because of the fact the factors of what the weight of the ACT has been teachers have at times focused on act style content questions those types of things because it's hard to teach to two tests at the same time um and so this year we are intentionally focusing on items related to the AI and doing AI um readings and pieces that go along with that um so that we can focus on increasing those scores because 100% um that is very difficult um and that is not you can see the kids were performing much better at the fifth and eighth grade so they had that solid knowledge at some point and then um their um effort on this test I don't think accurately represents the science education they're getting in the high schools and that's why we're we're intentionally switching our Focus um as we're preparing students for the testing Parts this year um when we did the ACT um Benchmark at the start of the year with the high school students they also took an a Sian and um our science specialist then met with all of the um schools and did a half-day training with the junior science teachers on um lessons around those standards that students didn't perform well in um and being able to then really Target the standards where students the a side test um for the juniors is a three-year test it covers all their content um taught in n9th 10th and 11th grade so by the time I get to 11th grade somebody's going to have to go back and do some review and some standards from my ninth or 10th grade year and so when they do that um test at the beginning of the year it tells them what standards they really need to go back and focus on and if I teach Junior physics I may not have expertise in biology so I'm going to have to work with other teachers in my department to make sure if a student in my classes didn't Master some bio standards that I'm going back and helping Gap fill those areas because I'm a physics person not a bio person so um we're starting to do some pieces like that so she she brought back brought in content area experts who could then design lessons to help do those pieces for teachers who aren't in that content um that's not their area of specialty so if we're going to focus on this test what's going to happen to the other test that they have to take is so in in my this is me speaking that like so I am hoping that because of the way the ACT is set up it is a lot of reading and um application of what you read we are hoping by focusing on the content sections of AI and being able to do those pieces that that will translate that regardless of what I read on the ACT test I can apply that information because I've practiced it in content in my science class so that the ACT is more of an application based piece and the AI is more of a content content based thank you m do we have any other questions all right thank you yeah next we will move on to item G3 Dr crto thank you madam president members of the board tonight we have two more school CP reports and Dr asai will introduce our guest speakers Madame President members of the board it is my pleasure to rep to introduce Mr Rick Haney The Proud interim principal of El Mirage thank you Dr asai uh so thank you again for allowing our students to come out and perform for you so you saw the turnout was tremendous and last night we had a costume ball and uh it was a fire marshall wouldn't have liked it but the gym was packed it was good to turnout as well uh Madame President governing board thank you for having me here tonight to talk about our C CIP uh plan so this is our aasa data over the past 3 years we are slightly above State average when it comes to math and we did take a a dip in ela uh by 0 44% in a couple slides I will show you our plan to address that and what we need to do to get those scores closer to 70% which like you say is the goal right so this this is our Zella testing data and this is for our El population and we do have a large population of El students it's close to 100 students on our campus and this is the data over again the past three years 21 20 to 21 21 to 22 and 22 to 23 um recognizing that we have a need for more support for our eel students we have been working closely with Dr Longoria and the federal projects department for 23 and 24 we have a dedicated eel interventionist this year year that works very hard with our students each day in a pullout system she also coaches teachers on best strategies for our El Learners that is a subgroup that we get points on uh with our state report card grade and we didn't do very well um P last year on that so we re again recognize the needs so we'd have to support the teachers so that these Learners can get where we need them to go okay our goals so we do you know smart goal realistic goals so we have our scores um so the goals that we have for are two tested grades and so third grade they uh they take a test and the proficiency is measured fourth graders proficiency plus growth is measured so a realistic goal is to improve in ela and math by 5% for both grade levels for p excuse me for proficiency and highly proficient students and also decrease minimally proficient students by 5% for our K2 students our measure is going to be our Dibbles data and so what we want to do is we have a beginning year Dibbles report and an end of year report so again we want to be realistic so we want our students to grow by 5% in each grade level and also decrease the minimally proficient by 5% as well some of the things we're doing to uh excuse me address goal one is the alignment so the curriculum writers in the summer as was talked to summer workshop they uh really hit it hard when it come to writing the Scopes and sequences for our grades and it's really tight so when we do our walks we make first thing we do is look at the scope and sequence where are we supposed to be today what lesson are we on what standards are we supposed to be teaching in each grade level so we look at that before we go on our walks to see if our teachers are actually staying on schedule and staying within the scope and sequence and making sure that the students are exposed to the full curriculum that they should be for and they're on track for that uh we have ongoing PD every Monday uh recently we had a cont content um curriculum specialist Cammy Bernard came in and she did lesson planning with our teams in a prep connect she met with our first grade team which is a relatively new team and then our third grade team moved from first grade to third which is a bit of a jump excellent teachers highly effective teachers but the curriculum is new to them so she met with them and did a special training with them um Adriel greaver is meeting with our third grade teachers as well on going to uh talk about online assessment because online assessment is way different than what a first grader would take and again our third grade teachers used to be the first grade teachers and they're an excellent team I invite you to come out and take a look for yourself okay second is our goal is excuse me go back okay second goal is going we're going to engage um our families to be more involved they were out tonight and they were at the dance last night but we want them to be engaged in the academics as well so we encourage them to use the parent portal to check the grades we send assess assments home so parents can look at the assessment with the parent with the student and they can do test corrections and then that comes back in the take-home folder um we have student-led conferences with uh the parents present of course uh with the teacher uh the parent excuse me the student is facilitating the conversation looking at the portfolio and the data that's in the folder and the students can talk to the data they have they set goals each week on what they're what they what they would like to uh be at with reading and math primarily and those are signed those go home in the take- home folder as well and uh parents sign off on that they got the communication so goal three is a safety goal we're trying to reduce referrals by 10% and we had 393 referrals last year and we want to reduce that number and we're on the right track there and I'll show you what that looks like in just a moment okay going back to goal one uh we're checking the scope and sequence we do have tiered support for students we we have all three tiers on our campus we have tier one which is the uh instruction to the Core Curriculum then we have tier two which is kid hasn't mastered a goal so we're going to make sure that they know that so we do a ret in for what each kid needs we call it when time what I need uh that's going to be for each kid and then we have tier three that's going to be for our special education students our El students and students that just need extra support in reading and math okay again going back to goal two we have the student Le conferences of course the teacher is there and again they go through the portfolio and they look at their data and what they can do to improve upon it uh we always encourage our parents once again to look into the portal because they can check that every single day to see what kids are missing and what they can do to support the curriculum we have newsletters that go out each week and in the newsletter it talks about the standards that are being taught and how they're going to be taught and if there's a project and what the project should look like and what the assessments going to be at the end of the week uh that's what we do to communicate to parents and then we of course use class do and there's email blasts that we use as well so for goal three we have Tiger Pride and so what that is it's really clear expectations and positive reinforcements to students and that really works for up to 90% of our students students that it's not really effective with we have tier 2 Behavior plans for each individual kid and that'll address a lot of other kids that are struggling with behaviors and then we have RTI for students that might struggle even a little bit more with behaviors and they are evaluated for special needs such as uh for an IEP or something like that and our data for referrals has gone down so first quarter last year we had a total of let me see here okay we had 52 last year for the first quarter and we only have 26 referrals this first quarter so we cut that in half and so the behavior on campus is really um I think it's amazing and our teachers do a really good job of classroom management so we're really working hard with again addressing plcs to tighten that up making sure instructions where it needs to be so that we can get the students at El marage performing at a higher Lev level academically and that is it that's my presentation questions thank you I appreciate you mentioning the classroom management when discussing the decrease in referrals because there's times where principles is say oh yeah we decreased our referrals but then they're really not dealing with behaviors so the fact that you're communicating that all of your teachers have very good classroom management and they're actually managing behaviors and not just ignoring it thank you I appreciate that absolutely I thank you for your presentation and I just want to thank you also just for your transparency with your data and um the way you've outlined it and then how your goals are very specific to what you're going to do to improve the data especially the um increasing the highly proficient proficient by 5% and then decreasing Mally proficient by five so again just really liking the way that you're looking at your data and you're coming up with very um focused interventions to um address them so I appreciate that thank you very much thank you I was just GNA thank you so much for the presentation but thank you guys um I I really app to go off of what Miss Chaffin said though I want to Echo what she said as far as the uh referrals because so often I I know from other districts I hear that they want to reduce the referrals but what they're doing is they're not managing their classrooms or they're ignoring um or just trying to get along to get along um right to kind of skew that data so I I appreciate you taking it seriously uh for what it is and truly to help these students absolutely so classroom management you know if if the class is chaotic the learning is not going to take place so we know that so it really starts with the classroom management and so we focus on that especially with our new teachers we do a lot of training with them Miss Crow the AP at Omar she just did a a PD on classroom management and expectations and behavior as we came back from fall break we know that we have to do that because they forgot uh so we have to remind them of expectations and again most kids will meet expectation if it's really clear to them um and that's research based stuff so right yeah just knowing that that they're going to be in the classroom you know those you're You' you're cutting it by 50% you know in that first quarter they're in the classroom that much more so that that's amazing thank you yes ma'am to say too obviously again just back to Performance and just the large group of parents that came that really speaks to the culture that you're building there so kudos for that as well well thank you and that we're I I hang our hat on the growth you know from third grade to fourth grade and I feel like we have very highly effective teachers in third and fourth grade which which has a tremendous impact on student achievements so uh we got our Benchmark one data today and we're going to look through that of course and then by Benchmark 2 uh we're definitely going to show some growth good job all right thank you guys and our next school up is Riverview Elementary the principal is Miss Norma Chavez this is Miss Chavez first year in our district and we are so proud of her leadership and she is here to present to you on Riverview School good evening Madam president members of the governing board Dr Coto and cabinet I'm excited to be here this evening to share with you the wonderful things that we're doing at Riverview to share our school goals and how our work directly aligns with the district and the governing board goals okay technical difficulties there we go I would like to begin this evening with our three-year data trends for ELA Math and Science as you can see we have seen a decline in Proficiency in ela and math with scores that have been consistently been below the state average and this causes great concern and a strong sense of urgency on our campus and our district we have been excited about the new curriculum adoption with the aligned and more focused implementation we aim to achieve higher levels of proficiency we ac expect to see gains this year with the new curriculum and the intentional roll out of plc's a celebration that we did see was in the area of science we saw an increase of 8.37% in proficiency our sub population are always an important asp aspect of our data and we're always looking and working to identify the needs of our students yeah here you can see the [Music] data we will continue focusing on what our students need using datadriven instruction and utilizing our district scope in sequence and curriculum resources when we focus on supporting professional growth of our teachers our teachers in turn are going to support our students we are incredibly excited for our partnership with solution tree and we've begun working with our consultant we have a lot of room for growth at Riverview and we're very thankful for the continuous support that we've received by Dr assai Miss Noble Miss Haren Dr Loria and all of the district Specialists this year alongside our Partnerships with our ESS and PLC Consultants I know that only together we can ensure that our barracudas are achieving at the highest levels and Riverview is ready set to grow do you guys have any questions thank you so much for this presentation um I love the fact that with action plan goal two I love the fact that you're implementing the positive consequences as well as corrective we need corrective consequences we need students need those kind of consequences but for those students who are always following expectations always doing the right things and they seem to get ignored because all the focus is on correcting the negative behavior I mean there's several times I would make positive phone calls and the mom you could tell the parent would be like okay and they'll be like hey your students doing great they're wow you know it just makes their day to hear something nice and then the kid comes back and they're excited because their parents are excited and it's it's great to not only focus on just the corrective action but also reinforce that positive too um and I really love hearing that Riverview is embracing all of the resources that were and support that we're providing it it's just you know we've seen that Riverview needs to grow and the fact that you're saying yeah we need to grow so let's do it I I think that's great thank you thank you thank you for your presentation just um some clarifications regarding goal three um May 2024 100% review teachers will be active members in their weekly collaborative time working with the PLC model was that uh where did that goal come from like is was there concern that we didn't have all of our teachers involved in collaborating with their teams or what was that about that was a a collective decision with our team um I can tell you I wasn't there last year um so I wouldn't be able to be specific as to what the implementation was um but we decided as a team that we're all going to be part of our professional learning communities we do have um common agendas and expectations of our PLC teams um and that's something that we decided as a team okay I'm glad to to hear that I mean being in the conference over the summer the PLC um time is just so important and so I'm glad to hear that you're building you know pulling your team around that whole philosophy and everything so I appreciate that um so you're new as a principal at rivie this year appreciate your time there for sure how are you feeling you know what I'm feeling great I think I've been very welcomed by the riverb community and the daer community and I can tell you that the level of supports have been absolutely amazing I know that I can count on anybody including our fellow principls assistant principls our Specialists um and they're very they're they have been incredibly welcoming that's good to hear because my question is going to be is there anything we can do as a board or cabinet can do to help support you I would say continue um keeping those supports okay uh for us I think that would be really important um I'm really excited um to see our scores at the end of the year and continue on the work for the years to come but I think it's really important that we maintain um um the current supports that we have in order for us to be able to continue to grow well I appreciate your energy and your dedication you came into a very challenging school so I appreciate you thank you thank you you mentioned one of your supports being your partnership with solution tree and um can you speak to that a little bit like are is there resistance um at all with the PLC model well it's we just started we actually um met our consultant was it two weeks ago she came in and it's really important that the consultant um gets to know Riverview um before being able to actually work with our teachers so right now she's working with our leadership team first to make sure that she um is able to support us with aligning the goals before we bring her into our teams perfect but positive so far oh yeah she's been great great thank you um I just have a general question and the administration could probably jump in on this too um the last school does student-led conferences I was wondering if that is a district thing um for all schools because I know with my son and his past school they used to do them and it was very very positive the parents loved it the students loved it and I'm sure you're getting a positive reaction from it right yes ma'am I was yeah involved in their own learning yes I think that is extremely positive and I think that's something maybe the district should do wide with all the schools especially our elementary it's something we can definitely discuss uh there's some real power in it when I was a principal we used to have student Le conferences and many schools do we haven't mandated it as a district but it's something we could look at implementing districtwide yeah I think it's a positive thing but yeah thank you thank you do we have any other questions all right thank you thank you all right next we'll move on to item H1 Dr curo thank you madam president uh we come to uh tonight to welcome a new person to the daar family and Mr he will introduce this uh item thank you Dr crotto Madam president members of the board um it is with my pleasure um um I'll be introducing Todd blutter the administration is PR to present this recommendation Todd if you could wave so people can see where you're at back there thank you he's being recommended for the assignment for the 2324 school year as the Director of Maintenance Mr BL has an extensive facilities and construction experience as well as 14 years experience with the Glendale Union High School District he is currently a facility super supervisor for Glendale Union Todd blutter will receive salary and benefits commensurated with the position his education experience his resume is attached for Board review a comprehensive selection process we used to identify Todd blutter for this position the position was posted for sufficient length of time for candidates to apply a paper screening was conducted and a pool of qualified candidates was determined through a screening and interview process all right thank you very much do we have any questions okay at this time I will move that we approve the appointment of Todd blutter of as director of Maintenance second motion made by Crystal Chaffin seconded by Don denmore get checking me out don't let me back but motion carries congratulations welcome welcome all right do we next we'll move on to a request for future agenda items do we have any okay go ahead yes I would like to look into the student Le conference for the district are you asking for an information item yes please okay do we have any others okay I move that we adjourn the meeting motion made by Crystal chaff and seconded by Joe Grant motion carries we are adjourned

first item of business is the Pledge of Allegiance I'll Stand and join Ben Flores in stating the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all hey Ben next order of business is adoption of the agenda Mr President I need that we approve the agenda for the regular board meeting second thank you Mrs couns thank you Mr Daniels we have a motion in a second all those in favor signify by saying I I all those opposed motion passes 5- Z thank you next up recognition Dr aranov thank you Mr Alexander uh this evening we have a shining star recog recognition and I'm going to turn it over to Dr Long who I think is going to introduce our I am going to let Chief Jackson do the honors oh I can see Chief Jackson should back [Laughter] there as Chief of Police I'd like to recognize Shannon Kett one of our three one of three of our school safety officers as you know our police officers and ssos work every day to keep our campuses safe build relationships and Bridge gaps with our students and staff staff it's our job and we take a lot of pride in it we don't do what we do for recognition or accolades but when we have an opportunity to recognize one of the many things one of our officers has done we want to take that opportunity and that's why we're here today on 9:21 of 23 officer Shannon Kett while conducting cafeteria Duty was approached by a Center Grove High School student who was choking the student approached officer Kut and had a look at a look of distress the student then made the universal sign of for choking officer knut's quick thinking and training led her to administer the heck maneuver after three to four thrusts the food was dislodged and the obstruction came out officer kette instructed another student to alert the school nurse while she continued to care for the student once the nursing staff arrived they took over if not for officer quick actions the results could have have been very serious for that student for her actions I would like to award officer kette with the first responder life saving pin and a shining store award she's really nervous I'm going to make her give a [Applause] speech can we get a photo with come on up it's good [Music] looking J [Applause] I know I told you I wouldn't do it but you got to introduce your family this is my husb all right all right looks like they all got Mom's hair all right thank you Shannon thank you Chief Jackson next up we have Sugar Grove Elementary in the spotlight we've got some exciting news well I am very fortunate to see in here to recognize some uh two staff members and a student for Sugar Grove Elementary so I would like to invite Ben Clare cond and Norma ier to the front please so I'm going to start with Ben um our Pledge of Allegiance student but also um our star student for Sugar Grove we asked our third fourth and fifth grade students to nomin or teachers to nominate students to be recognized at our board meeting and Ben was one Mrs vanderin my assistant principal and I um after reading the nominations decided that he was the one we wanted to represent our school and I want to read what his teacher actually miss cond wrote about him um in her nomination for you Ben Flores is the type of student most teacher's dream of having he's well-mannered respectful to both adults and other students and puts in his best effort I know I can rely on him to be the leader for other students and while he's not perfect I think the most admirable trait of Ben's is that his ability to take responsibility for his actions for example I had asked another student to stop talking in the hallway Ben politely raised his hand and informed me that he started the conversation in apology OLED in another situation Ben came up to me at recess and said he should sit for part of his recess because he was he was also talking in the restroom academically he does well but he is always going the extra mile to get the full understanding even when that means practicing math facts in the hallway I think the district and the community deserves to know who Ben is so Ben thank you for being an awesome um example of what it is to be a leader and what it is to be a bulldog and a Center Grove um Community member so thank you then you can stay [Laughter] here yeah I'm done like I'm done I'm out we also have Ben's dad Mr F here joining us as well so thank you for being next we have um Claire Conor she is a fifth grade teacher and actually a Center Grove graduate herself um we wanted to recognize Claire because she's a first year teacher in this build in our building um and just a first year teacher around but she has done amazing things in um our school and in our fifth grade already she's a positive example she goes above and beyond she thinks outside the box um and we could not ask for a first year teacher like Claire um to do what she's doing she does data she's actually um had some veteran teachers coming to her to get some ideas on how to do data and how to teach um students in a different way so we are super impressed with Claire and all that she's done in just like 10 11 weeks of teaching and so we're so glad to honor her this evening um and CLA if you want to introduce who you have with you as well so I have my biggest role model and supporter my mom I have another one big fan my dad over there and then I have my grammy and Papa we have Miss Norma cyh she is one of our most important um special education assistants that we have in our building um we can always count on Norma In the Heat of a moment in a moment of calm um she is always the first one to respond to check on people to check on our students and to make sure that everyone is getting exactly what they need all day every day so normal is one of those people that has a smile on her face even in the hardest moment and she is so positive about finding the good things in each and every one of our students regardless of what that might look like in that moment so we wanted to recognize Norma because she does go above and beyond and always keeps our students at the center of everything we do so thank you so much Norma for being an amazing Bulldog um and a member of our community and then would you like to recognize who you have with you as well I have my husband Jim um my youngest son CJ my mom Dolly and then over here my daughter Tori and her boyfriend [Applause] Gage [Applause] he's going to it's I can stay up here and then would you please come up here as well and then anyone else from suar grve on staff anybody here any other suar gr staff please come on up here so um I'm sure many of you heard that Sugar Grove that Sugar Grove received the Blue Ribbon status um that is National recognition this is no simple fee this is the second School in 20 years in senent road to get it and in Johnson County which two are in C which we're super proud of I want to compliment Dr Hoover and Mrs Rodman for all of their efforts in working doing this obviously a great staff I invited past principles to come and I saw here is Patty dor who here with us um so thank you Patty for being here and and celebrating with us as well um it's it's a it takes quite a while to get this uh recognition and so past uh your influence as well as all past principles that have been a part of that so with that all of you here just congratulations again and I know that the two of you are um going to Washington in next two weeks right before thanks before thanks with the teacher with and one of our teachers who is our teacher teer distri District teacher of the year go figure so if we could just give them a really big fantastic thank you so much and we we were going to buy them this big plaque to put in there and we were all sitting in the office and we said hey don't do anything we're going to get you this and her secretary came in and goes too late we already bought it sorry sorry so we were going to give it to you tonight but it looks really nice in the office thank you and congratulations again all right next up reports uh looks like we have a report from the Johnson County library tonight thank you yes uh this is the annual report from theary thank you I'm on a whirlwind tour of Johnson County School boards letting you know of all the great resources we have at the Johnson County Public Library I'm Lisa lner the library director and I know you have a busy plate tonight so I'm going to zoom through these slides so that uh we don't take up too much of your time you have the slides you can share with anyone who uh request them but first I I just want to say I want to thank uh Davin harp uh Middle School North he is a new member of our Johnson County Public Library Foundation this year so we're so glad to have him on board he's a great resource and uh want to Shar that we have the winter guide so all of our free programs we do hundreds of programs every month for all ages uh this Saturday at uh Independence Park we have trick-or-treating it's called Carnival 4 to 6 pm and I just want to remind this uh school board that we have Smart accounts for all the students and Educators so they have access to our digital resources and that's something they can go right to our website and access uh with those they can also qualify for a free public library card with us so like I said I'm going to zoom through these um we have four Library locations in Johnson County uh Greenwood and Edinburg the Greenwood Public Library and the edinberg public library are their own Library districts kind of like we have so many school districts we have three Library districts in Johnson County White River branch is the Center Grove Area School uh or library for your school kids uh we are now fine free uh we have no fines if you return the books and materials so that's uh reducing barriers to uh children who may come from low-income families it's a great thing if you know anyone who said they can't use their Library you ask them to come talk to a library staff person we're going to try to make sure that they have access to uh education materials at our libraries uh so just in case you didn't know I'm sure you knew we had free Wi-Fi but we also do free faxing which is a service that a lot of people use us for as well as free not at the public library you can schedule a time to do that and then you can pay for color and uh black and white prints you can bar uh you can rent one of our meeting rooms uh very low cost uh or free if it's for a nonprofit uh we have mobile hotpots for folks who don't have internet at home and in our southern part of the county they're used quite a lot we also Proctor exams for students maybe they're doing an online course and need to have a a verified Proctor uh we can schedule that at the public library as well and then anyone of any age can book time with a librarian so if you know someone who needs to learn how to use the computer create an email account all those things they may be kind of apprehensive to do you can schedule one-on-one time with us and we work at your pace uh discover your career path is a website that we hold and conjunction with the Spire Johnson County it's a site if kids are not on the road to college they can come and get lots of resources about skilled trades manufacturing health careers available right out of high school uh we're going to zoom on and then here's just some of the few things that we have for high high school and all ages of students but the ones on this screen are mostly going to be appealing to high school students we have lots of test prep uh free access they could be videos they could be actual taking the test you can print out some tests and take them for practice practice uh as well as the Indiana state driers test is a there's a practice test for that Learning Express library is really where your high school students don't want to miss this database with their smart account card they can access this free from you know anywhere they have an internet connection and that's where you get to take the ACT PSAT or act classes or tests and just kind of feel very comfortable taking them before you take the real one uh that you're paying for and then we also have something called LinkedIn learning and that's uh majority of adults use this but it's a video tutorials uh through Linkedin it used to be called linda.com um some businesses pay a lot of money per per month for their employees to access this you get it free with your library card we also have six week courses called Gail courses and they're um like if you're kind of interested but maybe can't afford College you can take these uh courses and get a certificate at the end and it costs you uh no no dollars at all and then for new Learners we have uh English as a second language courses through Transparent Language but it also has over a hundred languages uh that you can learn so we have your basic Chinese Spanish Arabic Punjabi Japanese um but there's also some kind of more obscure languages that you could learn maybe the school doesn't offer a class and somebody's interested tell them to come to this site with their library card and they can uh learn a new language it's very kind of game based so it's very fun um and it's great also if you're going to another country as a tourist it's a great resource for that uh we have um artist Works which is music lessons you can take and um we also have something called creative bug brand new so if you're a Crafter tons of videos through Joanne Fabrics again free uh this is a service some people have to pay for but we provide it for free and then the next slide we have um ebooks as you can imagine we have lots of digital resources we have lots of apps you can access with your library card I'll say that Libby and hoopla also have audio books those are so uh we we check out more audio books digitally than we do like like from you know the CDs on our Shelf just incredible checkouts on Libyan hoopla hoopla also has movies comic books and music you can check out and then we have library of things you may you may not know that you can check out a ukulele or guitar or a keyboard or a sewing machine or a pickleball uh pickleball set um yes we have those thanks to commissioner Ron West we we have those now um and then we also have experience p you can check out uh experience past go to the eel jorg museum for free you can go to the Indiana State Museum and it includes parking uh this and and then we have some pool passes that are accessible during the summer as well microscopes lots of stem stuff and my last thing is hey if kids are going to prom we have literally thousands of dresses don't let your kids spend 500 bucks on a dress they're going to wear one night have them come to our project prom we also have some suits and a few tuxes for guys including accessories jewelry shoes uh so anyone should be able to go to prom if if if if they come to us we'll we'll make them look gorgeous and that is my presentation for you guys that's the Whirlwind tour of the Johnson County Public Library I'm happy to answer questions if you have them but you Rich has my emails so you can always let me know if you have any questions I was just GNA awesome I had no idea have to pay to go to the ID Jor or wherever yes awesome it's amazing I think you get four people in too so it's not just yourself it's four people so I know Che out of those it called again that you play what's that pickle ball yeah because you guys have some courts up here right indoor ones even I heard it's awesome no seriously it's amazing where a library has come and how you guys have worked at what are the needs in the community and worked at trying to fulfill those needs thank you an everchanging Community thank you well I will say a quick update on the White River Branch we have we have decided we are going to do improvements to White River where it is we're not going to relocate and build a a bigger Library we're going to try to renovate and expand it just just a little bit there's some woods behind where we are located now but we're going to keep it in that spot and so probably in uh late 2024 early 2025 I will make sure all the school board members and that you can share with your uh Community here too that will be um wanting to do some major improvements to that library to modernize it okay thank you all all right next up on the agenda this evening is public comments any person who desires to address the board concerning a scheduled action item on the agenda must register before the board meeting and this evening Mr Mr poor has asked to speak about action items 8.1 and 8.2 if you would step to the microphone sir state your name and address and I think you know the drill Mr for you have three minutes on the official Tim keeper you're you're almost always well within but I'm just giving heads up I thank you for that uh I hope I can get through this in three minutes okay uh as you know my concerns about the budget and going deeper in debt so I'm not going to go there I would just like to say I have met with Mr Taylor twice since the last school board meeting and I fully understand how we go about budgeting this organization uh there for anybody that doesn't know our tax rate is going up mainly because of one item and that is this go uh geother thmo and solar energy proposal that they have uh put into to that we want to try to do I agree with them that if we do this it's going to uh maybe save us some money and that's what the budget is all about is to save us some money and they look forward to this all the board members in our Administration looks any way they can to cut the money so that taken get more funds for education so I uh I'd like to say that uh after doing some really in intensive research in the last month on the internet about geothermal heating and cooling and also solar energy I think uh we are going at it in a just about the a little bit wrong way we want to put we want to budget this money this year and this money will not be spent until after January will not be uh well spent really till after 2025 so I don't understand why we're doing that but this year next year put it in next year's budget I don't have any problems with that but to put it in this year's budget I don't understand but I think uh my main main point I'd like to bring to the board is I propose that you take uh before you take a vote on this I think the uh tonight the vote on the budget tonight that you will take and table this until we find out exactly what this is going to cost may I extend my time one more minute go ahead sir I just want want to say that I think now on 8.1 on that the people that we're going to hire to administrate this I think that we should get these people on board and get these people hired and then we find out exactly what they can do for us and how much it's going to cost approximately and then we proceed I understand that this is all going to come on board in January with an 8 or with a 1028 this is the proposed so at that time we will find out from this company exactly what it's going to or not exactly but approximately they'll go through the the the uh book or the building uh schematics and everything and they will know how to figure this out that's their job so I think that would be the way so I would last board to table the bond issue or the uh uh budget for this meeting and I know we are up against time restraints we are uh for the state de mandates and stuff like that but we could still table it and we could wait till we get a and come back and take that money out of there and then reapply it next year in next year's budget and go further on I have much more to say on it but uh my time is up thank you very much for the extens Dr Taylor when you go through the budget hearing will you address a little bit about the tax rate thank you all right next up is the consent agenda and this evening I'm going to abstain from voting on The consent agenda as on the Personnel report um you know I have a family member that's on the Personnel report this evening for the auditorium ECA role with the theater department so you weren't sure about the hire so yeah I wasn't I wasn't sure about the hire on this one yeah so anyhow so any questions about the consent agenda well now now that you mention it I would have only known I know him and I know he's a good person so I'm all in favor that being related to you may change my vote I understand I understand that all right yeah if there's no other questions about the consent agenda all those in favor signify by saying I'm sorry I need a motion for the consent agenda so Mr President I move that we approve the consent agenda as presented second thank you Mr Russell and M Mrs counts we have a motion in a second all those in favor signify by saying I I all those opposed motion passes 4 Z thank you thank you all right action items 8.1 approv cmta as the qualified provider for our Energy savings projects Dr aranov thank you Mr Alexander uh this evening I'm recommending that the board approve the cmta Inc as the qualified provider for our Energy savings project um and I'll ask uh Dr I think is it Dr Long yeah Dr Long going ahead provide the information thank you that's sorry on August 14th and then again on August 21st of 2023 we advertised a request for proposals for a guaranteed Energy savings contract in the Daily Journal on September 18th of 2023 we accepted proposals and on October 3rd we interviewed the only response to our RFP cmta with 11 years of experience in 753 full-time employees and 140 of them uh offering performance Contract Services ta was not only not only the only response but an outstanding selection to assist us on our Energy savings projects in the past two years cmta has worked on 43 guaranteed Energy savings projects throughout the country with a guaranteed first year savings toing over $10.5 million tonight we're just asking the board to approve cmta as our qualified provider for Energy savings projects and they will be doing um what Mr por suggested doing an assessment of all our facilities and then bringing back to us their recommendations of which projects uh to take on that would save us the the the most money uh so we're we're recommending that you um approve cmta as our qualified provider and during our Public Work session earlier today they came in and gave us a presentation with some of their initial thoughts and and after after the conversation they've done a little an assessment of our facilities they've looked at three years worth of um energy bills for all of our facilities uh gas electric and water and are developing a plan for that if and when we decide to accept any of their proposed projects uh we'll go through the the whole bidding process like we do for any other project uh we'll come to the board every single time that we bid a project and ask the board for approval um I would be happy to invite them to come come back and and kind of give a presentation as after they've kind of refined uh the projects that they're recommending and and but again the board and the community will have an opportunity every single project that we work on uh and that we bid the board and and the community will have an opportunity to to ask questions and speak on that so just for clarity what you're asking for is kind of tonight is to get them started right let us partner with them and when they come back with those proposals then making decisions correct I was impressed with their presentation today the the how they what they've already done and what they still want to do so yeah I thank you for inviting them in it makes me feel more comfortable during that presentation good thank you their timeline seemed acceptable yeah um as long as they get Mr Taylor's um meet his deadline Dr Taylor sorry all right any other comments or questions for Dr long do I have a motion Mr President I move that we approve the cmta Inc as the qualified provider for our Energy savings projects I will second that thank you Mr Daniels and Mr Robinson we have a motion in a second all those in favor signify by saying I I I all those opposed motion passes 5 Z thank you 8.2 uh approve the 2024 budget and I also have something about resolutions but that's not the hearing okay Dr aranov thank you yes thank you I was a little confused for a moment too um this evening I'm recommending that the board approve the 2024 budgets for all funds and Dr Taylor will provide you with some additional information thank you the full budget presentation was shared in September and um that was an open Hearing in which we allowed public comment and that's still available if anybody like to review that and again ask any comments or questions just to address what Mr por Shar earlier it it is a little different how we do things Indiana um what we're asking the board to do this evening is to formalize an increase of four cents on our tax rate taking it to a doll six which would still be right in line the central or with the Indiana State average tax rate for local local property taxes um what this will allow us to do is to pay off some debt sooner we will pay it off in 2024 thus making a debt capacity available in 2025 for the project that we plan to bring to the board that we just agreed to partner with cmpa on um again we got a lot of those details and some great progress has been made um the numbers in the budget estimates from last September are actually the numbers they presented today are better than that um and so it would appear our our overall cost come down and our overall savings will go up so those are those are two great directions to go so while we're asking for the increase this year it is to make that project available um so that we don't have to turn around and ask for an additional raise um in the following and would allow us to remain flat that's what we're able to so just wanted to share with that again the goal of all of this is the fact that we have such limitations on our operations fund and how much it can generate in Revenue that we are now planning these geothermal and solar projects bring down our operational cost so we will see these savings as the board saw earlier today for the next 20 years beginning as early as late 2024 but for sure by 2025 I think those are all the key points nothing else has changed in the budget and as we see other tax units come on it seems to be right in line thank you Dr Taylor any other questions or comments about the budget for Dr Taylor this evening okay do I have a motion to approve the 2024 budget and the resolutions Mr President I move that we approve the 2024 budgets for all funds as presented along with the following resolutions resolution to adopt the 2024 capital projects fund plan resolution to adopt the 2024 bus replacement plan resolution for Appropriations and tax resolution for blanket appropriation modification and resolution to transfer amounts from education fund to the operations thank you Mr Russell do I have a second second thank you Mrs counts we have a motion by Mr Russell and a second by Mrs counts all those in favor signify by saying I I all those opposed motion passes 5 Z thank you all right next up this evening is an additional Appropriations hearing for 2023 Dr aranov thank you Mr Alexander this evening I'm recommending the board approved the additional Appropriations in the education fund the operation fund Debt Service fund and the high school and sugar road construction funds and tonight's a hearing so I'll let you take that over thank you this evening's board meeting has been appropriately advertised as a hearing on the additional Appropriations I now open this public hearing I would like to call on Dr Taylor to provide information about the additional Appropriations and I believe he has a just real quick I appreciate that Mr Alexander this is a formal process that is prescribed by the department of local government Finance um the board will approve from time to time the expenditures of money whether it's approving a budget or self doing a project um giving arrays um whatever it may be those all action it have to be approved and appropriated and so that's what we're bringing tonight these are Appropriations for the second six months of 2023 um this is in part due to new revenue from the state and the board would expect to expend that to other action items whether it be a budget approval or the addition of compensation down the road um and so it's for personnel cost it also comes in the form of approval of new positions where as you'll see in the operations fund um we added two new bus drivers this year and so this memo kind of summarizes what the different appr would go towards again a lot of this is new staff for compensation as revenue is increased and cost of living increases might be applied um in the education F so the operations fund it's 450,000 in the education fund it also includes the teacher appreciation grant money which we expect to receive in the next month from the state um no later than December um it also includes quite a bit of uh funding to pay cost of living increases um and also the addition of nine teaching positions and class mates and then two that are kind of unique we haven't always done these The Debt Service fund um while we made and transferred a payment on the last day of the year it's what we typically do we make our mortgage payments the last days they're due U so we can retain that money and draw every P of Interest we can one did post until the first of the next year and so we just want to increase our Appropriations this is not new debt it was just simply it did not go in on December 31st it hit on January 1 so I wanted to make the board aware of that amount and then finally um um while it is expensive to borrow money it's also a good time to have some money and so to offset some of the construction expenses at the high school we're went ahead we didn't do a band anticipation of this so we didn't take out a temporary loan on that project we just jumped right into the market back when interest rates were a little bit lower than they are now and because of that we're going to actually draw additional interest that we didn't expect when we brought that to the board originally um and that was for the hearing on high school and Su project so that's going to generate an additional four4 million in earnings don't worry that's going to get offset very quickly by expenditures but um the board yet has to appropriate that just to to be clear and with the department so just wanted to share a little more there than probably necessary but you got all the details and the M very clear if not and I'll entertain any questions you may have thank you Dr Taylor um this is the appropriate time for members of the public to comment on the additional Appropriations hearing or information uh presented by Dr Taylor members of the public who would like to comment okay um seeing none I now close this public hearing are the board members who have any comments or questions I realize this something you know we do as a standard part of business so one fin com Kathy sat's in the audience with us tonight she is the key person that makes all this happen so she helps us with these calculations she treas to meetings we never get to say anything nice about now is that your way to tell us to direct all questions to her she she has been a humongous help to me in not just developing the budget but making sure that we have the accounts correctly and she wrangles Rob and I in to get Bond signed as well and that is no small feat I will you to that I just sat with her uh for audit this morning uh so she's handling all that as well but they were very complimentary on how we handle things here and that basically there fur Beach was we don't have to worry about you guys all right [Music] any additional comments or questions I lost did you close the hearing you did I closed the hearing and I open it up for questions I did and I open it up for questions and now I need a motion so Mr President I move that we approve the additional Appropriations in the education fund operations fund Debt Service fund and HS sge construction fund thank you Mr Russell do I have a second second thank you Mr Daniels we have a motion by Mr Russell and a second by Mr Daniels all those in favor signify by saying I I all those opposed motion passes 5 Z thank you ah next up that's all our action items for this evening announcements wow I can't believe I'm making this announcement already November 20 through 24th Thanksgiving break November 28th we have an executive session that starts at 6 p.m.

call the meeting we'll start with the pledge iedge Al 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 all want to remind everyone that we are live streaming the um board meeting this evening welcome those who are in the room and both um and on the web um so we'll begin the meeting by um taking a motion for consent agenda items motion motion by Earl do we have a second second by any discussion um and we'll take a roll call for the vote because we do have one board member joining us um virtually so um you'll do the roll call P yes yes yes Amy Chelsea yes and yes and chery oh and Cheryl can you hear Cheryl just he can we turn on our speakers can hear Cheryl yes I can okay did you vote yes yes okay there we go so 70 okay perfect um next um is there anyone present who would like to speak with any item that is on the agenda or any additional topic hearing none we'll go down to new business we some theola policies uh just first reading for a new a new set of Neola policies if you have any questions please reach out next under Administration we have some Administrator salary adjustments asking for approval of a um $1,900 base salary increase that's comparable to our teachers um for administrators for the 23 24 and 20425 school year and you have that list of names in your packet okay I'll entertain a motion to accept that so moved I have a motion by Mary Lind we have a second second second by P any discuss have we okay Earl yes and Cheryl yeah Travis yes Amy yes Kelsea yes yes Mary Lyn and myself yes 70 next we'll go down under programs we have Implement weather days it's time to talk about that yeah um so planning for this year for inclement weather days last year we sent out a schedule to families and saying as days happen this is what our plan would be we had a lot of positive feedback that parents appreciated that in advance um so we've been working on that plan together with the teachers and we're going to do that same idea this year so if we have inclement weather the first two days we used will be e-learning days that's where the students work at their own pace and they're not live with teacher um all day long uh we're allowed three per year for the state but we're already using April 8 for the eclipse day to be an e-learning day so the first two inclement weather days will be those not synchronous not at the same time with the teacher e-learning at home for the kids and then after that days three and Beyond we've moveed to Virtual instruction which is where they log in their teachers logged in they receive instruction together and then we also reserved the right we thought at the bottom of the document for the parents um to let them know we could also still have traditional makeup days if needed or for instance we have a great big snow and maybe we want to have noow day so um we've got that in writing and I'll put that into a letter and get that sent out to our families um shortly so they have that information and then on the day of Nikki will you talk with whoever might be listening about how you'll notify yes so um we've used parent Square this year when we had that two-hour delay and um we have a high percentage rate I think 99% of our parents are signed up through parent Square to get direct contact so that's how we send information out and if anyone doesn't get contacted through that they just need to let their building principal know so we can check if their phone numberers typed in incorrectly or something like that but um it's really streamlined our convers our uh com communication with parents the other thing I like is when we send out calls on our old system it took 30 minutes to process so um we had to make a decision about what was going to be done for the day by 5:20 or wouldn't have processed by the time our first buses roll right after 6:00 a.m.

we'll call the meeting to order um this uh meeting is for ratification of the contract and for public comment on that um I do want to let everyone know that we are live streaming and we have one board member Cheryl Miller who is not present in the room with us however she is streaming um this portion of the meeting um because of Regulation she is not able to vote if she's not physically present in the room but she did want to be present for um this portion um of the meeting so we've called the meeting to order um so we'll ask if anyone is go ahead yes so I was just going to mention that we had the hearing at the beginning of October it has been posted on our website since then still going to be there and available if anyone would like to see um we are excited that we're offering increases um both years of a two-e contract and able to pick up the increase in insurance cost for employees as well and then there was some language updating in the contract so again it's posted online on our website if anyone like to see the teacher contract in detail so next we'll ask if anyone is present who would like to speak or have any input or comment on the proposed contract hearing none we'll entertain a motion to AC contract as presented motion I have a motion by verl do I have a second second by Pat any additional discussion from the board hearing none all of those in favor six now we entertain a motion to adjourn this portion of the meeting motion by Travis do I have a second second by Chelsea

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uh good evening everyone and welcome to the planning board meeting of Thursday October 26th um what time is it um calling the meeting to order at 7:20 and a reminder to our audience that the meeting is being broadcast and recorded um we did have two public hearings on our agenda today both of them have asked for continuances for anyone in the audience but we will get to those in due course sorry H let you in am I good no Echo okay um all right so that said twice uh we'll have the clerk's report we have received two cor uh I should say correspondents from two entities since last planning board one of them was two emails about requests for public uh GIS files which the town planner has followed up with the other one was concerning 9 to 49 Homer all right thank you next on our agenda is public comment if there's any members um online or in the audience that would make to like to make a public comment I will um open it up at this time and I'll let uh Peter machic man manage that uh thank you so there are two people uh in the audience uh via Zoom that have their hand raised first Marie gresel Margie gresel can you please unmute yourself and state your name and address Margie gasel 8 Adams Road excuse me Margie we can't hear you in the room we just have to turn our audio up okay Paul is there any way to turn the audio up yeah all right thank you I've got mine all the way up on this end can you hear me yet yep we can hear you now okay good thank you thank you since the combined meetings of the sustainability committee and the planning board were discontinued the sustainability committee has really prioritized our efforts on moving the tree bylaw forward and we've been working on finishing up the draft tying up loose ends and also because the joint meetings have stopped it's no longer a public process and so our idea to address that is that we want to complete the draft document in the next couple of weeks so that we can begin to hold public forums and share the information with the community and get their feedback I um understand that Trisha you suggested a working group and I think that perhaps working group could be the right thing to just um go over the remaining issues and um yeah so I'm I'm asking who on the planning board could be available in this time frame in the next couple weeks to meet with me um oh boy now it's really loud here okay um I think just to clarify and I was going to talk about this in our normal agenda item um under sustainability committee um two things so one I wouldn't I'm I'm not sure maybe I'm missing something that I don't think joint meetings have been discontinued it was just that we'll have them whenever is a good opportunity to have them um so I I wouldn't say that we we're certainly not opposed to meeting again with the sustainability committee a draft yeah um I think it's it's more about having a a bylaw draft to really look at and and that that work um you know meanwhile the work is done in the sustainability committee and brought to the brought to the planning board so I just wanted to clarify that that we're certainly not opposed to that yeah what I recall I think there was one meeting where I chaired where Trisha may not have been present where we talked about having like working sessions and a schedule of what we would do each session so I did Envision it being kind of a regular joint meeting until we made prog progress um I was going to ask about that like when we were going to go back to that so we can make some progress on it because I didn't see it on this agenda and it seemed kind of like a light agenda and a great opportunity to do it um so maybe when we talk about our meetings because we have three more left for the whole year if we can use them to work with the tree bylaw we should yeah I think we just have to talk about how we see that process um going and where the work should fall I guess to make sure we're in agreement on that um and the second thing um was what I did attend the sustainability committee meeting it wasn't this Monday but it was the Monday previous I believe because the weeks go so fast um and I did suggest we were talking about and again I'm sorry this is out of order but maybe Margie then doesn't have have to hang out for our whole meeting um we did talk about the um the optin stretch code and um that um that that I had uh offered after town meeting to to work with the sustainability committee on that to kind of work through things but um I think for reasons of the sustainability committee that that really didn't go forward that way and so I made the offer again so and I I suggest instead of having these big committees having 10 plus people try to work through these things that we start with smaller working groups um to um have things progress further and someone on the sustainability committee thought that was also a good idea for the tree bylaw so that's um that's kind of how that how that happened um so I was going to work with to be on the working group for the stretch code information and I guess then would be looking for someone to be on a working group with the sustainability committee if if that's what we want to do this was just a proposal I threw out in that meeting for the tree bylaw and I just and we can discuss that in a regular place on the agenda too because it's being thrown at everybody at this time so I'll just put it out there that um since the last planning board meeting that we met with Margie and I think that after that meeting we were going to go back and Margie uh another member of the sustainability committee Chuck litz myself our sustainability manager um Samantha Riley and Alvaro our assistant Town planner we all met and we kind of went over the you know what needs to be done in the direction of the tree bil law and I do want to note that um I believe Margie has started to put together and and compile a bylaw um and I know that was in front of the sustainability committee was that on Monday Margie Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday so there is starting to become a working draft can I is that appropriate to say so now there is starting to become a working draft of a tree bylaw and so I think it's starting to I agree it is getting to a point where we all can discuss it again and kind of going over the finer points of the tree bylaw regarding um you know triggers I know that one of my items was to follow up with Town Council about the triggers and and actually I did that with Margie and and Chuck you know in person during the day um tree size money um payment in L of replanting schedules all those types of things so um Margie if it's appropriate I'm happy to share the draft with the the planning board so everyone can kind of take a look at it well I the the draft has moved along and and there are just um some things remaining that I wanted to get some feedback back on um I I have to take this opportunity to say that waiting till the end of the year to reach the point that I was hoping to reach much sooner does not feel wise to me um I I have some comments and I if we are moving it early to the agenda I could or otherwise I'm fine waiting but I definitely do have some comments so I I think if it's about process you know Margie's here and Alex I hate to ever we can just take that item out of order yeah exactly let's just get it done so so I do um I I'm fine with how it works out but I do remember the last planning board that we actually had like topics and keep coming through a working group and we had expressed and again we can change our mind but we had expressed the public um make sure it's in front of the public so we don't have have people wondering where this came from I am perfectly fine if there's an alternate pathway that gets this sort of sped up because we weren't making the progress we wanted to but I would like to make sure that that is also with timeline that we I don't see any reason why this wouldn't be ready for May 24 um but I personally think that we need that same really detailed work plan of like when they're coming back and again sometimes we we pushed one meeting we didn't feel like we were able to give it adequate time but I want to make sure that that is a well well spelled out plan um to be coming back and then I think if it is like a a dra so we left we've kind of flopped back and forth and again we realized maybe we're smarter about how we want to attack it I think just for Margie my advice would be it sounds like there's still open issues meaning somebody is taking a chance of of making a decision and I'm again more than fine with that but I think a a cover of here's the draft bylaw here are still the things that sustainability the working group decided at at a cover makes that easier to to get to the next step since we're talking about progress I think I seem to remember that at the last meeting it it feels to me from what I'm hearing today that it's kind of like like a jump missing one step because what I remember correct me if I'm wrong is that we heard the progress that the sustainability committee had made so far and and then we there were a lot of good commentary and good discussion relative to making sure that uh not only the the overview of the intent of that bylaw it was clear which was not very much at that point and and there were parts of emphasis of focus on that analysis is that people thought maybe I I might have been Anna one of the discussion there yeah but there's not a lot of uh full cutting left to do an asine so maybe there's other emphasis and we discussed that and and I think we left it at the end of the meeting that that that that they will reconvene maybe with the process that Peter was describing kind of uh package it again with a little more clarity and then we would review it so that we could put it in front of the public which we all said we want I don't think that we should jump into put it in front of the public and something that has not gotten to that level of completion I think it needs to come to us soon it sounds like yeah and that was what and and maybe it was that one meeting I think at the end of September maybe I don't remember that I that I wasn't at I it was the second meeting in September last that was sustainability that um that a typical process for a bylaw coming before us from another group would be that that group would take the lead in creating the bylaw um would bring the bylaw before us of course we would review it give feedback it would go back to the group for edits the bylaw would come back again and so maybe that was confusing what I said versus maybe what had been said the meeting before and so this would still be something that would periodically come before the planning board of course just not every step of the process that it would go back to the sustainability committee or working group or whatever to to incorporate all the ideas get more detailed and then the bylaw we're looking at another draft of it a revised draft that was my that was my that that that I would say would be the typical process I mean mine was more in the middle I felt like this thing is so complex because we as a community seem to have a long history multiple years of effort trying to do it and struggling because of legal and technical issues right what is appropriate for Ashlin what's not appropriate so I was envisioning something more in the middle they're not quite on their own and but we would I recall a discussion we would try to make 20 to 30 minutes available to them whenever we had a light agenda as much as possible to kind of move it along and give them feedback as they're really pushing this thing as soon as possible so I for one think you know a light agenda like today's is perfect for this conversation but we should make room on the rest of the three meetings we have left it seems like we don't have a ton of big projects right now in front of us other than Homer AV so it seems like a great time to get them to these meetings that we have left and give them as much feedback as we can and hear from Town Council and I'm okay with that as long as progress has been made between the meetings that the work isn't happening at our meeting the work needs to happen outside the meeting and be brought to planning board and I think the extra help with that is Peter has been very involved in the process and now they're asking for someone to be part of that working group someone who knows a little bit more about is used to reading the bylaws it's like oh we can get Town Council involved with this so a planning board member to be that connection so I think that's what they're asking for so that that work can progress maybe a little bit faster than it has been being has been being in the sustainability committee alone so but I like I said I don't think it should I don't think the work should should be done in the planning board meeting I don't feel that's appropriate so but is there depend what the work is is there someone that can be um the the member that participates in the working group for the tree just for the tree bylaw I mean I'm I'm more than happy to make myself available if there's no one else uh I can I can certainly do that I think the the challenge I'm seeing is Peter has some expertise as a planner Town Council has some input sustainability has expertise and priority for them is the tree bylaw I for one think it it is appropriate to bring progress to us for feedback and if there's kind of a working session with us where we're we're pointing them in the right direction I for one think that's okay if we have to have a working group where one of us has to be involved I am more than happy to do that but I do think it's time to like bring the this draft to us I think it's time to see it sounds like some work has happened yeah I think that's what we're all saying so are you willing to go on to that working group with thee bylaw okay so Margie Anna is going to fill that role the tree bylaw working group and um and then hopefully I mean we do typically these days have room on our agenda you know especially for yeah I mean at this point but also we want to make sure on the agenda there is there is a leap there's something to talk about there's a leap to talk about not general questions but something more specific yeah I I like where where Anna is going with I provide you with a copy an updated copy I'm sorry that I don't think we caught all of that Margie sorry um I'm I'm from what I heard it sounds like it would be helpful if I were to provide you with an updated copy before the next meeting where we're on the agenda is that correct yeah I I would say before that time that Anna would be given that copy work through it with you and Peter at least one time so that it's been worked through once and then it's brought before the planning board okay I thought that would already happen with Peter meeting with them and you that didn't happen I've met with Margie and Chuck multiple times okay and I've met I think since with Margie and Chuck at least once or twice since okay because I mean if you guys already met and kind of made progress I don't want to redo what you already did already meeting I'm already meeting I would say at this point C me if I'm wrong Margie bu weekly with with Mar and Chuck in in so in helping guide the development of this tree bylaw now they're are some decisions that need to be made between the sustainability committee and the tree and the planning board you know I think from from the last planning board meeting that we discussed this was hey yes there's a pretty large outstanding items but why don't you go back to sustainability and I'm sorry and um and and vet these larger questions right what are the triggers what you know is the building envelope going to count you know are we going to you know I think we definitely stayed away from existing residential but does any new residential count you know within a new subdivision um yes we are going to count the road layout within the subdivision any newly created Lots right via an anr Andor via subdivision you know are those going to be um are those going to be analyzed and applied to this bylaw you know and I think we kind of talked about in theory that in other communities outside of Ashton right a tree bylaws have been adopted um in in my opinion in a defense for the tear down right the tear the the the pre-war indor the post-war multif family like excuse me the the post-war ranch house right that was built in the 1950s and 60s that were being torn down a little bit east of us right and there was mature trees on the site and then if they were being torn down and replaced with a much larger house what was the replacement because a lot of the trees that had matured since the development of that house was were being cut down right and so I think Ashland you know I think the proposal in front of us was to look at commercial sites sites that was mult you know multif family sites commercial sites but I think one of the biggest outstanding questions was how do you address residential and do you address residential with any newly created Lots from this point out right and I so where's the process we're only talking process right now so I have I let Marcel I have met weekly bi-weekly and I'm happy to meet weekly with Margie and Chuck but there's some pretty big stuff but I do believe and I I and I always planned on to have a very strong process with the planning board and the sustainability committee because there's some pretty big discussion points number one with the size of a tree and how what is in and what is out marel I I I think some of what you said Peter it is really what what kind of speaks to me I think U yeah creating working groups and everything that sounds great looks like an a working group is already on ongoing so I'm I'm not sure that complicating it more it really is what what we are looking for at least from my viewpoint I think what we looking for is those big ticket items the big idea of each part to to be communicated clearly so that we can say okay we agree or this one we don't or but once the big idea is agreed upon I think the minutia there's plenty of expertise there to to get a by law that that that is legal and and that would achieve those objectives I think that's the right process I think making a process out of a process is never uh really very useful in my view I think simplifying the process is better what what I caught from our last discussion is that there was just no CL Clarity on the big picture at least that I heard once I hear that that that those ideas are clear and what are we trying to do and we're doing doing it like this and these are the four five tools whatever whatever is the structure of this thing then I will be I will be very happy because this this this objective is very important to me too I really like I would like to to get something good for the town achieve it but but but the process can be very simple in my view so I totally agree with you I think that makes like you took the words right out of my mouth I think I if there's already really in depth working sort of sessions happening with Peter um I feel like the next step would be to see where it stands right now and address the big ticket items in a group setting at the next meeting and then um go from there and not over complicate it so so the working group you you say it's already in place it's already moving so maybe maybe a member of the planning board is not needed at this time for the tree bylaw is that what we're saying if I think that's what I'm hearing what I'm hearing is that there's been significant input from Peter so at this point the sustainability committee needs to pick a draft of some kind bring it back to us it sounds like Peter you know what are the difficult 5 to 10 items that you could identify for us it seems to me whatever draft sustainability presents and whatever list that Peter can offer us hey guys these are the 5 to 10 issues that you guys need to make a decision on we should be able to point sustainability in the right direction I recall at the last meeting that we understood how complicated this was and we were comfortable coming up with something to start the discussion with the public and to move some sort of draft forward and then allow the public to guide us as well so I don't think we need to solve all these really complicated issues I think we need to kind of give guidance to sustainability as to what is it that we believe the public is ready for and it might be just one sliver of this very complex big thing so so it sounds like basically we're just gonna we're going to put this on the agenda for the next meeting Peter I think may not be there yeah I I will most likely I will not be there so yeah do you think you could highlight for us high level like these are the five things that are big struggles that you the planning board need to point SU do that I think you know I'm happy to meet with Margie and Chuck again I'm happy to create a memo with our sustainability manager to highlight these points you know and I think I think we could I think I could sum it up in a very short two two-page memo to say these are the bullet points beside this and this because I think when you sit down and you and I've I've read bylaws across the state regarding trees some are very simple three pages it's it you know and then some are a little bit more um you know more complicated you know I think it the less complicated the better in any bylaw and and so I'm happy to continue to work I think Margie Chuck and myself and Samantha have had a good working relationship with with Alvaro uh I've been able to get the Town Council to answer some of the the bigger questions regarding the quote unquote the triggers and and how is this going to be kind of implemented um and I'm happy to do that and and if that's a direction that we want to go in I'm I'm happy to take lead kind of a followup with that is I remember there was we we sort of or the sustainability discovered this loophole about subdivisions right and and Peter was going to find out how that was certainly applied in the past and we said maybe it only applies to the road and then if you apply this tree bylaw what people are saying the big area maybe someone can go clearcut it and sell out a lot like that's a that's a translation of the whole thing and I don't I haven't heard any feedback of that that's the question yes and also we're this is not an agenda item so we we're not going to yeah we can't go that's a good we're staying follow follow Peter's so Peter's on that we will put this on the November 9th agenda the planning the Peter and the sustainability committee and whoever's involved with that will take it as far as they can bring a bylaw send a bylaw so we can review the bylaw ahead of the November 9th meeting including your memo yes and then we will discuss it with the sustainability committee on November 9th and we'll go from there can I just make a request for the memo if it's possible like for example trigger right there could be options from you and Town Council like these are the three options where we can kind of choose one right or size of tree like these are your options choose one regarding the triggers quote unquote I think that's been settled 100% I think I've worked with Margie and and and Chuck and I think we're we're beyond that I think the biggest part is not okay um but what I mean is in your memo in my memo yeah I can highlight that three options I think it'll make our work easier because it's almost like a checklist like what are we all agreeing on and it's not that we're going to reach consensus necessarily but what do we think the public is ready to consider right well it sounds like you would present the few things that you were considering and which one you decided on to put in the bylaw and then it can yes yeah and then it can always be requested yeah but that's the like the work being done there and brought into us here and we can always question it like why did you choose 6 in versus 8 in or whatever we can have that question but there should be there should be a preferred answer in the bylaw already for us to I'm okay with that I I don't have any problem with sustainability taking that recommendation to us but I do want to give them some input of course that's what Peter might have options that's why they would be coming before us so okay so that's the plan Mar is that clear for you okay so November 9th and then we'll be looking at the bylaw at that time with a joint meeting however member many members of the sustainability committee would like to join us yeah and Margie I would just add can you please reach out to myself and samanther and and and we can schedule a meeting next week um to to move forward good Margie does that that sound good any fed out I didn't know what happened okay I'm good thank you okay um okay so we're still in public comment yes I'm sorry so thank you for uh your patience but Mr Mark Don can you please unmute yourself and state your name and address hey Mark son 29 Road N I want to talk about two things that involves the whole planning board one of them is the in stretch code which was mentioned earlier a little bit but not talked about and the other one is going to be how you how you can you overall make up to date a new strategy for site designs or Developers for nowaday an Envision as that's going to be going forward with the comprehensive plan got to need new site design rules to go with that so first it's going to be these stretch up up and stretch code is going to be I wondering and thinking out loud is um that's that's got if you if you were thinking that and nothing against Maji in the tree threee thing the three Cod is going to be complex this is a little more down the Earth down Earth with the planet board way of doing things up in stretch coat and the site review up to date and to bring in get involved in both of those would have to understand that bring in the building inspector so he can be up to date and be heard on um publicly i' like to be involved in any of those at all possible that's it that's not that's it so far but I might have some after so sounds like sounds like Mark wants to be involved in the stretch code conversations um those those will be coming for the planning board as well obviously so um right now we'll probably just keep that to the to the working group and then it'll be brought you know obviously into the public so thank you Mark for those comments and I'm I said I'm not done yet okay the stretch code is to me is what came from the form base codes that got passed to Tom Meen CLE some years ago and got signed by the Attorney General and got put forth the tree by law you gave marj a lot of time on that this has more to do with the dev when they come in when they break ground that's and before the trees get pulled in pulled out whatever but this is this is the uh I'm looking down like the comprehensive plan with the Envision Ash that it's got to be it's got to be forwarded in the open to work all together can the planning board with the building inspector work together and bring it out front into the public and I can be involved with the building inspector I would like to be involved in that too Markel I can do a say thank you for your comments I mean I I I think you I I think it I'm I'm not sure maybe I didn't understand the question but again the the stretch opin code is something that I told the sustainability committee I would be part of a working group on and um then similar to the tree by law we will bring that before the planning board of course which everyone is free to participate in and and that's going to be the process for for that but for the Envision Ashen down the road to try to attract businesses all that's going to be all together and in public and through the and through the board Sal and the build inspector it's got to be in town hall on paper then with developers coming in and people businesses coming into to see um to see um um our economical um woman there that's there I for her name which I saw before to work all together as a town exp expanded so without any of that being the public and people not knowing what's the background of it I would like to be on those backgrounds to help bring it to the public well we'll take that into consideration thank you Mark and to Peter that's the same thing as the Zone zoning codes thank you Mark and yes you all the public and especially you that were so crucial in form based codes will be part of this and and you know the the optin is and I and I know it the the sustainability committee is working hard on it and I think that's where the the place where it is right now and you know the Building Commissioner um has met with the sustainability representative um just to discuss it and I think um I think opt in uh I think a lot of towns some towns have adopted it but it's a fairly complicated set of um building codes that we all have to kind of make sure and I think at the last time we discussed we all want to make sure that um we wanted to see how it was going to affect the average homeowner in ashin before there was any um decisions made and with right agender this is this is going to be it okay last comment Mark and would like agenda next the next two or three meetings to the end of the year this would be a good time to try as a board with the building committee building inspector to make a draft out of that that's it we have no more public comment all right thank thank you so we're moving on to item four on our agenda which is public hearings the first one of those um as I mentioned before both of those public hearings have asked for continuances the first one is 400 C Street that is the T-Mobile um special permit uh yes so everybody under tab two in your binder will find a continuance so at the last meeting I think we all talked with the uh the applicant for T-Mobile Adam brayy uh who is representing the application um and we all talked about making sure that structural analysis was complete I can tell everybody today uh excuse me today that on Wednesday I received the uh check for the peer review um for the uh sust for the structural analysis to begin and so I have um emailed um our structural analysis engineer um from Helen Ward to start that process and hopefully by the next meeting um we will have that report in hand and so things are moving on that application from a technical standpoint Point um with Halen Ward and uh that's what I have to report and so with that said without that report complete um kind of been speaking with the applicant that uh we all thought it would be best to continue to the hearing until November 9th uh we'll when hopefully we have a that that that I can't say analysis that report complete any questions from the board on that topic okay I'll make a motion to continue the public hearing for 400 Cedar special permit application T-Mobile Northeast LLC to November 9th 2023 second roll call Anna teski I Mar I Catherine J and Tra Kendall says continued until November 9th next on the agenda is 9 to 49 Homer Avenue um we do have a um continuance request for for this um for this application which Peter can explain um but I thought it might also be good to to um to talk about the project just in terms of a list of things that we feel are outstanding items and to have it all on one list um so I I kind of started a an email that I sent to Peter before I knew it was going to be continued of things that I was wondering about so I can start those and if anyone has other things we'll add them to the list but just to try to keep track of outstanding items are we allowed to do that if we're continuing a public hearing I think we're not since we're not discussing anything you know within the project making a list I just want to also can I just add so just from the last meeting the applicant um just from the last meeting it was DEC it was October 12th um that day we received gcg's letter everyone can under you know everyone remembered that and then we had the rendering um from the applicant I know we we talked about renderings and we had all the the sample the material samples out on the table um so since then the the engineer um this past Monday uh submitted a uh response letter dated October TW uh 20th revised plans revised storm water calculations and I believe a revised attorney analysis for fire trucks do we um no not yet not yet okay the you're so in your binder there is the letter was printed out okay all information was submitted is actually up on the website for everyone to review I did not go crazy printing out everything because obviously they were continued tonight but in front of you there are three updated plans on the table for everyone to take a look at and or take home so with that said I reach out uh reaching out and and working with the applicant um well back it up a little bit at the last meeting we were we asked to have a couple two renderings a a a c colder um is that the term a colder and a warmer um color palette color scheme yes um I know I know uh so we haven't received that yet right so talking with the applicant knowing gcg was still under review of this document they felt it was worthwhile just to put it off until October 9th excuse me November 9th where hopefully at that point gcg will have responded and to this letter dated October 20th and from architectural standpoint the cooler and warmer color pallets would have been submitted for review uh so with that that's where everything everything kind of sits right now so would it be better to go through our list first and then continue yeah why don't we read your list okay right isn't that what we're doing yeah so we continue this is a print out I sent can we put it up on the screen oh yeah I think so uh sure yes so what I did in the email is that I um cut and pasted things from it's just a list of maybe six items but I cut cut and pasted things from previous reports like the design Review Committee in order to explain to Peter what it was that I was trying to get at so um it wasn't originally intended for everybody but I might be helpful so and I I'll just I can just start um um first of all I said um a question on the en environmental impact study um I believe we asked about it during one meeting this was something that came up out of the design Review Committee notes and um Marcelo and I made a note about it to review with gcg and um um I believe when I mentioned it uh Terry Morris the attorney said that they did do one and so my questions were did did gcg have this report were there any other comments from Mike Carter from gcg um do they does gcg recommend and it's kind of semi- related to this but no blasting which Mike Carter talked to us about on site or or is that not in the purview of the Consulting engineer were my questions right so the first one really is just about the environmental impact study who where is it who who's reviewed it things related to that so so that would be on the list the second item was in regards to Trails um there was a did this get in the binder there was a the the email from Joel R bitman yes is in everyone's binder but it is behind the agenda and it's behind the memorandum from Anna above the meeting minutes okay so um in I want to say may oh no not the uh no no no no that was a followup because Joel made his comments on the last meeting and then followed up with that email no no no no yeah no so um these are there was and maybe there was more than one email I was looking at a particular one that where Joel had um I want to say was from May um that uh Joel in thinking about the plan and thinking about 9 to 49 that's the one and thinking about 9 to 49 in relationship to the potential Trail I think it was after the discussion where we talked to Preston crow about the trail he had sent um a document um that just talks about it talks about ways that it might be made safer um this was before the change in traffic flow which is kind of the number one of the things on there um so I had made a note um my second note uh is Trails gcg is REM is recommending in their in their document a traffic impact analysis or a revised one if one exists um and I didn't see it on the website um a bike trail may be located on Homer Avenue does gcg's assessment take this into consideration are there any other safety precautions for cyclist pedestrians that should be considered so Trails was my number two thing not not in that order are you thinking of asking gcg if they consider the lack of traffic study or if they themselves completed one if if they you any information we have about a traffic impact analysis gcg was recommending one does one exist if it exists has it been updated to the new traffic flow okay that kind of thing do we want to ask for one if it doesn't exist well gcg is asking that we do so I would say if gcg is asking I'm asking okay right okay um so that's probably item five well these just two these are two items for me so far there's environmental impact study and there's Trails sorry I started with like sorry yeah so I'm already in five um okay um my third one it was a question actually for Doug Scott because again going back to design Review Committee they had made a point that three of the units are only accessed from the upper level outdoor space and it was just a a question to Doug is that okay because if they have to change the design that that's not to code you know from his perspective then they the should know that now right as a design change that have to make but that as M Marcel and I put in our thing that's to review with the Building Commissioner it's not for us to decide it's a code issue uh fourth question was sewer are we allowed to require a grinder as requested by DPW in their analysis I think Kate had mentioned that one time it's in the notes from DPW saying hey we'd like to have one can we ask for one so I don't know who answers that question if we can put that in as a condition is this a special permit project yes why would we not be able to I just don't know the regulations and I'm not going to say that I do without asking the question so are we asking Peter or in Town Council to app because that's not a applicant answer right I I don't know I'm putting it on the list and letting Peter track it down for me right uh number five delivery and emergency vehicles at one point I believe on this project we had had a space I think currently it's for deliveries but we had a space for emergency vehicles I think then the route changed that was before that was when it was in and out then the route changed so my question is now the police and fire department had already okayed I believe this plan but my question is that's still needed or not needed from their perspective right they might be like nope we don't need that anymore because we're just driving through but TR I I seem to remember Maybe I'm Wrong but there is a striped area the Inception of the driveway that they actually confirmed that it was for that purpose I believe right um but I didn't know and now it's just I think labeled kind of for deliveries so I just wanted to make sure that they're okay with that that if they need it they're okay with it they're okay with the size of it because it's kind of gone through the ringer a few times and then um so that was my that was like question five and then six was Conservation Commission where does this process St and when does it get started um so which I think Peter said that they're looking to complete our process first and then do conservation but as you know we always have a contingency in there that you know ours is contingent upon conservation's approval so yeah and that's that's his boiler plate language that that are in any of our conditions that permits will be sought from all other departments so um and then the last one I had was the one that Peter had mentioned about design looking through the design all the things we talked about design last time was that we had asked for two schemes rendered two sets of physical samples one with a that's a cool pallet that kind of is connected to the town and the cool brick of the sidewalk and that kind of thing one that and I think that's kind of what they were showing more the cool gray and one that's a warmer pallet that may be more connected to the railway station across the street which is a warmer Stone a warmer brick and to show us two pallets complete two pallets so that we can look at them those are my items does anyone have any items to add to the list I do but one it's along that lines I recall the the last meeting we had asked for since there were sort of recommendations open things from design to have the applicant say doing yes get it not doing still in consideration they were supposed to comment back the same way we've done back and forth with gcg and okay so I I um think we should ask for that again even if they disagree I think we told them if you disagree with something the design review recommended tell us why you disagree exactly I do remember that um it may be covered under your Conservation Commission but maybe not because there were spefic specific comments from the conservation agent about plantings that is open I have those printed out somewhere um there's some DPW about verifying Water and Sewer lines um so some of those yeah so some of those I think it's information that like the planting stuff is it's kind of design Review Committee but we can see if it's been already Incorporated um because the applicant did get those notes um from the various parties so I just haven't gone through and seeing if the plant names line up um but that but that's something they could do right they could conf um the applicant could confirm yes we got this and we made these changes um um the fire department you said I think a a last look because it I sort of agree it might have been a Mist on with the change there's also um a fire department connection for the sprinkler and that was sort of on the gcg report so it's probably covered but we also like to make sure the fire department's happy right so that I think um that's why I'm making one the conservation I think this is covered but they have the atlas 14 storm water so I think that's mostly probably the conserv that's already covered I know for a fact that they're using Atlas for all the stor and water review um we did get that swft path analysis update I think but is that uh those are anybody else have anything to no I think it's a comprehensive list thank you so how are we are we going to deliver this list to yes some of these items are more uh Town Council questions right like most can we requ can we require a uh yeah I mean I think most of them actually are applicant questions y um I guess I have another because we I was thinking you cover with the grinder but we we I did have because it's under just that this is adequate infrastructure a general water sewer right conversation or Memo from because we are under Sur moratorium and part of that was to study how this all works so it's like the volume expected and how can we handle that and then the general about um adequate water supply pressure whatever and that is sort of with the applicant but I we said we're coming to this meeting to discuss it which we're not but I think those are open issues as well didn't we discuss water pressure before talked about a little bit in the email from Greg Eldridge what I what I sent out you know he does state that the downtown has the highest historical water pressure and so typically when you kind of go in you start designing these buildings this is from my understanding from alman's terms that you and I think in my eyes that you you as you design your building right you do a flow test right and so typically you open up the flow the hydrant and there's a flow test done with the PW and then those calculations those numbers are then used to help design the interior Plumbing of the building and so qu the question is is there adequate water pressure at the site from what I collect from the email that I share with everyone is that yes there is there is enough water pressure at the site I think I recall I don't have that email with there was an open issue that he didn't said probably enough pressure no I read theil it's definitive there's plenty of pressure he but there was an open issue about well we can go back and check that email to see if there was any other D issues on the technical questions like the grinder right that's it's a that's a technical recommendation I don't remember I don't see it gcg's analysis can could could they provide a recommendation from the engineering point of view I can ask I can reach out because it's different when you say oh we would like you to put this that's different when when there's a technical rationale for for yes the benefits didn't the uh didn't we get that from the water um there was in a memo from the water that we had asked for that the engineer we got it from you actually no no it's there received a memo from know because Peter follow up with him and based on that discussion and he confirmed that yeah that they are very supportive on the idea of having one ab and but I think Marcel was saying from a technical rationale you to for us to make a condition we need to have a technical rationale to put that in there yeah I mean any request should not be arbitrary right correct yeah M yeah I agree I thought that was the followup that that's and maybe gcg can help us with I can reach out okay and and I don't want to get too far down this because obviously we're still this is closed and I don't want to start discussing this stuff so but I think we can add it to the list and and I can try to follow up okay so we following up with all the technical notes that the different departments provided and that would be one from DPW that did had the grinder on there so any anything else obviously things can come up later but I wanted to be able to give them a really strong list and clear to the applicant of things that we wanted on there it seems like we got a complete list I took some notes it looks like you did too do you need my notes after or you're good like who's going to compile all of this stuff uh I was going to take Trisha's notes and I was gonna go forward and yeah but if you cool I mean I can try to turn this into something if you can turn that into an email I'll I'll I'll gladly take it yep all right so then if there's no other comments 9 to 49 um I'll make a motion to I'll make a motion to continue the 949 Homer Avenue site plan and special Perman application to November 9th 9th 2023 second and a roll call vote Anna minitz I Al I Katherine Jersey I and Trisha Kendall I so that's continued to the 9th okay so that puts us at um number five reports on planning topics so let Peter update us on any of these items uh yes excuse me I just got to yeah uh so we're repord on Plenty topics um so scenic road we were we're still working on and I apologize tomorrow morning for economic impact tool I will be attending the Framingham State uh economic Summit um and so I uh have the zoom link and I'll be ready to go at 7:30 um so that should be an interesting one since I'll be home having breakfast with my daughters but uh you know the camera will most likely be shut off moving forward the parking is always on uh and I think uh we're continuing however I think that one just gets kept on getting put you know getting piled on because right now we're dealing with MBTA zoning in the office and we're dealing with a couple other items so so I hate to say uh that one just kind of is still lingering I think however I think I I do have an idea in of the direction that we need to go in but but is isn't that a dimensional requirement I mean it's almost changing one paragraph and like correct from 228 right yeah but 228 and uh and I think we can continue to and I think I can dust up that memo and and bring that back up to consideration and I think the other aspect is and and I don't probably think we need to even go there because the building codes go there today is that I think EV parking when you start talking about um percentile of EEG EV parking I think you just let the building code speak for their s um then the only other concept we could talk about is compact cars and if you start bringing in a concept car you know excuse me the compact car which is typically I think 8 by 15 um you could start making you know couple more spots in a parking lot a little bit smaller um as you may see as you travel around and so those are just some things to kind of think about I know there was some uh a lot of uh Mass excuse me American Planning Association uh articles about parking and that I've downloaded I'm happy to share with everybody uh but I think those are just um we Food For Thought um I have a question if this I think if it's some the topic but possibly not um are there or the working group would they be considering parking related to the MBTA zoning as well like taking a look at if there's any potential updates that we would want to look at for the MBTA zoning yeah no I think the MBTA zoning uh that I'm working on with obviously uh our chair and Mr manani and myself is that I think it's the MBT only is going to be I think I think we just need to focus on MBTA zoning and just look at that from a from a from one one Ang know from we're going to look at we can't look at it just from one angle right but we can look at it I think when you start adding in parking regulations on top of it I just don't think it works and it's going to work that well not I'm not actually sure clear what I mean I was going to we're going to give an update to that in a little bit but um it's Transit oriented development in theory and people are using the train in theory and does that mean we should be looking at the parking requirements that that's kind of just the basis of my question yeah I think I think the MBT zoning is so big picture that it doesn't get into that kind of no but we are going to have to look at our zoning if we're going to comply and and we could be looking at it holistically for the area that we are potentially considering and I would consider parking part of that that's all it might be helpful it sounds to me like what you're saying I'm going to interpret what you're saying for for like what I think is doable which is once the MBT work has progressed significantly and some kind of decision policy wide is being made as to what area of town is actually going to be impacted by the MBTA regulation that might be a good time to come back to the parking issue and see if there's something relating to parking that we want to congruently address it may not be addressable but it might be something we want to consider so that if we're going to kind of rezone an area that's not already rezoned sounds like we we may be resoning something that's already zoned for it but if not maybe we should consider parking is that what you're saying okay I think that has some reasonable reason behind it uh I don't know if we'll have the time to do it but we can certainly think about it right if we're looking at it already we can see hey what's the parking in this area is it adequate if we're going to make it more dense I I'll put it's on our radar now it's on our radar and I think we can start we can think about it but I don't I don't want to make any uh I don't think you're saying we have to change anything in the rezoning I think you're thinking maybe whatever work you guys are doing on the MBTA you're going to recommend certain interpretations of hey these areas might be targets for resoning once there's a decision made by The Joint group maybe we can then consider hey what's the parking like in this area that we've picked should we maybe think about amending that but I think that's for later I feel like we need to get through the mpta stuff first meet the statutory obligation make the state content that we follow their requirements and then see if there's an unintended consequence of oh my God now we can't park anywhere right yeah you know I think right now we're just you know we're not there yet we're still working on we're still working with the with the with the compliance model from the state level doing you know you know we just we completed the gis work which was a huge lift um we're looking at the acreage you know we're looking at the next you know the next step within the compliance model you know so I think we're we're working it's all happening but to add another complexity in there I I think it I don't know if it's I don't want to say it's too much but I I understand where you're coming from but I think um I think we need to work through some more items on the MBTA before we start talking about pking yeah I mean that can actually just be our summary for for that item and it's not on it I was just going to note under other that we are continuing to work on it and progress on it in order to present I think we said November 15th at the select War meeting but to be able to present those options so okay so then we're to reports from board members and town planner comprehensive plan Kate nny sent out a letter today which I think I think it's did I see it in the binder as well yep it's uh it's in the binder right after the agenda okay so which which one of you wants to take the I I can give it a shot since uh we have an associate member and members of the public I can um not exactly read but kind of go through the letter so basically read um so the letter is addressed to the planning board to update the planning board um Kate and I did discuss this to make sure we're on the same page and our conclusion is that there has been a significant change in the process for the comprehensive plan that about a year ago I think it was in July August um summer of 2022 uh the planning board had reached some final agreement on how the comprehensive plan would work that was done after significant discussion negotiation and it was made pretty clear that town staff select board planning board would have shared responsibility for the project and agreement was ultimately supported by a vote of this board that a project management team would be created with two responsibilities issuing a request for proposals for the consultant and functioning as a liaison between the consultant the steering committee the select board and the planning board it was given that the members of the project management team would sit on the steering committee but it was certainly not ever discussed that they would disappear um that the project management team would not exist anymore um and it was certainly not called a consultant selection team it was called a project management team and Kate and myself agreed that that is what we voted on um a year ago so this is where we are now um since the consultant was chosen it's come to my attention um and to Kate's attention that uh the project management team meetings that were happening have stopped um there has not been a vote by the project management team to disband the project management team the steering committee has not voted to disband the project management team and the the two groups the planning board and the select board that voted to create this entity have not voted to end it um the only reason it has essentially ended is it has not met because No Agenda has been posted despite multiple requests from me um including for a meeting where I was supposed to be chair for the project management team and the only agenda item was the discussion of whether we still exist and it was not posted despite my requests to post it um and the effort of town staff was respected so that I offered to post it myself and I was never given a memo to do it so essentially the project management team is no longer meeting because no one is willing to post an agenda meanwhile between the meetings of the steering committee um there has been key work being done to develop data gather input create surveys and obtain key information to deliver back to the steering committee for input and vote so decisions are being made every month between steering committee meetings by a new planning management team which appears to involve the consultant Town staff and at least one select board member planning board members myself and Cade are fully excluded from this process um and we disagree with this change the new project management team has been working to essentially gather data that we the seel the planning board and the select board agreed the planning board would have role in gathering at this point you might ask hey what's the big deal the steering committee is a group of great people um the co-chairs of the steering committee are doing a great job running the meetings we have very experienced staff we have a great consultant why should we care and without tell you is the planning board has jurisdiction over planning and to exclude the planning board members from project management what it does is it removes a entity that is ultimately responsible by state law from creating those policy decisions of who do we ask for data and what questions do we ask those are the kinds of things that are happening between each steering committee meeting and ultimately we all want the same thing we want a successful comprehensive plan so that down the line when we have a final draft everyone in this room including Kate and I can proudly say that we were part of the process and the public can feel that there's transparency and ownership by this committee by this group and at this point Kate and I have concerns that we are no longer following the process that we voted on so others in this room May disagree with us but I would ask the rest of this committee to bring this back to the select board and have a conversation about this and actually take a vote so that if we have a new process where the planning board will not be part of a management team that we all agree on that and we are transparent and open with the public about it and we all own it so that's the point of the letter I don't know Kate if you want to add anything I mean I think it covers it I I guess if anyone had question questions what I could say is this I feel strongly as it goes back to the root of some of the discussions to come to that agreement that we for instance and I I think we've heard from people that when it seems a very Town Hall Centric process people can have concerns about that and the consultant for the very first meeting of the steering committee sent out a survey to 29 people and it was like things you like about Ash don't like and some great things you think about the plan and some concerns and of the people that responded and I can't save 29 people I don't know it it showed up as a concern about um distrust of town government right so the more we can stick to what we said to have um the three groups kind of working on the management I think that helps with a perception to make sure that it's not one sort of one entity leading this and I also I mean me personally just having that um an agreement that we did have not being followed gets gets kind of sticky for me personally does anyone else want to jump in with comments I have three questions yeah just I'm trying to kind of digest the the explanation that Anna U and Kate gave and and what the letter says so just remind me what was the objective of the project management team was that objective to carry through through through through this stage and and the the question goes to I'm trying to understand uh by reading this but but but but but what we just heard looks like uh something just evaporated out of the blue with no explanation uh was there no discussion the the way this sounds in those initial stages of the group uh I just don't understand how suddenly some group disappears with nobody knowing how how it's not that no one knows it's just that the group is refusing to post an agenda I mean so to answer your question let's start with the basics I found Michael's original Memo from June of 2022 that proposed the integrated plan so he created and I actually have what we voted on so that's great so we can talk about both documents because that this was modified when we left that behind and we can discuss both that's not a problem um so this document informed our ultimate discussion um and so Michael's proposal was that the additional responsibilities for the project management team would be lays oning between the consultant of the steering committee select board planning board the project management team would also help collect data other required information necessary for the development of the existing conditions plan and mapping and help with the drafting process right because a group of 20 some people drafting is difficult project was the ultimate objective of that committee that has now yeah so the final draft I believe this is final these are my notes from Wednesday the 26th of something um but I think the date on the report um was October October 2022 I believe October November um the project management team this is after the uh request for proposals the project management team will become a part of the steering committee and will be a subcommittee within that larger group as such the project management team will work with Town department heads and staff to collect data and other required information necessary for the work of the steering committee as a part of the steering committee the project management team will also contribute to the responsibilities and tasks of the larger group okay so he that I'm trying to catch up because I just I'm trying to remember all the discussions so the project management team is a sub body from the steering committee and the the the the group that is not posting agendas or that not suly not not meeting is is that group so is the steering committee who who basically oversees this group not aware so the steering committee uh does not oversee this group this group was supposed to become a a committee of the steering committee so the compr ensive plan project management team has a schedule of meetings and it includes staff uh Michael Peter Yolanda Brandy from the select board Anna and Kate so we met and met and met and met and once we got either to August 17th or September 21st uh we would Kate and I would ask for an agenda to be posted and it was no longer posted I don't know how else to explain the process to you other than if a group refuses to post an agenda the group is no no longer meeting okay so there has been no vote to disappear there has been no vote I I get I get no group no group or entity steering committee has never voted to end this group okay um the select board and the planning board have never voted to end this group The comprehensive plan project management team has never had an official discussion because we've never had a formal Quorum or agenda been posted to discuss if we still exist there has been no vote um there have been individual discussions you know I've had some discussions with Brandy about her interpretation of whether or not we should exist I've gotten some clue from Michael as to whether or not we should exist but there has never been a formal discussion or vote as to whether or not this group still exists and what was that I don't think this is fake like I think the group existed at one point and had a meeting schedule I don't think anybody's saying anything fake but at some point it no longer met I think Marcel I think Marcelo still had a third question that he intended yeah and and the last question is um so I I this this letter seems very clear to me has a a similar uh like U positive request being issued to that group to discuss that and find out the solution the steering committee agenda is set by uh unknown entities I don't know who sets the agenda I believe it's this new project management team that includ no no before before the that that group was formed I mean you guys were meeting right suddenly something goes there has not been an I think you're you're saying has this memo been presented to the steering committee something to the effect of um hey we asked for an agenda to be posted uh we request to have a meeting about it to like asking the steering committee to post an agenda asking yeah I guess if the steuding committee is the one that is kind of on top of this based on the structure that I I believe that's the way it is right uh it seems to me that that there's got to be a very black and white answer to that question so if it's been asked yeah so the I mean the project management team would be free to post their own agenda as a subcommittee right so you're saying that someone someone submitted to the town clerk an agenda to be posted and you're saying it either was not posted or it was posted and then taken down is that it was just not posted so to to be no so to be clear uh the way that these agendas would be posted is we would send it to town staff to post Town staff has not posted it no I don't know why um what I will say is um the reason the project management team exists in the first place with the agreed upon membership of two select board members two planning board members and two staff is because this group voted for that and the select board and this group met together and agreed on this process and so the idea that the steering committee should make that decision seems a little bit backwards to me I think we need to go back to the select board and this group and the select board need to have a conversation because that but that was the point of my question because I I'm reading it exactly the opposite isn't maybe I'm wrong I'm I'm I'm thinking if the the sing committee was created it was voted I remember we were we were part of it we know how it was put together um but now that is the entity that is running this this this um process so before getting out of that into the past or or the the the entities that created it I cannot I I just don't understand and and I'm feel sorry that if you if you both of you have been excluded I I I don't see any reason for it uh but but that seems to me to be the place to there has not been any there has not been any vote by the steering committee to exclude anyone or to create a new project management team so so so but I I think I mean I personally think that it's clear I don't think anyone would ever intend a group of 29 to be project managing somebody has to do that and I am quite sure people in this room recall that there were concerns about having it a transparent and shared responsibility M which was select board to town staff and two Town planners I distinctly remember that and I I'm just going to full disclosure if it didn't have that I wouldn't have voted for it because I had the concerns about making this work without one particular of those entities having an particularly when it is statutory and planning board so yeah so I don't have any reason to think that we were thinking 29 people were liasing with the consultant and that it turned to 29 people not a project management I I distinctly remember we could probably get tapes of like there's these ongoing duties that aren't going to be managed there's things in between meetings that aren't going to be managed by 29 people I I am positive that was I want I do want to come in here just because this um this document which I believe to be the latest version that we voted on are very close and I believe that to be because we changed steering committee members to be residents versus voters which we just found was we could not do and the minimum of six seats it was four to match the six voting precincts so that has been changed um and there's just another highlighted area at the very back which leads me to believe that this um that this was the you know the select board will vote on the final plan followed by the planning board so these are the language that tells me this was I believe the very last version right so it does say on here I read the description of the project management team under the responsibilities of the steering committee right it does it says membership project management team membership responsibilities and I read those steering committee membership responsibilities the steering committee will draw Drive The process by working closely with the consultant cultivating Civic engagement Lea Le liasing with boards and committees receiving reports guiding the project management team and ultimately refining public input and existing data into drafts of the plan now that said I think that's I think we laid out these and this is unless someone can provide another document this is the thing we voted on um but I but I do think that it it is in here that this project management team which has been divided decided as Town planner Town manager two planning board two select board exists through this process I think that was clear to everybody that that that that was supposed to be a part of so I definitely agree with you on that this is supposed to exist and um and thus I think it's a good discussion to have with the select board that this is supposed to exist here's here's what we voted on M absolutely and and I will I will add that right now there is a new project management team and I that can you explain that a little bit where's the evidence is there a vote uh so I found out that last week uh together with a consultant um there is a group of individuals it appears that involved at least one select board member no planning board members were involved that worked together with a consultant to create a series of questions essentially a survey decided who the the experts in our community are on specific issues like transportation and sent that survey out now this is a wonderful effort it is an effort that's exactly what a project management team should be doing and Kate and I certainly were not part of those discussions we certainly did not contribute to who the transportation experts are and I can tell you that had we been part of that discussion tonight's discussion with you would have been hey great news take a look at this list of Transportation experts Kate and I have some input you as planning jurisdictional planning experts might have input let's see if we have changes or edits for the consultant let's bring that back to the rest of the project management team and do exactly what we the two planning board members are supposed to be doing now am I in some way questioning the capacity of the individuals who are making these decisions no I think it's I'm sure they're doing their very best what I'm telling you is that we meant to include planning board representation and how data is gathered why is that important because how you gather data means you're choosing who to ask and what questions to ask that is a very powerful thing that the planning board should be part of once those things are done the process is essentially contained to only one more step which is you bring it back to the steering committee and 29 people vote and if 10 of them which becomes the majority agree that's you're done you're done and the planning board is no longer part of being able to L on and do what a project management team is supposed to do so I think I understand the con I just want I want to say that there are Michael Herbert and um Brandy are are on um I'm I am going to get to them but I'm going to I'm going to hold off just a little bit so be patient up there actually DEA you've had your light on do you want to jump in here no um the wording on that paper that we voted is not really saying that project management team is kind of going to be the project management group that they're going to oversee the steering it's the other way around so it feels like that itself is I don't know if it's a language issue but the whole working system and the communication is not what that paper is saying right now it feels like the project management team I don't know if you have a back and forth with the steering committee how the project project management team is working with the steering committee are you not because when you say you're a subcomittee to that larger group it's like planning board and design review team right they come back to us and that's how that Loop is but that's not how this conversation is sounding it sounds like project management team is working with the consultant Steering group is working with the consultant and I'm not sure what that because that's not how that paper is really talk about so you have to figure that Loop out and I guess that's where the confusion is starting it it may be a case where our intentions on the paper and the reality that we're in now with this big group and we knew it would be a big group and how working with a consultant don't quite align and may need to be rediscussed I mean that's all I want to say yeah know I was going to say is it is it is this is this the only time where where that that has happened or is just it could have been just a miscommunication or or could be a different OB but finish myself but I then Amanda's going to want to jump in finish what you yeah no I was I was just asking whether CU I I I have to tell I'm not prepared to come here to discuss other miscommunications what I what I will tell you is I disagree that this is confusing I think that the intent is not authority over anyone the way I voted that what I remember is is that there were essentially a team of people working together for the same goal we have a steering committee with Incredible community members who each bring a unique perspective and steer the comprehensive plan process we have a project management team with select board and planning board members and staff who are actively doing everything they can to effectively work to support this and lison as necessary everybody's working together I personally looked at all of these as equal force of nature to make this a success to make the public feel proud at the end that we all work together that's my interpretation I did not look at this as some sort of authoritative triangle of power going down to the to the people I looked at this as a team effort and um I don't take any of this personally what I believe in is if you exclude the planning board members from Key project management duties what you're going to end up doing at the very end is that you're going to have a comprehensive plan draft that I will not comfortably be able to tell you that I was involved in policy decisions and the public will also have questions about why is it that certain things are coming up last minute or and I no one here in this room at least I will not be able to answer those questions because I was not involved in those many many decisions that take place every month do I need to be involved in all of those decisions absolutely not that was not Our intention when we voted so our let me finish my w our vote was to make sure that select board planning board and town staff work together that was the intent that's not happening right now okay Amanda did you I just to jump in because I attended a number of the project management teams meetings before the full committee was created and I'm wondering if it's just like an issue of the like you know the the larger hearing Comm didn't exist now it exists there's chairs it's it's like up and running and I wonder if it's just like a a communication issue with the p passing of the Baton in terms of you know getting that subcommittee up in formal underneath the the full um the full steering committee group and and I guess what I'm wondering is is this issue on the radar of the I think it's two chairs now that are pretty new um and you know that hey we've said who these six people need to be this it needs to be a subcommittee this is all laid out and you know it seems like in the absence of any organization around this where making decisions that should be the purview of the project management team um sort of with different groups of people you know I wonder if it's kind of um because the steering committee didn't exist and it's now the umbrella organization at the time I wonder if it's just had trouble scooting under so that was my my question Anna and Kate because I know you how you know the meetings I attended before I was on the planning board you know before just sort of as a member of the public that was a very public process those meetings of the project management team and and I think um again it's like very clear who that group is so it was a wordy question I apologize so oh was there do you want to answer that Kate I mean I think that supports an independent person of if anyone did think that we misinterpreted I guess that's all I could say about that I mean I will say there's a beauty to the project management team and the six of us meeting um it was not always easy we sometimes disagreed but it was a vigorous public process that is exactly what we need for a successful comprehensive plan yeah I mean I um I have been keeping an ear to the ground during this entire process since it began not wanting to get overly involved because I did not volunteer for this position but I know those project management uh meetings have often been arduous um maybe combative and yet at at worst um and uh so I know they haven't been easy and given some of the early meetings um it would be right for us to expect that those wouldn't have been easy meetings right um so but that but that said that's sometimes how you work out the disagreements and The Kinks right so um and everyone going into it knew it wasn't going to be a nice smooth easy Road I do want to comment on because after getting this information um I went back and looked at um I'm like oh yeah I got an invitation on October 6th right and so I went back and actually looked at what that was and I apologized because I should have responded um earlier but I I think I have a copy of the questions I was asked to um meet with um I'm reaching out to you today as one of those experts I'm being called the expert to participate in an interview on land use in Ashland and so um so I so I received these things which look like standard things from our consultant I would say um yeah I I assumed it was it did come from the consultant and so I assumed it was literature and questions that were from the consultant that we obviously hired to do this work and um but in but in no way have I been a part of a group group I mean forgot I got the email right so I need to respond to that but I was in no way a part of a group so if that was a misunderstanding then I wanted to make that clear if if if there's something about this new project management team or a team of experts it just sounds that it sounds like at some point you were chosen by um perhaps the new project management team is how I'm referencing it that you are one of the land use experts and you very well are obviously um and that's great but what I'm telling you is that this in no way relates to and like Kate and I were not involved in choosing who would get this we I don't know who else got it um you would have to ask uh I'm just trying to so clar I'm trying to clarify your your your concerns um are that things like this in selecting 29 people however many of us got got these letters or you know whatever um um that you know who was involved in saying oh Trisha would be good for this versus Marcelo right I don't I think thanks I on this I will have no comment just so we're clear um I will be silent on which one of you is a better expert but so my but my question is um are these the type of things that you feel um and it's an opinion question that you feel should have been part of a discussion that included the compr our comprehensive plan members to to the steering committee and to the project management team right I mean I'm not sure I'm not I'm not sure I think that falls on under the data Gathering that you read like you read at there was a sentence you read that talked about Gathering data right so yes it's squarely what you're suggesting or the document you received is data Gathering it's exactly the sentence you read um to answer your question and why is that important because the questions you ask and who you ask the questions is the key element of a comprehensive plan data collection yes but I don't think this is just the start so I don't want to say that oh my gosh I have 129th of the voice on this comprehensive plan because they asked me right that would be ludicrous right to say that um and I also think that the responsibilities are like you know they may need to be Rewritten because it does say that the the rering committee um works with a consultant who sent me this it doesn't say the project management team right so so so I think so what I'm saying is that I think I understand where something is very unclear here and the process for project management team has been arduous and maybe not a very strongly connected social group at this point um but yet it exists in our documents right and I also think that the steering committee as a group has a lot of has a lot of the even the liaison dealing with the consultant responsibilities that we gave them so I think there's a way that it's almost like how do we work out this new what should we were thinking here with what those rules should be what the project management role should be what should it be what do we need as a board that role to be what does the select board need their members to be and it might be a discussion in that way so why don't absolutely either of you two have a comment and then I'm going to and Michel com I think the correct approach is to remember the planning board per state law has jurisdiction over the comprehensive plan we're the only entity in this town that have state jurisdiction it is our responsibility period so we have a responsibility to make sure that we understand and are comfortable with the change and we absolutely need to bring it to the select board and make sure that that entity who is a partner with us is also very comfortable with the change and whatever the change is we need to agree upon it and it needs to be transparent so my preference would be that this is not about my opinion this is not about Anna's view this is about the fact that we voted for something this group voted for a process now we have something very very different and we need to come up with a consensus for the planning board and to develop that we need to talk to the to the select board and get on the same page and understand in partnership with the select board how are we going to be successful in this comprehensive plan all right Kate do you want to add anything before I I mean I think we know when the planning board is not involved things could not go well that the last time it was abolished by the planning board at the 11th hour I don't know the background but it's just an advocacy to for us to make sure we are not absent from this in many ways all right um oh Amanda do you want to sorry I forget you're there do you want to weigh in before I oh it's annoying that I'm remote I'm sorry um no I guess what I would wonder is if I I and I completely understand your perspective on on like wanting to get together with the selectboard on this I'm wondering though if like what just has to happen to get the group back on track because I I guess I kind of want to give a benefit of the doubt that like it's just the meetings haven't been happening and some you know other work has been happening in the meantime in the absence of the the project man management team meeting and so what I'm wondering is if like it just needs to be a very pointed question to the chairs of the large of the steering committee group to basically get the group back on track get the project management team back on track if they're the umbrella organization like can that happen so the the role of the the role of the chairs so far has not been formally defined by the steering committee and originally when it was presented to the steering committee um I think it was SE the former select board member Mitchell who said listen we all know how to run a meeting like that's what chairs do so I think what you're saying is can't the chairs kind of get this back on track and I would say that the roles of the chairs has not been defined as the authority to get us back on track yet all right my concern that it's just off their radar that there's supposed to be this subcommittee that's still functioning within the group I'm gonna I'm actually G to let um brandy brandy you want to unmute hey guys um thank you for for giving me a few minutes um so you know Anna's correct in in the statement that the project management group still exists the um you know nothing has been dissolved the um steering committee has not talked about the project management team at all um and you know we haven't met because the really hasn't been anything to take action on and to do so the last time when Anna had wanted to to post an agenda there really wasn't anything for us to act on um I think with the consultant coming on board we are starting to see the requests coming in for data and I think it's unrealistic to assume or think that the project management team is going to be the conduit for all the data that's coming in I think that um it's going to come to the steering committee and if the steering committee believes or thinks that it's important for the project management team to work on this um I think it's under the purview of the steering committee to agree upon that for the for the project management team to take action um you know I see the the steering committee is as the umbrella group that is driving this whole project and we are a big group we are 29 people and this project is um as we know very big and very cumbersome but I think we have a great consultant that brings a lot of expertise and I think part of it is we have to trust some of the work that the consultant has done previously and we've all agreed upon that this consultant has um a lot of strength in the um the community involvement and working with big groups like ours so I think that um I think that we are um on the right track and I think that I would think that the next steering committee meeting that this data ask that um Michael had sent out an email today just kind of letting the steering committee know that there was this data ask by the consultant for the existing conditions um I think that that's going to be a discussion point on the next agenda and if the steering committee feels like it needs extra help I'm sure that the project management team will be able to um to assist with that so I I but you know there are a lot of people that are working really hard on this project and um I think it's unfortunate that there's this characterization that there's a new project management team I don't think that there has been any real changes to the process um the select board the planning board we both have two members as members of this um steering committee and we're we're a part of every single meeting so I don't think that there's another group that's making decisions on behalf of the steering committee I do think that the chair s of the steering committee are driving the agenda for our steering committee meetings I think that um that we are all working towards the same goal and I just I feel that um to characterize things as being you know anything happening in a underhanded kind of way or behind the scenes is um disingenuous so I I feel that we are all working hard to try to get this project up off the ground and I don't think that there's another group that's that's working to do something different or nefarious so um that's just my take on the situation but um I do appreciate you know the work and the perspective that Anna and Kate bring to the group because I think it's important I think it is important to have a planning board voice um you know it's just the same as it as it is for the other 27 members of the of the steering committee so um you know and I think that we are going to have a very successful project so um but you know the project management team will probably continue to exist unless there is a reason to disband it but I think that unless we have something tangible to work on that the steering committee agrees to I think that we are that there's really no action to take on the on on behalf of the project management so could I could I respond Trisha um yes but if you could keep it brief so I can get Michael in there too and then so I will say that Brandy's point is the point that Brandy and I have kind of been discussing very informally in a more casual way and I have to say I very much appreciate bry's work on the steering committee she's been very involved in the newsletter and you know I I do agree that we're all doing our very best to make this a success I will tell you that what you just said Brandy is exactly the Dilemma we're in I was the share of a meeting right September 21st I ask to post an agenda the agenda item is let's discuss the role of the project management team in light of the vote we took a year ago right let's discuss it in fact I said let's discuss Michael's proposed integrated plan let's discuss what we voted on and you are deciding Brandy and Anna are having this conversation Brandy says well this is not an item to take an action on the steering committee needs to make this decision that is a policy discussion within the project management team where we disagree to the point where the agenda does not get posted this is why we're here today so who is Right ultimately at this point we have a document we have maybe two documents that the reality on the ground right now is that no one is willing to post an agenda for the project management team to discuss it who are the people that voted for this process this group and the select board so we're not going to solve the Anna anab Brandy debate without an actual meeting of the project management team or the select board and the planning board and this idea that it's up to the steering committee to decide how we voted on this a year ago I disagree with that not that I think that it's the exact same sentence that you read about leaz oning so whether it's Michael's document or this one that we voted under the responsibility of a different group that's important what I will say is Kate and Anna are two members of this planning board that distinctly remember that two planning board members continue to Liaison that is no longer happening because Brandy and Anna are having a discussion and a disagreement as to whether that's necessary or anything that we should be discussing as a project management team this goes full circle to the fact that the project management team has had a lot of debate a lot of difficult conversations which are key to the vital success of the comprehensive plan if we don't want to have those conversations we need to take a vote and disband that has not happened so until we do that we still exist exist which means either post the agenda or let's go back to the select board and create a completely new process that Brandy and Anna and everyone else can agree upon because right now we're at a standstill and it's not productive I understand and I'm going to let Michael get in and uh comment as well good evening sorry I'm in my jams today tonight um but now I just wanted to reiterate and just say a lot of what Brandy said there is no new project management team um you know there is an administrative team that I guess you could call it an administrative team that uh consists of the co-chairs myself and Peter and then Susan Roby sometimes joins us uh when she can uh to help uh keep us all organized um and really those discussions are based around the agenda um the types of communications need to go out to the whole committee um those are that's really the focus of it now there's two specific things that that have been brought up tonight are two specific actions um and I think there's another disagreement here in terms of what's policy versus what's administrative and the two things were the data request that JM Goldson the consultant had asked of Peter and I um and that data request is not like going around and asking people for the input it's like okay what studies do you have on Transportation what studies do you have on you know parking um what studies do you have on 126 you know do you have police call data things of that nature the stuff really only we have access to so we put that together so they can go ahead and do what they need to do meting Golds and and do their report um this again no policy decision being made there so second another item was this list of people who are going to be interviewed now I think it's been characterized as a questionnaire um I'm not sure if that's the case if so we didn't have anything to do with it but yes my staff and I were asked to select I think it was three people under each area that um would be considered experts and so we took into account that really all of the uh steering committee members would have input throughout the plan so we looked at people outside of the steering committee including employees um and but that was because Goldson needed a a tight turnaround and um you know we you know we felt that was the the best decision by the way if this was all like hidden and everything this wouldn't believe we discussed this a little bit at the last steering committee meeting and I sent an email out earlier today you know talking about this stuff and saying we're actually going to add it as an agenda item I think so that could be the issue sorry Michael I mean I think unfortunately and like I said keeping my ear to the ground over the past however many months it's been I think um unfortunately some of the um early discussions the very early discussions before we all went down this road um about trust haven't unfortunately unfortunately haven't those roads haven't been built as as well as we would have liked them to and so I think there's um both there's not the collaboration that we I think is necessary in this process and that should be happening um and um collaboration and giving the benefit of the doubt as to what's going on and so it seems that um like I think it like like I said before it is right that we voted on this dopic this document and what it said we created the project management team and and it also may be true that it's um it it's perview right now its function is a little bit confused maybe a lot confused and maybe we need to figure that out you know that said I mean I think it's important like I think it's important for the select board to have their Lea zones their members on the comprehensive plan coming back to the select board and and I think it's important for we have our members of our planning board coming back to us in the planning board um I think that's very critical so how do we make those roles um you know how do we make that group work for the whole process because I do think it's important to have that input um but I also think it's important to kind of this group that you've created the steering committee is is obviously a a a much better group than I ever imagined frankly with the the little snooping I've been doing on those meetings so um I think it may be best as suggested in your letter to Let's we already meeting with the select board they'll have to see um you know if they a little bit more room on their agenda that night I think it's the November 15th I I think uh November 15th if we can if we can if there's room on the agenda that that the um planning board can can join the select board we we're already there anyway but to have a little bit of discussion about this as well and to see if we can get this straightened out before the new year right and before we get even deeper into this process because this should be the steering committee the project management team the chairs the co-chairs you know the consultant all this there should be a really bonded group that like us has our arguments but that you know we still come together and make decisions and I think it's it's seems like it's on the point of falling apart if it hasn't already and we need to put it back together again as quickly as possible abs and that means there's going to be give and take on all sides to to try to figure out what the new solution is based on where we are now based on not based on where we oh we've never done a comprehensive Plan before let's try to figure this out on paper now we have to figure it out from where we are now so um I don't know open to any kind of semi not final comments but semifinal comments on this I mean I obviously helped write and brainstorm and sign well didn't sign the notes so I very much support the process of of going back to those entities and we I distinctly remember we all said as well that the process can change but it needs to be discussed and I very much um what what we have to remember is it's uh when things are not transparent and and that is just literally exposed that that's hard for the public right whether whether there's these things happening if it was like information passed along I think that has to be I will always be advocating for the a very transparent and public process right so that when when decisions are made that we didn't know they were being made how how does the public know right that's what ultimately this is about it's a public planning process and I I I just want to also say I agree with you like the we spectacularly got 29 people um that are engaged have things to offer are starting to reach out farther to you know their groups Etc so uh I just have two thoughts I mean from what I've heard uh and I I like where Kate was going with that um the first thing is I personally think it's always good not to assume the worst intentions on on on on someone that uh either something didn't work or or was miscommunicated or what started in the wrong foot what have you U so it's good to always leave the room to understand why that happened before and I say that because on one side I I and I'm really trying I'm trying to see okay what is the the problem because in my view Kate and Anna has have to be involved in what's important so what I was trying to discern is uh okay there's a new PM group but says no there's no new PM group uh there's just administrative okay seems to be a disagreement on on on what happened that happens fine um and from what I've heard from all these a great group of people that were able to to gather to do this work my my second my second thought is seems to me my conclusion from everything I've heard is that this can be worked out in about five minutes of just discussing it uh and maybe it's at that meeting where we can do it I I I think that with a with with with and I know that what the trust part it has to be out there but it also is part of not assuming the worce um I think I I think maybe the both sides of the discussion that I'm hearing are probably closer than they are apart that that's kind of would be my hope um so maybe that's the meeting where where this could happen uh seems to me that U I just don't see any very complicated way to UNS solve this actually I see that it's just maybe a little more soft communication that's my reading of it I think um um when I first heard Anna it was definitely a very different thought but after hearing Michael I think it's really critical that the roles of the project management team and the steering committee is clear to the consultant because the question for data collection came from the consultant and because you have three distinct groups it was obviously not clear to the consultant who the question should have gone to right and I think I can see why Anna is feeling left out because it is an important process and the fact that in addition to collecting that basic research or information that we hold as a town about traffic or all the other things that the consultant asked the question about the kind of the team that should have approached I think should have gone back to the project management team and kind of shared that hey in addition to this data that the consultant asked us this is another bucket that they're looking for um can we as a team agree that we at Town Hall can take that lead or do you all want to win it could have just been an email conversation where I feel I'm going with this is I think it's really really important because this is going to be a two long year process if that communication path is not clear to the consultant this is going to just become difficult and difficult along the way because who is who is the they're approaching who is the one they should ask to I think the roles have to be clarified not just for the consultant but just for the internal working group because sometimes it's easy it's easy because I know the information I'm just going to give it to you it solves the issue and it's I can check that box so to make that call we have to remember we are part of a larger team right so sometimes it just happens but I think it's really really important for the three groups the administrative the project management Steering group all to be very clear what their role is in this through years process otherwise this is going to be a nightmare moving forward and it's not going to be efficient and all the passion that's there across in this team is just going to fall apart in another 6 months which is not going to help anyone I think that's exactly it I think that this the um consultant probably has no context for the project management team necessarily and the steering committee co-chairs I I just feel to marcelo's point I feel like this is the kind of thing that can get hammered out so quickly like after hearing Brandy and Michael's feedback it seems like everybody agrees the planning board members need to be you know extremely engaged in that project management team and it just seems like this can get back on track like very just with clear communication and like five minutes of all like getting on the same page is my hope because I agree with you Marcel I'm incling to give folks the benefit of the doubt and it does seem like it's just sort of different entities with different context started at different times that are not aligned all right n so I'll say something somewhat critical and then something very positive the critical thing I'll say is to me an administrative group is no different from the new project management team it it's just a semantics of words right so essentially planning board is no longer involved and there's this new team chosen by staff to exist without any vote by anyone that is the constructive criticism I have to saying that this is not a new project management team and I certainly know that Brandy has been very involved in some of those decisions because we've discussed them over email um as far as how decisions will be made so to say that there is no new team is not accurate despite calling it administrative the other thing I'll say positive is that I think we all deeply care about this process and I appreciate it and I hear it and I especially appreciate Brandy talking today and I can see that she cares a lot and I think we can move through this yeah and I just think I want to reiterate um you know Marcel's point about for me it it starts out with collection of data but it's really about like reserving judgment on this whole thing so when I originally when I read this letter which was probably 3:30 or 4:00 whenever I got my kids back from the orthodontist I read this letter and then my first call was to Peter and full disclosure my second call was to Brandy my third call was to Michael and my fourth call was going to be to Rob Shear I couldn't call either of you two obviously because that would have been open meeting um because I wanted to get as much information as I could and I think you can talk to all the people I talked to and you can say that I grilled them pretty good about what the information was um so that I could come to the meeting and and obviously I looked up all these old documents I went and looked at my email what was this thing that I received and didn't respond to um to try to get as much information that I could to try to read then the letter again in a kind of context about the complicated things that were happening and um so I think there is I think all the points that have been made are good I think the the feelings about we should we need to be more involved in this process are valid I think the things about giving people the benefit of the doubt we the the um the relationship with the consultant it needs to be clear all of these things I to me I think fit under the category of growing pains now that we're in this process which is what have been a total of two meetings now for the com for the steering comprehensive plan steering committee right with the consultant so I think we should make the consultant aware of these discussions I think the co-chairs should be made aware of this discussion um and then on the 15th we should meet with the select board let's get all back on the same page with where we started plus plus some new members of that of that team the the co-chairs and the um and the consultant and then and then like I try to get try to get our ducks in a row for the next um steering committee meeting which I assume is in mid to late November 19th I think nov is that our joint meeting 15th is the joint meeting so there's not a lot of wiggle room in there but oh right the next day wait oh okay isn't our next meeting the 9th and then the 30th do we have I'm talking about steering committee and comprehensive plan committee so any but wait I guess at least get things on the right track so um I guess we will be in contact with Michael and Rob Shear to see if we can make that happen uh yes okay and then we will we'll go from there I do appreciate I do appreciate the time that you guys are putting into this committee you were the ones who kind of brought it to the table you stepped up when the three of us took a step back and um you sure you don't want to join the party pretty sure and um and and and so but it takes it's going to take all of us to see it through right absolutely and I want to say that I I do know I'm not trying to beat anyone up about the fail but I appreciate because the planning board hasn't been absent and you've always said that we we are part of this so I appreciate it and and it does have to continue so thank you for saying that all right so we will put an informal end to that topic and we'll pursue it with the select board to see if we can discuss in a larger group all right next we are actually almost at the end Peter is there any updates oh wait um I don't think there's any other updates on these committees except no I just yeah I just want to mention I attended the Metro West Regional uh collaborative uh Trail Summit annual Trail Summit over in Framingham at Lauren Arena uh this morning and so it was all about trails in Metro West uh I did pick up some um some really good maps and uh and I I PDF them and I scanned them in and I and I have a email teed up so I'm just going to give everyone the heads up that I'll send that out uh two of them are just Maps one of them is a little bit more Framingham Centric and then another one is just a brochure on the upper Charles Trail extension happy to talk to anybody in Greater detail um and then uh that's really kind of what I to tell everybody it was a great conference um it Great summit um MPC Dil l l Lucen Heiser who actually came out here last spring and and walked the uh the new uh Charli B trail with me and then walked down West Union Street then through down Summer Street into the downtown um was the one kind of running uh running point and he does run point on uh all Trails within mpc's um uh 101 cities and towns territory um and so we do have a strong relationship with them and uh it was a good conference and I'm just going to send out the information all right um nothing else on that list right we're good I'm all set okay um planning office updates I know you wanted to give a brief update to whittamore yeah so uh whittamore um and I'm not to go into depth but um but we had a meeting with the developer and we we hopefully opened up some lines of communication um just because there's a lot of stuff happening I'm going to end it at that but uh that was a positive sign uh other elements 9 to 30 CH 100 to 30 excuse me to 103 Chester Street continues to to kind of chug along um nothing too new over there um gcg has been out there pretty much every day and or every other day doing their inspections um as as required for for our items so that's a good item that's a good thing um nothing for 501 um 399 uh Union Street the Starbucks um things are starting to move around out there too I was out there actually I walked out there between uh the end of the day and uh in the meeting to stretch my legs and I and I did see that the wood you know wood has arrived on the site and so hopefully that's going to go vertical um and so it's fairly a simple building so that hopefully will be kind of put up fairly fast I do also want to note the select excuse me the Board of Health um received an email um with a application um for all the material indoor equipment that's going in so um that process hopes will be moving along um as as appropriately so um and then is the side completed at no no no no no uh for which one Starbucks yeah just the utilities have been kind of stubbed in and then obviously and then they'll be kind of continued to be built out so yeah that kind of continues on and there's actually two contractors is a contractor the developer hired the owner of the site hired and then Starbucks actually hired their own uh construction company and they do actually the Starbucks buildout and so it's kind of a it's a two pronged approach um so um so yeah those are the updates I can give on the meetings I did add the meetings uh for the remainder of the the um excuse me I'm sorry there's been no applications received and was there anything for 12 Pond excuse me no nothing for 12 Pond no update no new applications received at this point and I do just want to make a note I did list the last three meetings of the month anner I just did put a note so the meeting on November 15th was a meeting that was called and organized by the chair of the select board Rob Sher where we're going to update on MBTA communities and and uh we talked a little bit about MBTA communities a little bit earlier in the meeting but that process is going well um we got a GIS license Alvaro has been doing all the G the mapping work we've been using the state compliance we''ve been using the um uh all the layers and everything that's been kind of put together so uh Al and I are are have a strong knowledge in GIS and I think we're using it to our advantage all right any questions about any of that all right then we're down to the meeting minutes September 14th um we did have a few things um I can just name them I can give this to Peter but um under the associate member position um line 70 it says associate members kind of telling the requirements for associate members associate members must attend all meetings I I think it should be should you know um um and then and will vote on special permit applications when a full member it says has recused them eles but it's really is unable to do so because it could be because of an illness or something like that yep um and then can um do you have anything uh L line 135 can we can we make it including condo associations condo Associates sounds like the mob Association yeah Association right yes Y and then I don't know if it's worth it but it's like The Sopranos I had a the condo Associates I was trying to um why not be worth it in in the conversation we had with Mr Morgan Revol of involving the scenic roads I mean it's a pretty good summary I just wanted to I wanted to somehow acknowledg in there that the scenic roads is still under the jurisdiction of the planning board and it is not a part of the sustainability committee um so I'm not I'm not sure what the line is it's just in that 137 to 141 and I couldn't figure out how to say it how about is it um um I I thought about just changing the end of your line Miss Tes tesinsky said that the committee attended a recent planning board meeting to discuss their tree bylaw how about a proposed tree bylaw a prop it's not really right a proposed tree bylaw that's fine and the second half of that could be Scenic roads remain under the jurisdiction of planning board or just something like that to can can we just put like an editor's note because I don't think we said that clearly at the meeting did we we didn't say it that clearly but we certainly said it in many ways um so well I know but it's I know we'd have to watch the either the tape or put like editors yeah I did watch the tape but I still couldn't so so so that's fine if we want to put it as an editor not so I I I agreed I just wanted to be clear that we in no way acknowledge that we gave that responsibility to this so sustainability committee like I can just put those parentheses yeah okay like planning board edit yeah planning board edit no then finish this yeah I think that that's that's fine statue yeah that' be fine close pry and my note on uh the net Z1 I don't think it was in this context it was in context of the tree byw okay out the tree plan it was not in context of Scenic conversation I don't remember this part in relation can I just write in relation to when we were discussing with the sustainability committee that's when I brought that up so this was not in this context I think actually you did mention it not in this in the scen grow context I did mention it in the sustainability when you're talking about tree byog that's when we talked about it but I don't remember mentioning it you just take it out yeah you take it out yeah take it out easy easy if I did I must have had jetl because that's not the context I say editors not delete um line 172 where money has been give I think where money has been given yes where money has been given I think it's supposed to be where money has been given but there is no conservation restriction I'm not sure how that yeah where money has been given but there is no conservation restriction that works um and then 174 line just typos yeah a lot of tacos on that oh yeah originally I got it but I also added on 173 so no conservation restriction period um these and then I put these are properties that have been purchased and are being used for different purposes period okay so yeah that got really um kind of confusing there yeah I would say something like that yeah sha whoever is preparing these notes whoever is preparing these notes must be really scared of you because just you have salutations and nobody else oh wait what like you have like Miss Kendall M and then Lisa me doesn't have Miss in front of her name and really margin other lines so salutations are like all over Place yeah no actually and I did not I did not see these like in advance but you know typically put that everybody yeah just let's we first name well no last um Mr like the first time they mentioned it's just usually first name last name but usually we go Miss Kendall or Mr machek or you know whatever um yeah and that might have been I think that was the end for me um spell check on my name on the present one you said one oh yeah yeah I got you and is is the abbreviation for attorney at is that right okay don't remember I was Addie who's Addie there is that Mark too isn't there a Mark I don't know or Esq oh yeah okay guess usually we just spell it out so I okay I didn't have anything else though NOP that's it any other changes before I make a motion I'll make a motion to accept the September 14th 2023 minutes with the edits discussed second and a roll call vote Anna tuski I oh you weren't there cther j a guy and trishia kendi so I guess that's four yeah it's was like Marcelo it is your turn that's right if you don't hear that I don't do all right so meeting minutes are approved um anything else that anyone wants to add at the very end of our agenda I think we're good all right motion to adjourn I'll make a motion to adjourn at 9:35 look at that it's a record is there a second though I'll second it and a roll call vote vo and tki I Mar I Katherine Jers I Trisha Kendall I oh and I all right thanks Amanda for joining us thank you by everyone

[Music] good evening ladies and gentlemen we are here at East Long Meadow stadium for a matchup tonight of the East Long Meadow Spartans versus cross town rival minog for a western Mass playoff game looking forward to a great match this is the biggest crowd that we have had all year long you can see across the way they bust in from minog and wilam and hamen supporting their team across the way on this side the stadium is packed the student section is full they were screaming the national anthem as it was being played lot of excitement here tonight looking forward to a great matchup this will be the third matchup of the Spartans versus minog minog has the ball they will get it first 40 minute halves and we are going to to start the western Mass playoff season right [Applause] now minog kind of bombed it down there it kind of chased it down ball kind of does head out of bounds it's going to be East Long medow throw you'll all have to bear with me a little bit tonight I don't have my roster sitting in front of me and I'm not as familiar with the boys team as I am with the girls team but perhaps I'll be able to find my way to a Rost as we get going here minog with a throw in awesome I do have a roster it's given my eyes it's a little bit in small print but I'm sure I'll get used to it a little Collision there kicked out of bounds by an East law meow player but it goes off The Shins of a minog player out of bounds throw in right there by smear comes back it's getting settled down good Chase right there oh that was almost going to get sent through there for presno oh that looked like a little flying w w f shot right there got his head on it but got up ended on the ground almost a flip game is already starting out to be a little bit aggressive I would expect nothing less these two teams there's no love loss between minog and East Long Meadow two cross town Rivals for East Long Meadow minog and L Meadow always tend to be aggressive hardfought battled games big kick right here it gets lofted in and here it comes over the top it's right there it's in front didn't see it opportunity was right there though for the Spartans it's chased down out of bounds everyone's calling for it referee calls for a goal kick looked like a good call Good Start there for East Long Meadow a big booming kick by the Mina goalie players try to go up and get it they do going to get a hold here kind of an interesting call there by the rft it looked like minog had the advantage but the ref calls the penalty they're going to get a free kick at about the 45 yd line line Looks like number 15 Matthew O'Keefe is or 16 it's sorry 16 it's going to be Bryce Barlo who sends it in low and this one comes out here it's sent over prels got it sends it all the way over down the right hand side as number three is making his way up they send it up number three has it turns it to the middle gets it over to prel prel kind of lets that one go through eastom medal maintaining possession good opportunity there settles it one more time Good Hop step another back kick right there good move out of bounds off of minog East Long Meadow is going to get a throw in down in the offensive end going to be a big throw in here isam's got at least one player can throw it quite far this is going to be almost like a corner kick it goes so far in it but it goes directly to the goalie who has it sends it out and they're going to try to take advantage here with a go three on three and they do getting chased oh and it just goes wide what a great play by the minog player to run that one down good play by the goalie to get that one out quick minog saw it was going to be a three on three they bombed it down there and the minich player outmuscled East Long Meadow and just kicked that thing wide of the post it's going to be a corner kick here for minog but the best opportunity of the game so far with only five minutes gone goes to minog coach sarafino on the sidelines calling in some instructions here on the defense of this corner kick that's not a good one and that's taken right away here it's moved up but tough pass there a little miscommunication from East Long Meadow as they tried to transition quickly into offense just like minog did but they weren't able to do it a little miscommunication in the Midfield but minog harmlessly kicks it over the end line it's going to be a goal kick for East Long Meadow comes right down the middle oh number three kind of got beat to that one right there Zach Zack Richard gets sent down to the middle turns it back gets on his left foot still moving still grooving still shaking oh and an uncovered minog player right there in the middle just got that one off the side of his foot and got it just a little bit wide to the goal but another really good opportunity there for minog big kick right there goes off the head of a Spartan another 5050 ball and harmlessly kicked with the left foot out of bounds going to be a minog throw and as they tried to get that one up there to the attacker Here Comes again another good ball sent in there it's on one bounce um just kind of punched that one out was very close to the 18 there very close to going over the line and here we come again it's going to be another fight oh really good shielding there by paty shielding off the minog attacker as gska the goalie came out to make a save there the fans yell boom here it comes again another opportunity for the fans to yell boom and they do not gonna lie I do think the fan booming actually adds about five yards to gsa's kick this one gets sent wide a little trap and one step kick sent back it's played through this is going to be fired on oh blocked right away oh here comes paty though just slide tackles him and down he goes and then stares him down as he walks past him good aggressive play there by the sweeper paty dii slides in gets all ball Tri up the play he goes tumbling like some tumble weed on the side of the road on a fall day and then stares him down as he walks [Music] by good here Here Comes prel running Full Speed Ahead gonna try to put some pressure on the ball still running Full Speed Ahead kicks it over prel taking it down the sidelines leaves it this one's going to get centered here right into the middle here it comes it's going to be a wide one he tried to get it over the top fire it all right good play being chased down here by Walsh can he save it no flag gets in the way and quite frankly if you run too fast past that flag and you end up running with cleats onto that track you're going to go head over heel so he had to slow down a little bit actually as he got towards the sidelines but you got to love the effort in to try to keep that one in play I believe that was Walsh goal kick here little head- onhe head Collision this one sent here Here Comes number seven Tyler Wren had it he's getting in front of it now they bring it down still kind of like a little bicycle kick there it's up in the air yeah that's going to be a penalty kind of undercut him from behind there right about at the 50 yard line might have looked a little innocent on the video but you could see they didn't you know you're supposed to jump up straight you can't jump into somebody and you certainly can't use your arms and then there I think it was a bit of an undercut so Mina going to get an opportunity here it's kind of blasted in there it's a good spot it gets headed over and it's saved over on the sidelines by gska we're going to wait for the boom call which is about to happen by the East Long Meadow Spartans chorus they they were a little late on their boom call Walsh had that one there not really a good settle there good play by D pascol he's going to send it he does and here comes prel they're all up in arm arms here he has it cuts it back that's a goal oh Nelly I cannot believe that one he's going to have nightmares at the end of the night on that one that that did not go in people are pushing people are shoving goalie's coming over talk to the referee not happy right now this game is physical as we speak paty dicy was up there he had an opportunity I'm not sure if it was him or whether that was Zack Richard but you're not going to get a better look than that folks and he just didn't put it in the back of the net that will be regrettable in the end if something doesn't go East Long Meadow's way when the 80 minutes has ticked off the clock yeah refs are going to probably rightfully with only 12 minutes gone in this game it's been very physical the refs are going to have to get control of this early on or it's just going to continue to get more and more physical it's sent in there good one Islam medal got first another kind of harmless head ball out of bounds it's going to be an eam meal goal kick East Long Meadow making some substitutions Jackson wrin GNA take a little break over here on the sidelines get some water we got a really warm evening here say for the last couple of weeks most of the games have been you know in the cold for lack of a better way of putting it it's been cold each night people been wearing hats and coats mittens and long sleeves tonight people out here in shorts and maybe one long shirt it's been a oh that's a tough one there he kind of missed it this one's going to get sent all the way down it's a good one there to Walsh oh that's a head Collision sends it in down here to this one's crossed over it goes over the top Yeah you got to get good try there good try there tried to really put that one on the goal Andrew Andrew olar with the left foot goal kick here for [Music] minog oh my God [Applause] [Music] lot of pushing [Music] here through ball right here it looks like this one's going to harmlessly make its way down to the goalie good shielding play there by oliv to Shield off the defend the attacker from minog this one skyed up nice and high it's going to get settled [Music] in little kick and run style here pasy D goes up and gets it first to it smear Khan with throw in now it's kind of an interesting call there you seeing the minog player number 35 complaining about it but could have been a little something after the original hit [Music] pass played out wide SL meow has it there played back need a slide there presel had a go all the way back to get that one it's played through good ball here they're moving that one's just kind of carried over good defense there good offense as well they were trying some things seeing some subs come in here Freon Meadow four players going in I think you'll see I don't know what they usually do but on a night like tonight you're going to want to have some subs coming in and out of this game it's very warm plus you the added adrenaline from it being a western Mass playoff game players will get tired if you don't sub them kind of in and out make them all go get their water their electrolytes their energy it's important thing to do and I think that's coaching experience by coach sarapo there to do that you just can't because it's a playoff game I don't think it's a good idea just leave your starters in the whole game and say I'm going with my guys you really have to play the long game here um you know it's 80 minutes of soccer on a warm night adrenaline's up I'm sure all the players are ready to play and excited good play here prels got it plays it back switching Fields oh little bit late on that pass there now you got to have There He Go he's gonna little big Collision there one by East Long Meadow good strong aggressive play that's a big booming Punt and that is a WWF right there Tak down a little suplex move and yep hands on the back that's going to get called when you put the two hands out ref see that every time very rarely do they miss the two-hand touch sarapo calling out numbers again some type of play this one's lofted in looks like East Long Meadow is in good position there for that going to get switch switch the fields up here settled in not sure why that one is coming this way but it did there we go now it's lofted [Music] over oh that's a really good ball if he can keep it really good there out of bounds off of minog really good pass down there into that open space to allow number 17 for East L Meadow to run down there and get that it gets thrown back here this one should get lofted in and it does a good spinner and is oh I'm not sure how he actually missed that one right there what a great cross he was the only player going for it and he misses it off the skinny top of his hair instead of his forhead that one would have been placed right into the back of the net to give eastom Meadow the lead another tremendous opportunity right there didn't happen that was Shay McCarthy running in there on a great move to get through a little Weeble wobble [Music] there good play there by paty to just kind of get that one out of bounds let eastom Meadow set back up there was a little communication back there a little bit ago with the between the goalie and the defense and that almost led to a a good eam oh [Applause] Nelly good pass here one more he wants it oh he just didn't get it one more well some of the fans are getting overly excited for sure we're hearing things down below we haven't heard all year and that's just the intensity of this game as a parent as well this one's [Music] crossed I mean that is a absolute bomb of a kick I mean that's a getting it all the way down to the 40 yd line oh here we go it's played through oh tough pass there just didn't get it for number three was looking for it Zack Richard he goes after this one though plays it through continues out that's a high foot and that gets called for sure Zack Richard puts it down sends it through it goes out wide not sure who has it there but prel is going to play it he's got it he's going to have two three people on him plays it back to Zack Richard Richard over here to number 11 number 11 has he's going to play it out to number 17 or at least he should he does actually gets it to prel prell's taking it oh and prno went for the high right short side shot and just missed it by about two or three yards into the back of the net side of the net lot of power on that one a little more accuracy and that one is another one that would have rung the bell and given East Long Meadow the lead the fans are waiting for a goal and this place will absolutely erupt if eam medow scores first the fans are down on that end of the field the students are down on that end of the field and every time it gets down there they get up on their feet and they are ready oh halfway through the little more than halfway through the first half 19 minutes remaining in the first half and each team has had multiple opportunities I'd say for the most part so far East Long Meadow has dominated the last 10 minutes or so and has had the better of the opportunities we'll see if they can keep this up as the uh as this half continues now when they're a little bit too hard of a touch it goes right to the goalie they it's clear minog likes to get this thing out and they want to get right into their transition game [Applause] we are getting the you can't do that chant we've heard that before at some of the away away games oh that's a good one there same thing oh just goes over off knee first one gets kicked out of bounds that one heads into the side fence it's going to be a Thro in we'll see if uh we get a similar type of Thro in here by East Long Meadow if they attempt to do the same thing they did before which with the uh with the big throwin they don't they go with the right on the ground gets this is a good one good opportunity here sends it [Music] in oh I'm GNA say if you see that one again folks that's going to be a yellow card number 11 clearly had the advantage there and it just got completely tripped from behind normally that's an auto yellow card I'm very surprised that was right in front of the referee I'm very surprised that's not the first yellow card of the game this one gets sent well wide goes minog does get it [Applause] first and the you can't do that chant comes out again as Shay McCarthy was doing some shielding with that ball and number eight for minog just came over and mowed him down referee called it right away that was right in front of him Coach sarafino calling out the play here presno is gonna take it we're going to see what happens here he swings it in oh just over the top very disappointing for East Long Meadow there that was an opportunity they were were only in about the 15 ydd line prel got some good swing on that ball but it just went too far over everybody's head nobody was at the back post opportunity lost out of bounds off East Long Meadow going to be a minog throw in as they kind of bomb it down there oh [Music] yeah here we go [Applause] [Music] fans are in an uproar right now they wanted a penalty and a penalty shot they are getting the referee is absolutely getting tortured right now by the East Long Meadow students section there's no chance that he can have noise cancelling headphones on and not be hearing what's going on down there that he is is all the the fans are all over him couple more subs is number three Zack Richard makes his way back in along with Jack Walsh number 10 Joe prel gets a break after 25 minutes of strong play needs to put some water in his body although I don't see him doing that he's just kind of leaning over on the sidelines at least not yet this one gets sent out kind of a sloppy touch there by minog another penalty this time on East Long Meadow going to be at the 30 yd line we'll see what happens here this is a this is kind of an interesting spot here where you could actually take a shot if you've got a good shot Taker and that is not what he does he kind of flips it in and it's headed out headed in and now kicked out kicked sideways it's kind of always a tough spot for those of you watching at home it's a very tough shot when it's at about that 30 25 30 yard line and it's directly in front of the goal there's no real kind of angle for somebody to put it in there for somebody else on your team to do something with and here we are again it's kind of in that very similar spot it's going to be at the 35 yd line somewhere in the middle of the field coach sarafino screaming out the one of his favorite lines which is hold your line you hear that a lot from him as the game goes on and there it is a header over the top it's going to be hard to get one over gsa's head I mean he can certainly he can reach up and get it get his hands on the crossbar of the soccer goal let alone I mean the uh football goal let alone the soccer goal this one sent up good play there by paty able to get his foot on it and get it out of bounds so eam meow can reset up its offense although they're not C this is a this is a little bit of a trouble area here they didn't have enough players over on this side to cover all the minog players that looked almost a little bit like a handball but it wasn't very [Music] physical it's a lot of grabbing and holding over there too they were really prel had a little bit of an advantage but you saw a little Jersey pulling over there really slowed him down then he tried to pass it he's got it here not giving this one up anytime soon but he does this one gets swung back back to prel he kind of does a nice move there he's got it on his left [Applause] foot fans are screaming a little bit there on the kick to the goalie it was kind of bobbled it nobody from East laeta was there good play there there was some definitely some hand pushing going on out there right now oh send it through send it through take it that was some great footwork there great playing there by number [Music] oh a really good ball there down the corner well defended by Isam meow kicks it out of bounds it's going to be a minog throw in nine minutes remaining 45 seconds in the first half big throw in right there minog has it here now East Long Meadow gaining possession as they try to get it up the field another sloppy play by East Long [Music] Meo put it in a little bit out of bounds it looks like not sure that's going to be a minog throw in actually going to be a corner kick a really good opportunity here for minog oh look at this I haven't seen this all year we got to get the corner kick but here comes a Spartan this is awesome balls played across kind of boted around boted around again it gets kicked to the sidelines it's being chased by East Long Meadow and minog and the flag holder is the eam meadow Spartan is running all around the field here with the E flag he is making his way around the track and the Spartan have a new team mascot folks this is oh and waving it in front of the face of the fans of minog absolutely spectacular this is a sight what passion coming out here tonight moms are yelling get the ball down get the ball down they want some eastl meow action and there the ball is down sent out wide Isam Meto has it playing it through the middle oh and out of bounds it goes East Long Meadow kicked out of bounds it's going to be a goal kick for minog it look oh it's going to be a penalty here on East Long Meadow they're going to get a little more distance on this kick and Bigfoot goalie is about to give it a ride and joining me in the booth coming off of Joe prel has it Megan morno has joined us in the booth oh presnel tried to cut that one back it does go off of minog and out of bounds for a eastl meow throw and Megan welcome I'm here all right I love it I'm back oh he played that very quickly quick [Music] Corner little needed a little more height out there and oh look who else is joining us in the booth your other co- announcer Talia Weiss is here Talia you're gonna take over for me from the second half you and Megan will call the play oh oh that was a nice pass oh a good touch right there KH got [Music] it looks like Luca chabeli is back from his concussion oh minog is on a roll Shane Smith brings that to a stop Min TR here we got four on two this is not good a save by gka amazing save a great outbreak there by minog all the way down the sidelines got a great cross it was four on two a header that was going right into the lower left shelf and GSA Dives over and makes the save to keep the Spartans in the game my God there's a little bug in the booth you you swalled at me well that happens corner kick here for Islam Meadow I mean for minog o g got that could have been a tricky one a little deflector there could have gone in any direction but G makes another great save I will say Megan you know what you can see out here right now a lot of bugs on the field and in the booth East Long Meadow I'm not going to lie it looks to me like they came out so hot and with so much energy as I sort of predicted it does that's a little too far it does look like East Long Meadow is getting a little tired in the Midfield you saw that outbreak there four on Two And I'm just hoping they didn't use up too much energy too early on in this game that is true but I know you're just getting to the booth coming off of an amazing girls victory in after double overtime and penalty kicks that went to the seventh penalty kick great victory for the girls team tonight yeah that was a good that was a good win we fought hard yeah was really really well play W Big W for the team I know so I know you're just getting here and I don't know if you watched it all in the first half if you were watching on elcat but um really East Long Meadow has had some tremendous just great opportunities to put in the net probably they probably should have scored at least twice for sure two really really good opportunities that they didn't put in the net minog probably should have scored one so if you're asking me the score should be 2-1 right now but it's not it's it's z00 on the board [Music] I'm not you see the coach down there with two hands he's like what did you do that for it was going out of bounds you would have got another throw in but instead ball gets turned over to East Long Meadow Megan do you know how they fared uh throughout the year vog versus esao um they lost once I believe and then they won the other one and they lost the one that was away but they won the home game so I believe at least Deep D deep good hustle here fired in uh oh oh God oh my goodness gracious just another tremendous opportunity for minog and he shoots It Wide hands on his head he cannot believe it I will say the Spartans Megan they're just looking a little bit tired here as we come to the end of the first half they're looking gas they're not going to the ball minog being first and they're kind of back on their heels they really need to energize themselves here at halftime smar had a great header there almost over at the defense big throw in here KH throws it but no no one really gets there oh boy yeah I mean you're seeing this getting just a little bit sloppy too yeah it is getting sloppy on got it yeah you can hear moms down there yelling you gotta want it you gotta want it you can tell I mean even they you can just by being up here the even parents you can kind of tell what's going on that they're not pretty hard gonna get an opportunity here with one minute and 15 seconds remaining East Meadow is gonna get probably what look to be like the last opportunity of the first half one minute remaining here got a kind of a tough angle see if he can get a little swing on this ball and he does get a little it's a good ball there headed out of bounds it's going to be a goal kick with about 45 seconds another they're calling a corner calling a corner kick corner it wouldn't I think coach sarapo may want to consider calling a timeout right now he doesn't call the timeout but this gets SW God that was a great ball oh my God it's still on the heads gets headed get that I mean that was another great opportunity if someone just got in front of the ball good play there he needs to shoot he can't shoot from there Megan oh he's off sides anyway oh it's still in yeah he was off sides though even even uh calling he did call A Time out here he did get sarapo did call the timeout here so that they're they are going to get one more opportunity saw prel there looking at the referee trying to get a holding call on him but a lot of good opportunities by both teams very evenly played first half G to call a putting seven what seven looks like he called seven or eight seconds I couldn't tell scoreboard is going to get adjusted by our scoreboard operator mark macarini always does a great job with the scoreboard e making sure it's always rule compliant running accurately no Shenanigans eight seconds eight seconds on the clock we'll see what play sarino has put together for his team to try to put one in the back of the net here where is it discussion up here in the booth when do you start the clock if you're the home team you don't start it until it's probably already in the goal but I think Mr macarini is probably going to be on the up and up here and he will start it just after the kick so it's a kick is in the far corner from where we are it's a little bit hard to see we're blocked a little bit from the actual kick not a lot but we are blocked a little bit so well this is definitely see how this goes here some players kind of zooming in 8 seconds remaining this is definitely going to be the last shot and the clock goes off here goes up it goes down it's being saved it's punted out and that will end it for folks with a z00 tie and we'll be back for the second half in 5 to 10 minutes okay and we're back for the second half of the boys game I I can't hear anything we got the E flag going school spirit is high tonight we have so many guys standing in the front row with red on their bodies and on their heads and we've got an e flag running across the turf looks like ch's got a lot of fans too oh got Diane waving her water bottle go Dian there we go the L flag and we've got it oh that's a great through by through Ball by Shane Smith not sure who has it on that side but oh oh he tried to cross it in front of the goal couldn't quite get a good touch on it just since he was so close to the end line it was looks like it was deflected it's goingon to be a corner yep let's see if we can capitalize on it the kicks have been really well we just haven't been able to put them home yet looks like prel is taking it still got a lot of Defense back which is kind of surprising looks like they're trying to use the defensive approach a good battle for the ball and then kind of just kicked it away looks like that's a foul I think oh no it's a goal kick all right that that was [Music] interesting some tension between both players looks like Walsh has got it oh almost got it through the defense that would have been a great ball straight to Tyler rin's feet oh we missed the header py recovered Shay threw the ball outside cutting back in the middle oh that was a very risky pass by Evans oh Oliver's got it oh great Tackle by Oliver good defense it's gonna be a corner kick for chog looks like they're taking their time no rush it's going to be a corner for chog this will be a good opportunity for them looks like the original play was the short pass but we covered that looks like another corner kick on the opposite side this tends to be the side that righties like more because they can curve it in so they got a pretty good opportunity off their last corner kick from the left hand side so let's hope they can read that this time uhoh it was a great kick it's going to be eel's Ball paty's g going to take it he's had a lot of great kicks all season so they should get down the field and give yell an opportunity great ball from paty reten tries to get a head on it but a little too short Walsh's got it puts it in the air minog is just taking advantage of their height and beating up on Wren good ball oh prels got it PR's got it feet in the corner tries to get around the chog a great fake shot oh he should have shot that with his left foot seems as if he was trying to cut it back to the right for a better technique on the shot a good opportunity for yel though as we should try and keep it down in our offensive [Music] end o Shan McCarthy got a little aggressive there almost jumped over hog player Andrew Al chasing down the ball great pressure on that Walsh coming back through ball from chog this is dangerous good great deflection great deflection from smeir Khan samir's got it he's going up vog is chasing them down oh oh oh my goodness Kai almost a front flip over the minog player and they give the ball to [Music] chog that is definitely a controversial call fans are not happy about that oh misses the header oh boy great deflection from I think Tyler Ren yep it's gonna be a chog throw in olivery gets ahead on it tries to slip it past him ch's gonna take their time on the throwin see what opportunities arise oh a great throwin paty gets it out presel is chasing that ball down oh he wants it trying to get a settle on it minog tries to trip oh my God a great slide tackle [Music] oh great pass from prestle straight to the middle Shay McCarthy takes his time to get the technique on it passes it right in the back of the net right past the goalie Ben Wilson fans are excited about this one this could send them to the western Mass semifinals from now on they're going to probably play defensive game trying not to let vog [Music] score I mean that was just that was great patience prel got the ball slide tackled it back great assist and Shane McCarthy just took his time to make sure that was going in the back of the net was a great play draw the goalie out and then get a better shot East go by number 24 Shay McCarthy number a little back pass that was pretty risky since there were two chog players there oh gara's got it Gara got it that was a risky play we are definitely a little excited probably got to settle back into the game get our heads back where they need to be chog is going to be hunting this goal down they're only up by one they could definitely come back and I know they want it good kick by Nolan to the 50 oh my a great Touch by Shan McCarthy good head by Amazing by paty oh prel almost got a foot on [Music] it oh God okay so oh they definitely took advantage of that opportunity I mean we were just a little late to get back we could we couldn't catch him chog wanted that goal they were coming for Redemption right after the Spartans just got their first goal of the night still a tied game 33 minutes left plenty of time it's a it's a toss up for either team I mean that that just shows how quickly a goal can be scored though like that was an immediate reaction and honestly the turnover might have left lasted about 7 Seconds got right to the chog offense and they just took advantage of that they wanted that [Music] goal goal by Matthew o'keef on chog it was a great shot right past our goalie looks like both teams are honestly fired up right now oh CH almost tries to jump wret in oh gives him a little punch in the shoulder good self-control by wret not to punch him back oh a missed headball by both chog Andel good defense I mean McCarthy's technique it's just it's incredible this game he is getting the ball down and he is playing defeat yeah he's played a huge role in tonight's game so far hopefully he can try and put another one home or even an assist in the next 32 minutes East Long meow is going to play the ball quick a good ball great ball over to little far little straight diagonal would have been perfect would have got prel right in the back oh God good play good defense by paty right into Nolan's hands Cho got right past their back line that was definitely risky if Nolan did not come out there would have definitely predicted a goal gara's got it he's taking his time trying to slow the game down 2 we0 players on the sidelines over here warming up probably going to sub in sometime soon keep our players fresh oh PR's got it a one V one oh my god oh it was a great opportunity the shot should have been a little bit more to the corner but it was the right idea looks like prel just cut that back in and Zach almost just took it and then we could have had definitely a little better technique on the shot but it was it was close I mean that was another great opportunity he's pushing and grabbing the Jersey that's a good call from the refs good defense by Samir it's like the E people are chanting the student section is packed tonight so much school spirit we love to see it so like garc is goingon to get this one taking his time to slow down the game it's emotions are high right now it's a really good play by him to take his time get everyone to breathe there settle down it's going to be a throw in for CH around the 40 yard line plays it back to the back line it's a good ball up ball paty is with a great header [Music] oh oh that could have been a hand ball oh oh CH almost got that a little lower and that was going in I mean we just we just cannot be diving in as much as we are right [Music] now so like paty is going to be taking the goal kick a great touch from reten out to Walsh on the outside just misses it with his back foot just needs a little bit more communication oh gar got it that was close there were two chog players hunting that ball down garco with a punt out to who I believe is little reted ch got a head on it so it's going to be e ball the two subs are coming in Jack Walsh is coming out and little [Music] wren great touch across reten couldn't quite get to that it was a little hard good play by Samir aggressive but came out on the right side of that oh head heading battle oh prest's got it right over the top if someone would have just went diagonal that would have been a great opportunity oh metog just almost sandwiched Tyler Wren As It Seems Shane's got controlled kind of hits it out just to ensure that the defense is able to set up and prevent the shot a great throw in by chog right idea down the middle but there was just no one there good pick by Shane Smith like Hog's back line going to make sure that goes out Zach's got it at his feet a great diagonal ball to Walsh no Joe Mogan looks like CH goalie got it we are definitely pressing pretty hard almost a little too high that was a close one I will say it definitely looks like our energy is decreasing by the moment we seem a little Gap and chog is definitely taking advantage of that yeah right now I'd say chog just looks like they want it more and we got to really keep up the energy so we can get back in this little miscommunication so Andrew gets it Andrew Al very good pass Zack Richards got got it and he loses it Oliver is playing a very aggressive game tonight it's pretty impressive but is also a little dangerous if he does overplay [Music] paty do scoly to Zach Zack turns the chog defender shingar falls out goes straight back to the chog defense a great out ball from Andrew oliv I mean that that was pretty impressive he almost bicycled it it's going to be s meadows ball throw in from about the 40 Subs coming in Walsh is going in for oliv somebody for Samir can't really tell who looks like Chase Evans is going in that's who it is looks like philli Chex went on a bit of a run for that ball I mean it really looks like e long Meadow's energy is really dropping rapidly ch's keeping it up and E long meows just got to pull it back together and get one more and then they can play the defensive game but it is a tie game it's going to be East Meadows ball looks like it was a push to the back paty is going to be taking it I'm predicting it's going to go diagonally to the back post which they're going to stack up on that side [Music] a great ball from paty McCarthy hunting it down oh out on CH it's going to be an e throw in presel is going to be taking it no he's not Richard is going to be taking it it's from about the five yard line let's see if he can place it right in the middle get aead on it looks like him and presel are going to be doing some Twan game a great ball to the back post a little far could have gone more a little bit to the middle probably would have set yell up for a great opportunity get ah header 23 minutes left in the game hopefully enough time for teams to score again maybe send them into an overtime [Music] a great ball from richards's going to run on to it and he get it he gets it CH Defender got real pushy but presno pushed through put it right past their goalie that was an incredible shot wow straight to the right corner making it two to one Spartans on top the e Crowd Goes Crazy with the chance they are so excited yeah unassisted although it was a great ball leading up to it but presno really put that one home I mean Zach Richard's head ball straight to over the back line of chog almost give prz a great opportunity to score I mean he took advantage of that let's hope we can hold them because we saw last time how chog really wanted that goal even after we scored so Shane gets that ball out Shane Smith out straight to the middle that is very risky that is very risky folks Joe Mogan gets that out almost PR's feet chog has it intercepts McCarthy straight to PR's feet passes off to I believe Luca gives Joe Mulan a great opportunity on the left side he cuts it in into the middle Char Defender intercepts not quite to another eung metal player but it was a great [Music] opportunity they're looking to reset this [Music] Jack Walsh tribbling up the left hand side gets gets past the chog defender a great cross in chog SCH is got it he is looking for that quick ball catch East Long meow Defenders off guard paty boots it up the field back to the CH goalie 2 people we didn't seem to get a touch on it gara's got it good shielding from paty [Music] deie it's going to be a punt by Gara hopefully gets it into the offensive end Richard gets a head on it charie kind of just kicks it up a little backspin Richard threw his hands up but didn't seem like much happened there Chase Evans is shielding that ball oh boy py kind of just boots it straight up that was interesting McCarthy's got it fakes out the trog Defender straight to Walsh's feet he's got it up the sidelines chog Defender Shields that out Walsh did not seem too happy about that call I don't know if I seem too happy about that call back to tr great ball good give goes by chog good defense keeg gets it out prels got it going up the sidelines passes it out looks like Phillips got it it's going to be a call for East Long meow again straight from the place it was last time actually almost in the exact spot looks like paty is going to be taking the kick again beautiful great ball from py Pretzel's got it almost heads it in it's hard with it's hard to get those upper shots with these tall goalies I mean the the men in goal are just so much taller in high school the high shots are hard it's almost straight to their hands every time [Music] ch's gonna get a kick at the 40 it was a great kick headed out by head out PR's got it one Defender coming on his back chug is recovering as he goes pass to out Zack Richards Zach gets his Zach gets the foot on it a little too far back chog only gets up by his back foot kind of killed prell's momentum couldn't really get a toe on it good give go great giv go oh CH kind of couldn't stop his feet there ran into him well set sets a pick and Evans just bow straight into him wasn't on purpose it's okay yeah sometimes you can't stop your feet when you're running fast it's all right a great header from Shay McCarthy gets it up field allows the defense to push up a little bit Phillip is chasing that down C gets an over the top ball Shane heads it out a great header Walsh she still got it in in oh ref just calls that that's an niffy call I would not call that Wren is going back in so is Joe molan taking out McCarthy and pH yes I think it's pH Up 18 it is not okay sorry about that folks we meant Ryan Ryan Ryan Kola Cara punts it almost a perfect ball great touch if we just went to that a little bit that almost would have been a great opportunity for a give and go py gets it up field looks like it goes out who's back on that side is that uh little Rin back on that side I think it's Chase Evans no chase is in the back on the wing oh um yeah okay well Shields it gets oh great pass great pass oh Bad Touch got to get it out of there that is the danger zone you do not want to be in Chase with a great header trying to double team I mean that that kid from chog is pretty fast TR kicks it out it's going to be a e throw in it's like Keegan is going to be taking the throw in it's not mhm yeah it is yeah it is good ball Walsh with a great touch Richard is yelling at Walsh to leave it trying to slow down the game a little bit cuz we are up by one with 15 minutes on the clock Keegan's going to take the throw in it's the right idea the CH Defender just right in front of prol good passing give and go oh that'll be East Long Meadow ball at about the 30 for a throw in hopefully we can get another goal and really pull [Music] ahead it's okay Richards has it a great ball inside oh looks like Wallace was a little off sides even though he wasn't really near the ball that was pretty obvious oh that was an interesting kick did you see that his other leg almost hit his head yeah it was interesting but it got the job done it did good defense oh ma ma hi Ma CHS doing some subbing probably hoping for FR yeah one of these players get the opportunity that they need I mean this is this is really anyone's game a goal can be scored as we've seen pral hunting down the pretty quickly keeps it in bounds has a 2v one with the CH team get tripped almost chug gets that up looks like Evans is backing off with just kind of an interesting play Shane gets gets that ball out out to the outside the little reten back over on the left hand side Evans is chasing that down and he gets it Shields it out great play by [Music] Evans Pat's going to be taking the kick Richard's trying to get through those two Defenders Shane Smith has got it at his feet over the top trying to get to prel chog interferes oh jeez a great head ball that was a great head ball almost the back of his head actually oh Tyler out to Walsh Walsh gets it to be East Long Meadows throwing off the chog defender I mean Evans is walking they are really looking to run this clock I mean Keegan not Evans Keegan's gonna be taking this throw in I mean Luca seems to be wide open if you give him right on the 30 he could run right onto it I know I I actually think he should have stayed in that spot I mean Richards was telling him to go back but I think that that would have been a great play tries to get it to prno but the defender was right on his back open space might have been a better option I mean wren's wide open Wren is wide open if they can get that throw I mean he has literally no one on him and he is straight in the middle looks like they're trying to overplay prel a little bit because it seems like their offense or our offense excuse me has mostly gone through prestal the whole game so they are probably trying to Mark him as well as they can pretty far throw for CH oh on his back call by Keegan you do not want that that is dangerous I mean if they hit if they hit this good diagonal ball this is a real opportunity for trog I mean 10 minutes left two to one game they got to really want this goal East Long Meadow is packing it with Defenders putting everyone in oh great ball out presel tries to get a touchdown is back in the mixer oh Keegan heads that but it goes negatively so it is going to be a corner kick I mean at that point there didn't seem to be anyone maybe boxing out the defender would have got it to be red ball now we've given up a corner I mean it's not on the favorable side so hopefully that's in East Long Meadows favor but we'll see what happens oh oh boy head straight up oh chog flops trying to get that foul it is not going to be called the refs are not going to let that happen good play for chog 19 hit it right out of bounds gives chog a good time to get everybody back and set up he meow's gonna sub samir's going back in and Shan McCarthy for Zack Richard and Evans well it looks like like Oliver went in as [Music] well a good back pass oh not sure what the call very interesting call but this is even more dangerous I mean this is even closer to the goal by 10 yards almost that could be a matter of a goal or not we'll see if CH can capitalize on it or if he long metal Defenders are going to keep it out that is a fantastic kick noan Garcia has got it in his hands I mean that's what I'm saying though those High shots they don't really work on the men's teams because I mean these these guys are just so much taller in the woman's game it's a lot different because everyone is kind of shorter and reaching that crossbar is just not as likely prels hunting down this ball chugs goalie takes a kick doesn't seem like it went well preo's hunting down the ball goalie came out really far on that one oh that that was a bit of by paty get it out good head ball good head ball by Luca Luca shabel kind of right to the chog they get they get it out looks like chog I remember this from last game they are definitely playing the kick and Run game oh a little trip from chog prel still got it at his feet oh a great pass to Walsh inside Walsh just misses it out to Oliver Walsh just got it looking across o right to tr goalie East Long meow is definitely getting a little gas oh boy this this is not good oh god oh no oh oh my God that was an amazing save from garot oh God oh God that was really risky from paty I mean that was he stepped right over him this is 650 six minutes and 50 seconds left and py kind of just need him right in the head but anyways that was an amazing save from Gara he saved it once it goes back to the middle deflected off his knuckles and he just grabs that right off the chog def chog offender's foot good throw in by chog headed by eong Meadow right into Nolan's hands he's going to play it safe he's going to slow it down they've got six minutes left they need to hold on to this one goal lead he's going to run the clock it's a great Sports IQ I mean his punts are just they're just incredible they are so far Tyler richon tries to get it oh chug um I actually don't know what that was but trying to keep the ball and it didn't quite work out in his favor kind just death dropped there actually walls comes out with 5 minutes and 30 seconds to go not sure who went in not sure what that throw in was but it worked kind of all right oh a great cross a great Crossing it is up in the air in the eight straight to the chog Shane's got it just gonna kick it up make sure is not in R50 we do not want that for these last five minutes Shell's got it out to Mogan he's gonna give it back pass it back a great pass great connection through that triangle they want to keep the ball moving oh Samir had a great overlapping run if that if that went through that would have worked out in our favor for sure oh a great ball Oliver is oh that that is out if he just got a touch on that that was a great ball from the other it's going to be Oliver's ball there is 4 minutes and 33 seconds left and we are still up by one we definitely want to be playing the defensive game [Music] now started [Music] Oliver's got it shielding it out they're goingon to run the clock they got about four minutes left they got to keep this lead they're going to play the def's got it over the top straight to prel prel flicks it and he is on the run shoot it with the left oh he almost oh tries to cut it back gets it on his right foot his dominant foot he wanted that he almost had it [Music] looks like that's going to be gara's [Applause] ball great dramatic save he's gonna stay on the ground for a second or two run that clock down take his time punting this ball three minutes is plenty of time for either team to score so they got to make sure they're really playing the defensive game and keeping this [Music] lead out to little rutchen chog has got it going down the sidelines tries to Juke little rushing he does not let that happen back chog midfielder has it puts it into the mixer I mean they uh oh that's not good I think paty's kick just hit the kid on chog in the head he was going for the head ball didn't quite connect there connected with Pat foot instead that one's got to hurt yeah that's that's got to hurt great punt from Gara oh oh great job trying to save that I mean if CH wants it it's now or never they really got to push it they are definitely gonna play this kick and Run game now shabel knocks it out Oliver is g to try and intercept that he does gets it to Richards Richard misses it Oliver kicks it back up right into the chogs player Mogan has it going in the middle kean's got it Oliver gets Richard on the sidelines oh he does not save it he was almost there CH is rushing to get the ball in oh P whiffs um Mogan kind of just lost that but it's okay good head B by chog another good ball they're pushing it but eang meow's defense is all the time chog is not even pressing I mean they have 1 minute and 30 seconds left and they are not intensely pressing pressuring that ball that is crazy to me and this isn't just a regular season game this is the yeah this is Western tournament this is a maker break for their season they'll still have States but they're completely out my God a great head ball from I think little ret a great pass oh chug Defender got a foot on that shot and there goalie is going to push the ball get it to the 50 but eong meow's going to get a foot on [Music] it there a minute left CH kicks it up Samir is back pedaling trying to get control of this ball paty with a great diving header 45 seconds left in the game molan is playing that safe game 30 seconds left it's going to be Cho's ball they're going to be doing this as fast as they can oh deflected off of ch's head little miscommunication 20 seconds left the clock is stopped for a sub they should not have subbed there the clock would not have stopped not the best that was not not a good play not a good play but that's okay but there's 20 seconds [Music] left oh ch's gonna kick it up the field to eight seconds left and P's going to kick it out seconds left it looks like two [Music] one wins the western Mass quarterfinals and now we are off to semi-finals and I believe they're playing agam we will see you next time goodbye Megan and Toya signing off bye

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in Lancing and so um there there's a YouTube recording of that that I could share with people if they're interested but um this is important legislation it existed um here it was um uh first dra was first U propose proposed um in the around 1990 or earlier by uh by um Lanta Pollock who was a state senator at the time now she's on the board of lcv and uh but the whole the whole um the legislation was gutted by Governor angler back in 1994 so um it's not the same as the legislation before because you know um knowledge has has changed since then so it's a pretty good bill package and um they've done a good job it looks like there it's got bipartisan support and so you know the only U the only objection is going to come from the chemistry Council and the uh American chemistry Council and the Chamber of Commerce State's Chamber of Commerce so we're seeing what's how that's going to get through the legislature but um it's looking good so far and um people are urging everybody to contact their Senator their elected representatives in the state including the governor about what they think about this package that's it great thank you all right uh uh coint toas Planning Commission versus Council so there's really just two things I think going on one is that uh planning C Council Planning Commission excuse me will be talking next week about extending the tc1 zoning to Plymouth Road um and there's a public Outreach meeting there's been a public Outreach meeting for that one already um and there will there is upcoming a public Outreach meeting for the Washington count count Corridor um and the other thing is is that um we had another meeting with uh the folks who are redeveloping part of Brierwood and it is it is what we hope for in the sense that they are um you know taking a parking lot and turning it back into a green space with housing which is the reverse of joanny Mitchell so yay um and they're they are committed to an all El electric facility provided that DTE confirms that there is capacity and so I don't quite know how to interpret that because DTE hasn't been entirely Cooperative but I think the developer is is an advocate for electrification and so that's where we are and as far as that's all I can think of that is directly relevant to this group thank you that's exciting um all right Council would you like to take that council member acman I think I reported everything that was relevant to this group unless I missed anything council member dish okay all right um did I miss [Music] anything just the chair person's report oh the chairperson's report hello um um I have not a lot to report my my report was more on on related to the biodiversity and and the legislation um relating to pollinators um you have Sean thank you given us a great report on from staff um which includes our our new um environmental services manager coming up um there was something else I was going to say that's really it right um right any other questions or comments right now from anyone because I would move on to um announce our next scheduled meeting which is different um from our usual um pattern it will be um we got to get there Thursday November 30th after Thanksgiving and this is because of our schedule that often impinges on the holidays to avoid that so this will be our year-end meeting um our next one will be at the end toward the end of January so November 3rd 30th for um our next meeting um I'd like to move on now to the second public comment this is an opportunity for persons to speak for up to three minutes please call 888 788 099 and enter meeting ID 922 1644 City staff will select callers that have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number in order to electronically raise your hand please press star nine on your phone you'll hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak press star six to unmute your phone and when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute M any television or background sounds so that we may hear you clearly please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments thank you um Sean do you see any hands raised we do not have any right now okay I'll give a short pause and um just say to to you all thank you for um being here this meeting and thank you for all your dedication to environmental issues which are so important for all of us um and next any any additional hands John we do not have anyone calling in all right I would like to entertain a motion to adjourn anyone want to raise your hand for commissioner Brown thank you commissioner Curtis second um all in favor of adjourning thank you all great thank you I like working with you a lot thank you good night thank you thank you

is that the yeah unless you guys want to start at different time unless not unless we need to yeah I think at this time we'll leave it at 6 for some reason I thought we were starting earlier November 28th the regular board meetings at 7 p.m.

so we're able to move that back a little bit now because parent square is within five minutes all of those calls remain so it's a very nice feature we appreciate the board um approving that one this year parents Square any questions for Nikki that item wasn't informed so next we'll go down under the Project Lead the Way Grant yes I'm asking for approval for a grant for Project Lead the Way um Project Lead the Way is a gold standard in stem education this will allow us to um we will implement this in our stem labs in the elementary scho six um this is a grant that will allow us to train our staff and it also um pays for the participation fee for the first two years of a threeyear agree so we'll entertain a motion to accept that um Grant so moved okay a motion by Pat do I have a second second second by Travis any discussion yes Cheryl yeah Travis yes Amy yes Kelsea myself yes 7 um next on the agenda is again Project Lead the Way AEM lab C now I'm asking for approval of the curriculum um we would use eser funds to pay for the first two years which would start next semester and then a third year we'd use other grant funding to pay for it so entertain a motion to um approve the curriculum motion motion by Earl do I have a second second by Chelsea any discussion Earl yes Cheryl yeah gravis yes Amy yes Chelsea yes yes next we'll move down to the mckin vento grant approval yes we applied for a competitive Grant from mckin vento and we received that Grant so I'm asking asking for approval to uh accept $25,000 to use for our students who qualify as homeless entertain a motion to approve that Grant motion by Chelsea second second second by Travis any discussion I just want to um congratulate you that's quite an accomplishment anytime you can apply for and receive grant funding um I just appreciate the work that goes into that so thank you for that any other um comments or discussion car none call R Earl yes chery yeah gravis yes Amy yes yes marn yes myself yes 7 okay um we have professional staff I don't see any items under professional staff so we'll go down under support staff I believe there's some recommendations yes asking for approval that Renee gross who was just recently hired as a j County Middle School 29h hour title per be able to be moved to a full-time title per um asking that Beth Hamilton at J County High School be moved from a 299h hour impact parpro to a full-time position asking that Skylar salsman be hired as a s Creek Elementary parpro and then I have um the following slate of elementary basketball coaches that I'm asking for approval to hire the fifth and sixth grade coaches will each receive a $432 stifen um asking approval for Dylan Boswell Levi burn Megan Stevens Greg and Courtney chry Johns will be working together as a team Megan Napier Crystal Owens and you'll notice that both Megan and Crystal will be splitting a stifen and working together Cole seagler Brett Woodard Sydney girkin Eric Kelly Brock starky Dena and Brad Monday will be working together as a team Jack stclair Shandon murn and Jerry Wagner and then last of all um asking for approval for the following volunteer coaches who will be working with our third and fourth graders and that would be Jacob Ross Justin Snyder Brook mauy Doug Hudson Sarah Helen Shane Wilson Jeremy Owens Zack schroer Greg chons and Tara Kelly um entertain a motion to accept those recommendations as I have a motion by Mary ly have a second second by Travis any discussion call Earl Earl yes Cheryl yeah Travis yes Amy yes Chelsea yes Mary Lyn yes and myself yes seven up next we move down to classified employee pay scale adjustments ncky um asking you to approve the um employee pay scales as presented it shows an increase of 50 Cent uh 50 cents an hour for all of our classified staff and that's applied to all of the different scales so asking for approval for those increases motion I have a motion by Travis do I have a second second by Earl any discussion Earl yes Cheryl yes grabs yes Amy yes Chelsea yes Mary ly yes and myself 7even up yes next we have a classified pay scale step for experience yes asking for approval for this year and next year to allow classified staff who've increased in their experience to move up on the scale and to get the uh Associated pay rate increase that goes with that so asking for approval for that for the next two years we have a motion to accept that so moved motion by Chelsea do I have a second second by P discussion call yes Cheryl yes Amy yes Chelsea yes Maryland yes yes for me you now we'll go down under finances Philip we have some donations yes asking for approval to accept the following donations nbic of North Veron $50 to the Middle School PBIS rewards the the following are um donations to the panther High School Panther Pantry Jenny's Church of Christ for $200 and Ray wagster $200 and then the following are for Hope food program donations James County High School girls basketball Duck Race a th000 uh Christ Baptist Church Peggy Hudson 300 and First United Methodist Church 50 asking for approval to accept entertain a motion to accept those donations as R make motion by Travis second by Mary Lynn any discussion Earl yes Cheryl yes Travis yes Amy yes Chelsea yes myself yes 70 okay next we have another resolution yes this is a resolution uh authorizing treasure Deputy treasur of the school corporation to invest the available monies per IC Code 5-3 13- 9-5 this is basically um per our board policy we've got the proceeds from the bond for the project the CT project of the high school we want to be able to invest that for at least six months because we're probably not going to have any bills for at least the first six and then keep investing as needed up to a year do I um have a motion to accept that resolution so I have a motion by Pat I have a second second by see any discussion call roll yes Cheryl yeah CR yes Amy yes Chelsea yes yes and myself yes s up next on the agenda we have some insurance rate so um we as a corporation cover the increase there's a total of 3% increase across the board for our insurance cost we covered that for our teachers and asking for approval to do that for all of our staff by covering that for administrators and classified staff this essentially freezes everyone's insurance rates of what comes out of our employees pocket we pick that increase up instead and allow that to make remain steady for them so asking for approval for um us to pay for the insurance rate increased for classified employees and administrator I have a motion by Travis to have a second second by Mary Lynn any discussion call Earl yes Cher yes Travis yes Amy yes Chelsea yes maryn yes and myself yes s um next under relations we have an mou yes um we've been asked by Goodwill nurse Family Partnership to partner with them to allow them to come into our school to the high school to meet with students who are going to be firsttime mothers they follow with them through pregnancy teaching them about proper prenatal care once the child was born teaching them about how to properly care for their child um looking at career paths for them so help them kind of break that cycle of poverty um they have to do meet they meet a certain income threshold um but it's hoping to reduce the amount of poverty and to kind of break that cycle so when these children are growing up maybe they won't live in that same situation um all students would be given permission by parents before anybody would meet with them um they have to apply with this group and then parents have to sign off if they're a minor so we would have all of that on file as well so and they would not take them out of academic instruction okay asking for a motion to approve this I have a motion by Pat do I have a second second by Mary Lynn any discussion call the roll yes chery Travis yes Amy yes shelsea and myself yes 70 believe we're down to other no other hearing um nothing else to be put on the agenda then we'll entertain a motion to adjourn I have a motion by Pat do I have a second yes second by Earl Earl yes Cher yes Very Yes and myself yes meeting aded

in here and then on that same evening immediately following the board meeting we have a good for the Grove Public Work session um as we've done three other times this year where the public can uh come and bring any topic uh before the board that they would like to bring to the board's attention or or discuss and potentially get some questions asked uh next up uh board superintendent comments uh Mr Russell yes uh just a few here you have in front of you the isba 2024 legislative priorities uh roughly about 10 of them this is what we work on with with talking to legislators uh and uh when they call and ask us what do you think's going on around the state um so just wanted to have that in front of you uh some interesting reading this will also be discussed at the uh November 15th Region 8 meeting uh sadly u i all of you are scheduled out but if something changes it's at Primos on Southside there um also we have raised about $1,300 of the I believe it's 5,000 uh needed for digitizing all our yearbooks uh so it's it's working it's just going to take a little time Mrs counts so I um I have the pleasure of sitting through the um Ed Foundation meeting last night and one of the things that stuck out to me was um they had $555,000 in requests for um their grants this round which is huge and um last night they approved almost 40,000 to go out so it's it's a huge win for for our teachers and and staff so some really really cool things that they talked about last night but I'll let them share the winners I thought it was um there's there's some really cool grants that are going up this year so anyway and um I'll just add to that I can remember a time where we were happy if we got up to $110,000 to give out in Grants and they had to be little yeah 500 type things but they are now giving grants for teachers to go to professional development and things like that yeah yeah there's there some really cool things that they did last night but um their Gayla is uh Saturday April 13th um they also have a trivia night coming up in January and off the top of my head I didn't bring my paper in with me I'm sorry uh in January there's a trivia night and uh the Pacers game I think is November 19th good time something like that it's a Sunday I know it's a Sunday game at 5 so there is a Pacers game as well that's a nice fun Raiser for them and cool experience for the kids so anyway M Robinson first of all I see uh Christy Berger out there and I just wanted to recognize her because you do so many things uh behind the scenes that make C go great number two uh got to meet the initial meeting with the cmta energy serving sa energy saving project very impress with them today I really want to thank Dr long and Dr Taylor for reaching out to them I think this could be a great thing for our uh community and then the third thing uh Dr long and I got to uh go to the township trustees board meeting Tuesday night together and he did a great presentation and uh for the safety of our kids and over some uh things that the trustees on board with us so uh it was honor to be with him it's honor that uh the township trustees put the safet of our children first thank you thank you Mr Robinson Mr Daniels I was just going to echo on the cmta I think the Energy savings that uh Dr Long Dr Taylor and others have have kind of looked into should be a good thing for the community going forward not only lowering utility bills but potentially also some tax credits that are out there so and at the end of the day if we can be more efficient users of energy it benefits everybody in the long run too so I think it's a plus I'm glad to hear their forethought and bringing such an exciting project to us and I look forward to seeing it get off the ground sooner rather than later yeah and uh kind of to to echo on to that I I agree and we actually got some compliments uh Dr Long got some compliments from those guys about some of the things we already do in our buildings around the LED lighting and some of the things we do with some of the controls that we already have in place and you know they they kind of looked at us and said we don't normally see that kind of forward progress and thinking and a lot of lot of schools that they have done these types of projects in so that's going to position us well moving forward and um I know there's a lot of effort been put in by Dr Taylor and Dr long to get these guys the information they need so I want to I want to thank them for that um I want to thank Mrs counts for filling in for me last month while I was dealing with some family issues um I don't have anything report on on the Johnson County Redevelopment commission our last two meetings have been canceled because there was no new business to bring about to the Redevelopment commission so uh nothing new to report there I've just got two other things during our work session we also had some other good presentations we heard a lot about teaching and learning from from Dr Hoover which I appreciated we got other updates too during that the work sessions I think are valuable for us to kind of dig deeper on some issues we had one member of society in the back that kept raising a Ruckus but no those those are always open to the public and being open to the public we appreciate when people show and and listen but we I just want to thank everybody that put all the time and effort because I know we see it from 2 o'clock until six o'clock or five o'clock however long but I know it takes a lot more hours than that to prepare for it so thank our three assistant superintendents and Kristen Nelson who's hiding in the back back there for her efforts too um and and putting that all together so thank you I didn't see I couldn't see her back there either she's hiding she's hiding Dr aranov any comments from our yes superintendent sir thank you yes a couple you know I just feel bad I want to make sure that corner has been recognized except for Renee Renee Staley yeah she want to make sure she's included she's our director of special education for secondary and she works very hard and she does a great job and and thank you so much really appreciate you and I'm not being pacious I mean that you do a fantastic job so thank you um uh and so I'll go all the way over here too and Dr Henderson thank you for being here as well so good job and when you started talking about raising a Ruck us I I Mike look guilty for a minute yeah you know pretty sure that's who you were I thought that's who you were talking about not Mr B yeah um but on a serious note um I do want to uh remind everybody uh about tallot presentation I believe that is this Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the high school auditorium correct at the high school auditorium um I know we had what 200ish people RSVP so that good so you can just go you don't have to RSVP now so please go it's uh phenomenal information for parents and for kids and um just some real eye openening stuff so I encourage folks to go uh :30 again yes 6:30 p.m.

he's fantastic presenter so um really I think that's great and I thank you Dr long for getting him to come to us um and we started that last year and yeah so I'm really thrilled about that so um and I think that's all I have all right we are oh one comment I do need to make we need to reconvene the executive session um we had a couple of items we didn't have a chance to get through before we came to the board meeting so we will reconvene in a couple of minutes uh back in the conference room and we are adjourned