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7: a.m. superintendent search first round any Bruce second all those in favor I I I I I motion carries 5 to zero oh we did it team well done well done all right 8.1 future agenda items um president yes absolutely president Anderson I know we discussed this in the information item but I would just like to formally ask for a future agenda item to discuss the upstander program and um The District's role in the community regarding teen violence thank you and we're also um putting on for discussion about time uh board meeting time change and and looking into work studies dates and future dates thank you sure okay any other recommendations or anything we need to go over okay I move that we adjourn second all those in favor I I motion carries 5 Z thank you everybody have a great evening thank you for those stuck it through

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see everybody as always uh let me just check and okay great well welcome everyone to the January 18th 2024 meeting of the anabor renters commission the purpose of the renters commission is to advise the city council and the city administrator in matters uh affecting renters in the city the an arbor renters commission is made up of voting members who are appointed by the mayor and approved by city council two non- voting city council Liaisons two non- voting members representing different landlord perspectives and a non- voting representative uh from University of Michigan Student Legal Services to speak during any any of the public comment opportunities you will be able to speak through the webinar link or by phone depending on your method of access to this meeting uh I we can give the instructions for that once the time comes so we can move on to uh roll call item two uh so I'm going to go through our role here please state the city that you're calling from I am calling from an arbor commissioner Chen and I'm calling from n Arbor nice to see you commissioner Kelly hello I'm call calling from an arbor commissioner dran presid and calling from an arbor commissioner else commissioner else I think maybe she stepped away we'll we'll look back around commissioner tibits commissioner Rosen I'm here I'm calling in for man sorry I was I I heard you guys talking about whether I'm supposed to fly to Philadelphia tomorrow and I was changing my flight because they're getting a storm so but yes I'm here okay uh commissioner Ratcliffe here or calling in from Ann arper sorry I'm brain dead now no worries welcome commissioner pitz here calling man aror howdy commissioner good here an arbor council member Rina here in an arbor council member Harrison is not here uh commissioner else oh did we lose her oh dear oh okay just come back though okay commissioner else is here and I can tell his voting is calling in from an arbor I can recognize her office okay we can move on to item three uh approval of the agenda so is there a motion to approve the agenda as presented all moved thank you Julia do we have a second a second second by rosanita okay um so all those in favor uh of approving our agenda say I I I I all those opposed say nay okay with that we approve our agenda and I apologize I think I'm having some connection issues just give me one moment I'm going to change my my network here to my hot spot sorry about that okay um can everybody hear me yes yes I can hear you okay still a little bit slow on my end so I apologize if I start lagging okay we can move on to item four approval of last meeting's minutes um oh I see we don't have them ready for this meeting but Happ for next month okay so we're gonna have yes yeah we'll have to skip though those yeah thank you no worries so we'll move on to item five first general public comment all right um to address the renters commission for up to three minutes um You can call 877 853 5247 or 888 78899 and enter me meeing ID 941 to be called on to speak callers can press star9 if listening by phone um or using the raiseed hand feature if viewing through the web link and the web link to get to the zoom meeting is a2gov.org renters commission meeting and so to address the renters commission at Star to raise your hand or you could use the raise hand feature in Zoom so if anyone um watching and listening would like to address the renters commission go ahead and raise your hand no attendees have indicated hey thank you very much Kristen we can move on to item six old business uh let see we have 6-a um discussion of proposed changes to chapter 105 so uh we had a a meeting of a subgroup of the commission to discuss the proposed changes to 8531 and so it's 8530 and 8531 which are also known as early leasing ordinance and right to renew uh is any anyone here who was at that meeting would like to uh give us an update on what was discussed I can pull up the notes if you can pull up the notes I can try to explain what we we did thank you but now I got to pull up the actual oh yeah I can give me a second I'll put them side by side oh that's very convenient thank you okay can you see that I can yeah great right so one one of the things that we were concerned about um especially from a landlord perspective is the idea of requiring landlords to send complete um leases right away to tenants so one of our suggested changes was that um as long as the landlord lets tenants know whether or not there's any variations to the lease like parking used to be included and now it's not included or something like that what the change in the in the rent price will be and what the dates are we thought that we would be um that would be good and would make it easier for landlords so they don't have to put together the whole lease which takes some time um section two thank you Zach I don't remember what that note means we're concerned about landlords not counter oh right we we wanted to make sure that once ATT tenant returns is that right wanted to make sure that once a tenant Returns the lease that the landlord has a certain amount of time by which they have to counter sign it and send it back um jump in anybody if I'm missing anything uh 3B it says one of the the um where did it go was it was it below that yeah that if the one of the things that it included was that if a tenant by their own free will terminates the lease agreement that the landlord didn't have doesn't have to give notice um and we're not really sure what that means of their own free will like what's required of that so we wanted a little bit more so that landlords don't try to pressure tenants into making a decision right away um we're concerned that landlords are uping to oh yeah I think IAL I think I maybe talked about this before that we we had a landlord situation where so so leases that are um eight months or less are not covered by the right to renew ordinance so we had a couple landlords I think offering tenants two six-month leases rather than a full year lease to try to skirt the um ordinance and we wanted to see what can be done we were trying to come up with some language for how to avoid uh landlords being able to do that um we wanted to add that landlords can't instead of landlords have to just give a second notice if they give an earlier notice we wanted to make it so that landlords can't make an offer before 210 days and that might help with the early bird special issue I think that's it on the early leasing ordinance does anybody want to add anything that I'm or tell me I'm not making sense I'm happy to try to clarify okay um and then on 8531 which is the right to renew ordinance again we're concerned about the eight month language the same as before and I'm just wondering why we're referencing 85302 here um in section 4 because it references there isn't there isn't a timeline for the tenant to accept so we're wondering if that needs to be in that spot there I think that's it right so you know I guess and one of the things John that that you had talked about I think at some point was the idea of of combining the two ordinances the ELO and the right to renew wondering if that's still something that's being considered but I think that's itless Zachariah Julia anybody has anything to add I can't see everybody so I don't know who else was there it's kind of quiet so I think we're good you're fine I was there this is Kim oh hi sorry I didn't see you on my screen it's fine anything to add Kim oh no no I think we're I think we're good great do we have any qu questions or comments about these two uh ordinances and you know the the proposed amendments to them uh I see Travis's hand and then I know it looks like John you want to say something as well yeah I I was just going to give a run a minute to to say something there and I didn't see anybody jumping at it so I also just wanted to thank everybody for putting some time into making some additional recommendations um and potential changes here I know um John and I spoke this afternoon um and he Cynthia and I are going to regroup and kind of look at all of this and then try to bring something to council here in the very near future um so hopefully we can continue to kind of close these loopholes and strengthen this ordinance um and and get a better product that's protecting renters and a in a better way so thanks everybody for your continued work in this space thanks John and I agree thank you very much for uh getting together meeting again on behalf of the renters commission and tenants uh to to look this over and for sharing the feedback if you have additional feedback or specific examples like um it is the two six Monon leases is that a common thing is that becoming a thing um uh does that does that happen often and it will if it works I mean I think if I think if it works for landlords to to avoid the right to renew ordinance by having two consecutive leases I suspect it it'll it'll start working more right now I think we've only seen a couple landlords do it okay all right and and then um with respect to you you would rather have just the terms or certain things any differences like under 830 Section 1 any variations to the lease rent price dates um why the preference is that just to save on paperwork or the hassle or I'm just curious why that comment I think Jordan can speak that better yeah sorry guys I'm I've been struggling lately so I can't talk too much without coughing but I'll try to briefly I mean the amount of time that would go into say say you have 50% renewals I mean you would literally spend multiple work days for most of us um that have a decent amount of valuee making up leases that were not going to be used um and to me personally having been a renter I if I got my renewal came with a lease I would feel additional pressure um I guess to sign it so I I think our our hope is that there's a way to get the tenants the information um without without you know kind of putting an additional burden on on the landlords in a way that they're not going to follow it at all right like we we need to make sure that we aren't overburdening the landlords um in this process or they're just not going to follow it or they're going to come up with ways around it right we've seen that um yeah so handing them the lease and saying hey do you want to renew here's your lease just seems a like a waste of time and B like an additional level of pressure um that I don't I don't think is is helpful when we have specified what needs to be included when it needs to be returned um Etc and while I'm on I'll just say one other thing that I think working through this um with all of us showed just highlighted like how much we also need to address the weight list thing right because this you know we have all of this verbage and it just has morphed into students being taken advantage of in that that other way um with really high weight lless fees and unclear um policies on that so I think the more the more that I time I spend thinking about like how we make these stronger if we're not also going to address that issue um of tenants being asked to pay thousands up front for the chance of even having an apartment we we really still still really aren't doing a service to these students but that's where the least thing specifically came from John thanks joh oh I'm sorry John did you want to respond to that no I think Travis was gonna say something about weight list and a potential 8532 that we didn't talk about tonight oh okay Wonder yeah we are Cynthia and I are also working with John um on a draft to ban junk fees and so um the weight list fees would be included in that and so that is something we hope to be bringing to you guys in the near future as well well so that is very much on the radar and uh hope to have something for you relatively soon terrific thank you John so with respect to the first comment um regarding any variations to the lease could I get a sense of what changes to a lease that landlords usually do that doesn't involve the term I.E the dates and the price are there other changes that often occur like are additional fees or pet fees or cleaning fees or yeah that's that's kind of what we were talking about big changes in fees or big things like all of a sudden our laundry machines are dead and we're not going to replace them so this doesn't actually include access to laundry or you no longer have access to a parking space I mean any of those things that would be a major a major change in the lease and affect the quality of life in the expectation um I mean our Our Hope with this language was that we um we can get students and renters in general to be informed I mean we we want them to have the information so that they can make a complete um decision usually there aren't a lot of changes but occasionally there are and I think the laundry and the parking were like the two two major things that came up outside of the terms of you know the dates of the lease and um the price are fees ever are fees ever increased or modified from one year to the next like whether that's a pet fee or a cleaning fee or a I don't know what paying online fee or like what kind of fees are there me things things could change like we hadn't raised our parking in 15 years so we raised our parking for this year we are grandfathering old older residents in but um for new residents that had changed so that wouldn't be great example because it wouldn't be on a renewal we we usually like grandfather people in but I mean anybody could change anything at any time right like you could change your your lockout fee as cost of Labor go up to pay an on call person to come in overnight you know you may change your your lockup fee um the leases usually specify the late fees um but I I don't think it's it's you know major major terms of leases don't usually change um but we just want to make sure that we are providing for tenants to have the information before they respond yes sorry this still works for us we would like to renew okay thank you and can you help me understand the next comment you know of of their own will mean for you know in other words the attendant intends not to renew the next year there the graduating senior and they they've taken a job they know they're not going to need it um so that would be of own free will kind of thing intentionally done um just share your thoughts about uh what land landlords might do to to abuse that by way of examples or concern my my concerns about um well I I mean we our our goals here with the language is how do we how do we reduce the pressuring and how do we reduce the so part part of my whole problem with leasing timelines is when when one friend starts looking and Leasing and is hearing that they have a unit in whatever capacity whether it's weight list or whatever then their other friends are like oh everyone's looking that's what happens right so if you if you have landlords saying hey I think I remember you're a senior you're leaving right in September and then saying oh well the tenant told me they were leaving so I can lease it then someone is starting to lease that unit in September and that's where we start with the problems of like getting the leasing ball rolling um in addition to to the fact that a landlord could always say that they you know that person's not go like it just starts everything early if a if a there's no reason why leasing needs to start that early for either party neither one so leasing to another tenant can't start until the certain deadline under the statute I I I appreciate your concern that the pressure the market pressures the the anxiety the the rush to the market starts but under under the ordinance the terms the landlord can't right now lease it to somebody else until till a certain day but until until or or if the person has is leaving of their own free will right I mean right we they can't and so that's where that comes in if so and so is telling you yeah I'm definitely a senior I'm not going to renew and that's in September and you're starting to find a replacement tenant you are then starting to lease way before anyone needs to be Leasing and outside of the cycle so I we don't understand why that has to happen right like this is not a leasing Market where you can't give me an excuse as a landlord that I feel like I need to jump on this in September for the next August because something's going to sit empty like those are those are just not realities I mean I can post an apartment and it's almost 100% of the time least within one week here in an arbor that that's the market that we're dealing with so we don't understand why we can't just say you cannot approach tenants about renewal until X day I don't I don't understand why we can't do that um and I think I I'll defer to any any renters or Kim or Zach or who were at that meeting but why why are we making exceptions for starting to lease at 11 months before a lease ends in some cases if if a landlord is to say hey you're a senior right um that that's where we're coming from with that does that Mak sense or is there anything else anybody wants to um fill in yeah I'll second that I don't see how it significantly benefits the land Lord to know that far in advance they're going to be finding a new tenant if they can very consistently feel it just later on probably for the same price if not more and the you know I don't personally have a problem with that scenario where somebody who's absolutely certain that they don't want to renew says I don't want to renew but like Jordan I'm a little concerned that uh leaving that door open will allow for Bad actors to um take advantage of tenants and you know I don't I'm not positive what of one's own free will really means like if there's a financial incentive to give a to to tell the landlord yes or no early on is that of your own free will I would think that there's a strong argument that it could be right um because it's not forced but if there's a really strong it's kind of like the early bird special you know they could choose not to give a decision but there's a great financial incentive to do that very early on and I'm afraid that we might face a similar type of situation with that thank you all right I I appreciate all your comments if you have specifics share them uh uh to Kristen or to uh council members Rina and Harrison and Kristen vanderock or specific examples are like oh yeah I forgot about this rise Earth here's what's going to happen here's what they're going to do uh feel free or specifics so that when I you know get with my colleagues we can kind of take that into mind um for any changes does that sound okay and what do you I'm just wondering what do you think the timeline is for some of these changes all I do you want them to come back to you or is this something that should go uh I guess I'll ask you council member Rina is this something you want to come back before this body uh in a public comment or give them to you and you can disseminate it to them um yeah I I informationally at this point I think we've gotten a lot of um feedback and I think have a good sense of where folks are headed um I I'm comfortable with us taking that feedback and if there's something that we're you know definitely not going to be able to accomplish bringing that back but um I think I'm mostly aligned here with all of the comments that have been made so um I'm comfortable hoping that it keeps things moving more quickly um taking the feedback working on it with you and then and then moving on to the next okay thank you appreciate that thank you great thank you John anybody else have any thoughts or comments about these two sections and the Amendments okay great so with that we can move on to item seven 7- a we have uh a presentation from the fair housing center of Southeast and AD M excuse me and Mid Michigan uh where's Pam okay Pam's been promoted so uh you can take it away Pam introduce yourself we're very excited to have you here so thank you for taking the time uh thank you for inviting me let me get this light kind of more normal um hi Gail Gail's on our board of directors um and John Riser I've talked to you on the phone but that we've never met um hello gonna post some slides for me so I can talk about them great um we're the fair housing center I'm Pam Kish I'm the director of the fair housing center of Southeast and Mid Michigan next slide um we're a private nonprofit organization and we covered 10 count we started off as the fair housing center of wash County um but now we cover 10 counties um but 44% of our complaints are from uh wasnot County Properties next um fair housing laws the Fair Housing Act is a great law but it's not self-enforcing as most laws are not um so we brought together the NAACP and ipsan and Ann Arbor and the housing law reform project um along with other community members and we started in 1989 to plan um an organization that would uh protect people their civil rights um if they've been discriminated against or thought they've been discriminated against in the rental Sor financing of Housing and we opened our offices in an arbor in next um we take and result you know there's a lot of you probably know the difference but a lot of people think we're a Tenants Union um but we don't really deal with landlord tenant issues um we take and resolve of illegal housing discrimination and we fill the evidence Gap so really commonly someone comes to us and she says you know calls us on the phone she said you know I was going back and forth you know on Facebook or Craigslist and with the landlord and everything seemed fine we had an appointment I had an appointment today to see the apartment and I went over at the at the time and he looked at me and he said oh I'm so sorry I just rented my last apartment um and you know I left but I'm black and I can't help think that perhaps my race um had something to do with him not having any Apartments left so we would take a complaint in that situation because obviously she doesn't have a recording of of this they Wen landlords um people who are interested in discriminating are very um stealth about it they're not going to say well Oh I thought you were white so now I don't want to rent you um it's off with a smile and a handshake um so next slide um and I'll talk more about the kinds of Investigations we do um so we take over 200 complaints every year the most common complaints we get are based on race disability and source of income um especially in places like Ann Arbor and ipsan that have ordinances preventing um discrimination on the basis of source of income uh next slide federal law covers you know all the things you would expect um sex discrimination is now includes sexual orientation and gender identity and familial status is just a fancy way to say you have children under the age of 18 living in your household next uh and then we have Michigan Law that adds age and Mar marital status so you can't be discriminated against because you're too young or too old or because you are married or unmarried next um obviously nro we've got source of income student non-student status and um some local ordinances have criminal background um so that's also something that's also in some situations covered under federal law but I'll get to that um fair housing law covers the rental sale or financing of Housing and otherwise making housing unavailable so you know we've been involved in suing or taking action against um insurance companies who say well you know you're a landlord I won't give you insurance if you rent to undergrads or I won't rent to you I won't give you we won't cover your insurance if you rent to someone who has a Section 8 voucher next um there are three main services that we provide um testing investigations and reasonable accommodations so I will describe testing next slide this is um manal nalii she was a student at Michigan State University forceed senior year she wanted to live on her own she found this place at grad Apartments she went to look at it um the sh the owner was it was unusual that he talked to her for a long time about all his theories about race and national origin and all this kind of stuff but he offered to rent her an apartment and then she called him back the next day and said I just want to make sure you know in terms of the utilities I want to make sure I'm not paying you know the water utility bills for the person who lived there before I did and he got really frustrated with her and said forget it I'm not running to you so she contacted us and we did what's called testing which is I don't know if anyone people have heard of testing raise your hands okay so we we in this case we sent out a black tester and a white tester both pretending that they were living on their own wanted a you know one-bedroom or studio apartment wanted to move in in August or September um everything about them is about the same but on paper the black testers is just a little bit more qualified makes a little bit more money maybe has a job that requires more education so on paper a property owner would choose the black um prospective tenant um so I'm going to show you the results of this testing next Slide the white tester was told about three available apartments uh the owner showed the white tester all three Apartments and um the owner told the tester that he talked to her on the phone and that was all he needed for an application process the black tester was told about one available apartment that was in total chaos he showed the black tester zero units and he told the black tester he would have to follow up with where she lived before which sounds perfectly normal except when you compare it to the white person who was told oh I talked to you on the phone that was enough so these are really Stark differences in treatment between a black tester and a white tester so that we would call that that's evidence of discrimination based on race um and I'll tell you how that ended but um our testers have no skin in the game they are not you know these are when we send out someone on a test they don't know necessarily if they're testing for race or kids or student status or whatever we just send them out and say go to this place at this time here's your little biography that we've made up for you and go ask about an apartment a one-bedroom apartment for November 1st and then they report back to us and then in the office we make a comparison between the two tests you know were they treated the same way this is an example of an investigation Sarah Yoder contacted us and said she was um emailing with a landlord uh about a small house and she went to look at the house knocked on the door landlord wasn't there she walked around the house um knocked on the door again and he had been there the whole time watching her and she looked at the house and she liked it and when she got home she um texted him and said um I am interested in the house but um is the rent negotiable and he said um the rent's negotiable if you do if you do a strip tease for me and the dress you were wearing yesterday um we can negotiate on the rent and she texted back absolutely not I'm not interested and then he just turned on her started saying really rude things about her and here we have it it's all on text message so she came to the office we um used whatever magic tricks the staff has that I'm not I don't know how to use to preserve all the evidence on her phone um we did a background check to see if the landlord had a criminal record did he have um uh you know any kind of criminal sexual conduct in his background um any other kind of violent any violence and so we sort of put the whole package together um and then I'll tell you later how that resolved but that was that was an investigation all right next okay a reasonable accommodation so fair housing law says treat everybody the same but when it comes to disability you have to bend the rules to make it fair for the person with a disability so this is the ray family the daughter sitting in the middle um um was Now using a wheelchair and she was in rehab and she couldn't go home um she couldn't go home because they her family lived on a sec a second floor apartment with no elevator so as a reasonable accommodation we wrote a letter to the landlord and said she can't come home because there's no that she can't get into the apartment could you please let this family out of their lease without a penalty and he said yes that you know of course I will do that so um that that's what reasonable accommodation can be all kinds of things I need my own parking space I have an emotional support animal uh my Social Security comes later you know I get my Social Security check later in the month so I don't want to be charged late fees and I can't not allowed to work because I'm I'm too disabled to work can't catch up you know get a month ahead okay next slide um HUD guideline said that that no landlord can have a blanket no felony policy for those who have criminal records um so uh the next slide pretty obvious that the United States um the criminal justice system leans so much more heavily on people of color that HUD has recognized that having a blanket no felony policy is going to have a disperate impact on black and Latino uh prospective renters and so it makes it uh again it's considered a form of discrimination based on race or national origin um next um complaint opt complaintant options so manal Nali and Sarah Yoder um you know we had strong evidence for manela Nali that she was that yes race was a played a role in the way she was treated and with Sarah Yoder we had a very strong case that we had put together um you know obvious clear evidence that um that this was sexual harassment um by a landlord to a prospective tenant so um at that point we say to people who've been the victims of of discrimination where we have evidence we offer them conciliation which means someone from our office usually me calls the landlord and says um you know we have evidence of discrimination um would you like to work something out with the tenant before they take any further action it almost never works um you know I think once we got a tenant she wanted to move into a place near emu and she had a baby they said they don't take kids and she really needed the place and so we um conciliated an agreement where she could move in for a you know one-year lease with six months free rent the other possibilities are filing a complaint with a state or federal agency in this case Hut is the federal agency and the Michigan Department of Civil Rights is the state agency and if there's good evidence in a case we will kind of walk people through that process we'll help them fill out the forms we will advocate for them in the process because HUD and mdcr are not they're not Advocates they're just kind of they're neutral third parties trying to come up with um with a solution and then the third option is litigation so I'm not a lawyer um we have a list of lawyers um who have experience in civil rights law and they like our cases because we're handing them basically a case that's been investigated there's strong evidence and it just you know needs to be filed um and there needs to be a lawsuit but again we don't make those decisions those decisions come from um you know our clients complainants next so this case settled for $20,000 which I think is low but it was in the Western District um of Michigan um she wasn't sure she wanted to you know her senior year of college she wasn't sure she wanted to do this so the fair housing center as an organization we have standing to take action because we our job our Mission and our membership um you know our mission is to end illegal housing discrimination also testers even though this tester had no interest in you know think she owned a house no interest in living in an apartment um near MSU she had to endure you know 35 minutes of this guy going on and on about his stereotypes about race it was really unpleasant she also had the right to take action against this landlord um so the fair housing center and the tester filed the lawsuit and then miss Nali eventually joined us and it settled for $22,000 next slide um this is a case I think we may have missed it do we miss a slide can you go back one maybe we didn't okay uh Sarah Yoder's case um settled for an undisclosed amount um and uh hopefully this guy's not sexually harassing anybody anymore um this is just to talk about how broad the Fair Housing Act is um there a white couple and they were living in Adrian Manor Apartments in Adrian Michigan and they were moving to California and the landlord said to them if you know anybody as long as they're white who might want the apartment let me know so they were appalled to hear this they immediately called us we did testing got strong evidence uh and they actually had the right to Sue um if you're white and you find out that your landlord discriminates against people based on race you can sue um because you're being denied the right of interracial Association and it's embarrassing to find out that you live in a place that has been segregated without your knowledge um so that case settled for for $15,000 that went to the NAACP in that area um next slide new construction um anything built new construction now um if in a building without an elevator that's not a townhouse every unit on the first floor has to have basic visitability so if there's a new apartment complex you know being built in an arbor you know down the street um it can't have any steps to the front door you have to be able to get in the front door through the unit out the back door into the bathroom do a 360 the walls have to be blocked there's just a whole list of things that have to be there um in an effort to make all new housing basically visitable as opposed to barrier-free um so this is Mike Lowry he called us and saying he was having problems with this barrier-free unit so you know um we went to look at it and we thought like this whole place has been built incorrectly so um we tried to work something out with with them you know that didn't work he chose to go to to litigation they had to do you know pay him um and they also had to do probably you know hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of you retrofitting all these units the fair housing center got involved because there was a building with an elevator that Mike Lowry didn't live in and every unit in the elevator building had to adhere to these seven visitability rules um and they did not um next slide uh retaliation tenants are uh very fearful of retaliation um sometimes landlords will say if you call the fair housing center you'll be evicted if you ask you know you were asking for uh to have an emotional support animal don't you dare because if you do I'm just gonna I'll find a reason to get rid of you I won't renew your lease so this is um Harry tus he's disabled he got his social security check on the third Wednesday of the month and he'd been racking up um uh late fees so he was he was being evicted for late fees goes to Legal Aid um in an arbor and legal aid and the fair housing center you know I had asked Fairway Trails you know let this guy let Mr tus pay his rent after the third Wednesday of the month and the lawyer wrote back and said well that wouldn't be fair to other people so again you know you treat everybody the same when it comes to people with disabilities you have to bend the rules and they refuse to bend the rules so uh goes to court um in front of a local judge and the legal services attorney uh says in you know the judge says in court to Fairway Trails you will allow Mr tus to pay his rent after the third Wednesday of the month the lawyer at that point said on the record that's okay he won't be living here much longer anyway basically saying yeah he thought he's going to get away with this well we're not going to renew his Le police so um it was on the record once retal once there's retaliation the justice department gets interested so we went to the US attorney's office um this is a case where it also had gone to HUD had' been in a lot of different sort of places um the owners offered him $300 he said no thank you um he opted to go with the justice department and it very quickly settled for $50,000 and he bought himself a house um next slide sexual harassment a lot of people don't think of necessarily well we talked about Sarah Yoder think of sexual harassment um you know you call a fair housing center people don't know who to call and that's what happened there was a group of young women um and they just kept calling people and calling people like no one you know no one could do anything for them so they finally found us so sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination under Fair Housing law and this was a many years years ago like 24 years ago I think 25 um and it was a house uh with six separate leases six separate bedrooms um owned by a couple and their son was kind of the handyman um and what turned out to happen was that he was in the house all the time he only rent it to women he left SE sexual objects all over the house he watched pornography in the common areas of the house and these women would complain to his the owner his parents and they were like oh don't worry about him you know they they ignored their complaints um so we did an investigation we talked to a lot of women who had lived there you know previously or you know some of these women didn't know each other um and we had pretty clear evidence that this was a pattern um of Scott Meyers so um they opted for litigation and it settled for a lot 166,000 split between um five women but they also got the judge to tell the Myers family that they may never be involved in the in real estate again they had a sell the house you can't be a uh you can't be a real estate agent you can't be a rental agent you can't own property nothing and that was a huge Victory aside from the money that was a big victory too um next um this is another investigation where um it was a mobile home mobile home park and this is the Scott family um there was some kind of issue between one of these daughters and uh a white teenager these are all teenagers a teen teer that also lived in the mobile home park so the white mother of the white teenager decided um that she was gonna she decided to physically assault one of this black teenager um when she got off the school bus so the police were called the woman was arrested and charged with assault um and after that happened the uh the manager went to the white family asked what happened took their side of the story and sent an eviction notice to the black family so we worked very closely with Le services and one of our cooperating attorneys to make sure that they didn't get evicted um and then we waited for you know the um the trial court who convicted this woman of assault this black white woman of assaulting black teenager um and then the white family was evicted and they dropped the eviction for the Scott family and they paid them an undisclosed settlement um but that's you know I'm sure that happens a lot more than we hear about um next slide um I don't think I can I don't think it's gonna work but this is a a clip of of the landlord telling our tester you can try it I don't think it'll work if you click on the that thing let's see no okay so this is um Celia pippens and um she went to look at an apartment in she had two kids she went to look at an apartment by herself um they gave her an application and she's getting toured around and they said um and they said oh by the way do you have kids and she said yeah I have two kids and they took the application out of her hand and said we don't rent to people with kids so when she contacted us we weren't sure was was it race was it kids was it both so we ended up sending a black tester and a white tester both posing as like just a married couple um to see what the response was and she said to both the black tester and the white tester you know it's quiet here we don't rent to we don't rent to people with kids she opted for litigation it settled very quickly for $20,000 okay next slide um there's a lot of overlap um between evictions and fair housing cases so um we have stories of women who are evicted they've been the victim of domestic violence and so they're evicted because you we had a case against the um when there was an ipsan Housing Commission woman was um attacked by a former partner he did damage and he he physically assaulted her and she was injured and they sent her an eviction notice um you cannot punish women for the you know for for being the victim of domestic violence basically um and you can't evict a woman because she calls the police too much um because she is has been the victim of stalking or domestic violence families are evicted after the birth of a new child they're saying oh well you've got too many people in the apartment you know an a newborn baby really doesn't take up much space um a black family or ten tenant is evicted after a conflict with a white family like the like the Scott family a person with a disability is evicted for noise or behavior related to their disability so we get a lot of calls like someone has a m mental emotional disability and uh they had to change insurance company so they they're taking a different medication and it's not working for them and so they are up all night making noise or they are they're doing things that would get someone who wasn't disabled immediately evicted so we will write a letter if we can show a before and after we'll say look this person has a disability they um had to change insurers they they were taking a medication that didn't work for them now they're back on the correct medication and this won't happen again we're asking for a second chance and again because the fair housing act you to bend the rules for people with disabilities this is a common thing we ask for um tenants who are evicted because they've made a fair housing complaint to a civil rights organization um or a tenants who's evicted after a new management discovers an old felony record you know they just say sorry we just don't take anybody with a felony um all right next slide these are just we don't normally hear things you know that are um where you that you would recognize as race discrimination it's more like just run of the last um unit I lost your application your credit isn't good enough again it sounds these all things all sound plausible but um you know that's where testing is so important to see is it really that they rented the last apartment did they really lose your application is it really that your credit isn't good enough um we also talk to employees and and take cases for employees who are fired because they refuse to discriminate um or an someone new like a new owner comes in and they just they want to change the demographics of the property and so they just start to find like just nothing reasons to uh evict people of color and then another really Insidious form of discrimination that we're seeing form of race discrimination is just pretending or just not doing repairs until the person is so frustrated and there's so many repair problems that they just end up moving out so you know I've got a leaky you know my the sink is leaking the toilet's leaking they go in they kind of pretend they're fixing it but they don't um all right next slide disability um you know we only rent to working people we don't take third party payments a refuser to allow a co-signer um you know things like no you can't have a reserve parking space we don't do that for anybody no you can't have an emotional support animal or um a guy dog we just don't allow dogs on our on these wood floors um so those are the kinds of things we might hear when it's uh disability um next slide familial statuses people are pretty open about this they're like we're just not set up for children um or a brother and a sister can't share a bedroom there's some weird um rumor out there that a boy and a girl over the age of five can't share a bedroom I know it comes from protective services and social work and but that landlord should not be telling anybody who sleeps where um if a unit isn't safe for children they should fix it because it's probably not safe for other people either and none of these are legal reasons to deny somebody an apartment or a house okay next slide um let's actually go to the next slide this is it's old it's from probably from 200000 or 2010 this is a DOT map of um the racial segregation in an arbor and in Washington County um red dots um delineate uh Asian tenants blue dots are white tenants or you know residents um green dots are Latino residents and sorry red dots I'm gonna get this wrong blue dots are white people green dots are black people brown dots are Latino people and red dots are Asian and this is um kind of this is a a visual of segregation in uh Washington County so let's go back the slide so we always encourage people to call us if they if they think they've been the victim of discrimination even if it's you know they're not sure maybe it's landlord tenant law maybe it's not we always encourage people to air on the side of calling us um and we'll help people figure out you know is this a fair housing claim or is there another organization that can better help them so that is um that's it and I'm happy to take any questions that people have if you have time ma yes like how many cases do you get a year or last year we had like 240 or something um so it's we've seen a big jump like post covid um do you know what the percentages are like Bas you know complaints based on race disability and other things um yeah it's um like like maybe 20 to 30% race and then 30 to 40% disability and then there's like two 3% of everything else you know like national origin Religion kids um again you know maybe 10% of the complaints now in the last couple of years have been based on source of income I know there was a state level law or Bill rather to ban source of income discrimination uh and I saw that it pass this the Michigan Senate uh has it been going anywhere is it stalled at the moment yes okay so where do you know where that bill is now I don't know I mean we just somebody just asked us this and it's just um I don't know if there's a timetable or what is going on with it I mean be we have um we have we're in litigation right now in an arbor on a source of income I mean one of the unique things about an arbor which you probably know is that if you're if there's a violation of a city ordinance you have the right of private action so you can go into court yourself you don't have to rely on a City attorney to take the case up for you um so right now we're working with the university Michigan um civil litigation clinic and we filed a case um I don't know five or six months ago based on source of income um just I I don't know if you're talking about a different Bill Zachariah but the one introduced by representative Morgan is um in the house Judiciary Committee um and so I don't I don't know that there that the house has plans to act on it or not but it has been referred to the house Judiciary Committee if folks are looking to contact people in support of that and state representative Jason Morgan from an arbor is the one who introduced it thank you yes I see a hand up yeah I have a question when you have 200 complaints a year are all of them are real or maybe some of them are not really works at all because some of the people maybe just to complain and not that real not based on the truth not always so so is there any percentages for those complaints that really happened truthfully and really cause people troubles or sometimes and not always so we take everybody at face value they say I think I've been discriminated because because of my race because I have kids um and we do an investigation so if there but if there's no evidence there's not much we can do um and there are plenty of people who are discriminated against and we do an investigation but we just don't get strong enough evidence so there's nothing we can do them but we'll you know um I mean I don't think people waste their time calling government agencies to complain about things that didn't happen to them um I think people have better things to do just curious uh you may have mentioned this but how large of a staff do you have uh seven seven okay and the testers are they employed full-time or they're um they're employees but they're on an as needed basis okay interesting thank you is um guess I have two questions for you here um first of all what can Municipal institutions like the renters commission do to help your organization and building off of that are there any is there a wish list of laws that that you have that you wish all local you know all municipalities would Implement um yeah I wish every municipality had the right of private action and covered things like Section 8 vouchers um any kind of um you know housing subsidies um um I'd have to kind of look at there I've gone to a conference a few times with kind of progressive fairh housing people and there's this group in New Jersey that are just they have this I'd have to go look at their list of all the things that they've changed in the law in New Jersey um there's a group in New York too that um are just really Pro tenant again I mean obviously we don't deal necessarily with landlord tenant law but a lot of this discrimination comes out of landlord tenant law you know uh illegal evictions um refusing to repair things um keeping people out of housing so there are um you know a lot of things that I would like to see but I'm not really prepared to answer that I mean what I do want is that those of you who are talking to I assume you're on this Commission because you are interested in the rights of people who are renters and that you come into contact with with people people call you for advice um and so I want people to know that the fair housing center exists and we are open and we want to talk to people and um I also will just throw in that if they call a government agency first like this just happened today someone called the Michigan Department of Civil Rights before they called us race discrimination case perfect for us to test would probably would have gotten strong evidence based on what they were telling us but the Michigan Department of Civil Rights is obligated to contact the owner within a certain number of days so once you call the owner you can't really do an invest you can't really do an undercover investigation so we were just on the phone with mdcr saying like this is a perfect example call us first um you know I don't care who pays for the investigation just call us so we can do do right by this woman who is probably so you know that's just a frustration you're listed on our website the fair housing center is listed on our website I I noticed though that we don't have the um a link to your website we just have your phone number so maybe we need to change that yeah I mean Gail you know Gail knows what we do um the other thing is um we haven't been funded by the city of an arbor in like I don't know 15 years whenever they it used to be for those of old enough to remember it used to be that nonprofit organizations could could apply and got could get funding from the city of an arbor and wash County and then they turned it into this like other thing that was all through wash County um and we uh were cut out of that I mean we don't really fit in neatly with uh you know we're not a breakfast program we don't deal with homelessness we don't provide shelter we're kind of an odd duck in that way and so we have really almost no local funding um so that would be you know that would be also helpful even if it's just a tiny bit even if just so it's so people see that the city of an arbor you know supports um you know fair housing and equal opportunity John Riser hey thanks for your work on behalf of that one organization um but the question I have uh is it federal law that you mostly look into or do you do stuff for truth and renting or the housing law of Michigan or the revised judicature act are you is it state law or is it all federal or is it I know Ellie Larson is a state but do you how about landlord tenant uh you know St we don't deal with I mean we work really closely with legal services you know so because sometimes there's overlap you know a racially motivated eviction is a fair housing case but it's also sort of an emergency fair housing case I mean emergency landlord tenant case so they're clearly overlaps and we work with legal services um sometimes there are elements of landlord tenant issue like you know we have there are landlord tenant issues kind of woven into a fair housing issue but we would not work with or take a complaint that is just a fair just a landlord tenant case we don't do that and we deal with the federal fair housing act the Elliot Larson Civil Rights Act the Michigan persons with Disabilities Act and then any local ordinances um that where we cover that jurisdiction how about a landlord who's squeezing all the tenants unfairly or in a certain manner something like that like class action type or something like that nope no we deal with you know again is it a violation of the fair housing act you know I telling someone today all kinds of things are unethical unfair crappy you know unfriendly but they're not violations of fair housing law by themselves I think I missed it a moment or something didn't click um you said that you did about or do about like 200 and some thousand cases was that 20 like 240 cases so each case yeah each case is um you know has to be investigated and some are tested some were writing letters of reasonable accommodation you know some go to litigation some you know there's all kinds of avenues we help people take if there when there's evidence and over the past several years how many were from Ann Arbor and do you think that it's because people just don't know to report it or if it's that we may not just be having the those issues housing discrimination is everywhere so it's I mean they HUD does a every 10 years HUD does a big study in cities and towns all over the country and it's all the same Ann Arbor has just as much housing discrimination as anywhere else um but we get the most compl when when there's the most if there's a lot of rental housing so rental housing turns over every year that there's the mo the the highest level of opportunity to discriminate so if there's a lot there's a big rental market we get a lot of complaints so we do get a lot of complaints from an arbor because there's a lot of rental housing in in Arbor um I didn't bring that you know I have wash County statistics again we don't we're not because we're not funded by the city you know otherwise we would have we I mean I have the statistics but I'm not sort of looking through them to say and I could I actually if you want me to follow up I can tell you how many city of an arbor complaints we've taken in the last year or two and what kind of complaints they were um I think that might be you know a good thing for the group to look at or to know right yeah I mean it my guess is it's going to be similar to the rest of um the rest of the county and all the counties we cover it's going to be race disability and source of income and an arbor is going to be even more heavily source of income because you have a local ordinance yeah a lot of people don't call us because they think well they don't know that we're not a government agency anyone who's called a government agency sorry if you work for a government agency but you know it's not you don't usually get any kind of meaningful relief um but if you call the fair housing center and and we do an investigation we can get people significant you know significant relief and you know over the years we've it's like $3.6 million in settlements that we've helped people get you know through through litigation and other kinds of negotiations that we've done when you're um going through your data are you looking at like you know private homeowner landlords versus um property management companies I mean that would be I mean yeah I could yes but that is really timec consuming to go through you know look at every every complaint in an arbor and again it's kind of all over the place you know we get complaints from big companies and small companies we get complaints you know again mom and pop mediumsized hu you know we we hear kind of there's allegations of discrimination um you know at all levels kind of of that the housing um [Music] industry and is it like I figure I already know the answer is it because I was GNA say is it concentrated in like one part of an arbor but I kind of figure just like everywhere it's everywhere else in the country it's just kind of everywhere it is it's it's everywhere all right I think that probably wraps it up thank you so much for inviting me and please don't hesitate to send people our way um and I will send like the last year of an arbor complaints I'll get I'll get you some who should I send that to the information about an arbor complaint data you could send it to the renters commission email address okay I'll get that Kristen either or and okay I have Kristen's email so I'll send it to Kristen wonderful thank you thanks Pam thank you so much thank you so much all you guys thank you all right bye okay wonderful well thank you everybody for all the thoughtful questions very happy that we could have pamman to talk about all that okay we can move on now to uh before we move on um Kristen could we have the link put on our website and we have the um zir housing center we have the apparently the phone number it sounds like but we don't have the link to their website I just emailed it to you guys perfect I just already updated it so it's good to go that was very fast thank you so much okay otherwise paying attention to the meeting though uh okay we'll move on to s-b discussion of uh the city written section of Rights and duties of tenants booklet um Julia would you like to introduce this sure I at the last meeting when we were talking about uh Gail was giving the overview of security deposits I think rosanita somebody asked if the protections for victims of domestic violence um or the security deposit law about um if you get into senior housing um being able to break you know your lease and not losing your deposit it if that was in the booklet in the white section of the booklet um and it's uh I read through it and Jamie read through it neither one of us saw it so I'm going to say it's not in there so we would like to see it added next time there's an update and then the only other thing about updating um the booklet is I was wondering if um I think in the white SE now it says the dates it was updated and if it could just say the um the date that you know after the landlord section and after the tenant section if those were dated I think it would read a little bit easier for people if they realized that those two sections were really [Music] old well somebody send me those two um other pieces the um security deposit and then the other one to me and then I can work with um John and others in the clerk's office to kind of format it into the booklet for the next time they also just did a printing um and so unless there's huge demand I don't anticipate another printing until probably close to the end of the year so but we will put it on the on the list gaale is is that easy for you to send that those pieces to her um yeah I'll double check with you that that I know what you're talking about which ones you're talking about before I do I mean you're talking yeah we we'll be in touch okay great and and I don't know I guess you know if the an updates probably not happening you know for another year so um that people can just remember if something else pops up like that that they feel is missing that you know there is a chance sometime to change it you want the whole security deposit law in there is that what you're saying no it gives like it gives the generic description of the security deposit that it did when the booklet was written in like 1980 or something but and I think around 90 there was an update for domestic violence okay victim yeah and an update for seniors okay yeah I'll I'll pull it up and and send it thanks John can I ask you a question about this booklet and um how tenants usually get it I know it's provided a lot of times via email is sometimes it's included in a lease they're required to provide physical copies that we print so how do most tenants get this and use it and and are we doing it the best way for tenants that's rhetorical I don't know if there's a right answer people might so what's your sense of that because this comes from a Charter um provision where you know computers were new back then so um I'm just wondering what the sense of this body is with respect to the rights and duties of tenants booklet and how to best help tenants get it understand it and use it my sense is that a good chunk of tenants have never heard of it and then landlords don't do anything about it my past three landlords didn't give it to me or say anything about it I sometimes see it attached to like if if a lease is emailed or sent electronically to a tenant it's kind of at the bottom and they just look through it to see if there's anything they need to sign or not and yeah um I've also spoken to a number of tenants who have not received a physical copy I've thought about it quite a bit and I'm I am in favor of continuing to provide or require a physical copy um because I think it's more accessible to uh older tenants for one uh and it's more conspicuous it's not something that you can just scroll pass as easily you you know it's handed to you or so at least it's supposed to be and in order to I think the main problem is making sure that landlords really do follow that rule and it sounds like more are but we probably have a way ways to go and Jordan yeah we we have it both in our electronic lease go over it at least signing and have give them physical copy as well so we're we're doing both and going through all of the different items that are in it we don't like fully walk through every page OB obviously but I spend a good three minutes talking about it at our lease signing so some of us are um really making sure that tenants do have access to that information best we can thanks Jordan Bob and Gail yeah it' be much the same story uh we provide or uh a physical copy when we can uh but but we've had tenants who uh rented from out of state so they got a electronic copy uh along with you know the thing of really read this it's important you need to know it but um I think maybe that's an exception I don't know it seems like a good idea to me I guess I mean I want tenants to read it too but the idea of having all these copy paper copy seems like environmentally not a great a great thing um but that's just my two cents I mean I you know I don't I don't know if students are going to or tenants are going to read them any more if they have hard copies of it than if it's electronically provided so I'm not sure but that's just that's just my two cents thanks I'm not pitching anything and I'm just wondering what's the best way to do it in this era to get the information to tenants so that they can use it so that they read it so it's comprehensible you know we've got we spell out what font it has to be and what color the paper has to be and then what difference does green paper make if it's they're not given copies anyway so how do you know how do we get it to them and does it need to be in the charter I mean can't we just do it with an ordinance that says hey if we can do an ELO through an ordinance or right to renew in an ordinance I mean you know um I don't know that's it thanks thanks John uh anything else on change in what's in the booklet okay um and just a reminder you can find a digital copy online on our website um thank you Christen or whichever staff member put this together I'm guessing it was Kristen it looks really nice I love the the image and everything that's great okay we can move on to 7-c now uh planning for the February 15 2024 meeting so before we get into what will be on the agenda I know we've spoken about doing an in-person meeting you do you all feel that February would be a good month to do it or should we shoot for March or later or Never March would be better for me with the February election know course rosanita since it's in so since it's in the evening and after dark I probably won't be there but I would say that you might want to look more towards Spring because of just how Michigan Winters are that's a fair point Thank you rosanita any other thoughts I agree I think we should wait till it's a little warmer MH so yeah okay well so we can revisit this conversation at our next meeting or you know a couple meetings from now uh once it starts warming up and the primaries are behind us okay let's see which obviously don't forget to vote um so for our agenda for our next meeting uh I guess I'll just open the floor here what should we all discuss uh the February meeting I will also bring up our uh work plan here so we can remember the things that we wanted to work on this year Julia um I I'd like us to uh have attendance on the meeting I I know we've got openings posted but we should talk about um other people who haven't been showing up to meetings thank you Julia I think it's a great idea um and please send around the application link for the r for the commission I think that we could use some more applications and we also need to make some recommendations on appointments probably soon uh I can send that out to everybody okay please send that out to the mailing list recently as a suggestion like I think we have 500 people l or something last Kristen mentioned it I wonder if it would um behoove us to send the application and responsibilities out to our small mailing list I can do that thank you Kristen thank you Jordan for this suggestion all right so um any opposition to having that discussion about attendance okay so we'll put that on the agenda what else maybe this is a question for Travis um do is it worthwhile for us to talk about um junk fees or do you feel kind of set in where you're going with that I think if we have if let let me put it this way if if we have a draft ready we will put it on the agenda yes okay thanks John I know there was a junk fee weight list weight List fee committee if there's anything specific by way that you might want included get that to you know U Travis Kristen and council member Harrison for our just consideration if there's something specific that it should address or there something uh just let us let us know um just share your thoughts uh with us uh if you have any in that regard I know I I already have the wait list um but if uh any there's any additional thoughts or comments share those yeah thank you John uh Jordan you had sent me something about having an example of an options contract uh so you may want to redact that and send it over if you feel comfortable doing that yeah I got it to Travis but I will send it to I'll black out the names and send it to John too because it feels like a really important example of just um in this particular example John um for a two-bedroom apartment students were be being asked to front $5,000 um which included security deposit which they thought was not refundable I I think ultimately it is reading it myself um but I understand why they didn't think that um and then uh B that's not refundable and in addition you know rent and and things before they even are given a lease um and so I think including Provisions that are specifically discussing um you know the the timelines of exchange of money like being asked to pay rent when you um are not even protected by a leas and those kind of things would be important so maybe I'll I'll reach out to you with some kind of specific examples and concerns I've heard also right uh additional additional specific examples that if people want to send to the attorney's office through council members harison Rina and Kristen alazon are specific junk fees or fees for this or fees for that what what are the fees that landlord landlords charge you for a lockout fee a pet fee a cleaning fee um uh snow shoveling fee a laundry fee what kind of fees are there and uh just so I can appreciate what what some of them are Tris yeah I I think that's all helpful context if if it's helpful to John as well but I think one of the things that council member Harrison and I talked about is a desire to to eliminate junk fees uh so um so I don't I don't know that a huge compiling of a list if that's something that I I don't want to provide create additional work if that's not something that we're gonna need to enumerate no no we're not no I just want you're right and I just want to kind of get a sense of the kind of things that you know that that that might be out there if if it's convenient and easy to do so I'm not saying you need a special meeting but if you have anything to share feel free to thanks just thinking about the next meeting I mean maybe we'd want to touch on sort of the next commissioner education session that we'd want to engage in I thought the the presentation tonight tonight was great so maybe thinking through what we would want to engage in next maybe the affordable housing topic or the slowing gentrification topic and and who we'd want to bring in to help to guide that discussion that's a great Point does anyone have any ideas for who to invite on those two topics I think it would be really nice to invite someone from Avalon to talk about affordable housing maybe washingon housing Alliance might be someone we could bring in as well yeah that's a good idea that may be pertinent our um kind of small landlord wh Coalition is actually planning kind of a a connection event and also an event to inform um landlords about how they can access um kind of the money that's out there for um Section 8 and other local programs and I may have some more information on that by February gotcha that's whha right yeah I yes I mean Sharon Sharon leus is kind of um spearheading it um there are other folks that come um some mostly housing providers but also just kind of some Community organizers and stuff too so it's it's a bit of a hodge podge but yeah okay thank you um I can Kristen would you prefer to I think inviting Avalon to come to one of the next two or three meetings you know within that range of meetings um would be great uh would you like me to invite them or would you prefer to either way it works for me okay um I can send an in invitation because I just happened to run into the director adma the other day it's very random encounter so um great all right um one other thing to add the agenda is uh the complaint form for 8530 and 8531 I think that we should discuss uh Outreach to tenants um how are we going to make tenants aware of this Complaint Form now that it exists I have some ideas on that but I think we should discuss it as a group in the February meeting okay anything else okay thank you uh we can if you have any other ideas for the meeting you can just email Kristen me and Julia all right then also um I will be moving in a few months so I I will resign from the commission after a few months um I think probably around um probably April or so so if you're interested in becoming the chair um really encourage you to do so I've had a good time you know you know and uh uh so if you have any questions about it just let me know but uh be good to start thinking about it can we congratulate you on your next venture I do not object Zachariah will be starting medical school in the fall so very exciting congratulations thank you thank you I'm excited your leadership thanks Miss I hope we can do an iners meeting before then or I'll I just want to see some before then it be nice I I think we should meet in person then that make me very happy yeah yeah congratulations thank you um okay so we can move now on to item eight reports so uh uh 8- a do we have a report from city council beyond what you shared already I think you got most of what we're working on yeah from um from my perspective yeah thank you okay 8-b there is no there's no hhsb meeting according to Jeff there nothing there 8-c report from staff leaz on anything new I have just a couple of updates um reported that um McKinley requested about 2,000 tenants uh rights and duties booklets they haven't picked them up yet but they are ready um and they have been contacted several times that they are ready so um those should be out soon and then we also have a really large stock right now so um they are available and then I attended a meeting meeting today with the office of sustainability and Innovations and then some other stakeholders about a Federal grant that OSI is looking at um and they're looking at gearing a lot of the funding towards Greening The Greening rental housing program and so it's in a super early stage um but I express that the rent commission would be definitely interested in being a community partner so when I have a little bit more like when it's shaped a little bit more more on it thank you Kristen any questions for Kristen okay great thank you again can move on to A-D report from Commissioners uh do would any Commissioners like to give a report okay great uh then lastly we can move on to oh no there's actually one more after this uh item nine the second general public comment right if um any member of the public would like to address the rent commission up for up to 3 minutes you can call 877 853 5247 or 888 78899 and enter meeting ID 935 941 you can also join using the web link and that is a2gov.org SL renters commission meeting if you um have called in to speak you can press start 9 to raise your hand to be called on or if you are joining with the web link you can use the raise hand feature anybody would like to address the renters commission go ahead and raise your hand all right now attendees have indicated okay thank you very much Kristen okay okay we can move on to item 10 now we did receive a communication you sent that out right before the meeting so uh I can pull that up here I have not had a chance to review this before the meeting but here we go h okay so it's a perspective student tenant who put down and thought they were getting priority for a room adversity right um and then there's an additional $500 beyond the I'm a little confused but I'm trying to read it quickly yeah but I would say I mean they mentioned Student Legal Services a couple times in here I mean if they I obviously don't know if they call Student Legal Services or not but you can refer them if you want to just refer them back to our to me specifically that's fine yeah can try to get more information was this person referred to Student Legal Services well they mentioned Student Legal Services I just don't know if they ever contact it because I don't know their name yeah I mean it's not it's not something that I this particular incident doesn't sound familiar to me like I've talked to someone who's had this situation so but it doesn't mean they didn't talk to somebody else in their office I just think more I need a little more information but I might just be reading through it too quickly sounds good uh where did they mention Student Legal Services here um Varsity mentions it in their response and then um it looks like the first the email that's on Monday January 15 said my parents are suggesting I report this to Student Legal Services Goa so there's an application fee and a reservation fee I see huh okay um all right well what should um Gil do you want anything else to happen next um to make sure these people were connected or did you know did connect with Student Legal Services um other than just telling them that they can reach out to me that's that's fine is you know if they if they I assume she's a senior now or the person's a senior now I think they said daughter um so they're still eligible for services so yeah if you wouldn't mind just having them reach out to me and let them know that they were referred by the renders commission and then i' I'm happy to talk to them and see if I can figure it out and if there's any reason to come back to the render commission about it I'm happy to do that okay sounds good Kristen are you able to yeah thank you great Julia I just wanted to say that it did seem to hit upon some of the things that we've been talking about there's also the example of they gave money in October and then in March we're told there's no unit um and and just you know you pay 150 who would have thought you had to pay another [Music] um it is one of these miserable things where you can't in and she the mother says it point you well maybe my daughter should have read the fine print better you can't you know I've gone all the things to get a lease walk to get my keys and they hand me a 10-page lease and I'm like well this is going to take me an hour and a half to read you know it's not written in English um and he just lefted and said no just sign it you've got three minutes you know so it's like yeah sure I signed it because you don't have any choice I think I think it's G to get worse everything that you guys have said I've heard from some of the people I know the landlords um I I I just don't understand this this this weightless fee which can be a lot they are charging a lot for a weightless speak and and some landlords are like yeah we'll just give it back like that's this person is hoping they have an apartment I it's like a supply and demand it hits all at once with the students yeah sorry I just got to add one more thing thing about that right if you have to put down $500 on four different landlords hoping one of them comes through we don't have to have a workshop on gentrification because you've got to have a lot of money to just apply for housing here let aone get something and I just want to repeat something that was in the that report um that we gave the city council uh people who are more likely to have bad credit for example have to apply more often and those are the people who can least afford to apply more often when the fees are so high so it's this impossible situation uh it's really not fair in my opinion I know I've said that many times but um I hope that we're able to address it because I really really do feel for these students and and non-students who have to go through this it's not fair any other thoughts on this email chain I'm I'm gonna read through it right after this uh meeting I think I haven't read through the entirety of it the only thing that kind of I mean not the only thing but what stood was that she received spon responses from two different people from varsity and while they're kind of on the same page it's it goes back to like you guys were saying with the application and the rental agreements are so for the application packet can be so thick if you're looking at all the terms and it's really small print then you don't know exactly what what you're doing or signing and when we're looking at students like she's a senior but I think a lot about students who are going into their freshman year in a case like this your campus and you know maybe they have parents who haven't rented in like 20 years so there's an education piece that really needs to to be there for the student and for their family on on part of this thank you res any other thoughts about this email okay um so we can move on that's the only piece of oh yeah rosanita yeah go ahead oh they did mention ver to their company and another one that's called The Varsity saying that maybe you got us conf used with someone else um yeah I see looks like it's like an individual complex [Music] maybe right because they're saying they didn't they themselves don't have have a wait list right far and invar management right but it's a couple of paragraphs underneath that that really kind of gets me when when I think it was the parent saying talking in the beginning which is the reservation fees is technically is not technically a fee but prepaid rent as long as you sign a lease and move in and it's refundable if the current residents were to renew so how soon before the re before uh are they before the residents leases up are people joining a weight potentially joining a wait list for this apartment good question um sounds like from the other ex uh people the tenants I've spoken to sometime in November December or January frequently people are signing these contracts yeah and that makes it that makes it a even more difficult because I know for um someone's apartment like they said oh we'll give you um was it the letter from management came in January saying we'll knock a little bit off of your increased rent if um you renew by a certain day in February but the lease itself isn't up until close to the summer and so that's why I'm asking kind of wondering how far in advance are these apartment weight lists going out because that's that is pretty long to be on a weight list um on a non-refundable potentially weight list if you're paying $150 $200 um like you guys said to multiple complexes and being out of that for several months and then if you do connect to an apartment then you've also now lost say if you did what four other apartments then you've lost what $600 because it's non-refundable yeah it's not acceptable when can we term that a junk fee just a question I'd say right now um when can we ban the junk fees um we'll hear about that hopefully at the next meeting or the one after that but U from our council members if you have uh specific thoughts about how to make sure that we include all the fees that should be classified as junk fees in the upcoming legislation um the draft ordinance uh email our council members it sounds like that's the way to um make sure that that gets addressed and and John of course okay I think uh we good to move on see all right then um we can move on to item 11 adjournment so do we have a motion to adjourn I'll move to a journ thank you you have a second second second by Julia all those in favor of adjourning say I I I I all say name okay with that we are adjourned thank you everyone see you next month thank you have a good night take care good night

[Music] the following video features audio description for our Blind and Visually Impaired viewers a video appears a bubbly animation reveals why text why asdb here's why to truly give asdb a chance and give ASB the opportunity to show you what the school and the agency is all about allowing them to not just change you your career but change you as a person feeds into that same bubbly animation now we see the HB logo and white text reading learn and grow with us apply [Music] today hope you enjoyed the game come get get involved here at pdsd and ASV become a coach a teacher hey you could even lead us to our next [Music] victory e the buzzer is getting very sleepy and here we go our last game of the first day of the Western State basketball conference this is the asdb Sentinels up against the Oregon Panthers Oregan of course played earlier today if I'm not mistaken this it's asb's first game Oregon was successful see if they can do it again and here we go a tip off folks it's up over to asb's side they're successful that's in the hands of number 11 Emily Marquez passes it [Applause] over to number five on the a stb team Andrea and here we go this is ASB ball they're looking to pass inbound it's out to Emily Marquez passes into the post back out to Emily over to number four this is Marley Campbell Campbell with the shot just just below Sentinels looking to regroup under their home net here meanwhile here comes first possession for Oregon this is Monica Griffin over to Morgan Morgan with the shot in the paint it's not there and that's a contested ball Morgan and Andrea duking it out lots of cool shoes on the court here I'm seeing lime green turquoise blue purple and pink very nice here's Oregon now Diaz to Griffin Griffin just inside the three shoots and it's not there for is able to secure it Griffin's looking for a steal and it's back out asdb ball to Emily Marquez number 11 Emily earns herself a travel call ASB is going to be sent back to the other side here and here we go another travel call earned it's going to be on number 10 Morgan carrye Morgan here's sentinel's ball now and Emily Marquez pointing out this is a boys basketball not a girls I didn't know we gendered basketballs but now I know and it looks like number four Marley Campbell isn't doing so well she went back to the locker room with her with her elbow looks like the Panthers are going to pull a player so that the game is still even four on four here still no points on the board here comes asdb with the right basketball looking here's number 11 sneak pass to number four she's walking the perimeter right in front of Diaz back over to number 11 11 into the three-point line shots up it's not there 11 gets the rebound that's not there either Oregon collects the ball this is Morgan now Morgan from Oregon pass in Diaz in the paint puts it up not quite there struggling for the rebound that's an out of- bounds ball and here's number 11 Marquez leading the charge for the Sentinels Sarah Tomac right next to her and number four as well Marley back to Marquez Marquez pass intercepted that's by number five Desiree St Louis and here comes Morgan two Defenders flanking her ball is stolen Marquez back down the length of the court she might go all the way she's in the paint folks a quick pass to Tomac a missed opportunity and that ball is out of [Applause] bounds seems we have a We Will Rock You in the STS seems what these teams need though is a great gig in the sky here's Morgan passing into St Louis swatted and they're falling on the bar there's Marquez trying to come up with [Music] it here's Marquez now going down the stretch number 11 and she puts it up hard contested shot now we're nearly 4 minutes into this game and that's the first score keep in mind Oregon won by nearly double if not more so on their first game so they're being currently held to zero impressive stat from the Sentinels and number four number one trying to wrestle the ball away here that's going to be Panther possession [Music] and there's a foul called it's on number 11 from the Sentinel team that's Emily Marquez at the free throw line here number 10 Carrie Morgan she had a lot of points in the game before can she get more again not good on the the first attempt let's see how the second [Applause] fares second On's off not there either Panther still able to recover wrestling for the ball and we're taking a quick time out timeout here both teams retreating to their Sidelines for a new game plan coach Brian Newton going for a shoelace assist and here we go asdb in possession here's Marquez driving gets a shot off excuse me an overhead pass to number three that's Sarah Tomac not quite there meanwhile here the Panthers come the Griffin sisters get a shot off but it's not quite in lots of NBA royalty in the house at wsbc this weekend it's unclear whether the Griffin sisters have any relation to NBA guard Blake Griffin and that's a that's a swish from number one Monica Griffin on the Panthers the Panthers first points on the board today Sentinels holding him back and here's Marquez driving down the left side Marquez L pass intercepted by Morgan here she goes she could put it up she's in the paint fouled out swatted another shoelace break for number 35 lith Martinez it's our second of the day meanwhile Morgan puts one up on the board Panthers finally taking a lead here can she get another not quite off the rim but in the hands of Monica Griffin and that's out of bounds here's Monica Griffin passing inside she secures the ball not able to get anything done there tipped off her hands here we go now number four Marley Campbell passing in to Marquez Sentinels driving now they they've got some momentum they're just down one point she's back into the paint L his possession here's Monica Griffin she's out running there it is can't get the point though Griffin looking for the steal she's got it oh the Griffins are playing hard ball now pass over to Diaz just wide Diaz keeps it inbound but it goes over to Sentinels Griffin takes it back over to monut for the three it's not there Griffin still able to come away with it puts it up doesn't have it another rebound it's up no good Marquez able to get away stuffed by Monica [Music] [Applause] Griffin and then number three Sarah Tomac takes a spill you hate to see it so early in the game she's looking okay though folks meanwhile Monica Griffin handing out stuffing like it's Thanksgiving [Music] Day here's Sarah Tomac inbounding Marley she's got Diaz on her here's Marquez open downtown over to Tomac inside the paint now Griffin went the distance but a whistle was [Music] blown here we are now Monica and Tanisha Griffin duoing down Court over to Diaz Diaz back into Griffin off the backboard it's not there Morgan with the last minute to the ball and here we are Monica Griffin first attempt good bleachers unable to shake her nerves of Steel here they go again a rumbling can she get a second one off looks like that was a false step on Monica Griffin there from the free throw line so now here we are Sentinels ball Marquez cross Center Court over to derer derer up against St Louis oneon-one back to Marquez inside the three-point line now near the pain and the shots [Music] High here comes the Panthers now insane halfcourt pass from Griffin D Morgan you'd think they were playing dodgeball here's Marquez for ACB another insane pass nearly had it Panthers Come Away with the rebound though meanwhile Sentinels being helped up here's Diaz working oneon-one [Music] Mart Martinez able to hold her [Applause] off here's Griffin and that pass is going right to the brick wall brick wall 50 assists on the day here we go number four for the Sentinels inbounding to Marquez Panthers playing close defense Marquez inside the three-point line passing over to Martinez more whistles are blown hardfought game the score 24 number 35 Martinez is going to have the opportunity to shoot a free throw here and it's good she's trying to shorten in the lead here 3 to [Applause] four here she goes again and it's good Martinez to tie the game 4-4 less than a minute to go in this first quarter Diaz tripped on the play but she's helped up by Sentinel you love to see the good sportsmanship from the [Music] kids here we go now Panthers under Sentinels net desire St Lewis in possession Griffin loses control of the [Music] ball looks like that's going to be a foul on Marquez Griffin takes their first free throw attempt and the ball's headed for the computer [Music] corner bleachers making the Thunder Rumble and she doesn't have it the bleacher trick works [Music] again here's the Panthers now St Louis right under the rim looking for any open hole they're able to get a pass out to Griffin not quite there off the rim Sentinels get the rebound here's Martinez heavily guarded Griffin stolen unguarded but it's right in and out no points out the Flores now Flores St Louis Diaz Diaz to Griffin Griffin up with the shot that's a sinker Swiss flush both teams now taking a brief timeout game planning the score as it stands Panthers six Sentinels four these girls are not messing around game play continues whistles blown acdb has to be dangerous here they've only got four players they can't afford to foul one out here's Griffin now at the free throw line first attempt not quite there second attempt not there either and that's the end of the first here again score Remains the Same Panthers first game they were hot this game they're being held to six Sentinels coming away after the first quarter with four points [Music] n [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh the following video features audio description for our Blind and Visually Impaired viewers the words why asdb features prominently on the screen children walk through a corridor using their canes with the words great opportunities across the screen a young child uses a braille machine the words thriving Community appear on screen a young girl picks up an Easter egg in the middle of a field a game is played inside the gym with the words looks like our player number five Andrea has returned from the locker room she's got a brace on that right elbow glad to see she's doing all right we're returning to five on five basketball folks the real game and it's underway second quarter Flores with an attempt on the basket it's no good here's number five passing over to Marquez Marquez approaching the right side here she's got a screen set up by number four Marquez inside to Andrea Andrea puts it up it's not quite there everyone reaching for the rebound Morgan comes away from it he's going down the left side of the stretch here pass over to Griffin across the court inside shot from Diaz No Good lot of hardfought contested baskets here and here's the ASB Sentinels Panthers playing pretty conservative defense Marquez heading to the left side pass back out to Andrea at the top Andrea out to number four to the right and that's going to be a travel call meanwhile new Subs coming in Diaz hitting the bench Flores as well but in comes Tanisha Griffin and number 20 Madison Sutton who had some pretty big baskets in the first game there here's Monica Griffin when both the Griffin sisters are on the floor it's lethal but asdb putting up a defensive fight here's Andrea passing out to Marquez number 11 on the left Marquez crossing the length of the Court she's in the paint now loses possession of the ball another contestant here's Monica Griffin on the right side she's looking to pass to her sister hits off the hands of the Sentinels and that ball is Right Out of Bounds it's going to be a panther ball shot on baskets no good ball gets passed out to Morgan she's trying to stop it from going out of bounds but it's not there something to note number 11 with four fouls on the day one more could be fouled out of the game here we go now Sentinels launching an offensive attack looking to sink the battleships of the Panthers Andrea misses the pass intercepted by desire St Louis from the panther side Here Comes Griffin Griffin to the far side where sister Monica tries to put it up Andrea with the rebound she's not going for any contested fight and Andrea losing the elbow sleeve super human healing powers here's Tanisha Griffin now she's got possession of the ball want to make sure that game's in motion there she goes across the court over to desire St Lewis Griffin now with the shot right off the rim into the hands of a [Music] sentinel and a whistle is blown plays dead both teams taking a time out now score hasn't changed since the top of the second still Panthers six Sentinels four meanwhile on the Sentinel side Martinez stretching out her right leg we're back to four and four basketball here Morgan puts a shot up finally got two points on the board doubling the score it's 84 Marquez looking for Revenge she's across Center Line moving to the right pass to number four four with the shot off just off the rim there recovered by Griffin Here Comes Monica Griff gin in the panther Squad Morgan with a deep Sprint she's open but the pass is just a little too [Music] high sentin no ball once again Marquez returning to Panther territory passing into the paint goes nowhere brick wall with the assist here's Desiree St Louis now across Center Line into Sentinel territory she's pushing back on the defense sneak pass to Morgan Morgan looking around screen set by Griffin into Monica off the backboard you couldn't draw a play better than that folks it's smooth sailing for the Panthers here as they take a Sixpoint lead here's Marquez with the nol look pass reminiscent of a vintage Jason Williams here's number four of the Sentinels to Marquez Marquez off Morgan pass goes nowhere intercepted by Griffin Griffin down the far right stretch she's looking to go the distance not even close looks like things could have been overturned here's Marquez now passing to a phantom and that's going to earn her a half court violation according to our in-house analysis Lisa here's the Panthers now Griffin shot no good trying to force Marquez out of bounds here's the Sentinels now Andrea out to Marquez Griffin looking to steal Griffin's got it no one in front of her she could go all the way she could go Coast to Coast Griffin went east to west transcontinental here's Marquez now looking for vengeance after that last play from Griffin the score 124 Panthers lead Griffin this time Tanisha with another steel to Sister Monica unguarded doesn't quite have it and the ball's kicked out of bounds could be Sentinel possession Marquez showing signs of frustration here Marquez next to Marley Campbell number four in the Sentinels looking to get back here's a pass into 35 Martinez Martinez looking for open room intercepted by Griffin the Panthers might just take this game and put it away the pendulum has shifted here's Flores with the shot no good Martinez Morgan duking it out still Smiles for the Panther team Monica Griffin heading to the bench here and here's Marquez just crossing the center line looking to make something happen she's into the paint she wants to get a shot off it's good Marquez was looking for revenge and she got it here's Griffin Now with an overhead lob pass it's caught Griffin to St Louis intercepted that's number three Sarah Tomac with the steal but that Ball's going to head out of bounds here's a l pass to Diaz to Morgan Morgan putting it up rebounded by Flores it's not there it's not there folks the score now Panthers 12 Sentinel 6 Marquez heading to the locker room meanwhile Gloria Flores taking a few shots at the free throw line second attempt no good as well here's Sarah toac ball gets stolen by Griffin Denisha trying to put it up gets her own rebound out to Diaz Diaz St Louis St Louis loses it to Andrea but it's still back in Panther possession we're adding 3 seconds back to the clock here miss timing and as soon as we figure out how to do that the game will resume asdb is looking for today's leaders and for tomorrow's leaders not just at school but in life work and the world how can you help us [Music] lead Game Club Return to 36 [Music] seconds looks like the two points for the Panthers there just got redacted score 126 ball inbound to Morgan now on the Panthers games back on here's that's going to be a travel call on the Panthers here and we know that because a very loud whistle was blown here we go now Sentinels crossing the threshold we're back to four and four basketball out to number five Andrea still going to be Sentinel ball remember Marquez headed back to the locker room now that's the sentinel's primary offensive driver and she went to the locker room because she got fou fouled out here's the Panthers now trying to go the distance here we are now Morgan at the free throw line looking to extend the lead not quite there second attempt here's number four now crossing the center line for the Sentinels putting up a three just before the halftime 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looking to put this one away and I got to say I can't blame them all right Panthers up another two it's 146 Here Comes Andrea from The Sentinel side ball coming right off her shoes there pass to Martinez number 35 back out to number four number five back to number four they need some shots up now Morgan with the defensive slap gets the ball out of bounds number four grimaces we hope she's all right Oregan now doing a defensive Readjustment here and the sequel to referee referendum continues and here we are now back to gam play Morgan with the steel she's got momentum pass over to desire St Lewis right through her hands not quite Here Comes number four Marley Campbell and number three Sarah Tomac let's see if they can get some shots up on the basket here Andrea right off the glass into the hands of St Louis who passes it to Morgan Morgan down the stretch he's got number four to beat puts it up to the backboard it's not there in the hands of Tomac Martinez all alone put it up not quite there Sentinel with the rebound it's good bang brings it up Sentinels 814 they're still in this this game is still [Music] going I'm getting a word from our in-house team that that might have been a double dribble call Here Comes number four now across the center line number four moving to the right sets up the screen number four with the shot oh just wide Flores with the rebound over to Morgan Morgan down the stretch she's working against Andrea still can't get it up collects her own rebound back up to the basket Morgan puts two down doesn't even crack a smile she's not playing here folks score 168 Panthers here's number four from the Sentinels putting a shot up Martinez with the rebound Morgan from the Panthers able to collect it passes over to St Louis St Louis stopped up like a Clogg drain going nowhere and here we are now the Sentinels number four Marley Campbell out to Andrea and the left Andrea looking to do a spin Martinez now collecting the ball into the paint Martinez showing out in this second half here and here comes Griffin and Diaz subbing in St Louis wide open in the paint but she doesn't have it Griffin with the rebound out to Monica puts it up still not there back out to Monica into St Louis St Louis doesn't have it finally the Sentinels collect a rebound and a lot pass to Martinez she's wide open can she do it just nearly there Martinez proving to be the X Factor here meanwhile Griffin putting down an easy bucket moving buckets like a laboring Workhorse in a rice Patty meanwhile number four in the Sentinels looking for an opportunity trying to put some points on the board here remember the score 188 gamble looking for anything placed two hands on the ball and then went the dribble that's no good this is going to be a panther ball on the far end of the Court they're still in home territory Griffin now crossing the center line passes over her shoulder into Monica open Diaz easy easy score one score and one halftime ago Diaz this is Sarah over to Martinez Martinez been the secret weapon in this half for the Sentinels Project X but the ball's out of bounds here's Griffin now over the shoulder pass sister back to Diaz on the far right wing Diaz into Morgan off the backboard and that's plus two two score in one game a go Panthers up 22 to8 and this is going to be a panther ball here ref's handing it over to Monica Griffin Denisha putting it up not there Monica looking for a pass to Morgan it's not there between Sentinel legs Griffin still able to hold on to it back to outside Diaz able to collect it monik at the top of the arch over to Tanisha back over to Monica back to Diaz a passing spectacle Tanisha puts it up but it's not there Griffin able to H on to it out to Diaz at the top of the arch over Denisha puts the shot up it's not there Sentinels finally able to recover this is Andrea working against Morgan she's got speed and she's stopped up stuffed and here we go Morgan with a shot able to collect the rebound it's not there Flores now right underneath the rim back out to Morgan Morgan puts it up still not there if the Panthers can score they might be able to put this one away Morgan looking for anything trying to get her own rebound it's not there Martinez finally able to collect for the Sentinels Morgan trying to steal back out to Campbell here we go down the far right stretch Campbell looking for anything looking for room No Vacancy here's number four now Campbell just try trying to stay off the defense pass out to Martinez Project X and the whistle was blown looks like that's going to be on possibly Martinez 35 Monica Griffin now down the stretch passing into Morgan's Shoes Griffin with the shot it's not there tipped off the hands of Flores looks like it's going to be stin no ball another mark on number 35 Martinez she only has one left to give Sentinels can't afford [Music] that Martinez been so good here in the second half she's their Wild Card The X Factor here's Campbell now looking to make something happen into toac and it's just right off her hands and she's grimacing some holding her left shoulder we hope she's okay Sentinels can't afford to take another lost player Martinez passing in into the hands of Andrea trying to get past Morgan and it's good Andrea trying to inject some life into the Sentinels team now the score 20110 Panthers But Here Comes Monica Griffin unrelenting Diaz Morgan Morgan Griffin now with the attempt from the side not even close Flores out to [Applause] Morgan we're approaching the end of the third quarter here which means Griffin with the shot it's not there and that's going to do it for the third period the final score at this moment in time Panthers 20 Sentinels [Music] 10 pull it off or will they just be another team dead Bight dead [Music] us [Music] [Applause] [Music] he gamees Back In Motion here top of the fourth again Panthers 20 Sentinels 10 St Louis under some serious defense sentinel's just trying to keep this one from getting away from him here's Andrea now Crossing Center Court lob pass to Martinez Project X she puts it up it's good Martinez looking like a bio engineered superhuman here's Griffin now across Center Court pass to St Louis St Louis into Griffin anything tipped by Andre Andrea here's Tanisha Griffin into Diaz in the pain Diaz puts two up right off the backboard Deuce deuce and here's Martinez once again she loses that ball to Griffin but she's playing hard defense Martinez won't let it stop meanwhile I'm getting word from our in-house analyst a timeout has been called the score folks working here at pdsd is so amazing because I see our students grow and graduate and I'm inspired Do You Want To Be Inspired come work at [Music] pdsd and we're back in Action timeouts wrapped Sentinels looking reasonably refreshed and here we are Monica Griffin number one for the Panthers passing into St Louis and that ball Diaz putting deuce up can and the Sentinels answer the score 2412 Sentinels trying to play a hard game here but it might be getting away from him Quick Pass to Andrea Campbell's able to keep it but then a half court violation as the ball tumbles pass the Center Court [Applause] line another turnover for the Sentinel team here's desire over to Diaz Diaz in the corner doesn't quite have it tries for it again on the rebound and she's got it put two up this might be it for the Sentinels folks unless they score and here's Andrea with the reception she's in the paint no foul call bows balls out of bounds here's Martinez on the pass in goes right to Griffin she's down the court over theh shoulder pass to a phantom in the corner of the gymnasium no one there here come the Sentinels now lob pass to Martinez Project X here's Andrea now with the shot anything to keep this game alive Andrea now moving back to defense here's a pass to DIA she's just trying to keep it in bounds Griffin able to hold on to it and now a tug-of-war match on the far side 4 minutes 51 seconds to go in this one [Applause] here and here we go number four coming across Center Line St Louis all over [Music] [Applause] her and the whistle has been blown again here come the Panthers now St Louis Griffin Monica far left side looking for a shot just off the rim there into the hands of the Sentinels Here Comes Campbell Tomac and Andrea on the left side she's got speed loses the ball into the hands of Griffin Martinez still on her another lob pass here's Diaz stuffed Martinez clogged like a itic tank Diaz now taking some free throw attempts first one bounces in and out not there second attempt in put one up for the Panthers they're taking off here folks 2712 Panther lead Sentinels need 15 points in four minutes here we are now number four rounding at the corner Diaz able to get away from it Diaz dribbling down the length he's looking to go coast to coast and she's got it Diaz just went Manhattan Los Angeles here we are now Sentinels mounting an offensive blood here but it's stolen by Griffin she's looking to go Coast to Coast it's not there but a whistle is blown that's going to be a travel still Sentinel ball the score up 2912 another lot pass nearly intercepted by St Louis but Martinez has a hand on it passing into the paint here's Andrea Andrea with the reception she's got to take a three here there's no way she might have to go from downtown butting up against St Louis here's Martinez possession lost ball is rolling right out of [Music] bounds substitutions coming in the game here number 10 Carri Morgan and glor Gloria Flores and Madison Sutton the Griffin sisters taking a seat on the bench they played a hardfought game here's Martinez passing in and another whistle has been blown I'm getting a word from our in-house analysist excuse me analyst communication on the court is just not happening Panther ball now Morgan St Louis mounting an offensive strike from their home court going up against Andrea Andrea on defense Morgan wide open in the paint but it's bounce off for shin St Louis St Louis going JP Morgan and Chase with the bank shot we're nearly there folks almost two minutes left to go in this one and here's Andrea Morgan's on her Morgan whistle called for the bear hug that's going to make it Sentinel ball Sarah Tomac passing in here's Andrea with the easy layup Deuces on the board Sentinels might not take it but they're not going home without a fight here's Sutton wide here's St Louis passing over to Morgan pass is also wide Oregon retaining their Spirits Sentinel still playing number four crossing the center here rounding the corner number four trying to do it blocked [Music] blocked like a creepy person on social media and here we are Martinez with the shot it's not there Andreas got the rebound Flores comes away from it lob pass from Morgan goes nowhere except into the hands of number four Campbell St Louis though still on her here's Sarah Tomac regaining possession driving into the paint Sarah puts a shot up and we are still blowing the whistle [Music] still the score 3114 1 minute 15 seconds to go in this one here here's Mar Martinez right into the hands of Diaz Diaz looking to go Coast to Coast she's already done it once in this game and wrestling the ball with Sarah Tomac that looked dangerous Viper in the pit here's Desiree St Louis in rounding for the Panthers here tossing out to Flores Flores with the easy shot and it's good Wells Fargo JP Morgan and Chase and Goldman Sachs Flores with the bank here's Andrea now to Martinez Martinez gives it back to florz on the opposite team and then some more tug-of war [Applause] Panthers almost 30 seconds left on the clock here Desiree St Louis Panthers just securing this lead at this point Morgan they're looking to exhaust the clock over to Flores Flores into Andrea Andrea sitting in the paint for the Sentinels 15 seconds left on the clock passes over to Campbell Campbell sprinting down the right side looking for anything still playing hard defense bounces off Tomac with the reception not there and this one's going to expire folks as Morgan runs down you got to give it to the Oregon Panthers the girls team is 2 and0 on the day folks that's going to do it for the first day of wsbc the final score of this game here is Panthers 33 Sentinels 14 me tired e

the following video features audio description for our Blind and Visually Impaired viewers a shot from a basketball backboard reveals an empty gymnasium without any athletes playing a huge playground appears with no children playing a bird's eyee view shows empty seats and an empty stage in a very large Auditorium the shot changes revealing a track with no athletes ready to run an empty hallway of trophies and plaques revealed no one in the hallway words on the screen read our Halls need you so do tomorrow's leaders in a Flash Montage the words deaf blind leadership sportsmanship appear on the screen followed by the words # jooin asdb with [Music] e and we're at the very top of this one folks today our fourth game of the day this is the Arizona School for the Deaf and the blind the Sentinels meeting the Challenger the Idaho school for the DEA and the blind raptors raptors played a game earlier this morning in fact they played the first one of the day for the Sentinels this is going to be their first one Sentinels looking refreshed ready to go I'm sure the Raptors feel the same way excited to have this one underway just want to point out another pair of salmon shoes on the Sentinels team here today salmon seems to be a very popular shoe color in the basketball world and here goes tip off recovered number 12 Idaho and we're away folks it's in possession of Idaho to start little bit of a tus Sentinels trying to secure it number five crossing over the center line into enemy territory for the first time this is number 11 quick score less than 20 seconds in number 11 for Arizona that is Oscar Perez the third not first nor second but the third Idaho in possession going for a three attempt just off the rim there Sentinels recover this is number five Nikki carbal Sentinels lobbing it off the backboard attempt is no good this is going to be a free throw attempt for the Sentinels this is from number 24 Julian Cole first attempt just off the rim there he's got a second one coming [Music] up again number 24 what does he got off the rim no good recovered by the Sentinels number five puts it up right away now in 44 off the backboard number [Applause] 44 looking good now here we have the Idaho Raptors coming across the center line sticky defense from number five on the Sentinels team not L and through sentinel's able to recover but not before a tumble that's number 11 Oscar Perez the third this is going to be sentinel's ball out to number 24 Julian this is going to be Sentinel ball they're looking to pass in out to number five he's got hands on it in the paint no good with the Kobe Fade Away another Fade Away 24 Sentinels holding on to the ball number five from the three-point line just off the rim it's no good 11 24 able to recollect it and there's a call on the [Applause] play we got a pass in to number 24 in Idaho Ethan [Applause] orb and it's stolen number 11 from the Sentinels no one in front of him off the back for easy layup again Oscar Perez not first not second the [Music] third Ethan orb coming back across the center line for Idaho he's looking around stolen again number five no one in front of him misses the layup behind 10 10 with the recover putting points on the board great job number 10 few substitutions on the Idaho side looks like we might be sending in number 10 Lucas Burton who is that working here at PSD is so amazing because I see our students grow and graduate and I'm inspired Do You Want To Be Inspired come work at PDS see some fiery words from the Idaho coach and here we go Idaho ball passing in tracon that's number 12 Here Comes Lucas Burton loses slight possession of the ball it's in the hands of number five he's going for a layup easy dub the score Sentinels 10 Idaho zero but Idaho's got some momentum they're coming back in full swing Here Comes Lucas Burton two hands on the ball three-point shot just off the rim and into the computer [Music] corner thankfully the people who work in the computer Corner also work out now this is Sentinel ball they're inside the paint trying to recover but not before the ball goes out of bounds [Applause] and with the sound of the buzzer we're subbing in number 32 for Arizona Omar cavedo he's replacing Oscar Perez the third Here Comes Idaho they're in stride number 12 passing into the paint number 34 he's got Sentinels all over him but not before a call goes out I've been told one of our refs is wearing Oka running shoes and I was supposed to tell everyone about [Applause] that this is Idaho ball now number 22 two Noah Harrison he's looking to pass in Lucas Burton number 10 he's got a hold on it passes it right into the hands of number five on the Sentinel team Nikki carbal Nikki's got momentum he's driving and passes to the brick wall we've seen a few of those today I'm not sure what that's about Back In Motion now Lucas Burton airball again the brick wall has a few assists on some of the games [Music] today number 40 from Idaho getting subbed out today that's John B looking sharp now we've got a lob pass to number 12 caught in stride extremely impressive number 10 attempt but it's no good rebound by number chenny incredible that's his second one of the day now here comes number 12 from Idaho pushing in he's looking for an open not quite think he was looking for number 23 High walking Idaho team spirits still looking good though they're dapping each other up they're not losing any steam meanwhile Sentinels number fun number five Nikki carbal and number 10 with the shot right off the rim recovered by Idaho number 34 right into the hands of a sentinel Defender Nikki carbal to number 10 it's off the backboard hits the rim no good 10's able to recover 44 right off the rim again 44 that's his third of the game his third self rebound and point after give it up for chenny now number 12 in the wing for Idaho passes it right to number 10 to carball carball down the stretch makes a Defender Miss weaving and dodging folks like an old woman making a knitted scarf now 22 for Idaho passing into the paint intercepted number 10's got it and they're taking their sweet time down the offensive stretch here out to number 10 he's got a shot form looks good right off the rim into the hands of awaiting Noah Harrison he's down the stretch can he do it loses control of the ball here's Nikki carbal to number 10 number 10 has had some points today can he do another not quite but here comes chenny with this fourth rebound score of the game and we're only in the first quarter folks now Noah Harrison dribbling to tracon number 12 this is Noah Harrison putting the ball in the hands of trayon the ball rolls out of B bounds into the bleacher [Music] side we have some substitutions coming in for the Sentinels and Idaho coming in for Idaho number 24 Ethan orb as well as number 42 Andrew rizley and number 21 Anthony Burke now on the four far side towards the bleachers Noah Harrison of Idaho about to be handed the ball he's going to be passing it in they're in Sentinel territory near the net Burton's got it Sentinels able to recover number five driving there's no man in front of him he's going for a layup and it's in that puts the Sentinels up 22 zip but you wouldn't know it cuz the Raptors are fighting hard Noah Harrison with the L pass into George highw walking highw walking crosses the center of the Court stepping bounce past uh Lucas Burton Burton almost loses it they're at the three-point line gets stuck in the paint and now again Nicki carbal no one in front of him easy layup and that score is 24 zip about 45 seconds left in this first quarter here Idaho coming back once again Ethan orb he's driving towards the three-point line he's in the far Wing nearly loses control of the ball still in play Here Comes Noah he wants to take a shot off he passes to Ethan Ethan's under the hoop he goes the near Miss that's going to be a foul looks like on number 32 of Arizona Omar kedo meanwhile Ethan orb is at the free throw line he's looking to put up the first points for Idaho today here's his first attempt no good still have 25 seconds left in the quarter one more for Ethan orb here can he do it shot looks good it's off the backboard Ball's recovered this is going to be Sentinel ball this is Sentinal ball they're in their own territory number five Nikki carbal just striding across Center Court Noah Harrison comes tumbling towards him ball now in Raptor territory Julian Cole has the ball he's driving in the paint he's looking to get something going not quite Noah Harrison on the recovery they're trying to get it out and that's the end of the first quarter folks Raptors 24 sent excuse me Sentinels 24 Raptors zero as I said you wouldn't guess it though Raptors are fighting hard the following video features audio description for our Blind and Visually Impaired viewers a video appears a bubbly animation reveals why text why hdb here's why there are so many things I enjoy about this job but I'd say the number one thing 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in the hands of Nikki carbal number five passes it 24 Julian Cole we're still in Raptor territory [Applause] seems the ball has fallen out of bounds on the Raptor side that's from tracon number 12 here comes trayon striding across Center Court he's got momentum and a just for fun buzzer just for fun seems like there's a technical foul went unnoticed before what' you say so this is going to be an undefended free throw from number 24 no good we're going to go for a second attempt here again this is Ethan orb off the backboard Ethan sinks it and that's the first point for the Raptors on the [Applause] day now we're back to regular play tracon number 12 ball gets intercepted by number five Nikki carbal he's in Raptor's territory but not before a foul gets called this is going to be Sentinel ball now under the Raptor's net Behind Enemy Lines Julian Cole number 24 passes into carbal he's caught in the wings back out to Julian into Andrew in the paint number 45 Nikki carbal with the shot it's off the rim collected by Ethan orb pass passes it intercepted by Anthony Anthony into Andrew to Julian Cole rushing the basket off the backboard collected aggressive rebound by number 32 Noah from the Idaho sides able to collect it he Sprints down to the opposite side Nikki K ball goes for the steel and it's no good Nikki's going to get himself a foul for that play the score again Sentinels 24 Raptors one seems like we got a sub in on the Sentinel side that's number 12 he's on defense on Ethan orb guarding the ball under home net right now Ethan goes for the three-point shot off the back collected Julian Cole sprinting it's him and Ethan orb for the basket Julian's got it recollected rebound by number 12 for the Sentinels and the ball's going to come to a stop there raptors have it under their own net Here Comes Noah Harrison running down the right side he's got an arm out he's pushing into the defender number 12 can't stop him balls in the hands of Ethan orb it's a miss Noah Burton's able to collect it number 23 going for the basket it's so close Noah able to hang on to it goes for another shot it's no good Sentinels recollected number 12 to Julian Cole he beats Ethan orb e Julian Cole for the unguarded layup he's been putting some points up today Raptors now coming back from their own Sidelines over Center Court they're looking to get some points on the board here Ethan looking for an open man he's got Noah Noah at the three-point with the one shot just below the net brick wall with the [Music] assist looks like it's going to be a timeout for the Sentinel side we're going to take a quick one the following video features audio description for our Blind and Visually Impaired viewers a woman bathed in Blue Light walks down a school hallway she is surrounded by colorful Flags asdb is looking for today's leaders and for tomorrow's leaders not just at school but in life work and the world how can you help us lead text on the screen reads our programs need you so do tomorrow's leaders in a Flash Montage the words deaf blind leadership sportsmanship appear on the screen follow by the words # jooin asdb with a QR code leading to asdb Teamworks applications page and that's the end of that timeout break now it's Sentinel ball really they're on their side home court pass to Julian Cole from number 32 Omar cavedo Julian looking for an open Lane walks to the far wing anthon's got the ball back to Julian Cole back to Anthony Anthony making a Miss Julian Cole now in the paint puts it up almost bounced out then bounc back in that's two more on the board Sentinels 28 Raptors one here comes Noah from the Raptor side pushing deep into number 12 Noah's looking to get a pass off to number 34 can he do it loses the ball and here comes Julian Cole unguarded once again misses the easy layup we're going to have a sub in here number 10 coming in for Julian Cole um on the ASB side meanwhile Noah Harrison 22 been playing a heck of a game he's going to get subbed out for number 12 tracon from Idaho Here Comes Ethan orb striding down the lane loses control of the the ball number 10's got it he's looking for something number 32 looking to recollect for Arizona but it's a noo apologies folks the buzzer seems to be the buzzer is on its own type of time today looks like this may be Idaho ball yes it is here comes the duo Noah trayon rushing the basket trayon looking for something he's got two men on him no number 34 trying to hang on to it that was Andre manrique from Idaho now number 11 Oscar Perez the Third passes in to number 32 shots up sinks it looking like sha diesel 32 Omar cavedo ball stolen 11 you already know Oscar Perez the third now Anthony looking to collect the ball he's nearly got it he's got the ball he hands it off to Andrew Andrew gets it out Oscar Perez into the paint here number 44 Amari heck of a play from the Sentinels Anthony playing some serious bball he's going to take a quick break subing in for him Nikki carbal now here comes the Raptors from their side Noah has got the ball at the three-point line passes into the paint That's Burton he swallowed up back out to Noah three-point line it's almost there just off the rim ball rolls out of [Applause] bounds Idaho coach yelling defense here comes the Sentinels Oscar Perez no look pass swallowed up here comes Noah Harrison and then 32 Omar cavedo Trac trayon in motion he's looking to catch the pass not quite hits the ground picks himself right up trayon playing hard ball hope he's all right Omar cavedo with the ball off the backboard another two points sha diesel like play Here Comes Noah Noah with the onehanded three-pointer just wide meanwhile it's Sentinel ball the whole Raptor team has returned to their side of the Court here come the Sentinels cross the center line passing in to number 44 in the in the paint passing in cavedo off the backboard so close gets his own rebound back up to 44 and it sinks [Applause] it incredible play both our 511 Sentinels crushing the paint [Applause] [Music] Play Noah Harrison with another three-point attempt brick wall with its 20th assist of the day it's sent no ball here Here Comes Nikki carbal passing chenny in the middle looking for an open teammate finds Oscar Perez the third Perez passes back to chenny back to carbal back to Perez into Oscar cavedo excuse me Omar cavedo chenny recovers Oscar [Applause] Perez takes a basketball to the head but he looks okay he puts a thumbs up we love to see it good sports good sportsmanship Here Comes Noah Harrison the [Applause] machine there's going to be a foul on that play there it's going to be a call friend friendly reminder of the score here as trayon takes his first free throw attempt 34-1 trayon even the buzzer like that one the score now 34-2 tracon with a second just off the rim he's looking for the rebound he doesn't have it cedo's got it here comes Oscar Perez there's only a minute left in this quarter Perez looks to pass to Andrew right out of his hands towards the wall that's an out of- bounds ball that's going to be the Raptors they've got it under their own net Sentinels returning to their home net as well here he comes Noah the machine Harrison striding across Center Line a fake out pass to trayon number 12 number 12 loses control right at the three-point line picked up by carbal car ball juking him Noah's all over him as he crosses the center line Oscar Perez at the three-point line he's going to shoot heavily guarded passes out to 44 back out to carbal carbal has got no one on him into 32 back out to carbal and that's going to be a raptor ball [Applause] Idaho coach Jamal Thomas letting us no 15 seconds left in the quarter here Here Comes tracon they're looking to get some points on the board before halftime tracon off the shoe recovered by Ethan orb he's looking for a shot attempt it's picked up by by number five Nikki carbal Nikki's looking for something last second off the hands Swiss Nikki carbal got to have a smile on 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asdb feature prominently on the screen children walk down the corridor football players run down the field with the words great opportunities a coach chats with his basketball team teacher interacts with students in a classroom young children walk down a corridor with the words thriving Community children line up and watch a presentation with the words rewarding careers children wave and smile at the camera with the words your future is here read over children playing a basketball game # jooin asdb with with a QR code leading to asdb Teamworks applications [Music] page hope you enjoyed the game come get involved here at pdsd and ASV become a coach a teacher hey you could even lead us to our next [Music] Victory the following video features audio description for our Blind and Visually Impaired viewers a video appears a bubbly animation reveals why text why asdb here's why how did I get here well I got my masters in deed at U OFA I did my internship here I student taught in the high 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from a basketball backboard reveals an empty gymnasium without any athletes playing a huge playground appears with no children playing a bird's eyee view shows empty seats and an empty stage in a very large Auditorium the shot changes revealing a track with no athletes ready to run an empty hallway of trophies and plaques revealed no one in the hallway words on the screen read our Halls need you so do tomorrow's leaders in a Flash Montage the words deaf blind leadership sportsmanship appear on the screen followed by the words # join the following video features audio description for our Blind and Visually Impaired viewers the shot over the desert reads the words y a sdb children run across the playground with the words great opportunities hands wave in the air in the gym words thriving Community as people walk through a park and an athlete throws a javelin children play in the playground a teacher coaches with the words your future is here # jooin asdb with a QR code leading to asdb Teamworks applications page asdb is looking for today's leaders and for tomorrow's leaders not just at school but in life work and the world how can you help us [Music] lead the following video features audio description for our blind individually impaired viewers a video appears a bubbly animation reveals why text why hdb here's why to truly give asdb a chance and give asdb the opportunity to show you what the school and the agency is all about allowing them to not just change you your career but change you as a person Fades into that same bubbly animation now we see the HB logo and white text reading Learn and Grow With US apply today all right folks clock is winding down on the end of halftime there hopefully the Curious Case of the Rowdy buzzer has been [Applause] solved you got it all right ladies and gentlemen oh my gosh the microphone Just Got Hijacked but it's okay we're back to regularly scheduled programming I'm curious I'm going to go ahead and conduct a an interview with a watcher of the game what do you think about the event so far today what are you seeing the game is great I appreciate the energy on the court let's leave it all on the floor Sentinels let's go Idaho all right a bit of a conflict of interest there but we like it a little Sentinel Pride Raptors looking to mount a 35o comeback in this second half here we'll see how things [Music] Fair sounds good to me and here we go third quarter is underway Sentinel ball they're Crossing at the center line approaching passing into the paint pass out to Anthony just bouncing off his his thigh there Raptor ball Raptors now coming from the the East Side Noah Harrison striding Westward with a three-point shot rebounded by tracon he's not able to reel it in ball moves out of bounds Sentinel ball now here comes number five Nikki carbal 11 Oscar Perez the third passes inward to the paint trayon tries to keep it alive Sentinel got the ball number 12 with some [Applause] moves Raptors though secure the ball and now they're at the far end of the Court Ethan orb with the shot off very close but no cigar looks like it might be Sentinel ball here this is going to be a raptor inbound ball under the enemy net 34's got a hand on it passes over the hoop Noah secures it goes for another Raptors are trying to put points on the board tracon recovers putting it up finally puts it in the net Trac Melly with two points on the board 37 Sentinels Raptors four look at that Noah orb with the recovery with the steal he's going for the layup it's so close excuse me Ethan orb now it's Sentinel ball number five Nikki carbal looking for an open man number 12 in the paint back to carbal pass back 12 in the paint out to perezz the third Perez might have an open shot here pass back between him and carbal Anthony sitting open in the wing pass to Anthony he's got it he goes for the three just off the rim so close great shot Anthony now here comes Ethan orb striding into the paint looking for a shot uncontested it's right off the backboard tracon gets the rebound puts two on the boards that's four points for my man trayon number 12 on the Raptor team sounding like there's a a call in the play here that's going to be a raptor ball Nikki carbal passing into his teammate Anthony Anthony turning around sitting outside the three-point line passes into the paint Andrew's got a hand on it number 12 back out to the three-point line Perez the third the third going for three but it's not quite [Applause] there [Music] okay Ethan an orb all alone but it doesn't quite work out we love the hustle Ethan orb keep it up keep up the good work number two4 he's got the Kobe number so he must be special now here's Anthony in the wing going for three just wide recovered by 12 Sentinel still Perez passes to a ghost in the bleachers that's an out of- bounds ball here's Noah Harrison passing in to Ethan orb Ethan striding looking to make a move in the paint Noah right behind him Noah's for the shot the three just below might be a sentinal out of bounds ball though number 12 got his hands on it [Music] tracon number 12 can he do it 34 and that's two points up for my main man 34 Andre [Applause] manrique Perez carbal carbal for the three not quite there recovered by 12 puts it up that's two points for our Sentinels right there I guarantee there's no conflict of interest with today's play caller here's 22 Noah Harrison with the spinning move blocked by carbal Harrison recovers another spin move here comes [Music] carall he's waiting the rest of the Raptor team is coming to recover here's Perez the third carbal into 12 Perez carbal they're playing a Sly game here folks taking their sweet time like a candle melting in the night here's a pass out to Anthony Anthony with the shot so close recovered by 12 Perez doesn't make it either the score folks Sentinels 39 Raptors eight this is going to be a free throw attempt number 12 for the Arizona Sentinels here first throw and that's one on the board the buzzer likes it the buzzer likes that free throw a lot we've got a subin number 23 for Idaho that's George highw walking remember he had a point earlier in this game it's so quiet you could hear a pin drop in this Auditorium number 12 with the shot no good recovered by Idaho back into the hands of the Sentinels here's carbal to unguarded rolls right in chenny he's had a few points in this game as well ball rolls right back into the hands of the Sentinels here's number 12 bank shot and that's good as well yes sir number 12 putting some points on the board as well here Sentinel score 42-8 and here we have Lucas Burton number 10 looking to make something happen making Defenders [Applause] Miss Noah Harrison passes to Perez Perez can he go all the way can he do it himself nearly goes out of bounds carbal sitting at the three-point line passes in 44 Perez carbal Perez go for three so I can say it doesn't go for three Here Comes an fory just off the shoot shoes brick wall 21st assist of the game and the ref's shoes laces are untied so he has to retie them now we can keep going the buzzer likes it too here comes Noah Harrison 22 and Lucas Burton keeping it inbounds right into the hands of the Sentinels Here Comes Perez the third passes it back to carbal they're in enemy territory number 44 sitting unguarded in the paint out to Perez back to carbal intercepted nearly carball has got it he's sitting at the three-point look looks to post up doesn't do it Anthony does it instead it's just short recovered number 12 anern got another pass in he wants to get a shot off he's got it in him just wide keep going an fore Here Comes Lucas Burton in the paint striding and he just loses control [Applause] they're going to go ahead and give this ball to Idaho here's Harrison tossing it in inbounding to 34 34 sitting in the paint guarded Harrison regains control out to 23 here's Ethan orb the buzzer really didn't like that Ethan somebody made the buzzer really mad and the game's Back In Motion here this is Sentinel ball Here Comes Julian Cole we haven't seen him in a moment jul Jan Cole to number 10 and then back two 34 is looking to steal 12 in the paint Julian Cole is he going to go for it no number 10 with a fake Out Pass back to 10 is he going to go for it and a call is made looks like it's going Raptor's way we've also got a new Sub in on the Idaho side that's Xander Stanley rocking some seriously cool blue hair that's number 52 24 Ethan or going for the shot just wide Here Comes Julian Cole down the sidelines in enemy territory bypasses a few Defenders making a Miss passes out to number 10 number 10 with another fake out 44 sitting in the paint passes out to Anon anery with a shot just wide so close here's number 44 back out to Anthony he's almost got it Ball's inbounds go Anthony shots just [Applause] wide the secondary first the Sentinels playing just as hard as the first you can't even tell the difference some commotion on the far side Anthony Burke lining up for his first free throw attempt first shot is in INF fory Burke with the score he's got a second opportunity here nearly there anony looking good here comes Noah Harrison dribbling out to The Far Side puts it up nearly there almost 10 seconds left in this third quarter can anything happen ball still in bounds it's set no ball hasn't been called out here comes Julian Cole two seconds left and that's going to do it for this third quarter Sentinels 45 Idaho eight good anony Anthony putting up a point on the board [Music] hope you enjoyed the game come get involved here at pdsd and ASV become a coach a teacher hey you could even lead us to our next [Music] victory [Music] The Curious Case check check check check check check check check check check check check check check game's Back In Motion this is Sentinel ball I'm going to briefly set the mic aside Sentinel still have possession it's Nikki carbal the top of the three-point line that's number five passes it out to Julian Cole 24 Noah rushes him Sentinels putting on a passing Clinic Here Comes carball number five Cole the [Applause] [Music] same Idaho making it clear they're playing man-to-man defense you heard it here first under idah honet here they come Noah Harrison striding forward over the center line here comes Noah pushing into the defender looking for an open Lane ball stolen carball number five Here Comes Anthony pushing passes in to tracon Tron running to the other side got some momentum can he do it gets his own nearly gets his own rebound but it's caught by Julian Cole Julian rushing The Far Side Here Comes Nikki carbal sitting at the three-point line number 12 running the paint number 12 looking like he works at Sherwin Williams controlling the paint this is Idaho ball now number [Applause] 34 and that's an easy bucket for Julian Julian Cole here comes tracon from the Idaho side number Noah Harrison 22 single arm three-point shot no good here comes 34 rebound collected this is number five Nikki carbal he's been a standout in this game so far unseen pass there passing to ghosts here's 32 Julian Cole out to Nikki carbal he's sitting alone at the three-point line back to the paint master an and forie nearly got a hand on it just past him and it's subbing time folks in comes Andrew number 45 for Arizona number 32 Omar cavedo been playing a heck of a game he's going to take a sit here comes Idaho also in for Idaho 23 George highw trayon putting a man down on the ground Lucas Burton with the recovery and there's a [Applause] call this is number 10 Lucas Burton up at the free throw line for Idaho this is going to be his first attempt here again the score Sentinels 47 Idaho 8 here's Lucas Burton first throw not quite there second attempt and that's in Lucas Burton putting points up for the Raptors that's going to make it 479 [Applause] edly now Sentinel ball Behind Enemy Lines here's Nikki carbal evading this is Anthony with a shot off the backboard and it's so close Here Comes trayon unguarded loses control at the edge there that's going to be an out of- bounds [Music] ball the buzzer really did not like that series of [Music] play [Music] [Applause] some mild confusion from the Idaho bench here here we go Idaho's got some new players in that includes Xander Stanley number 52 with the super cool hair now this is sentinel's ball they're right at the rim of the Raptors here's Anthony driving so close Andrew with the shot so close as well here comes Ethan orb trying to make something happen just can't connect the ball Falls right out of bounds there [Applause] here we go Sentinel ball driving towards the Raptor hoop this is Julian Cole back to carbal a minute left to play in this one [Music] here Sentinels again a passing Clinic The Doctor Is In Sentinels getting a pass off to Andrew back to 12 to number five here's Andrew here's number 12 the paint Master Andrew going for the shot off the backboard it's so close tipped in nearly had the rebound here's Ethan orb striding the court we have 10 seconds left in this one folks can Ethan make anything happen it's stolen by Julian Cole Cole looking for a teammate passes it to Anthony Anthony struggling he still got it loses glasses and I think that's it for this one let's get a round of applause for our Raptors and Sentinel game today final score Sentinels 47 Raptors nine both teams shaking hands on the court exchanging Graces great game stay tuned our next one today coming at 5:00 pm that's going to be Oregon girls team versus Utah neither of which we've seen before you're not going to want to miss either one of those

e all right folks apologies for the delay welcome to the first girls basketball game of the Western State Basketball Club conference we've got the pdsd road runners against the Washington Terriers today and the score is already an easy two to five road runners collect the stolen ball put two up on the board leveling the score out to four to five still in Washington's favor here Washington just outside the three-point perimeter pass looking for a shot and that's a foul number 23 hits the hardwood from Washington that's going to be Ashley Anderson that's a foul on number TW excuse me number two from the pdsd Roadrunner team number 23 looking for her first free throw attempt close right off the rim she's got a second attempt for this foul and it's good right through the basket that's going to bring the total four to six Washington favor pdsd looking to get across Center Court pass into the pain here looking like a travel call on the road runners it's going to be Washington Ball Washington rushing across Center Court to the far outside three-point line they get a shot off it's right off the backboard Washington gets the rebound looking for a shot heavily tested that's going to be a called The Road Runner still Washington Ball Road Runners playing hard defensive ball rips it out of the hands on number that's road runners number 10 arilia roas Washington steals the ball goes for the layup no good Roos with the rebound cross Center Court she's looking to get some momentum going they're passing outside the three-point line Brad Runner is able to hang on to it into the pain here roa's looking to get a shot off and it's going to be a call Travel that's going to make a Washington Ball Washington number 11 striding to the far left Wing into the paint off the backboard close but no cigar number two collects the rebound for Washington out to number 14 from the wing and that's in number 14 for the Washington Terriers that's Deborah Dennis putting some points up on the board time out time out time out time out that's going to be a Road Runner timeout asdb is looking for today's leaders and for tomorrow's leaders not just at school but in life work and the world how can you help us [Music] lead [Music] that's going to be that's going to be the end of the road runners time out there we're back to regular play boys team from the bench cheering on their female counterparts roas looking to get across Center Court bouncing right into the defender Washington is playing hard defense right now road runners passing outside the three-point line Washington able to get a steal open court number two looking for something and it's good number two for the Washington Terriers that's going to bring the score up 11 to4 Washington lead road runners now in enemy [Applause] territory that's going to be Washington ball number 11 with the ball for the Terriers coming across Center Court gaining some speed looking to get a shot off from just outside right off the backboard number number 14 for the Washington collects the rebound driving ball falls out of possession road runners collect Washington still playing hard d looks like that's going to be road runners ball in their own territory number 10 roas passing in number 13 with the ball now looking to stay in bounds oh block from the Washington side but road runners are able to hang on to it open court for number five shots up and it's good that's Pearl Williams for the pdsd road runners putting two on the [Applause] board 15 seconds left in this first quarter here Washington needs to get a shot off number 11 number 14 number 13 ah attempt is no good 5 seconds left on the clock road runners Crossing into enemy territory looking to get [Music] something attempt is no good that's going to be the end of the first quarter here folks score at the end of the first Washington 11 pdsd road runners six [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Applause] [Music] he all right top of the second quarter here Washington's got the ball at Center Court they're looking to make something happen extend their lead 11 from just outside the three-point line right off the backboard road runners able to get the rebound heavily contested though Washington's playing some heavy defense road runners able to get the ball across the center line from just inside the three number 13 with the hook shot no good Washington's got the ball back number 11 now for the Washington Terriers that's Savannah Anderson that's going to be call on the road runners number 10 arilia roas that's going to be Washington ball here and again number 11 Savannah Anderson's going to be passing in excuse me Savannah's getting subbed out we got number 13 Malone passing in for the Washington teres ball passes off the knee of number 13 team for the road runners that's going to be out on them still Washington ball here Washington passes inbound they're in in the paint number 14 looks for a shot it's off the rim no good road runners looking to collect the ball here nearly out of bounds but they stay in it falls into the hands of the enemy Washington Terriers road runners pick it up again that's number 10 she's in the paint she's looking to get a shot off swallowed up by the defense number 13 for the Washington back across Court passing into the paint and a call that's going to be another foul on the road runners here number 13 Miracle Brooks that's on her Ball's inbound for Washington they're just outside the paint number 21 it's no good swallowed up by the road runners they steal the ball here's Miracle Brooks looking to get something going she's able to stay in bounds again a miracle oh no good another shot off very close they get the rebound one more attempt Washington's able to snag the ball again the score Washington 11 Road Runner six 13 for Washington she's across the center line hovering outside the three-point she has an open shot takes it right off the rim into the hands of road runners number three so FIA Terrier steal the ball back now into the road runner's hands oh and it's a call in open court that's going to be a call on Washington number two [Music] pi and this time a timeout for Washington side from their coach who isn't wearing any colorful shoes but that's okay they're just black and [Music] white and can find you can find the plant in what [Music] else did you f the [Applause] [Music] [Applause] EG some fire words from the coach on the Washington side teams are back ready to play Road Runner ball number 10 passes in road runners looking to close the lead here close the gap number 20 with the shot and it's good easy Swit easy bucket for number 10 for the road runners arilia Roos playing an MVP game today like that sounds Washington ball now number two completely swallowed up that's going to be a travel call on her road runners Ball Road Runners looking to pass in Washington playing pretty deep in road runners territory right now and Ball's going to bounce out of bounds looks like that's going to be on on the road runners Washington ball here number two for Washington wearing some very interesting Peach shoes number 13 stolen Ball Road Runners pick it up PA is able to recollect it for Washington side there's going to be a call that's going to be Washington ball number two passing in for Washington to number 13 she's wearing gold colored shoes bold pick I like it number two now with the ball driving into the paint looking to get a shot passes out and hands lands in the hands of the road runners and a travel call looks like it's going to be on number two for the road runners there Rivera Roa step off the court looking a bit exasperated we're going to be subbing in number 12 for the road runners that's Sarah Duncan getting some minutes on the hardwood all right Washington ball here they pass inbounds could be an open shot attempt but it's no good Washington able to collect the rebound oh and that's a easy bucket for jelene Malone with the gold colored shoes that brings the score up Washington 13 Road Runners eight road runners in possession now 13 Crossing and the ball gets swatted out of her hands out of bounds that's going to be roadr runers ball they're passing in just outside the three-point line number 13 Washington playing some hard defense trying to get a steal number 13 Miracle with the ball looking for a miracle shot and it's an ear ball number 13 for the Washington Crossing Center Court she's at the three-point line open number 14 from the wing just off the rim there collected by the road runners they're heading back across into enemy territory ball nearly goes out of bounds recollected by the Terriers and they're back driving into the paint looking for an easy layup but swallowed up by the defense and she tumbles over hard F game today between the road Runners and the Terriers road runners ball now number five driving easy shot but it's off the backboard number 14 returning the ball for Washington Pass back out to the far Wing nearly open shot 13's able to recollect it pass into the paint for number 23 swallowed up by the defense uncontested shot number 13 just off the backboard there road runners collec and head off number 14 for Washington with the steal that's Deborah Dennis once again there's a call on the play that's going to be a Road Runner ball [Music] this is Washington ball here they pass out to the three-point line number two with the attempt switch looking like Stephen Curry Road Runners ball now Washington playing into their territory number two with the steel she's looking for some more points road runners able to collect it once again 13 driving into the paint number five can hold on to it the ball's out of bounds that's going to be Washington Ball Road Runners with a few Subs number three and number 10 Sophia and arilia into play for the road runners now road runners giving the Terriers a lot of space on the offensive front number 14 Dennis no good Washington able to recollect another missed attempt road runners get the ball just under two minutes to play in the second quarter here Terriers playing heavy up on the defensive front they're at the enemy free throw line they're so far up and it's working cuz this is their second steel looks like number two for the Terriers at the far Wing they're not able to get anything going Ball's out of bounds Washington ball now number 23 looking for an open opportunity we got a player falling [Applause] over seems to be a call on Washington player number 11 number 10 for the road runners looking to pass in Washington still playing High defense here and road runners looking to get something going pain is totally swallowed up by the Washington defense here but number five drives in attempt is no good road runners is able to recollect going for another shot no good as well Washington gets it back they've got an open woman pass to number 11 she's looking for the shot oh just under road runners recollect and and that's a down ball two players hustling it out hard fought offense and defense both teams here the score Washington 16 road runners eight looks like we got a few Subs going in 13 for both teams Washington and Phoenix this is road runners ball pass in and is stolen by number 14 Dennis 13 now driving to the paint off the backboard that's two on the board Washington 18 to8 now just under a minute to go in this last quarter second last quarter before halftime Road Runner ball looking to get some points up on the board before they head to the locker room Washington looking to get the steal it's a loose ball road runners able to recollect collect they've got it in their territory headed back across Center Court stolen by Dennis 14 making plays today road runners another steal 30 seconds left number five right off the rim road runners recollect number five again off the backboard now and there's going to be a travel call looks like it could be Washington ball number two passing in for Washington pz number 13 now they're across Center Court she goes for the attempt it's just off the rim Washington's able to collect the far Wing stolen by the road runners two seconds left and that's going to do it for this first half Washington Terriers 18 road runners eight as far as shoes Washington seems like they're also in the lead Peach and gold colored the following video features audio description for our Blind and Visually Impaired viewers a shot of a slow moving camera with nobody in a room to eat lunch appears it goes slowly across the picnic [Music] table the camera flies across an empty gymnasium with no athletes playing the shot shows an empty stage an empty theater with empty [Music] seats the shot shows an empty playground the shot shows an empty hallway in a school building text reads our campus need you so do tomorrow's leaders in a Flash Montage the words deaf blind leadership sportsmanship appear on the screen followed by the words # jooin asdb with a QR code leading to asdb Teamworks the 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find the plant [Music] in did you find the [Applause] [Music] [Applause] egg and we're right back after it top of the second half here again Washington 18 road runners eight a quick shout out to our Washington team I've been told they arrived on a plane at midnight this morning they're playing tired but they're playing hard Washington ball now 13 hovering around outside the three-point line looking for a shot passes into the paint intercepted by the road runners road runners going back length of the court now trying to hold on to the ball and it's not working out number 10 is going to step out of bounds that's arilia Roa for the road runners Washington ball now number 13 for Washington jelene Malone looking to make something happen her pass is wide it's going to go right out of bounds that's going to be Road Runner's ball easy road runners now number five went the length of the Court can she make something happen defense is all over her sticky white on rice number 20 from the road runners looking for a shot but it's no good and there's going to be a travel call looks like it's going to be Road runers ball just underneath the Washington net here number 10 looking to pass in over the Washington Defenders from the paint shots close but it's no good ball goes back out of bounds number 10 now road runners ball once again still underneath the net off the hands of number 14 Deborah Dennis from Washington still might be Road Runner's ball all right game's back in play road runners looking to make something happen off the hands of number five from the road runners that's Pearl Williams that's going to make it Washington Terrier ball number two for Washington striding across Center Court looking for an open opportunity number 13's got the ball now going the perimeter of the three-point line from the far Wing easy Swit for number 21 for Washington that's uh bana Moore pass intercepted by number 13 for the road runners she almost went the wrong way then course corrected number 10 hard fought for the rebound sliding to the wood doesn't quite come down with it and there's going to be a call on 43 23 for the Washington Terriers here still road runners ball somehow someway they're passing in from the paint number five and it's no good total Collision in the paint here road runners trying to come down with it still Road Runner ball they're maintaining possession just underneath the Washington net here I'm not sure how they're doing it Road Runner pass just underneath the net number 13 looking for something anything defense is all over him still gets a shot off that's road runners number 10 arilia Rojas having an MVP game this morning now it's Washington ball number 13 looking to make something happen into the paint a stride hard fought steal from the road runners number five comes away with it the score 20 Washington Road Runners 10 ball falls out of bounds Still Road Runner ball this is number five Pearl Williams passing inbound number 20's got possession from the wing number 13 just underneath striking the bottom of the net quick substitution for Phoenix number two Rivera going to the bench now we've got roas number 10 looking to pass in completely stolen open court for number 13 for Washington she could go all the way and that's two up for Washington 2210 that's number 13 jelene Malone with a bucket out of bounds Ball Washington now inside pdsd territory number 13 Malone with the ball once again open three uncontested just off the rim road runners able to come away with it looks like we've got a travel call possibly on the road runers could be Washington ball here Washington passing inbound Malone with the ball again she's got moves looking to make something happen road runners walk away with the steel and the ball comes colliding with the judges here this is going to be Road Runner ball roas passing into number five we're looking to make something happen close the def deficit 13 all over her number 20 with the shot oh bouncing right off the rim very close that was number 20 for the road runners Valentina Gutierrez Lopez Malone now passing out to the far wing for Washington ooh bucket that's number 21 Alysa excuse me bana Moore Rihanna Moore is given more shots she's going to go for a free throw as well first attempt here no good road runners able to come away with the rebound passing outside this is number three passing to number five they're across Center Court looking to make something happen 13 20 into the paint number five off the backboard but it's no good number five Takes a Tumble and she's gripping on her her ankle you hate to see it Washington Road Runners heading back to the bench now our down player for the roadr runners number five Pearl Williams has been playing a heck of a game she's able to come up arm around her coach she's going to hobble up the court here let's get a round of applause for Pearl [Applause] Williams subbing in for her right off the bench number two for the road runners Rivera this is Washington ball now 13 coming across the court Malone looking like Carl Malone 21 from the wing just off the rim that's been her shot all day folks 21 has been crushing it from the wing another from the wing and it's in excellent score 28 Washington Road Runners 10 Washington taking an unanswered lead right now road runners need to put some points up on the board 20 for the road runners entering the paint passing out they get a shot off and it's good that's two for the road runners bringing them up to 12 28 this is number two now pasz for the Terriers 13 striding Malone to number 23 she gets an easy Bucket from the paint That's Ashley [Music] Anderson time out time out a furious timeout is called [Applause] Washington Road Runners need to come up with a serious game plan if they're going to close this deficit the current score Washington 30 road runners 12 there's still an opportunity for them to come back we have 3 minutes left in the third quarter Washington coming back from the sidelines here Dave got an 18-point lead if they can hang on to it they'll walk away with a dub this is going to be Roos for the road runners passing in road runners ball out to number 20 she's got some open room she might take a shot looking for open offense number two out to 13 she's contested can't get anything going back to 20 the road runners need to get some offense going here looks like there's going to be a call call on 13 Malone for Washington number 14 for Washington getting subbed out that's Deborah Dennis in for her replacement Sarah Johnson Road Runner ball here Miracle gets the pass off number 20 two Defenders on her she's looking for something number 10 roas from inside the paint and it's wide Malone's got the ball again and she's striding she's looking to make something happen there's going to be a push call on number three for the Road Runner s Sophia pushing on alone this is Washington ball now passing inbounds number two striding the three-point line nearly pushed out of bounds she gets the ball off 23 inside the paint looking to make something happen ball gently Tapped Out of Bounds this is going to be Washington ball passing in it looks like number 23 Ashley Anderson number two three-point line brushing the bottom half of the net there no good road runners get the ball they've got some space they need this and that player gets knocked to the ground gets up though she's all good that's number three Sophia for the road runners playing hard ball folks Malone now 13 string across Center Court she's at the three-point line passing out to the four terriers have been so good from the wing all day but that one's no good road runners able to collect they're trying to get get it across Miracle we need a miracle shot nothing so far Ball's passed out of bounds that's going to be for the Washington Terriers here and we've got some subs coming in number 11 for the Terriers Savannah Anderson and number 12 for the road runners Sarah Duncan not sure if there's any relation to Tim Duncan NBL NBA legend that's going to be an out of- bounds ball roas passing in for the road runners only a minute and a half left in this third quarter here road runners need there's going to be a call Ball's going back still R Runner ball here roas passing into Miracle they need some points oh and a serious steal from 23 on the Washington Terrier side now 11 at the three-point line they're looking to pass into the paint but the ball goes out of bounds should be a Road Runner ball 23 for the Terriers with those Sticky Fingers that's Ashley Anderson there she goes again and it's no good Washington boys watching from the sideline as they got their dub earlier this morning they're hoping their girls counterpart team can do the same they're up 18 score 312 at the free throw line here again Ashley Anderson with the sticky fingers let's see if she can crush this free free throw attempt first shot good Rim backboard net liberal use of the buzzer there score is Ashley Anderson's second free throw attempt looking to put them up by 20 points now no good right off the rim looks like a push call Push call on Washington number 11 that's Savannah Anderson possible relation to Ashley Anderson this is Road Runner Ball Washington playing a little loose on the defense now not as aggressive as they were in the first half Road runers still able to come away with it across Center Court they need a shot they're in the paint now Roos tries to put something up it's going to be a travel call Washington ball Here Comes Malone striding across Center Court Wicked shot Wicked technique it's no good air ball this is Road Runner ball Miracle passes over the defender number number 20's got to hang on it roas at the three-point line they just need to take any shot they can they're still driving for the paint though Malone one Defender it's miracle versus Malone the matchup we all wanted to see shots no good and that's going to be a foul call on possibly the Road Runner MVP that's Aralia roas arelia excuse me now we've got number 20 for Washington first free throw attempt no good they're going to go for a second this is Kaylee goosi second attempt right off the rim Washington's able to collect that's Malone and she gets pushed out of bounds heavy defense by number 20 Valentina there's about 7 seconds left in this quarter folks Miracle with the ball road runners just need to put a shot up and Miracle goes sliding like we're playing baseball right into the bleachers she seems to be okay number 13 Malone two seconds left right off the back for and that's going to do it for this third quarter folks Washington 31 road runners 12 road runners could come back but they got to have a heavy [Music] offensive [Music] hope you enjoyed the game come get involved here at pdsd and ASV become a coach a teacher hey you could even lead us to our next [Music] Victory the following in video features audio description for our Blind and Visually Impaired viewers a shot over the desert reads the words YB children run across the playground with the words great opportunities hands wave in the air in the gym words thriving Community as people walk through a park and an athlete throws a javelin children play in the playground a teacher coaches with the words your future is here # join asdb with a QR code leading to asdb Teamworks applications page game's back on folks Malone's got first possession for Washington to start the fourth road runners need a comeback here if they're going to secure this win all Washington has to do keep playing the same offensive defense they've been playing they're going to walk away with win looks like there's going to be a travel call on Washington this is Road Runner ball roas with the red shoes passes inbound Miracle looking to pass over Defender it's stolen and she Takes a Tumble from number 11 Savannah Anderson and you love to see it you love to see the good sportsmanship Savannah check in with Miracle making sure she's okay she's not injured from the play Savannah now passing out to the wing terriers have been so good from the wing all day but that's an airball road runners Come Away with it and off the shoe the ball heads out of bounds Roos Takes a Tumble she seems to be okay she's having a heck of a game she's playing hard ball for the road runners today she's going to go ahead walkoff Court grabbing her head we hope she's all right in for her number two Rivera I hate to see two injuries so early in the conference here Miracle passing inbound Rivera with possession she trying to hang on to it she's staying in bounds gets it over Malone off the the hands of number 20 Kaye Gabi from Washington Road Runners with their first shot they need this srin Rivera it's no good they got to come away with the the [Music] rebound that's still going to be Road Runner ball zren Rivera just under home net and that's going to be a travel on number 20 road runners just having a hard time getting that momentum going they're playing good Ball but they can't seem to have any consecutive plays here Washington however is already in enem enemy territory another air ball from the wing they were so good in the first half but we haven't seen one yet Malone playing hard ball she comes away with the steal surrounded Savannah at number 11 bounces right out of the rim she gets the rebound again no good Ball's heading out of bounds Savannah Anderson with two attempts back to back secured her own rebound that's high level play folks that's WNBA stuff right there 23 passing in she's looking for an open player Malone from the three air ball no good Washington able to secure it at the far Wing it's going to be out on Washington right off the foot road runners back in this is zenrin Rivera just looking to get across Center Court she passes it back to Miracle Miracle's able to get it Washington playing hard defense number three for road runners take a three-point shot and it's no good going to pass right out of bounds I say folks if the road runners want to win they need to run down the Miracle Mile this is Savannah Anderson for Washington passing it into the paint easy two points on the board for number 21 Washington bana Moore getting more buckets at the far side of the the court now number 13 Miracle signing out to her players Rivera just trying to get across Center Court she's able to pass it number three once again number 20 they need to take a shot here it's now or never Miracle into number 20 right off the backboard Rivera looking for the rebound Malone comes away with it and there's going to be a foul call five minutes left in this quarter folks 3312 inbound to the road runners they get the rebound they're trying to get shots off they need two points on the board multiple attempts no good road runners Come Away With It excuse me Terriers come away with it that's number 21 ban Moore number 11 with a bounce pass to the brick wall there's no players [Music] there 13 Malone from the wing they've been so good all day Miracle with the steal she could go the Miracle Mile oh and it's no good and there's going to be a call road runners have some momentum but they can't seem to get any points on the board the boys road runners team heading to the locker room prepping for their 1 pm game today meanwhile we've got some subs coming in that's number two pz for the Washington Terriers subbing out is Malone genetic connection to Carl Malone still unclear road runners coming away two attempts now a third they need this two points on the board road runners 1433 I believe that's coming from number 20 Valentina Gutierrez Lopez this is 11 now Savannah Anderson striding across the court undefended she's got a shot and a call is made and even though it doesn't count Savannah Anderson just put a three down for no reason but it looked good this is Miracle now passing in to the road runners they need more points to number 20 now trying to get a shot up multiple Defenders Terriers with the Steal This is payz back across Court Savannah Anderson can she do it she gets her own rebound [Applause] again 14 for the Terriers trying to keep possession number two into the paint uncontested just off the rim Savannah Anderson with her second two with attempt rebound attempt what a stat this is a free throw attempt from pasz number two first attempt right off the backboard that's going to be one second attempt and that's good as well payz two free throws back to back that's going to put the score up 3514 folks if the road runners are going to win this they need something serious this is Miracle now across Center Court she signing to her teammates they're looking for something number two Rivera striding into the paint Washington playing hard defense Miracle puts up two points on the board right off the backboard at 16 35 Washington Savannah Anderson striding across the center line here right into the paint number 21 no good 14 looking to Come Away with the rebound Miracle snatches it up she's got a near open Lane passing back to 20 road runners at the three-point line Savannah Anderson playing some serious d 20 with the shot off the backboard it's close Washington Road Runners tried to get an attempt off no good here comes Savannah Anderson back again she's looking for Revenge number two payz striding out back to Savannah Anderson she's just pading stats at this point folks there's going to be a sub call here 13 Malone is back in as well as Sarah Johnson number four for the Washington Terriers Savannah Anderson and 21 Briana Moore buckets heading back to the bench this is number two Rivera passing out to 20 she's maintaining possession she's got an open shot wide Here Comes number 14 Dennis looking to go all the way stuffed and the ball's out of bounds that's going to be a roadrunner ball folks here comes miracle and Rivera as well as number 12 Sarah Duncan 20 right off the rim three with the rebound no good Miracles got it three trying to keep possession and it's out of bounds ball this is Deborah Dennis passing in for Washington out to pz striding across Center Court into the paint this is Malone stuffed multiple Defenders calls made score as it stands with a minute and a half left Washington 37 road runners 16 at this point the road runners would have to make a shot every 5 seconds in order to win this game but it could happen this is a free throw attempt Malone no good second attempt Swiss the gold colored shoes are working folks they are working Malone's had a heck of a game maybe MVP of this one here comes miracle though out to number three for the road runners that's Sophia Miracle getting stuffed by pz out to Rivera out to roas they're trying to put a shot up it's uncontested a Scramble for the ball Roos picks it up sopia attempt and it's knocked out of bounds that's going to be a Washington ball we have a minute left in this one folks 3816 I have to say I wouldn't mind if Sarah Duncan went and dunked in the ball out to the wing here 4 13 Malone two on the board for Malone as she Takes a Tumble that's 46 at this point the Washington team is just unanswered decimating but roas looking to make an answer she's in the paint shots are totally stuffed out Malone gets the ball once again striding out to the other court we've got 20 seconds left in here Dennis shots no good banked with 13 seconds left here flat this is Miracle now less than 10 seconds left from the three wide Miracle Smiles 4 seconds left here pretty clear dub for the Washington Terriers both teams played hard spot basketball [Applause] game was Washington celebrating from the sidelines we've got a whole slew of games coming up after this isn't the end for both of these teams here final score Washington 40 road runners 16 next game 1 pm.

[Music] good morning wild cats it's Friday we're taking the show on the road today 0.25 miles one lap around the track it's also the distance to ker McGee parking lot where our students park every day we're going to head on up there pick up a couple of our students maybe give them a ride back to school they can answer a few questions about our campus and town check in on them see how second semester has started we've had e-learning days we had cold days we had snow days SP a heck of a start to the second semester let's go check on our wild cats wild cats I'm here with Jake Jake what you're in school are you I'm a junior junior how's the second semester starting off for you with this cold and snow uh pretty solid pretty solid you know I'm happy I don't have to walk today good well you might have to walk you got to answer two questions and as long as you get these questions right we'll get you all the way to school if you get them wrong you're going to have to hop on and walk okay okay that sounds like a deal we'll start off with what local coffee shop just celebrated their sixth anniversary here in West Chicago Kindred Kindred coffee student staff favorite just a few blocks from school oh that wind is pi picking up on this ride you feeling man yeah man it is chilly all right one more question we're coming up on an Street here how many school districts feeder school districts do we have that feed into West Chicago high school three three yes bonus can you name them Winfield Leman Benjamin Windfield lemman Benjamin oh thanks for the ride you're welcome have a great day you too all right guys welcome to the campus cart we're going to give you a ride to school here today I'm here with Mason Bren Jackson what year in school are you guys I'm a senior junior junior got a senior and a couple Juniors you know it's .25 miles every day here from kerie to the high school how's that walk usually especially in these winter months freezing you don't have a coat on that's part of why do you enjoy the walk like do you collect your thoughts Mason do you like the walk over in the morning yeah actually don't really mind it that much cuz like on the way there I get to just like think and just like be ready for school but like when it's cold I don't want I don't want to do it at all I just rather take a Uber or something all right well this is kind of like an Uber this canvas cart but just like uber there's a fee we're not going to charge any money but you got to be able to answer a couple questions about the school or the town you guys are on the basketball team we'll start off with an easy one what West Chicago Alum is currently in the NBA John Kar bonus points this doesn't count as one of your two questions what team does he play for oh what was it the me glies Memphis Grizzlies that's right all right second question this will get you all the way to the high school and what year did this building open 1970s 1970s way before way before are they're stalling they're stalling as we were getting closer to the school here we need an answer we need an answer right now give us a final answer 1962 1962 it's like 1912 1912 close it's 1926 you guys got to get out of the cart stop the cart stop the cart stop the cart they got to get out they got to get out you didn't make it all the way pop out the senior night February 13th we play Streamwood here I want everyone to show love and pop out they're going to pop out out of the campus cart and you guys can pop out senior night February [Music] 13th Welcome to our campus cart I'm here with Al Stephanie what year in school are you guys I'm a sophomore a junior how's second semester starting off for you we've had a couple learning days cold days snow days how's it going it's going good I actually enjoyed my break we're going to save you a little bit of walk from ker McGee over to the high school if you can answer a couple questions for us so you're from with Chicago have you ever told somebody like you're from with Chicago and they're like oh where's that they don't even know where is how far are we from real Chicago Chicago Chicago how far is West Chicago from Chicago uh like an hour I think how many miles what you [Music] guys 20 we got to let you off all right wild cats I'm here with Ava cook Carolyn what your scho are you Caroline I'm a senior AA I'm also a senior also a senior last semester of high school are you guys excited yes start off with a couple e-learning days this semester how's the second semester start pretty good good good good you're here on the campus cart little chilly out this morning as long as you can answer a couple questions we're going to get you all the way to the front door sound good yes yes all right so it's cold out whenever it's cold out it's nice to think about summer months up ahead what is the popular water park here in West Chicago that students and families flock to every summer is it uh Turtle Splash yeah Turtle Splash Turtle Splash very good all right that was an easy one that was a layup second question to get you all the way to the front door what is the original Town name of West Chicago Turner Junction Turner Junction she got it yes cuz all the trains Junction all right great job guys you're not going to be targeted first period we got you here at Entrance B in no time have a great day have a great rest of your senior year thank you you too I will have a good rest of your senior year [Music] all right while cats what's that if we get wrong are we getting dropped off yes you will get dropped off if you do not get the questions right so we're here on the campus cart you only have to get two questions right if you get them right we'll get you all the way to the door if you get one of them wrong though you're going to have to get off the cart okay okay who am I here with Emily Mindy Kayla how's uh second semester starting off with the cold and snow and e-learning I want to go home it's really cold it's going all right first question easy one Summer Festival here in West Chicago every summer they have it at Pioneer Days railroad days they got it good job so that was an easy question maybe a more challenging one West Chicago has not always been known as West Chicago we used to have a different name what was the name of West Wait chis like Mr Chism taught him this in history class but they don't remember we're going to have to drop you off we need an answer here Kayla answer the question no the town oh I don't know the town the town of West Chicago oh wait it was like something real Road was it something real all right we're going to have to let you out we're going to have to let you out let you out St the car we're going to have to let you out I'm sorry I'm sorry what was it [Laughter] Jun all right wild cats thanks for having a little fun with us this Friday it's chilly out stay warm wear a hat wear a coat be safe in that walk over from ker McGee second semesters rolling now let's have a great semester have a great Friday see you next time wild [Music] cats

yeah 7 and call meting it is now okay it's still 7 o'clock and we're calling the meeting to order again we start with the roll call please here here and here hereon here perfect that gives us the quum if anybody would stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance me please I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the repic for stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all perfect thank thank you have a good crowd here tonight thank you all for bearing the cold and come to join us this evening do have any public comments any like to say anything please Amber Haven um I am on the agenda tonight I submitted my resignation for the seventh grade girls basketball team and I just wanted to say thank you for hiring me it was a very shortlived coaching position um I absolutely loved it but I had to resign just because my family of three young kids didn't really it didn't go very well at home but um I hope that it's in the future again so I just wanted to explain that because you just hired me in and now I'm resigning but I did want to say thank you for that um I have a second topic that I didn't know really where this went so I figured I would just bring it up now with the facility studies um I don't know how many of you I know Mr Grody does when you get to school you have to go through that you know Turnin where there's the McDonald's light and then there's the turn into the high school and then you come up the hill to Park View um there's this unspoken rule that it's like a three-way stop during school drop off hours and if you're not in on the unspoken rule you're like do I let people go do I not let people go do I let people turn and it gets really stressful and so um there's like a f minute window where you're totally fine you can turn and traffic flows like normal or if you're 5 minutes later then you're stuck in this like I don't know so with the new building or the adding on to the building um I know you've already thought about transportation and ins and outs but if there was maybe stage for the start of next year to say maybe like during this 40 minutes of school drop off time could we follow a three-way I don't know just a you're absolutely correct and next year we are going to strongly communicate exactly how people are going to go because the front of the building won't be the main access point they will be the main access point the front of the building will now be by the gym through that uh southernly Southern door there's a ticket booth that's over there and so we'll have a secretary there and they're building a vestibule and everything but like next year um the zippering cuz I I drive that every day is is um you're absolutely right and even if even though I don't I no longer turn in because my son now drives himself to the high school I still stop because if you don't take turns you will get into an accident yeah really does work in that in that situation my third topic and this is the last one I promise um is that the science department was here um in November and requested some consideration for a schedule change or application to change the schedule for the April 8th um solar eclipse so that the student body could leave school hours um and not have to be pulled out on a regular school day and so the science department was just curious where we fall on that since we hadn't heard back from the survey and and all of that stuff so thank you perfect we actually that at the last meeting it was a discussion item so um and at this point in time we imagining to change anything so we would be in session that day the survey actually suggested that the majority of the teachers did not want to change so the science people did but I don't think the majority wanted it so so I think the consensus was to leave it as is so anyone else all right we will move right into our consent agenda Mr gr can you walk us through that please yeah yeah we have a few resignations I do appreciate Miss Haven showing up to stress the fact that she'd love to see future coaching assignments and we would love to have you back when you're good and ready um we also have Patrick Baker uh High School assistant football coach he's resigning Jana Stewart from the Middle School yearbook co-sponsor uh Jessica janick from the high school color guard um we have some leaves of absences danan gruin uh actually had leave from December 4th to January 3rd she's now back but we need for TRS purposes that to be approved uh Mara fiser 7th grade math will be from April to the end of the year uh we do have an extracurricular assignment uh Riley eoro ioro calling concert volunteer golf uh volunteer girl soccer uh we'd like to approve her hiring um and then we've got vacancies High School assistant football coach fifth grade teachers elementary teachers prek teachers and that prek is actually um going to be a certified special LED endorsed and that's going to be the replacement of the tuition-based program that we have that's currently not needing a certificate um so it's just it's moving it from a non-certified position to a certified position um that we're posting for uh an elementary special ed teacher Eagle View and Park View currently share someone and we are expanding that and so um then the high school color guard and the seventh grade girls basketball coach so everything's pretty much Replacements except for slight change um a certified prek teacher would be more expensive than the non-certified oh it was a WR ah well then we also have a new bus driver that we'd like to add as a employee ah um Ellen Russell Frederick King Frederick king um I missed that I'm sorry uh and the Eagle View and Park View that's going from um we're adding a basically another person but Eagle View and Parkview will have a dedicated person and I think the teachers there would appreciate that uh with all that said uh Administration recommends approval of the consent agenda comments questions check my notes at my table before I start he none would anybody like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented I'll make the motion thank you Tyson do I he a second I'll second thank you Kelly roll call please Karine Fredick yes Adam H yes Andre Cory yes Kelly moer Greg Meer yes Lisa schoemer yes Tyson search yes perfect move on to our Communications reports and presentations the enrollment report is in your packet yeah and the um just remember we had early grads last semester so the 20 people down at the high school I think that's the yeah our enrollment report never changes and it was down 20 students at the high school because graduation Perfect all right and I don't believe we have a building report this evening correct well I'm gonna try and substitute it in here um Jean goer was going to be here tonight to talk about special ed um she got sick kept trying to stick it out stick it out and it just got the best of her so she is home so I'm going to try I may lean we have some special people in the audience so I may lean on them for some some help um but so the special ed department has been doing quite a bit of professional development this year they've been doing a lot with behavior management there's been a whole series um that several of our teachers took advantage of on IEP writing and strengthening that um those people that were a part of that are now actually working together to kind of roll that out with even more of our staff members that weren't able to participate in that so that we can get everyone on board with our IEPs and and they're all in line and doing exactly what we need for our students um and then looking at also including this year a lot of the par professionals they are just as important as the classroom teachers in the roles that they play in supporting our students um with disabilities and so including them on different kinds of professional development as well has been a focus of the special ed Department um one of the things Jean said she had talked she's talked to you before about some of the different programs that we do with the ace Olympics and the coffee Crews and all of that um but something that thanks to the hard work of all of the people involved in the special ed Department um if you look at that chart the very first column shows the percentage of special ed students um in a gen Ed setting um 80% or more of the time so as you kind of watch the first three sets of numbers you want that um those numbers to go higher in the first one the second one is the number of students so basically the students that are more in a self-contained type setting so we want the numbers in the second set of numbers to go down um same within the third those are students that are um self-contained almost the entire school day so we want that one to go down as well and then the last one is our B our Blended prek and we want to see those numbers rise so you can see over the course of 3 years we are um doing an exceptional job in those Trends and getting that to happen and that's part of that prek job that was on that you approved a posting for tonight is so that we can add another Blended prek teacher um but the only way those numbers are working are because of several of those things um you know the the increased co- teing in classes the um inclusion the best buddies program quite a bit of things going on and while those are ideas that come up um it really is the implementation of the staff that makes those happen they have to be on board they have to work hard to make sure that that gets done and sometimes be creative in how they get that to work um but our staff is exceptional in always being willing to do whatever they can or they need to um to include our specialized students and get them what they need so she was very excited about that data and and like I said she wanted me to make sure I shared how um proud she is of of all of the teachers that involved in that so I did not do it the justice that she did but that was the special ed report um so jumping into a few of the shoutouts that I have so I want to start with our high school custodial staff so Teresa Stevens Mike Kish um Josh pet and Mike uh Goomer shimer um so our high school is our most visited and visible building um it not only always looks really great when you're inside and people are there for events um but all four of these custodial members are always greeting people that come in for night events they're always constantly asking if there's anything people need anything they want they go above and beyond to make sure that um we as a district are looking like we're um and representing our very best foot forward so can't thank them all enough for what they do at the middle school I want to give a shout out to Dave Jackson and Lany Randall they're two of our pair professionals um and again these are two people that go above and beyond to do whatever they can um they also they both have outside Duty and with it being winter Administration to kind of talk to them about hey you want to take a break and maybe trade on and off with some people or swap it out and they're like no we're good it's our chance to see the kids and to talk so they do what they can in the classrooms but they're also willing to step up and do whatever it takes and they just truly enjoy being around the kids and making Middle School a great place to be um at Parkview Lauren Niti um she actually was in our cafeteria at the middle school and has stepped up and moved you approved her as a new head cook and she's now here at Parkview um and she is not only doing a great job in the position but it's been really awesome to see her um grow as a person um and kind of taking over that leadership position that she's in and working really well um Parkview is starting to look at some different things that they can do for the kids but also make the kitchen more efficient and and um a positive experience in there as well so excited about that um at Eagle viiew I want to give a shout out to Tiffany Taylor um kind of fits in with that special ed presentation um looking at you know we're looking at now those writing the IEPs of getting students where they need to be um and she is always asking you know what can we do how can this look to get students out in gened experiences more or making sure that we're meeting everything that we need like I said a lot of staff does that but just wanted to give Tiffany a shout out and then I'm going to throw in a bonus um Ralph Ron and uh uh don gesy are two of our drivers and monitors on a bus um we actually had a medical incident on a bus um not too long ago um we had a student that had a seizure and these two uh not only responded very quickly and um immediately but were able to help take care of that student that was having a medic medical need but also keep the rest of the bus calm everyone safe um they just stepped up did a fantastic job um and so wanted to give them a shout out as well and we have a couple of um kind of awards or things that have been going on that just kind of wanted to give some people a shout out Matt Doogie is our scholar Bowl um coach at the high school and he just broke the record with his 302nd scholar Bowl win um so he now holds the record of the most um scholar B wins as a coach so wanted to give him a shout out U Mark sandstrom just re um earned and coached his 400th win in basketball so that was exciting and Scott Herer um has been selected to be inducted into the Illinois high school football coaches association hall of fame um and so he is actually going to be honored in Champagne uh in March being inducted into the the Hall of Fame for this year so wanted to give him a shout out as well as far as what's been going on we've been doing a lot um second semester we started off January 3rd with our Institute day back with the teachers we started by looking at a lot of building data so we looked at um attendance datas in the building we looked at standardized test scores graduation rates um a lot of different information a lot of that's on our Illinois school report card um a lot of it is um just gathered within the building so we started by looking at that data and then okay we have this data now what do we do with it so then we started looking at how do we look at instruction and how will our instruction help to either maintain those numbers or improve those numbers so we started talking about looking at our Focus standards and our supporting standards and making sure that everything is aligned with what's going on in our curriculum um we're going to start talking about instructional strategy uh looking at how things are done what our Core Curriculum like our vertical alignment is as well as you know that all grade levels are doing the same thing in the classrooms um so we looked at that in an instruction then We're translating that into how does our instruction reflected in our assessments so we started talking about making high quality assessments ensuring that there are multiple levels we're starting to dig into the depth of knowledge of questions what makes a a high quality research piece of assessment um once we work through and do all that which is a lot of work even though the teachers have already started in on a lot of it um then the cycle just continues so then we will do all that Implement all these things and then continue to go back and monitor the data so this is kind of a cyclical cycle that we've already started um we've done bits in pieces but now we're putting it all together and formulating it and really making it that inquiry based Circle of Knowledge as we go through with what we're doing and then inserting the professional development as needed to support those areas so that is what has been going on and is going to be kind of the focus of our halfday the rest of the school year this year and that is all I have oh no that's Mr broy he gets a slide tonight I get a turn I actually added a slide but we're going to talk with me first um I've got three things I really want to bring up one um I feel like I need to address Tuesday we had 10% absence um it pretty much every building was around 9 to 11% absence I'll all said across the district it was 10% absent that includes people that were on vacation and others that were actually sick so we had a really good attendance day we've had cold and flu Seasons that were worse than that um I did receive a few emails and one phone call regarding the decision to be in session uh none of them were favorable uh I know that there there were people that agreed with me I did read the Facebook posts and some of the arguments back and forth um if we would have been out I would have gotten similar emails and phone calls because on snow days I just I'm not that bad of a person honestly but um it is what it is I do want to say that parents always have the right to keep their students at home we talked last week about treny and an average student is absent seven times a year okay and so Seven's around the ballpark of what you really want to go to if keeping your home on a snow day brought you past seven you probably should really think about the attendance things however it's your child and and if you felt like it was too cold to go to school then by all means keep them home I get it I also want to say that e-learning sounds good but let's all reflect back to a couple of years with covid no one liked e-learning and I don't think that it should ever be used except for when they keep us out of school for long long terms um and then late starts they sound great but logistically that snow day becomes like the first week of school where people say when's the bus going to get there and then you miss your spot the kids end up staying out longer and waiting longer with a snow day and the high school parking lot's not going to change in an hour and a half with a late start to make it safer for the high school kids uh high schools do do late starts more than um unit districts like we are however um oftentimes they'll call for a late start and then they end up calling the day anyway because they get beset with questions of when's my bus coming just logistically I think the the ti the TR the tried and true method of you're either in school or you make it up at the end of the year is the way to go um we were in school on Tuesday we will be in school tomorrow it'll be warmer than it was Tuesday uh we're revisiting Tuesday on Saturday this week should be very very cold with wind chills on Saturday but um that's the one thing I wanted to address second thing and this is where we go to the slide St Baldrick is something that the middle school has done pro Atwell and Matt Kendall do this every year other people get involved I got inspired when I found out about it that it's for Childhood Cancer um and so I agreed to be a shavey that is my why my hair has gotten long and because I'm going to be bald on April 6th my last haircut was the day before school started my next haircut is April 6th it was a great idea when I first started thinking about it but honestly I'm ready to get it shaved tomorrow uh but this supports Childhood Cancer it's well worth the cause and and honestly you I came here in 2020 this in my mind epitomizes Colombia it's just the community coming together to do things like this it's it's a wonderful uh experience and um I might shave my head again but I'm never going a year without it being trimmed at least again ever um anyway if you want to participate in St Baldrick if you can reach out to our teachers or um yeah just ask somebody you can donate or you can become a shave I told Alysa Smith that you know maybe next year we could get all of administration to participate I was not a fan of that donate just not my hair the third item is just the fact that we have no need for closed session this evening so um we've got that's it perfect we offer those reports our only item for Action is the second reading and approval of the board policy press issue 113 I believe this is uh updates for the residents yeah this is um a residency report we had this as part of our board policy I did put a page that would explain what the policy would read for non-student residents if we chose to allow um School Employees to be able to register their kids um I sent out the survey it 166 responses uh roughly the first question that we asked was do you live outside the district and if so do you have or would you have a child okay and and then if if if that's the case would you send your kid to the district if you if this was an option and we got um about 29 that indicated that they would okay now some of those I I took the names off of the surveys so when you read the comments you wouldn't see who they were but I know personally that some of the people that said yes they would have no children some of them aren't even married yet but they live outside the district and they do plan to have kids at some point in time and so they said yeah I would totally bring my kid here um much like a snow day the feelings on this issue are divided and somewhat passionate the majority of people did support the idea that this would help with Recruitment and Retention um the other side I think the most adamant was just the fact that you know our classes are full this is taxpayer dollars um um if they want to have their kids go here they can move here uh you guys read the comments that were there uh this is one of those issues where I honestly I don't have a recommendation I I I can see both sides um and that said there's often a time where I'm not a heck yeah so I'm a no but I'm not a heck no either and so um I will step back and let you all discuss this so you said there were 29 yeah roughly 29 and I was counting it on Excel and so um from the responses I sent you you could I wanted you to do your own tallies CU I have been known to get distracted and then go back to Excel and end up having a tally mark on an extra thing but they're off maybe by two or three yeah just a rough estimate I guess my question would be if you take that number some don't even have and you spread that across all the different ages even if our classes are full is it really going to make that big of an impact if it could mean that we bring in it probably wouldn't cost us another teacher right so right so we could potentially get more you know qualified teachers that want to come and stay because of that I just I don't know personally that I see the negatives outweigh the positives as a superintendent that was at a district that had this policy in effect what you see is that they attend your they will they will bring their kids to your District until like junior high or high school um typically high school once they start doing Athletics and doing things of that nature they usually go back to their home school or once they're old enough to get to school and come home and they don't need to be supervised it's really more for the elementaries that they want to bring their kids to the district that they work in because it's just more convenient for a lot of reasons um so you don't see them so much at the middle school and high school that doesn't mean that they wouldn't I'm I'm just telling you that what I what I've experienced a lot of times you'll see have a kid up until 8th grade and then they'll go back to their home District or and I I've received when this came up at the last meeting I was pretty much for it my main concern was the cost I wanted to do our due diligence um I've received several phone calls none of them for it um got two calls from teachers and the teachers that I spoke with um were worried about that it wasn't Equitable that basically we're playing favoritism wor we're elevating some without elevating all so that was the other was from taxpayers that feel that it would incentivize people to move to the community instead of disin to to go so again I'm I'm still on the fence on this but the comments I could see that that was the only other thing that was going my head for districts that do allow people to register the calculation for tuition is done by um the operating expenses divided by the per pupil and our AFR has our tuition should we allow people to register here that don't live here they would have to pay 9,000 9,870 to register their kid at our district that is our operating expenses per pupil expend um again if we allow the employees and they would be the only we still wouldn't allow non-resident people except for our employees and we would not charge them 9,870 we would just allow them to come I'm also kind of on the fence with this um just I feel like I spoke with Mr Grody and I feel like it needs to go a little bit deeper into the community um there are a lot of high- based taxpayers in this community um and that seems to be the ones that would com kind of complain about this is you know they're paying all of the taxes you know these people don't live in our district and so I I think I think it needs to be you know further into the community as far as a survey well as it stands now the first reading was as presented where it does not allow for tuition free in the district we were trying to override that from our actions so what I would recommend is we leave today with either a no or a yes on this and if we go with a no you can do it as a no we don't want to do it period end of story we could do it as a no we don't want to do it however we'd like to send out a a survey to the whole Community um I know how to do that to all the parents uh I would like to get some of the non-p parents so I would probably reach out to the city to see how they would do a survey that way um we could post it on the website maybe uh that way we can at least get this policy this this press policy round brought up and then we could bring it back next month and revisit the policy just a matter of two readings else yeah I mean I guess I'm kind of on the fence too I thought I was more for it though I thought the positives outweigh the negatives as far as especially from a recruitment and retention I like that idea aspect so well then I I don't know I I guess I I'm trying to play a little Devil's Advocate I'm definitely on the fence but I'm trying to play a little devil's advocate here of you know what if there is a fantastically qualified teacher that we would be super blessed to have but can't can't live in the community would want to maybe but due to a spouse having a job somewhere else or whatever the situation may be can't do it but would love to have the opportunity to be here and it would help them to be able to also bring their kids here until like you said you know high school or whatever and then they so I don't know I I'm still like I see both Sid I definitely see both sides I I don't want to Veer people out of our community either and say oh hey you know you can go live wherever you want go move out of Columbia and you can still do I don't want that but I don't know that to me I guess I feel like a lot of people love that they live here and they're closer to work if they have the opportunity to get to live here so I I don't know I'm I'm trying to see both sides I'm not necessarily against it I think that like I shared with you when I emailed you about I think we need to look at things maybe for our current teachers that we already have that we can help serve them even better versus trying to recruit people people that aren't even here yet and serve them better is kind of how I feel about it but what do we do for the teachers that don't have kids and are they getting are we putting them at a disadvantage because we're giving another you can be in the next classroom and have a $99,000 a year advantage over your coworker that's yeah again I I love the idea I I'm not saying I'm against this like at all what I'm saying is I think that we have other things that we could look at if we're considering this we also need consider some other things for our current staff to serve them better too what's a big nobody knows huh okay so let me ask some questions do you want me to send out a survey to the parents and do you want me to post a survey on the website for community members the problem with the opening it up I can do it with the parents easily through Skyward the community members is you always in in the back of my mind I'm wondering you know I don't know how I would make sure that people didn't go in and answer at five times I don't know how I would make sure that somebody from New York wasn't answering our survey um I'm sure there's ways to do it I I would need to figure that out um doing the parents I could do that very easily I could send out a survey and see what what what they think is that interesting or are we not there I'm always interested in people's opinions I mean it's you know we we serve the public and can you table this another month and do a parent survey we can um it becomes bothersome because I'd like this this this to be resolved and then reopen it so in my mind closing the because you got to go in you got to answer all the questions within a certain time this one did have a specific question I'd like to answer it no and then do the first reading again next month with the survey and and talk about it again um that way it would at least get it get this press policy that comes as a batch out of the out of the queue and then we could address the individual policy again has the teachers union weighed in on this at all or have they been asked um other than the survey to the employees and the and and again that was the cea and the sespa and even the bus drivers who are not cea or cespa um were able to answer that I did not disaggregate the data based on whether or not they're a teacher or a yeah um suspa or a noncertified person and the majority was is that what you said the majority was no was what was no no most of them were favorable of the of the ones that lived in District and out of District most people said oh I can see how that would be good the ones that were against it were um passionately against it against it's it's you know and so and then there were a lot that just had no comment you know like I really have no opinion on this matter and you know I said when when it came up last month I was off I thought it was a great idea but I didn't realize there were so much on both sides on this one so many strong feelings I guess like so I don't know if I got clear on whether or not you want me to survey the parents exactly okay good enough well I mean we have to do something so what are we I I would say since none of us seem to be very well let's move forward I think we should adopt the Press policy as written and we investigate this in the future and go ahead and do our surveys let's get some more input and find out so you want me to send out a a parent survey yeah I mean I I don't want to make a decision based on one or two people either I mean it's if that's the if that's the pulse of everyone that's different than you no matter what we do we're going to upset a couple people that's we're kind of used to that by now so okay I will um have a very specific question are you in favor of this or not in favor of this I will also allow them to write comments um unless you tell me otherwise I think it's good to be able to read the comments because you get a sense of where their yes and where their no is because a lot of yeses were like yeah I could go either way and a lot of the NOS were yeah but now the survey we sent out was it was just a do you have and would you yeah and then everybody got a chance to to make a comment okay so perfect so I will survey parents and the recommendation is to approve policy 760 um with the question being answered no with the understanding that this is a soft no and we will revisit soft no I like that I appreciate it because I I do want to get this off our don't but that's fine what was that super soft no on my I I I I I support it and I don't I don't think we need to do another survey so I'd be not agreeing to that you'd be you'd be yes for letting the the employees I think I'm kind of there with angry too yeah no I I don't think I mean we're surveying the people that we surveyed the first time were the teachers and the employees and that's I mean and Lisa has a good point going deeper into the community but we if we do Skyward we're doing everybody um and and that's not really who it's affecting other than they being a taxpayer you know and and that matters but I you know I'm in favor of allowing this to happen so I I don't feel the need to do another survey is that a motion no I'm just saying how I feel I mean Chris is making a motion I probably not he can't make a motion well I'm saying he's asking there to be a motion I probably would not agree with it and I guess that's why I was double-checking what the majority was I mean we did that to kind of see the majority and the majority just because there were a couple loud NOS the majority was still overall in that first survey saying that they would they were yes they were yes that's my hesitation also people complain more than they absolutely than they compliment so and like you said we're not going to make everybody happy I mean if if at the end of it I I do think that it would be more beneficial than it would be harming but that's just me I I see I see it I see both sides I see I'm not saying I don't see the other side I don't see the other opinions you know I I get that I respect them but I just I don't know I don't I don't see enough negative in it if it could bring people in that could take over positions that we have vacancies for so we've got three speaking very positively about it so far I think I'm the only one that hasn't spoken on this your turn well I'll tell I I look at it from a retention perspective I mean as a having managed a lot of people and dealing with turnover and the retraining and you know acclimating people to the culture um I mean I'm all for Recruitment and Retention aspect of it my big question previously was what real impact would this have on the district and would this really result in a a true direct cost I guess if you will to the taxpayer and if we won't have to hire additional staff if it's going to be you know 30 or so amongst 2,000 students um I I I think retention costs a lot more than that retraining hiring recruiting and the loss of teachers that are quite often multiple years into their tenure that we've worked with I think retaining teachers is much more valuable than an implied cost or a potential cost that isn't a real cost I should know this off the top of my head and I apologize to all of the teachers in the room for not having this information readily available do we what what are our class sizes in the early grades right now they in the it depends on the grade level so our like kindergarten and first grade classrooms are smaller um second grade we have a large student population so we added an extra teacher there this year but they're in like the 18 to 20 range at kindergarten first and second and then they jump to between the 20 and 24 range and second third and fourth and we've got so how many students would it take to come in at a grade level for us to have to add a teacher is really I think what I'm depends on the grade level like our second grade is maxed and we're already looking at what are we going to do about next year so I would say like if someone has a third grader next year that could be the Tipping Point between hiring another teacher and not but our you know our fourth grade class is pretty small so if somebody has a fifth grader coming in next year that would would so I don't know that I can answer that question in a blanket statement but based on our staffing right now you would think that worst case scenario we would have to maybe add one teacher but really the odds of that would be but if it's if one student is the differentiator just a random person your family moving into town could be the same could do the same thing I mean it wouldn't you know it's not it's not that one drop of that overfills the bucket right you know it's the accumulation of all of them until that so I mean yeah if changing this policy means we we get 15 more students and then one grade ends up with a teacher I mean that's I guess that that would be somewhat of a direct cost but there's also 130 other students that were already there that were probably in maxed out classes that might benefit from a smaller class size I think my other my other question and concern maybe more to your point now as I'm like listening and I'm thinking through this is what would that mean for the current teachers are they do they have to be worried about losing their jobs do they have to wor or is it just you know when we're talking about retention and are we just strictly talking about filling vacancies and being able to hire when we need new people you know what I mean I just I don't want I don't want any current you know employees to fear that they would potentially lose their their current positions because that the the the the desire to look into this was because with the current um job market of Education we've got districts that are willing to look at veteran teachers and give them all of their years of experience which school districts hadn't done for a long time and so we were losing teachers to other districts because the district was saying well I'll give you your 20 years of experience why don't you come over here and be where you know where if they were here they lived close enough they could have brought their kid here and then they wouldn't necessarily if they brought their kid here they would be not leaving us after 20 years to okay that's the that's the retention aspect of it and sorry I didn't mean to S side step like you were saying as far as like cost and all that I was just you said retention and my mind went toward making sure that the current well I even look at the younger ones when I think retention I think of the ones that we may be hired straight out of college now they're a few years in they're ready to have start having kids or their kids have gotten to school age and I believe you know and then you lose them to a neighboring Town wherever they live because their kids are now school age and they don't want to work in a different town than their kids are going to school it's just I mean but the arguments there's arguments again every way that you can look at it but that's a that's really where I mean where I was at so so I'm hearing that the we've got we'd like to survey the parents and say no this time and I've got some people that say we don't need to survey the parents we we're yes this time right okay just making sure I understand where we're all at um well again I mean I I'm on the fence on this I am not committed one way or the other I'm kind of leaning towards if if I mean we have four sounds like four yeses so you guys have enough votes to make it happen I mean we we are here to look out for the best in interest of this district and if this is the best interest of the district then I'm all for as well but I'm just cautious as to I want to be fair to everybody and and I want to create the best possible working environment that we can for our employees so is there anybody that wants to make a Mo that's my life see how long we can all sit here and stare at each other waiting it's our only action item for tonight so good thing we have another midnight meeting so I I mean I'll go throw go and throw the motion out there that we do allow non-resident teachers to send their children here all right so your motion to adopt the Press policy with the change of allowing non-resident teachers to enroll their children tuition free yes perfect okay I'll second that we have a second all right roll call please Adam Hunkin yes Andre Cory yes Hy Moyer yes Greg Meer sure Mr Sher no Tyson yes Marine freder yes all right carries all right well I hope it works all right shoot those are all our action items so that's good we go into our discussion items which is start off with our facility study um we had a meeting today June 4th is going to be a special board meeting and it will be the approval of the bids for the civil FasTrack work this will get the the um the site up and running for the construction June 4th we've got uh Mr henkins able to make that date and Mr Meyers is able to make that date uh We've not yet set the time of that I just want you to be aware we we need at least four people at that meeting to approve the bids um this is again we're trying to do it as once they get the documents ready and they go out to bid we want to be able to act on it as quick as possible so so that we can get the the everything started um so June 4th I will send out an email tomorrow but I'm hoping that four of you can find it in your schedules at least love to see all sub of you here but U and then in two months or so we should be ready to have a community Forum to share out the progress and the plans for the high school and uh I think we should be pretty locked down in two months um if we're not I will be very disappointed but um I believe we will be uh those are the two key things from the facility meeting that I pulled is there anything that you two want to add um the only thing one area that we talked about quite a bit was the auditorium I know we've talked in generalities about it but um the one thing about it is it will seat in exess of 450 they were talking numbers is but uh that that is the desired goal so we will have that ability uh we are working on planning to put the infrastructure in for a lot of the the rigging the sound systems the lights all that stuff um a lot of the equipment probably won't be purchased right away uh due to budgetary constraints but we are putting in the infrastructure so we can buy the pieces and parts later but we don't have to worry about the structure and the infrastructure being there and all the wiring and stuff will already be in place for what we are projecting so we are planning it as though it's going to be fully outfitted as a a fully uh a full venue for all of the Arts uh but it will not be uh we will not have all of the equipment um with the intent of adding the nicer features and functions as we as the budget allows in the future so I will also add um everything Adam said was absolutely spoton the part of the the the issue we're having is is we are trying to make sure we we hold firm on the budget um they designed the auditorium and the academic area and the administrative offices first because that's the phase one of what they're building uh we don't have many things to speak about regarding the gymnasium only because they are now kicking it more into gear to get the gymnasium designed because as we look at um the cuts we don't want to cut everything from phase one without knowing what phase 2 is involved and you know because we want to make sure that the gymnasium and the auditorium are equal in its uh in its scope you know we're going to design it for what we need we're meaning that everything's going to be ready for things to be added as we can but uh part of those decisions are going to come because we've got to do a little bit more of phase two design because when you look at the budget you want to make sure that both sides are am I saying that right um are looked at yeah so um you know our gymnasium is going to be two floors and it might have a walking Track and if it doesn't have a walking Track it will have a walking Track at some point it's just whether like our Auditorium will have a big screen projector at some point you know cuz this is what we're designning it to be used for but that's the in hopefully in two months we'll have a much better idea about the gymnasium too and be able to have a really nice Community unveiling presentation sure open house that open house that'll come after excuse me thank you any else all right individual board member comments have anything like to share this evening president prerogative I'm good for tonight as Mr G alluded we have no executive session so that means there's no action items following the executive session the only thing left is adjournment I may like to make a motion to adjourn I'll make the motion to so second I'll second second all in favor that concludes our meeting it is 7:52 thank you all for attending

call please here here thank you please join us in the 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 awesome thank you and by far my favorite part of the night is always nice to have Ella and Andrew back for some reporting please do tell right I hope you are are are all doing well in the new year so far um so I'll begin with sports so winter sports are in a full swing by now um we're halfway through January already which I can't believe um but I mean there's there's a lot going on in our chest High School sports um during the girls basketball wi the other day over Wilbur cross they held a um a fifth grade girls travel team to play at halftime which I thought was pretty interesting to do um it's something I've never really seen much in the past so it was cool to have the um the kids come and get the experience of a high school basketball game um hockey on Saturday is holding their 50th anniversary celebration before their game um they're having the alumni com and they're having a whole celebration for it I don't know too much too many details about it yet but I think that's just awesome to have all the alumni back have them talk to the players before their games um and moving on to chesher Unified sports so the chesher unified basketball team recently went to a competition in hamen and the unified basketball team is also planning on holding a tournament soon um which I think is awesome for the uh for the kids with intellectual and de developmental disab abilities to have them be a part of something much bigger than themselves and to give them the experience that um most of them dream of so students recently from ches high school went to New Hampshire to meet uh presidential candidates um I actually went on that field trip I thought it was pretty awesome it was kicked off by governor cunu of New Hampshire and uh we got to talk to and meet with Maryann Williamson Dean Phillips Assa Hutchin Assa Hutchinson Trump ad iers and a couple media um Personnel we got to speak to them and take pictures with them afterwards which I thought was pretty cool um and finally during Winterfest that took place in mid December it I it was ran and organized by U Mrs dorbo and Mr Swanson at ches both both teachers at chesher high school it raised $2,610 for the Ryan T Le foundation and it was an awesome experience for the teams clubs and other organizations that our school school to run and be a part of so moving on to some other things directly in our school right now we are in the middle of midterms so it is a bit of a stressful environment at testure high school but our teachers are obviously all being very accommodating and providing us with lots of great resources during this stressful time the link crew ran by one of our assistant principles Mrs pels hosted Coco and cram in the library for freshmen to come in and get experience studying with um older students so that was helpful for them speaking of freshmen we have this Wednesday the 24th curriculum night for incoming freshman kids at DOD to come and kind of get a feel of the student life and social atmosphere at chesher high school by meeting with people from all different clubs and some sports teams so that is a really great opportunity for them to kind of wrap their minds around what we be going on for them for the next four years there's also an assembly where administrators can talk to them a little bit about what they can expect and like course section All That Jazz but I'm sure many of them are more excited for learning about the clubs and everything um we have a lot of things going on for our performing art students right now the cast of Mean Girls has begun rehearsals I'm playing Katie so very excited um our show is on March 21st 22nd and 23rd so we've got a while but we are getting there uh this weekend Coral students band students and Orchestra students are participating in the cmea Southern Regional Music Festival so I know I mentioned the auditions a while back but we have about 20 students going to perform so that is a really awesome accomplishment for our Music Department speaking of that we have our chure Public Schools day of chorus next week on Friday where Elementary School students and middle school students are coming to the high school to watch the toucher High School chorus perform and then also get to perform some songs Al together to encourage participation in the music programs um moving on to kind of some post High School planning notes our peer health class just finished teaching post High School planning lessons to the junior Health classes so they went into every Junior health class and talked a little bit about what options look like after high school including College the military any kinds of Trades and they helped the students kind of know of some resources to talk to depending on which route they were planning on taking After High School and kind of being able to explore through the guidance Department um we had mentioned the food drive a little while back and I want to let you all know that the neighborhood food drive raised over 6,000 pounds of food which beat last year so really big accomplishment for NHS and the Pure Health class speaking of the food pantry and everything we also have the supermarket challenge coming up towards the end of February which will be another awesome opportunity for toucher High School to kind of come together for the community so that's a good one kind of wrapping up our best buddies Club right now is in the middle midle of the planning of the second annual inclusion catian which is kind of a prom Style dance at Chester High School to Foster inclusion and kind of create an environment for students with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities to kind of come together celebrate have a fun night and stuff like that it's very successful last year so we're of course hoping for that again this year and as it will be February somehow in a few weeks our po Club at the high school people of color is um currently prepping a kind of display to go in the library of all kinds of famous people in history who have made contributions that are people of color to go up and be on display for students to see so those are some things awesome thank you for such a rich and robust report any comments or questions from members of the board I can just elaborate a little bit on the 50th anniversary of the hockey program uh they are holding a gap gathering for alumni and guests at 5:30 at Eli's and hamen uh they're playing against North Haven at 7:30 in the Hampton rink so all certainly alumni are encouraged to come out and enjoy the festivities great no comments or questions well thank you so much as always you're welcome to stay throughout the whole but I know midterms is a bummer so you have to study for it thank you so much thanks Andrew thanks ell you okay next up we have some presentations um School partnership Awards so Dr herrian is going to present the award for Dad Middle School yeah that's better hi everyone good evening I have the distinct um Delight to announce Jill southernland as the well-deserving recipient of the school partnership award for Dodd Middle School Jill's remarkable commitment and Relentless dedication to organizing fundraising events have not only enriched the school's culture but have also provided invaluable support for student scholarships for field trips one noteworthy achievement is Jill's expert management of both spring and fall fundraisers allowing students and their families to raise funds that can be directly applied to their eighth grade Washington DC trip in the spring while this trip offers our students a fantastic experience it has also become a significant financial burden for many of our families so these fundraising initiatives have made it possible for some families to afford the trip who might otherwise have faced difficulties in covering the costs Jill's unwavering enthusiasm and tireless efforts have undeniably left a positive and lasting impact on our school we take great pride in recognizing her for her exceptional contributions please come up [Applause] Jill yeah you want to shake hands I'll just get a copy of that social [Applause] Med the next partnership Mr E will present for cheser high school all right it's my honor to uh to recognize uh a good friend to the schools good friends to everybody in in Chester Pete the bishop nothing brings people together like good food Chester High School holds various meetings and events throughout the year and in the midst of the hard work and deep learning nothing puts bigger Smiles on everyone's faces than having lunch from Pops Pizza expertly prepared by Pete to Bishop Pete is always a person who says yes when faced with a daunting event even changes the last minute Pete always replies with no problem this is not just a statement this is Pete's business model good food prepared with love transforms the energy and atmosphere of a meeting or event every year CHS hosts Three leadership conferences for elementary middle and high school students these events bring over 500 students to CHS and attendees include at least 150 adults every year Pete brings the event to life as students gather from different schools in towns they come together in a community over the lunch table Pete's culinary genius and and his ability to tailor and menu for his audience he is feeding as a result our students feel special and like he really knows them it should come to no surprise that Pete is a proud chesher RAM and was a member of the CHS basketball coaching staff for many years he not only gives back to his community but he's a pillar of our community and an inspiration to our students Pete just care Pete just cares and in every action he takes as a confirmation of his character he is as humble as he is skilled there is no better example of the power of food to bring people together with purpose and then partnership with Pete to Bishop Pete we thank you for many years you've supported cheser high school and many more years to come congratulations and thank [Applause] you thanks a excellent more I'll add too that uh Pete you know he's done so many amazing things not just at chesher high school but I know Highland had a pizza making party there and if you've lived in chesher for more than five minutes I know you've been to to Pete's Place and um enjoyed Pops Pizza but maybe my favorite part of the whole presentation is when uh Mr eki referenced Pete as a culinary genius and he turned to his wife and see I like I told you so you know I am a genius so he is a genius thanks so much [Applause] Pete awesome thank you clap it up for those two again please thank you for your [Applause] contributions um the next item Dr Solen can you introduce our presenters Julie Barker and students sure it it is definitely my honor to uh continue continue this uh Pride um proudful prideful uh start to our our meeting tonight we've had uh people that have made different contributions that support us in ways uh that are immeasurable outside the classroom and very much appreciated and now we have the opportunity to shift to more academic Pursuits and uh I have the honor to welcome our CHS department chair Julie Barker this evening who will share with you uh some incredible work that our students at Cheshire high school did uh with students from literally halfway around the world uh it was a logistical and significant academic challenge but our students really showed themselves so incredibly well I had the uh benefit of joining one of the virtual meetings that they had to see the work that our students and and the students from South Korea were doing and it was really pretty astonishing so I'll ask if the board could indulge us for a few minutes in the audience if we could move down to the audience so uh you can see their presentation thank you St little suspense why while the lights come up here good evening everyone and thank you so much for letting us have this opportunity to speak to you about this wonderful program uh that some of the students participated in this year um it's called the global collaborative research and education program so I'll be going into that a little bit and in a minute I'll have the students introduce themselves um this program is coordinated through Aces International here in the United States and the Korean foundation for advancement of Science and creativity are kofac um the program goals are to cultivate research skills through a collaborative approach and I think that's something that makes this program special is the focus on collaboration and CHS is part of the first group to participate in this collaboration this is the very first year there were 20 teams um in each country and so that's 40 in total and they work together on this new project uh the CHS and South Korean teams collaborated on common research topics the teams met virtually to share their findings to discuss and give and receive feedback on how to move forward in the research Pro progress um couple of the highlights each team met twice through Google meet uh with their South Korean partner team students shared their research feedback was given uh from the students student to student and from the teachers in South Korea and myself and each group had a South Korean scientist who acted as a moderator for the meeting and each team developed an independent research plan and then conducted and planned experiments so I'm going to go ahead and at this point let the students introduce themselves um and these are some pictures from our meeting hi I'm Yulan du um I'm a junior at CHS my name is Daniel anos you guys can stand up too oh yeah my name is Daniel Anala I'm a junior at CH High School my name is rishikonda I'm a junior at cheser high school my name is Briana maroo and I'm Junior at cheser high school um my name is Johanna bahuda and I'm a junior at chesher high school and my name is James boy and I'm also a junior at CHS so we have a lot of good Juniors here tonight and these are just a few of the students that participated in the program um a couple of highlights we had were some connections to the community as well uh one of the teams that's represented here tonight met with Mr Cronin who's part of the waste pollution department and he actually came and spoke with them and gave them some information for their experiment and actually gave them some water samples to use in their experiment um I provided some collaboration and I managed the liaison with the South Korean teams and I also provided feedback to the students and helped them as they were trying to design their experiments and then each team produced a research poster that was displayed virtually and it was also displayed at the South Korean National Science Festival um in December so we have um I have images here of each of the posters and we'll make the slides available to you with the links to the posters um and each team created their own research poster so at this point I'd like to allow the students to talk a little bit about their experience uh so we'll pass the microphone around you guys can stand back up we'll have our first team uh that did a study on the electrolytic treatment of Wastewater and the utilization of byproduct gas using Platinum Group cathode now physics is my area this was a little bit of a stretch for me but very interesting what they found out and the experiment they designed so tell us a little bit about your your experiences in general as we went through the experiment we found it was a big exercise in kind of adapting cuz we would we would do background research and we would think okay this is kind of interesting I wonder where we can take this and we would try and say okay can we design an experiment around this and then we would discover oh that's really expensive or oh that's actually toxic so we would have to so we would have to go with something else and we and even towards and even towards the end of it when we have when we had a good experiment experimental setup and we had a time and a place and we started setting it up there were situations like the hood that we were using was actually much smaller than we expecting so we had to fit in ring stands and wires at odd angles and hang ring stands on gas pumps and that was uh that was one of the more difficult aspects of it that I was not expecting another instance of adaption as well I think is with our cathode as well so our our experiment was intended to have a Platinum Group cathode in this case Platinum our reason why we wanted to use that is because in catalic converters Platinum can be used to break down hydrocarbons and larger molecules and smaller ones like CO2 NO2 and just oxygen at last minute however we found that it's very difficult to acquire such a cathode so we had almost at last minute to make changes to switch from Platinum to Nickel instead and we found that nickel is a very good conductor so it's appropriate for this kind of experiment even while nickel was a good conductor in it of itself with the electrolysis the solution of waste water that we used provided so much resistance that we could only manage to get what was it 0.1 amps through the entire solution I think it was when we intended to get like 0.

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still seeing her over here yes all right it's 5:30 and I see quum all right I'm going to go ahead and call the meeting to order at 5:30 uh we'll start off with a roll call uh marel can you um help us with roll call today is the regular board meeting of January 18th 2024 at 5:30 pm members of the board in attendance president presid vice president andto president clerk Andrea Flores Shelton I think she's running late um member Linda Chavez present member mimf present members of administration superintendent Dr Bower present okay thank you uh now go on to the land acknowledgement the Board of Trustees of the alen rock Union Elementary School District does hereby acknowledge that the district schools and Facilities sit on the traditional lands of the mo Mone people and the Board of Trustees further acknowledges with respect to and rence the MMA alone people tribe of the San Francisco Bay area for their stewardship of these lands uh please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge Al to the of the United States of America and to the Republic for which he stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you um are there any modifications of the agenda by my peers or superintendent uh I'd like to move up 11.01 to be the first thing we discussed 11.01 uh yeah um uh right after this one right after 103 or after two um I guess right after 103 okay or yeah yeah either want to make sure just gets early rather than Le at um and then just okay any other modification rep yes 11.01 up to uh after 103 and Dr bar does that um include anybody from uh other staff that would have been here that are not here um the Consultants I asked them to be here if there was any questions from the board do you see them they don't they're not here yet okay so hopefully they get here by then um um sure okay all right any other modifications of the agenda changes move no all right see none then we'll go ahead in the interest of well because like what if they what if we do have questions um we put it maybe after two yeah give ourselves time yeah they're coming from Oakland from the Oakland area okay just to kind of give you a sense of the the timing the timing do you know if they I told them you're not at the very beginning so I told them take your time I apologized I didn't know I was going to be moved um hopefully they're on their way do you you um let's put it on and 11 let's put it after the two for now yeah and then we need to move it then that thank you thank you so much B okay um I am we have a lot of important things and everything's important I'm just wondering um if we move item I know we had a special board meeting last week my guess is dwk will be here Clarissa is also going to be here but we didn't don't see them okay yeah I was just wondering if they're here maybe we can move that up but we'll just leave it then as this okay if I don't see any other modifications or changes um then uh any discussion on the items um comments and then taking public comment on the item or no okay um if I don't see any of the trustees against or not in agreement with this and we'll just move forward with that everyone in agreement with the changes yeah yes does this require doesn't this require a vote vote so uh we'll go ahead and vote at this time there's no other modifications um if you are in agreement please uh raise your hand okay if you oppose please raise your hand if you abstain please raise your hand okay so uh everyone is in agreement except for uh Linda abstains um so passes we'll go ahead and move forward with item 103 um I'm going to go ahead and welcome and and explanation to the audience any person May address a board on any item on the meeting agenda persons who wish to speak on an item on the agenda will have the opportunity to do so when that agenda item is introduced and presented during this meeting there is a limit of two minutes of each speaker the board has the right to limit total public comment on any agenda item to no more than 20 minutes persons who wish to speak to the board about any matter within the the jurisdiction of the district but not on this agenda well will have an opportunity to do so uh to speak during item 2011 on this agenda as stated below all right so we'll then move on to public members who wish to address the board public members who wish to address the board on matters not on the agenda uh request to address the board provides members of the public an opportunity to speak about any matter under the jurisdiction of the district but not on this agenda if the subject uh you would to discuss is already on this agenda please provide your comment when that item is called during the meeting those who wish to speak on within the jurisdiction of the brown act prevents the board from discussing any item not on this published agenda but the board May refer to staff for followup any formal written requests that are not brought before the board at this time all right there is a limit of two minutes for each speaker speaker the board has a right to limit total public comment on any agenda item to no more than 20 minutes written matters may be placed on a future meeting agenda all right at this time I'll go ahead and open it up for public comment um members of the public wishing to address the board welcome Miss Talton good evening evening are we going to have the timer up uh marel if you can help us with the timer or staff whoever's back there supporting with the timer keep talking thank you all right good evening board president superintend Balor and members of the board Alam Rock School Community um I'm talking about a couple different things and I have not had the opportunity to properly get my thoughts together so I'm just going to give you some highlights I'm speaking tonight uh in support of prop 28 for our district there is a toolkit which is recently been um released uh for those who don't know in November 2022 California voters pass proposition 28 tonight you'll hear about the Arts discretionary block grant which many people get confused I'm grateful as a create CA Arts now leader for Santa Clara County that members of this District management team will be meeting with me and our vapa coordinator next Thursday to work out details so I will be sharing that toolkit with the district to develop our Arts programming I attended a meeting today um with Arts Educators across the state who talked about ways to bring in and recruit Arts Educators and there's some very creative ways in which to do so I'll be sharing that in the meeting as well and I never want to neglect to present uh the need for the board to honor their commitment to African-American Educators the black lives matter and school resolution and I shared with um Human Resources um a letter from the black educator Advocates Network which has very detailed information from the California black educator survey and there is an upcoming seminar webinar style in March on ways to recruit and retain African-American Educators um this district has not always been a safe place for African-American students and Educators and I just want to be mindful to uh share that with folks because it may not be top of mind with all the other things that we deal with and I just wanted to bring that before the board this evening thank you very much thank you um do we have any other public address so right see none we'll go ahead and move on to item 1101 I'm not sure Dr bar you audence here but I just saw dri and claresa so if you want to move another item the uh which they are here for item number um where's BS 801 the one where you had the study session last week I know we didn't move it because we didn't see them but the board um has the you you you can ask the board if everybody's okay yeah that's what I'm saying we can't just move into it so um seeing that the staff uh to discuss item 801 are here um I'll go ahead and open it to the board to see if you are all open to moving 801 um to now um I don't I think it makes sense we don't want to be paying for lawyers to just sit in the meeting okay so we'll go ahead and uh bring it up to a vote those in favor please raise your hand and those against please raise your hand and those abstaining please raise your hand all right um everyone in favor except for Linda Chavez opposes I'm sorry stains from the vote thank you so I'll go ahead and move um item 801 to this time discussion and approval of the delivery method option for the Del for the development of Workforce housing Dr B yes so I'm gonna turn it over to Mr Kang so that he can refresh the board's um memory about you know what you are about to but you're being asked to vote on tonight thank you Dr B and good evening uh madam board president members of the board um for 8.1 you may recall that last week we did a board study session regarding the Three Delivery methods options uh to develop the workforce housing the three options were the design build design bid build and Lease lease back um and at the end of the meeting um or during the meeting the board had thought ask additional clarifying questions um to be able to determ and make decision at tonight's board meeting to select one of the delivery method um in order to proceed with development of the workforce housing itself so before you tonight um there an opportunity for the board to make that decision so thank you thank you um I I'll go ahead and open it up for public comment and then um bring it back for discussion of the board I'll go ahead and open it up for public comment um item 801 at this time okay seeing nobody um is here for public comment I'll go ahead and open it up to my trust vice president um I would like if you would accept I'd like to put forward a motion um and I would like to speak to to my motion too um is it okay yeah I think um the fact that we had a special board meeting and we talked in late you know that's what I wanted to discuss that way the Public's aware that that's great um people don't feel like it was somehow a rubber stamp um we went through a long very very detailed uh meeting that where we received a lot of information um it was publicly agendized we were all there and so I believe um from the information we received seems like design build was the the the the model that seems to work best in our situation given the fact that it's not being financed being done by the uh taxpayers are paying directly for it and so I would put forward a motion right now to support a designb built U uh model um great thank you uh we have a motion and we have a second uh by trusty hor Shelton all right um any questions comments um yeah I just wanted to State um again my gratitude for sort of setting aside that time for that study session because this is a complex set of options we have in front of us um and I just wanted to um so thank you to DW k for that again very very detailed and thorough um and objectively helped us kind of see the pros and cons of everything so you know for folks to understand like the options in front of us right you know why lease lease back isn't something I would support is because financing is required and in this case we have already have um funds in place thanks to the taxpayers um the design bid build you know that kind of shackles us to the lowest bidder and we want a really quality product so I I just appreciate um the motion to go design build and it still gives us that kind of um transparency and the cost and it gives us sort of the the aspects that we're looking for and I um just did want I did have one question um so if I could just ask the question in terms of um we're putting forward the method today and then if someone could just walk through sort of what we can anticipate the next steps to to be in terms of what a scope for an RFP would look like and when we would um see that that back so thank you uh C do you have a response sure yeah so so the next step would be um as as you know we're uh currently in the entitlement process with the city um the timeline is between probably five to six months to get that through um during that time um you know we would need to hire an architect to do schematic in order to submit um primary plan to the city for uh review and consideration um once that's done then the the RP to select the design build team would occur um and then we would be working with dwk to uh develop the RP and then to issue it and publish it to whoever contractor is interested in working with the district just one follow up question in terms of um architect and then RFP and then just for Clarity on our sort of the fac the the long range facility plan for the for the land right we have the whole land this is design build for Workforce housing yes only only right not for any of the other aspects of what's in the um the current plan that we have public that includes the other parts of the um mats and proper correct this only pertains to the workforce housing thank you thank you okay uh trusty you know I'll ask my question and I'll make my statement well um question co I it was mentioned at the at the previous meeting where we discussed the options that uh you know that you and the bonds director were Ming with the uh the building traits Council in regards to uh complying with the project labor agreement and I I was the author of the Amendments of the project labor agreement extension that extends to um workfor housing I you know uh just wanted to check in how how did the meeting go with the buing trades Council I don't believe you have that meeting yet no um before you tonight there's a contract with the firm um uh to help support districts and working with the PLA and and the agreement itself um once that assuming that um agreement is approved tonight then we'll initiate the meetings with the the various groups that we we have to meet with and I think you know in spirit of ensuring that our communities B that stay in the community and generate opportunities for uh for you know good job in this community you know I you know I felt it was important to to make that know that that we we are working to make sure that local our local tax dollars are reinvested in you know for the benefit of our community and that that produces something tangible for the community and I guess secondly I will say that I you know I'm I'm in support of the motion in regards to the resign Bill and part of it is that I'll say we we only have one chance to get this right so I think that this is the design build process you know doesn't uh gives us an opportunity to to make sure that the make sure that we get we get the building right and in the long run it produces a better value because it ensure that we we the district has has quality control over what what what we will be making available for our community and for our teachers and for our staff um so you know you know so it's a it's been a long journey I thank the the administration I thank uh you know the of danis R Kelly for um helping us do that so thank you so much thank you trusty fam um and at this time I don't see any other comments I think the only thing I'll add is um you know thank you staff for uh making sure that we had the time in the special board meeting to uh really dive deep into this specific item before we made this huge uh decision on behalf of our district um and so I'm also in agreement I I look forward to supporting um uh board vice president's motion and um you know moving this forward another big step in the process but making sure that we are um looking at all the details and not moving too fast you know it's exciting but uh we need to make sure that we do it right um and then also in regards to the pla I'm in agreement um I think un and I had this discussion with Dr Bower so when we address the pla item in the future I'll make sure to make my comments there uh but ensuring that you know all of our projects um are um overseen by uh labor right and making sure that um we have um we are following that agreement and we are um you know um implementing and having somebody um oversee that so I look forward to making sure that that happens so with that I'm going to go ahead and call for uh the vote um if you're in favor of um the motion which is to go with the design build uh please raise your hand at this time all right passes unanimously thank you so much now moving on to item uh 301 unless I'm going to be checking for the 1101 maybe no not yet okay so we'll go ahead and move on to item 301 presentation on ethnic studies implementation plan this is a very um important step fors integrating ethnic studies in our district and I just want to publicly thank all the members of the ethnic studies committee and to sports that have participated and given of their time and their efforts to be able to make this a reality and I'm looking at Miss tton because she has been part of this from the very beginning and we're very very grateful to everybody for um bringing this together right it's it's quite an unusual movement for a a an elementary school district usually this is something that happens in in high schools but um we have nothing if we're not throw Blazers in so many ways so thank you very much and I'm going to turn it over to miss Wyatt technical difficulties well good evening and thank you so much for having me good evening president and good evening trustees and good evening superintendent and Community um before we start I just like to let you know this just an update and where our team is at in our fiveyear plan uh we have completed the scoping sequence of I made plan for one two three I skipped four because three and four are going to be about the same and then five um I was going to do 1 three five but but two had to get in there in order for me to see the bre um and so thank you for understanding that um I also wanted to acknowledge all of the teachers who have been doing good work um from the ground up Verona who's in the audience tonight she's the only one that was able to make it in person tonight but I know that some of our team members are out there in Virtual land and so I want to say a heartfelt thank you so much for all of your time your effort your energy your Insight and sharing your experience and knowledge there's no way that this program would get off the ground without each and every one of and we are furiously trying to up marel can you promote the boardroom video please it might be Miss I'm just saying on your toes it's all your energy almost thank you for your patience thato too do we have a portable chalk board somewhere pressure on you just kidding we're all watching you just kidding thank you thank you for for helping us out otherwise we'd love to hear your voice and you know I know oh there it is great all right thank you friends I appreciate you all right thank you everyone um so I wanted to start off by mentioning that our state superintendent Tony Thurman and the Department of Education asked this ask of the State of California to imp studies for students to take one ethnic studies course one semester in high school as a graduation requirement so arusd leaders are way ahead of this curve and a resolution was passed here in June of 2020 that commits us to implementing ethnic studies in kindergarten through 8th grade maybe even TK maybe prek we'll see preparing alen Rock's students for both the graduation requirement coming in high school as well as the real world that they live in and that affects them deeply every single day so here's the resolution that was passed in June of 2020 and before I was hired into this exciting role there was an ethnic studies action team that designed a purpose for our program so that grounded Us in the work they also designed a vision for the program that grounded us and they also highlighted for our team coming in um some of the reflections and aspirations from the community members as well as the Educators that were on that team as Dr bow was mentioning we are Trailblazers we are the only ones that I can find anywhere in the state of California that is bringing ethnic studies below sixth grade so congratulations to us because this really shows me exactly what we stand for here we are I'm so proud to be serving with this goal to be the first district to design and Implement prek to 8 districtwide there are some who are doing middle school around us that I am deeply in collaboration with but like I said absolutely nobody has touched this below sixth grade and so my ultimate objective our team has decided I was really inspired by that story that was shared at I believe it was our November board meeting about superintendent parales earlier this year that moment made me pause and I could not stop but see this is ethnic studies right here live happening and as a part of this process I dream of us Gathering more and more of these stories I found direct alignment within our California history standards that each grade level has which would connect to students being given opportunities to research interview and honor the legacy of those within our community to create a digital and physical Book of allenl Stories who are we so that our students can start to see the power that lives within our people I also look to this to to see that this is the first step we would be making in getting this award for each and every one of our schools this is called the California democracy award and from Gaining the historical content Knowledge from their ethnic studies lessons then our students are going to become more empowered and impassioned to help strengthen that agent within them in order to take Civic action in the world around them so when I think about that Paris story and what the family is hoping to see happen as action to honor him our students need to be inserted right in the middle of that story to help that action take place and gain them that Civic knowledge and experience and those those places are the places that all of our units are going to end in so that five years from now I Envision every single one of our schools being able to get this award the book that I am mentioning I would like to live at both the Roberto Cruz Library as well as one here in our lobby and a shorter version of all of the people who are honored in it at each and every one of our school sites so it would be a community interactive event that is ongoing and iterative I also dream of it making it into the California room at the MLK Library downtown this is just a couple of links for you to see the work that we have already been up to um the this again more links to see the work that we have been up to on our team we've been meeting regularly since September so this is what our Five-Year Plan is comprised of at this point um these are the three major elements that you'll find inside we started by needing to determine the model and structure so we began looking at the model curriculum honed in on this section right here and what we determined as the best option for our school sites is this table that F sets will be attached to and live year round in our prek to grade five attached to language arts as well as history and ELD or grades six seven and eight it will live within the language arts classrooms connected to ELD uh this is our plan document in order for ethnic studies to be successful we really needed to embed it within the existing content standards and so we have determined that what we're doing is basically marrying our ethnic studies disciplines across the top with Ela ELD Frameworks our history content standards and the big questions from the hilery Frameworks and then we'll repeat the same for 678 with Ela and ELD instead and in order for all of our AI USD students to have access to this content we will be designing each and every lesson unit within the Universal Design for Learning framework here is the Universal Design for Learning guidelines and everything that we do will be designed within here is our planning template that this template shows you how we will be co-designing these lessons with the content standards along with ethnic studies and Universal Design for Learning because here in alen rock we deeply understand that educational Equity means that each child receives what he or she needs to develop to is a her full academic and social the process by which we will be co-designing we are going to be using the liberatory design framework from stamford's K12 lab and the D school here is our plan so we start at year one which we are halfway through and our plan is focused right now on finishing the fiveyear plan as well as team building a lot of training for the members that are on the team and the members who will be part of the writing team we are hoping to have that writing team ready to launch everybody trained in time for right after school gets out in June a two-e writing camp and hopefully we'll have enough units to start launching with in our Middle School classrooms next year year two is focused on implementing in middle school lessons iterating on middle school lessons as we prepare our elementary teachers with all of that training background knowledge and a writing team to write the Elementary at the end of year two okay where am I ad that's right so year three years three and four these will be the first two years that ethnic studies will exist in all classrooms districtwide and so this year our communities of practice and our community team will be deeply pting listening to the feedback from the teachers from the students and from the families and iterating more as this is going to be a living breathing curriculum that will change year to year with current events and also change with the changing demographics of the community that we have opportunity to serve year five our PLC will focus on deep cycles of inquiry revisions additions to the curriculum and materials it is the Hope by this time our who is alen mock book will be significant and on display for the public to engage with in multiple spaces the other side project that we're working on is uh this is a link to an additional piece where we are bringing resources ideas forp opportunities guest speakers assemblies community events that are all tied to the different resolutions that recognize and celebrate our student population so each month celebration will have a whole host of resources for everyone to dive deep and celebrate big all right and that's that these are just the partners that I've been working with along the way iterating and thank you so much for your time thank you so much um at this time I'll open it up public comment and then we'll come to the board with any comments or questions um sure if you'd like or we're gonna yeah open it up for public comment at this time okay all right thank you good evening my name is Veronica Talton I'm going to share a poem that I pinned and it's entitled OD to a black teacher stolen from your native land Heritage erased but here you stand descended from creative minds don't let anyone take away your shine brothers and sisters this old is for you everyone walking solo and sharing truth racial battle fatigue but still fight fighting weary of the struggle there's no denying to many you'll never be seen as an equal by any means necessary is your sequel rise up against Injustice racism and pain generational trauma colorism and shame Stand United with love as your banner the blessings of the ancestors is the mantle worn unapologetically yes black and proud honor to our people I'll say it loud thank you thank you beautiful any other public comments at this time all right um I'll go ahead and bring it back to the board any questions or comments from the board uh FL suon trusty FL um just you were talking about your Magnetic Personality earlier but the the progress in which this is moving I think is what the previous board that I wasn't on wanted I'm sure when you all passed this so this is this is fantastic and I think the the depth and breadth that you're you're doing this with all these partners and all the um the folks I just did have one question I see oh God there's a lot of pages here um what did you call them writers the writers the writers of the curriculum so you're the writers team so they're going to be taking anti-bias training um is what I see uh have we superintendent talked about anti-bias training for for all faculty of course I mean that's going to be part that's why they're leading us right okay they're going to come to us and they're G as we develop the implementation of this plan right they're going to be the ones telling us now this is what we're going to do this is what going to do so all of us all of us are going to be part of that okay and uh when so if I can't remember what year it was but if anti-bias training is for the writers then you would go to scale like it some the next year or something correct so would that be year two or year are we in are we done with year one I yeah we're halfway through year one okay it's my hope that no one attempts at these lessons living in classrooms before they have had deep training on anti-bias anti-racism um structural racism and institutional racism okay great because I know in in my experience at the previously at the county level like just anti-bias training in and of itself isn't you know we're not going to expect you know deep results with that it has to be sort of institutional and and the old piece so I'm glad we're talking about it and thinking about it and that it's in the plan so thank you thank you any other questions comments I'm seeing none I have a couple of comments um first of all thank you for bringing the update to our board um as a trustee that championed it in 2020 you know for me um it's important to see thank you the actions right behind our beautiful resolutions that we do up here and the votes and all that like the action behind speaks more than any anything we can do here so thank you for being at the front lines thank you for and and all the staff that you mentioned that are here um for being there making sure that what we you know vote on happens right um day in day out and um bringing the updates um and also although I'm proud to be the first district right along with you that has uh implemented and it's in the process of implementing um before sixth grade it also makes me sad that four year four years later that we're still the only District so you know I look forward to our you know um districts surrounding us and Statewide and Beyond right to um also see the importance of implementing this you know from zero to you know the last breath that we take that we um definitely honor each other um and so thank you again um and thank you for being you know on board and taking this and having the energy you know it definitely will take somebody like you to help um spearhead this and make this happen and I look forward to continuing to support um the ethnic studies movement here in our district thank you so much president a quick question for the administration um there were talks with s City College about U having trainings for um teachers that hadn't had like ethnic studies background did they go anywhere or just wondering given since we're we're talking about this TR to see if if anything happened are they still going on so I don't know if they responded to because Katie reached out to the original Task Force if you recall some of them were part of that original task force so I don't know I haven't reached out to City College yet but thank you for the thought I've been working with San Jose State but if they are doing anti-bias trainings I'm gonna I'm GNA Link in well they had developed this whole presentation that had like a little certificate fabulous uh that um teachers could go and get given that it's a community college I think it'd be a lot more accessible at a couple hundred bucks rather than rather than I'm gonna look into that thank you so much for that idea thank you okay see you then thank you so much um we'll go ahead and move on I think we'll be able to bring item 1101 at this time um so uh bringing it back to item 1101 uh approve contract with Q Communications for public relations marketing Services um if we can call up Q or to Dr yeah I want to give just a little intro to the board and to the public um we have been U flying solo when it comes to um established professional uh both public relations and Communications for a while and so as we move forward with all these initiatives I felt as a superintendent that it was important for us to bring professionals um this particular group and they will they are here to answer any questions the board may have but I just want to very briefly High the highlight of their work is to number one re-evaluate all district Communications and provide a critical assessment of all district Communications and as as a result of that there they're going to design a strategic Communications plan for the year that will include the district's website social media parent communication tools newsletters and produce at least two positive media stories per month the second highlight will be to reset the district's narrative kind of rebranding and examine the overall look of the district and update as needed and finally which is critical for Alum Rock is the enrollment messaging year round so that we can really reach out to uh Alum Rock students who have chosen their parents have chosen a different um schooling to kind of say hey reconsider alumrock and bring bring some of them back so um every month Q communication will be uh giving me a report of their work that I will be in turn able to share with the board and obviously that will become a public document so that everybody will know what is it what is the work that is being done so with that I will entertain myself any questions from the board or if not we have Stacy and Cass here who are C Communications they are here to answer also any questions the board may have thank you I'm going to go ahead and open it up for public comments before we bring it to the board um at this time do we have anybody from the public wishing to address a board on this item welcome Miss Rivera hello Sandra can you hear me okay sorry I can't hear out of my ear so I can't hear myself talking right now but I would um just like to say that area did have a lot of apprehension with this contract coming forward um we've heard over and over again especially during our negotiation sessions about how the district needs to be phisically responsible physically physically responsible and so coming up with this number and this contract um I just really want to know how it's going to be used I want to see results this time I want to make sure that we get the students into our district I want to make sure that this money is being used responsibly because $180,000 is two teachers salaries it's ways to get more support and academic um instruments and um instruction and curriculum and things into our classrooms it's ways that we can ensure that our students succeed and so while I understand we need to balance everything out at the same time I really want to make sure that we get some positive outcomes and that there is a checks and balance system so that if this is not working alen Rock has a way out in order to make sure that our students dollars are not being spent irresponsibly thank you anybody else okay bringing it back to the board any questions or comments from the board okay uh board vice president kto yeah um I wanted to um express my position on the on this item um appreciate the information I acknowledge that we do need support in um in terms of uh speaking to the media or messaging um but I got three three issues uh with regard to this contract and it's I think it's a the process somewhat upside down I think that we should have started off with an internal process that really really recognizes what is that we need as a district that re that um goes out there um does a full assessment of what what is it that we want what we need um rather than bring on a firm to get paid while we go through this process and so um that's one of the issues I think that we're we're jumping ahead and we should have gone through more thorough and form like you know internal process to figure it figure out what we want um I think that $180,000 something I'm not comfortable with uh we've been presented with some very uh dire numbers uh in the in the last board meeting uh the loss of aser funds uh CBO told us we're in really really bad uh we're in bad shape and so uh for me that alone is enough of a reason to kind of to put up to do you have concerns enough to not support uh this effort um just recently under the leadership of President fam um the superintendent and president Pam went and sought out U some support financial support from the state budget and so I appreciate that was a bold move and I I thank you for that unfortunately I don't think it's gonna come and um and so we're out there looking for support because we're in such a bad spot um what are we going to say when they when when you're dropping nearly 200 Grand on a PR perm um it's 15K a month 3,700 bucks a week 750 uh a day $117 an hour and some change and so additionally as I mentioned before alrock um obviously went through some tough times in the past uh We've um obviously moved from that but we'd establish a process where we would go ahead and publicly hear at a meeting interview firms uh and then go ahead and go through a public process we would vote and the Todd vote get ultimately go ahead and move forward and um it I really appreciate board member of hanano who really was instrumental and setting up a lot of the logistics and mechanisms that we used he actually encouraged us to go ahead and display the individual talles up front uh so the public was well aware of what took place and so uh it's another issue that um I have with the process itself and that uh we had been moving forward with this process of being um of have of it taking place here at the board uh interviews taking place votes taking place right here and um this was not the case with regard to this process and so it's for those reasons that I won't be able to support um uh this item I as I mentioned I I believe we do need support but I would I would be supportive of a much smaller number and much smaller figure and and this is something that superintendent is well aware of I had concerns about the numbers well in advance of any any item coming forward so it's nothing new um and it's not a personal issue against anybody this is just my position and um so yeah that's my position on the issue thank you board vice president I saw dress Flor Shelton thank you um thank you um thank you superintendent for laying out what you expect out of this contract and um I think those were things that I are important to us and to this board was is my understanding um and thank you trustee or vice president Kinto for bringing up your um your concerns I I want to say I you know um I believe that kind of speaking to the results of a Communications plan you know those are hard to come by but I think um the history of this District um we have a reputational issue right and having good strong Communications is a part of um having a strong reputation so that people are aware that people know what decisions are being made um and that people know all the good things that are happening um because again it sort of feels like as a resident here for you know and not on the board for a few years you know it was kind of like come on the board I'm like wow wow wow I mean it's there's just a lot of great stuff going on um and and I really think from a from a dollars and cents standpoint we've had a superintendent who's been having to do this type of work and I would much rather her be leading the organization in in the educational sphere and making sure that she's talking to us about what are the priorities that we would want to get out um to the community or how are we responding um to the community in a timely fashion instead of um you know having a superintendent spending that time so um I'm a bit uh I am I'm leaning towards this I understand the cost I understand the financial um environment that we're in um but I also think um this is a huge gap in this Administration that needs to be addressed um and if you want quality right we just like you know we're we're we're trying to go there with teachers we're trying to go there we're trying to you know put our prior our funds in priority areas um I think this is a win if if we you want to like renegotiate the dollars I you know um that would be I might be open to that also um process-wise I'm not really you know I think these are administrative functions I'm not I I hear you and that would be interesting um I personally again back to my experience here I would rather deol politicize some of these type of um like still be transparent still be very open and honest but depoliticize things that I think are administrative functions that then come to us for an up and down vote on a contract so that's my comment thank you thank you trusty Flor Shelton any other members of the board wishing to address them well not to the administration but rather a question Tod party of the contract just to you know uh in you know having read read read The Proposal uh you know I guess my you know given our you know that that we work closely with our labor you know with our Teachers Association School Employees Association Teamsters uh in the districts that you have serviced have you ever had a contentious relationship with the uh labor unions in those school districts and you're welcome to uh come to the podium and join us here welcome thank you thank you for the opportunity St this is Cass and together we're q and it's just two of us and what was your could you restate the question have you ever had a contentious a contentious relationship with the labor unions in the two in the districts you have serviced no no oh and actually the opposite and we work very closely with superintendent manag the board um so at Napa Valle unified as well as San unified um we have a long-standing relationship where we uh worked with both those districts and we did not have any of those type of adversarial in fact it was quite positive a lot of that had to do with the board and superintendent quite frankly um but we were with them every step of the way and I'll just say from our perspective I here um the numbers and we know that we have worked from um Oakland to San Leandro to um to Napa to a couple other districts in the Bay Area and where we come to the table having worked with a lot of schools is looking at the comprehensive Communications that are needed having no one really enroll is where um we put really fine-tuned on our numbers and actually from the quality you think we can bring it's fair given the number of hours we would need to provide from a strategic all the way to execution to really make this work so we really did put heart and soul into how we've seen successful school districts move through um through Communications and it does start and I appreciate with what Mr P said about how much can the administration do versus having professionals help guide the process of doing a full audit which can not be very long and then immediately move into an execution of how parents today need to hear information how the Board needs to hear information how perspective parents need to hear information I even heard today just ethnic studies i o to a black teacher where are those stories out in in in the community where people can start to um hear what's going on there's a lot that Communications can do to move that and move the needle not just on ensuring retention of students andent families but bringing potential families out so that that's sort of where we grounded ourselves and what what we we do sorry to go on thank you for um thank you for answering uh trusty fam any other questions uh no thank you for answering and you know I guess I'll just end on this comment you know I you know I understand the strength on the administration but boy you know it's sort of like sort of like being at the Burger King you know when I you know we all like to order the Whopper but sometimes the situation you know sometimes calls for the Whopper Jr so yeah so I thank you for taking the time to answer that and if we can stay because some of us might have some more questions please thank you uh truste Tavis um in the favor of time I would just like to refer to miss Sandra's comments uh for reasons why we should not spend this money um and I agree with Miss fandel that's it thank you thank you trusty Chavez um I have a couple questions um for me I and I brought these up in my one one with h Dr Bower um I'm in agreement of a lot of the things that my you know peers have mentioned and for me it was um when I read through the um the information that was provided to us I didn't see outlined what would be provided and so for me for that amount is important to see right what is going to be um provided so um it was helpful to hear Dr Bower kind of outline some of that um and when I hear two stories a month um you know my thought right and social media it's like two stories a day you know versus like a big story a month where it's like publicized um that might take a little longer um maybe with you know our local um news papers and things like that so um can you clarify that the two stories a month to understand that better two stories month we would say would be a source story that we would write for you and whether that goes out depending on the story it goes out either via press releases to your local paper we would make those decisions on what story is for that versus social media social media posts we could do would be more that obviously okay yeah the social media post to us is a picture it's not a story a story would be something where the ethnic studies program we would call we would do interviews we would you know somehow secure photographs so it would be an extensive story and whether it's picked up it still should be on your website you should be telling your own stories so that could happen I mean given the size of your District you have stories constantly every day happening magic in your classroom stories so that would be sort of at the minimum okay love it and I mean this is something Dr Brower and I have been talking about um and I can't possibly expect her to put like but I'm like where's our stories when are we going to put them out you know we have so many stories like you said um with so many amazing things happening in our district and if we don't tell our story then somebody will pick up and tell their negative story exactly and so for me it's important and so what we've done before is we will have an extense of editorial calendar that could be shared say this is our plan on this day there's social media post about this on this day there's a there will be an extensive story on the website that website link goes to your paper I mean it's it's a you know it's a comprehensive look at um at everything going on your inv thank you and I think to I mean naturally right the amount 180,000 it's like whoa um but I think when I when I look at this and I'm able to break it down and understand right it's not to exceed so let's just start with that you know that um it doesn't mean 180 but it's not to exceed and then I see it broken down in two years right we have 23 24 and then we have 2425 so um I see for 2425 it's 90,000 and for 2324 also 990,000 is it safe to say that since we're in DEC or January I'm going month backwards in January that the work you know I don't know would start whether it's tomorrow or next week at the end of January it's already started but it doesn't me you but it would start tomorrow if that were the case uh sorry and I didn't ask my question but when you say can you help me now understand what you just mentioned that it already started in a way well okay thank you I was like oh my God you did work we okay thank you thank you thank you okay um and and for me you know when I make my decision and my vote these things are going to be important you know um moving forward so is it safe to say that we are halfway through the year school year here so the budget for 23 24 will not be the full 990,000 versus the um your 2425 because it's a full year in May I'm not looking we don't have the document that you're looking at so that's not we do it by month so I don't know how you guys broke that down based on school year and budget they're doing it by month the answer is yes okay thank you the information we're given and you know it's important where we're making the votes so I just want to make sure I'm understanding correctly so I got my answer from Dr Bower thank you so much yes um yeah sure I'll come back to you and then I um so for me these things are helpful because when I see the total 180,000 it's like whoa right and I and I get it but I also understand that we need it and we can't possibly put it on our clerk who's also you know responding to the phone calls and you know trying to manage our our calendar and and they've been doing a great job I want to I want to you know say that in public that we've been like you know um making sure that we put what we can and they've been doing an amazing job but they can't possibly um do it and I don't know how they've been doing it quite frankly and so um you know we definitely need it um you know we're uh definitely having a lot more um items you know being added Workforce housing a lot more opportunities for our our community to become aware again of the things that we are doing in the classrooms and in our community um otherwise again you know somebody else will be telling our story so for me it's worth the investment um you know in putting in our our school district um the results is worth you know that so I know it's it's not easy you know the decision that's that you you know we're not here for easy decisions but um this is definitely worth that investment for me so I'll go ahead and turn over to board vice president kto just wanted to make sure to clarify because you said up to 180 and there might not be that much but in the documents we receive this a monthly retainer of 15,000 in my experience a retainer is upfront you paid 15,000 so that would be uh that would be the total amount uh 180 is what they would expect to get paid by the end of the year um am am I correct in that yeaha can explain that that thank you so the the 180s it's actually based on the mon worth the work um and since the contracts get assuming it starts this year we only have six months left and that's why you have a breakdown of $90,000 budget for this year and then that contract carries over into the next FIS excuse me into the next fiscal year um for another six months that covers the other $990,000 so it's not C for the second year well but this okay the contract starts off in 11924 it ends on 1825 so there's a full year there so in order to pay that full amount you'd have to pay 180 Grand to get to that number corre correct assuming that we keep the contract for the whole month term right yeah and from what the contract term says here then that would add up to 180 so I just want to make sure we're clear that we're not because of we talk about fiscal years we don't give the wrong the wrong impress to the public it's only 90 grand and with regard to a retainer when you pay a retainer so you retain a lawyer for 500 bucks an hour you're paying them 500 bucks an hour correct not up to $500 no the the payment that we will making to them is on a monthly basis so every month they'll be getting um I believe $115,000 to breakdown okay so yeah yeah it's it's all right so yeah with $155,000 that which adds up to 180 for the full term of the contract correct okay so I just want to make sure we're all clear another another thing that I want to bring up is a concern related to the uh form that was filled out which um if we follow the independent contractor District guidelines uh part two item 10 uh it says that if you answer questions 8 n or 10 yes there's actually a good possibility that an employment relationship exists just want to make sure that we don't run a file of any issue or any laws or anything like that by the way that this was answered so if there are concerns or should there be concerns because uh this item is checked yes no we we Ved the this is mainly to ensure that the the their consultant is a contracted uh vendor and not an employee at the district itself so that's just kind of the checklist that we gone through and yeah there was no there was no issue with that yeah um I'm just reacting to the comments by um three of my colleagues and um wanting to just not slow down um or or not wanting to stop this process but wanting to at least make it work for folks um I I'd like to make a motion um to direct the administration to um to renegotiate and return with um a reduced a Whopper Jor um but that still gets us to sort of the Strategic outcomes the support that we need the you know making sure that our story is being told because I don't want this to to die I want I want us to do something that's within um that moves us forward but is um that recognizes the financial sort of uncertainty that we're in so i' like the the motion would be to um direct the administration to renegotiate and come back with um a a smaller budget any of my colleagues want to support that trusty Tois off of that comment and if all works well after the first year then you can add some FRS so you second second motion okay so trust chave seconds okay um seeing that we have a motion on the floor um I'll go ahead if I don't see any other questions or comments go ahead and uh call for the vote all those in favor of the motion uh raise your hand at this time so the motion is to renegotiate renegotiate and bring it back with a smaller maybe amount can you say that to the public and is that doable and Mar do you have that down because I know it's not um well we have that so I trusty Flor Shelton said direct Administration uh to re you know to renegotiate for a smaller budget and um that's what I captured from the moment return back to the board return back to the board can I add to that sorry uh vice president for me it's important to see kind of itemized what what's on the menu what you know we can get um I think you know from previous and I talked to Dr bar about this experiences you know we were um and I'm not saying you're all going to do this I'm just saying to make ensure that we're able to move without this we were getting charged for you know another post or you know and so to ensure that that doesn't happen I know we probably can't itemize everything because some things might come out so maybe there's some space for there but we can get because when I read through here I didn't really see even you know some of that language that's helpful for me to see what I can weize 32 hours a month okay I mean our proposal is fairly extensive but maybe the whole thing isn't there maybe and even what uh Dr Bower mentioned today and directly staff to maybe add that um maybe something you gave her but that we didn't see that we can add it to that we had to we had to look at it from standpoint ofation so I'll be happy to amend the motion that it's returning with a um scope of work and a um revised budget that meets that scope of work that's under this budget I'm not I don't want I'm not going to put a dollar amount in um but I just know that we're going for something that's scoped um scope downward okay thank you TR Travis to make it easy and more clearer and concise can we just bring it back because there's a lot of alterations here and that doesn't mean that it's going to be negotiated right it's better that you negotiate like that and not do it in public and to rework the plan this there's no rush I think and I think this is Rush so I feel that it would be better that you bring it to the board next month and that we just do a continu if that's okay I would I would agree that rather than taking action and doing a formal vote just the administration just goes back goes back to the drawing board and figures it on their own without any uh without any U engagement from the board and bring back what you think will the board will accept work it out I know we have a motion on the floor second so I guess would that mean that we have a substitute motion to just you haven't voted on the first which I would say the first motion is what uh vice president Kino just said we're kicking it back to the administration to renegotiate and given the comments that it wouldn't come back at $180,000 for 12 months that it would be a lesser amount with the detail and hearing that we want um a detailed scope so I just want it to be on the record um if that is what my motion then I second well what I would like to clarify that I'm I'm not supportive of taking action I'm supportive of just letting it die yeah and then go forward do what you got to do and then take take action without having to me too so for that reason I won't be okay so seeing that they bring it back then she need chck needs to withdraw yeah seeing that currently we have a motion and a second um if you want to withdraw then we otherwise will'll move forward with a vote because we have it down so if the motion the one that second wants to take it back um otherwise we'll move forward with the vote and then we'll move forward with this item so in I hearing right now currently there's still a motion and a second on this item so when trust made the second motion no there's no second motion because we got to address the first motion I'm motioning to so we have to address the current motion excuse me y so to not act on this yes but to ask the administration to go back and renegotiate and come back that's my second so um are you V are you retrieving are you retrieving your second I'm I'm not retrieving my second I'm I'm seconding her motion to drop it and bring it back next month she so that's my understand one second let me just clarify what I'm saying is asking the administration to renegotiate with communicate QE Communications and come back and that's what you seconded are you okay with that so the word drop it I didn't say drop it she I you know it's this so right now I hear nobody's retracting or second we'll go ahead move on with the vote with the second okay so you retracted the second and then there was another motion by King so the I can I go ahead vice president so the it wasn't actually a motion it was just uh that we don't take action and then move on with the agenda and the administration does what it has to do then next meeting we'll deal with it are you making the motion if not I'm gonna make Mo I'm making the motion but it's the same motion that Andrea just made no because we would we wouldn't have to take action we just vote down the F let's leave it at that it's a safe time thank you okay all right well at this point either way I think we got the same outcome Dr Bower thank you so much I think you heard the direction from the board uh we look forward to hearing um at the next uh qut thank you so much all right moving on or back to item I'm sorry I I'm I'm procedurally and I'll the I don't understand how an item that says uh let's what number was this approve contract so what did we do you did not approve it you did not approve is not no we actually didn't we we we talked about it we didn't not approve it there was no second so it doesn't move forward forward the motion died the motion died correct there was no motion to right so so what would the minute say there was direction to the staff to be no there wasn't direction to the staff I think Dr bow did you get direction I thought I did okay so to me we didn't act on the item we talked about it you didn't so it's not a discussion item it's an action item so so because president you just said we got the same outcome so what's what was the issue with the motion and then I don't see an issue with the motion and for me I for me I'm GNA get you can table so I'll I'll be discussing this with roio because I just don't know but you can also table it right if you don't approve it you can someone I make a motion to table the there you go okay there you so the the item has been tabled and the uh staff will be bringing it back for the next board meetings to discuss and act perfect and you don't need to vote on the table I'm not gonna go in well I just trying to follow the agenda and what our our action would be yeah a few of these that I'm not again I'm new here so I'm just still trying to understand and even though that are more or have been here longer doesn't mean we know all so just want to make sure thank you for bringing it up to our attention um and so now that we've tabled it do we all feel um yeah okay and the staff will be bringing it back uh trusty Shelton so there was a motion to Table in a second and that's how it goes motion to table yes second Lind L okay so now let's go ahead and vote on the item um those in favor of tabling this item to next month please vote on okay for all those opposed and all those abstained no exstension so um everyone passes except for trusty F Shelton um who votes know on the item okay thank you all right that's done um thank you so much bringing it back to item 302 presentation for the California dashboard and data yes um it's that time of the year and I'm going to say a little bit as Miss Campbell goes to the podium um this is um I'm going to publicly say that we need to do better for our kids um I'm taking this opportunity to tell the board that we are looking at the pandemic in the re rear view mirror uh we have been dealing with the aftermath of the pandemic um but to me this was um not what I was expecting which as a superintendent I need to just kind of really look into what what is it that we need to do to reset this this narrative right and so um Miss Campbell is going to present to you but I also wanted to say that to the board to the public I am uh I have a heavy burden in terms of how the academic performance has been uh for the past couple of years we have come up with all kinds of reasons why but I think this is the year that we say okay um that's past we really need to reset our our our system so without any further Ado I'm gonna uh turn it over to Miss Campbell thank you good evening good evening board presidenta board members Dr Bower and Alam Rock Community I will be sharing information tonight from our published dashboard for the 2223 school year you have uh in front of you an updated slide deck that I will be presenting tonight there was one or two two pages adjusting to what was in your board book so first of all to just to kind of bring us back around because this is the first year since the pandemic that the dashboard has kind of got back to where it was before there are 11 indicators on the dashboard uh Statewide but only nine of them apply to Elementary School District as you can see on this Slide the two that don't apply to an elementary school district are the ones that have the line through them we have state indicators and local indicators the local indicator IND ators were presented to you when we adopted the lcap in the spring the the indicators the local ones are something that we do in uh internally and present to the board during the elcap approval and the state indicators come as a result of our Casp testing and data that is submitted to the state under C bits so this kind of gives you an idea last uh for 2122 dashboard we were on the F we were using a new version of the cast test so all we did is we got a status performance think that looks like the cell phone bars this year because now we have two-year comparison of the data we have performance indicators back to the colors that show status and progress and that and that's what they look like down below red being the lowest performance and blue being the highest performance so just before we get started I wanted to kind of give you a little demographic information around our um race and ethnicity that is that are represented on the dashboard you have our total and our percentages as you will see as I go through the dashboard each indiv in each indiv individual um tile will break down how our different subgroups did also something that we looked at also is looking at some of our other subgroups that are that are represented under our students with disability are socioeconomically disadvantaged our unhoused or homeless youth our foster Youth and our El students and this kind of gives you an idea here of how the rest of the school districts that are part of the Eastside Alliance and this that all feed into Eastside how they how their um demographics look so when you log into the dashboard we get to this homeage as you can see we have the gauges for the state indicators and on the local indicators they all you see the bar that says standard met if we complete that that portion and turn in our data on time and present it to the board we get standards met and then this part comes next so I'm going to go into each each indicator the first there's the first first two indicators are academic indicators this is the first one it's our English language arts and on the left you will see the tile that would that puts up Alam rock as a whole is uh performed in the orange and that is the same as the state but then if when we drill down a bit more we can look and see how our subgroups did and our different e uh ethnic groups and as you can see we have a significant number of students in the red that that we need to use it kind of focus on as we moving forward one thing I did want to point out is sometimes on the far right hand corner or bottom corner it says no performance color there are certain subgroups that don't have because the academic indicators it's only our third through eighth grade our chronic absenteeism and our and our attendance data is K8 so sometimes we won't we want of our subgroups won't have enough students for it to be considered a substantial subgroup to be mentioned under our subgroups under mathematics again alamro as a whole we maintained and we are orange uh the state is also Orange in that again we have a significant number of our students in the red and orange levels that we need to keep focus on and each one of these indicators you can drill down into each individual school and how they do that so as our sites are doing their database and looking at how they're going to support and address and support the students being able to look at who are their subgroups individually for a site that they want to focus on this indicator is about our English language learner progress our English Learners progress and what this does is it basically we have 40% of our students making progress in at least one level in on the elpac this gives you a little more information but again they're looking at what uh how many students are making progress towards being proficient in English we also wanted to be able to share even though this is on is not on the dashboard that last year 2223 we reclassified 206 of our English Learners to being rfbs and um this year so far with the new academic data that came in and we were we so far for this school year 23 24 have reclassified 181 students to our fet and that's not on here that number we're just finishing up with our first round of reclassification for this school year as we do the next elack coming up and our in the spring we will be able to do the next round here you'll see this the the the data for our chronic absenteeism and this is um on the gauge Alamar is red and um chronic absenteeism has been a focus for us um for a good chunk of last year and this year so far um moving forward looking at how the absenteeism rates are are coming out at our site and how we are better supporting our students because we all know that if the students are not in school the progress is very hard to make and they need to be there to learn our suspension rate we are in the yellow for our suspension rate and this is one of those areas that we did maintained and uh didn't decrease or increase we kind of maintained where we were um the previous year this slide is very different and the reason it's different is that there's the California science test the California science test this is the first year that we get actual results for the science test and it's our it's our Fifth and our eighth grade students that take the California science test starting this the 2324 dashboard which is the one you'll hear about next year we will have our science data on there and our progress indicator for that so this is kind of our Baseline that they'll be able to in next year it will be part of the dashboard this kind of breaks down how each one of our schools is doing in the science piece um for the cast test for our fifth and our eighth graders and one thing as I was digging a little bit into this is that our fifth graders and our eighth graders pretty much did the same around 16.43% met or exceeded standard in fifth and eight and we have 55 that nearly met it um so again it was interesting looking just to see that in the in the back in that our fifth and our eighth grade there and um how they're doing so how what are we doing um moving forward and what have we been doing so far so looking at our English language arts to really support our students in English language arts this whole year we have our intervention tosas and they're at um almost all of our sites and they're they're working with students in small groups basically in K between K8 depending on the focus the the toes pull some data they F they they select some focused groups that need certain things around comprehension fmic awareness do cycles of work with them and come back and re reassess to see the progress the students have made so that's one of the areas that we've been we've put in places here to support our our our students in language arts and again these as you can see on this slide it shows how we're tying in the work that we're doing with our lcap goals and the Strategic plan about supporting the the whole Child Development and the whole family development in math also we also do have osas are also working with our students in small group in interventions in mathematics but one of the things we did do this year is that we updated our instructional materials for Math and the new instructional materials really emphasize additional problem solving and critical thinking and provide some additional scaffolds that the teachers can use to support the students in classroom English language English learner progress we've Pro we're continuing to provide constructing meaning professional develop professional development and materials this is and then also ongoing professional proficiency level designated ELD in class but also with support from the tossas they're also doing some small group instruction with our English language Learners constructing meaning really does does support language language acquisition and academic language acquisition not just for English language learners but also all our students so it's something that we embed in our content area teaching for attendance we have been working on attendance as I said earlier this year and our attendance we're we been working with our site leaders to be holding bi-weekly attendance meetings in teams at their sites to look at the attendance to look at students that are chronic AB chronically absent or they are close to being chronically absent and really sitting down meeting with the families meeting with the students seeing how they can support the children and the families to make sure that they get to school our suspensions um also under suspensions to be really to keep those suspensions low and keep our students in school our site leaders and staff have really emphasized creating a safe and welcoming environment at the their sites but also working with their teachers to create that safe and welcoming environment and also we has a have a district as a district have rolled out specific assemblies around student expectations Behavior anti-bullying um things that that really can help students understand how to behave and how we want them to act while they're at school and again challenge is a gift that Force us to search for new center of gravity and that's kind of where we're at right now is really looking to see what additional things we can put in place and how we can continue to focus moving forward one thing I did want to say is that as we are starting to site creating their new school plans creating their uh us creating our our new ELC cap that comes around coming in the spring keeping these subgroups are will be something that we'll be doing is keeping these subgroups in the Forefront of how we're going to support each one of these subgroups so that they have a a better success with thank you thank you all right um at this time I'll go ahead and open it up for a public comment and then bring it back to the board for any questions and uh comments um anybody from the public wishing to address um this item Cas seeing none I'll go ahead and bring it back to the board any questions and comments from the board trusty fam and then trusty FL Shelton uh well question to the administration superintendent Bower and assistant superintendent cample you know I don't want so I so you know what what what do you what what do you see as the issue behind chronic absent ISM because it is a you know that's sort of like the the first step on the road to recovery right that our children if our children aren't in class for getting the information they won't they will never be able to uh show their learning in an assessment so you know what you know it would help I think it helps us to the board to have a idea you know uh the the issue behind chronic absenteeism and you know where we what we can do to find find a way to to get our kids in class again I wish there was an easy answer to why why right um some of the work that we have done this last year as part of really looking at a chronic absenteeism is as teams we've really started to dig into why we're getting the results we're getting but also what are those things that are that are getting in the way or impeding our students from getting to school that's part of these weekly meetings that our principles have been having is to find out what are those things I've been looking at the tracking The Trackers that they have and it's we have such a variety of reasons why our students AR getting to school so as we're moving forward forward in continuing to work at our chronic absenteeism we really are going to dig into those exact reasons you know there are things like they needed they didn't have a ride they had to stay home because mom was sick to they they didn't you know it was loud last night there's to you know they weren't able to sleep to there's a few where they just don't feel comfortable at school hunts us focusing on the safe and welcoming environment so it's something that we're always digging into individually at sites but also as a team here in the district office instructional services with our seal Department with our student services department and our academics Department really looking at what what is what is interfering what is getting in the way so that we can try to see if there's thing mitigations things we can do to to Really help those students and sometimes it's just a a conversation between the principal and the student say we're here for you you come we'll make sure you're okay or to you you don't have a way to get school let's see if we can work with one of our departments and get you a bus pass so a lot of it has to be some individual work that we have to look at too okay so I guess supplemental question you know one of the factors you mentioned was transportation and I believe there's a recent article in in the spotlight and approximately what 4.7% of our students are are busted by the district uh you know uh I I guess that what you know what what are the limitations on our our busing system I guess you know when I was starting out as in kindergarten you know oh the bus the school bus service was a lot more extensive right those are again that's a product of a different era different time of course different levels of funding and of course I understand over the years School bu service has you know over time sort of been uh retrenched to serving the special education students so I guess the thing is you know I mean where for our when know we have school buses so I I guess is do you know is there some capacity for us to improve Transportation that's going to be a very difficult question I'm going to jump in trusty F I think we last year I believe we gave the board a brief around transportation in alumrock and it is focused on our special ed students um it is a significant amount and so I mean we have been talking all night about you know the the budget so that is why we are looking for bus passes for the families who have a challenge you know um one of the reasons and and this is one of the the most difficult decisions for me as an administrator as a superintendent and as an educator is that a lot of our families are not necessarily a replica of what you see the average family in the Bay Area and they still walk to school they still have to take buses right and and remember board although this has been hard that's why we have kept our schools open even though they are small because we have heard our community say you know we have to walk to school it's hard I'm not saying that that's going to be the reality in the next couple of years but we as a district we have gone above and beyond um to really facil itate our families to be in school um it's hard it's a hard question to answer I I understand H aside from that you know uh last June you know when the issue of test test score for lack of better term came up I I wrote in my cap capacity when War President I wrote a opad in response to County County Board member Joe de Salvo and San Jose Evergreen Community callers trustee Karen martinz and so I guess uh you know any I guess i' like you know any you know may you know and I cited you know the recent open you know the the opening that the sayar sh is Early Learning Center in July I mention you know uh uh was it the the dual immersion programs in both Spanish and Vietnamese um you know things to you know uh you know programs to to bring bring our families back and also improve our educational offerings and you know any any curricular or any curricular developments in the PIP well may I answer I think that the the more complete uh presentation for you has a highlight of some of the schools that are doing really well right it's just that it's like the F on your report cards right when you have a number of A's but then on the other end you have somebody performing really really low it just bring the district down right but we definitely have um islands of Excellence right that we do have schools like colum like adante onean who are performing and they are serving the kids the way they need to be serving it's just that we do we still are in this area where there are so many challenges for our families and our children and I want you know also say that we you know that we are working to meet these CH I know we're working to meet these challenges I mean I one you know I want to highlight you know uh the English lers reclassification given deis amount of English Learners that we have in our district you know getting our kids to language proficiency is is the key to success in other areas of school as well so I you you know I think that you know this I would say that we we definitely have room to improve that like you know and part and I again my questions and comments for it is what do we do to to move the needle and I want to preface that with the getting to getting to Greens and blues is not a it's not going to happen in a day in a week or a month or in the school year but it's going it is a it is a long and drawn out process right and it's sort of like that I think that it's important for this Community to know that we you know we are we are trying to to get to move the ball down the field get get more yards and eventually get to the green and blue there so it's sort of like and you know I get you know we have work to do and you know I know that we're working hard and it's just that you know we're we're trying to look for more ways to get to the greens and the bus yeah mhm thank you so much remember um B that we have our strategic plan um with three Focus areas the whole Child Hope Family that addresses these questions and concerns that you just brought I think it's uh more to come around the what we're we're working towards including you know uh focusing on the curriculum developing a districtwide uniform lesson plan template things that are in the in the works working with a curriculum council with teachers uh we have multiculturalism and multilingualism as the other area looking forward to figuring out how we increase our fo footprint in our sites in terms of dual immersion emies that has not gone away and finally um The Early Learning and EXP bed learning effort that certainly I'm hoping to be able to Market to other families because we have a very robust um programming you know both on the Early Learning side with being the only school in the state from zero to five and on the other end as far as the I don't want to call it after school right but the the Nour day where different partners come and help and support the learning for our students and the opportunities and experiences that they have access to more come truste thank you I just want to go a little bit uh pull on uh trusty fam's thread here thank you for bringing up the chronic absentees and that's where I want to focus so um so two things one is what we're seeing is a dashboard from all of last year and what I would want to understand at this point and I don't like do I click on this dashboard to see where we're at now like right so but but you know understanding so this is a from last year's point in time and the fact that there was a 12% increase it would be good to know like are we have we held the line are we going up or down because we're halfway through the school year so it would be good to know in real time like where we're at with chronic absenteeism so I don't know if you have that tonight but I I don't have that but I could get that to to Dr bow to have it yeah I mean contextually it's like so we knew this dear God what are we doing about this right here right now and and so so that pivots to my like second piece is you talked we know I mean and I this is like 25 years of my life kind of like working and thinking about truancy and absenteeism and safe and healthy and non-violent communities right and so this is we know it's like push and pull factors right is it is it the school issue or is it the family issue is it a neighborhood environment issue it's all those things right so so I hear you kind of taking it well there's all these individual things but we have to address it systemically right so there are so many partners there are so many um you know I I immediately thought of so if and when we understand the wellness center Grant right you know it's like so how is that going to address chronic absenteeism how are the uh existing uh contracts we have with I'm like Pastor Danny Sanchez and how is that so we're holding people accountable to helping us move this needle because it can't just be us this is about like root cause stuff that's happening in our homes and communities but then what you know and then if we address antibullying in so you can more welcome but this I feel like all of our partners all of our providers and all of the money were coming in I know it's there's many there's many things that are important but this to trusty fam's point is like if they're not sitting in the seat or if they're not engaged in the classroom then then we're behind the and just the the sheer numbers of how many subgroups are in the red it's like this should be like top three to like how we move that needle so I'm I I'm very interested in sort of the What the how and and understanding how this you know seeing it once a year I'm glad I'm thrilled you're tracking you're looking you're you know I know you are all doing that but this is um a huge red you know flag for all us so again individually systemically all the resources towards this um and helping us understand how it's moving in real time I think would be really helpful I will say that many as you said many of our agencies that are working with us are already have chronic absentees them at the Forefront it is part of the community it's kind of a piece of the community school of Grant if we get it it's part of of our you know Pastor Danny working with designated students rsls coordinators that we have for each um each section of the district that's some of their focus that's working on it so it is it is there's a lot of that in place already that we're bringing together to really I think under one there's also um a CW where is Dr alazon so the C child yes there's we also have a CWA that's going to be focusing on attendance so a yeah okay because you know I I think back to back in the day when you know east side and alrock were more flesh you know people looked at the attendance log drove to the home knocked on the door and then you know here there's the whole family experience right there so I I think about the lcap right you know oh there was so many things we're were going to do with the lcap right like family events and stuff but it's like this is like the mtss like top 80% of our time on 20% of the problem like this is this is the issue yeah thank you thank you anyone else board vice president yeah I'm glad that thank you for the comments that you all raised um I think it's important that um we continue to push that uh that all of our partners and everybody who's do work here um be held accountable and be asked what exactly is that you're doing I um given this some of the things that by the time they get to us they're pretty serious and so um we were dealing with some things and uh based on that I I run to past Danny who's picking up snack the C and said hey just the I want to talk to Let's F and so we're having obiously no no personal details in being discussed but said hey I I want to know that you and your organization are out there actually going and doing the home visits that if there are issues you're not just sending out letters and all these of course and so lays out everything that they do the terms of the the the the um the in-depth casework that they take on so um my question is are we holding other partners that do similar work to the same standard because he's he's a small organization I wouldn't expect that every single big issue is going to be thrown to the peace project and then other folks can kind of Escape by by sending letters to the home and oh well they're just not responding I I'll throw that at you a lot no absolutely and and it is something that you know we're fortunate that that as a whole team we have our social emotional learning we have our our student services department special at state and federal so we all come together even our early learning to really see how each one of our all the people we each department works with can support getting our students in school getting our students to make progress so again it is something that we're always looking at and coming back around to seeing is there more that we can provide for those students Jesse Chavez I've also asked and inquired about um treny um is there fency officers that actually um go to the homes once if they're really chronic um we can have that conversation I guess offline uh but yeah is there a government agency right now that does help with that yes and then we also have our own TR and procedures our s procedures here but also our community Liaisons working with their site leaders looking at some of these a lot of times they will go out the principal and the community lison to the family houses see how they can help see what they can do to get the children to school is there a way to make the parent more accountable um other than visiting the home and we'll have that conversation of one I guess yeah thank you and I think trusty Chavez that's a you know good opportunity for working with our systems we have systems in our County and our communities that I think you know know we all could be doing better all of us schools County City you know um unfortunately cuts are coming but you know it's like we need to do our jobs and that's our job the safety net the job of these systems the safety net of our community um so thank you all for your questions a lot of them are the ones I had um I think trusty fam took me way back right to those days when we had money for transportation and we also um didn't pass students if they were low grade level so I think that held us as a school district as you know um more accountable right because we're not going to have a sixth grader in first grade you know but now it feels like well they're just passed so here this pretty dashboard that just tells us we want to dig deep we could see but these kids keep getting pasted and really it's our responsibility right but we're not I I feel like we're not being held accountable as we were back in those days where students were not passed there you know you had people you had students who were held back um until they were meeting grade level I'm not saying I want to go back to that right I'm just saying I think the pendulum has gone too far and we're here get looking at this and seeing this um they already brought up some of the things that I wanted to bring up another item I wanted to highlight is the suspension rates our African-American students right they're so I mean the numbers you know the breakdown is you know they're not that big of a a group subgroup but they're you know the highest and so um I know that I've had some conversations with Dr Bower um so I'm excited about some programming specific you know um to that population so I think also um talking about what we're doing because there's some very exciting things that we're talking about and in the works um and so and I know you don't have a lot of time I'm just saying um I also want to let our community know right that we're looking we're asking these questions s and we have some programming that's um going to be focusing on some of this work um and yeah you know at the end of the day we're just they we will never be at perfect and we will never know everything but if we're you know pushing ourselves every day to be better then we're doing our job and so um yeah I look forward to just getting better from this and you know making sure that that arrow goes more towards the blue um and you know the dream is that every arrow ends up on the blue um and that we work towards that um you know I know you talked a little bit about bringing some items back I mean it would be impossible to talk about everything um and I think you know I I'm not going to ask for specific things to be brought back other than I think as a you know board president and a trustee um I I look forward to just keeping you know that pendulum within our district holding ourselves accountable um making sure that you know we are providing the best quality education slash everything else we provide right um and also you know our unfortunate unhoused population the reality of our students 140 was the last time I asked I don't know what it is today um and that's concerning right when um it's kind of like when our students are not in class they're not learning when our students don't have a home to sleep in and a warm food you know to go home to I mean all of that how can we expect them to even be in class so I know it's much larger than what we have here and it's a reality and it's a that we each decided to be leaders in this community um and I look forward to contining to push ourselves to continue to serve our communities as we do um so yeah thank you I don't know if anybody else has any questions or comments if I could end with one real super positive note is we have just begun a what I call is an amazing collaboration between area and us around really aligning some of the things that we're doing in our classrooms for you know to work on it this year year a group of teachers and then roll it out for the beginning of next year which I think is I mean just an amazing opportunity to really have a strong group of teachers help work do this work and roll it out to everybody which I think will also kind of add some pieces to what we need to do for our students I just have a process question so how often do you does the dashboard get published or come here or is it the dash Lish once a year in December it comes out to public in December because it they but we have our own internal you know we know like like if we knew so it's published in December but if we know in June hey we think we brought that 12% increase from 2223 we think we brought it down to zero or whatever it is you know you could tell us that own the fall after you know we get some C data right so that we can kind of get some idea of where we are looking at it wouldn't be colors or performance levels but some some raw data we could get we also can actually get you know raw data about suspension and attendance data that isn't again you never know exactly what's how it's going to be laid out on the dashboard but we do get some General ideas uh in the fall early fall yeah I think there would it would be good to have some milestones in between once a year to know how we're doing in these because and it's also back to oh this this intervention that we tried it's working okay let's double down on that or okay we tried that that was that didn't work you know that didn't move the needle literally right so I just think we need to be kind of monitoring more closely and so that when we make budget decisions it's like ah more of that or less of that or whatever that would be helpful thank you try chz actually after report cards come out each time can we get a report a report of the report cards yeah because you're getting all the data there right you get grades yes grades have a lot to do with element and also in school and if they're not in school they're not probably earning uh good grades that that'll give you a a big picture is I'll follow up with you on that one if that's okay thank you yeah and um just to piggy back on that I know a question I had a couple years ago to understand more you know um in regards to the grades in our system and if there's a kind of you know place that we have data you know where there's a where we can pull kind of where our students here in elmro are specifically doing um and I think it was after the pandemic to really understand how much you know we discussed a lot about you know after the pandemic it affected our kids but what does that look like for Alam Rock specifically um so and and I I I mean in regards to you know grades every time I wouldn't say that if there is a way you know quarter um I'm sorry not quite but semester wise maybe um because I also don't want to add you know just work onto the St have to to to to add but you know whether it's once every other six months once every six months um or quarter if that's a possibility um and I look forward to also discussing this to understand it better and I I do think sorry if I could just add like how it embeds in the Strategic plan so the Strategic plan is not over here and the dashboard's over here but because I think you you're working on alignment and so maybe it's through that I don't know but I I just to your point of like not more work but just aligning the things so we're seeing reports more holistically yeah and that's why Barbara's last slide we worked on that this time just to kind of get the the the area right and underneath has in your uh the El Cup goal and the Strategic plan area so that you can see the alignment okay because definitely right that's why I'm saying academic performance goes under whole child whole family right and that's why uh I feel that parents need to be active engaged you know in in the learning of of the child right and so how are we you know getting to that and I I love the idea of Milestones I think that that's totally fair um around attendance and around potentially our local assessments so even though we might not have the Casp which is okay but we do have local assessments that we can bring forth which that would be a lot more accurate to see how the predictors of how they're going to do in Casp okay thank you okay uh moving on to item 401 Teamsters comments and Communications you have anybody from Team Mr K Fu was under the weather he sens his regards to the board he didn't have any questions regarding the agenda okay thank you I'm moving on to 402 California School Employees Association uh and Sharon sent me an email that I like to read to the board she asked me she said unfortunately I will be unable to attend the board meeting this evening however can you please share this with the board from CCA happy New Year congratulations to the newly elected board officers and to the outgoing officers for a job well done thank you for approving our revised job descriptions last month we work diligently with HR to revise them to hopefully get some of our vacancies filled thank you thank you now moving on to 403 uh elmrock Educators Association area welcome back Mr good evening everybody first I'd like to say thank you to our current School Board during school board appreciation um Alam Rock has not always had a functioning board but our board now listens responds and works towards bringing a brighter future to our district I know um being a board member can be a thankless job one that I have now received kind of at times myself um but you hear everything that's always going wrong but we have accomplished some wonderful things together and I look forward to moving together and moving forward as we come back from break I have received a lot of emails from my staff in regards to work orders that haven't been going through the system a lot of the teachers are emailing me and emailing me things that they've had work orders put in for the last two months the last three months the last four months and the matters aren't getting looked at the system is broken and too many eyes need to be on our work orders right now the teachers are emailing me and then I'm emailing the superintendent to look up on them and I believe that that's why we have this system in place this system was supposed to fix that and yet there's still a broken Cog somewhere if a furnace is broken on a work order send out a space heater if a AC is broken send out a fan it's cold weather now extremely cold and it's important to get our classrooms to be a warm welcoming space where students can learn when students come in wet from the rain a warm space will allow them to be in the correct mindset to hear and learn cold and wet will not please look into the system and get our students learning spaces ready it is also that time of year again later tonight you'll see that area has brought forth our Sunshine agreement and the district office have sunshin as well to start the bargaining process for the 24 through 27 collective bargaining agreement the entire contract language is up for this three-year time period area introduced multiple dates when we are available and the do picked when we can bargain I would like you to know that we are always willing to meet area received an email from the do team to cancel and shift our first negotiation session that was due to be tomorrow due to us moving tonight's board meeting while I understand late hours and early mornings are never ideal teachers do it all the time it was frustrating to get this email when we have worked so hard to prepare please keep this in mind as we move forward while we graciously moved our first session to accommodate the district's team it only delays the important work we need to do for this year on an extremely positive note area is proud to have been partnering with academic services on the collaboration and revamping of our District's report card meeting together to review current standards and how to best keep our community parents and students in the loop and understand the grades that will help them look forward and Achieve each year and at each grade level thank you so much thank you uh now we have um elmrock administrators Association AA good evening Board of Trustees St our arusd staff in the alen Rock Community my name is Dr cilia Kio and I'm the pre the principal of Meer elementary school and I'm also the president of the alrock administration administr Association sorry it's been a long day it is a privilege to speak tonight to represent a group of vibrant Educators and administrators who work tremendously hard in service to our schools and communities there are exciting developments taking place from a USD and our administrators continue to work to serve their respective sites or departments this December in January um from Cassel they are focusing on the review of their sipsa goals using data to guide practice and reading and math continuing its Cornerstone project character trade assemblies rewarding good attendance in making plans for the delivery of our Valentine family dance on February 9th didn't have many schools report but there's a lot going on um adanta 2 Academy just held a reclassification celebration for 16 of their e students and aptitude is planning to have a reclassification breakfast celebration uh at the end of January along with an award assembly for all students in different categories we are excited to announce that we will be having a career day they will be having a career day on February 7th and we'll be sharing an invite uh soon with the district and thanks to miss uh Yenni she's been working with all of us making sure that we identify the students that have actually met reclassification criteria so we can submit the paperwork and they don't have to get tested in February so thank you Miss Yan and that's all for me right now thank you very much for your time thank you uh now moving to 405 superintendent so I'm very formal tonight so I I'm read my comments because I want to make sure I capture my thoughts this month has been set aside to acknowledge and celebrate Bo members this board reluctantly accepted in December to bring this resolution because they never want to praise themselves but marivel my assistant and I work very closely with each of them we know the caliber of individuals were blessed to have us our board and we in insisted on bringing the resolution I will read the resolution to remind all of our stakeholders about the importance of a stable ethical and car caring School Board of Education resolution 23-23 24 reads as follow proclaiming January 24 School Board recognition month and I'm not going to read all the words but an excellent and continuously improving public education system is vital to the quality of life in all of California citizens and communities and California has nearly a thousand school districts and county offices of Education throughout the state represented by nearly 5,000 school board members accounting for the largest number of locally elected officials in the state and the first school district in the United States was established in 21 and local school districts governing boards and County Boards of educations are a central part of our democracy and whereas the mission of public schools to meet the diverse educational needs of all children and to empower pupils to become productive and thoughtful contributors to a Democratic Society in an everchanging world it's more important now than ever before and local school boards consistently work to ensure that every people's academic socio emotional physical and mental health needs are a priority and each and every day school board members continue to Advocate to best save CH serve children and parents in our communities and local school board members are committed to pupils and believe that all pupils can be successful Learners and that the best education is tailored towards providing every pupil with an opportunity to learn and school board members work closely with parents certificated and classified educational professionals and other community members to create effective learning environments where all pupes can Thrive and school board members are responsible for building and maintaining the structures that provide a solid foundation for our public school system and whereas school board members are strong advocates for public education who are responsible for communicating the needs of the schools and for understanding the interests and expectations of the diverse communities that they represent and where a school board recognition School Board recognition month is an ideal time to recognize and celebrate The Californians serving on school dist District government boards and County Boards of Education who help guide the educations of the education of pupils in kindergarten in our case Zero all the way to 12th grade inclusive and who prepare these pupils for the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century and beyond now therefore it be a resolve that the alamro Union Elementary School District does Herby declare its appreciation to the member of the school board and proclaims the month of January 2024 a school board member recognition month we urge community members and thank you so much Miss rera to join us in recognizing the dedication and hard work of local school board members and with them create an education system that meets the needs needs of all our children I will be the first to acknowledge this is not on the resolution this is for you my governance team I will be the first to acknowledge that leading alumrock Union Elementary School District is not easy but it's a privilege and a superintendent it is a privilege to work with each of you each of you board members being a board member and sandr did not put this together she did her own and I did my own being a board member in many ways is a thankless job most of the time you receive complaints and criticisms however this board of education not excluding past board member Ernesto veano accomplish what many believe to be the impossible you as a group have have stabilized alumrock School District your care passion understanding High ethical standards and complete commitment to students and their families are unprecedented for at least past through the F few decades I urge everyone in the audience and in YouTube and wherever you are that at least one time this month send a note to each of these wonderful individuals a note of gratitude and support for the great job they have accomplished please join me in a round of applause to acknowledge these great individuals you don't need to applaud we applaud you thank you very much thank you um I was applauding my pierced um now I'm going to open it up to Board of Trustees any Communications comments at this time fam oh my well first you know thank you you you know uh I I'll just I'll just say a quote from County Supervisor Al Lee that what is it if anyone were doing this for of money they're very bad at now uh you know uh I want to wish everyone a a happy New Year although I'll be repeating that in a different language at the next regular board meeting which is you know February 8th which is two days away two days prior to Lunar New Year so uh so I do hope that everyone had a had a have a happy joyous restful holiday season uh you know uh I had a nice nice December I uh was it headlined the adalante holiday patent on Tuesday the 19th uh you know Wonderful crowd wonderful performance uh you know and I I wanted to say that uh I had uh pleasure of uh visiting you know and dropping into uh seora Kim's class which which happened because it happens that uh the East Side trusty Lorena Chavez is a parent at anante and that's the you know her child was her child was on stage at the pageant that morning and then afterwards she you know she U she Volunteers in seora Kim's classroom um because her son's in there so she's a you know good to see that you know we have active parent you know uh trust eite trustee Lorena shz is an active parent at uh adalante and a lot of uh you know our kids had a good time our parents had a good time uh you know and Senor Kim had a wonderful class and strangely you know on the topic of multiculturalism uh she's at a Korean immigrant who grew up in South America so she fluent in so so you you know I guess if you were to meet her on the street and not know that she grew up in Latin America you would never have expected her to be a teacher in a dual Lang Spanish dual language immersion school but yet there she is so it's sort of like uh you know in a sense what a small world you know life takes us and do but it brings a you know a um very very Multicultural element to our schools and that we have you know uh you know uh a Asian American teacher with you know who had life experiences in South America and she you know she's able to take that language skill and to teach our students the Spanish language right so I wanted to Comm in you know anante for a great holiday patch it and Senor Kim for having a great third grade class and you know uh you know a class where yeah you know uh you know you know truste Lorena Chavez is a act you know an act willing and active uh parent volunteer who actually enjoy volunteering in our schools um the other the other holiday C and I got to headline was the uh what is it the painter Elementary School uh the home of our Vietnamese dual language emerging program so I headlined that that holiday patent also and that was a a lovely lovely Multicultural show Jingle Bells and Vietnamese also but last and not least it was a a very not uh was it we had a wonderful wonderful uh minini vento Holiday Program where our district provided gifts and dinners to our most moment families and I guess it it it's a uh uh what is it an illustration of what we are called upon to do uh you know we are the you know in many ways the the first the first and most accessible run on the social safety net you know uh uh you know when you know when it whether it's sort of trle at home or diff financial difficulties at home you know it's you know at the end of the day you know we um the the local public school and you know the district is the the the first the first you know the first stop on on you know in the social safety n so I want to express my my appreciation for for what we do for our families day in and day out so uh on that note other than that I hope that my colleagues and everyone else had had a wonderful as much of a wonderful time that I did so uh thank you thank you trusty fam anyone else um briefly just want to reiterate how um house what December just felt like every alen Rock of it I went to I left and my face hurt because it was just smiling smiling smiling so I'll start with um the vapa event was just phenomenal again like there's just a lot of wizards and witches that make that thing work because it's a it was a miracle um so beautiful um so many talented kids um your pianist Veronica and all I mean they were just it was amazing um from the littles to the and I think for the middle schoolers it was really um it was really great to see their courage to get out in front and and do that and of course the families were having a great time so congratulations I hope you were rested um some of you are off doing something the next day so um so thank you for that and I know the families are very grateful um the gift giveaway that um trusty fam mentioned I just really think the generosity of the administrators and teachers who um donated from their own Pockets to to put that event together it was um it was very touching shows the generosity and Care um and uh again lots of smiling faces from those families and the kiddos the the the the personal touch right the fact that we knew exactly what families needed these gifts and they got to put in a wish list and you met those wishes that was that was really great and um I hope the families enjoyed the Legos uh as well um and I I just really wanted to highlight out of that how much I learned from the two mckin vento um staff you know I I'm very um you know the system of care for our um families that are experiencing homelessness is complicated and um I'm just really interested in figuring out how you know our relationship with the County Office of Ed um and figuring out how we can support those families um because that well it isn't our job it isn't our job to house those families back to Chronic abs and deism and all the other dashboard items uh we have a role to play and um and and those two young women whose names are escaping me can we shout them out and yes thank you so much to them um I I look forward to learning more about how we can meet those needs and even just understanding the system and how frankly while we've seen the numbers of our again students and families that are experiencing homelessness go up year toe the more I learn about you know how our families identify I think the number is higher right if yes they may have a roof over their head but they're renting a room with three other families so I I just want to drill deeper into that and again it was an enlightening day it was great to be there to experience the joy but we have a lot more work to do so thank you all and I hope you have a great new year thank you trusty Shelton trusty Travis that was great to hear how the teachers go above and beyond thank you all and as well as a community when they um put in their time and effort and treasure towards helping the students thank you all anyone else okay I'll just say a few Happy New Year to everyone um looking forward to an excellent year um that's it just keep it short we got a long agenda thank you um yeah so I won't uh repeat a lot of the things I was uh with at some of these events with some of my um peers here um I do want to sh shout outs to those teachers that are uh singing with our students and providing spaces for them to just you know be themselves other than like the math and the sciences and all the things that they learned so thank you um it was awesome to see uh Miss tton there with her students and um in her full element with you know the students and connecting with them um you know uh for me I know that that is as important as a math and um sometimes it's the Arts right that save our students that keep them alive that keep them passionate about coming to school and coming through those doors and so um I look forward to continuing to support uh the the Arts within our our school district um so amazing concert I mean just the movement of the parents of the students of the you know little ones to the older ones and off the stage and on the stage and then everybody back on stage I yeah magic so thank you it was beautiful um and yeah happy 2024 off hopefully we're all all off to a great start um and you know I know some of us don't celebrate the Gregorian New Year so those of you that did happy New Year uh those of you that will in the you know um in February and some of us in March um I know we'll say that in the near future meetings um but I look forward to continuing to grow as a board thank you Dr bow for uh your expression um very heart heartfelt um I know each and every one of us we do our best we show up with our best and you know I am very proud to be a part of this board uh yes just one I wanted to say that the Alam Rock Ensemble on stage was beautiful at winter vle right yes all the fire and everyone like that it you know I think I think we closed the song out on on H was it wasn't it Jose th yes we all joined yeah that was fun thank you trusty fam all right so moving on to item 501 public hearing District's initial bargaining proposal to open negotiations with area for the period of July 1 2024 through June 30th 2027 like to open that all right um and let me gather my notes back here make sure that I don't miss anything um all right so at this time I'd like to open it up for P public comment on this item all right seeing none uh yeah I'll go ahead and close it at this time thank you all right uh 502 public hearing area initial bargaining proposal to open negotiations with the alen rocky Elementary School District for the period of July 1st 2024 through June 30th 2027 all right um opening up for opening and now uh any public comment on this item all right uh welcome back Miss rera hello I just want to say um we're looking forward to a positive negotiation sessions um we've made a lot of progress in the few months that we've been in so far this school year and so with the knowledge that we received yesterday with the budget's report and how much um academic services and HR have been working together this year with area we're hoping that we can get some wonderful language that will benefit not only the teachers and the staff but the students in the community we serve as well thank you all right at this time go ahead and close that moving on to item 601 update on RFP affordable housing developers information only turn it over to superintendent I'm looking at Mr Chang I think this you wanna is there any update in specifically around this item I know um just to kind of refresh our memory uh board vice president asked for it to be a standing um item on our agenda and so I don't know if there's any updates for us on this um just a brief recap maybe um yeah you may recall at the last board meeting the administration provided a sample RP um we continue to refine that RP uh we've had initial meeting with the city um to get their perspective and Technical Support unfortunately we weren't able to set up followup meetings uh because of the holiday break uh we do have follow-ups meeting in the near future um and to get their input and feedback to uh finalize rpce so we can provide that to the board for consideration questions comments from the board um public comment on this item before we move forward all right seeing none we'll go ahead and move to item 602 approve the request from the board to have all governmental mails sent to the district through the school sites to be forwarded to the district office uh Dr bar this was requested from the board and I just respectfully asked the board to approve this so that I can um send a note to the site and any governmental mail will be sent back to the district office okay I'm going to go ahead and open it up for public comment and then bring them back to the trustees all right see no public comment uh trustey fam yes uh well first I I'd like to make a motion to approve Sor okay and then if I may say you know this is sort of I brought this to the attention of the board because uh you know just a quick recap you know last October our district and many other districts had a cur uh issue you know our many of our school sites were rezoned with you know without the knowledge of the district office and you know based upon you know just say that uh this you know uh the city's process of notifying schools deeply concerns me and you know un uh that instead of sending the appropriate notices to the offices of the school the school you know we were not it wasn't just Alam Rock but Franklin McKinley Evergreen Eide Union High School District uh had school sites zoned with about being popularly notified and it all you know it was a chance encounter at a school in the Oak Grove School District that that set off you know that that that raised the red flag right uh uh uh uh was it uh uh for lack of better term uh a sheet from the city that was sent to a a school in the gr school district and it was by the you know somebody in at that school district had the had the knowledge to forward that to uh the oak district office and that was the only way that the other districts found out that our school sites were reson without our without the knowledge of the district office so um you know I find you know given that I I believe that it's necessary that our district has a policy so that uh our our site staff is forewarn that you know if they see if you know so that they know if there is a notice from a governmental agency letter City County state or federal that you know that notice even if it's not directly address the school of school district at then so you know that it be brought to the district office so that I so that you know as the uh as the owners of the school sites on behalf of the community that we we are properly notified of action from other levels of government and that you know and that for you know that information you know gives this board and the administration the opportunity to you know to and you know to take the necessary steps to protect the interests of this District so it's for those reasons that I you know I ask my colleagues to approve the motion thank you trustee um any other comments questions all right seeing them we'll go ahead and take a to vote all those in favor of this item raise your hand U item passes unanimously thank you trusty fam for bringing this to our attention uh all right moving on to 603 upate on resolution number 21-21 sl22 historical and cultural designation of the Mosaic at 1711 East San Antonio Street information only vice president so um back in 2021 December 16 2021 this board moved forward with resolution number 21- 2122 designating the San Antonio community Brotherhood Manion Mosaic is a historic and cultural Treasure of the district Community as part of the um resolution some of the were um some of the be it further resolved went ahead and provided direct instruction uh to the district uh so that it would go ahead and move forward on this rather than it just being a nice statement and so um some of those things are you declaring a landmark in order to do that then we have we have to have a process um and it also required that we go ahead and put forward a plaque uh that provides specific language it says this Landmark Mosaic Shall Not Be Moved altered or destroyed without the express and written consent to the alrock Union Elementary School District governing board and uh additionally it even bumps up the number of board members that it requires uh to be able to take action to do any sort of change to the to the Mosaic and it's for that reason I asked that this item be brought back so that we can go ahead and get an update um I get it it's a mosaic it's been there for a long time um but uh we've seen a lot of our historical landmarks or cultural um you know murals paintings being painted over and I think it's important to put something there that clearly CHS everybody future boards and other people to if they're going to do anything they legally have to get the consent of the El school board and so it's for that reason that I'm urging us to take some action so I did receive some information from Dr B I appreciate that um I think that it still needs some tweaks so that he can be in compliance with uh uh with what we said in the resolution and I also want to make sure that it's heavily focused on the children because the Mosaic was produced and it was a product of the work of the kids during that time now I'm I'm still going to do my work to get out there and get some more certainty but um most of them remember that there was a governor that showed up that somehow some helicopter landed on the grass or something kind of interesting stories and then it may have been Pat Brown or Ronald Ragan so the stud what site was it San An San Antonio elementary it wasn't rean so it was P up or the Mosaic College that's another story but wasn't Reagan so um so yeah there's a lot of history there and so I think it's worthwhile keeping it and so more a president I'll I'll turn it over back to to you so you can have the administration give us an update okay thank you for uh bringing that um I'll go ahead and open it up to public comment at this time all right seeing none um I'm ready to give the update Dr bow I'll go ahead and turn it over to you uh and thank you so much trusty kto to remind remind us you know that uh resolution was brought as we were coming back from the pandemic if I recall right and so I really appreciate the the reminder and so I'm working with roio to be to be able to bring to the board by the February 9th board meeting a dra the first reading of the board policy and just like trusty Kino said um there needs to be a process by which these kinds of landmarks you know are designated as historical and worthy to be preserved and so that's something that I really encourage the board to start thinking about you know because you will be given that first reading on February the 9th so that you can have you know ideas obviously we'll send it to you the draft so that you have an opportunity to have discussion here in public uh and whatever ideas the board has that night we'll go back and edit and then we'll bring back that as the final reading hopefully in March so that's the process that we're going to follow for the board policy that's one I also check with our vendor for plaques and um we we need to have you know I a little bit of direction I'm assuming this is a metal plaque and that's what I ask um depending on the legend on the plaque that's that's kind of what the vendor said the size will be determined um and something just to give the whole you know um they it will be ready it will be Mount ready so that you know and I know that m is able to do that I'm assuming we will have a special ceremony you know to bring that PL and to uh designate all of that uh so the only question that I had was should we move forward on the plaque right now or should we work wait until the board policy is so that we know what are the parameters I'm just this is just a a question go ahead the the resolution already gives us a precise language that is required so we would be authorized to move forward with black okay um because it's 26 words statement at the very least that that says this is what was going to the pl so language is already prescribed so it's as as the the as it reads yeah that's what was approved okay yeah the the precise language is already in the resolution okay and then um can I are you done with your statement I know trusty Chavez has a yeah okay I heard you say twice on February 9th is it isn't at February 8th the board meeting the board meeting for February 8 8th thank you I'm sorry yeah it will be February board meeting good job chavz thank you um okay so sounds like I was just gonna highlight and I see trusty fam and then I'll come back to you um sounds like as of now I'm hearing we have a plaque we've approved that resolution sounds like we get to move forward with that and I'm also hearing board policy um first dra that will come in February 8 8th um for us to read where I think I would like to also include you know um this PL that you know any other item that we um determine to be uh historical you know um and cultural designation that we follow that work policy so I look forward to seeing that um and then you know creating those um we have a lot of history here in our area that I I'm in agreement we need to make sure that doesn't just disappear um trusty you know I just wanted to you know thank trusty ptero and the administration for doing this you know I mean it you know it used to be the San Antonio old San Antonio campus it's now luchev you know it's I think it's important for us in uh in Wake of what is it a couple years ago there was a famous painting on uh what was then uh Payless Sho Source on story world and unfortunately there was no there was no historical preservation regulations on that one so the landlord the the owner of the property painted over a historic mural and so you know it be you know to to honor our our CH you know our our children's work however you know however long that they have graduated from our district but also a reminder of you know and I've seen that mural up post myself right it's you know the in a sense what our kids are capable capable of but also you know a representation of the hopes and dreams of our kids past present and future so I I you know I look forward to uh the draft of that policy at the next regular board meeting thank you all right same vice president yeah we're talking about the policy just wanted to kind of recap or remind us as to what the sense of the board was at the time um we the consensus or the thoughts were that it was supposed to be a tool to preserve significant historical monuments or things of significance it was not intended to be used as some sort of a hammer to beat us over the head withd so um I would ask the administration to just keep that in mind as you're as you're putting forward a draft um because of the business of alen rock is to educate our kids um and if something's going to get in the way of educating the kids and it's not it's going to wind up doing it's gonna be counterproductive but uh with that being said I think we can achieve both things so um I wouldn't expect that a policy goes out there and says that we're g to preserve every kid's like little painting on the wall or it has to be like something of substance significance um because there's a lot of art that goes out there um we can't preserve every single thing um so just want to make sure to read uh to as I recall that was kind of the sense of the board uh that evening or that when we discussed it so I just wanted to kind of reiterate that thank you vice president GTO and I'm sure the parents would love that small art from the children so it's important it's important thank you um okay so uh looking forward to hearing back um moving on to item 701 motion approve the annual Financial audit report mot I hear a motion from trusty Chavez and the second form vice president GTO um Dr bow any on this item to yes thank you thank you Dr bar um I would like to invite Mr Jeff Jensen from qu who will be presenting the op report to the board um he'll be covering 7.01 and 7.02 um 7.02 I do need to make a a minor edit um it currently States approved the 2223 audit performance and financial audit of the general obligation report for measure S I need to add measure I and measure J on there sorry it says measure J right now I need to add measure I and measure s on 71 keep J at I and S um and we'll take it one by one we'll start with 701 701 and then so we're on this motion correct and then I'll make sure to mention that when we come to 702 okay thank you so much I'm not on the agenda P gotta welcome all right thank you good evening it's good to be with you tonight to present the audit report for the end of June 30th 20123 um I have a few slides to walk through that'll boil down the audit report here into the important matters here for you and I think I have uh you know very favorable audit results to to bring the board here tonight so our job as your Auditors is to form an Express an opinion sorry it changed on my screen but it didn't change up there just a little slow through Zoom just oh it's on presenter mod there we go all right so our job as your Auditors is to uh form an Express form and express an opinion on the financial statements that are prepared by management as well as to look at federal and state compliance uh procedures every year and render an opinion on those areas uh there's a lot that goes into an audit and starts early in the process uh in the springtime of doing our planning procedures and and reaffirming our understanding of the of the district's processes and procedures and looking at internal controls uh visiting School sites to audit attendance and uh looking at federal and state compliance programs and then returning in the fall to actually audit the financial statements of the numbers of the district and come to a conclusion on your financial statements and an audit report that's submitted to the state on time by December 15 this year there was one new accounting standard on gby 996 uh it's kind of the last piece related to leases this is for subscription based it arrangements and so for br Brock it actually was not a significant standard so uh you know all the applicable standards have been adopted and this one didn't really have a significant impact on you very important to bring your attention to where no corrected or uncorrected misstatements as part of our audit so there were no audit adjustments the numbers that you all approved is part of the UN audit actuals are the same numbers that are in this audit report without any modification by us as your Auditors so clean audit from uh no adjustments and just some other uh typical communication we provide to you is that we had no difficulties encountered in dealing with management everyone was very helpful and and agreeable to things that we needed in order to be able to complete our procedures we didn't have any disagreements we're not aware of any other uh consultations uh that occurred and there's no other verse events certainly if there were we would have brought them to you much sooner than tonight so again I think favorable news there and as I mentioned there's several opinions that are part of your audit report so the first is your financial statement opinion so for this year end the district received an unmodified opinion that's a clean opinion that's the type of opinion you want on your audit report so it's a your financial statements are free of material M statement and comply with all the ethical accounting pronouncements next under Federal compliance because the amount of federal dollars the district expends we're required to do a federal audit as well and so for this year and the district received an unmodified opinion regarding Federal compliance so you had know Federal compliance findings uh the next one is State compliance there's a number of State compliance procedures every year and as usual the state add it even more this year uh and so this year the district did have a qualified opinion regarding State compliance and we'll talk in a second here there a couple of State compliance findings that were in this report and then lastly is the uh essentially your internal control opinion related to to those procedures and we have an unmodified opinion there so um again uh there's no material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in internal control related to the district's uh Financial operations just some key uh statistics if you will there for your for your leisure there is kind know where the district stands at at June 30th so um again I think the most important line is the last one there which is you comply with the reserve requirements set forth by the state of California and as I mentioned there were two State compliance findings so the first one related to classroom teacher salaries so for an elementary school district you're required to uh expend uh 60% of your current expenses of education on classroom teacher salaries and so for the year end of June 30th 2023 the district was at 55.4 one see a deficiency of 4.59% and this second was on attendance so as I mentioned there's a we go visit a number of the school sites uh to do attendance testing and we had found it as part of our procedures one student who was improperly claimed for attendance when there was a note saying that the student was absent so uh that that uh really doesn't affect you at the end of the day uh but it does have to be reported so those are two State compliance by needs in this year's report and just to wrap up these comments here again financial statements are presented fairly nonm Mater respects we had no audit adjustments um there were no findings in the other areas outside of State compliance uh and again uh you know we like I said we visit a lot of places throughout the district over the course of our audit and everyone's always attentive and helpful to us to be able to be able to do our work and be able to conclude this report and again be able to file it on time with the state of California so with that I'll pause and take any comments that your questions that you have on this agenda item and then I can move on to the bonds thank you so I'm going to go ahead and take public comment at this time and then bring it back to the board any public comment on this item okay seeing none I'll go ahead and bring it back to the board any questions or comments from the board uh trusty Pam yes you know I think you know I covered this in my I had a one-onone with superintendent bow and assistant superintendent Chang but you know in regards to the classroom teacher salary you know I think for public to understand some of challenges our districts you know as a as a what is it as a lcf district we are not a basic a district I you know what are the you know what are the challenges we have in getting to that that 60% threshold to me thank you yes so just um a little bit of background represent it as a part of uh the process of closing our books and present the unod acttion we have to do this calculation um and this calculation was presented to the board back in September to identify this finding um and part of the uh well the main reason for school districts like us who has a high unduplicated count that receive high dollars in supplemental and concentration dollars in their lcf entitlement um those dollars are um somewhat restricted they have requirements on school districts to spend on services that are either increasing services or improved services that doesn't necessarily tie to teacher salaries so when you're spending those monies into different programs and services like after school program summer school program counselor psychologist nurse none of that actually goes to the 60% requirement and so um you know this law that was placed has been in place for over a century has never been adjusted um to the to the changes of all the laws that recently occurred specifically um to the laws that have been put in place in relation to lcff and so District like us find themselves in this position and so if you look across the state uh there's about close to 60% of elementary school districts that do not meet this requirement and this is the main CA a bit because the law doesn't change um with this respect but in terms of how we use our money um in relation to lcff has caused this friction between um do we meet this requirement or do we not comply with the laws in lcf and so those those are mainly the big reason why thank you than any other questions or comments okay seeing none then I'll take it to a vote uh those in favor of uh the motion to approve please raise your hand all right U motion passes unanimously thank you so much now um item 702 approved 2223 annual performance and financial audit of General obligation bonds report for measures JS motion by TR Chavez second by vice president ginto um I heard you have a presentation so get my comments are brief here but uh we're required or you're required to have an audit a financial audit and a performance audit of your prop 39 bond funds on an annual basis you're required to have a uh Independent Community uh oversight committee which you all have and you required to not expend bond funds on teacher salaries those are the full basic requirements in Proposition 39 uh we helped accomplish two of those the financial audit the performance audit for the three Bond measures um and so our job was to select a sample of those expenditures and essentially look at this relying support to make sure that they uh are valid Bond expenditures under those Bond measures and uh the conclusions that we reached on all three of those reports were that all Bond expenditures that we looked at were found to be valid Bond expenditures under those measures and we had no findings through a court related to the bond audits for this year so clean opinions regarding the bond audits great thank you um I'm going to go ahead and open it up for a public comment on this item opening it it up public comment seeing none we'll go ahead and bring it back to the trustees any comments questions say another no news is good news item so thank you thank you thank you great job thank you um so uh I'll go ahead and bring it to a vote we have a motion in second um at this time if trustees um uh vote um raise your hand if your in agreement to passing this item please ra your hand uh motion passes unan iously all right thank you thank you so much thank you for the opportunity work with the district yeah uh overview of the governor's budget proposals for fiscal 20 fisal year 2425 uh Dr Brower Mr Chang has the update all right Mr chain thank you recently uh return from Sacramento I hear welcome back thank you and good good evening um I'll keep this brief um as you stated uh you know there School Services heeld its budget conference yesterday and so um I want to issue a disclaimer that U you know due to the short timing I did borrow some of school Services uh slides to help with the presentation good Al so with that um at a high level um the governor presented um uh the budget proposal back on January 10th or 11th one of those days but um at a high level he presented budget that showed that projected a a 37.9 billion budget deficit um you may recall that in early December uh the Lao also issued its own uh forecast and you may recall a number around 68 billion dollar so um you know the the governor's budget U proposal um better than what the LA is presenting um and mainly it's because um and this I think they use this word um very carefully the governor's budget uses a less pessimistic Revenue projection as compared to the Lao um and so because of the budget uh deficit um there are some measures that the um Governor is proposing to reduce or to close that Gap um part of it is is drawing down the third The the Reserve by about 13.1 billion and then another 5.7 from the schools rainy day fund you might hear it that account before and then the the the rest of the balance will be covered by uh borrowing uh fund reductions and nonprofit 98 funding funding the Lays the furos uh most of this does not impact education it impacts other programs outside of Education um there is a consequences of the budget gap of the 37.9 um the end result is that it reduces prop 98 funding prop 98 is the part of money designated for k um to 14 uh uh education and so um the 12 billion dollar covers um a two-year period uh remember the you know the the budget window goes from covers last year this year and next year's budget so um when they received their tax collection for uh 2022 um there was a shortfall of about $26 billion uh which resulted in a reduction in prop 98 funding for 2223 um in the amount of about 9.1 billion and then in the current year um about 2.7 um so total almost about $12 billion and reduction in profit 98 so I'll start with the good news first um you know the governor could have used many tools um to close that Gap um uh that would include cuts to um to prop 98 funding which you didn't do um the thow has been used in the past he's not proposing that in the current budget proposal um and also he's not sweeping or um clly back any funds um that were unallocated so all these things he could have done to um to cover that budget shortfall but to protect education um you know he he's not proposing to do any of that I want to go back to the first component um it says that budget proposed no Cuts in overall pop 98 funding while I generally um agree with the statement um there's a point I'm going to make that kind of contradicts this statement um and that's with the reduction in Cola um you know as we were kind of well not promised but informed that you know the cola would have been about close to 4% um now as it stands um it's down to about 76 so um the cola itself is calculated not it's not related to the financial health of the state itself it's a formula that takes in consideration a lot of metrics that are F data um and it just DP into a formula to calculate the cola itself and so um this is not the final Cola um there's two set of datas that needs to be considered um and so our anticipation that um that this Cola would be increasing slightly so the 76 um could be going up we don't know how much um we don't anticipate it's going to be any uh significant so um we'll be on the lookout for that um you know in upcoming months as those data comes in um the as you see here the cola um are impacted uh not only in the current year but also in the two years out in 25 26 and 26 27 um and you can see the reduction there as well and so with this new set of assumptions and data from the state um you know staff's going to be working on it second interim um and we'll be able to bring that in March um to present to the board um to update the board uh the financial status of the district itself s um and then critical piece is the May Revis um this is almost a final um timeline of when the board I mean the the state is going to decide many of their priorities and come down with the initial and final proposal um that they can uh approve uh later in June um and then that would impact Us in terms of um how we structure and develop our budget development board the outcome year so with that I would be happy to take any questions thank you I'll go ahead and open it to public comment right see none I'll bring it back to the board any questions comments from the board trusting for so the C the just you know spitballing the cola's impact on our budget it would be What U mainly on the revenue side of it because our lcff mainly our lcff um is going to be impacted um because that's the adjustment that we make from year to year in terms of you know increasing that formula or the funding itself um the cola also funds other program outside of LC FF like mandate program special Edge ntion all that that impacts us um but the most significant one is the lcf entitlement that um right that will be yeah I was speaking more of a do but we don't we don't know that not yet not yet we typically use bigmat to do that um and there they're also in process of updating that calculator okay um so we'll be working from now until you know march to get everything updated for put for trust you f before I I'll just I like the governor's numbers more than I do to legislate but uh so I guess in a nutshell where does that leave where does that leave us here I mean or we expecting a a shrunk a shrunken budget there Mr Chang yeah I mean we we can anticipate that it it's going to exacerbate you know level of spending down the reserve in the coming years um we anticipate that revenue for LC is going to be lower um therefore you I mean but I guess significant I mean you know yeah I I saw that you know the cola was uh the cola for I think 2425 was I is that it 2420 was significantly reduced so yes you know such a large reduction in the all in the proposed Cola that you know for for uh lcf District like ours that is not a Bas District that that's a that's a significant decrease is it not yes so um back in June when the state enacted their budget that col was projected to be 3.94 and now it's at you know um 76 so um over a 3% reduction in um in Cola yeah thank you okay seeing no others thank you so much uh for explaining it to us you know and very summ I mean I know you were there all day so thank you for bringing us a summarized uh version of what you got to hear um and hopefully you know we get a pot somewhere that they didn't realize I was there and in May maybe this might change you know keeping uh positive uh thoughts out there um so I know this was on for just discussion um and if I don't see any other questions and comments thank you so much yeah all right moving on to item 802 approv citizens bonds oversight committee appointment motion motion by second by vice president kto um Dr Bower we respectfully asked the board to approve the indiv ual okay um so I'm going to go ahead and open it up for public comment any public comment on this item see none we'll go ahead and bring it back to the trustees any comments or questions trusty fam yes I'll just say one thank you Mr Ty for for your for volunteering I served on the bond oversight committee and uh you know it's an important job and it it too is I and I know it can be a thankless task also but uh our bond program won't work without without Community engagement so I thank Mr Ty for uh for his generosity and in putting in his time to to to serve serve the alen rock District thank you you trusty fam I Echo that so at this time I'm going to go ahead and bring it to vote all those in favor of uh approving Mr Ty for the bond committee raise your hand uh item passes unanimously welcome Mr Ty if you're listening if you're here yeah wherever you're at thank you for your time all right moving on to item 901 approve Arts music and instructional materials discretionary block grat motion by trusty Chavez second by vice president Kinto and um I see yes we have a presentation welcome to the podium another EX exciting moment you know this was the long awaited Arts music instructional materials ground we've been talking about it for a while and now it's before you for approval yeah good afternoon president Herrera theera Board of Trustees superintendent Bower Community my name is Dr Tara Bickford um I am the director of academic services and alongside me I have Emily mcchristian who is our Visual and Performing Arts coordinator and we are so excited tonight to be sharing our Arts music and material uh our constructional material block grant um that runs through 2026 and we have an allocation of 4,664 893 to work with over the next several years to make some of these things come to life so you'll see in front of you on this slide is the allowable categories of funds and leas are encouraged but not required to proportionally use their allocations for these areas we were also required to gather input from our community members our stakeholders so over the last few years actually we have been Gathering um input from teachers which they submitted written documentation with ideas and suggestions we surveyed all teachers and then we also held a vapa focus group where they completed A needs assessment to determine our Focus areas with the monies that we have allocated and I'm going to hand it off to Emily to share more about it thank you Tara okay so summarizing the staff input music teachers felt that money should be spent on adding lower grade music instructors expanding our current offerings replacing instruments which are Beyond repair as well as music curriculum and subscriptions the staff survey highlighted that teachers wanted more standards aligned Visual and Performing Arts materials and professional development Improvement of school climate materials and more support for ethnic studies the focus group felt that the expansion of Elementary choir art and Elementary and expansion of the instrument inventory were all needs here's our we decided to focus on these five areas for the plan that you will see detailed in the next slides standards align curriculum and professional development primarily around art and music and bridging curriculum School climate ethnic studies culturally responsive libraries and intervention Specialists everything in this teal section covers standards align curriculum and professional development including art curricul for all elementary core classrooms middle school art class curriculum classroom music materials and curriculum for the use of all second and third grade students we're looking at hiring additional credential music teachers through prop 28 funds enhancing Elementary band Elementary choir and middle school music enhancing our Mariachi and Jazz Band programs and Bridge materials for ELA and math curriculum the green section covers School climate professional development surrounding classroom behavior and calming Corners yellow is for ethnic studies which will support the ongoing creation and planning of curriculum professional development books and print materials guest speakers and field trips pink highlights culturally responsive libraries where we will create grade level teams to research and choose books for classroom libraries and professional development oranges for intervention specialist where we will provide Staffing for tier 2 intervention support to students in math and reading thank you for your time and we request your approval of our plan and welcome any questions that you might have thank you so much um at this time I'm going to open it up for public comment any public comment on this item welcome back good evening my name is Veronica to and I'm a performing arts teacher and just wanted to for the public who might be listening clarify that there are distinct differences between the Arts discretionary black rant and prop 28 um you've heard about prop 28 and that this is ongoing money uh that's estimated between 800 million and 1 billion a year beginning in this fiscal year however uh each School must submit an annual board approved report detailing prop 28 EXP es and I do want to highlight that um top 28 should have Music Theater dance art media uh Etc so we do have other areas where we can expand upon in our school districts I'm so pleased to finally see this uh Arts block grant results and hope that it will be supported as well as obtaining additional feedback from the teachers that are currently doing the work who have been doing the work and I also want to highlight that there are many students who are going back to the transiency and um the treny the things that uh the students are chronically absent for the Arts address those and students who are um in the Arts are five times less likely to drop out of school there is a community that is built in the art students learn self-expression and there are many many things that could go on and on about many of you saw the work of the entire vaa department and our coordinator at the Showcase so I just want to say that the Arts are essential to building the whole child and I hope that this will be supported going forward and continue having the feedback of those who are in the in the work day day by day thank you thank you any other public comments all right see none I'll bring it back to the board trustee FL Shelton thank you thank you um for this presentation and um I did so I'm very supportive I love the diversity of it I especially like you sharing the staff input and I just wanted to kind of ask the um because you know we know for a fact right you said it and she said it that the Arts contribute to you know um encouraging students to come to school stay in school I think sports do the same um so I wasn't sure hearing kind of having two separate coordinators I it looked like maybe it doesn't qualify I wasn't sure but is that something that uh and again Financial constraints being what they may is that eligible in this grant or um is that something we considered if you look at the overarching allowable expenses um it does cover a broad scope of multiple subject areas that you could however our staff survey and the input that we got from our stakeholders really identified the need for Visual and Performing Art support as well as culturally responsive um books like libraries for the classrooms ways we can support students in and out of that and really the emphasis on Visual and Performing Arts was phenomenal from our staff so that's not really where the need right we have to make hard decisions I totally understand I just wanted to clarify but I mean sorry yeah looking back at um these allowable expenses on the standard align material um physical education is not actually listed so oh interesting okay yeah yep so I just kind of being responsive to because I know this the sports has just grown um and I think I recall at kopita you know it's just a lot and overwhelming and so um maybe there's other grants where we could we could cover that and kind of think of it as another kind of tool in our toolbox the general fund may not be able to support this year I understand that but I I do think um you've come up you've taken the feedback and then you have to prioritize so I understand that so thank you just very brief comment we are trying our best to use our Extended Learning uh supports right to create more opportunities for our students to have a variety of sports I'm I'm looking at Sandra Garcia nodding because that's that's part of her so uh Alam Rock has always been at the Forefront you know we never I I'm very proud to say that in terms of uh Performing Arts and Music Alum Rock it regardless right that was one of the areas that was never cut you know in the worst in the darkest of nights Alam Rock kept moving right so now the the state is catching up to to us right now finally the state says oh yeah they're important right I think that that's going to happen with sports about how we're using you know all these opportunities for Extended Learning and to allow the students these opportunities that they might not have any other way very proud of Copita very proud of March Madness is coming so uh more more of that to come thank you so much thank you and the only thing I'll add is you know those Partnerships that you mentioned right ensuring you know go tundo NBC um and so allowing more for more Partnerships you know for possible um I love you know I'd love to see theater right grow in within our district as well um you know and there's so many opportunities so many agencies that might be really excited to partner with us so I look forward to um looking into that and I just I was just curious in regards to the staff input you know I I it's so important to make sure that those that are going to be implementing are able to you know provide feedback and they know right what what's needed but also the students I'm just wondering where the students as you know they're going to be participating what do you want you know we want them to show up so um was that a part of this um and if it wasn't was it because it wasn't a part of the Grant and the reporting feedback yeah I don't believe that the students were um brought into that staff or the stakeholder input but I definitely know that within bappa itself when we're issuing out things and stuff where like a lot of our teachers have um student councils and stuff to help kind of figure out those funds too in some ways but not an overarching districtwide okay yeah and I I think I'd like to you know as we I know we we do and and their voice is important to also include you know their voice moving forward forward this is great you know I'm excited and I look forward to growing right and hopefully the sports and all that that the state you know is able to support with that too so thank you for your presentation seeing no more questions and comments we'll um go ahead do we have a motion no no no yes I had a oh I didn't see your hand I see your hand now okay thank you so I uh thank academic services for providing this information and you know I wanted to highlight that you know we uh what is it that this District continuing commitment to providing a well-rounded education uh you know we're not only responsible for teaching the standards but also our relevant education which also means that uh things that our students give our students uh meaning to their to their academic uh journey and I wanted to highlight that you know there are uh you know for the first time a additional supports for this District's uh you know famous jazz band you know find you know that we have uh we we begun to to have a solution to to the transportation issue something that Jaz van has has asked of me and when I you know since I've been on this board and I'm excited that we we now have you know transfer you know there's transportation for rehearsals in the plan as well as uh new equipment for you know new uniforms for our district mariachi band as well so uh thank you so much and I you know and I hope that this is a you know a start of you know bigger and better offerings for our kids thank you thank you trusty fam now I'm going to bring it to a vote all those in favor raise your hand all right uh vote passes unanimously thank you so much um now we'll move on to item 902 approved Kangle designation of California state peace fol program facility responsibility Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center and CES Chavez Center motion second motion by trusty Chavez second by trusty Flores Shelton all right I'll go ahead and uh bring it to public comment at this time any members of the public wishing to address the board seeing none bring it back to our uh board any questions or comments by the board seeing none we'll go ahead and bring it to to vote all those in favor uh raise your hand all right um item passes unanimously moving on to item 903 I think oh yeah yeah sorry it's okay uh California Department of Education expenditure quarter one report from attitud Community Academy at G uh early learning literacy support blog Grant and literacy action plan in the year three of implement implementation Dr B I respectfully ask the board to approve this first uh uh quarter expenditure report for information only information only oh I have item 903 my bad is it just information any I'm looking at Dr BOS yes right thank you yes it's just for for the public to know how the grant is being spent do we have a report on how the there's a report in the book yeah so motion to approve no it's information those of you interested in looking at the details um it is in the board book um it is outlined there for um and it's on for information only thank you sorry apologize thank you it's okay moving on to item 904 approve School sponsor sculpture please motion motion by trusty CH second by trusty fam um any public item uh comment on this item seeing none bringing it back to board any comment questions from the board say Enjoy your trips I'll bring it to a vote those in favor please raise your hand those are in favor of the item please raise your hand all right uh item passes unanimously uh item 905 poly report on Williams uniform complaints approval move to approve by trusty Chavez second Flor Shelt I'm sorry trust I figured i' give you guys I at you okay sorry so um second by trusty found all right um any public comment on this item seeing none any questions or comments by the board all right um now bringing it to vote all members of the board um who uh voting I on this item please raise your hand all right item passes unanimously item 101 resignations information only please refer to your board book um that's getting late um comments no public comments on there for information only all right um moving on to item 1002 uh job description approv perance worker one so uh for the following items 102 103 104 105 and 1006 um I'm gonna ask Mr Cerna he has a short presentation and he's going to give you a background uh regarding this um revi revisions to the job description he has been working with Teamsters um to achieve this just a technical question because of the written uh the memo states that you know it's a revised csca job description and the description says it's a teamers so is this Teamsters or you know uh CCA teamer okay teamer he's gonna leave the presentation on all and then you vote one way go fast so as as he preps we're going to hear the presentation on all the items but we will vote on them one by one so following we're going to be voting on them one by one but he'll do the presentation thank you okay uh Madame President members of the board superintendent Bower members of cabinet um my name Jessa I have still a t here and I'm continue to be honored to be able to work with your team here you know I wasn't going to do this but I'm I'm going to I don't have anyone's permission roio can call me later because probably maybe a brown ey I'm going to blame any when Dr Alan um okay as you know I'm from Stockton and I worked for stocking UniFi for a few years which is so important to me um 35 years ago yesterday a man walked on to one of our campuses and killed five children and wounded 12 others that school is um at that time predominantly enrolled with Southeast asan children and the five children that were murdered were Southeast Asian so I just want to remind everyone how precious life is and how important the work that we do that was the first mass shooting in the United States and we haven't learned much since then um came on with a semi-auto automatic we killed five children so I I just want to remind you of that um it's important to me as a resident of Stockton and former staff member of stock and unified it can happen anywhere so let's just keep remembering that okay all right so let me move on to something more I think uh not as as difficult as that um as a result of um the 2324 Collective baring agreement with Teamsters the district agreed to conduct a classification study of the maintenance worker series um in addition to that uh that uh agreement included the establishment of a a committee made up of both team Serv and district and I will tell you this um this work was really a pleasure for me for a number of reasons one um my I cut my teach and they called it Personnel back then but now it's HR I was a a um classification compensation analyst for saning County and did that initially and then eventually supervised the classification compensation uh unit so it allowed me to continue to do go back and do that work that I did in my early career the other reason it was a pleasure is I I know how important and value that this district has in its Partnerships with its labor partners and this truly was a partnership with teamers and the district so that the the uh committee was formed and the the purpose of the of of that classification study was to take a look at the maintenance series maintenance worker Series update it and ensure that those that classification was compliant with the law and with the accomplishing what we wanted it to accomplish just so you know that maintenance worker series was established in 1977 um almost 50 years ago and the core outcomes of a a good classification system should allow you to one recruit should allow you to evaluate should allow you to compensate and then EV and eventually retain talented good staff to to do the work that needs to be done so that was our our Our intention the steps that we took were to um as a committee we met probably a dozen times uh we looked at the old classifications we had some incumbents complete questionnaires and then we interviewed some of those incumbents who were doing that work um and then we completed a report and and and that's what you will we're asking you to approve tonight the the series yeah sorry I don't know how I'm I'm an old guy so I don't know how to operate this the arrow there you wow there we go [Laughter] do the classification series consisted at that at at prior to this our recommendation of Maintenance work for one two and three then later on I created um um trade specific classifications IE electrician plumber um and and and so on and then eventually it created a fourth level of trade workers that was done in the late 2000s and and really the the intention behind that which was the maintenance worker four was reallying the artificial classification all that did was to recognize some individuals quite honestly and to to adjust salaries so our recommendation uh at the end of this is to uh adopt the classifications you have in front of us which is maintenance worker one two and three and then the lead uh building maintenance worker the lead grounds worker one of the U factors or elements part of the study in our recommendation is if it's not in this report on the slide here the maintenance worker the new maintenance worker one will serve as a maintenance worker one for 18 months after 18 months uh and a satisfactory evaluation they'll move automatically into to maintenance worker too that allows the district to grow its own employees its own staff uh those with those specific trades in addition uh part of the study recommends the that AR official classification of maintenance worker four was being paid at U range 15 of the of the salary structure we're recommending that uh the M the new maintenance worker 3 be that range 15 now which a little over a 5% increase with them there's about 12 of them again that will allow those folks to grow that allow them to obain those skills as a the journey level trades person and allow the district to again to continue to recruit and retain staff so staff recommendation is to adopt the new uh classifications of one maintenance worker two maintenance worker three lead U buildings uh worker and Lead grounds worker um happy to answer any that you may have um again this was has been signed off by the team Union they're in full agreement with this study and our recommendation the last thing I want to do I'd like to recognize the team that that worked on this study and that was Trevor EMT Eli vro P Fu Alan Dory and then on the district side with Dr Clon and Ed out happy to answer any questions that you may have um do I hear a motion for item 1002 uh approval to for maintenance work motion to approve second motion by truste fam second by trusty Chavez um okay so at this point I'm going to open it up public comment and then I'll bring it back to the board public comment on the item seeing none I'll bring it back to the board any questions or comments from the board all right see uh trusty Chavez I do have a question you said that they automatically move from um from one to two after 18 months um is there what should I say that's fair but in the other move is there it is it the same time and if they don't no the the movement from two to a three or to a lead worker is a competitive profit so they will need to that those many years of experience at that level they will then have to interview they'll have to apply and interview for that three level in Job that was my next question if they don't perform proficiently that do they move on to the next level that's correct okay thank you okay U thank you so much for that detailed presentation and also collaboration with our labor Teamsters um Partners uh and so at this time I'll bring it back for vote um if you're in favor of this item please uh show your hand raise your hand all right item passes unanimously I'm moving on to 100:3 any motion to approve motion second motion by trusty Chavez second by trusty fam uh open it up for public comment at this time seeing none I'll go ahead and bring it back any questions or comments from the board seeing none I'll go ahead and bring it to a vote all those in favor uh please raise your hand motion passes unanimously uh item 10:4 maintenance worker three approval job description motion second motion by trusty cha um I'm sorry fam and second by trusty Chavez opening it up for public comment at this time seeing none I'll go ahead and bring it back to the board any questions or comments from the board all right seeing none I'll bring it to a vote please raise your hand if you're in favor of this item uh item passes you unanimously uh item 105 maintenance worker approval of job description a motion by to motion by trusty Chavez second by trusty fam all right moving it on to public comment any public comment on this item seeing none I'll go ahead and bring it back to the board any questions or comments from the board trusty Chavez I kind of see your hand no you know I'm all right uh seeing none I'll go ahead and bring it to a vote all those in favor of this item please raise your hand all right item passes unanimously uh item 10 uh second motion by truste bam second by trusty Chavez to approve the job description of lead maintenance worker building maintenance opening it up for public comment at this time seeing none I'll bring it back to the board any questions or comments from the board seeing none I'll bring it to a vote all those in favor please raise your hand um motion passes unanimously all right item 10:07 approve the adoption of the district's initial bargaining proposal to open negotiations with area for the period of July 1 2024 through June 30th 2026 motion motion to approve by trusty Chavis second second by trusty Flor Shelton all right um opening it up for public comment at this time seeing none I'll bring it back to the board any questions or comments by the board all right seeing none I'll go ahead and bring it to uh vote all those in favor please uh raise your hand pass uh passes unanimously all right great now moving on to item 12 consent calendar second move to approve by vice president kto second by trusty Chavez to move the um consent calendar um I'm going to go ahead and open that up to public comment at this time all right seeing no public comment I'm going to go ahead and bring it back to the board uh for any questions or comments seeing none I'll go ahead and bring it to a vote all those in favor please show your by raising your hand all right uh passes unanimously all right thank you so much um uh superintendent Bower um do you have any um announcements on the post session time I'll be happy to uh read aloud the items sure um item 1303 conference with legal council anticipated litigation as stated on the agenda 1304 conference will legal council update on existing litigation as stated on the agenda item 1305 conference will legal council appeal of findings in investigation report 1306 conference with labor negoti negotiators employee organization area 1307 Public Employee discipline dismissal release and 1308 Public Employee appointment title assistant principle thank you so much do you think an hour is sufficient to let our public or an hour and a half what do you think I will say to be on the safe side an hour okay so let's have a 10 uh 11 minute break so bring uh conveni and close session at 9:20 and then an hour and a half after that would bring us to 11 I'm sorry here's my math 10 1050 50 so we'll see you all back we need to take comment thank you um at this time I'll go ahead and take public comment on this item all right seeing none we'll go ahead and move uh forward to close session thank you so much see you at 10:50 he just wanted all right we have Quorum back in the room calling meeting back to order 11:06 uh Dr Brower do we have any announcements Mr Toro has uh the announcement of session thank you item 13.08 on a motion by trustee Chavez seconded by vice president Kim by unanimous vote the board approved the employment of Jasmine Sylvester as the assistant principal of aptitude Academy effective February 15 2024 there are number items to report from close session all right thank you so much and welcome um congratulations congratulations and welcome uh so number 15 future board agenda requests request from the Board of Trustees and or from the public request shall be submitted in writing to the superintendent or designate with supporting documents and information if any at least one week before the scheduled meeting date items submitted less than a week before the scheduled meeting date may be postponed to a later meeting in order to allow sufficient time for consideration and research of the issue uh and I'd like to adjourn the meeting at 11:07 good night everyone

I at a networking event that I all right ladies and gentlemen we're going to begin shortly can you hear I met someone who brother she's like oh yeah I have like connections to him told me she knew him then I asked her oh is there a way I can and like talk like set up meeting with him and she's like oh I don't really know I'm like good evening everyone and uh Welcome to our trustee meeting of January 18th we will begin with our Pledge of Allegiance and Moment of Silence with our student representative uh Daniela Ruiz please stand was put your right hands over your heart ready begin of the United States of America and to the for stands na God [Music] indivisible as we enter the new year I want us to reflect on the past versions of ourselves did we make the most out of the chances we had Did we tell our loved ones that we loved them were we a better person or a better friend regardless the world is constantly changing along with us and if at some point the world felt like it was ending amid all the chaos there is room for opportunity to be a better version of ourselves from last year to make those we care about feel loved and to take take advantage of what life has to offer let's take a moment to reflect on the aspects of Our Lives that we will change for the new year thank you thank you Daniela that was lovely so before we move on to our close session report I would like to um begin our meeting uh um and the important work ahead and I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge the land on which we are gathering we are gathered on the ancestral land of the Gabriel Gabriel H sorry gabrielo gabrio pardon me Gabriel yo uh and tongva people these people have lived on this land for many years and they continue to be its stewards today and I hope you all share s similar sentiments when I say that I'm full of gratitude and appreciation for the opportunity to live and learn on this [Music] land okay moving on to our Clos session report thank you okay uh 4.1 no reportable action taken regarding public employee performance evaluation superintendent 4.2 no reportable action taken regarding existing litigation 4.3 the Board of Trustees by a vote of 5 approve the settlement agreement with the student to reimburse privately provided Services 4.4 no reportable action taking regarding negotiations 4.5 no reportable action taken regarding Personnel 4.6 the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to reassign employee hr-2 23-24 d06 4.7 the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to accept the agreement with employee hr-2 23-24 d08 4.8 the Board of Trustees took formal action by a vote of - to approve the expulsion of student 23- 07 thank you very much all right um for our recognitions uh 6.1 the pente Statewide academic and Leadership award class of 2024 and board uh would you uh join me up here all righty this is exciting the pente project is a national award-winning program that for more than 30 years has improved the colleg goinging rate of tens of thousands of California educationally underrepresented students the pente project Statewide academic and Leadership award recognizes their top 12th grade PTI postas in California after a thorough review of the students academic transcripts Community leadership involvement and personal statements the pente project Statewide office recognized five students from ahsd with Angel Nunes from Anaheim High School join us [Applause] please would William Gonzalez from canella high school join us please if you're here Daisy CA Magnolia High School they're all busy studying Karina Solomon Savannah high school and Zury mosa Western High School and on behalf of the board congratulations we're so proud of you [Applause] oh yeah you're right and Mr Brian O'Neal will you come forward please just want to take a moment to honor our outgoing president Mr Brian O'Neal and we thank him for his contributions of uh 22 years on [Applause] this I'm serious just thank you for the opportunity to the board cabinet um I think it's a very important position to be held in any District as we as we go through the challenges that are presented to us on a daily basis so they are many that are uh put out our doorstep but I think we've done a great job over the years in moving forward and we have wayed to go but we've gone I think more much much more than any other District around so I'm very proud of the district and be part of it so thank you for the [Applause] opportunity oh okay than okay I have a request of the board if we could um we could pull up item uh 10.1 and 10.2 before we move on our agenda may I get a motion just Direction you can do that by unanimous consent so we can change the order you can do it you can do that by consent as long as there's no obje consent fine okay all right item 10.1 our financial audit for fiscal year 2022 and 23 yes perfect thank you so much we have our partner Andrew Park from e Bailey to present to um the board our financial audit for 2223 um that's for our um Regular audit as well as the bond audit for 20 2 23 I'm going to give it to you Andrew well good evening it's a little bit late but Happy New Year and wow thank you so much for putting me up front it's a privilege that we don't usually see um tonight I'm here to present the uh results of the audit so first and foremost the trend nowadays with school district audit is that ever since the pandemic we're running into a lot of difficulties and Auditors unfortunately are on the back burner so I mean statistically speaking my bread and butter is all K12 audits I do about 22 my team does about approximately 100 school districts and just to kind of give you some statistics in terms of where the audit is going in 2122 we've experienced a really difficult times we were unfortunately in a circumstance where we had to extend 80% of our audits beyond the December 15 deadline this year 22 23 when I say this year I'm kind of a year behind this Year we're in a little better place about 60% were on extension I am oh why am I bringing this up I am happy to report that Anaheim Union High School District's audit was on time and we certainly appreciate that because again we're always kind of a second priority and we perfectly understand that but at the same time we appreciate it as an auditor because unfortunately if everything's pushed back it gets snowballed and we're overburdened like like we are now with all the extensions so I like to start off there um so we're going to cover the results of the district's audit so before I even get get into this as an auditor I work for the board I report strictly to the board I had an wonderful opportunity to speak to Mr O'Neal this year and it was a pleasure to get some insight but again we report to the board we don't work with your cabinet or your management okay so that's that's we're basically your agents um now the fastest way to kind of gauge how the audit went is to basically refer do we have copies of the audit report yeah okay is basically if you could flip to page 103 of the audit report please it's in the way back with the header of summary of auditor [Applause] results okay it looks like we're almost there I'll wait for one more trustee okay there we go so um audit report is a technical document and you almost have to specialize in governmental audit to fully comprehend all the nuances related to the financial statements but as a trustee of of a school district really what you want to focus in on is how the audit went from an overall picture and the best way to do this is is on page 103 which we would call summary of Auditors results okay within this page we basically focus on three specific areas first is the financial statements overall second is the district's compliance with federal regulations and lastly State compliance the district's compliant with State compliance now I just want to make it very clear that when we're talking about financial statements what we're auditing is is the document that you were presented back in probably September of 2023 this is what we would call the UN audited actuals when you were presented with that information at the time it was unaudited our job is to come in audit the information and report back to the board in terms of what we believe the financial statement should be so in other words answering the question of are the financial statements fairly stated okay that's our primary objective what we don't do is we don't look at budgets or many make any type of subjective assumptions okay we're very objective um before I get get get into the results let's kind of cover some technical information or definition um any Auditors basically we render an opinion just like any professionals just like your attorneys highest level of assurance that we provide is what we would call an unmodified opinion it's basically synonymous with a clean opinion followed by a qualified opinion so this is basically pass with some exceptions uh within the context of academic if you will um and lastly the lowest level of assurance is a disclaimer or an aders opinion again so it's unmodified qualified adverse or disclaimer there's three levels okay please keep that in mind so I'm going to go through the results of each of the sections and summarize what we believe the opinion should be um with respect to the district's financial statement as of June 3023 our opinion was unmodified okay we believe that the financial statements areir fairly stated in all material respects during the course of our audit procedures we basically evaluate the checks and balances that are in place to ensure that when you process a dollar a financial transaction that dollar dollar eventually flows into financial reporting P format we call this internal controls within the world of audit we are required to evaluate this under government auditing standards and if there's any deficiencies we are required to report any type of deficiencies directly to the board I am happy to report that I have nothing to report from a deficiency standpoint okay moving on to Federal Awards um just to kind of give you some background in terms of what federal award or the audit that's required is so there's a regulation called uniform compliance requirement and this is basically driven by how much how much a non-federal entity spends in a given year and there's a specific threshold if you if a non-federal entity receives federal assistance and spends in excess of 750,000 you're subject to an independent audit no matter what there's no exception now in case you're curious you're going to be in the millions when it comes to federal assistance we're talking $ 68.3 million that Anaheim Union High School District has spent so obviously the district was subject to compliance requirements um in the 2223 fiscal year we were required to audit quite a few programs actually uh first program that we were required to audit was your one part A funds which is basically a a federal subsidy designated to provide assistance to low-income students um the the largest program that we were required to audit is um basically your Esser funds your covid dollars that you receive the onetime dollars and lastly we were required to audit your special education program it's a federal subsidy provided to provide additional services to your special education students based on the compliance procedures that we perform our opinion was unmod mod ify with respect to all three programs additionally based on the eval evaluation of again I'm going to use the technical term here internal controls that are in place to ensure compliance with all three of these require uh programs we did not identify any type of deficiencies everything is working as intended We Believe okay lastly on state compliance so State compliance is rather a unique area State compliance is nothing that we come up and create audit procedures annually there's actually a uh variety of interest groups that get together and create very specific areas depending on what the needs are and it involves legislators Department of Education and the state controller's office now in case you're curious a full comprehensive listing of all the programs that were required to audit are going to be on page 99 and 100 okay go back I'm GNA briefly talk about this section here so with respect to State compliance when you get to page 99 and 100 you're going to see some yes notations and no C below notations yes notations basically indicate that we were required to perform the audit procedures because the district either administered the program or receive financial assistance and as a result there were strings attached and we required to perform audit procedures no no see below generally indicates that the district did not operate the program or did not administer the program or did not receive funding and as a so we did not ident uh we did not perform audit procedures um So based on the yes notated programs that we audited our opinion was unmodified with respect to the state uh District State compliance requirements okay that pretty much summarizes how the audit went it was um we really don't have much to report to the board unfortunately fortunately depending on how you want to look at it any questions that I may try to answer I just want to congrat congratulate Dr nen and her department for the the the work that goes into doing this making sure that we are in compliance and it was a pleasure talking to you and getting through some concerns that weren't concerns after all so thank you you're welcome and I'd like to ditto that Dr Nan thank you it's a big job you hold thank you so much and I do want to take this time to thank Karen ASAS Joe kimona um it's a big effort we spend um you know weeks you know getting everything ready and then as well as working with the external Auditors e Bailey I'm one of the managers um over there Alexa kosi she's been awesome to work with and there's a lot of new regulations this year that they really had to help us so uh please make sure you communicate that to Alexa that um it's a lot of extra things that they are teaching us as well there new compliant that comes out and there's so many new regulations that comes out every single year so um you know they have been very patient with us and um Andrew is um you're like he just got uh into our district back in April says every six years they have to rotate a new partner right so these are different rules that we have um and he's been great to work with as well and so I think I want to just tell the staff um it's really hard nowadays to get this type of cling audit I would say is it 10 10 or 15% districts get this type of audit nowadays or I don't maybe the special is even lower now I don't know what that yeah it's um you know I just had one where I was grilled for about 40 minutes regarding all the findings that I wrote so I mean you know we're we're you know we don't actively look for findings but our job is to report unfortunately and you know I mean you know it's it's a good thing that we don't have anything to report we appreciate that thank you thank you awesome perfect okay we can talk about the bond funding okay so just um briefly if you can just uh quickly talk about the bond audit so we for the bond program it is a requirement to have a separate audit um on that as well um so just we can kind of quickly summarize that as well we uh do want to make sure that um Community know that you know how we spend on bond dollars every dollar is being audited as well and so we want to make sure that we communicate that to the public as well sure so so I'll go again if you don't mind so um Bond audit is the smaller piece of the audit uh document that you have in front of you it's it's a two-part audit it's basically a segmented Financial audit specifically focused on bonds so basically what we do is we scale down all the testing so when we're working with hundreds of millions our testing threshold is going to be a lot higher versus when you when you're look at looking at a bond maybe we're looking at tens of millions right so we scale down the testing so I'm not going to talk too much I generally get carried away a little bit but um so just kind of starting with the financial section or segmented audit related to the uh measure age funds our opinion again was unmodified with respect to the bond financial statements we believe that the bond financial statements house within the building fund of the district is fairly stated in all material respects as of June 30 2023 in other words it was a clean audit with respect to the internal control aspect that we always report back to the board we also did not identify any type of deficiencies related to the management of bond Bond dollars from a financial reporting perspective okay um the more interesting part is on the second half of the audit report now this is this is what we would call a performance audit it's basically synonymous with compliance audit now what is the objective under performance audit we basically seek out and try to answer whether or not the district spent the proceeds in accordance to what the voters wanted okay it's basically we're we're aligning sampled expenditures and we're basically going through what the voters have approved and it's a yes or no no type of question There's No Gray it's either yes or you didn't okay um just to kind of give you some perspective in terms of our test testing that we performed so in the 2223 fiscal year we sampled 25.4 million out of $ 31.3 million so from a percentage standpoint we covered 82% of the total expenditures from a sampling standpoint so just just as a reminder the principles of audit are based on a statistical approach and no Auditors would ever audit 100% so again we rely on the princip of Statistics um based on the testing that we performed we believe that the district had spent all the bomb proceeds in accordance to what the voters have approved okay so we did not identify any type of deviations or exceptions okay music to our Years thank you V any questions no no he thank you for coming we appreciate thank you Andrew it's a pleasure thank you thank you thank you okay all right um moving on to the reports uh student representative report Daniela starting with Anaheim we'd like to highlight senior Angelina GB for scoring the very first school in the new field so congrats Angie at Cambridge Virtual Academy they had an event called Treasure Trove Market in which you can immerse yourself in student entrepreneurship and purchase items of small business businesses at Cyprus their basketball coach Derek Mitchell hit 200 career wins at Gilbert during the four semester the school celebrated a significant increase in graduates with an additional 24 students successfully completing their studies notably the majority of these graduates were fifth year students from Gilbert this achievement represents a remarkable doubling of the graduation numbers compared to the previous year at catella presented ing the top 10 changes for each category in the RCP Summits all students including ALS and ELD provided their Solutions and top three priorities with the assistance of over 120 student Summit facilitators Kennedy's RSVP program hosted their second Summit facilitators presented action plans to student body to ensure that progress is made from the feedback in Summit 1 at loera they hosted in ASB hosted the ual winter assembly inviting students and staff all together to celebrate love week and close off the school year with performances in between more special wishes were given out students received various items from guitars Nintendo switch and bicycles all thanks to our staff and donations Magnolia invites you all to their International show on February 9th where there will be a variety of cultural Foods a lion dance from the Vietnamese Student Association Kia regon and B FICO at Oxford Emmy winning broadcast journalist Yolanda Nava gave a talk at Oxford as a guest speaker in this session she shared about her life experiences and career in journalism and also gave advice to those interested in pursuing journalism at Savannah soad honoria hispanica Club hosted its annual Navidad in savan community event on December 18th inviting families to come with their kids to enjoy the numerous festivities ities being held such as games fical performances and food sales through donations from Savannah students all kids who attended were able to receive a gift Western Pioneers very own football team had premiered their document for the past season this document was a great accomplishment done by by the school and its program directed by Victor Bazar our football program released a documentary called fourth and goal a story about how the struggle and challeng challenge es our athletes faced getting through the underdog mindset in winning league and now CIF our program has many current and past D1 athletes and are looking forward to signing six more towards the end of this year that concludes the ahd high school report thank you thank you very much danela thank you um is it uh usual for uh the Kennedy to be on their second Summit yes or they this is on track yes that's remarkable wow and it's you know just January so that's fantastic thank you all right moving on to uh is there do we have any students uh in the audience that wish to speak to the board okay report of the associations I believe we have Jeff Morganstern welcome all right good evening this is one the things I'll be getting used to over the coming months and years doing these Association reports like carrying two phones around and one of which I've already left at two places I just have to remember I don't know how Grant did it he had three phones for a while with CTA but anyway good evening uh board President Ronald Trejo trustees superintendent Matt suda cabinet I'm happy to be here and make a report on behalf of uh the Anaheim secondary Teachers Association I just want to take a moment to introduce myself although I'm sure all of you know me to one degree um I am a graduate of the District of Dale and Magnolia High School class of 89 I've been here in the district for 26 years now as a teacher I spent uh 24 years teaching Junior High history at Brooker Junior High uh as a department chair for history ASB um also around the student store bunch of other other duties uh there Brookhurst uh for the last year and a half I've been on release to help build our community schools model uh with the grant that we've had and I'll speak to that here in just a little bit but I'm just happy to be here to share on behalf of our members and our teachers here in the Anaheim Union High School District uh I first want to begin by sharing our members and my and our association's appreciation uh for the recent events last week in bargaining and for the openness of the board to reach a very fair and honest uh tentative agreement um I appreciate your your openness in listening to our to Grant a few months ago when he was speaking before you and you took him seriously and considered what he had to say I do want to acknowledge um Brad Jackson for his his time his effort and his creative planning in helping us to come together in a attentative agreement last week as well as the efforts of superintendent matsuda and Nancy nen for their work behind the scenes a lot of people did a lot of work to try to get a Fair settlement and I want to appreciate and acknowledge all of those efforts um and acknowledging just all the great and amazing things that our teachers are doing around the district every day and in every period the second thing I'd like to talk about today is just my role and dedication um in when I work in Community Schools like I said I've been on behalf of ala the Community Schools organizer for the last year and a half and I will be transitioning somewhat in my new role as co- facilitator of the district steering for Community Schools working with Carlos Hernandez on that um I do want to share just a couple quick stories that I have an opportunity to hear about some of the amazing work that's happening at our sites I do have a great story but it's much too long for this report and hope to share with share um it with you individually at some point uh so just to uplift a couple of our folks in a couple of our schools first is catella high school and the work done by Diana Gomez our community school teacher lead and ell Hernandez our community school coordinator for well over a decade catella has not had a functioning PTA and this year it was brought back and they have elected positions parents are in place and they're doing amazing work that's something as a result of the work that we've been doing with Community Schools there at catella High School uh the second school I'd like to acknowledge is Magnolia High School in the work of Katrina Mundy who's our community school teacher lead and Rudy ESO the community school coordinator uh and together with them they led the needs and assets assessment trying to get a good picture a good idea of what the community is like there for Magnolia and also Dale uh and I always had the privilege of going to Katrina's classroom about a month ago and watching her students give their Google certificate program management pitches and the the reason why I bring it up is their program management certificates and what they were pitching was all based on the data that was gained through the needs and assets assessment there at moli high school so just a great connection I just want to uplift the work of all of our members and staff working toward community Community Schools I do want to highlight a couple ways in which as an association and myself as an individual have worked uh very hard in conjunction with many folks in this room uh to collaborate with the district and the association through a number of ways our our teacher input Group which was founded during the pandemic uh then branched off to our special ed teacher input group our student discipline task force members that serve on the insurance committee and budget committee uh we are committed and dedicated to contining that uh effort of collaboration and openness and working with with the district for the benit of our students and of our members so I look forward to working together in the coming months and hopefully years if if I get reelected we'll see um and this uh fruitful and uh relationship so thank you very much appreciate the time thank you [Applause] Jeff and I believe Jennifer soci I will be speaking for ala oh Amanda oh you're going to be doing the handoff I love it for a moment okay so um so good evening um board president Randall tro Board of Trustees superintendent mattsuda cabinet and guests in the um in person and online I just wanted to um let everyone know that I am passing the Reigns of Alta president over to Jennifer sasai um it was my pleasure to serve as the president as we work to secure new board um and I know that Jennifer is going to do an awesome job and uh want to thank her in advance for um taking on this role and ready to hand it off to her so welcome Jennifer and here you go [Applause] welcome and I'd like to thank Amanda for her years of service to Ulta and so I'd like to start with our report for Ulta tonight good evening Madame President Randall tro Board of Trustees superintendent matsuda executive cabinets students parents and Community joining us in person and online our schools are excited for a new year and the start of the new semester at our school sites we are celebrating our winter Athletics and gearing up for alap season as well as registration for the next school year our ahsd student ambassadors are currently preparing to onboard students for the lcap process mindfulness and so and social emotional support is important several of our schools has been working in collaboration with awareness and motion last week teams participated in an all day Retreat where they practice mindfulness and conscious communication we hope you all will be able to join us Saturday for our annual servathon a SD's way of spreading kindness and compassion throughout our schools and putting the 5c's into practice every School site has a servathon invent event um also our schools are currently gearing up for the capstones CVA is kicking off our Capstone season next week with student showcases and Capstone presentations schools are also celebrating and recognizing the teachers of the year it is going to be a great 2024 lastly ala would like to ex also express our love and support to tr to truste piery we are thinking of her and sending our well wishes thank you so so much thank you for that Jennifer and welcome aboard it is going to be a good year all righty uh do we have a representative from PTA with us today all right we're moving on to our presentations uh 8.1 Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and the Inland Empire yes and it gives me great honor to bring up our coordinator of 21st century career ratings Scott Rendell who introduced our our partners uh in this great work aome thank you Jaren um so good evening uh board president Randall tro members of the board uh superintendent mattsuda our cabinet and uh members of the audience here in online so for those of you that don't know me in the audience at least I'm Scott Randell coordinator for career Readiness supporting our career pathway programs and our aim mentoring an internship program January is National mentoring month which makes a great time to celebrate mentoring uh with one of our key Partners so I'd like to introduce you to Katie Wright She's Director of Education and career programs with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and the Inland Empire and um she's going to share some updates from Big Brothers Big Sisters as we celebrate National mentoring month thank you Scott good evening to everyone um like Scott said my name is Katie um I'm our director of education and career program at Big Brothers Big Sisters overseeing all of our site based programs here in Orange County um and so as he said January honors National mentoring month which is a time to acknowledge those dedicating time as mentors to young people amplifying our young people's voice and reminding our community that they too can join the mentoring movement next slide do I have a clicker do we have a clicker oh perfect thank you um so just a little bit about what we do um at Big Brothers Big Sisters what makes us special is not only our proven outcomes um but it's also that we like to call ourselves Jedi um we're about Justice Equity diversity and inclusion um which is the framework and Foundation through which we operate on um we are youth centered volunteer-driven and onetoone through our mentoring model oh uh oh okay okay thank you um so our programs are crafted to advance um upward social and economic mobility and we have four driving outcomes so one is social capital and connection two is emotional and mental health including social emotional learning um education and Career Success and positive behaviors and choices so a little bit of our impact um some statistics and numbers from over the years um while we've been serving students for the past 60 years for the past 10 years we've impacted over 6,000 youth bringing back $3.1 million in volunteerism to our country but specifically here in Anaheim we have mentored over a th000 youth um through 226 matches from grades 7 through 12 um and we partner together through our community- based program which is our Mo most traditional like onetoone mentoring through our high school bigs program um which pairs high schooler with an elementary schooler our College bigs program which pairs a college student with a high school student and then um through workplace mentoring which partners are um different corporate partners with high schoolers and college students for workplace Readiness um so a little mentorship Spotlight this is a quote from a savannah high school student mentee Joelle about her College Mentor she says I absolutely love my mentor Jessica she's always ready to hear me out and we both get along very well even though she's a senior at University and I'm a senior in high school we're able to relate to each other in terms of Life Education and our desire for higher education after graduating I appreciate her helping me in every way she can because I'll make sure to keep her words engraved in my mind um so we continue to do good things here in Anaheim through our Partnerships um to support youth so a few um spotlights and shoutouts for that um is through our Partnerships with Disneyland Resort and through visit Anaheim um We are continuing to focus on building the next Workforce through our workplace mentoring program partnering with different Anaheim companies like I mentioned um these companies invest employees to serve as mentors and support their mentees through career Pathways um also as a pandemic response to support the growing needs of high school students we launched our College bigs program um with students from Chapman University and Cal State Fullerton um many being first generation college students um that Mentor soon to be first generation graduates so this increases our persistency and transition from high school to college and finally um what is the impact of our program this past year 96% of Youth um within our Anaheim programs graduated high school on time and with 90% of those students maintaining or improving their grades and 71% of your staff reported improved behavior for our mentees um and so finally in honor of national mentoring month I'd be remiss if I didn't invite you all and our community to kind of join us in this mentoring movement and we're always looking for more mentors and different ways to connect um and so we really stand by that Ripple effect of when our leaders and Community gives back and the ripple effect of that um impact has on our youth so thank you just from Big Brothers Big Sisters for your partnership over so many years and we're looking forward to continuing the impact thank you thank you any questions question any questions sorry presentation I just want to give a little testimonial I work at an elementary school so I get to see firsthand The Bigs program and uh you have a wonderful staff so thank you very much for your work good thanks glad to hear that thank you thank you all right moving on to us 8.2 our Esports yes I'm going to go ahead and bring Scott Rendell back up I'm really excited about this presentation on the update regarding uh the east east sports program in our district actually trusty piery at the College and Career Fair uh when she was walking around through the different exhibits um found our Esports exhibit and came back and as you know requested to bring this item to the board with her excitement about what it was so tonight in perier second um we're excited to share the update so I'll go and turn over to Scott well thank you and uh and a shout out to board president Randall tro for uh joining our Esports winner tournament as well and and staying till the end that was we had we had a great time um so over the last several years Esports has been growing um in popularity world wide um and growing in the opportunities that it brings to young people who are involved in orts and at the same time we as a district have really embraced Esports and it's been it's been growing by Leaps and Bounds so um as you'll hear tonight for i' brought some of my friends up to uh to help out with this presentation but you'll hear about the many benefits for our Esports athletes um as well as lots of connections to College and Career Success so um I ask the board and our cabinet to just keep our mission vision and core values in mind and look for those connections and I think you'll I think you'll find them throughout so joining me up front here today one of our key teacher leaders Mr Jason CER from South Junior High School he's on our leadership team so he'll come up and talk for a few minutes um and then in addition one of our key uh Partners Mr Alan Sater uh CEO of Mastery coding who's been helping us uh get our programs going so Mr Sater is going to get us started on our presentation so I'll invite you up press enter press enter excellent so how much does a board love a clean audit right think about that for a second well kids love video games more than you love a clean audit okay that that's what we're talking about here right now so I don't know close the the idea underneath this right here is how do we Channel students passion for gaming and Technology into career and college opportunities right here so that that's kind of the schema underneath the program that is being rolled out for all of your schools we take their passion you can see across the board right here and then what we do is we lift the hood see all of these games that they so love they're giant entrepreneurial stem projects there's computer scientists there's graphic artists there's business people there's a host of people in this industry and how big is this industry if you take all of Hollywood and combine its revenue and you take the entire music industry and combine its Revenue it is still dwarfed by the video game industry that's the size of the economic impact that gaming has across the globe and what we then do is we teach students about these opportunities but there is a host of entry points if you would because some of the introverts may like the hardware and they like to Tinker and things like that some of the extroverts might be into the broadcasting and the shout be forward facing and things like that some people who like the numbers there's operations and so forth so that's where we funnel them into finding their own personal proclivities and then we work on getting them certified graduate right like you realize that the game you love love could be a pathway to a college scholarship or a prosperous career so that is kind of what we're doing here with this program but most significantly is we're making sure it harmonizes with the core values of the district okay we're always emphasizing character right this is school this is a school district there's protocols things like that collaboration effective teams collaborate we're overtly teaching these skills obviously creativity is fabric to success communication critical thinking um we are very direct in making sure that students see the connections between the games they love and being part of a successful Esports team and how it transfers to other endeavors Project based learning Etc right there so what is included in the program is is there's curriculum there is career and college opportunities there's of course competition prizing Awards things like that that are all kind of baked into the DNA of this but you don't really need me I could talk about how great it is but to the credit of Jason and Scott and a lot of hardworking people in the district they just put together oh wait let me go to the research wouldn't be like teacher educa the research underneath this right here is it go for the disengaged students right like they're finding Community they're finding purpose the kids who aren't into Choir they're not into the drama club right the Esports club like they're finding a home right here and think about this we talk about Equity we talk about Equity we talk about Equity but where else on any campus will you find that maybe a student with special needs is sitting side by side with the prom King and star basketball player and the prom King basketball has absolutely no advantage over the student was as a matter of fact he or she might be getting the floor mopped in the game they're playing like equ it's a democratization of opportunity right there which brings all people together and like I said we have a we have a white paper that we can provide for the board if you'd like on the academic benefits of gaming and research and bringing it into the classroom right here so as I was saying how do the students like it well your team put together a nice little video right here which I'm going to take a moment to play about the inaugural event right [Music] here I do want Esports to become actually played not just with fun but competitively and I want the schools to recognize that cuz most of the schools they see as something oh you're wasting your time but we can actually be here and play competitively when gaming you are using your critical thinking skills you're communicating you're collaborating your use all of your skills put them into into something you enjoy doing being with the people playing with them let's something else you know it's like if we win we celebrate you know get high five you know just being there with people while playing is a lot better than being alone even just being on doing something I love felt good cuz I I was in a competitive state of mind and winning felt great but yeah overall I I would like to be in the tournament again it it was fun Bravo Ronnie did you do that that was you do that one yeah [Applause] yeah so there there as I mentioned there are host of benefits from building confidence in students building voice building purpose and building Community which is obviously kind of a theme of tonight right here that are coming to the four through this program so as I mentioned a moment ago this is not a one-size fits-all this is personalized learning where students can find agency in their Endeavors to manifest opportunities in a world being changed by technology right we're talk about artificial intelligence we talk about cutting EDG Communications and the all of that exists in this world of Esports and it you know kudos to these gentlemen right here for having the vision of ushering it in because as I've said many times before I believe every school in the country that has a basketball court on their campus will by the end of of this decade have an Esports lab because that's how popular it is and Once Upon a Time somebody say hey we should play basketball here and then the sustain it just kept rolling and rolling that's where this is going and as I said credit to these guys for bringing it in right here so thank you for allowing me to speak thank you thank you Alan and so just wanted to share just a couple of uh pieces about our our district structure around Esports we have a leadership team that includes myself a shout out to Eric Greenwood our chief technology officer who really brought the Esports Labs uh into onto our campuses and has been a champion of uh keeping them running and keeping Esports going and and just handling all the tech sport issues very graciously uh lindsy pinin if you know her is an English teacher she's also our Esports specialist supporting Esports and our advisers uh Jason CER who's here with us today a key leader on our leadership team and a Community Schools teacher lead making those connections uh Adrian omto uh CTE teacher at Western High School Tyler Mendoza from anim achieves anim achieves was critical in getting our program uh started and then Ronnie gang from our public information office who's uh made that great video and he's uh joined our team as well um so and Beyond the leadership team we last year were able to get Esports stiens or stiens for our esorts advisers uh into the contract to to provide that support to our our advisers the computer labs at each school we have monthly advisor me meetings and support uh we're um um registered with CIF and we're exploring uh those ins and outs of CIF now uh we have CT act pathway develop uh pathway underdevelopment at catella high school around video game design to really uh further support our students uh in exploring that and we'll expand from there uh lots of collaboration uh with our elementary feeders as well as our colleges um and and plan those districtwide tournaments so wanted to briefly give uh Mr caller a chance to talk about some of the community connections that we're establishing as well well thank you good evening uh hello everybody um honestly I'm just I'm so proud to work in a district uh with talented people and I genuinely mean that uh it takes a team in order to make something work and I wouldn't rather be nowhere else right here and so uh big kudos to everybody who who Who's part of this and One Vision that we had uh you know as a community school teacher lead is okay how can the driving question is how do we build community Through Esports and how do we um bring down that guard of like no it's just uh addictive video games no so being at the winter tournament on 21st um I think it showed and it was evident that that is community that is you know that's everything that we want to see in our students and just students thriving that's at the center of our community schools mission is a thriving student thriving families thriving communities and that that was showcased there so I'm honestly just very proud to stand alongside these guys and uh um that again we're going forward we're trying to continue to build this program um to give this opportunity to our students so I'll leave it there and answer any questions you guys have perfect yeah we'd be happy to answer any questions uh from the board and cabinet well wow thank you so much that was a wonderful I learned so much in just that short amount of time and I really have gained a um you know a respect for this um that I didn't know you you taught me a lot of things so um thank you and you're humble you're very humble Jason but without without you this wouldn't exist I know you've worked very hard and pass and you have such a passion for the kids so so thank you uh any questions from the board um um no questions but just echoing that thank you so much for your leadership and bringing that um I know the students really enjoy it I got to see some of it at Sima paloa so very exciting so thank you so much awesome you deserve Kudos thank you thank you I just did what they said I've been in in the in the classrooms and at the steam of Pala and um all great looking forward to more awesome we'll bring it awesome yep I've just uh you had mentioned all the different Industries is there uh something that we're looking at to get um our students some sort of a certificate in their hand absolutely so Scott mentioned the game design pathway which is sort of CTE aligned right there come on for our online oh sorry about that so the question was um are there any certifications industry based certifications so there's uh there are programs that can earn industry accredited certification in game design which um you know low into the a through G requirements for college entrance and we are seeing that your students they're not just going to leave high school with a diploma they're going to leave high school with a diploma plus perhaps multiple certifications and portfolios of their work because the world has changed right here and it's not just about the degree on the wall but it's can you show and demonstrate competency at a particular skill and so all of that is baked into the program that sort of Scott is ushering in right now thank you so much and I witness the community at the event and the camaraderie the students were just really cheering for each other and and I love to see that so I'm looking forward to the next one thank you great thank you let's give them another round of applause okay we're moving on to public comments and I would just like to say opportunities for public comments Ur at the beginning of each agenda item and at this time uh I for items not on the agenda persons wishing to address the board should have uh completed a speaker request form and um each speaker is limited to a maximum of three minutes and uh board members cannot immediately respond to public comments as stated on the speaker request form uh first person I'd like to bring up is Christopher V welcome testing testing um good evening everybody uh my name is Christopher Vite uh I'm a member of the Navajo Nation um I'm here to represent all of our uh our native youth our native students that are attending uh the schools here in the district and uh we're just seeking out to um create a uh a change for our community such as changing the name changing the name of the mascot um we believe that uh has a a deep and cult impact on our people um not only with the past trauma but all of our uh experiences that we've faced with as a indigenous people of the land um we're not only thinking to changing the name but hoping to also allow the students to have a cultural sense of like their background and stuff like that allowing maybe like classes or stuff like that to to really give um our youth uh a tool to like you know really seek out um The Roots and where they you know where they really come from and all that so that's what we're really hoping to to achieve in the past not the past but the next uh I want to say month or so maybe maybe even more but um yeah that's kind of all I have to say but thank you for your time um it's an honor to be here um we're hoping to really you know push this through and uh really see a future where like our our youth you know have that uh how do I say uh the chance really to know more about their culture Ro s and you know about their background so thank you thank you uh MOS good afternoon everybody of the Tang in the land of the tang and I want to first thank you so much for the L acknowledgement that's very important um and Chris is actually an also alumni from Anaheim high school I just want to uh share and thank you guys for having this book taught at Anaheim high school and the English class there there we had an event at the Anaheim Colony behind Anaheim high school and I want to read one chapter and it's teaching the students you know the Mexican Cho indigenous Or Hispanic Latino whatever is political politically correct and in this chapter in the first chapter talks about the colonist and uh it really strikes you know our hearts and our minds like Chris was saying we're going to start creating more um dialogues and more uh presentations and having people I think it's important to speak there I'm going to start off with this in 1621 colist in invited chief mazaz of the wapo after recent land deal Chief maso came with 90 of his men that meal is why we still eat a meal together in November celebrated as a nation but that one wasn't a Thanksgiving meal it was a landal meal 2 years later there was another similar meant to symbolize internal friendship quote unquote 200 indans dropped dead that night from an unknown Poison by the colonist Chief met Comet took over was beheaded as well by the colonist this membered and qu quartered they tied his four body sections to nearby trees for the bricks to pluck for the birds to pluck he was given the M comet's hand which she kept in a jarve to Rum and for years took around with him charged people to see his hand of the Native metac comet's head was sold in pouth Colony for 30 Shillings that going rate of the Indian head at that time the head was put on a spike carried through the streets of Plymouth and displayed in Pou for the next 25 years but thank you I think that's my time oh okay okay and but um I just want to end by saying that yes we got to keep teaching the students I know it's kind of hard for some of the students or even some of us here natives or non-natives to to hear or to be taught this in the school curriculum I graduated from the class of 98 and I graduated from the Native American arts school I went to Fon College to Cho history Cho studies Jerry Padia DEA Lopez took speech at Cyprus S I had a college and I wanted to go to Native American college arts school and and I got my degrees in ass in Fine Arts and liberal art studies and the bachelor's degrees a minor creative and so I I write plays so hopefully something will be pished in the future in a book but thank you so much for having this book there and I know it's going to be changed I had a vision we had a vision a dream in a sweat lodge we fast we don't drink no drugs or alcohol and you don't eat meat and you faint and you have a vision one day maybe we can invite you all to come to a s LOD and touch yourself it doesn't matter what color you are we're all indigenous to some part of the continent and we love you guys and like chief M I mean sorry uh voka said we must not hate the white man because that would only delay our Victory thank you so much thank you David Lopez welcome all right thank you good evening my name is D I go by D I'm a local educator former former social worker former biologist natural resource manager um I'm I'm here today to follow up on uh what my my friends here spoke about um I also believe that the colonist logo or brand of the school should be changed and I'll try to be concise here I know we get three minutes um there's a number of things on my mind when when I'm here speaking in front of you which thank you again thank you for your time I didn't even say that thank you for your time and the opportunity to speak um one thing that that comes to mind is uh what I was like in high school right um I believe that my experience in the education system you know I feel as though the education system failed me in the sense that um it did not teach me about my identity in a truthful way in an inclusive way um in fact I know that there are parts of history that are completely erased and absent from textbooks and I know that um thankfully you know that that is changing um you know from if I understood correctly that book um that masat uh mentioned is now a part of the school curriculum so that that's awesome you know we have things like this where you know you have a land acknowledgement which is which is also a good thing and in my opinion it is also the land acknowledgement for one is is a performative measure right it's something that you know we can appreciate and we can read and it can be acknowledged at the same time it doesn't necessarily have tangible impact right and I believe that changing removing the colonist brand would have tangible impact right it would be an opportunity to have um real real change um and you know if if I'm understanding correctly right we have those books in our curriculum you know we we changed the mascot um uh the image of the mascot right um from the the pilgrim um you know why not be consistent and also uh change is that my time or do I have more time one more minute okay why not be consistent and and change it alog together and one one counterargument that I would anticipate someone saying is that um I understand that the student body had a chance to um to vote and um I believe 41% voted to keep it and 59% voted to either uh change it or Rebrand it or completely remove it all together um and so like like I was saying earlier you know when I was in high school I I didn't have this knowledge of my own native identity I didn't uh know um basically who I was and we all know that as humans we we want we need a sense of belonging uh the sense of identity is critical to a person's development and for Native kids in particular in this country um it's it's something that is again erased uh kept from them and something that really they have to go through life finding it themselves and and if they're surrounded by places or even you know educational places that don't give them that information well they don't have that opportunity so I believe my time is up I won't go over time again thank you for for listening I really hope that that y'all can take our words to heart and you know we present this in a respectful way in a way that hopefully we will'll have change right tangible impact action and actually not just talking about something but having the actions match match the words right so thank you appreciate it thank you all right our next speaker Brad manami welcome can I have more than three minutes please no I'm just kidding no I think it's the first time I've came up as a public speaker you know but um as you know I'm Brad bami director of purchasing and Central Services with the district until tomorrow um I I wanted to take this opportunity to thank the board um thank cabinet you know thank my colleagues for all that you guys have done for me through the years um I'll try to make this quick um thank you board for you know being selfless leaders that selfless leaders that you've been you know I always think of the students you know always think of the community you always think of Staff before you make your decisions and um I'm I'm grateful for that um you know I've been here for 15 years and I've served you know some of you for the whole 15 years and um it's been a great journey um Mr M to thank you for being a disruptor you know setting examples for apis um such as myself um have encourage to be uh vulnerable and mindful uh with your decisions um thanks cabinet for being leaders that create paths for all of us to be successful sorry getting choked up um C uh do nean you know thank you for your support thank you for the apple pies for the record I like the regular crust and you know the the crumble you can just get rid of the crumble because I like the regular crust um colleagues thank you for all the projects and you know um the collaborated efforts that we've had you know we've completed a lot together um I also want to thank uh the warehouse graphic arts and the purchasing staff uh for being the unsung heroes in the background um you know they've elevated the district to new levels um there isn't a place in the district you can go where they haven't um you know bought designed printed or delivered things um you know on time and you know made a difference in the district um I can still remember like it was yesterday um 15 years ago with my first board meeting here um you know Dr fary was the superintendent he called me up to the podium introduced me you know had me talk a little bit about myself and then um Mr ol was up there on the on the dice at the time you know and he asked me Miss Monami you know you've been here two weeks what kind of changes are you going to make I'm thinking to myself oh my gosh it's been two weeks you know so of course I tap Dan around Mr Hogan's questions you know I say hey you it's a little too early to make any kind of changes you know but one of the things I reflect back on now it's not what are the changes that I was going to make but what kind of changes the district made on me you know so from the bottom of my heart I'd like to thank you um you know I wish you all the best um I look forward to continue to support ahsd in my new role with the Orange County Department of Ed um I'll be working with the business staff still I'll still be seeing you know Joe Karen you know probably monthly and Nancy monthly you know at the CBO meeting so you know you know I'm going to be around and I'll be in a good support role to you know help move our business systems forward um in the future so you know thank you and uh I appreciate you all we appreciate [Applause] you oh we're going to miss you Brad thank you can I say something yes hey Brad before you step out I just want to acknowledge you um one of the many unsung heroes that we have in the business side of the house but uh and there are many stories um that really epitomize your wisdom and Leadership but I do want to share with the audience that during the height of the pandemic when there's a lot of money being pushed out on all kinds of gadgets and things and millions of dollars other districts were SP spending all kinds of money on on things and I remember that you told me to because you had the experience and you had the wisdom and when the supply and demand of everything from masks to those acrylic dividers that other districts were buying you said just hold on right hold on and uh let's uh uh you know be patient here and I think that you deserve a lot of credit for saving a lot of money that other districts I think wasted on a lot of things so that's just one of many uh unsung things that you did not to mention your work with the Innovative Furniture as well so there's many many things that you've done and I want to thank you for that and your wisdom and now you'll be able to share that with the entire County so thank you thank [Applause] you okay all right are you ready for item 10.3 School sponsored student organizations this is an action item and Danielo you will be joining us on this vote so move the item second okay mov and seconded any questions or comments um I had um I just wanted to remind um students advisers admin that these clubs are open to all students and that they um be inclusive um I noticed that some of the um uh some of the applications had that written in and some didn't so I just wanted to remind um uh uh everyone that these are all inclusive everyone's invited um to uh to join these clubs okay uh all in favor I I I all right thank you resolutions 10.4 resolution number 2023 D sl24 db-9 increase the Health and Welfare trust uh gosh slbank account balance uh this is an action item second moved and seconded any questions or comments roll call vote Mr O'Neal All Right Miss Smith I Miss Guerrero I and I vote I item 10.5 resolution number 2023 sl24 db-10 signature authorization action item so moved second okay moved and seconded any questions or comments okay roll call vote Mr O'Neal I miss Smith hi Miss Guerrero I and I vote I item 10.6 resolution number 2023 sl24 hr-02 National School counseling week action item so moved second moved and seconded any questions or comments uh after we vote on this I just want to uh ask that we we post this okay uh Mr O'Neal I uh Miss Smith I Miss Guerrero hi and I vote I 10.7 resolution number 2023 Das sl24 db-02 compensation for board meeting um so moved second second okay uh roll call vote uh Mr O'Neal hi Miss Smith hi Miss Guerrero hi Miss tro I all right business services 10.8 agreement with food finders Inc action item so moved second questions or comments I I just think this is a fabulous idea I wish that we've been doing this for a long time but we're going to do start doing it now so um so um orand if you want to come up so we have been doing them but um one of the things that we want to um make sure that they want to have an um agreement in place so but's going to provide us with a little bit more information and um it it took a um some time to actually get an agreement since you know it's not that simple because there's a lot of things involved so I want to do want orando kind of speak about that a little bit all right our agreement with food finders is simply just formalizing the process we've always had an agreement with we've always had an informal agreement with food finders where they have picked up food on a periodic basis we're also probably going to be coming to the board in the future with another agreement with a bound uh food care uh because we want to be able to have multiple agreements with multiple agencies that can pick up food when another agency might not be available um most of the food that we would be picking up would be at the District Central Kitchen uh and that's really on a very periodic basis irregular basis primarily right before holidays when we might not have when we might have an excess amount of food that can't be used in the schools uh primarily in the elementary program when the elementary program closes down and it might be food that can't be used in the in the high schools or in the secondary schools so that might be food that would be picked up uh it happens on a very rare basis as a matter of fact this I think we gave away 25 cases of baby carrots right at the the end of the uh right before the holiday so it doesn't it's not doesn't amount to a lot of food but it is going to for a good cause to food pantries every every little bit counts so thank you so much for doing this thank you for your explanation appreciate it all right all in favor I I I hey item 10.9 agreement with um Michelle Curry so moved second hey move M and seconded any questions or comments okay all in favor I I item uh 10.10 assignment agreement lumire health benefits action item don't move second questions or comments okay all in favor I I educational services 101 agreement Caroline Lee PhD action item so moved second okay moved and seconded uh questions or comments okay um I would like to know uh when um uh Dr Lee will be at these uh different sites I'd like to maybe visit or see absolutely we get you those dates they haven't been solidified because we were obviously waiting for board approval and now that if if it is approved we'll begin working with her on those sites to begin on a marketing campaign and and determine when those days might be okay she's really good yeah I I looked her up she's she sounds really wonderful legit all right just just what we need uh thank you so um all in favor I I all right 10 12 agreement brazer educational Consulting um parenthesis becc um comma LLC action item so moved second second moved and seconded any questions or comments okay all in favor I I all right unanimous 10113 memorandum of understanding mou brazer educational Consulting B LLC action item I moved second okay moving to second questions or comments okay hearing none all in favor I I all righty 1014 agreement Joanie PR action item move moved second moved and seconded questions or comments all right all in favor I I all righty 105 agreement David hat maker action item no moved second okay moving to second and any questions or comments okay all in favor I I 1016 agreement with Dr Dustin bar action item so moved second moved and seconded questions or comments okay all in favor I I 1017 agreement Yong King song action item so moved second okay moved in seconded any questions or comments all in favor I I all right 1018 agreement Rachel's Challenge action item so moved second moved and seconded any questions or comments okay um all in favor I I thank you 1019 community service agreement clo Community for in Innovation entrepreneurship leadership and opportuni action item slow moved he moving seconded any questions or comments okay hearing none all in favor I I all righty 10 12 20 sorry agreement Orange County Department of Ed ocde mindfulness and well-being Cal hope 3.0 action item so moved second okay moved in second questions or comments um just a comment congrats to uh gilbertt high school for receiving this yes Dr fantastic all right all in favor I I all righty moving on 1021 agreement Hazel Health Inc and teleah Health Services USA action item moved second and second I see a theme going on here and I'm really um proud of our district um in providing these Services um for our students I think it's very innovative and um you know it just uh benefits benefits all of our families so for many reasons I appreciate this um all in favor I 10 22 agreement alenia psychology Inc action item so moved second okay move to Second questions or comments okay another great uh uh opportunity for our students uh all in favor I 1023 data use agreement Department of Health Care Services action item so moved second second he moved in seconded questions or comments uh just a comment just want to thank our ed services staff for working on this I know a medic how um many of our students and families uh uh rely on that so it's good that we're getting ahead of the curve making sure they get uh re-enrolled um and then just wanted to make an announcement that medical also covers um undocumented individuals now starting in January um so to communities um maybe if we could help publicize that um with our community schools or within our schools I think that thank you all right thank you okay all in favor I I okay item 10 24 agreement UB technology Innovations Inc action item second move and seconded any questions or comments okay hearing none all in favor hi hi okay Human Resources uh 1025 public carrying disclosure of collective bargaining agreement with amiu it's information item or open public hearing anyone wishing to speak on this item okay close the public hearing item 1026 adoption of the 20 23-26 collective bargaining agreement with amiu action I item so moved second moved in second in any questions or comments okay hearing none all in favor I all right 1027 initial contract proposal a uhsd to CSA this is an information item 1028 public hearing initial contract proposal a uhsd to ca opening public hearing for anyone that wishes to speak on this item seeing none closing the public hearing okay 1029 initial contract proposal CA to ahsd this is an information item item 1030 public hearing initial contract proposal cssea to a uhsd uh opening the public hearing does anyone wish to speak on this item see none closing the public hearing moving on to item 11 consent calendar anyone wishing to pull yes 11.7 mm and 118 any other item move the balance okay second moved and seconded uh motion for the balance I'm sorry not a motion but I vote for the balance all in favor I hi all right item 117 mm and 118 together so moved second second the second all in favor I I uh opposed um abstain abstained all right one all right moving on to superintendent and staff report thank you Madame President just want to put out uh put a shout out to Carlos Hernandez and Amy and the entire team for hosting another very successful uh visit from over 80 guests from uh probably a couple dozen school districts across the state of California so awesome work to the entire team thank you I was going to share that but I'll share I'll share also Echo uh the just a great work for Ed staff um last Friday we hosted through the work of Carlos's Department uh parent Summit AT C state flon so uh we had a bunch of parents there we had actually two of our counselors Penny hes and Cecilia sanis do an amazing job presenting one of the sessions uh on the work of our district to our incoming uh seventh grade families that are going to be coming into to our district so just a great job around and also today I want to highlight Anaheim High School um today was visit was at Anaheim and I want to give a shout out to Ruben I don't know that he's watching but to him and his team they did an amazing job with the visit um highlighting and showcasing the great work at Anaheim uh we got comments when they came back and I know I wasn't at Anaheim today when they did the visit but back when they came back and they indicated um very clearly the the feeling and the vibe that they felt on a campus and they thought that was kind of odd that a high school campus to not feel chaotic and overwhelming when Anaheim obviously one of our largest schools in the district um had the sense of calm in welcome on their campus so just kudos to the school to the team and of course to Carlos and the team on the great day today and on another note we had a separate visit from the Fontana Unified School District uh that spent the day over at Gilbert High School and um they were basically saying the same thing that they have not seen an Al program as uh great as what they saw at Gilbert in terms of the culture we're talking about school culture which is a hard thing to uh really move the needle on and iose say to shout out to you and your staff for creating an inclusive environment thank you um well I would just like to collectively put out our love and support for trusty piery and I know she's watching this evening and just to let you know that we are with you and thinking about you I have a couple items here first of all I want to thank Anaheim high school for an amazing ribbon cutting ceremony for the track and field um last Monday want a special shout out to the principal Ruben Cayo as well as the two ASB advisers Jackie rodari as well as Doug wedger thank you so much it was an in impressive event and thank you so many of the um board members for attending as well so I think the school were absolutely in love with the feel and everyone else is asking for their F now so just FY I'm getting a lot of requests so um so second thing is I did attend the um Western High School the film um fourth and go it was an amazing event so thank you so much coach Davidson as well as Victor Bazar I'm always so amazed when I attend any of your events it's like family and like like what they said about the kids um what is at school and thank you so much for uh letting be me be part of your family as I always feel so welcome walking into any of their events and um just it was an amazing event so thank you so much for your hard work to pour into the school and all the students on campus it was just amazing to see all of them together and finally do want to shout out to Brad Minami for his amazing service he did amazingly during Co I know what he went through to help the entire District as well as help many other districts around Orange County as well um but the most important thing about him is he's an an incredible leader all the people that work for him they're so loyal to him and I always tell him that your people are just the most loyal to you you ask them to do anything and they would do it and so I'm just wanted to make sure that he knows um he will be greatly missed but we'll always have our um lunches and dinners together and so looking forward to that in many years to come as well so thank you Brad no report I want to wish our entire Community a happy New Year as we come back have come back and hit the ground running and start to prepare to graduate our students all of our seniors and continue to support the rest of our grade levels and all of our programs and and all the different things going at the site level I want to build off of what uh superintendent matuda said I know Gilbert has done a lot of good work this year and I believe uh Mr lad I received a personal call from uh the superintendent of Fontana Unified and want that wants to visit personally because of all the great work that they're doing and all the feedback that that that they got from their their staff who did visit recently so I know there's going to be a second visit um from Fontana and um we look forward to that and again as you said to as you emailed your staff uh disc kudos for being a model continuation school a democracy school and a community community school as well so great job Daniela do you have anything else just the report all right thank you Mr O'Neal sure um I attended the the green band uh uh presentation at Kennedy High School and the green band is from Japan and they March in the uh Rose Parade every year and then they come to Kennedy and they put on a benefit performance and all the money that is raised uh at that time goes somewhere and this year they designated to Lina to help support the efforts there so but they put on a fantastic performance every year also I attended the uh the Anam High School track and field event beautiful Fields now we got to get that on the docket for the rest of the schools I know Cypress is being worked on but we have a western will be down shortly and then C okay and then we have a few more schools that are waiting okay in the wings so look forward with that um um I attended Ro meeting last night with uh Miss R tro and also uh this afternoon I was able to drop by um Gilbert uh with for the announcement of the Orange County Parenting Magazine employee teacher and employee of the year finalist so congratulations to your uh people so that was a nice event and just a shout out to Brad Minami thank you for all the uh time 15 years that you've put into this District um you'll be missed but I'm sure that you will enjoy your new Endeavor at ocde and he will maintain his relationship with us so look forward to that that's it thank you okay well I attended the insurance committee meeting and the student discipline task force meeting which was held over at catella high school we've moved it from the PDC over to individual schools now and I listen I don't participate at both of those Mee meetings and the ribbon cutting at Anaheim High School field in track the amount of time coordination thought and impact bringing all of those people together the speakers the music the pom pom girls the band was was just gorgeous and it it just really touched me because it's a big project until you actually view it you can't totally appreciate what it all takes to bring that together and I enjoyed it and appreciate it and I want to tell Brad that he's deeply appreciated in this school district and his work for 15 years thank you oh one more thing the gamut is has come out by um Oxford Academy it's a newspaper that they've put out and it's wonderful uh it's very impressive I don't think we've ever had a school do this but it's not short it's a read and a half and it takes a lot of effort to be I'm going to leave it here in case anyone would like to see it but it's very impressive thank you Mr Smith Miss Guerrero thank you um I had the opportunity to attend the uh Southern California School nutrition association meeting and share my story as an Anaheim student um and recipient of free and reduced lunch so thank you for ahd food services for the opportunity and I also want to thank Senator umberg uh who attended the event and recognized Our Food Services Department for all their work um I had also had the opportunity to attend the orange view in Western High School uh consolidation Town Hall I want to thank um all of the parents and families and Community they came out uh and thank our uh Dr n and Dr freed uh for presenting and everyone that was in attendance um I also attended Anaheim High School's track and field uh ribbon cutting and uh it was a beautiful field and I know Anaheim is we're very excited um and uh that same night they hosted a game and they won the game so it was a very great event uh spoke and I was there and spoke um and then um as Anaheim High School grad I was also invited to the Western High School football documentary uh which highlighted their sixth consecutive Orange County League win so I want to thank congratulate them their win um and an incredible documentary uh by Victor baltazar and all the all of the team at Western High School and then um I also had the opportunity uh to go to Gilbert High School um supervisor Doug chaffy hosted a Civic engagement there um the students had written him letters to change a octa bus route that affected their um their student schedule so I want to thank him and his time and OC CTA for their time and for the school's uh continuous Civic engagement um definitely a model uh democracy school and then I also join um and congratulating Brad and thank you for your service to our district thank you yes we're going to miss you um thank you for all your Devotion to our our kids um you're very um you have amazing character and um we're going to miss that about you but hopefully you'll be we'll see you we see you around so we won't say goodbye all right but we wish you um all the best I attended my Roop meeting uh last night and um I although I was late to the uh track and field ribbon cutting I got there in time to see uh all of the audience members uh walking around the track coming through uh the tent and uh boy um it it doesn't do it justice until you're actually on the field I was so excited I drove by it the night before and boy when you you're on there it's just it's just beautiful so congratulations to Anaheim and um we'll be looking forward to the next uh ones coming through um I got a tour of the Roop facilities um over at Gilbert High School and then I mosan over to Gilbert High School where I was um graciously hosted um by Dr Laura and I was privileged to um attend um a circle uh where students were um felt very safe um to participate in a circle and um I um am honored that you felt safe to tell your story um to to the group um with me present um it's a remarkable story um and it just shows how much love and compassion that you have for your students to be open and honest um to share your story so it was a privilege um I too also attended the um CR Coran theater um viewing of fourth and gold we're so proud of um of our uh Victor and um I learned so much more than football watching a football movie um coach Davidson um teaches uh each one of his students to have character and that's what I learned from the movie and um I was ribbing um my uh colleague when when they were showing the the bell game with Anaheim and Western I was watching her face she's premising a little bit just a little bit but um kudos to um to to Victor and and and his team for putting that on and I I understand he's going to be um putting that through the uh the the the documentary circuit so wish him luck um if he can win some awards but I I think it was remarkable it was only about an hour and a half and I think we all could have sat there and watched another hour or two of it it was it was that moving um I also uh just wanted to mention what some of our speakers had talked about um uh you know their their their concerns on um I just wanted to highlight that um on December 14th um we had our first um Native American Education task force so um and actually Dr um La uh is on that committee and so um you know I don't think there um is anything like this in any other District um I would be surprised if if there is but I think Anaheim is is doing its utmost most to um meet the needs of each and every student as we saw today with um the Esports and um all of the um you know the board um uh um mental health um um you know uh Pro projects and um and so I'm just very very proud one other thing I did during my break was to uh finish this book uh as we know um uh Michael matsuda um along with David Razer uh wrote this wonderful book um highlighting the work that goes into um building this community that we have in ahsd um I was uh kind of kidding him the first couple of chapters are a little bit technical so I was having a hard time I have you have to read each and every page it's it's riveting um but it's just a little bit it's not you know casual reading but after the second chapter it was it was um it was um it flowed but um Bravo to you yeah you know it's an it's an educational read it's it's you know it's not you have to be paying attention to it so and it's coming out on audio book it's coming in on audio I love that I love that so congratulations to you and I challenge each and every one of you to to finish this book you will be so proud of the work that you are all doing and that's highlighted so thank you so much and um all right advance planning our next meeting will be February 15th um 6 o'clock right here I uh entertain a motion second hey all in favor I hi hi thank you

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five I think it was yeah so even with this lack of success however there's still a lot of information we gain from this as was analyzing data with Mr Cronin he commented that simply adding say salt could improve the conductivity of the water in turn resulting in much better results overcoming the resistance UL mentioned Ulan Ulan mentioned oh dear so as you can see some of the groups really were able to delve a lot into their experimental process and design and develop their experiments um through this process and really have an authentic true science experiment um and the discussions with the South Korean teams that they had in our virtual meetings were very rich and each group had approached it from a slightly different standpoint so uh I'll pass it on to our next group we have one member here from the next group and so um you can talk about oh two members from this group sorry there you go and then the rest of you sit sorry we blocking your your view okay so here's your post so tell them a little bit about your program this was a very big stretch for us because this class was mostly physics based and our project took a lot of work we had to learn a lot of things like CAD designing we had to look into a lot of programming stuff and this was a very big stretch because most of our group did not take physics in their entire high school and most of them were Juniors freshman sophomores they did not get a chance to take physics yet and we had to learn a lot of stuff and we had to use a lot of resources and she was a very big help for us thanks Miss Barker and talking about our project we did not get into a lot of simulations we did not look into results a lot but we learned a lot about about elliptical cylinders Magnus force and how it works it's also very great to talk to new people across the world and I've been very interested in Korean people Korean culture and it was a very great approach to talk to them and know more about their culture so as rashika had mentioned we really didn't explore any kind of physics subjects so we had to start from the very beginning unlike some of the South Korean students that are attending a science um school so um in different uh so from the South Korean students uh our project was a little bit different because we chose to just adjust the models a little bit we explored with different models and dimples that kind of affect the Magnus force and overall it just was a long process to kind of get into it we did not have enough time but we eventually got the models done we really relied a lot on the other students too South Korean students to help us a lot they really did help us a lot so the professor and um overall it was just a really great experience to just in general just speak to different people I guess and like like kind of explore the amount of knowledge in the world that everybody has so I really found working with this team that they had a lot of collaboration with the South Korean team where they actually could take the work the South Korean students who had actually started these projects much early than us students um they started these projects back in March and our students didn't get the topics until September so we were working on this really compressed time frame because it was the first year um so the students really had a chance to take information from the South Korean group and where the South Korean group had made physical models this group did some some modeling using CAD to design the different shapes um so they had a really interesting experience with that than thank you um our next group was this group we didn't have anyone who could be here this evening um but this was one of the two groups that had information about oyster shells um so researching oyster shells a little bit differently uh in the two different presentations here so I'll move on to the next one and we have our Our member here that's going to talk about the experiment with the study of absorption of heavy metals and looking at antibiotic resistance in waste shellfish so hi um for our group we mostly started off with researching um we decided on specific uh the heavy metal such as we used Arsenic and for antibacteria we decided on eoli um we started with researching just two parts of the question and how arenic affects clams themselves and then we delved into how they absorb antibacteria because of the limited time restraint we weren't able to get clams or you know we can't really work with arsenic or eoli in the school so this was all just um research based um when we did meet with the South Korea team we did find that they had um in their school they were able to use the Arsenic and the clams together and we did um use some of their findings to support ours and um mostly what you see is data in research and we composed our own experiment that we would do with the time and um that would help us more with what we found out so again this group saw that the input from the South Korean team was really good and also seeing that we're starting the process in September um instead of starting in the spring with the South Korean teams that really proposing the experiment is the point that they got to but we still had chance to do that uh real science and also make the connections with the other the other school and talk about the different uh experiments so a couple of things moving forward with this that we'd like to try to do is in this next year the student team teams in the US we're going to form them in March and April with the goal of having our research topics before they leave for the summer uh we'd like to communicate with both ases and kofac so that the CHS students can have some input into the topics because that was one of the things we talked about is we really kind of got assigned topics and matched up with the teams um but really finding and generating topics that were of interest to the students and that could make those connections so we hope the earlier communication will provide that we hope to make some connections between this program and some other research opportunities our students have at chesher high school um like the plant Mars program and also we have a new science research class that we have at the high school that we're hoping to make some connections with as well and then moving forward our students are very interested in participating in the opportunity to travel to South Korea in December of 2024 for the Korean national festival the festival is organized by the ministry of Science in Korea and it's hosted by kofac and it's really an international platform where they're exchanging ideas bringing together gifted students and Educators from Korea from the United States and also from other countries um it emphasizes showcasing the research that the students have done and also connecting teachers and looking at sharing exemplary teaching and learning processes the travel is organized by Aces International as well I got some feedback from mzo who is one of the coordinators at ases uh about this year's trip this was the very first year and uh this was a quote from her they had a group of 11 students and two science teachers who were from New Town High School uh visited with the paired high school so they actually had an opportunity to go and visit with the schools that they had done the research with um and see the school and meet the students in person uh they went to the National Museum an aquarium and had lots of good Korean cuisine they took K-pop and cooking classes uh so according to her it was truly an immersive experience and all 14 participating countries at the festival brought unique perspectives uh other people that were involved were the US Embassy there were National scientists leading South Korean companies and University of missions representatives were present so it was really an all-encompassing event so I got a few pictures from her they have the group there um on the street that was the group that went and on the right hand side you can see some people intently looking at some posters and one of the teachers from from New Town High School also spoke at the event here we have some close-up pictures of the posters that these the people were intently looking at and those are the posters from our students at chesher high school that were displayed and presented at this this convention in South Korea so really been a great opportunity for our students this year with this very first year of uh the global research program um starting it a little late in September and working through and collaborating virtually this year and we're looking ahead to this next year and starting up a little sooner getting our teams organized getting connected with our South Korean counterparts and doing the research and going to hopefully going to South Korea this year with a few students so thank you very much do you guys have any questions yes TV can hear just curious are any of the students you're all juniors are you thinking about uh post high school and being involved in hard science like this in any capacity all of you nodding yes that's great that's fantastic thank you so we did have quite a few juniors in the group um and we also had some sophomores and a couple freshmen as well so we hope to again build that that next year these hopefully many of these Juniors will want to do it again uh and we'll keep building the process any other questions yes um um uh you kept mentioning that uh the the shorten time frame that in which you had to do the projects I don't know if you mentioned uh engaging the springtime is that something you're looking to do so have amount of time for next yes so because this was the first year of the program really information didn't come out about participating in it until over the summer and so the students started up with it right at the beginning of the school year I put out you know were interested in some students being inv involved who's interested I got a great response from the students um and we put together the teams and they got their research topics towards the end of September the South Korean teams had already been put together uh the previous spring this year we're looking to put our teams together starting this March and April would be the time frame um so having gone through a program once you always learn a lot and Aces and kofac have really worked through that to kind of shift that time frame to start with the US students uh at the same time as the South Korean students hi um my question is about do they get do the students get academic credit for this is it part of a course or is it all um extracurricular this year is all extracurricular so our students are doing this because they love science they want the experience uh they're excited to do science um we are looking into the possibility of connecting this with the science research course which would then allow our students with all the work that they've done to to receive that academic credit make that connection so that's something that we're looking forward to for next year we also are looking forward to next year um we received a grant from the chesher Education Foundation for some funds which would allow us to purchase some equipment for the experiments because that's something else we noticed that was a difference with the South Korean teams they were all from science-based high schools and they either had elaborate Labs at their Science High School or they were right next to a university where they could use the university Labs so we're looking to make more connections with Community Partners for that and starting up in March and April will give us a chance to do that and then having the funds from the chesher Education Foundation will also allow us to do that that's great thank you for that answer and I I think it's really important to give I mean these are the kind of things academic credit on your resume going forward is all of the students will also receive a certificate from South Korea from their government um as to show their participation in this program as well so that's something they'll be receiving hopefully in the next month or so thank you so much uh Miss Parker and you know it was earlier today Vin was going on for like a half hour about diamond versus platinum cathodes and I couldn't understand so I appreciate you guys explaining it I know what you did was incredible um you know when a lot of us adults in the room listen to what you're sharing and it's it's beyond comprehension for us but to see what you guys did and uh the time and energy you poured into it uh it it was so fulfilling that's why I said you know I was very proud of our Community Partners tonight and the things that they do but they support opportunities like this for for you and thank you all for committing your time to it and representing our community and our school system so well in the process so congratulations and thanks again guys great [Applause] job I think we're all set thank you guys great J yeah okay thanks how hard would it be for them to get CR this was just like put together this year um and it was like okay so we are roll awesome thank you Dr Solen personally you know I my science heart is just like exploding and learned that VIN is uh yeah V can you like give us some definitions and so forth humble I if there's time after the meeting I we'll have to extend the meeting a little bit um next item on the agenda would be audience comments if anybody wishes to speak it does not look like it so we're moving on to committee reports and first with be curriculum Mrs cullinan thank you um good evening the curriculum committee meeting took place on January 8th it was called to order at o'clock and um I'm going to share um this report with our assistant superintendent under um new business for at the meeting we discussed an outof country field trip request for tresure high school to go to France um in April of 25 there's was no motion on the trip taken because there are still some additional questions and some questions around the exact date pending um the calendar under informational items um I'm just going to give the titles and then Marlene will go into more detail um she talked to us about a committee convening to look into reading inventory Career and Technical parent inventory that was given out exploration of stem education I think we had a good description of some of it tonight um the science department professional development and the day of course we also had a very thorough um summary of special education programs in chesher by Robin an Keri um and she talked about IEP development social emotional learning assisting students to develop executive functioning skills and aligning program pramming to transition um regulations I'm going to turn it over to marleene sure thank you um I was I had shared at the meeting that um we are currently examining a replacement for a reading Universal screener because the one that we are currently using is is being sunsetted so we need to find another one uh the committee consists of the principle of each school also will consist of our reading specialists at each of the levels so we've begun looking at that we started looking at one called star and next week we'll be looking at nwaa map um we we'll be hearing more about that through curriculum committee when we determine what our our choice is um the CCC is had um which is our five-year review process currently going through that are the career in technical education departments and our science department and I was sharing that a parent survey had gone out the day that we met to ask parents about their children's experience with Career and Technical education courses that information will be folded into a presentation to the curriculum Council um made up of teachers and then it will eventually come to the curriculum committee in an executive summary we also undergone our plans for our March 14th PD in which we have a lot of all of our core areas English math social studies and science will'll be working on vertical articulation of the standards across grades 5 through 12 and then as you heard from our student reps today um they are deep in the planning of a day of chorus during covid our music program really took a hit with all of the restrictions wasn't just ours but across the Connecticut across the country and um our we have a number of new music teachers and they're working really hard to engage the kids and really um increase the numbers of students who are involved in our music programming and lastly you heard a little bit um from Dr Sol's budget presentation the other night about our exploration of stem education and us doing some research and really looking at how we could increase students exposure to science technology engineering and math but through things like robotics or particularly Agricultural Science so that's something that um I know you'll be hearing about in the days to come and Robin and KY will also be doing a presentation through the budget process we'll hear a little bit more about the um the special education program in general but what she presented on was exactly the executive summary from the CCC that her Department had spent time evaluating and then presenting on any questions or comments from board members Mr Grio um thank you is the let's see what is it called here I lost the name of it the the reading program that you're looking to ex is that have does that have any relation to our current struggles that's a fairly good question no this is this is separate this was we have a universal screen for math that every student takes we also have one for reading and we learned last year almost by accident in one of our meetings with the sales representative that they weren't putting any more money into the particular reading inventory that we use so that really gave us that heads up that we needed to start looking for a new one thank you when we clarify struggles it's not a performance struggle you talking about the right to read act yes that's what I mean yes it be for anybody paying attention out there any other questions from board members I just have a quick question actually um I was going to ask it in the chair's update but given that we are looking at screeners now how does that relate to especially with the kindergarten legislation um that we need to have a screener so if you can kind of identify if there's any differences morning absolutely so we have a committee that is made up of our um Elementary supervisor of special Ed one of our elementary um principles jod rhen and our um resident you know um expert in early childhood Kim dessert and I have been meeting almost by week probably almost every week at this point and we've looked at a number of kindergarten screeners um we've looked at some national ones we've looked at some that come from Yale we are looking at one that is utilized currently with kindergarten we are actually next week going to be um we have a student who parents are willing to come in and have us tested out because that child um their birth date lies within that that time period so we um we will have one chosen within the next probably six weeks and we will be sending out information shortly about the dates that we will be offering that kindergart early accept um early admission to kindergarten screener that will come at the end of April we were really trying to balance planning and wanting to give the kids the the this assessment as late as possible in the school year because we know so much development happens in those early years so there'll be more to come on that once we solidify that but know that a lot of work has gone into um selecting that assessment we're not taking that LLY thank you thank you any other thoughts comments questions no thank thank you Miss cullinan thank you Marlene next um Finance Mrs herrian please I'm going to uh let Mr massian give us an update on our financial status thank you Miss harrian good evening members of the board the um in the package we did include the updated financial report through December 31st so we're six months through the school year and six months through the budget I will say just not much has changed since November the budget U at this point looks quite solid I did report last month that we did see a variance uh go a negative variance in the special education outplaced tuition account and that variance actually improved a bit you know this month just because we enter purchase orders based on estimated expenses and cost for each student and we um were able to lower one of those encumbrances so budget's looking very sound at this point and we hope that continues through the rest of this year and I'll just move to the fin report if that's okay and then we could come back if there are questions this evening um in the packet we were able to get in the December 31st medical benefits report when the packet went out we didn't have the report but we just got it late today so I'm reporting as of the December 31st date the um claims for November and December were about $1.2 million for each of those months actually just a bit lower in December expected claims are about $1.1 million per month so so far this fiscal year our claims have been averaging right around $1.2 million the what happens in January and I I know that the board members that have been here for years know this but in January the new HSA plan year begins so we tend to see claims drop over the next three months so the reason for that is that employees have to first meet their deductible with the high deductible health plan so I'm anticipating and hopeful always that as we go through the second half of the claim year we should see those claims drop a little bit at least for the first uh three months of the new year and I would expect that our claims should come in at about the $1.1 million average per month so that's good news this month in December I will point out that our Reserve balance increased because even though claims were $1.2 million so higher than the 1.1 million we received about $200,000 in prescription rebates so if you look at the at the top portion of the report where it shows year-to-date additions we have 6.7 million that's the money that the board contributes from its budget but you'll see that prescription rebate line increased to 336,000 for the month so as of December 31st The Reserve balance is $1.

866 million that's about 1.7 months of reserves we'd like to have two so we're close um and to um add a little bit more perspective last year at this time December of 2022 The Reserve balance stood at about $884,000 so we're up a million dollars over uh last year um and overall claims are down about three and a half percent as compared to last year so claims are still high but certainly trending in the right direction and they'll be more to come when we uh meet on the budget on Tuesday in the workshop I'll give you some more detail around medical benefits that is the finance report if I may may I probably should have started out by explaining to people that we did have a finance meeting our first budget meeting um scheduled for Tuesday of this week which of course got cancelled due to snow so our first uh budget session will be uh next Tuesday and uh followed by next Thursday correct 7 pm at DOD middle school so we would encourage people to come out and and give us some information from the various perspectives that are out there so thank you and a quick question Vin because I'm I don't remember when does the stoploss come into play stop loss comes um in when a individual claim for a person exceeds $175,000 we have some claims that are included in in what's being being reported so far this year that are approaching the $175,000 Mark and I do expect that we will start seeing some reimbursements on the stop loss at the top portion of the report in the next couple of months which is typical as you go through the year the stop loss does start to kick in thank you you're welcome Mr White thank you with to the uh Finance meeting that got cancelled was it cancelled delayed do we have a plan right now to add something or we just going to play by here which is fine with me just curious well we have extra kind of like extra dates built into the back end of the schle necessary or whatever okay so you know I'm assuming that we'll bump it but toward the end but we'll see how the next couple of meetings go okay thank you any other questions Mr grippo uh Vin first uh thank you for sharing that we'll be going into further detail on the claims next week because I had a bunch of questions but I'll just save them um secondly uh the financial uh detail report maybe it's just because this is the first time I noticed it but um there were um two variances that I just wanted to ask about which was um firstly was the uh the variance in uh custodia it looks like there's a uh money that was U there was a shortage in the custodian account and then brought was say yeah taken from custodian and then brought into maintenance if that's if I'm seeing that correctly yeah you'll see that that's adjusted in next month's report okay so we had one employee that was um basically being paid from the custodian account instead of the maintenance account like an error it's just it they just just flip so they offset we're not going to be over budget in either of those account categories right yeah yeah I noticed it was a yeah Ned zero but I was just wondering yeah why that occurred um and secondly was the uh Pupil Transportation I was just wondering if that had to do with the 32 new students that showed up in the last month or if that was some other reason you're talking well the Pupil Transportation line we're um or I'm sorry maybe Transportation Supply yeah it's transportation suppli is the cost of fuel it's it's really not related to additional students and you know I I generally don't worry about that account we have locked in our fuel prices for this year and we sometimes over enumber that account and you'll see that we offset it against the puple transportation line which has a balance of 152,000 guys wasn't sure if we had to add another bus route or something no that hasn't happened okay and that you would see show up actually in the Pupil Transportation line not fuel supply because okay the cost of a run you know is in the neighborhood of 70,000 for the year but we have not added additional bus runs great thank you you're welcome any other questions yes fin I am also looking forward to it and kind of channeling my um inner Faith about medical benefits so we're ready thank you I'm excited for Tuesday night to present that wear those gloves sir please um next committee Mr Aki planning um we met on uh January 9th we did it virtually um Mr maiana presented information about uh temporary classrooms at uh Highland School and the reasons behind it the uh increasing enrollment um we talked extensively about the the planning and the uh site work that needs to be done at Highland School to prepare for that um possibly a source of of the of the classroom where we're going to get it um in addition to that uh presented the capital budget I don't know we get into that now or do we do you want to talk about that sure okay so what we did with the capital budget um is just introduced to the planning committee members at a very high level what uh the framework is for this year's capital budget which is a Five-Year Plan the total and it's not finalized yet that we presented was 53.2550 Million over five years we reviewed what the planning committee members in detail each of the categories went through the specifics the planning committee you know does want us to make some adjustments to move some items you know to further years and and possibly some items you know in to a a newer year within The Five-Year Plan so we will be discussing that and have to meet as a planning committee um more during the month of of January to finalize that plan we will talk about it a bit at the meeting scheduled for the 25th so um it's early in the process awesome thank you Mr REI any questions from board members thank you uh calendar committee so it looks like we're Mr jinsky as gu as Boe chair I'm going to explain the formation of the calendar committee and and announced that uh Dr carrian will be the liaison the Boe leison and that the meeting has been set for Thursday February 1st at 6:30 pm in the central office boardroom do any other board members wish to report on any committees any other standing committees Mr White yeah I just want to Circle back to planning committee for one second just with regard to the capital budget You' mentioned $50 million as a starting point um I think at least for me and I imagine all board members here one of the things that is a concern is uh pairing that budget with school modernization because there's a lot of things that just in my opinion don't really make sense right now we can't ignore maintenance but we have to still keep modernization as part of the discussion so there's no I don't I don't expect to spend $50 million on our current schools without having that being incorporated into a modernization plan and and this this capital budget is not really that's not part of school modernization yet it's it's a maintenance budget rather than a modernization budget thank you for bringing that up um and I don't think Vin and I could agree with you more in the sense that um we are incredibly conscious of the collective cost of school modernization and maintenance and that um you know I think one of the slides in my last budget presentation really illustrates you know the how that's kind of broken out the operating budget capital budget and school modernization um but really those the the capital and and school modernization go hand inand uh outside of our operating budget and the um school modernization budget is outside of our operating budget but it's part of the overall cost of the community so for about a 10-year buildup to the school modernization approval there was a tremendous history of deferral of like it's like uh the wol is is coming he's coming he's coming you know and he just never came and um so ultimately these things were put off for a significant period of time and so I know Vin and I are really trying to examine this with his team to look at what are the essential things so like the dod boiler the fire panel things that were essential uh health and safety items are the Marquee priorities you know I know for me and many in our community air conditioning uh an update to HVAC at doitt is a real priority because when our new buildings come online I'll be the only Elementary School without air conditioning um and I think that you know that's that's really an important issue for people that live in that Community uh and understandably so so yeah we're definitely evaluating all that stuff and trying to really prioritize the essentials only um and then I also want to reiterate a point from the budget meeting about thankfully you know unlike 10 years ago we are in a period right now where there's substantial boom in the community and uh an increased tax base will hopefully you know serve to offset a lot of the cost of the things that were deferred and a lot of the updates that are really necessary so I I know you know Sean Kimble Our Town manager will talk more about that when we get deeper into the budget season but uh I know the projections are very positive in terms of Revenue in the community Vin is there anything else you want to just to put a little context around the 53 million is the total over five years it's consistent with where we were last year the when the capital budget is reviewed and ultimately approved even though A Five-Year Plan is approved only year one is funded and so that always becomes the critical issue for the planning committee and then the board and then the Town Council so last year year just as an example it was roughly a $50 million 5year plan about 3.8 million was approved in year one that was actually appropriated and I think you know Mr Po Mike's Point is a good one because as you look into future years what do you do with buildings that you know you want to have a plan for like the middle school but we don't have a plan so you need to include include the things that need to be done until you have a plan like replacing the boilers at the front of DOD Middle School is one of the items that was approved last year so it's going to be an ongoing discussion and dilemma until we have that phase two plan which is also on the planning committee's agenda yeah and I know that if if Tony were here he'd be screaming we need to start you know phase to and so I'll gently push that forward but um I think now with a new Council and we're settled here U moving that forward will be a real priority in that collaboration we'll look forward to that again to come up with something that makes sense for our town uh educationally and economically any other comments Mr White no great I just want to go back for a point of clarification on the calendar committee so that those watching at home it's in accordance with policy 6111 the school calendar calendar shall be drawn up by a committee composed of the superintendent of schools or his designate the chairman of the board of education a member of the Board of Education chosen by the chairman and a teacher may be chosen by the president of the Education Association of chesher an administrator who may be chosen by the president of the chesher administrative personnel and a parent who may be chosen by the president of the townwide PTA Council so I think we have all parties checked off in the committee thank you Carol okay next item is the approval of minutes um from January meetings held in December 7th 2023 and January 11th if board members just want to take a quick read and then I do need a motion to approve those minutes Mr White I think the motion is do you have it no I thought it did sorry right Mr gripple am I do point a order I assume I have the motion yeah I've got you you can read it may I I'll make a motion okay so Mr W motion to approve minutes yeah moved at the treasure Board of Education approves the minutes for meetings held on December 7th 2023 and January 11th 2024 is there a second to the motion Mr AI any additions or Corrections identified nope all right we're going to call for a vote to approve as presented all in favor it is unanimous motion has been approved thank you next item Mr secretary Mr gripple are there any correspondences for us to listen to while you read them I receive no correspondence oh well thank you item number seven Dr Solen all yours sir thank you very much um I want to just kind of jump in on the NextGen School building committee uh report the update that we have from our last series of meetings and then some of the goings on with other committees in the town the Inland Wetlands committee uh recently approved the plan for the Northend school and they have completed the first hearing for Norton uh their second hearing for Norton is scheduled in February so that's moving along well uh the department of administrative Services is required to have a meeting with us to review the Draft plans uh and that is scheduled for March 20th for Norton and March 6th for the Northend school so uh our representatives and our our owner representative and Architects tekon and arcadis uh OMG the builders and uh Mr masana myself m Mr Gusenberg uh will be participating in that meeting and uh hope that that goes smoothly uh the planning and zoning committee uh they did have uh some initial concerns about the Northend grading uh at the entrance but it looks like we're back on track there uh with a a Max grade under 10% on that um building I know on that entryway uh coming off of Maran so looks like everything is moving along pretty well um the next meeting isn't next week I think it's is it next week V I think it's next week yeah it's hard to track when we have our budget meetings but um next Thursday at 7 o'clock downstairs in room 207 um right to read update uh Mr grippo kind of mentioned this earlier uh and think most people are aware at this point uh the legislation passed and required uh districts to either um identify that they have met the science of reading curriculum for grades K through three uh by purchasing one of a handful of programs or demonstrating that their curriculum otherwise meets the science of reading uh we submitted a waiver because we had not purchased the programs indicated our waiver uh like many uh districts across Connecticut was rejected and um after some correspondence back and forth uh we have we're we're on the precipice of having a meeting with the state department of Ed about this issue and I look forward to discussing that with them and vigorously stating our case there um open Choice uh we annually take a look at our open Choice seats at this time of year uh just to kind of give you an overview uh we have 44 students right now K through 12 uh who attend our schools from New Haven through the open Choice program uh they added tremendous value to our community uh and I I think they enjoy attending our schools uh you'd have to to get up at the ungodly hour particularly our high school kids get up at to get on a bus from New Haven to come here and so we're uh particularly proud of their contributions um unfortunately you know in our school system as we've talked a little bit about with climbing enrollment uh it's been our preference to try and introduce open Choice students in the Elementary grades uh so that they can um be fully committed and participants through out their K12 experience here in our community uh unfortunately with the incredible enrollment we were talking about through the planning committee's report 893 kids at Highland we don't have a lot of opportunity to accommodate new students um so what we're seeing as years go by is a shrinking Elementary enrollment but we have used the opportunity to uh add students to our high school classes uh where there is a little bit more room for that so next year just to give you at the end of conclusion of this year we'll have one open Choice student who will graduate from Treasure High School um followed by nine Juniors that we have so we had some students we have 10 uh freshmen so next year what uh we'd like to try and do is add um Four Freshmen to the incoming class there are currently four eighth graders so we would add four additional freshman seats that does not mean that Four Freshman will enroll but we will make those seats available and then we have room for uh two second grade seats at Norton and unfortunately that's it I mean that will ultimately bring our enrollment from 44 to 49 so it kind of remains balanced but you what you're seeing is this real shift away from Elementary seats to high school seats go ahead uh Marlene I just wanted to I just wanted to point out that um we had two students presenting tonight from the open Choice program and a third who was involved in the science this year so talk about digging in and being a part of the communities say really appreciate their their contributions because it is I mean it's hard for a student who lives 8 minutes away from Treasure High to get there at 7:30 in the morning these guys really make a commitment so uh kudos to them uh and so we'll submit that information to Aces and certainly I'll update you they hold the Lottery and they'll see uh if those seats will be filled or or they won't be um and finally one last thing uh and it's sobering to have this conversation today uh when the Department of Justice released a report on Uvaldi today and literally as I sit here my son at UCF is texting me about an armed Intruder on campus and uh thank God he's not on campus but it's it's chilling um and it happens all too often in educational settings but in um all settings in our society be it grocery stores uh movie theaters public life unfortunately um the ability to read a situation and respond effectively has become an American life skill and uh we several years ago shifted away uh at the rec recommendation of many professional organizations and our security consultant and our local police department away from a lockdown protocol that just had students huddling in Corners away from the door to a a decisions based uh protocol where as the acronym is Alice alert lock down and form counter and evacuate not in any sort of particular order and basically it's read the situation and get away from danger um rather if if you are aware that God forbid there's an incident on the other side of a building you're in don't just hide in the corner get out of the building and um so this is something that we've trained our staff in over the last several years Co put a big monkey wrench in it just as we were about to roll out to students and then as new you know postco as new people join we're trying to train everybody back up again we're at that place and we've initiated a uh information that we're going to share with our high school kids we've started that process parents are an integral part of that process we we will be sharing all information with them so thus far we've shared that we need feedback of for from students on this and we've sent letters to two groups of parents I meet with uh it was mentioned tonight how I meet with a group of high school students uh on about a monthly basis and we shared the program with them and got their feedback and then we have our peer Health Educators who I know you guys are generally familiar with uh Dan Lee's class at chesher high school shared got their feedback so they've given us great feedback to be able to then share it with the the students at chesher high school first um and then developmentally making sure that it's appropriate for younger grade levels when we share that out um so you know it's important that we move in that direction um I'm I'm glad it's something that I would want my own kids to know um and I want our kids to know um because unfortunately like I said it's it's become more of a necessity uh than a luxury today unfortunately on that sobering note I conclude my my report any questions Mr White and then Mr gripple thank you on that topic yaldi correct me if what I get wrong here but just as we're offering this up as a reminder to people there was a study done over the last 50 years you mentioned schools and grocery stores but there is a difference in that schools over the last 50 or 60 years every school shooting 100% has been an Insider and I believe it's 100% of those have said something to someone and they didn't believe it not that what happens in the grocery stores is right by any means but the school shootings every single time there has been an opportunity to intervene in some way before it happened right um right to read thank you uh do you know if there is any legislation being introduced this year sure I'll I'll tackle the first item really quick um and indeed uh I I I can't commit to 100% but I think that's I will know it's very close if it's not um and you know unfortunately the data changes almost daily but um I want our families and and everybody in the Community to know if you do hear something how critical it is to report it um and not just put it off you know we'd much rather investigate something and and spend hours tracking down something that's not accurate than not tracking down something that is accurate and um you can do that through making you know calling our schools or making an anonymous report through our speakup um program that's available on our website with respect to to the right to read uh legislative uh when the legislative session kicks off I'm fairly certain that um we will and when I say we I mean the superintendent group um Connecticut Association of Board of Ed Connecticut Education Association and American Federation of teachers will be providing some language for legislators to to consider um you know that's not going to happen for um about another month or so so we'll um we are you know certainly preparing for that in the hopes that legislator legislature will will be responsive and I will say I've met with you know dozens legislature legislators over the last six weeks all of whom think that there's room for compromise and and a way to close the gap here thank you you just mentioned oh thank you you just mentioned the teachers unions are they behind it supporting options yes it's not just a all right fine I'll do this okay that's interesting that's new information it's yeah it's pretty much unanimous in terms of the um various groups supporting uh taking another look at this and how it's implemented nobody zero nobody questions the or Spirit of the law yeah in the sense that we want all students to be able to be uh readers by the end of third grade literacy is critically important third grade you start to shift from learning to read to reading to learn and so that's why it's such a critical age and you know we work tirelessly to try and ensure that is every one of our students can do that uh we're not 100% success successful yet I haven't met any school district or system or anything that is but we are desperately trying to be that way oh it's sorry one last comment something i' had mentioned you before uh journalism we just kind of lost our hometown paper in the past month or two if there's any possibility of maybe even high school students Rampage ERS interview US do stories right on the board of ed maybe the Town Council I think it could be an opportunity that if it actually gets mentioned to them they might jump at it maybe maybe even for course credit something could happen in relation to the journalism class of the high school just a thought thank you thank you Mr G and then Mr um I have several or I have comments and questions I don't know Mr recky you just have a qu okay um all right um firstly is uh school security um yeah I just recently had that conversation with my son about situational awareness and and uh looking for exits and wherever he is in the building and to run for your life essentially you know um I don't know if that's the official training but you know I told him I said you know rough approximation I was like you know learn for look for those exits and run for your life um but uh on that note if if the training remains similar I know that about this time in 2021 the policy committee did uh I think a two-hour testimony with our our FBI I guess our unofficial FBI consultant so if parents are interested in sort of a highlevel overview of what we do um they can review that that's on YouTube uh so they can take a look at that um uh secondly on the uh write the read I'll I'm still uh o openly uh all for uh open rebellion and so if if there is if because as far as I could tell there's not a lot of teeth in far as far as enforcement goes so if there if if there's no enforcement I say we just keep doing what we're doing until we're told otherwise definitely strong interest open Rebellion right um and then um lastly going on the the the slopes going into the North End um just as a uh as a point of reference do we know what the degree of slope is going into Norton school approximately as you know just sort of a point of comparison I remember as a walker it was still a little dicey you know in the winter time and that was just I didn't find that be super current current slope you're talking about I I I can't say I could quote I okay we'll say current slope yes yeah I I I wasn't sure if you were talking about the current or planned future slope oh I'm sorry current current SL yes I I can't say I could quote you either so I'm not even really sure why I asked but uh I can tell you it's not close to 10% in terms of the grade I know that um let me email you all there's a uh I think there are a couple of streets in town that are at 10% grade right um that it's like I think about this is less than 10% you know my road which is near the North End School which is pretty steep and I know that the parents there for at least for the well for any student when it's slippery they don't even bother walking it they take cars to the bottom of the hill yeah so if you're if we're going to have walkers coming off of Maran um at some point you know if that slope is anywhere near what my road looks like that's too steep yeah you know clear even though that's an approved Road that's less than 10% you know and that I think that's one of the roads actually but um the average uh in the peak slope have to be south of 10% that's a pretty long run and it's one section that reaches 9.

like 8% the rest of the grade is much more reasonable but um let me try and scare up some other towns just or other uh streets so that you can get a visual you know better sense of what that actually is 10% so sure because I know yeah I know my uh not just speaking for myself I know my neighbors and I know that there were other uh citizens who attended those townwide meetings who were concerned about those things so you know be able to see what well sidewalks I know is a huge thing sidewalks and then of course but having children walking down not just buses approaching the school but having children walking down off of the road like that you know so just want to bring that up thank you uh wait um yes I'm done thank you Mr AI can I just add one real quick about the options-based training for Alice when I say options based and it's not there is like I said every staff members been trained coaches lunch AES like you name it building maintainers so there is a lot of adult guidance that is still there um and it's not just a you know the idea of, 1500 people free-for-all um is not healthy and frankly when we talk to our kids that was one of the concerns they had like is it just so it's just on me then to figure out what to do no um and I want to be clear about that for our community and um and it wasn't something you framed that way but I when you mentioned it it made me think about the feedback that our kids had which was you know I don't want to be just out on a limb trying to figure this this out of my own um and we reassured them though that everybody had been trained and this part of the the video we're designing for this is to illustrate the broad degree of training that's occurred right and it you know it's based on my own uh ignorance of Alice training which I've never taken yeah my you know based on what you know what they tell us at work basically run hiide fight is right right right and then of course you know when you I'm talking to my 13-year-old trying to get information on them it's it's not very for coming a lot so it's like okay well let's work with that without knowing what Alice you know how what Alice training is well we look forward to educating our kids and one of the things that he also said after we gave them the overview of what this was was an enhanced level of comfort like knowing that I have more control over the situation I I kind of feel better about this than I did about what we were doing um which is such a a basic human reaction and it's uh reassuring as a parent and educator to hear kids say yeah this this I feel better about this I feel more confident and I think I know preco you had offered board members to go and attend the training and yeah like I remember a picture of I think Katherine was there or something but and I never attended that but if there is something maybe yeah coming up I'd certainly like to yeah we could definitely offer that in the spring for for people yeah great thank you community service so options Bas it's not really option everybody who's employed has yeah there's no option in that it's when something happens you have options rather than to just huddle in a corner and then there's reoccurring refresher training yes yeah on the vector isn't there a vector yeah we have uh online training we've also done a lot of in-person training um on this and it's you know we initially gave the inperson training to our staff and surveyed them the results were overwhelming in the support of doing this because like I said I think it's just a basic human when you when you experience it and you know what it's about like yeah how how do you not do this and you feel more control and it reduces anxiety it's a good thing Mr Aki you had a question going back to right to read you said there's uh proposals proposed legislation what is the deadline where do we sit with waiting to fix the problem and being forced to buy a new program sure so that's a great question July 1 is when District should have made some movement toward whatever the remedy is I think part of our problem is um we're not sure exactly what the remedy is where are we deficient um and so in my most recent correspondence to the commissioner I've asked for more detail in that regard um I know Senator Samson actually had sent a letter um after our meeting as well and has asked for more detail in that regard um I know some other districts have asked for details from sde and they're treating it like a freedom of information request and it's been incredibly lengthy and I think SD is doing the best they can to get the information back to people but uh it's it's certainly been cumbersome thank you Dr herrian yeah and I would I would just add also um that I attended our area legislative breakfast with Dr Solen also and the right to read well there were two main issues that were discussed the right to read was one of them and there were several legislators there uh representing at that meeting also and to a to a letter I think every single one of them is sounded like they're very committed to um getting this legislation out there in this next session so chesher is not the only School District that's sitting here with this and um so I just I I wanted to also reassure Adam that um I'm less convinced that open Rebellion is the way to go after seeing and knowing that Dr Solen has also talked to many other uh legislators besides the ones that we saw at the breakfast um the other um Topic at the legislative uh breakfast was on the uh kindergarten time change uh age change and um what I took from that and what I hope the legislators took from that also and I know that we have community members MERS in our community who are very concerned about this is um maybe not legislation but somehow support for early childhood education would take a lot of the burden off of of uh families parents and families who are um it which it would just it really would dissolve a lot of the problems with with having to assess whether children are ready for kindergarten or not if if all of that preparedness was being taken care of in our early childhood programs and um but for the fact that our early childhood programs are so expensive for families um that's sort of what's driving this need to assess whether kids who are not five yet should are ready to uh attend kindergarten so um I think there is there seem seem to be a really good understanding among the legislators who were there and I think they got a strong message that um school districts would like to see more support for Early Childhood programs so I just wanted to add those two things thank you any other Mr gripple sorry just one quick question uh the p Z meeting for the North End School when is that because I know it's postponed I don't I'm sorry I don't have a date for that um thought it was the 22nd but not sure I have it been I think we could jump online real quick and find it but um I don't have the exact date why you're doing that misso can you just clarify we do have a pretty robust plan especially for that group of 65 students coming in that we voted on and then also you already explained the screening process as well too so if you can just kind of give us a little synopsis of the plan that we already approved sure our kindergarten transition plan that we talked about in October is um already we already have our first class filled and this is a program for students who would have been eligible before the law for family who were planning on sending their child to kindergarten and now because of the law are caught off guard and not knowing and not having adequate time to plan so thanks to all of you we now have a kindergarten transition program specifically for those 60 or so students who birthday falls within that time frame from September 2nd to you know January 31st first that program will be held at Darcy school we will be opening a second session it's a net zero cost in the budget because we'll be reallocating a teacher likely from kindergarten and a par educator to Darcy for this program students in the Darcy dittle school you know Geographic district will have transportation others will have to provide their own transportation as they would have to for daycare if that's what they would be doing um and what's the other thing the that's a nominal cost um especially when we look at the cost of preschool and daycare at about $5,000 and that was we're not trying to make any money on this we're just trying to break even and make sure that we're trying to meet families Halfway by providing this as an option thank you Dr Zen any update yep uh real quick North End is January 22nd and Norton is February 12th thank you any other questions for Dr senen No awesome um next item is old business we don't have any listed and then we move into new business which would be um chairperson's update I actually was going to ask a couple questions um for Dr s and I know there was some confusion speaking of P andz that it was cancelled but communication can you just give a rundown of what the communication chain would be so that there's no somebody showed up and they didn't realize it was cancelled and so forth yeah so with respect to the meeting cancellation previously for Northend um there was a communication issue I think between the Architects and the neglect Ed to notify some of the abing properties which is required of the meeting uh so that's been resolved and there were some communication issues between planning and zoning and our Architects and the town and so they had a meeting last week and identified communication Point people because as you guys know there are a lot of people in that are involved between architect subcontractors and uh everybody else and then you factor in the town side so that's been resolved I think communication issues are are all set and we should be moving forward on those dates I just mentioned great and then as far as open choices um just going back to that you said the elementary um interest is decreasing or there is I wouldn't say interest I think there's still interest the issue is that we don't have enough available seats at the Elementary grades um because of the increase of in our enrollment um we don't capacity great so yeah we're at capacity now uh with the exception I think we could get away with two students second grade at Norton but um otherwise we're really tight there and that's why we're adding more seats at the high school level got it thank you then I was just gonna you know I'm I'm a little nervous because we are in budget talks now um and I don't want to rely on and thank you Dr senen because you've been really stared about just having meetings and sending out messages and so forth on the right to read um I'm hoping we have a plan B so that we meet timeline and expectations um because I'm just not confident in the system working for us at this moment in time so yeah I I certainly share your anxiety yes um and there are a lot of folks working on this thankfully you know we're not alone in this endeavor um For Better or Worse there are a lot of uh communities um that are engaged in this process so we're sharing information and hopefully uh collaborating and hopefully the the legislature and S and all of us can come together work out a solution that's not so incredibly costly I mean I shared the other day it'd be about $650,000 for us to move forward on this um which just makes no sense the those resources could be much better spent to support other students um to meet goal yeah I know I appreciate you outlining um to caps some of the options that and solutions that they can take so um but again yes anxiety would be the word because we are great at planning I just hope we have something set aside to ensure that we are ready to go and move forward um the other piece is um speaking of plan the legislation for kindergarten age um changed also embeds purposeful play so is there a plan for that in the upcoming year we already are engaged in training of our kindergarten teachers in purposeful play um that's really been a part of the Darcy model for years and when we transition to full day kindergarten it was still there but we felt like we needed to elevate that a little bit more and put a little more attention on that we have a contract with econ and so we've been working with Amry Davidson there she's comeing she's to date done two days of professional development with our kindergarten team um on um sorry purposeful play and there's also coaching embedded in that so we've had two days of professional development two days of coaching with additional days of both to come awesome great thank you and Miss con do we have a um are we in need of a policy to be written to cover that it was legislation at the end of next that's a great question for policy I believe last year and Mr gripple quote me if I'm wrong we did look at the suggested policy right Dr s from cab we'll look into that yeah back I think that's what precipitated the uh adoption of the the the transitional program I so I think we have something we did make some language changes so we'll have to um but if not change it yeah was this was that the legislation that started out requiring unsupervised play for kindergarteners unsupervised I don't remember that that's gonna be interesting you do remember you don't remember that one no I didn't make that one up no that was the law I was unsupervised then they said it had wait n undirected unstructured mean unstructured yeah okay is that is that the same one with the 30 when we changed it to 30 minutes it was I don't know if it's attached to the same one or not maybe it's I don't know if that's in the same law I thought it was subsequent to that one but might be the same one interestingly we do have a policy committee being coming up so ex I believe so yes and so I'm GNA just go right into just um checking on those meetings right now so yes we do have a policy committee Tuesday January 23rd at 6 pm at DOD Middle School um on Thursday February 1st as mentioned earlier we have the calendar committee at 6:30 humiston boardroom central office um Monday February 12th 7 PM curriculum committee will be meeting at humiston boardroom as well and then Thursday February 15th we have a 7:30 p.m.

that is our regular Board of Education business meeting in the town council chambers um we do have that upcoming um meeting as mentioned for the public budget review of administrative um review of accounts which is January 23rd at 7 do middle school as well um I believe that is it for the Chairman's update I actually I do want to make one proposal um I love love love hearing about everything that's happening at the high school but um I also would hope that we kind of consider um hearing from the other um schools we have other schools besides the high school and if we can kind of report on some of those I know you know me personally I do need to contact Darcy and see what's going on over there and try to um be involved as much as possible and if my fellow board members can do the same because you know we need to highlight all of our kids not just what's happening at the high school and know the superintendent has other suggestions outside of that just so happens in March we have our Middle School showcase coming up so uh you get a a pretty in-depth look at what we're doing there with respect to our complex thinking um but yeah you each board member is a Lea's own to the uh schools if you want to reach out to the principes and I can encourage them to reach out to you thank you could I just add that I reached out and uh had lunch just today with uh principal Kelly grippo at Dodd Middle School for this very purpose I just wanted to um let her know that I'm the liaison and um she invited me to she said we really need to just get you into the school an I feel like um I've saw so much of Dodd when we were going through um all of the planning for a new Middle School back in the day um my early Time On The Board of Ed but I have not been into DOD um well except for Budget meetings every year um so I look forward to having a little um view of what's going on at Dodd Middle School but it's really easy to get into the schools so awesome and also any other if you do attend any PTA meetings as part of the schools thank you and with that um I think we're calling for a motion to adjourn into executive session to discuss the superintendent's goals Mr White motion that the meeting be adjourned into executive session to discuss the superintendent's goals to include superintendent Solen with no business to follow thank you is there a second Mr grippo um all in favor of adjourning into executive session I it is unanimously approved um we are going into executive session is like simultaneous we're adjourning and then going to okay awesome

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