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and come into school to and tell the kumu kumu I had to I only got four hours of sleep last night I couldn't do the homework this is something that would help H in so many different ways Mahal members questions so you said you were formerly a teacher or you still teaching now yes no I'm in the Air National Guard um I uh make a lot more money in the Air Force okay um and you know it's just a temporary thing I think my job is supposed to be on hold um but I um I've enjoyed a really cushy lifestyle with the Air Force um and the kumu have to juggle that know know that they're having all of this you know taking on all this burden but they could be making so much more money having a much easier time outside right right so you you essenti did you go through the certification or you just you said you were casual so you were just casual the whole time no I'm sorry I should have clarified I um got my certification with goola the uhila program um so I was full-time at kamoko um when I was a casual hire an I supported the science teacher who had to do all those four topics I see all right very good thanks thanks for your passionate testimony thank you so you taught what what levels oh I'm sorry High School secondary so when I was at Anway I taught 9 to 12 when I was at kamoko I was I'm sorry when I was on casual H uh I helped the 9th to 12 teacher teach the 10th grade when I was at Koko as a one teacher I taught all of seventh to 12th grade science okay so and you teach you said four subjects they do only four subjects um so ninth grade biology 10th grade chemistry 11th grade physics but they teach the whole curriculum uh at an when I was there that's how it went yes okay so so do they teach like um um fiscal fiscal literacy financial literacy classes as well in home you know way um I'm not too sure about what I I'm sure they must have had something but you know that wasn't my area so okay thank you thank you K signed up to testify is also assess is she here uh Kanani no Mak moku no anyone else here wishing to testify hello chair Vice chair members of the committee good to be here to pres president of hsta uh sorry I submitted late testimony hopefully you received it um we've started up what's called a Hawaiian education special committee at hsta because the issues that are affecting our hawaian emersion teachers and teachers that teach all the Hawaiian studies courses are just getting worse and worse as um they're not getting the support that they need a lot of times what they see is that the doe continues to get support support staff to help them but as kapuni has grown grown awesomely they have not grown in their support staff to be able to support the teachers who are struggling as you just heard to make sure that our students have all the lessons they need and so forth and so on so we strongly support this bill uh to have more support staff and more teachers in the classes that is growing throughout the state thank you members questions be I'm not sure if this is directed to you but for put um you know the positions that would you know give them to have the capacity to deliver instructions and you know just having more uh ways of uh helping out with the kids um in my district we don't have but we know that n one of the only schools in the webite that has Hawaiian emergency um program this something that would help other areas or just Mahala for the question um the requests for the positions that we have in place now are to um uh be able to fill positions that already exist um in schools that do not have enough uh resources to be able to establish permanent positions at the CL at this in the classroom level um I will add that in your District specific specifically um we opened a middle school haai language immersion program coule Middle School um last year and so they started seventh grade H yeah seventh grade H language immersion in Cap Middle School one of the positions would be to sustain that teaching line and then to add a second line um because they do intend to expand to grade eight next year thank you J thank you yes do they teach a c compliment of everything that's taught at doe the the intention is to be able to provide a educational um platform that addresses all of the content area of the Department of Education um but that also is done differently depending on the resources that are available at a school like you heard um from previous testifier or the um Charter School kamak um they are a full K12 Hawaiian language immersion site and so the intention is that every all of the teachers on staff can Oli in order to deliver the full so like financial literacy is that something that is being taught it's a requirement I I it's not being taught as a requirement in our coin language emerging schools however in a personal experience because my both of my children graduated from Kay an as a part of their personal transition plan they did have assignments embedded in that program that uh had them address how how they would make plans for funding a college degree moving forward or moving into their career I do know that that happened as in their in their personal transition plan work so they get a understanding about student loans and and interests and all kinds of stuff so they can survive in in financially I I know that's something that we're looking at the schools have it as an elective as well so um it's concerning because a lot of kids come out and don't understand what the impacts are to some of their loans that they're taking out and saddled they they my son definitely had to plan for how he would fund um his college education within the program within the transition plan program okay how how many students are graduating in the Hawaiian imersion program right now anywhere between 75 and 100 students a year um graduate from grade 12 in um how many of them go go and further it into uh the university I don't have that data I can um get back to you later on with that data if I can that be interesting and then and then the next step would be um are there jobs out there for those that graduate with in those degrees Yeah I I I don't know specifically around what kinds of um preparations have been made for students um specifically for graduates of Kon education I do know that our students are um entering into careers across the Spectrum um one of our early graduates is a doctor at stob um we have lawyers that have graduated from so it's not isolated sort of as a if you speak Hawaiian and you have to do a Hawaiian language U employment more than preparing them with the mindset and the language basis to be able to do whatever they choose to do we graduate be interested to find out when what areas they go into because as we heard from um our our um instructor that they can go out and make a lot more money and be more at ease um in in another in another um profession and of course teaching is one of the areas that you know you would think that they would want to go into as well so appreciate you can get that information at a future date thank you k um your um kopon teachers are there some on the neighbor Islands also there are Ki um teachers across all 22 of our schools and across five Islands good and so right now there are 10 full-time equivalent teachers or are there more than that there are more than that right now we have oh I might have that number here we have I think 152 um yeah 152 um teachers that are teaching in h language immersion classrooms in the Department of Education 152 152 so this bill is asking for 10 more full-time positions but also asking for um three full-time equivalent curriculum Specialists so how many curriculum Specialists do you have now I currently have um one I have I currently have four um curriculum specialists um who are doing a bunch of different things across the system the three of those positions are were um fortunately funded by um Esser um During the covid period um and a lot of the work that they did given the resources that were made available have really helped to um put uh much needed supports in the classrooms and um for three for 10 full-time equivalent teacher positions and three full-time um specialist three positions what is the cost to provide this I believe the number is around approximately $1.4 million thank you co members further questions yeah you um question since still on this topic um you know um 19 19 I guess 78 or 1977 share this with my colleagues and I just wanted to get you guys put since we have you here in the superintendent here um it was put in there in the Constitution that high language should be a um subject not as elective or after school program that you needed two credits to uh in Hawaiian to to graduate from high school and I understand what was being told to me by not only colleagues that I love and Trust here on the aspect of their view but I would want to know from the Doe's view if something like that would happen in the high schools from 9th to 12th and there's an opportunity for having Hawaiian studies as a not as an elective but as a requirement to take I would they looking into entertaining that as a credit graduate high school and I I understand some of the questions that came up about kids transferring from the continent here and not being able to accomplish that and I can think that we can probably figure out one way to do some kind of waiver in that but only reason why I say that is because when I listen to what you saying and and you know we all have the great intentions of doing this but if we don't pull a trigger that was there from 1970 something and start to move it along we'll never have it what what do you feel about that um Mahala for your question I understand that there is a bill um that's currently being proposed asking the same question about two credit requirement for graduation for olova students I do want to defer to our um Deputy of superintendent um of academics particularly to the issue of graduation credit requirements um but I would also like to offer that as part of the work of the office of O education um and specifically Board of Education policy 105.7 it is the charge of our the Department of Education to ensure that all students have access to opportunities to in to uh um learn ol hav as a part of as a part of um their educational experience and we are currently working um within the system to be able to um promote um proficiencies K12 um that's a huge um sort of lift to make um but we're looking for opportunities where schools can introduce um ol Havi as a part of the general curriculum either through context um and or through curriculum when students are um experiencing some of the materials that they have with some markers um hopefully in the future around identifying the proficiencies that students might be able to achieve across that K12 experience again that's the work that we are currently working on in the office of wi education um that would help us to address I think what the intention was of back in 1978 to ensure that all student staff and faculty um have access to learning opportunities for ol was the recognition back then was that the two um for two languages um was English and Hawaiian and English is to this stay in our schools but not on and that's the reason why it was brought thank you appreciate it thank you thank you chair col how many um teachers are there that can teach the Hawaiian language um within the K within the um kapuni classrooms um the one of the sort of proficiencies assessments is that the the teacher can um instruct provide instruction in um given the content that they're in charge of um and so while we have 152 teachers that are in um kapuni schools right now um there are a handful of those teachers that deliver instruction in English um in our two campuses that are full immersion campuses K or and Kino um as it relates to teachers that can teach ol Havi as a Content area in our non kapuni schools um I am not sure about that number I would have to give back to you I believe that um the department does have a number of the schools that do provide currently fine language courses um in year 1 to year four um at the different high schools yeah I'd appreciate that question forther questions thankk you Coe thank you okay I'm sorry I missed kopu relitz teacher H chair Vice chair kopu relit with the office of hne Affairs we stand in support of this measure um and I feel like the folks who are the experts in this room are much more equipped to tell you why but I did want to let you know that the office of wine Affairs stands in strong support of this meure follow thank you those questions thank you if no further testimony on this Senate Bill we will move on Senate Bill 20 69 relating to the Department of Education just do this one yes Senate Bill 2070 relating to the Department of Education exempts Career and Technical education goods and service Services purchases by the doe for the state procurement code I guess that would be you Mr superintendent thank you chair kidani Vice chair Kim members of the committee Kashi superintendent testifying on behalf of the Department of Education the department stands on its written written testimony in strong support of this measure thank you very much for the opportunity to testify members questions strong testimony thank you we felt it strongly questions thank you superintendent that was so strong no one [Music] questions also to testify Georgia Skinner what he said um aloha aloha Georgia Skinner or uh James toyoka Department of Business Economic Development and Tourism we do stand in strong support of this anything to help our teachers to face future also with technology changing this will really help them and as being part of a department that abides by the procurement code I know that this can help delay unfortunately sometimes our students being able to be uh being taught on the actual equipment that they can get jobs with so thank you very much for the measure and we stand in strong support thank you Georgia members questions than you next to testify Mark Glick Chief energy officer good afternoon chair Vice chair Senators Cameron black on behalf of the Hawaii state energy office we also are in support strong support of this measure our primary interest in this bill is that the uh there is an energy career pathway um that's been set up by the Department of Education so we appreciate that and that again is why we're supporting this measure this would help exempt some of the equipment uh particularly the welding that was called out so thank you thank you Cameron members questions yeah I have a question so some of these equipment can they go into hundreds and thousands of dollars or I'm sorry Senator I don't have the answer to that question I can find out so you folks deal with these equipment or I mean not myself personally um I have not personally dealt with the welding equipment okay so I don't want to misquote what what that might cost okay well yeah I mean to support a bill like this knowing that there's money implications possibly um would be helpful when you come and testifying support that you folks have information to give the committee understood and we'll uh we'll find that out okay thank you any more questions members thank you thank you wait there yeah she I'm good good afternoon chair Vice chair members of the committee Bonnie Kakui acting administrator and chief procurement officer we stand on our written testimony and all we're actually asking is that the the language be changed to mirror the language that is currently in house in Senate bill 3086 and it's companion bill 239 seven our recommendation is to tighten up the language a little bit so that there is no loow pools in between thank you thank you Bonnie members questions questions Senator Kim thank you Bonnie so can you explain what some of the loopholes are oops uh yes the way it was originally written um I we thought that it could be open up to any kinds of training and direct student instruction what what we did was we oh did I'm here um what we did was tighten up the language to specify that these equipment that they're purchasing or training that is unique to that particular career path and we called out different things like the welding the anatomy tables and those can cost tens of thousands of dollars as well as those flight simulators which can be very very expensive so when you say called them out that they would not be part of this no they would be but we said that it would be things like um well what we did was we took out such things as supplies implements tools Machinery because that could have a very broad definition especially supplies are we talking uh books and paper and pencils so we narrowed that scope to say that these equipment and supplies that they need are unique and specific to that particular career path like the welding and the flight simulators and not be so broad as to include may include any kind of equipment okay I guess when I read this measure I thought that it would be these small supplies and so forth that can be cumbersome going through procurement um but also the the concern that I had is that because it was broad to but some of this equipment uh like flight simulators and so forth runs into like you said hundreds and thousands of dollars and if if it's not uh competitive as far as checking out the bids and stuff is there room for um some kind of fall play at some point or not giving equal opportunity to the vendors uh to be able to provide um be part of the procurement process and providing this equipment to the schools uh yes there could be uh that is certainly a possibility but from what I also understand from the doe the people that Supply some of these uh equipment Anatomy tables flight simuls the market is very very um limited and additionally we ask that the doe put in guard rail guard rails to ensure transparency and standard processes of checks and balances so there is not this going to just one vendor uh without doing their due diligence to see what other vendors are out there that may be able to provide uh the services and goods that they need and who monitors this that would be the doe okay so you folks wouldn't be monitoring it so how would we know that there was safeguards we would not but we would ask that the do we provide that information to us so that we can you know double check to make sure what they are buying how they're buying it uh what methods they're using to obtain these uh goods and services okay thank you um question for doe if nobody has questions for Bonnie anybody else have questions for Bonnie superintendent superintendent so superintendent was that your intent that this measure be for these specific equipment or um thank you uh senator for the question um yes definitely we um in helping as previous testifiers have shared um it's very important that we provide authentic learning as much as authentic learning experiences for students to connect to Career Pathways um I think as we were able to provide as um um State procurement office has shared for example uh she did mention the anatomage table and that is a a piece of equipment that is rather expensive um but it is state of Thee art it provides our students with the most current experiences in terms of uh uh really looking at at Anatomy being able to identify um a a healthy tissue versus a cancerous tissue in fact there was just an uh the competition was yesterday at the convention center uh where all of our Korean technical student organizations got together to compete and the anatom much table actually was a um was one of the many highlights of of that event uh it it so what's the problem now how did you get the tables now uh we we did have it was an extensive process uh we definitely always be ensure that we F in procurement code uh we do our due diligence and so we did have to go out to bid because it was over the $25,000 threshold that 25,000 then your folks can go to three bers right to get under 25,000 we're able to um to we can go to uh um both written quotes and um verbal verbal and written quotes anything over 25,000 we have to go out to Bid And as was shared currently uh when we have equipment and we're looking for authentic opportunities for students those equ much if not all of that equipment that we're looking at exceeds the $25,000 give you didn't we raise that level no um it build it uh it did pass um unfortunately it it um it it didn't make it through though so the house um I I I believe um I believe it made another conference um but it was um there was a vet at the end okay yeah so what about 3D printers stuff like that is that fall under unique or um well 3D printers definitely again um if it if it did go over uh 25,000 um you know again we we need to go out to bid um as SPO had shared it's important for us to have thresholds in place and and real uh safeguards and so um some of the safeguards that we established last year that we're ready to implement uh for example is um a tiered system so rather than go from $25 to $100,000 right away we would incrementally increase those uh that threshold within the department so that we're able to um uh ensure that we're we're following the right procedures and as well as having U complex area superintendents review uh any of those those purchases that exceed those amounts uh just to ensure that uh we're complying with u the proper procedures but something like 3D printers isn't that common to more not specific to a career path um 3D printers could be depends what kind of 3D printers um and what the intent of the 3D printer is that's my concern on how that gets all lumped in and then get around the the process in some way um you mean the large 3D printers or the the smaller ones that whatever I'm just saying that you know certainly you could make a case that it's General and then you can make a case well depending on what the printers are but nobody's there going to be checking up on you or you know safeguards in there so we would have to depend upon you folks to be able to police yourselves right yeah most definitely and and and it is important for us to ensure that we're following those procedures and again the uh complex area superintendent um are will be charged with helping to monitor that um to get with their principles we have training that's ready to go out to be sure that our principles are aware of and and follow um the proper procedures understand but as you know and I know that there are often time um many violations and it gets reported to us and I know there's some concerns just the fact that there are um well not so much on the doe campuses but on the uh campuses where these small maintenance projects are going out to the same people over and over again because they don't have to go out to did so they use friends or stuff like that so I'm just don't want to get those kinds of calls yes I understand thank you thank you so superintendent there's a um you used the doe uses hands the Hawaii award and notices data systems for some of your for posting some of your um notices that that you're looking for special equipment or whatever do you still use that um let me S one one um Senator we can get back to you on that um I can check withfo H he wasn't able to make it today thank you thank you super superintendent sorry so superintendent just just going off of Senator Kim's line of questioning I I think I just got a little confused U maybe you can clarify for me so you said if it's over 25,000 you're still going to go out to bid no no if if should this should this pass right it would raise a threshold to to $100,000 okay and so um it we we wouldn't need to go out to bid currently anything over 25,000 we need to go out to bid which um uh as we are securing different kinds of equipment that's in that range it do take it does take um a lot of time right so anything over 100 you're still going to go up to bid I'm I believe that um this bill um would if if it's in CT in the CTE area uh that would exempt right totally from going out to there's no cap it's exemp it would be exemp totally so there is there is no parameters any anything you don't have to go to bid then so so so I know you you in terms of your for within the CT area yeah for that specific exemption so so I guess currently and I know you're talking about how you're going to kind of regulate this how much does the Cass have a say in purchasing right now if any the the cazes have the authority over the School principles in terms of purchasing they're able to within their area um monitor purchasing they're able to stop uh purchases that happen or they're able to question um purchases each complex area superintendent has a complex area business manager got it and the complex area business manager helps assist the area superintend so is there any internal sign offs right now over over search amount that the Cass has to to to see or check there's no threshold amount it's just up to their jur you know currently up to 25,000 it goes no there is none not from the so it's only if they choose to check it out they'll they'll see it there so there's no automatic go to the Cass if it's over a certain amount right now not currently so what is what is your thought process then to keep this in check but we do currently uh there are internal controls within the school within the complex area that they they are able to pull purchases and purchase orders if need be that's one thing um in terms of the controls moving forward should this bill pass um those uh those purchases that are over if there are any purchases that are over $100,000 we'll be monitoring those definitely only over $100 only over over 100,000 but that's the internal policy or is that in the bill no that would be internal to us okay yeah and but any any of those purchases um uh up to 100,000 would be would be um checked by the complex superintendent okay but they currently don't necessarily regularly look right I I think it's just it's just to me I think it's a good practice that they're probably looking at some of these purchases just to be aware so I think we do have U periodic audits um of the schools and uh by internal internal audit section uh and so both of uh appropriated funds as well as non-appropriated funds so those are some of the checks that regularly happen um and we'll continue those yeah and no I I get it I I think you have to have the internal controls I I I think for for the doe especially because it's like every school is their own little entity it's just you know you give them so much leeway it really I think to me you got to have very specific parameters cuzz there's just so many different variations from school to school so I I I think you know we're open but it's just you got to be able to prove that you know everything is going right so thank you thank you for that so within your internal internal check checks and balances would you then Institute that they could do like a a three bid written or verbal for these um I I think um chair thank you for the question Senator thank you for the question um the intent of the bill is to help us to explorate the process following within those parameters um and being sure that we're following within what parameters um procurement and that we are checking and providing opportunities for students to engage in those uh in in the kinds of equipment that we need right um and so it it okay because let me clarify my question so right now you have to if it's over under 25 5,000 you can do three written or verbal bits anything over you got to go to a full procurement so I'm just saying this bill passes would you still Institute at least the three three quotes either by by uh verbal or written would you still Institute that we would still do that we could still do that yes okay I'd like to see that in there because it has to be you know can't just go to one you got to check and see because you know you could so the the the verbal and then three so like like it was a 25,000 25 but it would raise that threshold right yes thank you the um what it called autonomy that stuff you guys was talking about you guys just had autonomy thing you guys talking about buying the table is that what it's called anage an table is that a table it it's a table Center yes so I just wanted to give one example so get five schools I'm not going to name any schools but I usually name Campell sometimes and let's get the 40 School away K so what of these two schools or the one school and five other schools on this table yes how is that going to be prioritized um thank you for the question Senator we uh currently um have gone through the procurement process uh which was was very extensive um and so we reach did reach out to schools that were interested in um securing the Anam watch tables so several of our high schools currently have them um and then uh they have actually been very excited in in working with them uh for Campbell High School um I believe their table is coming they they did order one uh which is which is uh we're excited about it and I think uh principal Le to so we have a flight simulator to C um you know I'm not sure on the flight simulator I can get back on that we see playings every day from NOA C so we just we have a Similator coming to our school I do know Senator that um we are engaged in U um aeronautical pathway uh that there are um we've engaged with um with the airlines uh they are in in need of not only Pilots but of with mechanics so any time that we can uh provide these opportunities for students so they get really excited about the learning um you know I I really believe that sometimes you know we need to put uh a little more expense in the cost up front to get students engaged and that's the hook for them right and then you know they'll really see the value of education and and uh education being relevant for them yeah I was I was blessed to be a fact of uh seeing some of our students at Campbell is actually right now pilots and you know they got into it and they they love it not because the planes was going over the head but that's what they got into because it was a pathway for them to go to Barber's point and flight simulation the time and got into and now they're vience was pretty good this was figuring the ass thank you s thank you thank you shair one more quick question can you give us an idea how long it took you to procure the tables and our watch one second over over here um Senator came ask one one um so just to be sure that I'm clear your question that you asked me earlier was about um the uh uh verbal quote the written quote and then the procurement threshold of 25,000 now we would raise that but the we would still Institute the the verbal and the written quote as is yeah should this bill pass for for these equipments that in this bill that you would at least have the three quotes whether it be written in verbal at at those thresholds no at whatever whatever thresholds you do but that you would have at least some comparison instead of just going to one vendor and say oh we like your equipment but without getting like another it could be only one but there may be opper times where as you just shared um there may be only because of the advancement of Technology yeah there might be only one right but when there are more than one then yeah you know because we want the best price right to I mean the cheapest is not always the best but we want to compare I mean you know whenever I buy anything I check Amazon I check eBay I check Teo I check them all before I buy and so we we would be able to compare that um and um as you said Senator sometimes the the cheapest might not be the best for students I got to check the reviews you know they get five star for okay thank you thank you and how often do you return never mind not too awful thank you superintendent thank you is Bonnie still on she is not on oh yes I'm here oh thank you Bonnie um last year you indicated that um SPO would be moving to um a electronic uh procurement system has that been done we are in the process now of that we've already signed the contract we've had we have weekly meetings with the vendor the actual e-procurement portion of that is still a little ways off as we're working with the the marketplace first thank you so can you uh give us an update a written update and um on on when you expect that to be finished oh yes I can uh we can provide you with a timeline uh we're working with the vendor on a timeline right now and hopefully we can stick to that depending on you know if all the all the players fall in place thank you appreciate it okay are we done with this issue moving on to where are we2 Senate Bill 2052 did you guys have question oh engagement program superintendent are you testifying Senate Bill Public Access room okay good afternoon chair kidani Vice chair Kim and members of the committee I'm Heidi Armstrong Deputy superintendent of academics I'm speaking on behalf of the Department of Education and we stand on our written testimony offering comments on this bill and I will be available to answer any questions we have someone on Zoom waiting to testify uh they're not present on Zoom chair thank you attorney general she here attorney general good afternoon uh Cher kidani Vice chair Kim members of the committee Deputy attorney general CIS Park just uh requesting that um we amend the language in the bill to include that the matter is a issue of Statewide concern in according to an article 6 article 10 section 6 of The Constitution thank you questions you is there Deborah helbert here good afternoon chair Vice chair members of the committee Deborah Halbert vice president for academic strategy also a member of the pace commission though I'm here testify for the University and not the pace commission we stand in support with some modification we defer to the PACE commission's recommendations for the edits to the bill as outlined both in their testimony on our own thanks I'm available for questions if you have any thank you members question do we have to pce should have been submitted do you remember seeing that testimony commission got you got it okay great she has it thank you cace Candace Park she just testified just testified okay that's it anyone else here wishing to testify on Senate Bill sure well good two minutes clock says one proceed only one minute okay Angela Melody young testifying on behalf of cares Aloha chair Vice chair and the committee um so I think this is a good policy I'm not sure how busy the public access room office is and it's not my purview to represent that office but it's a good idea um and an example of a fun interactive Civic engagement program the policy could copy is a Hawaii Children and Youth Summit made possible by Susie Chan Oakland and Uncle Dennis they dedicated a lot of work they do to providing resources and to supporting our generation and I'm super blessed to get to help to plan with the team it's an event sanctioned by the hu Vice statue chapter 8 in October 2022 the Kiki caucus held the summit to bring children together to prioritize issues and find strategies to Solutions which require statutory changes to be implemented at the county state and federal level and they declared that smoking as a priority of the Hawaii Public Health Institute is also an important subject matter to debate during the legislative process this season and the findings were from the summit that they'd like the middle middle school and high school programs to have peer-to-peer support therapy and counseling to emphasize the consequences of smoking while raising awareness about health education so Caris thinks it's very appropriate to assign this kind of program to the office and to create more Civic action opportunities for Hawaii's CES thank you thank you OA are you thank you OA hello chair Vice chair also to president HST apologize again for our late testimony uh HST stands in support for this uh we want to stress the importance of expanding civic education in our public schools to prepare students to participate in the public and political lives of their communities civic education helps develop critical thinking skills in our students students that are vital to the functioning of a democratic Nation including how to recognize social problems evaluate possible solutions to problems separate evidence-based claims from opinions and to take action H is among the 10 states with the lowest voter turnout in the nation cultivating social and political engagement among students through civic education is an important strategy available to increase voter turnout and citizen engagement over the long term so than just be for increasing voter turnout though but also to educate on how to be more involved in community issues as they arrive arise civic education helps to learn how to evaluate what others have tried what has worked and make a plan of action for creating change needed to solve problems together HS ask for your support model thank you members questions thank you is there anyone else here wishing to testify on this issue sure I just I guess do you can be doe so um first of all I just you like support the bill even though I never had a chance to sign on to him because I don't see my name here um but that's okay I really support the bill you know what I'm getting told is that why wasn't it done sooner I know you probably don't have that answer but I know you probably would have wanted sooner but the question is like why wasn't this done sooner I'm not sure why what was it St Staffing the public access room um I don't know I don't know and and the department does support the positions we would just um we don't they're they're not part of our board approved budget requests so we would appreciate the positions and the additional resources um but not supplanting anything that we've already submitted and civic education is at the Forefront just growing larger than the public access room um the board of education has asked the department to put together a civic education task force that has members from the pace commission P20 um the Judiciary we have some um nonprofits and our doe Personnel looking at how do we enhance and Elevate civic education in our school we do have newly adopted um social studies standards that include civic education K12 Anor standard five is a standard that's in every grade level and then in the High School courses but what the department currently um does not have a a mechanism to do so is how do we um keep track of or is it necessary to keep track of what are our students doing um in the areas of civic education and so this task force is looking at how do we record or do we need to record what our students are doing what opportunities they've had to participate in experiences that promote their engagement in civic education and learning um we recently just recognized two high schools in a newly created program called the Hawaii um schools of democracy and Maui high school and Milly Lani High School were recognized as schools who are doing um extensive and schoolwide or participating in extensive and schoolwide efforts and provide opportunities for their students to engage in Civic activities such as volunteering learning about the um more in inate int intricate um operations of government um policy legislation and so this task force that is currently um in place um is looking at ways where the department can expand and Elevate opportunities so that our students do leave us and participate in the Democratic process of voting they do participate in volunteerism they do participate in um opportunities to help support and um nurture the communities where they live thank you so just being good citizens yes okay thank you that's a good way to put it questions so Heidi you did answer one of my questions about how is civic education being taught now in the school so it is part of the social studies yes it's part of the social studies standards um K12 we also have a graduation requirement um in high school it's a half credit of course participation in democracy um and so all students have to go through there when you look at our social studies standards every single grade level has civic education embedded in the different strands of the social studies because you know according to the testimony and I tend to agree with lrb in the sense that um that the bureau does not believe that the primary responsibility for this effort should lie with part the public access room um um and they also felt that that they would be more than willing to share information par has already developed U regarding engagement with the legislature and the legislative process um but the bureau suggests that rather than stepping into teachers role be more effective and appropriate for part to offer workshops directly to appropriate teachers in order for them to expand their understanding and including in a part of their um curriculum so yeah to to get people from part to then step into the schools to me seems to be you know a reach in that sense so is that something that you cuz you supporting this right this measure we're supporting when when um I read the bill it was the department would assist in the efforts that par um currently offers um I I remember from previous testimonies Staffing the room so that it would be available to provide the services um that you just spoke of was very limited and so my understanding when I read this is the bill would provide a position um of would provide a full-time full-time position within the public access room and that's on page six line one and two in addition to two positions to support the advancement of civic education and funding so so the bill is saying that par should now be having people in their Department that's going to promote civic education is that what you're saying no I'm saying I I read the bill to say that it it would provide a full-time equivalent position within the public access room and then would provide two POS two full-time equivalent permanent civic education resource teacher positions within the department and that's on page four lines 78 and N page Department shall assign one appropriate staff the department meaning the DOE that was the department referred to as the as doe that correct department shall assign appropriate staff to coordinate with the public access room respects to outreach and engagement program okay because I'm reading lrb's testimony and um I guess there's a lot of concerns what they raise okay thank you thank you thank you hii members further questions if not move on to our final bill 2071 superintendent did you have testimony on this you good afternoon Cher kadani Vice chair Kim I'm Heidi Armstrong again from the Department of Education thank you for allowing us the opportunity to testify and we appreciate this bill and stand in um strong support um of this measure I'll be available for any questions thank you members questions um do we have the resources right now to hire people or can f fill these positions that would might be needed for this enhancement we we currently have the um Panorama social emotional learning student survey and we also have the trust Circle app and those are the two items included in this bill what we're asking for these are currently funded with Sr funds and we're asking for funding to continue um having these opportunities and resources after the 2425 school year when we will no longer be able to fund them with user got it thank you other questions thank you heid thank you is there anyone else wishing to provide testimony on this issue closer to we chair chair wou hsta president I would just want to say anything that we can do to uh we're in support anything we can do to um help with mental health and student emotional health is a positive uh this is about digital devices and things though we want to emphasize also that counselors are extremely important in this this process and we want to make sure that we try and staff our schools with as many counselors as possible especially coming from post pandemic and Po Folks in Lina they need all the support they can get Personnel wise and our counselors are are well equipped but we just need more of them thank you thank you also members questions thank you we did have a brad kusunoki wanting to testify thank you Brad good afternoon chair Vice chair Hashimoto um when I should followa I am a school counselor um my actual title is student services coordinator but I'm school counselor and teacher by heart at alvas Scott Elementary School uh I'm here to support this bill because I use both programs uh mainly the trust Circle app um we have a tool that will greatly help school counselors if if they choose to use it that it's it's easy to use for both kids uh teachers teachers and School staff and especially counselors um we I I have a student population of about 440 uh only school counselor I do not have the ability to ask every single kid every day how they are feeling and I can't measure how happy sad mad or or scared they are but with uh the trust tal app that helps us to give give the kids the opportunity to give us uh their voices where they stand as far as social or emotional well-being on a daily basis and it gives us a tool to go out and do something about it every day um my time up thank you br um questions so when you say you have a tool it's the it's the trust Circle app trust Circle app and yes I've been using it for two years uh I believe our school was the first one of the state to get it I got it on my own um I did the research and got the Grant and paid for it through um I got I think I believe it was a state Grant um for three years and I worked with the de developer to make to tailor it based on my needs as a school but also as the needs for school counselors across the state should they choose to use it um it is it is really good uh we we continue to use it and it the requirement for teachers it's minimal they just need to let kids to do it U at least for a couple minutes every day they just go on a lot of the kids they'll follow up and they'll use it as home on the on the weekends as well uh all they have to do is check in and just just share what how they are feeling it's kind of like a journal and then it in turn it gives us data as far as where our kids as a whole and even individually where they stand on different emotional levels and we can see that every day on a real time um real time so I can go out and and do what I need to do as a school counselor to help these kids that need it or as a as a whole school and do General programs um to support our school counseling program thank you so this app is online and made available to all school counselors uh I believe that's the intent right now I speak for just my school um it's available for all students at and staff at my school so what this bill cover that being offer to all the schools I think it's see it's okay thank you good thank you work how how much is it just for your school for the license I'm just curious well the Grant I got was um 36,000 for 3 years for just one your school for how many users uh it cover all students and staff there was no Max Max no okay so that that's about uh I guess 500 maybe 600 people total that could use it if they choose you have all these annexes of other schools great thank you thank you chair thank you superintendent or Heidi you guys have any testimony on this do you have any testimony on this issue we we support this issue and um are requesting the funding so that we can continue on after next school year so do you have a specific app in mind we do so the the trust circle is going to be is the app that we're currently using and we want to be able to continue to use it in the future okay um I don't recall what the funding requirement was 850 850,000 it's blank in the bill yeah in the bill pretty clear. the bill section three is 1.7 but page three is right so so the trust circle is 850 and then the Panorama seal survey which is also included in this bill um would bring the total to 1.7 1.7 million for both so one is a survey and one is an app and so that can be used for all the de schools yes and currently we're doing the Panorama seal survey it's mandatory twice a year um beginning of the year and end of the year and it's optional for schools to um offer a midyear survey how long would this be good for currently it's funded through school year 2425 so it's going to be a reoccurring yearly we that that's what we're we that's what we are requesting 1.7 occurring every year yes for for about 170,000 students yes so if you don't get this then in theory a school could go off on their own and pay it out of wsf funds correct but we would not for the secl survey we would not have department-wide longitudinal data on um our students social emotional learning competencies okay so for for these programs though have you so so is there some type of um really good platform that you found that we we cannot do internal you know have some of our CTE students go figure out how to make a program and it's our own proprietary program I'm I'm sure they could um but um we don't have that yet but what the Panorama um SEO platform also does for us it gives us a dashboard where um teachers can have longitudinal data on their students academic Behavior attendance social emotional competencies it also has A playbook attached which is a resource that teachers can use if a child is showing that he or she needs support and one of these areas there are a series of lessons or interventions that the teacher can pull from and to date we have I have the numbers here sorry I have we we've had over 40,000 hits um or um entries from teachers accessing information um and it's a way that schools can log interventions track the success of the interventions and um give it gives us valuable not only information but also support and tools for teachers to use so so when you were using SRA funds this was deployed this was required of everyone or this was just a nice to have for everyone no this this is the seal um survey is required of everyone um the dashboard is a resource that um most of our teachers are using and the interventions have had have been viewed um or accessed 42,000 times so far this year so it is a tool that teachers are using um to help address the needs that are identified through the survey and through the dashboard okay all right thank you chair can I just add a comment you know I support all of these um enhanced ways to support our teachers and support our students but at some point you know we keep adding on and the cost keeps growing and so you know while I agree that we we want all of these tools at some point the pi is only so big so um you know we need to look at maybe old programs that maybe is not as efficient and how we can save because the reoccurring cost will kill us in in the long run and where we take the money out because you we want to make sure teachers are getting paid appropriately teacher housing all of that there's so much costs and so I I hope that you know we start off with things because we had federal funds and S funds and then we want to add it into the base reoccurring but um that's a huge huge expense and and then it gets higher and higher the cost becomes higher and higher so um that's something that I hope you FKS will consider and think about as we move forward right and and I I appreciate that and I agree with that um one thing that um there wasn't a lot of good that came out of covid but one thing that was is it really highlighted the importance of social emotional competencies and mental health and we didn't have the department didn't have things to fall back on and so now we have been able to build up a robust system of support reports and um we would like that to continue um social emotional learning competencies are just what make up a good learner so they will always be um necessary to focus said I support that but again you know there's only so much funds at some point and so the P you have to start to prioritize what it is we're going to be focusing in as we go forward because a lot of stuff end up in your base budget and then we don't know what the effectiveness are in some of these programs because it's not evaluated as far as we know um and so you keep adding and and you know the education budget keeps growing and yet we still get complaints about we're not paying our teachers enough and we don't have enough supplies in the classroom and so forth so um we have to start to look at these things and you know and I point to like the kindergarten assessments you know some of these costs can be um more efficient so I'll rest my case on that thank you thank you thank you um we're going to recess for reconvening the committee on education members have discussed the U bills at hand and the recommendation for Senate Bill 2072 is to pass with amendments the Amendments is to adopt the testimony of the Department of Attorney General with reference to avoiding any potential family educational rights and Privacy Act MERS so Senate Bill 2072 passed with amendments okay so recommendation is to amend Senate Bill 2072 um with set amendments chair votes I I Vice chair votes I Senator Hashimoto I I Senator Richards excuse Senator flla excuse to three members present your recommendations adopted thank you for Senate Bill 2069 relating to the Department of Education to appropriate funds for three full-time equivalent curriculum Specialists two positions and 10 full-time classroom teacher positions for KA papahana kapuni schools recommendation of the chair yeah pass was to pass as is and this [Music] is with a cost of about 1.4 million I think we talked about for 10 full-time equivalent classroom teacher positions and three full-time equivalent curriculum specialist two positions questions members recommendation is to pass as is okay recommendation is to pass Senate Bill 2069 unamended chair votes I Vice chair votes i simoto i two members excuse recommendations adopted thank you for Senate Bill 27 20 70 relating to Department of Education to exempt Career and Technical education goods and services purchases by the doe from the state procurement code repeals um we were going to amend this that would include three uh verbal or written quotes to procurement process for under 25,000 yeah so we can get language with the that language Outlet or would apply to all right so are we going to yeah apply it to the the the entities that are covered under the measure right so pass with that Amendment Senate bill of 2070 pass with an amendment to include three verbal or rtin FS for all no for all but using the under 25,000 process okay recommendation is to pass sb270 with amendments the chair votes I Vice chair votes I Senator Hashimoto I three members voting in favor measure is adopted thank you Senate Bill 2052 def recommendation is to defer Senate Bill 2071 recommendation was to pass pass as is did we have technical Amendments of this pass passes it yeah 2071 pass as is okay recommendation to pass Senate Bill 2071 unamended chair v z Vice chair v z has your moto I was I two members excuse the recommendations adopted thank you members that concludes this hearing
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all right wild cats we're here with a gaggle of students SN Haley Trisha Juliana anos what day is today Friday today is Friday what's the date February 2nd February 2D February 2D what does that mean what is February 2D Friday Funday hi Wildcats it's Friday it's not just any Friday it's February you know what that means it's Groundhog Day what day is this it's February 2nd Groundhog Day we're ready for some newness we're going to find out if that Crown hog is letting us know if it's six more weeks of winter or if we got an early spring coming Crown Hog Day no no thoughts about Crown Hog Day More and wild cats I'm here with de what year in school are you Junior today's Groundhog Day are you nervous about Groundhog Day do you want more winner mm you done with winner yes sir not a winter fan ready for it to be done so you want that groundhog to not see a shadow today right you want spring to get here yes sir all right we'll see what happens want to give your thoughts about Groundhog Day are you worried about Groundhog Day I want it to be warm outside if the groundhog sees his Shadow today that means we get six more weeks a winter so you want him not to see the shadow correct I don't want him to see the shadow I'll be really unhappy out of the Four Seasons where does Winter rank second oh so you actually like winter but you're ready for it to be done yeah no more learning for you you want to be here every day what do you guys think about gr Hog Day you want to talk about grh day grh day grh day his friends just abandoned him I'm here with Brooklyn what year in school are you a senior today is Groundhog Day did you know that no I did not do you know what Groundhog Day is the shadow thing right the shadow thing right exactly so do you want the groundhog to see a shadow uh yeah yeah cuz six Mar weeks a winner right yeah yeah so you you like winter you want more winter oh wait no no no I don't want more winter you don't want more winter all right so you want no more e-learning days you want to be here at school you want an early spring yeah I don't want the groundhog to see it Shadow all right stay tuned we'll find out soon anybody you want to talk about Groundhog Day anybody have an opinion about Groundhog Day I'm here with Sean ban what year in school are you I'm a sophomore today is Groundhog Day did you know that no I did not you know what Groundhog Day is um it's like when a groundhog comes up from the ground and like if it sees its shadow it's in like 6 weeks or winter exactly exactly so do you want that groundhog to see a shadow today are you hoping for six more weeks of winter no unless it snows so you're ready for spring but you you'd be okay if we get a bunch more snow Yeah snow could lead to more learning you want more learning days definitely all right we'll see what we can do all right wildcast I'm here with Romina Romina what year in school are you Junior to's Groundhog Day did you know that no I did not it's Groundhog Day it's still just once a year isn't it have you ever seen the movie Groundhog Day mm-m no highly recommend it Bill M it's about 30 years old very good filmed just a little north of here in Woodstock Illinois in it every day just feels like it's the same day repeat it over and over again repeat it over and over again repeat it over and over again do you ever get that feeling like just every day just runs right into yes yep are you ready for winter to be over with yeah absolutely I usually love the winter but this time I don't done with the winter do you want the groundhog to see a shadow or not see a shadow which one's the one with no winter uh if he doesn't see a shadow that means we get in early spr doesn't see the shadow anybody want to talk about Groundhog Day thoughts about Groundhog Day concerns about Groundhog Day talk about Groundhog Day what is February second the second day of February it is the second day of February Groundhog Day it is Groundhog Day am I right or am I right or am I right do you know what Groundhog Day is if a groundhog sees the shadow we have more winter that's correct very good where's that groundhog at some hole in the ground I don't know it's actually in uh Punk Satani Pennsylvania they have a big celebration so do you want the groundhog to see his shadow no sir no you're ready you're done with winter done done with win we had three learning days this year set a record you don't want any more e-learning days I would like e-learning days but you can't have it both ways here either you want winner to be done or you want e-learning days which is winner to be done you want winner to be done all right where does winner rank in your Four Season second favorite second favorite what's first favorite fall I'm with you there b last dead last dead last she's done with winner worried about Groundhog Day you scared about Groundhog Day um a little bit yeah I don't I don't want to I don't want any more winter yeah so you can stop wearing your [Applause] coat oops you guys have any thoughts about Groundhog Day um I oh I hope the strong opinion strong opinion when do you know the Bieber like it's a it's a groundhog it's a groundhog ground hog that's why it's called Groundhog Day how do you know like when the groundhog when it like does what I forgot tell you CU it's if he sees his shadow there's six more weeks yeah six more weeks a winner who am I here with JT Barrett are you hoping he sees the shadow today no whatever makes it shorter winter you're ready for spring yeah done with winter yep no more learning days you want to be here at school every single day yeah way to be a good student we'll find out soon oh yeah we're here it's February what do you guys think where's winner rank in your fourth season fourth fourth fourth Fourth dead last yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle C of Life they're all warm weather folks do you guys know it it's Groundhog Day no no do you know what Groundhog Day is no no is a Bieber well it's a groundhog that's why they call Groundhog if he comes out of season Shadow we got six more weeks of winers so you're saying you don't want six more weeks of win no no no so you guys are ready no more e-learning days right you want no more learning I mean I'm fine with that it's Pon Phil okay we have a decision Glad Tidings on this Groundhog Day an early spring is on the way all right Wild Cats the groundhog did not see his shadow that means winter is done spring is coming get ready put those coats away let's have a great weekend have a great Friday wild cats [Music]
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[Music] music is a world within itself with the language we [Music] all I knew that Nathan loved music at a very young age he really took off and made it his [Music] own Nathan was the best friend that anyone could ever ask for and Nathan was kind and funny and smart and so loyal I will forever miss performing Together We performed at clocker Idol together actually twice I'll miss the multiple homecomings we went to together most of all I'll miss his [Music] hugs he was and always will be my best [Music] friend you know if there's one thing about Nathan is that he always had a big heart I mean every morning before school he'd always come up to me and give me a big hug ask me how my did was going crack a few jokes mess up my hair just try to make me laugh I mean he's so kind and I mean he had a great voice he was a really great [Music] person Nathan was such a talented Bright Beautiful light um I did theater with him and I'll never forget doing 13 The Musical with him and just having the best time every single day when I think of Nathan I think of someone who constantly is making funny jokes being super creative just someone that makes people want to be around him he always just knew how to light up a room and make people feel included and [Music] wanted you can feel it all over you being friends with Nathan for 8 years I can pretty confidently say that he was one of the best people I ever knew within a year of knowing each other he actually gave this necklace to me put it in my hand while I wasn't [Music] looking one of my favorite memories with her about Nathan is definitely his love for Christmas his last name being Noel um he adored Christmas and every single year during Thanksgiving break he would literally kidnap me from my house and drag me over to his house and have me decorate with him and his family for hours um and it was just such an awesome moment and time for both of us and just being able to enjoy each other's presence be silly listen to music drink eggnog and eat cookies was just one of my favorite things to do especially around the holiday season [Music] I hi I'm aam my name is NRA Donald my name is my name is Amelia Ugo my name is I am Joseph I am my name is Jordan [Music] Norris soccer season 10 we have such a fun night ahead of us we'll be your MC for this evening I'm Amelia and I'm Bella and we are so excited to be here tonight please note that all coures from this evening will go to the Ashen emergency fund a QR code for donations can be found on the back of all the programs we have an amazing panel of Judges with us tonight so let's start by meeting each of the judges first up we have Miss namus next up we have Miss [Applause] greef we have Miss St [Applause] C and lastly we have Miss [Applause] wol thank you to all of our judges for being here tonight we appreciate your dedication to this event now I don't know about you guys but I'm ready to meet our contestants first up we have COA [Applause] Cade next up we have Courtney [Applause] castelli Daniela [Music] [Applause] dava Mir [Applause] Donald Jordan [Applause] Norris Joseph prieres [Applause] Gonzalez my co-host IA yug [Applause] aoro and lastly we have Emma [Applause] witam thank you all again so much for coming out tonight um once again all of the proceeds go to the Ashland emergency fund so now let's get into it many contestants auditioned but only eight were chosen and at the end of tonight the clocker Idol season season 10 winner will be chosen we will start by calling each contestant up to the stage to sing their song after they sing the judges will offer feedback once everyone has sung and received feedback there will be a short intermission where the judges will pick our top three singers once the top three are chosen they will each sing a second song receive feedback from the judges and we will take another short intermission in which the audience members will vote for our next clocker idol now to start the show our first contestant is my co-host Amelia yug aoro my name is Amelia yug lauro I have been singing since my sixth grade year so around seven years now my favorite artist is Taylor Swift um if I was on Ax the first two songs that I would play are all too well 10-minute version and don't blame me by Taylor Swift I'm singing there are worst things I could do from Greece and I chose this song because I love the character who sings it Rizzo I relate to her a lot um and I think she's just kind of an awesome character there are worse things I could do then go with a boy or two even though the neighborhood thinks I'm trashy and no good I suppose it could be true but there are worse things I could do I could flirt with all the smile them and my against them when we dance make them think they stand a chance then refuse to see it through that's a thing I never do I could stay home every night wait around for [Music] M take cold showers every day and grow my away a dream that won't come true I could hurt someone like me how of spite or jealousy I don't steal and I don't but I can feel and I can cry I'll bet you never [Music] knew but to cry for [Music] you that's the worst thing I could [Music] do amazing job Amelia all right let's hand it over to our judges hello okay so when I was 7 years old we had the soundtrack to Greece double album I played it over and over again wishing that I had a voice like yours that was awesome usually I say what she said but now I'm going to say what she said I 100% agree with that it was probably the most played album and I still remind this day going to see that movie and loving every word of it and I felt like I was listening to it listening to [Applause] you um Amelia you have star power um those high notes were executed so beautifully and they're so challenging cuz they're at a break spot in most voices and you nailed them and they they really pulled at the heartstrings of the audience it was really an outstanding performance so good job our next contestant this evening is Courtney [Music] castelli my name is Courtney my name is Courtney castelli I've been singing since I was in third grade my favorite artist is Deborah Cox and my favorite genre is Art if I was given Ox in a car I would probably play nobody is supposed to be here by Deborah Cox and alien Blues by bu I will be singing no time to die by Billy iish and I chose this song because I think it's very powerful and it's a very pretty [Music] song I should have [Music] known that i' leave [Music] alone just goes to show that the blood you bleed is just the blood you we were AAR but I saw you there too much to bear you were my life but life is far away from IID to love you was I Reckless to help was it obvious to everybody else that I fall for alive you will never on my side fool me once fool me twice I the paradise now you'll never see me cry there just no time to [Music] die I let it burn you're no longer my concern this is is from my past return another lesson yet to learn that i' fall for aive you will never on my side for me once for me twice I the p di now you never see me cry there's just no time to die no time to die no [Music] to oh oh me once for me twice you Paradise now you never see me cry there's just no time to [Applause] die amazing sh for me that was so so good this wow is you guys Courtney that was amazing your voice is deep and powerful and Soulful I could feel all of that emotion coming through in that song so impressive loved [Applause] it all right you all know I tell it like it is right so Courtney knows that I am a fan of her style we spent a whole year together I admired all of her outfits that intro was long though right so I'm watching you I'm waiting and I'm like is that like a tiny quiver and then I get nervous and then you started singing and that first tone just solid and I was like oh yeah I had no reason to worry I just sat back and relaxed and enjoyed the rest of your performance fantastic [Applause] our next contestant this evening is Emma [Applause] Wham hi I'm Emma Wham and I'm a senior here at Ashen High School uh I remember singing since I was incredibly young um but I was never part of anything official um joining belcanto this year um was the first official singing group that I've ever been in uh my favorite artist is the band Ghost and I am incredibly inspired by um the vocals of the lead singer um if I was handed the ox in the car I would play Imperium and kerion by ghost because those are the opening songs of their live concerts and I like to remember the best day of my life I'm singing Not Strong Enough by boy genius and um when this band explains the meaning behind the lyrics um they talked about complexities regarding self-esteem and sort of the mood swings about how you feel about yourself and it just really resonated with [Music] me black hole in the K every a different time it would only take the en I don't know why I am the way I am not strong enough to be your man I try I can so St staring at the ceiling anding out about things that hav't happen Brea in and [Music] out drag racing through the [Music] canyon singing boys don't [Music] cry do you see us getting screed above the Haven I don't know why I am the way I am not strong enough to be your man I li I am just lowering your expectations the that keep the other second guessing close my eyes and [Music] count [Music] always an angel never godone always an angel never godone always an angel never godone always an angel Le God always an angel Le God always an angel God always an angel God always an angel never God always an angel never God always an angel never God always an angel never [Music] God I don't know why I am the way I am there's something instead I think I've been having Revelations com in the front seat nearly empty skip the exit to our old Street and go home go [Music] home amazing job Emma amazing job Emma all right now let's hear from our judges Emma I am so proud of you I've known you for the last few years through the cares team and your awesome work with social justice and I've seen you walk by The Choir room every day going to band and then this fall um you audition for The Bell cono society and I was like oh my gosh this student can sing you give like indie rock Vibes um your like there were some beautiful falsetto notes towards the beginning that sounded very flute like gorgeous I think the thing I was most impressed by was your expression because singers are are nothing more than storytellers and you were so beautifully expressive during your performance well done [Applause] and I was thinking the same things it has been such a joy for me to watch your growth in so many different areas over the last three and a half years and I know your passion and your commitment that you give to things so it's super exciting to hear that you're now um putting it towards singing and that you're out here um singing a really fun song I really enjoyed that um I'm G ask you later what the band was again because I didn't hear you but I got to lift them up because that was great thank you so much our next contestant is Daniela [Applause] Dava um my name is D I've been singing for ever since I was five my favorite artist is Adele if I was given ax I would put on the climb of M Cyrus and probably um sha I'm going to be singing rocking B Cyrus because it BRS like a it brings a very strong message it's like a very strong [Music] song We CL we chained our hearts in we jump never asking why we kissed I fell under yes fell love no one could deny don't you ever say I just walked away I will always want you I can live a life running for my life I will always want you I came in like a I never it's a heart enough all I want was to break you w all you ever do was me yeah you you me you high up in the sky and out you're not coming down it's slowly turned you let me burning out ashes on the ground don't you you ever say I just want way I will always want you I can't live a life running for my life I will always want you I can't be like AAG I never a hard enough all I wanted was to break you want all you ever do [Music] was K like a roing yeah I just love I just let meing in a craing fall all you ever did [Music] was yeah you you I never meant to start War I just wanted you to let me in and instead of using F I guess I should have left you in I never meant to start a war I just wanted you to let me in I guess I should have let you [Music] in don't you ever say I just walked away I will always want you I came in like a I never a all I want was to break you all you rather did [Music] was I came like yeah I just CL my eyes meing in a fall oh you it wasy yeah you youy yeah you [Applause] you that was so beautiful judges I'm going to take Liberty just speak for both of us right now uh I think you all saw from the commercial that was playing on a loop out there uh m wolf and I two thumbs up on the song choice we love Miley Cyrus fantastic this next part however does not apply to you so I'm going to go over here those of us on the shorter side it would be easy to overlook someone of your stature you came out here big big presence on stage amazing the minute you started singing I asked you this morning when you get off the butt are you ready for tonight or something along this line and you confidently said yes and you walked out here and you were so confident and you did an amazing job our next contestant of the night is Joseph remirez Gonzalez I'm Joseph I start to sing this year I think my favorite arst is is Mark Anthony he's a salsa singer if I would give ax in the car I would play the weekend Canela because it's a cheerful song and have a lot of [Music] [Applause] [Music] s [Music] foree [Music] spee for [Music] spee so [Music] for [Music] now [Music] spee [Music] fore [Music] for for [Music] [Applause] now Joseph that was positively fabulous all right let's hear from our judges Tango Inc fantastic phenomenal [Music] [Applause] Joseph oh M goodness um Joseph so much of clocker idol is about the song choice and you made a fabulous song Choice um did you hear how the audience responded they loved it um your shirt your expression working it to the judges and to the audience uh it was so good and Mark Anthony himself would be so proud of your performance it was fabulous well [Applause] done our next contestant this evening is Mira Don uh my name is Mea Donald uh I've been singing my whole life but I only recently started doing theater um my favorite artist would be Kean if I was given the aux in a car ride I would put first Somewhere Only We Know and then after that a show tune of some kind I'm singing Make You Feel My Love by Adele and I chose it because I've always thought that Adele has just the prettiest vocals and it really gave me the opportunity to kind of work on my lower [Music] range and the rain is [Music] blowing world is on your case I could offer you a warm embrace To Make You Feel My Love when the evening shadows and the stars appear and there is no one there to dry your [Music] tears I could could hold you for a million years to make you feel like love I know you hav't made your mind up yet but I would never do you wrong I've known it from the moment that we met no doubt in my mind where you belong oh I go hungry I go black and blue I go crawling down [Music] theen no there's nothing that I wouldn't do To Make You Feel My [Music] Love [Music] the storms are reaching on the rolling seas and on the high the grave The Winds of Change are blowing Wild and Free you ain't seen nothing like me yet I could make you happy make your dreams come true nothing that I wouldn't do go to the ends of the Earth for you to Make You Feel My Love To Make You Feel My Love is absolutely gorgeous J all right so first off like a pro right little equipment glitch unruffled it's like it never happened um you can tell you're an adal fan me too right so you've Incorporated some of her style but your voice your talent taking Center Stage really great I need to say something right now merera is my student in Spanish class and that was incredible I could I could feel it I could feel the love right here that was amazing you are so talented I loved it I loved it I loved it [Applause] all right next up we have KO [Applause] Cade um I am KO Cade I'm a senior I've been singing for most of my life I've been doing theater for a while I've been in musical since 7eventh grade and I've been um mus has been a really big part of my life for a long time my favorite genre is probably show tunes um I really like musicals um and I like too many artists to pick just one um if I were given aux in the car I would probably play Taylor Swift or bwood map I'm going to be singing Wolf by first aid kit because it's one of my favorite songs and I listen to it all the [Music] time oh Mother where you been you look so War so thin overtaker Devil's maker let me hear you sing of father at the door you don't smile anymore you're a dter shame shifter and we see you run [Music] hey Holy Light over the night oh keep the spirit strong watch it child war hold on when I run to the deep dark for long long after this begun where the sun would set the trees were dead and the rivers were none and I hope to lead me back home from this place but there was no sound there was only me and my disgracey hey [Music] hey [Music] hey oh Mother where you so you're a taker Devil's maker me hear you saying he am oh Father at the door you don't smile [Applause] anymore you're D sh shter and see you [Music] R way would wind boys SE of Forgotten watch it R child watch amending hand when I R into the deep dark Forest long this be when the sun would the trees were dead and the rivers were n and the hopeful Place Le me back home from this place but there was no sound there was only me and myrace [Music] hey hey hey [Music] [Applause] hey oh that was absolutely Dr taking I love that all right let's hear from our judges oh wow wow that was amazing um and just to hear your voice I felt the power of the wolf of the song uh the range of your notes it was just beautiful great job I love how you understood the assignment you have the whole look going on from the lip color the boots super fabulous the song chys was awesome I love that driving Rhythm your breath support was awesome and even from um I only just familiar with your voice at the start of the school year through the national anthem and even just through the last 3 months I've seen tremendous growth your projection was super great the expression it was really good well done I I just love the song Choice wolf love it all right everyone and our last contestant of the first round is Jordan Norris uh hi my name is Jordan Norris um I have been singing since I could basically so at the second I've like learned the ability so I'm like 3 years old probably um my favorite artist is msky and my favorite genre is a mix of like Indie and hard rock um if someone handed me the ax in the car I would probably play uh what you want to do from bat boy and uh Meltdown by Str and Lord um I'm singing flowers from Hades town it's uh Hades toown has been one of my favorite musical since as long as I can remember and flowers is my favorite song from [Music] it what I wanted was to fall [Music] asleep close my eyes disappear like a p on a stream a FEA [Music] on liy red I tled when he laid me out you won't feel a thing he said when you go down nothing going to wake [Music] you [Music] dreams are sweet until they're not men are kind until they hurt flowers bloom until they rot and fall [Music] apart is anybody listening I open my mouth and nothing comes out nothing nothing going to wake [Music] me flowers I remember FS flowers sof my heels walking in the sun I remember someone by my side turned his face to mine and then I turned away into the shade [Music] [Applause] [Music] the one I left behind if you ever Walk This Way come and find me lying in the bed I made judges what did you think so as I don't have any musical ability of my own I tend to comment more on style however style here is obvious I have not seen someone more comfortable in their own skin on this stage tonight so I am going to try to get technical here yeah it felt like that song required a lot of range uh it had some high highs and some low lows I think those are the technical terms there was no point at which I felt like you were uncomfortable in any piece of that it was really [Applause] impressive uh you're going into musical theater right yeah shocker um um it was a beautiful piece you the execution was gorgeous um one of the things that I love most about you as a performer is your connection to the music um and how you connect with the audience some of those um that part uh the tremble line oh my gosh like oh it was it my heart it was so beautiful um really really nicely done it it felt like a college audition is what it felt like for musical theater well done congratulations to all our eight contestants competing in the round you all did so so amazing all right before we start our intermission would riona and Natalie please meet shr to help set up the bake sale all right thank you uh the B will be in the hall um but before you all break for intermission we have Bill gath here from the Ashen emergency fund to say a few things so Bill if you want to come up my name is Bill Gat I'm one of the many directors of the as fund and we want to gratefully thank clocker Idol for putting this on and donating this money to the action emergency fund if any of you do not know the action emergency fund is open to any Resident in ashin if you have an emergency need if you go to the community center the town has two social workers uh I think it's called the HR department who will listen to you and take down some information and it is their job to vet the information assign that case a number and then refer with no names and no no identification the three different screeners on the ash Day committee I mean on the uh emergency fund I'm on several group um and uh if two of those uh screeners okay it then it is the information is sent to a dispersement officer who then pays whatever bills need to be paid directly to the utility or the uh mortgage company or you it so that all the funds go directly to the people in need um we requireed that you be a resident of ashin and that you've lived here for at least two years if you've lived here for less than that we will still consider it but it goes beyond the screen is to the full board of directors uh give you an example in in November we support the food pantry also the town runs the food pantry and and is hired a food pantry manager but financially we support the food pantry in November we put out about $110,000 for Thanksgiving meals in addition to our normal stuff and we put out approximately 110 complete turkey dinis with a turkey carrots potatoes rolls pies you name it they can pick it up and take the whole thing and then for those who don't eat turkey for uh Thanksgiving we provided uh grocery gift cards so that they could go and get what their specific meal needed to be uh the ashon food pantry is at the community center and the only requirement you have to use the food pantry is to answer some very difficult questions the only question there is is are you an Ashlin resident they don't even ask for proof everybody body should take advantage of that if you're having problems for instance paying your oil bill or your gas bill or your electric bill you could go to the food pantry and save your food money to go towards those things by using the pantry it is there for you the ash emergency fund is there for you and we ask you to please take advantage of it thank you all very much all right will be the 10 we hope you all enjoyed the short break but I think it's time to meet our three finalists don't you Bella I completely agree all right our first finalist is our second finalist is [Applause] Mir all right and our last finalist is [Applause] a congrats you three okay so round two we'll start with each three of our finalists singing a second song and receiving feedback from our judges once theyve all finished audience members will get the opportunity to to vote for our next clocker idol more information will come on that later um are you ready to hear our three finalists all right first up we have Joseph Ramirez [Applause] Gonzalez so Joseph what is your second song and why did you choose it um my second song is called M Cafe and in English is like reing coffee and I shoot it because reminds me the Colombian Coffee Culture that we have so that's what I CH of awesome and how does it feel to be a finalist it's pretty exciting actually awesome good [Applause] [Music] luck [Music] [Laughter] [Music] spe [Music] speee [Music] fore [Music] speee [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] an Applause for her please [Applause] [Music] forne [Music] [Applause] spee [Music] [Applause] [Music] good luck all right we need hear from our judges I have 2 years of du lingo Portuguese under my belt I did not understand one word of that song in Spanish however here's what I know they loved it they were on your side your Showmanship through the roof fantastic Bravo by last day I was thinking and asking if you want to join but loo Miss nth is a better dancer I have a lot of confidence but I don't dancers sing well but you have way more confidence than me you're amazing Joseph incred fantastic all right our next finalist is Mira Donna [Applause] all right Mera what is your second song and why did you choose it my second song is hard and heart by Tom chaplain and I chose it because I've loved the band Keen since I was a little kid and it just really strikes a cord with me awesome and how does it feel to be a finalist crazy all right well good luck w [Applause] w it's such a beautiful so why do I feel so [Music] down I should be headed for some instead of spinning I'm flying out of [Music] control head long into the ground and all the people that love me [Music] they never know if I'm up down everything I've God I'm going to lose the l oh how I wish that I wasur everyone I know bringing everybody down soow suck a long a road Ro of sadness with nowhere to go but it's a beautiful world and so I'm joining the crowd it's way too hard on my [Music] own I really need a way out out out taking what of [Music] God happy with my l now I know that I am not cursing everyone I know bringing everybody down so low suck a road on sadness with nowhere to go hoping that the signs are real and tomorrow will a spring in my he somewhere on the road on sness lies a better de oh I know that my heart and heart is beating still I drove it to the point of Madness just to feel something real so [Music] realu a road of sadness with nowhere to go hoping that the signs are real and tomorrow will bring you my he somewhere on the road out lies a better de oh I know that my heart and heart is we F I drove it to the point of Madness just to feel I know that my heart and heart is Bea still I drove the of M [Music] feel awesome Joba judges thanks M I really enjoyed that performance I could see what the H that song made you feel and I loved how it started off so slow and then just to feel hear your voice grow um and your passion for that song was awesome thank you so [Applause] much oh all right we're back on chat are we though um merera you're a sophomore yes you such a mature voice very Soulful those riffs that you were doing take a lot of control um I love your belt I too am a Broadway Super Fan um it was a really outstanding performance well [Applause] done all right and our last finalist is my co-host Amelia Yugi aoro and I have to walk upstage by myself but first what what is your second song and why did you choose it my second song is All That Jazz from Chicago and I chose it because I have loved Chicago from the moment that I first heard it I listened to the soundtrack so much and we're doing it as our School Musical and I'm so excited which everyone should go see by the way and and I love Velma and her vocal range and I think just fits me all right how do you feel to be a finalist it's really crazy I believe that good [Applause] [Music] luck and all that is going to blow and all that jazz start the car I know a whoopy spot where the Gin is cold but the piano's hot it's just a noisy H where there's a night and all [Music] [Laughter] that slick your hair and wear your buckle shoes and all that ja I hear dip is going toow the and all that Jaz hold on H we're going to bunny hug I bought some Mas for now night a drug in case you shake aart and want a brand new start to do [Music] that find a flask we're playing fast and loose and all that jazz right up here is where I store juice and All That Jazz come on babe we're going to brush the sky how bet you lucky Ling never so high cuz in the stratosphere I bet he lend an ear to all [Music] that no I'm no one's wife but oh I love my life and [Applause] [Music] all that [Applause] jazz Amelia that was so Jazzy I loved it all right well let's hear from our judges what do we think wow Amelia you are made for the stage that was incredible I am so impressed I feel like I don't even like musicals and that was that was amazing I I'm blown away I'm Blown Away as one of a group of people who is Ashlin stuco YouTube channel famous for our commercial work that was the best commercial I have seen first the spring musical I'm soed to see I don't need this microphone that song made my heart happy to watch you that much fun us here my I would like to add another thing um I really appreciate the fossy elements of the dance um you are a superstar dancer in case you all do not know and I've Loved how you were able to incorporate uh that into your performance it was fire before we announce our winner we will take a short intermission for voting would riona Natalie please return to shreni in the hall to help the bake sale again thank you and now we begin the voting process you can V vote by placing your five tickets in any of the boxes with the finalist names in the back in the middle section um CLI on that that row thing that that back thing between the two sections that's that's what the boxes are all right however you do not have to put all five tickets into one box if you don't want to you can distribute them and split them however you would like between our three finalist how you choose to divide your votes is completely up to you and once you're done voting please return to your seat for the announcement of our winner all right once again all proceeds from tonight's event will go to the Ashland emergency fund don't forget about the QR code that is on the back of your programs please consider donating to this amazing organization thank you go see [Applause] Chicago all right thank you all again for joining us tonight all right um so we were going to have a special guest um so normally we would call back the winner from last year to sing for us this year just as a little special performance but unfortunately Sophie Brandt um last year's winner is sick so we're still going to play her video however she will not be performing tonight [Music] unfortunately [Music] is [Applause] all right with our three finalists please join us on [Music] [Applause] stage all right the moment we've all been waiting for the season 10 winner of clocker idol [Applause] is one all right congratulations Joseph how do you [Music] feel the people have smoken congratulations Joseph we're so proud of you thank you I want to thanks to miss NE for Dan with me that was really nice and for everybody to be honest everybody was like so that's I love everybody all right well we love you all right thank you so much for coming you are an amazing audience I hope you all have an amazing night happy holidays I hope you enjoy
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call the meeting to order roll call Maria opara I'm here Rick Ry absent Mr Ary here Mrs banan here Mr Bender here Amanda will you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance please sure right hand over your heart ready begin IED ALG 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 Kylie do we have any public comments uh not pertaining to Clos session thank you um we're going to go to close session uh people Personnel expulsion um case uh number 8 2324 through exposion case exposion number 11 2324 annual review AR 11 23 20-34 an expungement case expulsion number 17 22-23 conference on litigation government code section 54956.9 subsection a current litigation 10 cases CVI cvds 11183 and 20229 9 56 cvsb 2111 303 22233 221 8676 22 27023 23 04865 231 473 and 23 22171 government code section 5495 54 sub uh .5 subsection C and 54956.9 subsection D subsection D and subsection e and subsection one 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into close session Some Mo I need a second I'll second all in favor I any opposed thank you come call the meeting to order roll call Maria okara I am here Rick Ry is absent Gary Ary here Amanda Buchanan here and Dennis Bender here um Samuel will you please lead us in Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and Justice at this time we would like to pause in a moment of silence to remember our retired abusd uh family member Dave Meadows thank you good evening everyone and thank you for being here before we get started I would like to say that the board of appreciates and supports all our educational Partners including our children um at this meeting engage engagement by members of the public in Civic matters is a Cornerstone of our democracy everyone should have a chance to express their opinions within the guidelines the board has established for its meetings so so that we are able to conduct the meeting effectively and efficiently thank you so much for coming to be part of our running of the district um at this time I need um reports for student Representatives um Rio Vista School of Applied learning Theodor Coleman Michael stepan stepanovic Nicole Guzman D Evans and Heather long Josiah doing can you guys tell us about your [Applause] school oh God I can I keep changing I type it good evening Alpha Valley Unified School District board members Administration and guests my name is steo Coleman and I am the Rio Vista ASB president with me tonight I have my vice president Mikey stefanovich secretary Nicole Guzman activities commissioner deina Evans Pride commissioner Heather long and r commissioner Josiah doing tonight we are going to read you a little story called don't eat your classmates Penelope Rex was nervous it's not everyday a little TX Sal at school what are my classmates going to be like will they be nice how many teeth will they have this was very important play pal bought her a new backpack with ponies on it ponies will penal pe's favorite because Ponies are delicious P B's dad packed for a lunch of 300 Duna sandwiches and one apple juice finally the big day came and P Rex was very surprised to find out that all of her craftmates were children so she ate them because children are delicious fin Rex said Miss noodleman we do not eat our classmates please spit them out at once so she did it was not the best word to S at school still Penelope was determined to have a good for St she tried hard to make friends at resar she finger painted some of her best work she even saved gin Emily AC at lunch you can sit here can started to notice everyone was making friends for her it was Lely when she got home her dad asked about her first day of school I make any funs P cried now the children wanted to be play with me now be re her father asked did you eat your classmates well maybe sort of just a little bit sometimes it's hard to make friends said her dad especially if you need them you see p children are the same as us on the inside just case you that gave falope a lot to think about the next day Penelope tried really hard but poor Penelope she could not stop herself from eating her classmates Miss noan Penelope ate her will amoto again and they were all afraid of her except w w was a goldfish so penolope tried to make friends with him will you be my friend jump cried Penelope he's eating my fingle once found out what it was like to be someone snack she lost her appetite for children she stopped eating her classmates even when CeCe W spilled barbecue sauce all over herself and P and soon Penelope made fence found you when a brownie I helped make them now even when children look especially delicious she picks out W and remember what it's like when someone tries to eat you and W the Goldfish gos right back and looks his lips because dinosaurs are [Applause] delicious Penelope re sure did learn how to be kind to her classmates after her experience of being bit by that goldfish being kind is what we are focusing on this week for kindness week here at AV USD we are learning practicing and showing kindness to others just for the sake of being kind to one another just like Penelope Rex we could get up here and tell you about all the great things Rio Vista is doing like our celebrations of community members for Patriots Day and grandparents day or how we collected donations and drop them at the Victor Valley Rescue Mission or how we celebrate being drug fee during red Ry week we celebrate students working hard with Student Success day each trimester we love to celebrate science we had a school steam Fair sent projects to the district steam Fair we even have some scientists going on to the county fair we had our stem night at ABCI and got to experience the stem assembly too how about that we have several ASB kids going to read to our younger grades on campus we had a holiday concert by our band students led by Mr fange or how we celebrated 100 days and 101 days of learning let's not leave out the Friday lunchtime activities monthly let's not forget that M of Dimes will be coming that would be a great month we're definitely taking steps to make our community a better place yeah also the amazing costume parade we had fall fun boost led by ASB we can't wait to see the Lunar New Year parade we know it's our job to make everybody feel like somebody we hope the things we lead to real help all our students feel like they belong yes we could mention all of that but we won't will you join us in being that somebody who makes everybody feel like [Applause] somebody excellent excellent work excellent um hi desert Premier isma [Applause] Solis yeah there's a pen right here it's mine all I'll take it's a nice pen thank you oh can I get this a little lower yeah okay sorry I don't want to mess with it make a fall or [Music] something yeah I think that's good wait can you hear me okay okay okay okay all right well I'm glad that you're here today I'm just gon I'm just gonna say that I miss you too I miss all you guys but it's good that your knee feels better and everything you know kind of miss you last time all right uh good evening president Oak board members superintendent Nelson and executive cabinet last month superintendent Nelson and assistant superintendent schoser came to speak with our student advisory team about our campus and how the school year was going so far we discussed the youth truth survey results and found that there was a high number of 10th graders that lack a sense of belonging out hiide as a Premier Academy this created discussion about why and how we could help these students feel like they belong some things we thought would help them make them feel a sense of belonging would be to have more events during break time at Social Clubs we want them to have the same feelings as others do on campus once you go to High Desert Premier Academy you don't want to leave there I mean I'm pretty sure you guys all know that you guys go and you guys love it there you guys want to come back so you guys should come back oh okay sorry I'm talking too much all right later that week we had a visit from president oakar I'm so sorry that I missed your visit thank you for coming to our campus and speaking with our students and teachers we we love having visitors in our Campus February is Black History Month did you know that it used to be only a week every year during this month our us and world history classes look under represented African-American Heroes during World War II and their experiences during this year our middle school program will be doing something similar to what they did last year each student will choose a specific person and research them then they would write a paper and give a presentation to the class the theme is a in the life of blank this gives them the opportunity to choose someone such as Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks to research starting this week our counselors will be in every classroom talking about the consequences of vaping and resources for students who need help to quit the bad habits they will also start preparation for big smiles big smiles will be on our campus in April and nurse Bryant is ready in the process of getting as many students and families as possible to benefit from this opportunity a few Club updates is Esports is in preseason for our two esport competitions which begin at the end of this month play versus and generation Esports next month the actual tournaments will begin I believe we are signing up for Madden 2024 NBA 2K and Apex Legends I wish they could have added fortnite because then I would have been in there but yeah all right golf has officially begun and every Tuesday they visit the Apple Valley Golf Course to get their shots in I wish I could have done that too man ah I got a job though all right hdpa has also introduced the new after school reading club using Accelerated Reader Program students now have the opportunity to read books related to their interests and not only improve their reading skills but develop the overall love of reading we're excited to have this resource since part of high deser Premier Academy vision statement defines High expect high expectations for literacy as as necessary for success I hope that you all had a fabulous start to your year I'm looking forward to seeing you all next month and talk more about our school owls have a great rest of your night [Applause] everybody thank you isma Granny Hills High School Hannah for good evening executive cabinet board members and attendees my name is Hannah for the junior class president Grana Hills and I have so many wonderful things to tell you all about tonight the first month of the new semester was a very busy one we welcomed our students back to campus by recognizing their achievement in first semester with the semester award ceremony 517 students were recognized for earning a 3.5 GPA or above on their first semester report cards with over 53% of those students earning a 3.9 GPA or higher and we are very proud great job cougars our staff and ASB has been working very hard to make Granite Hills a place where students are excited to come to school yesterday we held called the positive attendance celebration for students who had a 97% attendance rate through the first semester 543 students were eligible to attend the celebration in the gym with music pizza games raffle prizes and much more last week theater held the play Julia Caesar which was a huge success everyone was extremely impressed with how well the students were able to understand and act out something so complicated and complex it was an extremely impressive performance and I do hope at least some of you were able to make it out to watch I don't know but I hope so this Monday and Tuesday additions for Mean Girls and musical were held with callbacks being held today everyone including myself is very strongly anticipating that final cast list which will be released tomorrow afternoon last week we celebrated kindness week ASB L weekly activities at lunch time to help promote kindness we partnered with our graphic design class to create cougar kindness stickers which we passed out to students who participated in the spirit days some of the activities we held at lunch included kindness labels a campus cleanup donation days photo booths the kindness pledge station and many more our spirit week consisted of crazy for kindness Monday AKA crazy lock day Tuesday don't sleep on kindness pajama day work out your problems with workout Wednesday Thursday kindness makes your heart grow where red and pink and Friday don't hide your kindness camo day ASB is currently busy fin finishing final preparations for winter formal on February 24th this year's theme is the night New York this month we are celebrating Black History Month with lessons activities in a self-care Fair hosted by our African-American parent advisory committee this community event will be hosted in our gym on February 28th from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
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in the dirty t-shirt you kissed a complete stranger in a convenience store he looked like he liked to kiss at 7 in the morning yes well so what he wasn't any good at it um he kept his mouth open okay I see his lips were slobbery right so and he needed a shave okay I can see how that he groped me oh well that's just and he tasted like beer at 7 in the morning mhm so out of 387 kissers he was he was the worst yeah well he was at least in the bottom 20 well at least I think I could do better than that no no no I mean look you've got to level with me about what strangers kissing why I like kissing yes so do I so does everybody but 387 well how many girls have you kissed me oh God I don't know in my life do you remember what they were wearing wearing who the it's hard to really say what they were do you remember their perfume their lipstick color did you hold their hands did you cup their chin did you lean in did you hold them close I I don't I I can't yeah see I don't think you like his him very much at all who was he who the the one you knew the one one who wasn't a stranger Stevie Stevie he was the first what happened to him happened nothing nothing nothing I'm sorry I I thought that no then what our first kiss what about it it was a good kiss well that's great but the second kiss wasn't oh well I mean it was was and so was the third kiss and the fourth kiss but I could never remember those kisses when I was in class or washing dishes or lying in bed at night I could only ever remember the first kiss and when I tried to remember the other kisses it was always the first kiss that I remembered and that made me sad they were kisses they should be remembered I want to remember them I want to remember all of them I want each and every kiss to be a first kiss you must have been that must have been a long time ago hasn't anyone ever you know what hasn't anyone ever made you remember a second kiss second kiss yes no there are no second kisses never why would I want a second kiss why why because the first kiss was so it was so that afterwards it didn't make sense to kiss anyone else because it's not the kiss it it's not the kiss don't you see you you write write them all down and you make your list but it's who you kiss you're supposed to remember it's who you kiss that you're supposed to think about when you're washing dishes or lying in bed or you're I just wish that if someone would just if someone could just you could kiss me if you want to that was a good kiss yeah that was a good kiss glad you liked it I like kissing me too no no I I mean it's it's you it's you I like train number 19 my train is here what damn it you don't need to take it there call 19 transporting you don't need to take it there there's another one in in a few hours thank you for the kiss it was a good kiss you liked it I'll always remember it number 388 but you liked it you like me it's it's me you like at least tell me where I rank it was a good [Music] kiss [Music] where and when we get back streaming documentary oh cut God am I right place is this streaming documentary absolutely absolutely I'm so glad you were able to make it come on in come on in I'm very excited about interviewing you and I'm excited to be here it took me a long time to find you I've heard so much about you well I hope you heard good things anyway so how does this work well you simple you sit back you relax I ask questions you answer them relax have fun enjoy this is a good it's going to be fun so tell me about that um suitcase you got there what do you got going on in here um just my files I [Music] see [Music] so until next week like I always say a good stream is always a good thing that's to R well that wasn't so bad I was nervous but you made me feel very comfortable know I always try to make my guest feel very comfortable you can kiss me if you want to I'm sorry what you can kiss me if you want to a smack well um I I thought you didn't give second kisses remember
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it will feature food TR black own businesses Community Resources and step performances from fraternities and sorties with guest speakers and more we are also going to be commemorating the 10-y year anniversary of our Granite Hills Family Center the Family Center opened on February 29th a Leap Year in 2012 so although we're a little bit late on that 10 year celebration recognizing Mrs Hall and our family center on a leap here was an opportunity that we just couldn't pass up clubs will be sponsoring donation drives all month long collecting socks beanies sweatshirts and food for families in need we'll even be having a spirit week honoring some of the community events that have started from our family center such as where's Waldo day our Athletics programs have had a very successful winter season with two of our programs winning League titles our girls soccer program won their sixth straight Desert Sky leag title and the program 17th overall this year's team was full of Youth and we are excited to see how this young team performs in the playoffs next week our boy soccer program won the championship last night with a thrilling two to1 victory over barsto this is the program's 10th overall league title and what our coach said was a rebuilding year not bad for a team in transition we expect many great things from this team in playoffs boys basketball finished second in the desert sky league and we are going to be going to playoffs for the first time in over nine years this team success has been a four-year Journey with seven of the nine seniors being a part of the program's freshman team they're currently ranked seventh in their CIF Division and we are excited to see how far they will go girls basketball has seen a full transformation coach conin has brought a positive energetic change to this program the girls have been working very hard and they're getting better each and every day theyve won two out of their last three games and the energy around the program was Electric boys Wrestling League finals were held two weeks ago and 12 gr Hills wrestlers will be representing the school and CIF individual playoffs we excited for each of these young men the work they have put into the season to get this opportunity we expect some great things from them girls wrestling league finals were also held two weeks ago and eight Granite Hills wrestlers will be representing the school in CIF Emma Steeler took home the 100 weight league title we are so proud of Emma and all of her hard work this year we are also excited to see how some our to see how far some of our Lady Cougars will go girls water po finished the season winning three of their last five games this year's team has had many new members and they really started to hit their St towards the end of the season they played during Rainer shy and we are very proud of them that's all for tonight but as always we thank you for your support of Granite Hills R and gray lead the way thank you so much Hannah Apple valy High School Sophia [Applause] Brandt [Music] thank you so much sir it's my favorite part of every month yes thank you good evening members of the board and attendees my name is Sophia Brandt and I'm the APPA valy High School Associated student body line president today I'll be sharing with you what our students and staff have been up to as well as some of our goals for the upcoming month skillsusa competitions are off to a great start with students from Myriad of Pathways and electives competing we had 233 Sun Devils from Camp culinary construction Mast Sports Medicine welding and so much more compete in Regional competitions results will be released at the end of this month and we are anxiously awaiting them sophomores in Mass did their yearly tradition where they adopt fake babies and care for them for three straight days 72 whole hours it's a great practice of maturity and gives us an appreciation for our lovely parents um even if we're not the the ones adopting the babies just listening to them cry in the middle of class I was really hoping to escape it this year but there's some sophomores in my classes still and I had had to hear it computer science students competed as a cyber Patriot team in the semi-finals round of the National Youth cyber defense competition where they ranked in the top 40 out of 119 schools nationally Sun sunation show chir had their throwback recital on January 19th ASB junior class put on Greek week where teams of students compet needed in different lunchtime games and our 12th graders will have another opportunity to test and qualify for their state seal of by literacy as always our athletes have been excelling on the field court and Matt basketball has been having some super close games and I even saw Mrs okara at one of the boys basketball games a few weeks ago it was such a nice surprise and I was really happy to see you our girls basketball team hosted middle school night where any avusd Middle School basketball players got free entry to the game our girls soccer team beat Oak Hills and Serrano last week to claim the ja River League title for the second year in a row and will be advancing to CIF finals I mean not finals yet hopefully but playoffs good luck ladies our frisbee Club has been playing some great games of Ultimate Frisbee on Fridays and track has been practicing hard after school I also wanted to congratulate Jaylen Cerna who was named the Mojave River league lower weight wrestler of the year the superintendent's Council met in mid January to go over the youth TR survey responses meet with staff members and focus on important issues we can address on our campus this made so much real important change last year and we're all excited to see what this group can accomplish in 2024 this Saturday is our Warner formal and the theme will be a night under the lanterns inspired by one of my personal favorite movies Tangled senior class officers are preparing for the senior meeting next Wednesday where the class of 2024 will get information about senior events and the prom location will be revealed which we're all anticipating later on Friday the ASB class will take our field trip to California Adventure park to gain new leadership skills that we can apply our daily work on campus but we'll also make sure to ride a bunch of rides eat good food and watch the World of Color Show while we're there and I do want to give a shout out to my ginormous Entourage that all decided to show up today you guys can wave you guys can wave I'm proud of them it's taken a little while but we're getting there there are so many exciting things happening at Apple Valley high school and I want to thank you all for your continued support we couldn't give our students any of these incredible opportunities without you thank you for your time thank you so much um superintendent comment well they pretty much covered everything that I was going to talk about but um we did I I usually do a quick brief of what quick it's not ever quick it's never brief about the events of the past month um we did do student advisories as mentioned um the 17th of January at Apple Valley High School the next day was Granite Hills High School and then we finished with high desert Premiere this was the second meeting of the Year we're scheduled for February for the I believe late February for the next meeting and um we will bring lots of adults in this next time because they have already started their plans and what they're going to present to the staff on their campus so those are exciting dates um I did attend the DSL finals at Granite Hills High School little known fact I was a a wrestling stat when I was in high school so I used to travel with wrestling team and take all those stats what I couldn't figure out for DS finals was who was moving forward I knew who won but I didn't know how many kids got to go forward so hearing that there were that many that um took it was was impressive and um the female that won her class I'm gonna tell you I don't want to run into her someplace and she was little but she'd take me down um I also got to attend one of the abhs wrestling um events I could only be there during the um JV portion however I did get to watch all of the seniors walk out with their parents and be recognized before the varsity event um state of the district was on Monday January 22nd we held two different events and we always look forward to that event each year to highlight what we're doing in the district I um am always thrilled to have the great kindness challenge happen in this District because I think it's it should happen every day but the fact that we celebrate it for a week and remind people how to be kind um should carry over is my is always our goal our second ethnic studies community group met on January 24th um we were actually in this room and we're moving through the toolkit um along with our County Office of Education and the next meeting will be held on February 15th last week I attended the association for of school administrator superintendent Symposium it's a three-day conference it is only superintendence it's unlike anything I go to because everything is focused on superintendence and everybody's dealing with similar issues so um great learning and as um we learn in school districts all of us should be learning including myself um because of that I didn't get to go to chopped the competition that happens in our CT organization and um that's devastating to me because I make every one of those competitions when they happen and so this is the first time I've missed one and I was very sad but our students did wonderfully um we celebrated the 100th day of school and while there are activities and theme days this um across our district different depending on which school they're at the students in our youngest grades are actually learning number sense I love that part um we may have had a zero the hero um up here at the podium that was dressed and celebrating that at one of our school sites um they're definitely wor tights involved I was not there but I have photos uh our foundations teams from across the district came together this week uh each working on a schoolwide system and developing alongside with our facilitator from um safe and civil Susan Isaacs and it was exciting to see the progress each school's making with those sardino County School boards association meeting was this past Monday um I attended with Miss okara and Miss Buchanan we got to watch the Golden Bell presentations we cheered on our neighboring District Victor Elementary who received one but we were at the Redlands table so I told them we would be their cheerleader so people thought we were from Redlands we had to keep telling them no no we're from Apple Valley we're just really nice to other people um I always do that because I'm hoping we're recruiting people that's really why I do it because I think it's going to be really cool to come to Apple Valley uh The District spelling be was also this week on uh Tuesday night at sitting bow it was um fun to watch every age that participated and let me tell you there's some very young children in this District that could outspell most adults in this district and it was lovely to watch and they had to jump to the very end of the the list of words because they had two students back and forth back and forth back and forth but um ultimately we we had a it it finished about 8:00 and um we have a student moving on to the County Spelling date there were um the town recently actually today has published a newsletter it's called the E newsletter um called our town if you receive it or if you haven't signed up for it you'll recognize Miss oara as a community member that they will be highlighting as we begin the month dedicated um to Black History to celebrate Black History the town will also be recognizing the contributions of black um owned businesses and influential individuals within our community through their shop local spotlights and faces and places series which I believe is the one miss okar will be part of they will showcase small business um they will showcase the town soci on the town social media channels see ishma I missed out too I saw you when you when you did that and I I can't do it either I keep telling you um they will highlight this on the social media channels the YouTube channel and the avv watch for the spotlight on our own Miss oara while raising a very inquisitive child myself several times a day he would say things like did you know it became a a coin phrase in our house we knew something very important was about to be delivered and we were going to have to learn something and so I'm challenging each of our students and adults alike this month to learn something new each day about the contributions of a black person as we celebrate black history and share it with someone and if you want to use my son's term did you know because that's my plan let's celebrate Black History through learning as they're doing at High Desert Premier Academy I'd love that you shared that so did you know that inventor Lonnie Johnson best known for the Super Soaker and is the mother of sons we had lots of these um generated over a billion dollar in sales has accomplishments which extend far beyond this toy design he holds more than a hundred US patents and is the founder of the Johnson research and development company in Atlanta Georgia and has spun off additional companies including Johnson energy storage JTC energy Inc and he's currently working on a new generation of rechargeable battery technology and Johnson thermal um electrical chemical converter which efficiently converts waste heat to electrical energy and be can be run in Reverse as a cooling device so now you know and so challenge out it's February 1 everybody's challenge to find a dig know or something that you didn't know before thank you thank you Mr Benda to you seniors out there you only have four months and you graduate don't get senioritis work hard all the way up to the end you are well prepared and will do great in life I've had kids that graduated from both apple and granite and they're all very successful good luck thank you miss miss buan all right um so first of all thank you so much to all the kids and and the parents for getting them here it was so great um I was watching as like all the Rista students were talking and then at some point I my eyes just kind of Panda cross and all the proud parents with all the cameras recording it was just so great to see um but thank you so much for supporting them and getting them here um and they just did a really great job but I know you guys already know that so um I I did have I well I do have to apologize actually and she is in the audience but I did kind of do a surprise drop in on um over at sitting poow um on one of the Wednesdays I was able to kind of pop in and see the elop program uh it happened on accident I was kind of coming home and it was after we were down the hill I don't remember why we were down for a Wednesday but we were coming back and I had text my husband just to find out which the kids I needed to pick up in the parent pickup line and he was like none they both are homesick today because they had been taking turns and I was like cool I have time and so I kind of popped in to see the the program and it was fantastic um except they were not expecting me excuse me um and and I guess it was not a typical day because most of them were actually in a a staff meeting but uh Mrs Zachary was kind enough to to show me a little bit and I got to meet Mr Zachary and there was some really great um like diamond craft going on and some reading and it was fantastic so I know we get to hear about it sometimes here in the meetings but for those of you um I don't know if Dennis or I'm sure you guys have been out there cuz you guys are retired as you like to brag all the time so I'm sure you've seen it but I got to see it and it was fantastic so um also yes the District spelling be was amazing there were sometimes that they would say the word and I'm an English teacher and I was like what is that um and then at the very end after the the girls were going back and forth and it would be like Alina would spell and then Leilani would spell and it would just kind going back and forth and finally um they skipped to page 97 I think and that was where we finally got to some words where it got a little bit more difficult and we finally got a winner so they were just awesome so that was fantastic um and then the steam night okay did any of you guys go to the steam night last night were you guys there at Rio okay I was gonna say parents if any of you took your kids there so they did this like great um explosion like right off the bat and they like had ping pong balls go everywhere after nitrogen and then all the kids ran and picked them all up and I was like okay I hope the parents are paying attention because those kids know how to pick up after themselves right there so that was like a lesson in and of itself um but it was fantastic so I did get to kind of go over there to the ABCI and see the the reesta steam night so that was fantastic as well um and then the last thing oh and you high school teachers your students over there that are um kind of mentor ing them at the ABCI for the steam night they're doing a fantastic job as well because I talked to a couple of those leaders as well um so also I know there's been a couple mention of it being black history month so I know um president oar is over there yes you are um so I did represent a little bit so my necklace is one that I bought when I was in Uganda um many many years ago and then but I also wore my that I picked up this past summer at the uh African-American history museum in Washington DC um and I definitely if you're ever in DC I highly recommend you go check out there um there was I did not expect to find um we had started I think it like the day or so before um and I went to find the gravestone of Charles young if you get a chance there's a dig you know go look him up fantastic like fast fascinating history look up Charles J um and then he they had like his service uniform was actually on display um in the African American History Museum so that was really kind of neat it like tied it together didn't expect to find that tie at both places um but yeah go research that one that's a homework assignment from your friendly neighborhood English teacher trustee um but that's it so thank you so much thank you very much Mr RC just like to say uh congratulations to all the the Athletics and programs and sports teams that have started this semester uh Hannah and Sofia started to mention uh just the success in soccer and wrestling and got a chance to go see the girls water polo match at Granite and the boys basketball and uh Ju Just the the the students starting this semester you know with with the winter program are continuing the Excellence that was started in the fall program so a tremendous success for our students uh so congratulations to our students and coaches and all the staff who participated in that there's there's you know we expect to see great things from our from our sports teams we we know they're going to achieve a lot so very excited to see what they're up to uh as sofhia mentioned also wanted to commend the sensations for their throwback recital that that the choir Department threw a couple of weeks ago it was a the students performed a wide variety of songs and it was really a pleasure to see the the interaction and the encouragement the mutual support between the alumni and our current students and so on so so great things are happening also in our in our theater arts department and as sofhia mentioned also wanted to to highlight the skills competition that that's going on just just a tremendous amount of talent and and hard work that's showing up in our CTE programs uh last Saturday there was a competitions in advertising Design Graphic Communications welding and so on this coming Saturday and next Saturday there's going to be uh competitions in Automotive Maintenance woodworking computer programming EMT firefighting and so on so in all of these activities uh that the hard work of the students and the teachers of this District can continue to be demonstrated and their Excellence continues to be demonstrated so I'm just looking forward to tremendous achievements from from our students that you you've done fantastic things of first semester and we're excited to see what you're going to accomplish in these upcoming days so thank you for for the parents the students and the teachers for all your hard work thank you okay um Mr Ry is not here here so I guess that leaves me to say something um I have to start out by um thanking all the students um that came out to present to us I I know it's not always easy to um speak to um a room full of people room full of grown-ups but I must say I am really impressed with um your composure and your ability to read to us many of us do not get people reading to them uh and I really appreciated that uh sopia um I have to say when I came to that game I had no idea who I was watching so I actually literally videotaped you and sent it to the superintendent is I said is this our girl and and she said yeah and I went oh I I've been watching her but it looks she looks familiar the walk is the same but she's a cheer leader so I can't put the two of them together um but it was absolutely impressive um as you all know this is Black History Month and and as you can tell I'm it and I can't tell you how proud I am to be who I am um and even though I'm not originally from here I do celebrate um my the color of my skin and the and the quality I bring into a room and I hope you all will take take the time to get to know somebody that looks like me I am more than open to be interviewed by any of the students uh to get to know me as a person uh because I know that when I walk into a room I don't walk in as the president of the board I walk in as Maria okara uh and I'm hoping that when I leave the room that I leave a little piece of me with you um this uh this last month I had the opportunity to visit quite a few schools I went to Rio Vista I'm going to start with one I'm going to take a little bit of the schools I went to Rio Vista school I have to tell you that school was impeccable uh the students were engaged the students were able to share with me what they were doing in class without being prompted there even though the principal was standing there they were free to tell there was a place that we got to and we asked the kids what are you doing and it was like like it was like a a quick response for all three kids it said the same thing and I thought did you guys rehears this uh but it was just impressive I I really I really appreciate that and then I went to high Des a Premiere and and I saw so much going on I went to the technology room and I went I saw all the teachers doing what they normally would do and I really appreciated seeing that and the kids actually interviewed me in in one of the classes they wanted to know what it takes to be a board member uh and I I wasn't sure I knew the answer to that um but I gave it my best shot the kids were were gracious enough to uh to understand that I didn't know enough and they were pushing me to give the answers I went to sycar rocks I saw the art of the students those kids were able to paint the murals on their wall and that I I took pictures of the wall because I I don't feel safe taking pictures of children uh because I I have to get permission from their parents to post it so I just took the wall and the wall was just impressive the Vivid colors anybody that knows me knows I like colors so just seeing the colors was like oh wow I want those if I can get somebody to make me Fabric in those colors I will it will make my day um I went to Rancho verie uh Rancho verie was another place is that um it's almost you almost tend to forget that they're there um but it is um a warm environment and the principal took me through the Special A classrooms and I thought that was IM impeccable because I I don't usually ask people to take me anywhere uh I just say I'm on your campus show me what you have and the teach the principal actually to me took me through all of the special a classes and it was I felt at home and anybody that knows knows that my background is in special education so I was very much at home in those classes and Marana was my um one of my favorite stops because it was an after school activity I went into the kindergarten class and the kids were playing with this bubble looking thing and I I felt like I needed to sit down and play with them with the bubbles and then I went to see all of their after school activities and to their Garden um I will more than likely show back out on a Saturday so that I can join them in the gardening because that gave me uh so much peace when I walked in to do so aov high school I saw the skills USA um saw the kids build a shed in such a short time I have never seen anything that quick it takes me so long to change the light bulb and and to see these children moving so fast and building and there's a pattern of a form that's shown to them and they're doing it and it was a competition to see how professional the students were um then I went to um Granite Hills High School I walked into a Spanish class believe me I thought I was I thought how do I know what they're doing but the kids were responding in Spanish and these kids were not span original their number one language is not Spanish but they were speaking in Spanish I thought when did school start for these people um I thought maybe I can enroll in one of those classes and keep and pick up a little another language that I can put in my toolkit yakala school was amazing um to see all of the things they were doing and of course I went to the spelling be um I had my cell phone out uh because there some of the words I I my education was in England and here I am I'm hearing words that I've never heard so I had my phone out so I can look up the spelling of the words and actually look at the meaning um so it was a learning experience for me I learned a lot I learned AB a lot from the kids and of course I've talked about the volleyball um for this coming U month or this February I intend to visit the boss Barn um unfortunately I will probably not be visiting the schools as much but I int to visit the bus barn and I intend to visit the school um nutrition services because I think of them as the root that holds up the tree uh they're the ones we never know what they're doing but they're doing something I intend to visit the classified staff they are still the root that holds up the tree I'm a very visual I look at things in pictures and I I think it is time for the board to somebody on the board one of us to stop by and and say thank you to the bus drivers because they're the first to see our kids and the last to see our kids and they make sure they're safe on both sides and I just want to be able to stop in and say thank you to them uh that's it for me uh at this time I am going to release the students so you can go back to do your homework um and thank you so much for coming oh you think you [Laughter] are this is what they get when you everywhere like you this time I like oh my God everywhere say thank you to didn't thank you baby thank you oh so you that's her she told me to wear blue thank you thank you so much thank you this is the pen they gave [Music] us are you guys thank you uh oh God I I was his teacher can you I [Music] was thank you so much thank you baby thank you okay we'll move on California School Employees Association CSA and Nicholas Garrett is there anybody from CSA all right Apple valy UniFi Teachers Association Karen Sabers so nobody is speaking this time okay the clerk the clerk's not here so he's taking over the position position of the clerk H he will read the closed session report in closed session the Board of Trustees took action in support of the following recommendation from the superintendent uh item B2 Conference of litigation government code section 549 54.5 subsection d l Dana versus avusd on a motion by Mr Ary seconded by Mrs Buchanan the bo board voted unanimously to deny the claim of Lisa Dana in close session the Board of Trustees took action in support of the following recommendation from the superintendent uh conference on litigation government code section 54 9545 D Johnson L for J Davis young versus avusd on a motion by Mrs Buchanan seconded by Mr Ary the board determined to direct the return uh the portion of the claim dated prior to June 1st 2023 to claim it without further action because it was presented to too late under government code section 911.2 thank you and the the vote was unanimous the board May approve the agenda as is or add on or pull items from the consent agenda for discussion and or action I need a motion so motion that we adopt the agenda I'll second all in favor I any opposed uh discussion information do we need to go there yeah just discuss discussion information to receive auts reopener this articles for negotiations with AV USD Mr Dustin Conrad thank you uh obviously you can see many of the Auda negotiation team out uh in in the audience today um part of the board packet was the reopener that are being presented for us to begin negotiating on in the very near future here so this is a part where just the information for you to receive the document that's contained within the the packet there okay and they have yeah okay number two to receive a USD reopener article for negotiations with abut and exact same statement it's the it's the reopener that the avusd um Team brought forward to discuss and collaborate with our uh Teachers Association number three instructional technology uh AI presentation okay so um Mr Buchanan and Miss Thompson will be conducting this brief presentation to kind of update us on a few items so we'll turn it over to [Music] them good evening board president okara members RC Buchanan and biner and superintendent Nelson I'm Jason M Kennan the director of it your director of it and I'm here with Bethany Thompson our teacher on assignment who coordinates the digital learning Specialists initiative and we're I'm proud normally I'm in the back trying to make sure everything runs smoothly so I'm happy and proud to present to you today just three of the many initiatives that we're working [Music] on first I'd like to talk about um our it classroom project projector and sound system upgrade um in 20 in 2022 the board approved um $8.4 million of sers funds to upgrade all the classrooms in the district with new projectors and sound system to enhance the teachers tools for presenting to their class on-site work started December 2022 and of the 76 classrooms were upgrading we are now at 523 classrooms and we are on track to complete before June 30 this year the second project that was approved in 2022 was 3.9 million in ERS and e- rate funds to upgrade the network cables across the district in every classroom we're adding eight Network drops to each classroom for computer phone printer and other accessories which is needed because many of our classrooms currently only have one or two Network drops so we're shorten some of those rooms we are also upgrading all the fiber optic cable across the network uh across the district so that way we can move to much faster speeds that interconnect the classrooms of the 14 facilities we are currently completed in seven and we have three actively being worked on right now and again we are on track to complete this project by June 30 and I'll now turn it over to Bethany for the AI thank you everybody um I'm going to be talking today about Happ how Apple Valley Unified School District is once again leading um school districts in how we are going to prepare our students for this future where we have ai um you've if you've heard anything in the news you have probably heard about AI artificial intelligence and so I'm going to give a brief um overview of what it is this is very simplified so the first thing that I is is this is in our emails when we're writing an email and it automatically completes the sentence for you and asks if you want to complete it you can hit Tab and it'll complete it for you it is also what allows Google to have these silly games where you can try to draw things and under a minute here or under 20 second I'm trying to do draw some water and you can see Google not guessing what it is that was supposed to be um like a wave and then I finally got distracted with that and I said I'm just going to draw a water bottle and it still didn't like it so after that I needed take a moment to reassure myself that I do know what water is and I tried to draw cake and that went even worse AI is AI is also what allows us in our phones to recognize all the faces so when you bring up your photo app and it says here's your dog and here's your family members that's also artificial int intelligence there is a new type of artificial intelligence which is generative Ai and this is what we're hearing a lot about in the news there's a lot of stuff about how this is transforming education transforming everybody's everyday life this is where AI artificial intelligence creates something based on a text prompt so it can create text based on the prompt and basically what it's doing is predicting the next word that's going to happen the most likely next word it can also create images based on a prompt so you can go to Ai and you can ask it to create a beautiful image of a board meeting with um lovely children standing in the front and it will create it with whatever kind of style you want whether in the style of Gango um a a history painting you can ask it to do all that it's quite amazing but this also has the power to completely and wonderfully transform education to provide a personalized learning experience for students and I'm going to show you just a little bit of how AI is starting to change education we're at the very Forefront of this change I'm at the towards the end of my teaching career are younger teachers now will not be teaching the same way um they are they are now when they end their career so I have a short video here that's showing what I'm doing um using a tool in AI called Magic School Ai and it is now I have sped up in this video me typing because I don't type that fast so the first thing that I'm doing here is I've typed in or copied in a n9th grade standard and the AI is unpacking this standard for me so it's allowing me to see kind of what I might need to do um to provide uh to instruct the students on that standard that was the first thing and that was not sped up the next thing I'm going to do using the same standard and the same ideas I'm creating a 10 question multiple choice section for the characters and To Kill a Mocking Bird because it was a ninth grade ELA standard that I chose and here it's creating a 10 multiple choice uh questionnaire about the characters on into Kill a Mocking Bird again this is not sped up this is the actual AI generating that this tool and it also gave me the answers there for my test the next thing I'm going to ask it to give me some lesson plans so I went ahead and I typed in my same standard and I gave it a little bit more there that I wanted to do but it's going to give me the lesson plans um by day I believe the key points and it's going to give me some ideas for what I can do to um uh have a lesson based around that direct standard the next thing that I'm going to ask it to do which is everybody teacher favorite thing is to create a rubric and so I'm going to give the AI the standard which is the next one um and it's going to generate a rubric for me based on the standard and the prompt for an essay that was in that lesson generator so I put in what I want my three-point scale um and I ask it to create the rubric and we'll just and again I've sped up my typing here but we watch how fast the AI generator can create this rubric it's really quite um extraordinary and fast this fast we have a rubric then and the teacher can update this or change it as necessary um and it's absolutely incredible all of the time I used AI just the other day while I'm waiting for this to generate I used it just the other day because I was too lazy to try to type in the whole thing I asked it to give me a formula for Google Sheets I just didn't want to type it so I asked it to gave it to me um I then I asked it to rewrite the rubric adding in an additional nth grade ELA standard so I regenerated the rubric with now two um standards based on that prompt and then I'm going to ask it to do two more things and this video is only three minutes long so as a teacher or an instructor imagine all the things that I was able to do just in the those three minutes the next thing it's going to do is it's going to give me the create key criteria for an Exemplar essay and the last thing I ask it to do is to um prep write an Exemplar essay that I could use with my students to say how it met the rubric or didn't meet the rubric all of this within three minutes what this doesn't show is what happens after that which is where the human being has to go in and make sure that everything is correct make sure that it meets the needs of our students I did this exact same thing for my students for my French class and it told me in one week I was supposed to teach the numbers 1 through 20 however I was also supposed to ask them how old their parents were which you cannot ask a a middle schooler how old their parents are if they only know the numbers 1 through 20 so AI doesn't know that it's still needs a human being and nobody is trying to suggest that we are um going to have ai taking over our jobs however so we have in this District what we started was an AI working group this is a group of about 15 to 20 administrators certificated and classified staff we had our very first meeting on January 18th and we met to disc discuss what are um in what are our key areas of focus as we go forward in this new landscape preparing for our future where students might be using AI we identified these key areas of focus policy and standards alignment making sure the policies that we have in place um are meeting the needs still of this new tool um ensuring that student and staff data is secure and private with these tools managing the change management that it would take to make such a uh switch in our landscape um dealing with any credibility and bias that these tools may have assessment and learning outcomes so making sure that that is always at the Forefront of what we are doing and then training for staff and eventually students for how to use these tools our next steps um we are sending some some of the members to some training in February and we'll be meeting uh at the end of February to share the resources that we've got there as we're going forward with our AI working group We are continuing to kind of focus on the basic three um about AI at this point which is one AI is not not yet ready for student use um this is purely for staff um at this point we are committed to keeping student data safe um student and staff data save while we're using these tools and of course all of these tools whatever you use has to be reviewed by a human being um previewed and reviewed by a human being before it's used so thank [Applause] you I've I have a question thank you very much for that presentation it's very informative uh on number one AI is not yet ready for student use do you happen to to have a guess about when it might be we're I was gonna say we could ask the AI my guess is um my guess is two to three year my guess is two to three years it's not far and the the capacity is so amazing to provide a personalized learning experience for these students um to provide a tutor that's there 24 hours 247 if they needed one um it's I think we're two to three years away from that my is there anything that can generate and catch an AI generated essay so that's what that's an excellent question Mr Bender because there are some tools out there that do um can look and see something has been AI generated they are not um 100% accurate so they are more likely to give a false positive and say that you did use AI when you didn't sometimes it's obvious sometimes it is obvious I turns absolutely absolutely one of the things that the teachers brought up in our working group was how do we deal with that and there's some ways that um so one is of course changing the task and how do we get student or teachers to um this is something that we're going to have to wrestle with and that is one of the focuses of the AI group all right thank you thank you local accountability plan elcap media presentation by Mr SCH really rather talk about AI I'll direct you to the 56 slide document that I provided to you that has a kind of a blue cover on it and I promise you that we'll go through this quickly and here's what I'll say um the midyear review for the lcap is now a requirement that was set in in in place with the legislature for this year as a first year as you know we're in the third year of a three-year lcap cycle so we're finishing the final um you know of our intended um reporting we'll go through this year building a new three-year plan but for this final year they added a requirement that before February 28th there must be a report and that report had two keys uh areas a midyear outcome data related to every metric and the metrics are required by the eight State priority areas and you'll see a couple of places where the metrics repeat that's by um by requirement of the county and then also expens and implementation data for each action item and so it requires some nitty-gritty but a lot of the data in fact all of the data that we're going to talk about tonight in brief was presented in detail at the state of the district uh presentations that were given over the last month and so that's the background for this but know that we're always in this cycle we've always given this report right about this time um as a state of the district presentation and we usually bring a version of that to the board um we'll go then to right into February for getting input from the community about next you know setting the targets and what the action items are to be and then we'll Implement and gather data again we're constantly in that cycle and so um while I'm talking about goal one what you're going to see behind me is actually a time-lapse video of the ABCI and um U board member Buchanan I was so glad you got a chance to go and see what happens there at one of those nights this is actually inside that Dome I put this here under goal one for professional development because now we have some enterprising teachers who have gone through the training to become um certified in the use of this telescope and they bring their after school astronomy clubs to the ABCI and to view the night sky they've actually got 30 to 40 hours of time on the telescope and they've become quite expert and so it's just uh one of the things that has come about as of uh via that partnership which is goal 1.5 uh action item five is you know supporting Sean Gillette and Pam Gillette to work there but also to have those trainings occur and so um moving on to some of the reporting uh this is the goal it's all about professional learning goal one has been that way for quite some time it has some sub items that um let me talk talk to you about how this chart kind of breaks down there's the action item which is um we use a numerical system for ours so goal one action one is 1.1 goal one action two 1.2 and so on The quick summary of the item and then the progress not is just like sort of to what level is it implemented and I only had a couple options in the state template it's either fully partially or not and uh then the budgeted expenditure was how much was intended to be spent and the first interim or thereabouts it was actually slightly after first interim that we pulled this data is how much money has been spent on that goal at this moment and so you'll see this repeated I won't be labor it and you'll see in almost every case just about half the funds that we intended to spend have been expended by that point in November last last year so we're right on track for most of these goals to spend just exactly what we intended to spend you'll notice for example in action two we've already spent more than we intended to spend but that's because in that particular goal we have some other funding sources we use for professional learning Title One title two even the educator Effectiveness block grant we made sure and captured every expenditure that was professional development inside that goal so that we can make sure and report them accurately but what's in that list on the budgeted expenditure is mostly supplemental and concentration Grant funds that were designed for um in increasing the um proportion of service for our unduplicated pupils students who are socioeconomically disadvantaged Foster youth or English Learners remember we had about a 38 million supplemental and concentration Grant dollar amount that we needed to expend and so the elap had to account for those funds and that's mostly what you'll see in that budget expenditure line also lives on the website completely transparent and again around the room there's some QR codes with a tiny dinosaur which I thought felt match nicely the theme from Rio Vista but that um gets you to a public facing document that is what your short 56 slide presentation into 37 tightly spaced pages of type and so if you have with a great deal of detail there as well and so moving on the metrics then we have to report were the metrics we gave as a baseline so for example in the category a required metric you can imagine in the state of California they're going to make you have a required metric of the spawner balance assessment how you doing on the state test so the Baseline for the three years that we reported we actually had to go back to 2019 because that was the last test we'd given remember we weren't able to test in 20120 and so we reported for all student groups our Baseline data and this midyear report there's several years of of or there's another year of data in between but I'm only giving you the the Baseline and the midyear and the midyear at the moment is actually last year's test scores we don't have this year's yet we're not required to report this year's test scores until they're out which won't actually be till next year and so we're always in a little bit of a lag what's good about doing the midyear report now be quite honest with you is essentially this is our annual update about a 50-page section of the out cap that I did every year well now I'm this many pages ahead it's really quite good it's it's a good thing to do plus we already report this data as many of you saw the other day at the state of the district and you'll notice um these scores aren't better we have declines in our language arts and Mathematics scores in most if not all student groups credential teachers we have we have to report the percentage of credential teachers we have a definition of a credential teacher meaning they have a teaching credential it's appropriate for the subject they're teaching at the time this report was pulled we were at 100% the state does have some technical misassignment that we do report when we get to the um local indicators and so um that has something to do sometimes with whether or not their credential is even completely cleared and then finally access to instructional materials which is um adjudicated through the Williams Act academic content we'd go through an a lengthy evaluation process that takes us all year to make sure we're doing that goal two is all about College and Career Readiness goal two has everything to do with how um students have access to either CTE programs it's got our music program our AVID program all lives in Gold to so you've got students here visiting colleges um you've got students as mentioned participating in the Career and Technical student organizations that you got to see beginning their competitions um with skillsusa and of course we've got a student here um just kind of representing to us uh the fact that she's thankful for the AVID program getting her to college these are the um life-changing and um incredible moments that you can't put a statistical number to but they matter so much and so the goal as I mentioned is about um all our UND unduplicated pupils uh having that experience of a high quality College and Career ready education and those action items are as follows you'll see number one is about making sure they have those devices we have a large device procurement process going on right now so that dollar amount will be expended and so once those come you'll see that there our CTE programs are about half expended that goal action to is mostly people ctso pathway we've only spent a quarter of the money allocated there because most of those competitions and the travel related to those is about to happen all the kids who go to state all the kids who go to Nationals that all happens in the spring and then the music programs on track we're actually on track to actually outspend that one just a little bit um but if you were at state of the district and heard those ukuleles you know why and then College access again the AVID program that's I put partially implemented there we've had some um we just don't have all that data data back lots of the Avid field trips and things happen in the spring also we had some um other funds we were able to use to pay for some of these programs that then me meant we didn't have to spend some of the district resources and then the metrics here um are things of course like grad rate right and so grad rate although up from the Baseline which was from uh 2020 is as you know from the state of the district slightly down um a AP exam pass rate our AP exam just participation generally a little bit down and pass rate declined as you know some students partially this could be because some students are in our dual enrollment program which is another great pathway for students to gain access a through G completion again it's down from the Baseline it's actually slightly down even from last year every student group's called out and again there's lots and lots of detail here that we can go over but in general the trend is is present College of career Readiness indicator doesn't have any data since the Baseline so at the Baseline year it was 55.7 for all students and then we didn't have that indic until this year for the first time in a long time and that was a little lower than even any of us really expected remember the College and Career Readiness indicator is not it's a combination of several um different indicators you can earn it by either taking college courses and getting a qualifying score on the uh Smarter Balance assessment or CTE completion and a college course or uh you know um a through G completion and a qualifying score on the smarter balance assessment there's several different ways it's quite complex ultimately a lot of this is driven by making sure students are achieving those all of those measures broadc course of study is a general term that we have to put in is a required State goal about making sure students have access that you don't have barriers to classes like AP classes middle school and high school dropout rate again a required metric middle school dropout rate that actually don't publish anymore we have to pull this out of cow pads um the best we could find for end of year last year was about 46 students who left us in the Middle School grades and we couldn't find them in any system anywhere and then our high school won 107 for last year that's slightly up from the year before which matches the slight decrease in grad rate right when grad rate goes slightly down dropout rate has to raise goal three is all about intervention and it includes things like like the reading programs the after school programs our elop runs through here uh summer school runs through go three um counselors therapists all the things we do to intervene both social emotionally mental health math and English and so we've got you know just some images of some of those things happening at school even a kind of a snapshot of an lli lesson happening which we know you know are going on across the district with these positions we fund and so this is a multi-tiered system of support focused goal there are a couple blank goals here that's because the community asked us to take um action one and seven and move them to goal four and so they're blank they're blank on purpose we all understand that they won't be there in the next iteration of the O community outreach is a the um all the efforts for community outreach including Pio and all the um purchases required to keep that that up and running supplemental reading and math intervention is teacher positions added to each site about half expended and the same with the therapists behavior management and student support again is mostly positions school counselors um the increase in school counselors those are almost all position that's actually all positions I mentioned goal seven or action seven is moved and then the Intensive Behavior Support again mostly positions like campus security additional Proctors and so on before and after school programs are listed there as well again it's all funding sources you'll notice summer school has a big discrepancy that's because our summer school occurs mostly in June and so that expense will be in this school year last year's summer school was in last year's budget except for any days that happened in July schoool side administrative support um is on track to be fully expended as is class size reduction and so the metrics here um of course attendance is one of the main metrics for goal three we do see an increase our Baseline was a preco baseline of 94.6 that actually was the month we closed they let us stop our attendance uh in February as you can imagine attendance subsequent to that time was very low and so last year's attendance was below 90% most District in the state are still below 90 to be at 92.4 is great to see it's actually a real highlight for us for a couple of reasons we know that students can't part can't benefit from instructional um interventions when they're not present and so we had last year even still quite a number of students who were chronically absent and that chronic absenteeism has a a detrimental effect on their ability to just benefit from the instructional program we put together and so we're glad to see that 92.4 4% through month four of this year so that's real-time live data from this year suspension rate is up from the Baseline and up from last year uh suspension rate is up and it's um up primarily with our African-American students um and you see there uh just kind of every student group up a little bit and so um that's something that the state requires us this is a required metric so on the dashboard expulsion rate actually is lower than the basic line similar to last or the year before this is 22 23 2122 was almost exactly the same and we just have our board items this year are recommending um expulsions number eight through 11 so we are roughly on track at this moment to be at that roughly the same number for this year chronic absenteeism this is an attendance it's it's opposite is uh students who Miss 20% of the school year no matter how many days they enrolled 20% of those days and that's last year down to 38.2 2% I can't believe I didn't I I'm even saying that's a low number but it's lower than the 54 and a half% from the year prior so we're uh again we with our 92.4% attendance rate we're expecting chronic absenteeism to be quite a bit lower lots of survey data comparisons in the slides to come I won't dig real deep into those other than to say the general Trends were we saw the same participation roughly right about 8,000 students most of the staff participated 1,200 parents parent participation was about 15% generally but the trends in the responses and the general categories we'll kind of see here a little bit so first um when we look at the um safety and connectedness this you know kind of response was student-based and the safe sense of safety at school um the Baseline was um we didn't have high school or middle middle grades or that year was elementary only and it was very high and this year Elementary actually declined even from the prior year so that sense of safety this was an area that we saw go down at the elementary Gres we actually saw increase at the high schools you heard the high school students talking about the student advisory and the sense of impact they believe that had this was a particular area of focus for the students at our three High School settings they chose the items they wanted to work on we asked them what would it need what would you need to be able to answer these survey questions differently and then they implemented those things along with their school staff and when we asked them this year if they thought the survey results would improve they said they thought it would and of course it did they knew they were right talked about high school dropout rate parent Square we still use we're actually um at a high point for connectability right now we have 97% of the parents who are reachable and uh participation in parent Square you've seen the smarter balance data it's required to be reported a couple of different places for language arts and Mathematics go four is all focused on families it's getting them to school it's providing clean schools for them and it's making sure that we have family centers operational when they have needs and so that's a all about all about our families it's go four that's why we moved one in seven there and so those Resource Centers have fully implemented that that plan and we have that at about half of the year's expenditures the um having the three positions we added um continuing those that's um fully implemented those people are in place um home to school transportation looks like we're going to slightly outspend what we add there transportation is um you know it's an expensive Endeavor and is an encroachment and then um our part our contribution to make sure we have uh funds to add to what the maintenance department already uses to Main maintain schools the metrics for four um include things like the facility inspection tool and so the facility inspection tool um during the Baseline years found three sites that were fair and the rest were good um but in this case this year it's um only one was in that fair range the all the rest were good but it's important to note if you remember and maybe Mr schulenberg has already has this already been presented or is that coming last time yeah Mr presentation last time that those averages are up and so that maintenance department is doing just an amazing job so from the Baseline to now it's been a really great growth to see that from a third party Transportation we're still making sure we have an accurate count of the utilization but we think we'll be um probably right there at that same Baseline number we get high utilization for that more youth truth data in this case we wanted to take a look at culture these are family responses and so there was again with families they mirrored the students slight increase for high school families slight decrease for elementary um and middle percent positives for relationships um again same Trend even though High School scored a little lower that was it up for high school parents and their sense of relationship with school slight decrease in the K8 chronic absenteeism as reported by subgroups so um uh again required in goal four you've already seen that goal five is all about our English Learners and that um group the goals there have to do with mostly the staff who participate in that program all of those pretty much on track to be expended fully for the year so no no outliers there reclassification data is not yet here we do reclassify students all the time but the great majority them will happen later in the spring and so that's all going to happen and be reported later um English learner progress is a real bright spot for Apple Valley Unified in the on the if you remember from the state of the district it's our um one area that's green on the dashboard we are glad to see that 46.2% of those students making um adequate progress towards proficiency that actually counted as high on the dashboard and that carries over school by school it's really great to see and then um for English language Learners their score on the smarter balance assessment language art um they are lower than the Baseline score for that as well um we did add a sixth goal to our um lcap it had to do with um focusing on the needs of African-American students and so I'll point out that the dollar amounts here are estimates and that we are not allowed to count these expenditures as any part of our supplemental and concentration grant funding uh the state does not allow calling out this student group to count towards your unduplicated pupil group expenditures and so um U making sure we had offering for staff training we are doing those trainings using the foundations model um graduation progress report actually that cost was picked up by the county that was great for them to take that for us um we have been working towards building in a positive attendance program you heard some of the celebrations that students were bragging about today I was so glad to hear that um intervention programs specifically designed for um students who African-American students who need to take the advantage of those and the parent advisories just haven't cost that much at this moment but we'll be doing more of those and so those metrics are just for African-American students you saw the suspension rate is up uh grad rate is slightly down um remember it's down across the district though and that if um the board will remember is partially because that last year's class was the first to suffer from sort of a a reinstated full graduation requirement that the students two years prior did didn't have chronic absenteeism for this group still High um but better than the Baseline of the Year prior the Baseline in this case is only last year and the elll scores in both language arts and math are um further from standard African-American students in the elementary school did not follow the trend they didn't go down they actually had pretty good results in their sense of engagement at school that was encouraging to see um so we saw increases we didn't see increase um necessarily as uh from we went from 83 to 79 but um it just was good to see that they didn't change as much but in the Middle grades in high school they actually went up and so that's encouraging to see their sense of Engagement likewise in campus culture um and here they kind of followed the trend of the rest of the District Middle grades and high school kind of climbing in relationships as well and that's 56 slides in as few minutes as it can be done informational presentation on Transportation by Mr schenberg good evening ladies and gentlemen no sorry oh sorry you're excited to get going I am I really am this is a lot ofun oh Jason it ain't working again it was it was it did it was quite it's way better than the blue oh there we go there we go you got it you scared it okay well I hope this goes smooth I want to introduce Doug Smith he as our director of transportation for Apple Valley Unified he came on board um just before Co thing that happened so yes sir um just getting into the swing of things for a couple years so I'd like to turn it over to Doug Advance the slides just that but right there he's gonna tell you a little bit about our transportation department so good evening ladies and gentlemen my name is Doug Smith um I'm happy to be here president opara thank you for being here board it's good to see everybody here um what we're going to do is we're going to give you little tidbit of information about transportation and president opar I'm looking forward to seeing you at our department it would be wonderful so our school the school bus industry is one of the most highly regulated Industries there is we are held under federal regulations for drug and alcohol for safety standards in the school buses for we held under state regulations uh California codes of regulations Ed codes we have them all we have a little bit of everything um so if you're ready we may as well get our things started here oopsie oh that's their bushards okay maybe not quite that bad but here's ours uh we hold ourselves to a higher standard our drivers are really really exceptional at doing what they do um when you are out on a on an activity trip and you see our buses out on the road they look so much better than the buses from some of the other school districts it's it's one of those things where you're looking and you're going oh my goodness the difference between our buses and their buses is amazing and one of the reasons why is because our drivers take such pride in taking care of their equipment our Fleet our pride is again our we pride ourselves in having the one of the best looking fleets in the state we have 78 school buses in our Fleet we're getting another six coming on board uh 52 of them are the big buses that we run on that that hold uh 76 passengers each and then we have the special ed buses that are different sizes in all different ranges of bus um those little buses are the ones that hold the Wheelchairs and every one of those buses has a different size to it our shop our shop is amazing our mechanics we have four mechanics that take pride in our Fleet that includes taking care of nearly a hundred white fleet vehicles every golf cart man lift um they work on everything from a lawnmower to a leaf blower um they also take care of our yellow Fleet our buses are PMI preventative maintenance inspected every 3,000 mil or 45 days during the inspection the mechanics take care to fix anything and everything that is on there they do preventative maintenance as needed and they do an amazing job of making sure that every nuton bolt is systematically checked and those buses are the safest buses out on the road um our mechanics are are just amazing it takes close to 100 hours to train a bus driver when it's all said and done we try our best to train within the department we uh have three or four classes a year um to get ready to have uh people join our department uh we have one going on right now as a matter of fact we're training we have people in the department to train that once the people get through the classroom room end of it then we start them on a behindth wheel program after they get the behind the wheel program done they are all school bus drivers are all tested through the California Highway Patrol we don't get the opportunity to just go down to the DMV and say hey we want our school bus driver certificate the California Highway Patrol comes to our facility does our written tests our pre-trip tests and our Drive tests then once we've qualified for that we also don't get the opportunity to have our school bus driver certificates just mailed to us every five years we have to retest on everything pre-trip drive and written test every five years but then again what do we transport so we really are held to a very high standard as far as that goes our department our department is comprised of 54 drivers the three dispatchers and routers which is Sher Nelson uh sh Sharon Waters and Jill Coburn who are pictured over there to the left they're the router Dispatchers in that department there uh behind them is Nina Midgley she is the driver instructor also State Certified driver instructor and federally certified you have to have both to Now teach in the state of California um because of the L DT which is uh entrylevel driver training for all commercial drivers uh we have Kim Cal Calvin that's in that picture right there she's our transportation supervisor and then na'vi Janna who is our uh admin secretary safety is first every morning our bus drivers do a safety check we check close to 200 items on our buses every morning we do a pre-trip we look over everything we check our braking system um check the inside of the bus check the outside of the bus making sure that everything is safe for those students to get on and off the bus our drivers are on the road before most of us have had our morning cup of coffee we leave a yard some of our drivers leave as early as 5:15 in the morning and then we go out we have three routes every driver does about does three routes uh in the morning we come back and then we have what's called a split shift we go home but then we come back in the afternoon and we are not going home until most everybody else is out sitting down for dinner we pull into the yard and we're late after we're sun up to sun down all right there we go annually our drivers uh safely transport students over 960 2,000 miles this year I expect us to break a million uh we're really on we're out there we have a very large school district I mean our our covered area is extremely large we fuel our own buses our drivers fuel at least every other day we have our own gas station with two fuel nozzles that hold for diesel and two fuel nozzles for unleaded fuel we our tanks hold 12,000 gallons of diesel and 10,000 gallons of unlet fuel all the school district Vehicles fuel here along with all of our school buses um we have a pretty pretty good operation that goes on there yeah our gas station is busy A lot it is it is pretty fun to watch that and now for the most important part of our jobs the students getting students to and from school safely our drivers are dedicated to doing this job we pride ourselves on being some of the most safe and effective kid people at getting kids to and from our drivers treat these students as if they're their own um it's it's it's an amazing job getting all the puzzle pieces that are going I mean we have multiple buses we have multiple schools we have students that are going back to schools the putting the puzzle pieces together is is just amazing amazing to watch and amazing to see our routing scheduling and dispatching Department put this all together uh it's it's an incredible deal I just love what I do we transport close to 4200 General ed students every single day and over 425 special education students safely each day this includes all of our activity trips uh that number is just on an average it's higher some days it's a a little bit lower some days and that's the end of that is any if anybody has any questions or any comments on uh on our transportation department what's the average gas mileage on those buses about six miles to the gallon our our new gas buses are close to 12 yeah it's they're there're the gas buses that we have are doing pretty good they're we're using them in the special ed Department um we found that they're much quieter um they're not as expensive to maintain because they're gasoline they don't hold as much oil when we're doing the the PMI on them and they do get much better fuel mileage very good thank you I I have to say thank you so much I had no idea who you were apologize and I had no idea you were in the room uh because I had this already planned that I was going to show up at the um the at the transportation department so when you when they said Transportation I thought oh man I had no idea but um this is impressive uh we usually wait on the last day of school I think is that last day of school when you have the bus run um I cancel my whole afternoon so that I make sure I can be there to wave to the bus drivers uh it's probably one of the greatest sight to see uh when you guys are doing the bus parade um is is it's impressive it brings tears to your eyes when you're sitting there watching them roll in it is one of it is the most impressive thing I've ever seen yeah thank you thank you and thanks the you people who work with you uh for a good work a job well done you just you just told one of them because she's in the audience but in the office but I wish I had counted at the beginning how many times you said amazing because Doug there is nothing that would abs absolutely describe what happens in that department it is um magical and amazing and um I appreciate what you do every day and all of the work that goes into it thank you if you've ever listened to our radios you're like what on Earth is going on but we get to the end of the day and we don't have any of them left we're happy thank you ladies and gentlemen thank you update on facility needs assessment and master plan now you get me I'm sorry I'd much rather talk about school buses they're a lot more fun and our our drivers and our team out there are um I'll use the word again absolutely amazing I do listen to the radio on a daily basis and it's a zoo um but it's it's a Well oiled zoo that that runs runs incredibly so uh quick update on facilities Master planning if you do remember um this is a slide you saw very recently back in October of 2021 long time ago um little over two years ago uh we talked about our measur s our general Geo bond from 2004 and then the board approved a resolution authorizing the feasibility of a facility Bond coming up this year in 2024 one of those Consultants we brought on board was Eric Holland Associates to help us with our facility needs assessment and master planning process and if uh can remind you we engaged them in December 22 uh they went through a facility needs assessment enrollment and demographic study uh we held some Community meetings site meetings through Zoom um collected a lot of data so I got a I got a draft document um a couple weeks ago and I've been going through that draft document and it really there's these are the major pieces of that document there's a little history of Apple Valley some history of Apple Valley that I did not know and I don't know how to verify it but it's kind kind of an interesting Little Couple page read um a little bit on Apple Valley Unified the purpose of a long range facility master plan how it serves the district and the students and the staff in the district and of course the process and the recommendations that our consultant has when we get this plan and we this is a living document it's not something we do we put on a shelf it's something we we have to revisit on a constant basis to say is this still our priority for this particular project have we shifted gears do did the Governor create another new grade that we have to serve which creates more facility concerns uh there's also quite a bit of demog demographic information with the district um including enrollments uh projections out for about the next five years uh capacity study looking at our schools and how many students we can fit at our schools educational specifications and the meat of the report is the facility condition assessment and project identification I'm working through our consultant with this draft there's some some adjustments to the draft I like to make uh I have actually a zoom call scheduled with the the lead on our project next Thursday where we're going to go through some some things I expect to have a copy um I was hoping to have this at the March board meeting and that's still my goal uh but depending on the scope of adjustments we make to this document to get it nice and Polished it it may be the April meeting before I'm able to provide it for your peruse for your consideration and approval um so the following Pages you're going to see this is an example of a site assessment some photographs I I picked Apple Valley High School um and for no particular reason um but before we get to Apple Valley this is what the architect and our consultant came up in terms of a Master Plan cost summary and if you take a look at that you look all the way down on the bottom right hand corner you'll see our the architect and consultant identified preliminarily 214 projects across our School sites totaling about $200 million in need this is not an exhaustive list there are things that we need to do at our school sites that are not in this plan and that's where that's where it's our job as a school district to update this plan continuously and make sure the desires of our schools a and our our community are reflected in this plan both shortterm and long-term so here we go this is what they they typically did they anal ized our school sites they gave them a facility condition score you'll see that down at the bottom and Apple Valley is a 74% which is on the high side of fair and as as old and as well used because you know a high school is busy what 24 hours a day seven days a week there's always something going on but as as old and as well used as Apple Valley High School is is for it to score in the high side Affair is is great that doesn't mean there aren't things that need to be done at Apple Valley High School they're absolutely absolutely are and as the architect visited the campus they identified certain areas like uh parking lots they look at the infrastructure we do have some old asphalt that does need to be maintained walkways Pathways they just happen to be there clearly on a day when it rained the one of the 10 days we get and they noticed some pooling that's a concern that deteriorates concrete and asphalt walk walk surfaces and can create hazards uh look at the athletic facilities um the age of the fields the condition of the fields tennis courts basketball courts there's Newton T bass Stadium there of course with the grass playing surface and the dirt track um Landscaping play fields and agriculture I they had to put in that picture of that Greenhouse I don't know how long that's been there longer than I've been in this district and I've been in this District since 2002 so I'm thinking we probably need to do something with the green 68 the greenhouse wow okay it's time to go but I'm glad they put in the barn because that's a bright spot there uh for the uh agricultural program and the students over there um exterior lighting was a concern and here here's their site and infrastructure assessment they grade new good Fair poor and unsatisfactory and you see that comes up with an infrastructure score and then they move on to the building and suitability assessment they look at Administration multi-purpose room and kitchen the CTE program facilities um which clearly are very busy building sheds looks like up there in the one picture or dog houses I'm not sure what those are um the steam programs science technology um our athletic facilities the gymnasium the Fieldhouse at the stadium the weight room um permanent and relocatable classrooms some of which are the relocates are aged um and unfortunately you'll see our relocates did get an unsa score from the architect that's due to age and some condition that we need to address but that gets a total building score and they kind of combine those scores to come up with that score you saw on that front page so they did that for all of our school sites this particular property um Adult School hdpa of course and our operations center out on H be Valley Road so V Apple Valley High School they came up with a project list again it's not an exhaustive project list but they identified just a little bit over 27 million of potential projects at Apple Valley High School um part of that uh just under 200 million potential projects they identify districtwide so next steps I'm going to continue the dialogue um and work on some edits and adjustments and of course I'll provide it to the Board of Trustees for your review um and an adoption at a future meeting and then of course of course we need to talk about funding possibilities moving forward and that's that any questions I can answer thank you thank you Kylie we do have H public comments as provided on our public comment card speakers are requested to limit comments to a maximum of three minutes if more than one person wishes to speak on the same topic subsequent speakers should limit their remarks to new information only public comments shall be limited to a maximum of 20 minutes per item Leslie mcnell while I'm starting to speak an Marie Van Gordon is passing out to each of you the um reopener that we're proposing for the next school year good evening members of the board superintendent Nelson cabinet members and the audience my name is lesie mcnanley and I'm the bargaining chair for avuta quickly I'd like to introduce you to the members of our negotiating team and R Van Gordon in the back row we have Lincoln esin Stephen Cobbs right in front of them Sue carlgren Deanna clima I see anybody I don't think so okay um I'd like to present you with these copies of our reopener for the 2024 25 school year we're we are opening articles 4 and 20 specifically in article four we're addressing student discipline and in article 20 we're addressing the hiring process for extracurricular positions the negotiating teams for avuta in the district met last week to continue to bargain our reopener for the current school year and we hope to be able to wrap that up soon we look forward to going through the interest based bargaining training that's scheduled for February with a sincere effort on the part of the Teachers Association and the district we're hoping to have a more productive and less adversarial negotiations process last the avuta negotiating team and members of the E executive board will be going on a listening tour this winter and spring to seek input from our members about their priorities and concerns before we begin working on the sunshine for the following year for the three-year contract as you can tell there's a lot going on thanks for listening and I hope to return soon to report that we've reached agreement on this year's reopener thank you thank you Christen Lor Madame President and members of the board thank you for allowing me to speak with you my name is Kristen Lor I am a former teacher of abusd and my daughter Cali Lor used to be a student for two and a half years I sought help for C's learning and social emotional difficulties in kindergarten and AAE the teacher and I agreed she would be retained then I got a job teaching at Vanguard where the retention was not honored I was promised you would have interventions that do not and have never existed at Vanguard by the outgoing principal Mr Goodrow from that point on with Janette Martinez as principal C situation went from bad to worse Martinez fought every against every move I made to get C the help she needed using her position to harass me endlessly throughout showing a complete lack of respect for a mother advocating for her child Martinez attempted to reverse decisions made by Call's SST team and ensured her I AP assessment and eligibility were severely delayed when the eligibility meeting was finally held the paperwork clearly stated she was eligible and yet she was still denied an IEP CI was being severely bullied by her classmates she was blocked from using the restroom until she wet herself and became a joke to the other kids who tormented her daily Administration knew of the bullying and still did nothing at this point I decided abusd and particularly Vanguard was no longer a safe place for my child and removed her from the district I sought outside help my St student Advocate ensured she was properly assessed requ in an ie outside the district as the original psychological assessment was incomplete and included IQ Data that was illegal considering her black status C was found to have a short-term memory and cognitive deficits secondary to dyslexia David wheeler was contacted about the situation every communication with him took weeks and sometimes threatened legal action before a response was received and an initial I AP was held all meetings had several issues no notes being taken Vanguard not being present Sandia somehow got dragged in last minute no research was ever done on cie's past test scores abilities or statements from me or her teachers leaving much of the documentation blank the initial IEP meeting took place five days later where attempts were made by Mr Wheeler to call at the first meeting the initial I AP when it was the eligibility meeting stating that it didn't really matter anyways he showed a lack of knowledge for the I AP process throughout goals were discussed but even after two hours it was not done the documents I was later sent for review signature were ludicrous spelling errors incorrect verbage dates were Incorrect and the goals were not even included this is a legal document that represents my child as the basis of her education it Al also represents this District in a court of law I would be very scared if I were you to have the director of special education okay with this mockery of an IEP process and the subsequent outcomes we did eventually sit down for yet another lengthy meeting to fix all the problems we had found and finally saw the goals in their final form but it should never have come to this this is just my daughter's Story how many other children have been denied their right to a free and appropriate public education within your District thank you for your time thank you DEA soless hello my name is D solise I'm speaking today about AR 5127 I need the board members to have a face to The Plea of rectifying the valid dictorian status I am here pleading for the class of 2024 the valid dictorian status has previously been the disc the discussion in the discussion process for a couple of years now I believe that earlier early college students that are in my circumstance deserve to be recognized we have earned our place working diligently constantly nonstop for the past three and a half years if I would have known that this was going to be an issue I would have been standing here in front of you my freshman year I myself have gone above and beyond the high school criteria I started and still continue to take College college classes on my own since my freshman year of High School I am currently enrolled in the early college program I also participated in a training to help tutor Apple Valley High School's 2024 Avid class the district has an elop program with 80 students I am one of those 80 students with a job we help provide a safe environment to students K through 8th all while helping them learn and develop Educational Concepts I've taken advantage of all programs offered to me I'm studying to become a doctor now I know that becoming a doctor takes hard work and dedication but most of all it takes time and for me time is of the essence why which is why I am always taking advantage of the present with this in mind I will be attending the University of my choice instead of going in as a freshman though I will be going in as a junior since I have too many credits to be considered a freshman or sophomore I will be considered as a trans for student I will be in college for a very very long time and AP classes were just not suitable for my path if anything I have surpassed AP classes and taking them would have held me back from my true potential according to pres scholar it is quoted although AP classes are intended to be roughly equivalent to introductory college courses they can only do so much to replicate the experience of a college class but I am actually taking college classes that are given by a professor a college professor and I have taken 13 total college classes through my three and a half years of high school how could you possibly deny us our valid our validation and being given the honor to be named a valedictorian when we have exceeded expectations I play Four sports for my high school and I have lettered in three of them all while participating in skills USA and host of competitions for my CTE class called mass for those of you that don't know what that is it's medical and health science technology all I'm pleading is for us students to be given the opportunity to be recognized thank you thank [Applause] you okay at this point we are going to conduct a public hearing for one minute we conduct a public hearing for the public to provide input regarding auts reopener articles for negotiations with the Apple Valley UniFi School District the time is 8:54 do I have any comments got do one minute no comments com all right this it's 8:55 I'm going to do Mr Bender star and I'm going to close that conduct a public hearing for the public to provide input regarding avus us these reopener articles for negotiations with the Apple Valley Unified Teachers Association the time is 8:55 any comments no comments that I just close I can close with no comments is is why are you say it's 8:55 I'm doing bend a minutes okay discussion and SE session it is recommended that the Board of Trustees discuss the and take actions on the following items approve the district contract reopener for negotiations between the Apple valy UniFi school district and the Apple Valley UniFi Teachers Association I need a motion so I second that any discussion any vote all in favor I any opposed approv the certif certificated and classified Personnel action as listed I need a motion so moved second all in any discussion all in favor I I any opposed approved the recommendation for requested leaves as noted second any discussion I need a vote all in favor I I sorry prior to the discipline cases having having action we would like to note there was a clerical error in the recommended action section related to the numbering of the expulsion cases refer referencing them as expulsion 9 to 2324 through expulsion 12 uh 2324 we would like the discipline cases to be reviewed as amended expulsion case number 8 2324 through expulsion 11 2324 which match the backup documents and public content section of the agenda item approve the recommendation of the administrative hearing chairperson effective immediately on expulsion case number 8 20 2023 2024 I need a motion second any discussion any vote all in favor I any opposed expulsion case number 9 2023 motion Mo I'll second any discussion all in favor I I any opposed exposion case number 10 2023 2024 I need a motion Mo second any discussion all in favor I I any opposed expulsion case number 11 2023 2024 I need a motion move a second any discussion all in favor I I annual review 11 2023 2024 motion second any discussion all in favor I I expon expulsion case number 17 2022 2023 I need a motion Mo I'll second any discussion all in favor I that's me okay um board members prior to the consent agenda discussion I'm recommending the board pull two items item nine and 16 item nine is approve the course of study adoption for financial algebra number 16 is approve the new recommended literature to add to AB usd's current adopted K12 Literature list these items will be brought back to the March 7th 2023 board meeting for Board review and approval as there was a review by board members um Mr RC um uh let me know that there was some errors on a um front page of the work that staff had done um identifying the wrong um course um location meaning it was listed as a um it was it's not a math course on the sheet I think it was listed as a fine arts I as I recall um so that needs to be amended and whenever there's an error like this instead of approving them and and amending the actual content I would much rather have you um see them next time Dustin number by 16 March 7th next board meeting is it the 2 or the sth 7th 2024 sorry it is the 24th yes 202 for we're not sorry then and then number 16 um the recommended literature also had a form that had um teacher recommendations we have a committee that comes together the form is titled fourth through 8th grade however the teachers that made the review as the committee recommended that it was a conditional recommendation to the to the from the committee to only allow this text to be appropriately used in fifth through 9th grade however that was not included in the background people would have to go in look at the review and understand that was the um intent so instead of pulling one or two books I recommend we bring everything back in another book that was listed the teachers used an electronic version of the um approval process but did not then print Circle and upload the three questions that require an actual um documentation so we just feel that it's better to repost it have it correct and bring it back to the board okay it is recommended that the Board of Trustees consider approving a number of agenda items as a consent list consent items are routine in nature and can be enacted in one motion without further discussion this this proceed this procedia conserves this procedia conserves meeting time for a full discussion of significant issues for transparency on current consent item number 20 accounts payable warrant register page 77 there is a clerical error referencing the acce conference this should ref reflect the aec conference okay I need a consent to approve in one motion or pull items um nine and 16 if the board accepts the superintendent recommendation of pulling item 9 and 16 below uh then we are going to do a consent item uh to approve in one motion uh 1- 8 10- 15 and 17- 21 or if the board does not accept the superintendent recommendation of pulling item 9 and 16 consent items to be approved in one motion will be 1-8 10 through 15 and 17 through 21 now I need a motion on which one we should pull adopt option one okay I'll second all in favor I any opposed okay so option one so we didn't remove anything so we're good so we just moveed we just moved it we need We No More close session sorry there [Music] um if if nothing to report on us we need to now um stop and sign approved documents I'd like to ask a question before we do um I know I'm sorry Dennis go ahead I know we kind of skipped over the second um comments no no the second comments it's not fair would it be possible for us to bring back I know we had a discussion I don't remember if it was the last meeting or the meeting before about AR 57 is that right 5127 yeah and and to be honest could we discuss FASTT tracking it we can discuss some options for that um students that were already in the pathway for Val Victorian knew that was the process to get there so because it is it is disclosed to them as they are coming into high school what I do recommend is that we review this and look at ways that we can support the students that are doing the Early College that can that next year will be recognized in in a different different fashion than our current students if this board policy gets through its second read so what I what I um I actually spoke to the parent before I think they're gone but I did speak to the parent who came early and um he had planned on speaking and I said to him it's totally appropriate it is on the agenda and I would absolutely share what the the issue is his daughter was in her college class or actually at elop at um the school she was working at and so um I I do think there's some things some remedies that we can do but um I want to make sure that we we approve the policy first and then bring those um remedies forward I just want to make sure that we don't just now this policy is for the students who are currently graduating this year or next year it's for the the class of 2025 Mr schlasser St but she's class of 24 she's the current and actually tonight it's not affecting her I was just curious is it it will not impact her but she wants it to she would rather be held under this current policy which is a change P tonight's BP actually doesn't have a year attached that would be next month's AR and so we can bring back within that AR a resolution for the class of 2024 let us let us bring back something that maybe finds a way to address both issues if that's the pleasure of the board board policy first we have to do the administrative regulation yeah how after the what you're in your first read of that you that tonight we'll bring the second read and the um uh recommended AR right at the next okay sounds good and I will reach out to the student directly and um let her know that um since she had already left that there is going to be some discussion about it or Mr goodro could do that because she's an Apple Valley high school but it would be all it would affect everything have the same conversation well they do absolutely this this that that is what needs to happen that's why the policy is coming forward the way it was because it was a districtwide conversation not just with the schools but with the parents as well oh there she is yeah hi hi hi so Mr G is gonna explain what we're doing since he's your principal and he'll make sure that you know that the work that we're going to do on the AR and the board policy okay sorry welcome back yeah all right thank you I need to schedule to meet with you on this specializ I talk about it right now okay there being no further business to come before the Board of Trustees it is recommended that the meeting be adjourned I I need a motion I'm to do that right now all in favor I okay okay so Kylie get me the signatur because I keep
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good afternoon welcome to the 3:00 meeting of the committee on education members we are going to start our meeting with hearing Senate Bill first this Zoom meeting and you YouTube live stream event will include the 3:00 agenda for this committee on education in the unlikely event that we must abruptly end this hearing due to Major technical difficulties the committee will reconvene to discuss any outstanding business on Monday February 5th 2024 at 3:01 p.m in this room 229 and a public notice will be posted on the legislature's website I'd like to take this time to remind our testifiers that due to time restrict rtion on our hearings we will be limiting testimony to one minute per testifier per bill for people participating remotely please remain muted and video disabled until shortly before it is your turn to testify when I call your name unmute yourself and your time will begin after your minute is completed staff will mute you so that we can move this hearing along in an orderly and efficient manager so members again we are going to start with Senate Bill 2635 to open our agenda and 2635 is relating to education appropriates funds to the Department of Education for operational expenses including the hiring of Staff declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded superintendent please kidani members of the committee Kashi superintendant testifying on behalf of the Department of Education the department stands on its written testimony in strong support of this measure the department appreciates the budget that was put forth by the governor as it covered some of the Department's essential needs however there are key initiatives that the department still needs funding for in order to ensure that we continue on our positive trajectory that we have already set um I'd like to also share that looking at the national assessment of educational progress the nape assessment also known as the also referred to as a nation's report card Hawaii leads the country in academic recovery in fourth grade reading and also uh we rank we're ranked right now in fourth in fourth grade math and this is a contributed to the efforts of our teachers our students our administrators and all of the staff at all of our schools our Smarter Balance assessment scores also indicate a strong recovery um amongst the strongest amongst smarter Balan states that administer the same assessment and we ask for your support in investing now in our public education schools so that we can remain on this strong trajectory as we invest is also an investment for our future thank you very much thank you members questions if not thank you superintendent thank you is there anyone else here who wishes to testify this measure members I'll point out that we have testimony and support from the Democratic party of Hawaii uh their committee on education and and their education caucus superintendent can you explain the essential operations need I I I see that um the department has requested $198 million and the governor has appropriated uh only $11.5 million so what is that going to do uh to the education department thank you very much uh for the question chair um to go more into detail we do have uh our Chief Financial Officer assistant superintendent for the office of fiscal Services Brian hel I think first first is just uh good afternoon first to just recap what we received in the governor's budget we we got a lot of funding for our sort of basic critical needs our our core operations are are sort of fixed costs in a sense things like student transportation weighted student formula I'm sorry not waiting student formula utilities um bus service what was what was really lacking in food what was really lacking was funding for our instructional and student support programs um areas such as weighted student formula social emotional programs so so that's I think what what the superintendent alluded to earlier about trying to maintain the trajectory it's those resources that are really going to be critical in in combination with the basic critical needs funding um to maintain the trajectory so this is a 43% cut basically from what the uh doe request and what the governor is providing um what um what would be different how much are you guys going to have to cut and where are you going to cut specifically if we do not extend more money to this Bud thank you very much for the question chair um uh this These funds are especially critical now uh in light of uh the SR fund Federal Sr funding uh ending at the end of this year uh the supports that would be cut would um be uh critical to um our students uh our school's operations uh which may include things like tutoring um Personnel supports for our for our students um perhaps Summer School uh um for for students that uh need need those kinds of supports social emotional programs that were very critical in in the whole that lent itself in support the academic recovery for our students and as as we all know coming out of the pandemic um and we we still are feeling the in effects of it uh that our students counseling uh emotional supports is is critically important that we are able to assess and then um uh be able to support students with effective strategies and so these the funding that we're requesting um includes some of those programs additionally uh the weighted student formula supports for our schools that give our principles uh that flexibility to address uh unique needs of each school and each School Community is is part of what our request uh entails thank you and speaking of school communities we know that and looking back at what happened in the with the fires Etc that there are some um very immediate needs so do you can you give us an example of what percent of this budget is uh going to Lina which is a one not maybe a one-time expense for some of the things um the the U and uh CF can can jump in after I share little but uh the much of what our budget is requesting for uh is uh all inclusive of our department uh which includes supports to the for social emotional supports uh to be able to provide the academic supports for students as I Shar tutoring um I I do know that our um uh out of the office of student Support Services uh here to help program also offers many kinds of supports for our students and so to answer your question uh the L supports for our L schools as well as overall Maui schools are are Incorporated within our budget request and is there um particular CIP um additional CIP needs for La um chair yes they are um our I believe our request though is focusing for this um this ask on our operational budget um but the answer your question is there they definitely are uh Capital Improvement um supports that we do need okay thank you members questions yes questions um so superintendent during the budget briefings I think the chair brought up the uh issue about have you folks looked at what areas and what programs perhaps is not needed anymore or can be cut and so want to go ahead and answer that thank you um um uh Vice chairman M the um from our last our ways and means hearing uh the department we are uh our assistant superintendents are taking an assessment as far as at the state level um what programs have are are still um uh effectively being used um I I believe um many of them are if not all of them but we are doing that assessment of the the supports that on a tri level system between school complex and State uh State offices uh I believe that it is really a comprehensive support effort that we're able to uh see the gains that we have over the last um several years coming out of the pandemic uh but but we are definitely have heard uh Ways and Means and we are doing a review of um of our programs okay well I think it's more than just what programs are being used but what are the priorities what are the new priorities perhaps that put things on a lesser priority and you know I keep bringing this up it's like the kindergarten assessments we did we expended a million dollars for that program that's only going to be good for a short per of time and I think we raised this prior to you folks pulling the trigger on it told you guys that maybe you should come in and ask us to amend the thing and you guys didn't you kept going through with it um so it's those kinds of things that are embedded possibly in your budget that can be looked at and can be cut and you need to be proactive about this and not just wait for us to ask you because you know year after year your budget there's less and less money out there right and you never know when a pandemic or when uh Wildfire will hit and then you even have less resources yes um coming out of our looking at our bar strategic plan uh that you know based on that kindergarten our kindergarten assessment Readiness assessment and then um really helping to focus our efforts in the K through 12 Continuum I we are focused on several areas and um and priority strategies within the department uh that which include uh a focus on Workforce Readiness as we know that we want our students as they graduate to be uh not only well globally competitive locally committed and Workforce ready so that they're able to earn a living wage and stay home here in Hawaii so that's become a new priority sort of that the workforce priority um with our uh strategic plan uh those eight strategic initiatives definitely Workforce Readiness is one vulnerable populations is another and so part of our ask in our operating budget request includes supports for our eel students for special need students uh um for those families who are disadvantaged yes but the budget keeps growing and growing you already about 35% of this budget is education of the entire state budget yes so again there's only so much of the pie will be left to grow so we have to be more strategic on how we do this prioritize because you know we can't be everything to everybody right and I know parents want to just drop off the children and that the teachers teach them everything but there has to be some some responsibilities by the families as well to some of the the things that we try to do for all of our students yes um our our schools do work um really hard together with the families I know that uh you know our our um our teachers our counselors uh School administrators support staff U really look to focus on supporting uh supporting our stud understand they do a good job at that but again you know St stuff like potty training kids or or having the teachers having to take on some of the medical issues I mean those are those are some of the things that teachers say they they they didn't they didn't sign up to be teachers to have to do some of these things so you know we hear them so there the things we have to think about going forward thank you thank you thank you members uh and for the audience the request from the Department of Education is for $198 million what is appro being appropriated by the Govern govern is1 $12 million and so one of the thing some of the things that um have been really cut is weighted St student formula at 33 million by the department request is zero for the Governor's budget student achievement and enrichment $38 million for doe and only 500,000 for the Governor's budget special education and mental health supports $19 million for the doe $8 million from the governor's budget teacher and staff retention 23 million for the Department's budget1 18 million from the governor essential Support Services 15.5 Million by the department 10 million by the governor infrastructure 20 about 22 million from doe 17 million from the governor student meals and transportations 39 plus million um and that stands with both the de and the governor school safety uh which is one of my bigger concerns is um 8 million in the Department's um budget and18 million in the governor's budget budget so what specifically in the school safety um did you guys miss that the governor wants to put in or are you aware of what that is it's that's $10 million for school locks door locks and and blockers um we had asked for it to be to be allow us to repurpose some some old Appropriations that's how we asked for it in our Department's request Governor is looking to fund it with new money and and thus the comparison where it looks like the governor is asking for 10 Mill more than the department had requested but in a sense he's ask it's asking for it in a different way than what we had asked for so are you saying that you already have the money in place from another year or is it you ask we were asking to to allow us to reallocate funds that had previously been appropriated for repair and maintenance F use which you still have which we which we still have this year thank you members questions one last question so um the Govern I released what $8 million for the Fort chapter relocation school youw that um I'm not sure on that in fact Senator I was just at chter today and um I know that there are some some concerns on well I wanted to know how much of that was the Federal Government picking up or are they picking up anything U it's 8020 8020 8020 80% for the federal government 20% for us so 80 million is our 20% no 80 80% is the federal government cost we know right but the governor released about 80 million right or close to that amount we we can get that exact them all for you cuty superintendent uh Senator um we just got word that the military would want to discuss with the state to move the shaer school to a different location right but then the governor released just the other day I got the notice that he released almost $80 million for this relocation so I'm wondering what portion of that is the federal government P okay I haven't seen that but if if it were the the federal government if it's 80 million that would be federal dollars that we'd have 20% of that state match so he's releasing 80 million of the state monies but then the federal is going to reimburse us for 80% no because it's not 80 million yeah I think Senator um we want to be sure we get you the correct information so we'll get back to you on that a lot of money yeah could could be going to one a school project it is a it is a total rebuild of a totally new campus yeah I just want to make sure the FED is paying 80% yeah sure we'll get the V vum thank you um yeah thanks uh superintendent the you know we talked about Senator County brought up about the school safety and you said it's a different bucket of how how they're appropriating there been a lot of concerns and you saw that um with the in operating or inoperable fire alarms is that funding going to take care of that in numerous schools across least on the big island um once again 10 million is is not it is not part of our budget Center okay is there money there to fix this because this has been brought to my attention we we are um looking at a number of different solutions for that um uh but we will definitely get back to you on the amount additional amount it's a fire alarms definitely is urgent for us uh it is a priority it it um it uh speaks to safety of our students so we are moving exper as expeditious expeditiously as we can but we will get back to you on that on that information very soon appreciate that and deliver to the chair thank you okay thank you thank you further questions members thank you thank you move to the top of the agenda Senate Bill 3091 making an emergency appropriation to the Department of Education for Food Services good afternoon chair Vice chair members of the committee curo Deputy superintendent for operations um the department stands on Department stands on its written testimony and support of this bill we appreciate your consideration and happy to answer any questions thank you um Kur what was the cost for Food Services last year the total cost for the Food Services operation is about 100t 56 million um food cost alone is a approx last year it averaged about 67 million 66.9 9 million so 67 million um our reimbursements on that 67 million from the USDA was approximately 60 million 60.8 million so already we're running at a deficit just on reimbursements from the USDA so the the amount I don't have you have a deficit of $20 million no right because we but that's for what amount I don't have the amount listed here oh okay so uh the Department's expenses are broken down into food costs which primarily was uh used to be about food cost was about 35% pre pandemic of the total operation that has now risen to we're anticipating 50% just food cost food milk um the other expenses are the overhead uh salaries uh Food Services pays for all the cafeteria uh staff workers in the schools um the revenue sources that we collect are basically three so uh paid so some students do pay but it's a smaller amount we get reimbursed from the uh USDA and that was a 60.8 million I said um the third is General funds coming from you all so that's that average is about 35 135 million hence the approximately 20211 million shortfall so food and milk costs were 40.4 million is this last year's budget that was last year's bud and then um and it's going to go up to 67 million approximately and I can I can ask our administrator Lindsey Rodriguez to share more detail hello can you hear me oh hello U my name is lindsy rodrig so um the 40.4 million was um in school year 2018 2019 preceding the pandemic um but it is risen um to 67.1 million as Deputy uro um said and that was for last year it's about 50% now food and milk of our total budget so the 67 million is for both food and milk that's correct okay and so over the past four years it has gone from 40 million to 67 million which is that's correct yes yeah like a 50 plus 50% plus increase and is this typical of across the United States yes with haai yeah yes and just in general with inflation during the pandemic and questions so I know that there's measures are looking at adding breakfast and and lunch and completely free what kind of cost is that would be if we had to add that on the average weight of a cost of a meal according to Lyn is about $761 right now so if is free so and you got to remember now what we say 100,000 meals a day it on an annual basis that adds up to like 18 and A5 million meals so every time we serving a meal it it'll cost the state and by Statute we can charge no less than 50% as you know so what portion of that if we were to take out would the would we get reimbursed by the um FDA your state yeah so it's a smaller percentage um about 73% yeah yes but we are looking um I know they're going to be doing a school meal cost study for school year 2425 but hopefully results in um 2027 and so fully that will get us to a higher reimbursement I guess this goes back to priorities as to we got to fund what we already committed to and taking on new stuff will just exacerbate yes so um do you get a lot of complaints about school lunches we've heard of some some away a lot of yeah so I I you know what what can we do better to provide lunches that are more satisfactory to our students that they're going to eat yes because it's okay to just throw stuff on the on the tray but half or 75% is going to go in the trash because the students don't like what you're serving I mean what what have you guys done to look at the issue talk to the cafeteria managers students what so we're a large operation um we understand we need to have more streamlined ways of communicating and getting that feedback so we have launched a software called neutr SCE part of that software it's a digital dining menu um so you can go to a school website and kind of just see the menus you can see pictures we're starting to add pictures the nutritional information and whatnot and there's also a place for comments and feedback reading the meals and so that's something that we are starting to look at in terms of student feedback um and we also do um when we do add new items to the menu we do get student feedback and whatnot uh so but we are looking at that system to help us be able to put something on the menu That's may be more appealing we are we also looking uh in the future at Regional menu planning because we know we serve whole state on a 4-we cycle menu that doesn't serve everyone so looking at maybe different menus for the different districts um food waste is something that we are going to start looking into further um there is a serving um method called offer versus Serve by USDA it was put in place in the 1970s and um required for high schools to implement it and what it does is for lunch for example you have to take five components so your milk your meat your grain Etc fruit and vegetable students can take three out of the five for a reimbursable meal now they're offered all we encourage them to have it but they don't need to take all of them for a reimbursable meal so additional education with our schools and whatnot um will help with food waste if they don't want to eat it all and they might think that they need to take it all um and then of course that will help our food expenditures as well do you um do you you ask students what they like to eat or I mean somebody must notice what they're throwing away but you keep serving the same thing well we do change our menus um but yes I that is something that we are going to be looking at more in food waste and but like I mentioned with neutr SCE that is a software that we're using to get feedback and it's Statewide so we're seeing a lot more feedback that way thank you Senator Kim what does it cost us for the these softwares and these surveys and stuff so neutr SCE initially was 86,000 um and for every year would be 60,000 60,000 and it's not just for student feedback um we do need to have our menus translated and so that to different languages and so that helps us considerably because otherwise we would have to get translation services which is also costly um it provides information especially for students with special dietary needs that they can just go on and get that information such as um carbohydrate counts and whatnot um I'm sorry but 86,000 60,000 what if it happened to basic like you said oh we're starting to look at Food Wass why is it you starting to look at Food Wass isn't that the first thing you would look at to try to figure out what students are throwing away then we don't have to have a software and then what happens to having in classrooms and have a teacher just pass out the paper and say students write down what you thought about the lunch and what would you like to have why do we have have to pay thousands and thousands of dollars to just to get a software and to get and half the kids or more than half the kids are not going to go on there and then you know I understand translation but you know a picture of an orange and a picture of an apple I mean how many translations do we have to get and hire people to translate it so you know we're losing common sense with this world of technology I'm sorry um you know I come from a basic and and poor family that I mean $86,000 come on on and that's what I'm talking about when I talk at the superintendent are we looking at priorities where are we placing our priorities I mean you know you cook for your family at home you kind of know you don't have to have a survey to tell you what they like and what they don't like you kind of know the Hawaii kids whether they come from wi or they come from papaa I mean there's you know certain areas would like more Po and others might like more rice but I mean come on this is Hawaii we can't we can't figure this out I think we got to have on S that cost us 60,000 86,000 to tell us all of this stuff software does more more than that but no I know but still software can do everything you want it to do but it takes out the human element you know just because the software tells me that my my kid might want to eat this well he's allergic the software doesn't tell you that and he can't eat cheese so I mean these are the kinds of stuff that it's missing and we need to really take a look at that and you know do some some Abacus of something to figure things out instead of going to a u all the 60 it's easy to say but then you folks are short of money and we don't we cannot buy everything sure nice to have and that's a message that we'll carry on there's going to be a training this month um superintendent is urging us to do it for why is this message we got to talk to the cafeteria managers right that that's what it's face to face like this and ask exactly what you just asked for I'm sorry I'm I I've been doing this for so many years and I keep hearing the same excuses and stuff and then we just seem to lack basic Common Sense on how we deal with this and deal with our students I mean each teacher can easily survey the kids without having to have them go on a software pass out a little form and say what did you guys think of the lunch today or what did you think of you know these menus I mean what happened to that what happened to each classroom telling the students what's on the menu for today having translators okay thank you sure Senator yeah um you've heard the concerns um there was a farm to table initiative in Kohala high that worked quite well cost per serving went up but the overall cost of the food program went down because of the wastage and what um Senator Kim was referring to I know there was a study done I think it was Kansas State where they evaluated the cafeterias there and there was about a 40% food wastage have to imagine that's probably pretty consistent Across the Nation so we already know we have a wastage problem there's supposed to be a big push for the farm to table for doe and we were supposed to have a first blush of what that menu might look like by this legislative session haven't seen anything yet we increase the quality of food that we deliver we decrease the wastage I me this is what the Senate is asking why aren't we pushing harder we've already done the Prototype how do we get that going and I you know we'll get into analysis paralysis where we just evaluate evaluate but don't actually do so where are we with the farm to table and how do we make that go further the Kohala pilot um that there was a lot more scratch cooking and local so we are looking um at that in terms of the um report and whatnot that is the legislative report is coming we uh are at 6.14% um local so right now we're looking at this Statewide and how we can add more local to the menu Statewide um I'd have to look at the pilot for Kohala to see all of the different characteristics that made that program successful we would have to we could take the waist um piece of it I was not familiar with that I I don't want to waste a lot of time going over it the point is the pilot project was done to give you that information and why do we have to go now look at it we should have already looked at it so um I'm going to ask you to do that and like I said I don't want to waste the committee's time on this but my expectation is that you'll deliver something back to the chair in reasonably short order thank you chair question um so the additional budget that's requested it's how much more than last year's budget for Food Services their request last year was 18 million this is 20 million so has the student population increase or is this just food cost or is this because I believe you're also asking for more staff is that correct I an increasing staff no increase in staff but again well the department request is 1998 million plus dollars the the governor's request is 111.5 million that's $86 million difference so I'm I'm baffled as to why it was cut so much did they go through the budget and see something that we're not seeing yeah you know that that was a unfortunate reduction um and so food cost was one of them Summer Schools another um so we're not asking to increase staff in Lindsay's area they only have 30 30 30 FD the other staff that that she's paying for is in the the schools and we're evaluating that as well maybe the levels need to be adjusted uh can you please provide this committee with the the cost from uh last year so you can take another look at this thank you ask one more quick question the software that cost those $86,000 how long ago did you purchase it last year just last year so from now on going for 60 okay I'm going to have you cons reconsider that because I'm going to ask you about that next sure too $60,000 is an annual salary for somebody to pay for a software okay we'll write up something for you software thank you sure Senator faill what is the kids are paying for lunch today why is the kids lunch they paying for today so for breakfast it's $110 and for lunch it's 250 for up to 8th grade grade and 275 for high school teachers lunch 550 550 when you get um just wanted to just get a comment so my colleagues know I was a custodian at Campbell High School I didn't understand the concept of taking every single item I was against that because I seen all the vegetables all the fruits all the milk they didn't even like the mean corks they take a bite youw everything in a rubbish can so I don't and and I'm with Senator Kim and spending this kind of money when you guys can get the data from the schools so kids got bu buckets donated by the Lions Club and they did their own survey on waste a lot of schools do that did you guys even look into the schools and had programs that look into school waste on how much food is being wasted I know you guys don't look at the kids as customers um probably not but I understand we got to eat well feed well and do well but the kids go home and eat pizza burritos drink juice so I understand the federal mandates and all this but we got to end up to our customers kids are the customers we got to make sure they eat what we or they like to eat regardless of what we think is good for them because if they not eating that at home how you going to duplicate one apple if I want to eat so you and rice or parking beans and hot dog how you going to make one kid eat what you guys are providing so I don't understand what you was explaining and I wasn't here the whole time on what what is the real need for a program that costes that much and and what is the concept and what do you guys trying to accomplish with all that money being spent on one program when you simply can go like this and we get Kansas here each school to do the L survey every senior a class doing survey and get that from the kids they was weighing it every bucket how much waste there was only one class yeah I counted 562 apples thr away that was one building and I did that on purpose not knowing I was going to be the senator but I had a problem with food weeks cuz we get elderly in the community that could use it so how is this program going to help a community like Ela Beach to promote them to eating all their stuff on the plate because you can have all the surveys and all what you like nobody going to click I want salad so how is that going to really I mean I wasn't here sorry Senator Kim but how is that going to right so that's that's a great Point thank you um so looking at let's take fruit we could be doing more surveys that maybe are more targeted on okay what kind of fruit how do you want the fruit how do you want it cut um we do also have to look at cafeteria sta prep staff prep time and whatnot but these are all good ideas and so maybe we can focus then on maybe specific items if we're seeing and targeting all the apples going in the trash how do we get the kids we do have to offer fruit everyone I think knows that it's part of the federal requirement but what kind of fruit do they want to have how do they want to eat it and then also educating them on the offer versus serve method which is not having to take every single component and then regionalizing menus we think that that's going to be really important so what was the requirement you said what what was the requirement why they have to take everything what was that requirement for so we have to offer five for lunch as an example state federal federal federal we have to offer for lunch five different components fruit is one of them um and so apples could be one idea we do sometimes say Okay fresh fruit managers can choose they can work with their students to see you know maybe what they want on the plate more and that's a way to reduce waste um offer versus serve as I mentioned uh where they don't have to choose everything they choose three out of the five components to be able to get reimbursable that was also implemented years ago to in an effort to reduce waste but I think just regionalizing menus getting knowing what the kids may be in L District when in the district they might want different things how much money does the federal give for a lunch program 67 million 67 million how much the state I'm sorry 60 60 million 60 million how cost 67 million how much the state the state is is million so majority is from the feds yes so what about now when you come with this program and you get the money for this program how is they going to collaborate with our farm to table for the the 20 million you mean oh when you have this program how is it going to collaborate when for form to table oh we're Focus growing our own food and right so we're focusing on the legislative goals so the 30x30 um and so Statewide looking at how we're going to be be able to increase that and so looking at it from just different food commodities and how we can add that onto the menu and then in the different districts seeing if there's certain food commodities that are available in certain districts how we can get those on the menu we need to educate our our students on the value of of nutrition right in general we've seen that in other schools and so if they know what components are there and make it part of the educational process then when they go and eat it then they'll know they'll be more comfortable instead of just seeing it on the plate right right so these are things that we but I agree with you we got to survey the kids so the reason why I bring this up um I never come this fat because I atat school lunch um the school lunch when I atat the school lunch you know we work it off as kids right the Pizza the cookies the whatever we get in sports I never gain weight till I got on a high school just two years ago um but what I'm saying is I understand the federal mandate but we need to Advocate to legislation in in Washington DC that Hawaii is different our kids are different we eat different our Styles and ethnicity is different it's not a one blanket not everybody is Michelle Obama you know what I mean I understand her her concept and I think it was a great concept but it doesn't fit all the federal mandate should fit the state and the state should dictate on the federal what we should have the kids eat not because you know Michelle Obama said you got to have the Apple the juice the milk the cookie but have they fill the plate half is in the rubbish can so that's something that I guess you know maybe you guys can help us um before you guys ask for a program like this work with the delegates and see we can custom make our food in Hawaii that we can have more tarot po look at adding yeah yeah great G be happy okay thank you sorry one one quick thing I'm just want to caution you you you made some comments about what they want how they want it cut we can't get you got to watch that we don't get into the Leeds how they want it cut come on some of these things got to be made by the professionals or the people doing it and so you know so be careful when you when you say these kinds of things because then it costs more to have a cut a special way um sorry I didn't mean I just meant that sometimes if we serve it whole maybe that's going to reduce the likelihood of them eating it but you can you can know that if you seeing being thrown away and you know it's easier to bite things if it's smaller so again Common Sense comes into a lot of this stuff so you know let's not burden them with how would you like to see food cut I mean come on right don't forget to u u yeah but lot of kids don't like the tast moving on thank you thank you um Senate Bill 3092 making an emergency appropriation to the Department of Education for Charter Schools um Brian aloh CH kadani Vice chair c members Brian h prot fiscal Services uh we stand on a written tone testimony and support of this Administration bill for emergency appropriation current year appropriation thank you Brian can you explain the 4% growth that uh for the public charter schools is that um a new count is that anticipated or is that an actual count I believe you're you're referring to the attachment that was um on the last page of Our Testimony yes I don't I didn't calculate the percentage growth but if you're looking at the uh the first grouping of numbers at the top the appropriation was based on a projected enrollment and then we do a trup based on an actual October 15th count so it was October 15 2023 that reflects their actual enrollment and it it was higher than projected as was the du's enrollment was higher than projected but the essentially to summarize why there's additional funding required because the department had to transfer $6.6 million to Charter Schools to maintain per pup funding at a comparable level um there were a couple of flaws with with the way the appropriation was set so when the true up happened it was much higher than than historical experience this year uh one one reason was uh enrollment count was low for for charter schools and just the calculation was a little bit off so but this was just found out this past year or was this something that happened previous years as far as I think previous years we we've been within plus or minus a million dollars um in any other direction either Charter Schools sending doe or due sending Charter Schools this year I think it was is a one-time hopefully a one-time error in in how the appropriation was made for edn 600 the department is is working more closely with with both budget and finance and the money committees share spreadsheets similar to this to hopefully ensure the calculation follows statute okay so um what is the doe growth uh this year do you know I I apologize I I don't know off the top of my head okay but what is okay then what is the uh um percent of funding requirements that you're asking additional percentage over last years oh with the with the $198 million request that's something that we can provide the committee and and as we talked about it at the in the budget briefing um it's it's really not a plus 198 million because we actually have less money next year than we we have this year in our appropriation yeah so I'm assuming that this also takes into consideration the uh King 3 School the the the need to replace that school um that's that's not so much a factor that may have contributed to to some of the impact on the October 15th count date and and why the numbers were they were as they were U maybe perhaps on the charter school side we saw some increase there um on Maui more than was anticipated um but I I I can't estimate at this point the the amount okay members further questions if not thank you Brian thank you okay okay moving on to senville oh yes sorry sorry didn't mean to skip you Alou president hsta uh chair Vice chair Malo I just want to say before I start on this one if we wanted to talk about the school lunches we have a whole bunch of students here who I think could provide some insight as to you know what they like and don't like I saw them like anxious to have their voice piz anxious to have their voices heard maybe so possibly um with regards cheat to our offices and oh with regards to this bill we just want to say that we're in support um the charter schools are growing 4% and they deserve um proportionally what they deserve relative to the doe um and they already struggle as it is so anything any help we can provide our charges please model thank youa members questions thank you sure please hi everyone I'm Trinity I am a public charter school teacher out on the West Side um I just wanted to kind of give an insight to those of us or to those of youall who may not have the perspective of how public charter schools work and we are the newest public charter on island and it ends up being something where we're constantly looking for Grants constantly looking for funding um and luckily our staff are well um connected and are able to get grants um but for the sake of equity you know we might consider how what about those charter schools that are starting up that aren't well connected like where does that money come from for their new facilities you know and our charter school started out next to an orange therapy like in a strip mall right um and so giving you know facilities for charter school so that they can feel students can feel a sense of Pride for where they are I think is highly important um I think it's important that that is an additional fund and then we're not taking that away from say full doe schools thank you thank you good afternoon Tiffany Edwards hunt I'm actually a teacher at K Middle School on the big island however I did a stent of teaching at all of the Puna charter schools and I'm a charter school parent who brought my kids over to doe the reason why I chose for my kids to initially go to Charter School was more freedom for things like Farm to Table and um as a result of the inadequate infrastructure I decided to change my path for my own kids and my teaching um I was one of the teachers that was pushing around a cart to teach uh at kol Okala public charter school after after the lava inundated um the KU Okala campus in koho and before that we were able to be in the low E and be able to um teach and really give the students kilo so there's a lot of amazing things that are going on at the charter schools there's amazing teachers um having elementary school children use porta potties is a nightmare and so we have to do better as estate and you are so on point as a custodian's um point of view looking at the food waste we have to do better thank you for your critical questioning um we it's time to get real these are our kids and um I appreciate your scrutiny I also believe that we need to adequately fund things we need to prioritize and we need to get real thank you so much Aloha thank you I just can I say something I just want to say that if if our do schools had to struggle like our our charter schools in prioritizing and making do what they have then I think maybe we would have more efficiency so thank you hope mck Hilo Hilo uh born and raised in Hilo um strong Public School advocate I did most of my teaching career in Hawaii emerg school started in White Elementary at kapuni there moved to Hilo um taught at k for 14 years um and I understand the struggle of charter schools cuz what ends up happening is the the defun of doe schools ends up sending these students into Charter Schools but Charter Schools don't have the same Services nor they offered the same Services many times by the doe it's a struggle to get those services for our Ki there's so many reasons as he was speaking why these schools need that money it's because parents are unhappy in doe schools and they move them to Charter Schools mid year but the charter schools don't have that money for that kid so it gets really sticky on another note um there is amazing Innovation happening at our charter schools and that same Innovation should be happening in our department schools it shouldn't be left to the charter schools to have that Innovation all of our teachers should be given that opport opportunity to have that Innovation and one critical question thank you guys so much for asking those critical questions about the food should be asked is there a food and beverage person working in that office that actually understands how Food Works because just so happened I ended up with a food and beverage person and when he seen the meals that I would send him from my students he was like who is planning that menu is there a food and beverage person and Kohala was successful because they had a chef on board and he made that successful so I know sometimes it's a lot to pay for but it's our Kiki and it's their food so M thank you anyone else wishing to testify on this issue thank you moving on um we are on Senate Bill 3207 relating to education and increases the superintendent of education's salary to not more than $350,000 and I think that's worded incorrectly this is not a bill to increase the superintendent salary this is a bill to increase the cap and could it could but I I think that uh um if you look at some of the the schools on the mainland where they're much higher than that I think uh this allows um and if we don't increase the cap now [Music] got it shall be anyway there was a a statute June if we don't repeal by June 30th 2024 the current salary cap will revert back to $150,000 that's the main reason we're doing this okay so um we have someone to testify on this is there anyone here to testify on Senate Bill 3207 oh thank you okay Brian re okay who who are they pointing at students oh Warren Haruki please board board chair I didn't see him sitting back there good afternoon chair kidani Vice chair of Kim good afternoon members of the committee I'm Warr heri chairperson of the Board of Education We Stand by um our written testimony and strong support of this Bill and as you just um clarified Senator kidani this um raises cap is it does not confirm a raise on the incumbent Superintendent at the moment um so I'll stand by for any questions you may have the current cap is what 250 250 and what the salary is now 240 240 you folks recently um denied a raise we deferred we defer taking action on that and that was from how much to get it to the cap to get it to 350 no 250 to 250 2 250 yeah okay so you anticipate revisiting that we are undergoing um we were're trying to utilize a compensation consultant rather than relying on the Department of Education staff to make recommendations so and how much is that consultant going to costess we don't know the RFP just went out yesterday I know again why do we have to just put a consultant to tell us how much we should be pay well these these Consultants specialize in the K12 field so we're going to see what they come back with can't you do a survey across the country I mean just because they that's what they say doesn't mean that's what we should be paying right correct we we we're asking for much more information than just a simple survey they need to look at uh the breath and the scope of each of these positions the positions include the superintendent the deputies assistant superintendents and the complex area superintendents many of these positions may carry the same title but their responsibilities very differently so if the study comes out saying that we should be paying them 400,000 or 500,000 what's the board going to do we're not going to it's just going to give us a range that does not mean we're go to that spot no but I'm just saying that lot of times we get these studies and stuff and they tell us stuff and then we either agree or disagree with it but I'm just saying we're going to spend all this money it's GNA come out and then it's a justification I mean yeah okay so we we still say here and this bill will help do this that we need to continue to keep the evaluation requirement for the board to annually review the performance of the superintendent okay I just so we just said we recently we were behind the calendar this year and because of the wildfires and a lot of turnover and staff but we did uh establish the target goals for the superintendent recently and come towards the end of this school year we will be doing an evaluation of the performance I'm going to go on record I don't support hiring a consultant cost to tell us how much we should be PID I think that's something we could figure out than on the B of Education meeting um came up for the for his raise how much percent of uh the maximum of the raise that the superintendent high on how much percent what percent is the 10 10,000 over the 240 no what I'm saying is okay so what I was what I heard when I came to testify in opposition to that race was that he came up with um like 75% of his raise already that's why you guys wanted to just give him the 10% at that time was it the 10% was it 10% no it was $10,000 okay $10,000 ,000 it was something less than 4% I want to say it's like 3.8% so as as um you said in the cap higher I know a lot of confusion in the community thinking that after today the bill pass that's what you guys going to start paying him um soon as the bill become long um what is the parameters of this we set this cap at this point what the parameters that this is not going to be Revisited uh on the board or in legislation two years from now to make home 500,000 yeah sen my my understanding is this the the current cap of 250,000 was established 10 years ago and at that time 10 years ago it was 150,000 so it increased 10 years ago by 100,000 to the current cap of 250 and this proposal is to use that same $100,000 to get to 350 so it was a 10-year interval that statutorily you the set the legislature would review the cap excuse me the only reason why I said that is because the there's just kind of confusing on that you know we know 10 years uh and the cap and and the percentage but again um it's a big table yeah I mean there's plenty other parameters in there so I just like to know because this is coming from uh teachers in my district um how is it um an even playing field for the other uh people that is on the food chain how high are um are this going to go and then how we going to be able to explain to our teachers or other administrators CES what what going forward on what kind parameters that we're going to set for them what is the cap or what is the increase that they never get some of my colleagues told me before I came here they never get paid for over 10 years in raise or maybe more those are the parameters we saying that you're going to hire a consultant to look into him well we was apparently was uh due for raises before I came here and they didn't take it the Judiciary uh the governor's office everybody else took their pay raise icept the legislators yeah because it wasn't good on the taxpayers or the people's perspective of the pay raise so they didn't take it but again we're talking about 10 years I go for that so that going to be the standard for everything across the board because I understand that don't get me wrong 10 years is a long time ago but that kind of money did you guys look it into any other positions within the doe on how they set those scales because I'm pretty sure all the cazes and everybody body in the room all get paid differently um you know Heidi and Sean and everybody get paid differently so I just want to know how is this is going to set a precedence after I's say he's going to get the money and a community not everybody understands that but I want to say we support we support this 10 years from now 500,000 600,000 more than the governor and the president I mean what I'm saying is that if I support something like this it has to have more of a parameters that have a 10year um Time Life yeah cuz me that's a lot of money correct yeah so that that's just my take so if you can let me know on how you guys set other positions beside the superintendent I mean I know that's big whatever you can I think you've been very um present at a lot of these board meetings so thank you we did Cover the uh complex area superintendent and assistant superintendent and Deputy superintendent recently and those were they were increased um you if you recall there's been a lot of collective bargaining increases so they got um pretty similar percentages in the case of the superintendent though the $10,000 was something in the order of 37 or 3.8% his proposal was the least amount that was being requested and actually he was the last person Within entire department to have any kind of compensation increase put before us um the other ramification of this bill as Cher kidani recently mentioned is that there is a statute section 302a 621 that says that the salaries of the Deputy superintendent assistant superintendent and complex area superintendents shall be set by the board provided that the salaries of these positions shall not exceed the superintendent salary so if the if this bill that we're contemplating right now doesn't go through the current statute has a Sunset date of June 30th and if it doesn't get changed then it reverts to $150,000 which is 10 years ago so virtually everybody in those three classifications of Executives within the doe would proba would have a pay raise because nobody can be higher than the superintendent than 150 so this is a critical Bill thank you thank you for thank you chair other questions members um just follow up and I appreciate the comments of me and chair I do appreciate your clarification on the bill uh and I to some degree this is a housekeeping Bill to to make sure things I got that coming forth however this also gets a venue for the public to State their feelings about what's going on and that's what we are talking about here we hear from our community we hear from our um our students and our teachers the frustration level and so though I get the the housekeeping portion of this this allows the conversation of the bigger picture which is what is problematic here and that's that's why I think we all as senators are listening very carefully um I know we have to do something but this is also giving a way for people to talk about this so I hope the board is listening very carefully to the people as well okay thank you chair thank you questions thank you thank you Warren Aloha my name is l Paulo a high school student in Hawaii I'm testifying opposition of Senate Bill 3207 I'm only a senior but I'm well aware that the funds of his salary already more than sufficient the research have conducted the state of California superintendent is paid $300,000 but has a public school student count of 5 million students however Hawaii only has 170,000 I understand that his job is important but so is the job of our Educators who salary barely scratches the surface of $100,000 so why can't we increase their cap not only that but why don't we also take into consideration the bus situations they're expensive over $500 for one round trip but the average class size needs two or three so and they're very barely available so why can we also fund our Ki why can't we give them a bigger cap Mahala for your time what was your name please Lauren Pole thank you is Anella K here Angela Melody young Vanessa art Leonard Naka Alisa hamasaki Nikki hey open my you hear me yes okay you going hear me cuz hey um I told you against this um $350,000 to one guy one guy you guys all bring out the the L fire and all that kind stuff yeah that's how you got like fun all these guy yeah but you guys just um the school bus just got discontinued for the dis Place Hawaiian from L they got move to K now they going to display this continue the bus service to get this kid to L and then you're going to give this guy hundred more thousand I don't care 10 years whatever you guys give that sad story you try do $100,000 in the freaking out of the 250 that's over 40% at 40% gain okay I I'm I used to be a new rep hey I know about this union pay what they get a half% 1% all the kind stuff now I give this guy 40 some per in 10 years that still adds up to like 5% each year okay and um plus this guy he brand new he brand new so what you give him I don't know how he got $10,000 to begin with he if he wanted the position he get that position and whatever pay it is and then he got a deserve to get one 10,000 rate and then you got give him hundred more thousand oh my God you wait up the floor I go come to over there present and be present and represent the people of ma and mad but we piss off okay guys hear me coming thank you thank you we're not giving him a raise we're raising the cap yeah I know the cap that's talking about the cap 10 years what 10 years years ago you want question hello thank you um where am [Laughter] I I guess that was l in the AL Alysa hamasaki uh aniki Michelle Piper and Lauren Michelle hello chair Vice chair and committee members who serve the public I oppose Senate Bill 3207 as a teacher of 24 years witnessing firsthand the social and economic hardships of our community indoors I find the proposed superintendent pay increase misalign with our current realities over 6,000 individuals are homeless on Maui a mental health crisis a consistent rise in fentol cases and inflation that has escalated the cost of basic needs the challenges compounded by the displacement of residents due to non-resident land purchases demand our urgent attention and resources during the Furlow Fridays I alongside my fellow Educators accepted a pay cut contributing to the state's recovery efforts it was a shared sacrifice for the greater good in these trying times when our community faces multifaceted crisis allocating funds for a pay increase at the administrative level seems out of touch with the immediate reality and the needs of our people I urge us to redirect our focus and re resources towards supporting the most vulnerable Among Us and improving our educational infrastructure ensuring every child and Ohana has the support they need now is the moment for Collective sacrifice and unity not for enhancing administrative compensation let's prioritize the well-being of our community and lead by example showing that we all are committed to navigating these challenging times I am a teacher um my name is Michelle Piper at nanakuli high school um thank you for allowing me to speak and if I can I just want to add on I do compost food scraps at nanakuli high school the students do and you're going to have to work on getting the custodians on the janitors to do it because nobody will do it so I already know we diverted 10,600 last school year and that's just one little tiny School imagine what all the other schools are doing the students weigh the buckets weigh the data put it into the calendar and they can see what waste is matching up with what meal was that day so I have a lot of data and this is going on for the third year I'm actually on sabatico right now so thank you for allowing me to jump on and still continue to work for the Department of Education and the students of our of our Hawaii Mahalo Mahalo thank you Michelle Lauren is there a Lauren who wanted to speak thank you anyone else here wishing to speak on this measure hi folks this is Trinity again um proud public school graduate k through2 i Now teach at a public charter school out in Eva Beach um I think I I understand Senator you speaking on this is a conversation about about the cap of a salary um but I think it also comes down to a question of values and who in our education system we value um I'm going to tell a story about one of my co-teachers during my first year of teaching I spoke to my math co- teer sixth grade I was teaching spe special education and I asked her what is your advice for me as a young teacher and she said don't do it she said don't get out and her reason for that she says you know I went to uh I got my teaching degree I'm still in debt and she is in her 40s she has two kids sent them off to school um and I said well what's going to happen she says I'm not getting rid of this like this is my life I'm going to be in debt till till the end of my life um and so having that perspective you know and as someone who hears teacher stories all the time when I hear that teachers are living out of their cars are moving away from the island cuz they can't afford to live here in the place where they grew up and when they have this debt that is falling them until they die I find it disheartening that we're having a conversation about someone who already has a six-digit salary getting more um again it's raising the cap not raising consider if the cap stayed reverted to that 150 um that's that's a lot that's three times my salary so um I think that'll be okay I think people will survive um we are teachers we are here we are hurting um I want to emphasize that and to bring our attention down to who we prioritize within our education system thank you for your time thank you thank you uh for your time share and everyone you guys are very busy uh a couple key points my name is Ryan Luther and I oppose uh the SP 3207 I am aware that it's just raising but just before we heard about SB 2635 which we're exceeding the ceiling so I mean if we don't have to raise anything right now and move anything I think that'd be a betterment then I heard someone talk about a an HRS code something about how we needed to make this happen before it changes something like there's kind of a deadline um I did read about in 2018 there was uh try to do an amendment from the constitution of Hawaii to try to get more appropriate funds from taxation of certain properties um investment properties I think there's other avenues that we can look at first before we just initially just raise something and not just that the this year I mean the last couple years we've hired two assistant Deputy superintendant um I think at 196,000 um he did that they said the minimum was 10 grand it was the max he could do was 10,000 in his first year without even doing that so we've already gotten our raise to the superintendent already um then there were some things in this bill where we verbiage wise they said it didn't need to happen instantly but they struck out on page 3 8 through1 13 which says finish contracts they're not going to finish the contract that's current so it's kind of showing me that they're ready to do it right now I mean why wouldn't you just finish your contract now then there was another thing I had questions I would like uh to be looked at or deferred until it's answered you have 12 through 14 on page one says provide that nothing shall prohibit the Boe from conditioning or proportion of of the salary on performance so what's what would prohibit what percentage of the salary equals a portion under the conditions what elements describe of performance is that academic how how are we how are we evaluating um that's a there a broad term because I have some evaluations being involved with the school district the last couple years and there is a lot of fault as you guys are hearing and aware of so I I would uh like this defer this just because of those open-ended questions it doesn't specify if the funds are coming out of the general funds which I believe it is we've already exceeded the ceiling so I I do believe that looking into other there are other avenues that can be looked at than just automatically raising this because something else is going to happen conditionally um with the complex superintendence but again you know it's as far as this bill goes you know it's I do strongly oppose it and I I just know that exceeding the baill is just not the right time to do it so and again just as I stated earlier the statute requires that it revert back to 150,000 if we don't do does it does right but I don't know what happened with the 2018 looking for funds I know statutes can be revised as well multiple times HRS codes are always revised you strike out and you go look at so that's not an excuse just to make that reason there's other avenues that we can look at in be proactive with versus just you know allowing them just to do it because something might happen so I appreciate your time Meers your efforts questions thank you all okay we have to be out of here in 20 20 minutes yeah go ahead hi my name is Sarah toiki I'm a middle school band director uh 16 years in the public schools here in Hawaii born and raised in Hawaii uh I think there's a lot of fixation on the $350,000 number and I understand that because it's quite alarming I also understand the logic behind it so I'm not going to I'm not going to talk about that number although I do feel like $350,000 as a teacher who has been in the the system for 16 years who has colleagues that are living four people into in a 700t condo is is alarming because that's a lot of money that that could be spent uh going to the people who are in the schools what I want to focus on is the efficacy of the evaluation system that we're going to be using that this this bill is supposed to be setting forth that the the Board of Education will evaluate because I just listen to an entire 45 minutes of testimony asking questions about decisionmaking and I have strategic plan fatigue as a teacher too much strategic plans and to be honest if there were no super attendant but there were students and teachers learning would happen and it would actually probably be better than if there's some strategic plan that's completely out of touch of what reality is and we are completely out of touch of the students that we have because students on Ki are very different than students on neow even though the islands are right next to each other and so therefore how are we really evaluating the superintendent and I'm going to tell you the number one way that you can evaluate the superintendent I'm kind of glad that the Board of Ed chair is here and I'm not sure about the r rules regarding whether I'm supposed to talk to you or anyway but hopefully somebody's listening that the the happiness and the stress level of the teachers and the EAS and the cafer workers and the custodians and the administrators that should be how we evaluate how schools are effectively run by the superintendent because if we have strategic plan after strategic plan after choosing new programs that doesn't matter as much as how much we have to be here than you um so yeah I'm going to limit the testimony to a minute so we can get out of here on time so if anybody else wants to speak come forward what she said you heard it today consultant after consultant after strategic plan we could teach so much better can you state your name please oh gosh so sorry for the lack of formality to Tiffany Edwards hunt and we have as hsta as amongst our priorities trying to put a teacher on the board of education and we might be able to have these conversations at the Board of Education if that were to happen but because we don't here we are and thank you Senator Richards for saying that poignant comment about something like this even though it's it's a cap right this is where we get to have that conversation and we get to get real and my colleague from Ki she said it best so we're going to honor your time but we're over here going amen sister amen so thank you aloha aloha thank you hi Senator I called your office to sign up to speak and you didn't call my name I'm sorry what's your name please Julie ryaz go ahead Julie good afternoon members of the Senate education committee my name is Julie ra Oda a teacher at non high in intermediate and I strongly oppose s SP 3207 the bill is about far more than increas in the cap for the superintendent by 40% from 250 to 350,000 when superintendent Hayashi initially got this job the Board of Education agreed to pay him 96% of the cap as part of a three-year contract except less than halfway during the contract one of the board members got an idea to Max him out when the state didn't even have to we're in a close-ended contract with him he's only 10,000 away from making the max anyways and the board seems to have a lot of aloh when it comes to a superintendent or appointed leader pay do you remember what the public thought of the city council pay raises of 64% and that was just for them to break over a 100 Grand what would the public think of this please keep in mind we don't use Consultants or Mainland comparables for the rest of the dewe employees regardless of the title or how much turnover is I have never seen a lack of applicants for Superintendent at that original salary also for a perspective the governor makes a little over 100 a little under 185,000 we need to keep the conversation on the lack of funding for schools a bill like this goes against funding schools vote no on this bill or amend it to 250,000 thank you thank you was there anyone else online I can't see a name okay go ahead state your name please can hear you hi is it my turn yes hi my name is Alisa hamaki I would like to oppose this bill um I would like to um just copy and mimic everything that everybody else said um previously stated from the kaai teachers and from Ryan Luther um I would like to just have a more have more of a discussion about raising this cap and if it is possible to continue just having it at 250,000 um we do need to look into more of what we can do at a school level and for our students of hobai instead of um increasing the pay for our superintendent so thank you for your time thank you is there anyone else SE hello chair kidani Vice chair Kim members of the committee Shanta complex area superintendent for the Campo cap complex area testifying on behalf of the 15 complex area superintendents of the Hai State Department of Education we are in strong support of Senate Bill 3207 our superintendent Keith Hayashi oversees the largest Department in the state of Hawaii he has a magnitude of responsibility and oversight is tremendous he continues to successfully lead the department with a strong sense of purpose and focus uh superintendent hasashi continues to receive strong support from our school administrators and that's based on his strategic decision making and decisive leadership in supporting our public public educational system the 15 compx area superintendents appreciate the Senate's consideration are grateful for the opportunity to provide testimony in support of Senate Bill 3207 thank you thank you Sean members questions thank you I think that's the last testifier we have we have one more bill that it question sure sure so all the phone calls I was getting TR to explain to them um I understand you said um keep um as the largest department but when I looked at this about the cap and the falling back to 200 something, whatever I never take in consider ation of anything to do with him I know a lot of people don't you know have the same ideas as him and not everybody likes him for whatever reason when I looked at the bill I didn't looked at it as the person I just looked at it as a sense of going forward and that's why I just was understanding I understand you said that he has the largest um department but I looked at it as a point that um had nothing to do with him getting the raise cuz you guys know I opposed the board of education pay raise um for the facts of what we had talked about so that's the reason why when I was trying to explain teachers and constituents that it wasn't playing the part of him getting the money but then what is the parameters that we going set if we go forward and he not in a position somebody else come and want 500,000 we have no superintendent I want to make sure if we do go or we we do decide whichever way it doesn't matter and we going to make sure that it doesn't keep Rising every 10 years because like some of the teachers and people had said earlier you know what are we putting first what are we letting our children know the priority so those are the things that I just wanted to share a little bit on thank you Senator um just to add to I totally agree with you on that and I think my testimony I tried to keep it concise and so I wanted to make sure I got in um testimony about superintendent hayashi's performance and um I agree that you know this bill moving forward it will potentially affect the current superintendent but it's many need to look forward at Future superintendent because Keith won't be the superintendent forever and ever um I think I think the cap is Justified the raising the cap is Justified for his performance and I think for moving forward we always talk about um making the salary attractive to attract the best and brightest um we also don't want to send the message that we want to attract people who want necessarily a high salary who are not a good fit for the position I think the flip side of that that that I think about is what I would hate to miss out on if there is somebody who's qualified for the position and is a good fit doesn't want to apply because it's not financially worth their while to do that so I think as far as attracting people I would rely on the selection committee to find the appropriate person but I also wanted to make the salary attractive enough that if there is somebody out there who is the best fit that it is worth their while to apply for the position I totally respect your comments yeah the only thing for me is that okay so it's attracted at 350,000 um keate leaves what is the attraction now 400,000 see that's the part that I kind of confus with the bill is because it's not again we keep but if we set one cap how long the cap is going to be set for 20 years forever you know what I mean I mean everybody's economy teachers us everybody got to go according to go inflation and what we understand that but having the skills tipped the way it is at this time with the L of fires and everything going forward you know I just you know what everybody was say and that's the reason why I Tred to keep out uh Keat as a whole and how we're going to go forward with the cap being 350 thank you chair thank you Sean thank you I I don't want to prolong this so I wasn't going to ask your question but you know when you keep talking about performance and the fact that you know all the CES and support them but what about the Performance Based on the teachers based on the students based on how they feel do they support it I mean can it be just based on the administration portion so it seems you know what I'm saying so when you talk about performance it shouldn't just be based on what you guys think and what you support but what about all the schools and everybody else so you cannot you know have your ignore that portion of it sure thank you senat I think everybody has a opportunity to share testimony I'm I'm sharing on behalf of the 15 CES who work directly within um yeah but you folks have to serve the we have to serve the the students and the the teachers and the public out there feels that Doe is top heavy I'm sorry that's how they feel stop heavy pay compared to what they have on the bottom level so thank you further questions members thank you we are in recess reconvening the committee on education the committee has met to decision make and starting with Senate Bill 3091 recommendation is to pass in Bill 3091 with technical amendments that are nons subst itive on Senate Bill oh okay sorry for the vote U well also to make um statements in the committee report regarding surveys and um assessments being done within the schools and not necessarily utilizing Consultants or software that's going to have reoccurring costs and that will be in the committee report right okay for the vote the recommendation is Senate Bill 3091 be uh passed with amendments chair votes I chair votes I Vice chair votes I Senator Hashimoto I Senator Richards I Senator FLL I five members present all voting and the affirmative recommendations adopted thank you and for Senate Bill 392 also recommendation is to pass with technical amendments that are non-substantive okay recommendation pass Senate Bill 2092 3092 with amendments chair vote by Vice chair V side uh any members voting with reservations any members in opposition if not all five members in affirmative recomendations adopted thank you and for Senate Bill 3207 the recommendation of the chair and the committee is to uh increase the superintendent superintendent of Education salary to cap not the salar yeah the cap I'm sorry to not more than $300,000 not $350,000 and makes permanent the annual performance evaluation requirements any check amendments um we did we have Tech no Tech amendments okay recommendation is to pass Senate Bill 3207 with amendments changing the 350 to 300 uh any member voting no any member voting with reservations you're chair no I'm sorry yeah I was going to vote no on the 350 but you we have to have a eal medium um I was cing for a 250 but 300 is okay so I'm going to vote with a red reservations okay I had similar thoughts but fine anyone else work voting reservations yeah um V CH I'll be voting with reservations for the same reasons that Senator flla expressed Okay so two reservations anyone else if not your recommendations adopted M chair thank you and for the final agenda uh item Senate Bill 2635 recommendation is to pass as is any members voting no any members voting with reservations hearing not all five members in affirmative recommendations adopt okay we are adjourned thank you members
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welcome cheser public schools to the fourth annual Pinewood Derby this year we've got three Heats running 15 cars in Heat number one we'll have CHS robotics against Heat number uh carard number two the CHS RJM library carard number three is going to be CHS AP office car number four is going to be CPS food nutrition car number five is going to be the depot destroyers for round one we're going to have five separate Heats so all Racers get to go to each Lane and go against all components round two we'll do the same thing mix it up so all cars get a fair chance on the race tra good luck to all competitors let's start our engines three two one go car number one CHS robotics second place RJM Library don't forget you can follow home all the different race Heats and you can see the numbers come across the screen for Heat number two we're going to have car number two the rgm Library against car number four CPS food nutrition Lane c will be car number one CHS Robotics and l d will be card number three the CHS AP [Music] office all right we're going to do a rerun of that race we're going to rerun that again guys we got to clear the Finish Line sorry folks again Lane a is c number two lane B is c number four lane C is car number one and Lane D's car number three as fast as butter comes in first place round one Heat number three in Lane a we'll have car number three CHS AP office Lane B will be car number five the depot destroyers Lane c will be car number two the RJM library and Lane D will be car number four CPS food nutrition and as fast as butter coming across the line we're now going to heat number four of round one in Lane a is car number four CPS food nutrition Lane b car number one CHS robotics Lane c car number three CP CHS AP office and Lane D car number five the depot destroyers don't forget to go online and vote for your best looking car L ahe again just goes assure you ladies and gentlemen sometimes it's not the shape of the car all right going to heat number five the last of round one in Lane a is going to be car five Depot destroyers Lane b car number two the rgm Library Lane c car number four CPS food nutrition and Lane D car number one CHS robot see just robotics take them in for that hey all right now going into round number two again you try to run it so every car gets to each lane you go against all competitors we're going to start off round two with heat number one in Lane a car number one CHS robotics Lane b car number four CPS food nutrition Lane c car number two the rgm library and then Lane D car number five the depot destroyers let's see if that weighted catalytic converters can take to the Finish Line Lightning Fast finish all right round two heat two lane a is going to be caral two the RJM Library Lane B is going to be car number five Depot destroyers Lane C is going to be car number three the AP office Lane D's car number one CHS robotics current standing points right now it looks like our high scores and Depot destroyers CHS robotics coming in with a tight finish close to First and followed right behind by CPS food nutrition all right Heat number three of round two we'll have in Lane a carard number three in Lane b car number one CHS robotics Lane c car number four CPS food nutrition and Lane D carard number two the RJM Library Heat number four of round two lane one we've got car number four CPS food nutrition Lane B is going to be car number two the rgm Library Lane C is car number five the depot destroyers and Lane D car number three the CHS AP office fast as butter screamed across the Finish Line as we go into the last Heat for round two all right last Heat of round two again fats as butter CPS food nutrition coming through once again all right everybody we're going to check our calculations we'll find the winner of the first heat of the pineer Derby we'll set up for the second round and'll be back momentarily all right ladies and gentlemen looking at our score as we recalculated making sure everything was copesthetic with the lower score with CPS food and nutrition in first place with a score overall of nine don't forget the lowest score was going to move on to the final heat in second place was C just robotics with a score of 13 in third place was the RJM library with a score of 22 in fourth place was the CPS AP office with a score of 24 and the depot destroyers going into our slow heat with an overall score of 32 so the winner of heat one is CPS food and nutrition they're going to go on to the finals all right now we're going to start our second heat we have the Maserati 3.0 is car number one M CS o e r as car number two chsp and health is car number three in this heat flomo is car number four and team oad today is car number five we're going to pause for a second I'm going to recalculate based on the racing numbers we have and we'll come back to you live in a moment all right we are ready to begin so if you're following at home I just updated the sheets to include which card number you are we're going to start again with card number six the Maserati 3.0 MC o MCS oer is car number seven chsp and health is car number eight flomo is car number nine and team OD Day card number 10 round one heat one we're going to start with card number six in Lane a car number eight in Lane b car number 10 in Lane C and car number seven in Lane d three two one flying ahead the Maserati 3.0 in our second heat lane two we'll have car number seven MCS o r Lane number eight will be card number nine Lomo Lane c will be card number six the Maserati Lane D will be card number eight the chsp and health Lightning Fast finish we have to go to the credits on that one it looks like flomo fall in second place by card number six masera currently in first place we have Flo second place the Maserati team OD day in third going into heat number three car number eight chsp and health is Lane a car number 10 teimo day is Lane b car number seven the MCS o r is Lane C and Lane D car number nine flomo Lomo claiming it again all right now we're entering into round one heat four car number nine flomo in Lane a lane B is car number six the Maserati Lane number c is car eight chsp and health and Lane D is car number 10 team OD day Lomo taking a fast lead over the Maserati coming in last place the tissue [Music] Taxi all right round one Heat number five we're starting out with car number 10 in Lane a the tissue taxi team OD day Lane seven MCS o r Lane c car number nine flomo Lane D car number six the Maserati flomo and Maserati just to the finish line and fomo pulls ahead all right that concludes round one we're now going into round two we're starting with heat one in Lane a car number six the Maserati Lane B b car number nine flomo Lane c car number seven MCS OE and Lane D's car number 10 the tissue taxi of Teo day currently in first place is flomo the low score four second place right behind is the Maserati MCS o is in third with 10 points lowo edging out the Maserati all right going to heat number two of round two starting off we have Lane a car number seven MCS o r Lane b car number 10 teimo day Lane c car eight CHS ping health and Lane D car number six the Maserati slowmo holding on to a solid first place Maserati right behind with a tie now between MCS o and chsp and help Maserati Heat number three now Lane a car number eight so you just being in health Lane B is card number six the Maserati Lane C is card number nine flomo and Lane D is card number seven we have a tie for first place a literal laser down to the Finish Line car number six the Maserati tied it up with car number nine flomo flomo still holds on to the solid lead with only six points going into the last two Heats round two Heat number number four lane a is car number nine flomo Lane B is car number seven MC s OE R Lane c car number 10 teimo day and Lane D car number eight chsp and health hold on a solid lead all right ladies and gentlemen we're going into the last and final rounds Heat number five of round two with a solid first place Lomo follow right behind with the Maserati NCS o in third we also want to let all competitors know we're taking the top winner from each heat and going into the finals we're going to be running only three cars for the fastest heat and three cars for the slowest Heat number five in LAN a car number 10 Teo day the tissue taxi Lane B chsp and health Lane c car number six the Maserati and Lane d card number nine flow mode slowo flying across the Finish Line all right ladies and gentlemen we're going to take a minute to calculate double check our numbers here and look look who our winners are we'll be back with you momentarily as we set up Heat number three all right ladies and gentlemen we're back congratulations to flomo with the low score of seven points winning Heat number two our slowest car is team OD day going to the slowest car competition just recapping quickly in first place was flomo going to our final second was the Masarati and third place MCS o we're setting up for Heat number three now car number 11 is the Steely wheelie car number 12 is Lisa wall representing technology car 13 is team Highland Car 14 our reigning three-time Champion Marlene salano with the lastra and car 15 Carol jensi in round one heat one in Lane a will be car number 11 Steely wheelie car 13 will be in Lane B Team Highland Lane c will be car 15 Carol jensky and Lane D will be car number 12 Lisa wall here we go with heat number three three two [Applause] one the Steely wheelie pulling into first place Heat number two in Lane a we've got car number 12 L wall Lane b car 14 our reigning champ last ra Lane C is car number 11 the Steely wheelie and Lane D car number 13 team Highland lastas starting off with a solid lead Heat number three in Lane a car number 13 team Highland Lane b car 15 Carol jensi Lane c car number 12 Lisa wall and Lane D car 14 lastra lastas screaming across the Finish heet number four lane a car 14 last to R Lane b car number 11 Lane c car 13 Lane D car number 15 Carol jensi Steely wheelie getting some tough competition against last ra but she pulls ahead looking at a score in first place is the last a low score of three Steely wheie right behind the low score five and in third place Carol jensi with a score of eight last Heat of round one Heat number five in Lane a is car 15 Carol jensi Lane b car number 12 Lisa wall Lane c car 14 elas and Lane D car number 11 Steely wheie all right we're run that one as we clear our finish L want to make sure we have an exact laser finish all right again redo of heat number one and Lane a is car 11 Lane b car 14 Lane c car 12 Lane D car 15 we've got a clear finish line last the r whipping head you want to note that we went back to the official Cub Scout weight this year to give everybody a flying chance at beating our winner they all cars running at 5 O much like the Cub Scouts we'll see if last Rock can pull ahead still in first place with a low score of seven second place Steely wheelie third was now tied between Lisa wall and Carol jensi Heat number two of round two lane a is car number 12 Lane b car 15 Carol jensi Lane c car 13 team Highland and Lane D car number 11 the steeling whe you we redid the first te thank you Jimmy 11 14 11:14 12:15 all right folks that was the final round the final heat of round one I've updated our spreadsheets for those watching at home still in first place is the last r with a low score of four second is Steely wheelie with a score of seven Carol jensi in third with 11 points this is our final round round two Heat number one is car number 11 in Lane a lane B b car 14 Lane c car 12 and Lane D car 15 Steely wheelie right at the Finish Line F last but unfortunately last ra pulled ahead some tough competition this year Heat number two lane a is car 12 Thea wall Lane b car 15 Carol jensi Lane c car 13 team Highland and Lane D car number 11 Steely wheelie Steely wheelie rocking it across the finish line Heat number three lane A's car 13 Lane B is car 11 Lane C is car 14 and Lane D is car number last round whipping ahead again once again in the flat finish against the fourth feat now of round two lane a is car number 14 Lane B is car 12 Lane C is car 15 and Lane D is car 13 last ra holding on to a first lead F right behind the 12 points with Steely whe and Carol jensi in third come across the Finish Line once again all right our last Heat of our entry rounds into the final races Heat number five Lane a Carl card number 15 Carol jensi Lane b car 13 team Highland Lane c carard number 11 Steely wheelie and Lane D carard number 14 of the last hurra Steely whey fighting for that finish but it goes to the lastra all right ladies and gentlemen we're going to take a quick break to set up our finalist for the slowest race and then we'll hold our fastest race we'll come back with results momentarily all right ladies and gentlemen thank you for watching again we appreciate all of our entries that went to our fourth annual CPS primate Derby thank you for the helpers of pack 114 so you can run this race our last two races of the day will have two rounds again to separate our slowest car and our fastest car the winner of heat number three was in fact last Terra and the slowest car was team Highland so going into our slowest seat which will run first we have the depot destroyers car number five team OD day the tissue taxi and team Highland going for the slow slow as molasses award the one with the highest score in this Cas now will win the award for slow as molasses we are only going to run Lanes b c and d in the first team we have car number five and Depot destroyers Lane c car 10 and Lane D car number 13 team Highland three two [Music] one the depot destroyers with that bag full of catalytic converter screams to almost the hall as it crosses the Finish Line team Highland taking a great lead all right Heat number two we've got car number 10 car 13 car five Lane B will be cart the tissue taxi Lane c will be team Highland and Lane D will be the depot destroyers once again the DEA destroyers slowly and safely crossing the finish line Heat number [Music] three last of round one one down as we cross that finish line all right ladies and gentlemen we're going into round two now Lane B is car number five Lane C's Car 10 Lane D car there are no speed deons at the bus depot safely carrying our children to all public schools all right for our final chance let's see if de or destroy are taken out one last time friend all right ladies and gentlemen we'll recalculate our numbers and we'll come back momentarily with our final race which you've all been waiting for all right before we begin our final round which you've all been waiting for again I want to thank all the parents helping out from pack 114 as well as Mr Mike Cel and genius and The Wizard behind our video production today the race you've all been waiting for the last last three cars are fastest winners from the first two Heats CPS nutrition is car number four flomo car number nine and car number 14 the last Terra can they finally take Marlene out of the top position round one heat one in Lane b car number four lane c car number nine and Lane D car [Applause] 14 last for off pulling the head follow very closely the seat guest nutrition and low mode heat two lane B is car number nine Lane C is car 14 and Lane D is car number four both given some steady competition that was not a one you take away from time for second place CPS nutrition of flomo last us still pulling the lead [Applause] last still holding on to that number one position all right our last two races starting round two heat one and Lane B is car number four lane C is car number nine and Lane D is car number [Applause] 14 BL off still holding on to that number one position CPS nutrition right behind with Lomo in third place with 11 points last ra staying ahead with only four last two races of the [Applause] day all right the last Heat almost impossible to take it away from her in first place Five Points our lowest score so far today second place the score 12 is CPS nutrition and third place is Lomo [Applause] for the final win the last all right ladies and gentlemen we'll take a look at these scores and we'll report back momentarily all right ladies and gentlemen thank you for all our Spectators checking out our fourth annual CPS Pinewood Derby race our slow as molasses car and award goes to the cheap catalytic converters for sale the doot Depot destroyers awesome job at being the slowest racer our fastest car for the fourth repeat is Marlene salana with the last harah congratulations Marlene congratulations to all our Racers thank you all for participating don't forget to put in your votes for everybody watching at home the voting will stay open till Sunday night at 8:00 P.M please vote for your best looking car and that winner on Monday will receive this trophy thank you all for watching we'll see you all again next 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[Music] good afternoon welcome to the Joint hearing of the committee on education and committee on labor and Technology first up is Senate Bill 2475 relating to education establishes a harm to students registry for all pre kindergarten through grade 12 institutions operating in the state to be administered by the Department of Education requires schools to complete any investigation into employees who have pending allegations of harming students regardless of employment status requir schools to consult with the harm to students registry before authorizing prospective employees or volunteers to interact with students requires schools to share information on ongoing or or concluded investigations of infliction of harm to a student when requested by another institution establishes an appeal process for individuals who request removal from the harm to students registry requires the Hawaii teacher Standards Board to revoke the licenses of certain individuals who have resigned or retired in lie of termination establishes qualified immunity for employers who provide good faith information or opinion on a current or former employees job performance and first testify superintendent Hayashi please Aloha chair kidani Vice chair Kim chair aino Vice chair moraki members of the committee Keith aashi superintendent testifying on behalf of the Department of Education the department stands on its written testimony in support of this measure safeguarding the health safety and well-being of our students is of highest priority this bill would create a harm to students registry to prevent individuals who harm children from being employed or volunteering in our schools it would also allow for Effective cross sharing of information between public and private educational institutions regarding any ongoing or concluded investigations of upon request this will help strengthen the systems in place so that we can further protect our students from these offenders thank you for the opportunity to testify thank you superintendent MERS questions any question Senator so who who in the doe is going to track um of these cases who who in a doe is going to track the cases uh we would thank you for the question Senator we would be working within the department within our office of uh talent management and the complex are superintendent to monitor um the system how many license have been uh is revoked hdbb revoke uh last year I'm how much do we have how much do we have of these licenses being revoked last year um the LI licenses being revoked actually would be uh within the purview of the H teacher Standards Board um so I I can get that information for you the reason the reason why asking you I mean I understand the reason of the bill but you know the problem I have is that in the previous past yeah one person do an assault at one school and they later on they don't say nothing and they pop up at the out of school and then that been happening for a while already you know so how is this going to really prevent this from happening well thank you very much senator for the question we we are very um hopeful that by passing this bill and providing the opportunity for Public School charter school our private school institutions to be able to communicate with each other uh to be able to keep a system of registry for those very individuals that you're um you're speaking of we'll be able will we will be able to communicate and share that information to ensure that these perpetrators um uh do not move from one system to to another and and um teach our students yeah just a followup the only reason why I say this is because I I know it happened to one of my schools in a district I'm not going to say but there was from another District but because they was doing elementary schools or younger kids they decided to move them to the high school middle school area I not going to say which one and they continue working for the doe because of their um was told is to keep away from uh children I mean I just kind of it just kind of was kind of crazy when I heard that I was um very um disappointed so I I just like to know how effective this is we're going to make a bill um how effective the enforcement of this bill will come after we do them because last thing we know is coaches you bear with me coaches um a lot of the coaches that we know um going forward they call it grooming yeah I don't if that's part of your um look looking into of complaints of how coaches groom uh their players into thinking that they're um something relationship or not and some of them you know really disgust me where to the child who still was going school where waed to the person he or her turned 18 and then had sexual relationship with him even though he was a coach and the person was a student and that was the technicality that they got away and because her age so what I would want to see in here as long as you're an enroll student no matter what age should cover the student period um yeah thank you Senator um the intent of this bill is to address the very issue that that you're talking about to support our students and um if um maybe we can talk offline later uh that we we can you can share with me some of the issues that are will thank you thank you chair thank you further questions members thank you super AR cross Aloha chairs Vice chairs and members of the committee I'm yukoo across director of the executive office on early learning we stand on our written testimony and support of this measure with a request for the director of the executive office on early learning be included in the temporary panel referenced on page 4 lines 13 to 18 I'm available to answer any questions you might have and thank you for the opportunity to testify thank you members questions thank you uh Attorney General's office good afternoon chairs kidani and aino vice chairs Kim and Marie walki and Senator favella and huchi from the Department of the Attorney General um as we noted in our testimony I think the first thing we want wanted to point out is that we do see the difference in this registry um contemplated in this bill and the sex offender registry for this registry it would only require listing um after findings have been made by an by an educational institution after an investigation not a criminal conviction in court um in our testimony we've also suggested some um additional uh revision such as um adding a reference to chapter in order to make the registry applicable to pre kindergarten if that's the legislature's intent um removing the reference to chapter 350 which um relates to child abuse and is under the purview of the Department of Human Services um in new subsection a replacing the term individuals with employee to make it clear that the registry would apply to employees of educational institutions and not to all individuals um adding in some language that would avoid potential fura violations um as well as uh a suggestion to exempt the registry and the employment documents from non-governmental educational inst institutions from the uniform information Practices Act um again there's a lot in our testimony I'm available for questions thank you and members questions um yes and so we will be working with thank you [Music] next to testify Felicia V lus executive director white teacher standard board good afternoon chairs Vice chairs committee members my name is Felicia vovos I'm the executive director for the Hawaii teacher Standards Board speaking on behalf of the board uh htsb supports the efforts to establish this harm for students registry however the board is concerned about the criter ior for someone to be put on this registry the board doesn't want to be premature and place an employee on the registry until there's a final disposition or disciplinary action taken following the completion of an investigation and just to add some additional information when a license is an action is taken on a license discipling action is taken on a license we do put it on our website it is advertised after has gone through the process of the investigation the board hears it they have time to to consult an attorney so on and so forth there is a process in place once a action has been taken on a license it is publicly put onto our website it is also in um inputed into the NASDAQ clearing house that's a national Clearing House that we're a part of all 50 states and jurisdictions where if a license is sanctioned in a different state or jurisdiction it goes into a clearing house and then it's reported if they have a license in our state and we take action so I'm available for any questions you guys may have thank you thank you thank you members questions yeah just a followup question the same thing that I asked how much um of this people was putting on your website last year uh last year we had 33 revocations um I don't have it categorized yet but some could be uh fraudulent documents misconduct and another state so I can get that if you want it no just know thank you thank you oh so so are you saying that this this bill is redundant or is there something in this bill that we should have that your National Registry does not have so that we could ensure protections for our kids if they want to start it yeah thank you um from prek if we can all get together because we may not have the prek information as well and come with that registry that's fine under the guidance of the AG's office to make sure it's following the process the due process of a revocation or some kind of sanction on a license or permit happy to be involved in that as well okay yeah thank you J thank you thank you thank you next to testify Phil boser good afternoon chair kadani Vice chair Kim U Vice chair of maruki my name is Philip bosard I'm the uh executive director of the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools and the Hawaii Council of private schools um stand most on our testimony uh here we think this is an extremely important bill um and that uh there's currently 114 private schools and it's uh and if you consider not just the teachers that are affected by the Standards Board but all of the staff of both the public and the private and the charter schools I'm sure it's like 50 plus thousand uh persons that are moving around every year and because uh There is almost always a shortage of teachers in both the public and the private schools um schools are often very anxious to get anybody they can to do the work and so it's often since I I will say as I said My Testimony it's often the case that a school when it discovers the sexual abuse or the harm to the student they don't want to tarnish their reputation so they just say be nice just leave we won't say anything um and then that person just hops over to the next school and which and that school is happy to get an experienced person so um we very much in favor of seeing this bill move forward and the cooperation as superintendent aashi mentioned the cooperation and communication that the registry would provide among all of the schools uh public private Charter I think is the key component in this happy to answer any questions thank you that was very good testimony appreciate it members questions thank you Phil thanks next to testify Michael laam Aloha chairs and vice chairs I'm Mike leam president of puno school and the chair of the governance Committee of the white Association of Independent Schools um I'll Stand to my written testimony I'm strongly in favor of of the proposed legislation uh for several reasons um I think when parents uh enroll students at our schools they are entrusting us with the welfare of their children uh it is our responsibility to do everything we can to ensure their safety Uh current legal Provisions I think are inadequate uh to address the problem we're looking at today uh it's very easy for people who are dismissed for sexual misconduct to move from one institution to another the fact is research shows that many of the perpetrators are in fact serial perpetrators which makes the condition all the more serious uh and worth worth considering uh because of the risk of defamation or the fear of defamation schools oftentimes don't share information with each other they don't issue necessary warnings to each other many settlements are often confidential as well which allows people to move to additional institutions or they may resign prior to the completion of an investigation which is an existing loophole that also has to be closed uh so the bill creates a registry which would require that hiring officers at Independent Schools at public schools and at Charter Schools uh consult that registry to determine whether or not that individual is listed if the person is listed they cannot hire that person and the objective here is to do as Senator Vella said to ensure uh that these people have no further contact with students uh and to ensure that that is is in place um I really appreciate the careful reading of the bill provided by the Attorney General's office I'm quite confident that the concerns that they raise are ones that we can address uh through uh getting the right legal language together uh certainly I would agree that there must be a finding uh certainly I'd agree that there must be an investigation the bill provides an approach for due process uh I think we can come up with an approach that would satisfy all parties um I think licensing is an important part of this but I would argue that the revocation of license really only applies to teachers and to teachers within the doe many Independent School teachers do not do not have licenses they're not required to be licensed and of course many other employees and staff are not licensed either and so we need a broader approach that ensures that anybody who is in contact with with our students on a regular basis uh is covered by the provisions of the bill I'm happy to respond to any questions that you may have thank you Michael um members questions thank you for your testimony very important is there anyone else wishing to testify on this matter thank you um can I call Felicia I'm sorry I have a question for yes mind would Hawaii teacher Standards Board recommend add adding additional language similar to that in Senate Bill 3089 as I would like to have both vehicles pass out of this committee knowing that Senate Bill 2475 is more comprehensive this is an important issue preventing ouri from sexually abused sexually being abused the language in Senate Bill 3089 would be added to this Senate Bill 2475 measure and um just wanted to know your thoughts on that yeah we just want to make sure that the investigation is complete or the process is complete before the board takes any action revocation on the license the board does not want to be sued for taking away a license or adding a sanction to a license without going through the entire process so yes thank you members further questions I I have one the Attorney General just for clarifications we heard of that this bill seems to apply to only the teachers but as I read it employees all employees contractors are volunteers is that correct or who who is covered under this right well I think the bill um identifies employee on page six as all employees contractors and volunteers just teachers right right this under this definition okay thank you thank you thank you and just to add um you know the intent of this committee is to pass up this measure so we probably need to work with you a little bit more to get some of the language down path sure thank you and there further questions thank you moving on to Senate Bill 3089 relating to education requires that licensed teachers have their license rebok by the Hawaii teacher standard board if the teacher is resigning or retiring during the pendency of any investigation into allegations of sexual assault sexual harassment or other physical abuse of a student which complement the previous Bill to testify do I have a testim sorry superintendent please Aloha chairs Vice chairs members of the committee Kei aashi superintendent testifying on behalf of the Department of Education the department stands on its written testimony in support of this measure similar to the previous bill this measure will help to protect our students under this measure a teacher who elects to resign or retire while being investigated for allegations of sexual assault sexual harassment or other physical abuse of a student would be considered terminated and their teaching license would be revoked this would result in their name going on a national list of teachers whose licenses have been revoked helping ensure that they are not eligible to teach in another school or state thank you for the opportunity to testify thank you superintendent members questions I I a question so I understand that part but if they are I gu I'm use the word J but let's just say allegations is founded what is the chances of them so this is the thing about this right here they can retire or they can leave pending years and years of whatever uh um depending on how long the average you know does take their investigation how long usually one of these uh investigation St um Aver thank you for the question Senator um the the investigations we would like to um ensure that investigations are conducted in in the most expeditious manner uh it it does vary though depending sometimes on availability of witnesses and such so um some investigations may take months um to get it to get it finished and completed um and render a decision and others may take a little longer than that so so we just having that why why are we not adding to this if there found guilty they lose their retirement their pension and all of that because we taxpayers is going to have to pay for what this person had done to one child maybe didn't have a doom and got caught with 10 Childs before that but they got C caught with a child just previous to them going to retire so why do they don't get penalized like any other area that they always talk about if they get caught and they get busted and they're kind they they lose everything I mean that that should have more of a bite for teach these Predators not to be predatoring predatoring around our kids cuz there's no consequence I going to go I pay a restitution he Senator Kim few thousand that's it PA and I going to retire in Florida you know see Florida but you know what I mean they're going to retire right there's no consequence to this cuz I retired unless I want to come back and go teach again which which most of do and most of them don't that's not it's not going to really have any bite thank you um for the question Senator um my understanding is the intent of this bill is to for to revoke a teacher's license um uh what happens after that related to retirement related to other issues of employment um I believe that would be beyond the scope of the Department's um uh um perview thank you Kim would it be the purview of the Board of Ed um Senator I I can get back to you on that um I know it's an employment uh question that both both senators are asking I I'm the reason why I'm hesitant to answer is I want to be sure that I give the correct response uh I'm not sure if if a teacher is in this case if a teacher is terminated and loses their license what repercussions if any are um are there to to their individual retirement that I'm not sure so I I can't get back to you on that if if they are found guilty in a court law then would they might be subject to because I know the police had something where they lost 50% of the retirement or was it full amount under the case of um Chief we had that whole situation and the police commission I think or we had a bill didn't we have a bill that they lost % yeah so uh I'm not sure if the um uh attorney general would have a see I'm not sure on the law component of that Senator um I can't get back to you I want to be sure that we have to we have to pass yeah we didn't um talk to the um but there's precedent I there's precedent because I think we've passed in the case of police I mean when it comes out to restitution right I mean we don't want the state paying for this person and they just retired we we are um very much in support of protecting our students yeah and um ensuring that those individuals that we're hiring the department that work directly with our with our students whether it be teachers or in any other capacity that um you know we're doing the best we can to uh support them and keep them safe which is really important right but a lot of our laws have no teeth that's the thing right we pass laws and we says you know you're prohibited from doing this you prohibit from doing that but there's really no teeth in it yeah they might lose their license but again you know they can go somewhere else but then they take take the pension and everything else that is paid for um yes Senator I I can't get back to you on that I don't I don't have to answer to I do know though that um my understanding is that in this case they're put on the National Registry um and that would they would lose their license and if my understanding is correct um and I defer to teacher Standards Board but my understanding is correct that um they will not be able to there's no reciprocity at that point and the teacher would not be able to teach in another state that we have reciprocity with yeah but but I understand your question about the retirement age retir so what what is your what is your personal opinion about you know we want to Once something happens it's too late the child is damaged for Life In some cases um so we want to deter that and so to deter that we have to put teeth in our laws so people realize there's consequences and if they do something so terrible as this that they will lose whatever they had hopefully that'll be one of the deterrents that it won't happen of course you know sometimes people are sick so it it won't but at the same time again the taxpayers are the ones that going to be paying for this individual for the rest of their life right with the pension so forth um um for me Senator um I do want to be sure that whatever we um whatever we're doing within the department is um we're operating within the the scope of the of existing law I'm asking you personally do you think that that we should have teeth in the law and that people should be deterred in that way personally yes I believe that we should do all we can to help protect our students thank you thank you further questions of superintendent thank you super thank you Felicia good afternoon chairs Vice chairs and members of the committee my name is Felicia vovos executive director of the Hawaii teacher Standards Board here on behalf of the board we stand on our written comments and I would like to highlight uh similar to the prior bill uh Senate Bill 3089 this bill also ask htsb to revoke a license prematurely we need to ensure that our process is already in place and investigation is completed and a ruling is made before htsb revokes a license also perhaps it should be added that an individual should surrender their license if they resign or entire Lu termination um we can put them in the NASDAQ Clearing House we also encourage our partners to join the NASDAQ Clearing House they can join as an associate member for $500 and they can run all their staff from custodial staff cafeteria staff all their staff employed through the NASDAQ Clearing House we have found nationally that some individuals who lose their license may go into a school in a different capacity as custodial um cafeteria workers bus drivers coaches they're able to run that person through their social security number and birth date to see if they have a hit on a license in a different state or jurisdiction I'm a available for any questions members questions just just one just a quick followup so so would you think for this bill going forward what you said would you think that we should add something to the provisions that would penalize them or making them lose um portion or all of their retirement to compensate and pay res restitution that would be interesting information to find out what other states and other jurisdic are doing as well so we can have that National conversation I can reach out we have a professional practice Institute every year it's an annual conference that deals with educator misconduct I can go and talk to those stakeholders to see what other states are doing when someone loses their license or have has a sanction or a revocation um superintendent is accurate if it goes into the NASDAQ Clearing House at National Database it hits on every single license they have in other jurisdiction so they're unable to teach and if they happen to not have license in that state once they input their social in the birthday um it'll hit that they have a revocation in another state or jurisdiction so they teaching careers pretty much done um but yeah that would be a great question to have at a NA national conversation to see what other states are doing when a teacher loses their license what else is lost with that they can work in a parks department or work with kids in other other yeah and that's why that associate membership is really important if the private schools want to be a partner of that associate membership for $500 a year they can run their own office social and birthday to see if they were uh somehow in Tennessee lost their license or certificate but it only accounts for teachers it wouldn't count for someone who has unless it uh risen to the level of sub type of uh Mr meter felony that's on a fingerprint check further questions members thank you Felicia you talked about um asking the teacher to surrender their license you know if we haven't done our homework and you know gotten evidence of of wrongdoing how many teachers do you know of who have surrendered license I would have to refer back to the department um from my understanding they have a paper that they signed saying I am resigning uh or retiring L termination and then it says something to the effect that the investigation will be resumed if they try to get employment with the Department of Education so we're I'm still trying to work with the Department on that language we were trying to hope uh add some kind of check box I also will surrender my license it will be reported in the nasda clearing house if they do not want to finish an investigation so it would probably be in the best interest to finish an investigation and then we can take action that way and then again um in that clearing house you talk about that is um across the United States cor across the US and jurisdictions yep we use it so we've actually found people that teachers apparently not all teachers know about this Clearing House we found people with four different revocations in four different states and they apply for Hawaii and we say once they hit um doing um create an account with their social and birthday it hits because we run it 24 hours so then we say uh uh uh we got to we got to go look what's going on with all these licenses so we we start contacting the different states and different licensing agencies interesting thank you so just one question so if if I were a teacher and I didn't want to complete the investigation and I just dropped out would that go into the the National Registry so it wouldn't show up no it wouldn't show up unless we got the investigation from the Department of Education so unfortunately the Hawaii teacher Standards Board does not have their own investigation team like other licensing states do they have a whole department dedicated to investigations of teacher misconduct we unfortunately do not have that right now so we rely on the Department of Education we work closely with them to get any of the does the National Registry have a a check box where if the Department of Education says this was terminated by the individual so investigation wasn't complete so so that information goes out into the registry is there something we can put we can put a different types of information we can put types what how why they got their license revoked um not necessarily I don't think we put in the um that they decided to resign or retire in L of termination um that's something we can probably talk agency to agency because they do contact us if uh they find a hit from a Hawaii license that has been revoked let's say in Texas they'll contact us for more investigation information and then at that time we can share because it seems that that's as much of a problem because people won't go through it and then they'll go to the next state right because it's not listen so hopefully if we have that St um that surrender then we can put him into the NDA oh well this is your choice you don't want to finish the investigation your choice is to surrender it and we're going to put in the nasda Clearing House or you can go ahead and go through the due process process of finishing your investigation in your um time as with the the teacher Standards Board have you ever seen a case where someone has surrendered their license because of an investigation that they did not want to happen no no usually they surrender because there was uh some kind of the field wasn't properly given to them or um they didn't want to go through our invest investigative process um however the loophole is they try to use reciprocity before surrendering it so what they'll do is when they know that they're about to surrender their license they'll go to another state where the license is still good use reciprocity and then surrender ours and then could can keep that other license so there's that little until we can put them into the system interesting members further questions thank you okay I think uh the Attorney General's office and we have some more work to do in this f um yeah I mean there's some things that we can clean up but I don't I'm not sure that it's you know what we're looking for so thank you than okay thank you chair uh Senate Bill 3090 uh related to workers comp okay allows newly graduated high school students to be eligible for workers com coverage during the summer following their graduation while participating in doe sponsored work-based learning programs up first we have a superintendent aloh cherino Vice chair moraki chair kidani Vice chair Kim members of the committee Kei aashi super intendent testifying on behalf of the Department of Education the department stands on its written testimony in support of this measure workplace based internships and mentorships provide an excellent Pathway to prepare students for Life After High School extending workers compensation coverage through the summer uh after their senior year will provide peace of mind to both employers and students participating in these internships thank you for the opportunity to testify okay thank you very much up next we have Hawaii kids can David Muro can't support any others wishing to testify Senate Bill 390 seeing non members questions I have Vice chair uh superintendent um two things one um on the the coverage for students until July 31st um after they graduate so all of your internship programs end on July 31st what you don't have any that go past it so what is the July 31st special I believe um and I'll double check but I believe the ju July 31st uh date was selected as an end point uh internship internships may end before but after July 31st we're looking at a new school year so we're looking to end internships by 7:31 okay uh and also um you're saying that you would like to cover the workers comp but I don't see an appropriation in your budget uh or in the in the bill so how much are you estimating the workers count would be for these kids I I can get that information to you Senator um I believe in the last five years as we had internships in schools uh I don't believe that there's been a workers comp claim through student internships for 5 years but I I can um get an appropr I get get an estimate on that for you there's there's no provision for an appropriation so um if there is a cost we should know about it yes I I'm sorry about I'll give that to you thank you thank you okay yes so currently there is work of compensation for students just not for newly graduated students um yes I believe so so what happens when a student claims a worker or injury how does that work like you know they're they're there for what a month maybe internship two months they and they get hurt like um you know a week before the end of it then what happens um one second sen Sean Beacon assistant superintendent for the office of talent management thank you senator for the question my understanding of it is is if they are a high school student of ours and they are in an internship program um they would be eligible to be covered under our workers comp um but it runs up until they would to graduate so what we're just trying to do here with this is we're just trying to extend it through the summertime up until understand but what does that mean what do you cover just the medical do you give so they they would receive the the workers comp benefits so we would you know if they needed to go to their doctor they needed appropriate coverage you know um any type of um drug or prescription that they may need anything like that that would be covered um during this time I would have to check on that but I believe that they're eligible for it while they are a student so as soon as they're not a student or they graduate even though they still sustain the injury they no longer fall under the compensation I need to check on that I don't have an answer for you on that off the top of my head on that one you guys know that I mean if we extending the coverage I mean got know what we're extending the coverage or what the current coverage is personally I I would think that if they got hurt while they were a student doing something for a doe that they should be covered until they are you know until they're healed or whatever it is that would be my understanding but I don't want to misspeak in front of the committee here I'd like want to just confirm and get back to you on that so in regular comp workers comp not if I get hurt or somebody here gets hurt and we we have our doctors pay but we get paid while we're on work's C it's 2third of the compensation yeah so what what the students get some kind of compensation in addition to the coverage I don't I don't believe they're eligible Senator but we we'll double check on that and get back to you that's what I understand how that works yeah for yeah but for a current salaried employee it would be at 2third of their compensation they're not employees they're inter correct correct unpaid interns right interns and not getting paid but workers comp has a lot of right employee yeah cuz it is usually for employees security they are considered employees unpaid employees no no they're inter student internships sen so yeah I think we need to clarify clarification yes whether it's workers comp or just do is is liable for their medical cost yes true we we we'll get back to the committee on that okay thank you yeah because they are students so you might want to check into that and see whether you might have medical coverage or something to address the internships okay thank you you is there a student um medical coverage offered um I don't believe through through the internship program though no just a question then what happens when a student on campus gets hurt what happens to who covers them um I believe they submit a uh claim through um our cour office but we'll get it's not I don't think they would get Workers Comp get some other kind of coverage you should have families have medical cage right well che check into what you do with students and you're extending the student and then you covered through that okay thank you that's I guess not a a questionnaire that I me a question that's on a questionnaire that students get when they enter School they they they do they they do fill out on their um their um Health form and registration form okay but do someone in the do or at the school check because if they have no medical coverage you may not want to use them as an inter you know and be liable unless they can provide information on medical coverage well we'll check on that thank you very much members any other questions um is is budget and finance here by any chance okay all right potential fiscal impact okay thank you very much recess for decision yes okay we're in recess we are reconvening the Committees on education and labor members the recommendation of the chair for Senate Bill 2475 is to pass with amendments and we need to work a little bit more with um with I'm sorry this one yeah we do need to work with um our attorney general if we're adopting their testimony as well as the Department of Education and insert language in the event an individual retires or resigns from teaching prior to the completion of the investigation the individual must surrender his his or her Hawaii teaching license and the surrender of the individual's teaching license will be reported to the National Association of State directors of teachers education and certification comments questions members thank you for you guys have comments vote Yes okay the recommendation for Senate Bill 2475 is to pass with amendments uh chair chair voteo ior Richards is excused Senator flla I For Eyes one excuse recommendations adopted okay labor committee same recommendations any questions to concerns sing n Vice chair chair votes I I Vice chair votes I hi excuse Senator Lee I Senator F hi for recommendations [Applause] adopted thank you and for Senate Bill 389 um recommendation of the chair it's also to pass with amendments um this is the bill that will pull the licensing if they the teachers retire or resign before the investigation is completed the recommendation is to pass with amendments chair votes I chair votes I on Senate Bill 3089 pass with amendments any members on the education committee voting with reservations anyone in opposition hearing none four members present all voting in affirmative Madam chair your recommendations adopted okay thank you very much uh labor committee same recommendations any questions of concerns seeing none Vice chair so um any opposition any reservations C excuse the measure is adopted okay thank you very much um on to the last Senate Bill 3090 relating to workers compensation we're going to defer decision making until we receive a little bit more clarifying um information from doe okay so we members before we ad Jour can I go back and just clarify on our Senate bill is it 3089 where we are also adopting the um testimony of the white teacher standard board and conet language that we will do amendments on questions thank you members okay um just to clarify again for 3090 we're going to uh defer decision making to Friday at 3 p.m.
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to the rep for it stands one nation indivisible andice for all and I had no paperwork for public comment tonight so we will go straight into the class trip report who will be presenting yes Mr students from the senior class s so for the senior class trip for 2024 for our senior class we would like to ask for permission to travel out of state for to California for Disneyland we plan on visiting kitten it would consist of a two night stay and we depart on May 26 2024 Thursday at 3:00 a.m. and return on Saturday May 18th 2024 for transportation we'd like to request the the small white bus that the school has and a school vehicle and the itinerary is for day one we'd arrive in California and we'd head straight to Disneyland and then check in the hotel at 3M on day two we' go to Disneyland as well and day three we depart depart from California at 11: a.m.
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all right it's 6:30 cly car Caston here hen Dawson here CHR Espinosa here charl Fuller oh here thank you Jenny hagstrom here Terry pavage here Don rener here Gianna hunchy here and Al Mo thank you very much having a 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 start bless bless you bless you I'm waiting for my all right uh we have Representatives here from uh t99 this evening Lisa B is going to kick it off give you the oh have all the power all right don't abuse it uh we might have to turn it on you know there's oh yes you know we got to skip a couple here there we go okay good good evening everybody my name is Lisa valo I'm the director special services for District 99 um super excited to be here tonight on behalf of the transition Center um I'm lucky enough to be able to be there on a daily basis uh starting this year and so very excited for you to meet um for four of our students that we've brought with us here tonight um but what we thought we would do is maybe just start with um just sort of like a couple updated photos from our wonderful transition program um and just to say that was uh from our ribbon cutting ceremony that we had and just a couple of those photos and as you can see um everybody is incredibly excited for what a wonderful facility we do have so thank you very much um okay so the purpose of transition 99 right um it's a postsecondary preparation for our young adults with disabilities 18 to 22 um and they are there to further develop and practice their educational their life and their vocational skills within their homeschool Community right so they're not bust 30 minutes away and practicing within an environment that they don't know anything about it's right here in their home Community um and a big part of work we do at transition 99 is also making those connections to Adult Services for our students in Illinois so when they do leave us at the age of 22 their families are aware of what is out there as a way of Adult Services do to continue their you know vocational experiences and just interact in their own Community with the help of uh those Adult Services by the state of Illinois so that's a big part of the purpose of transition 99 um I won't read through this but you can just see um these are the staff members uh that we have over at transition 99 obviously myself and then here tonight we do have our t99 coordinator Carolina shach we have seven teachers and here tonight uh to support some of our students is another one of our teachers Jerry smolik as well as our vocational coordinator Trisha Broly and then our spean language pathologist Natalie Ganon um but they just came here tonight to help support our students um as they present to you guys on our our student perspectives so I'm going to go ahead and call up Carolina and she's going to give you just a brief overview of the curriculum and the supports at t99 um so then you have kind of a an understanding as the students present what they're specifically talking about when they're talking about their programming at t99 hello thanks for having us so like Lisa said our program is 18 to 22 so everyone knows what happens at downish Ro North and South it's a comprehensive high school so they're focusing on American history physics English what do we do though our program is centered more around Life After High School being a young adult living on your own as independent as possible so all of our students learn about current events we talk a lot about our circles curriculum and relationships we do housekeeping meal preparation and cooking is a big deal we don't have a cafeteria so all the students are responsible for going out the community grocery shopping they'll meal prep they'll do a group lunch once a week um or and then some of them bring her their own sack lutch but meal prep and cooking is a big piece we do a lot of money skills managing your money we do a little bit of academics but it's very functional base so how much money do you need our supportive students will learn the next dollar up approach others will be doing um expenditures and revenue and money management and a budget you know for the month with rent and then we do a lot of hygiene and health um self advocacy how to speak up for yourself talk about yourself in the community laundry we have three washing machines and dryers recreational Leisure is a big Focus what do you do in your downtime if you have an hour or you have a whole afternoon to yourself so things that you do by yourself activities you can do with others social emotional learning and that's really grown um zones of Regulation so figuring out where you're at and how to get into a different maybe we use the green zone a lot a lot of our students want to be in the green zone versus the blue or the yellow health and fitness we have are partnered with the O Park District now and so we go work out at their facility and we get to swim walk the track play basketball and then community- based instruction so we have an awesome location um so we can walk to various places and then we also take field trips and learn and the teachers teach the students in their Community too so there's certain skills and then there's some things we just do for fun um the students are broken up into two different groups which we did this year this is new um cuz we really have grown so our more supported students are in our life group is what we say and we talk about Community safety being safe with strangers working on crossing the street safely navigating your community they need more assistance with independent living skills so dressing themselves toileting for some of our students these students typically aren't able to work in the community on their own in like a competitive or even a job training situation so we have them volunteering at different places um some of the students will talk about that and then we also have our micro business so that's our inhouse things that we do so we make dog treats that we sell um shredding we have the cricket and then focusing on Natalie our speech pathologist is a lot of work with communication some of our students and one of the students who's going to present today uses an alternative augmentative communication device so what he's using is in the form of an iPad but other students use different um things to communicate if they're unable or they need extra assistance to speak um and then our strive group is our less supported group we work on Executive functioning with them that growth mindset um like I said about the money job training healthy living and adult safety so Natalie and Jerry are going to talk a little bit about our entrepreneurship class and then navigating the community with Pace hi everybody um so Carolina asked me so I'm Jerry SW one of the teachers at transition and we're really excited because we have two new classes that we've started this year um and one is entrepreneurship class that um I am teaching and two of our students are here today and they're going to talk about that we've partnered with the University of Illinois Chicago for research grants that this um they developed a curriculum that by the end of the year the students are going to have their own business come up with a business plan and get $500 towards the supplies to start running their business um so that's exciting is something that we want to continue possibly in the future as well once we're done with UIC in their Grant um another class that um teach with Natalie our speech pathologist is our Pace travel training training class so one of the hindrances for a lot of our students on getting jobs or maintaining jobs is transportation or even just accessing the community in general um because a lot of them don't get their driver's license or can't take the fixed schedule um bus so Pace pair Transit is what we've used for several years it is door-to-door service for um adults with disabilities and it's not always perfect and a lot of our students need help work navigating that right just any other Transportation um so we started this year of doing a direct instruction on how to use Pace par Transit so that when they do leave us they have all the tools to be safe so we work on from applying to get in the program to scheduling rides Rider etiquette problem solving and then we go through role playing with our staff we take them out in the community and pretend and practice like we are the drivers and we take them to the wrong place and so they can problem solve a what do they do it's late or they go to the wrong place so that's been a really exciting um new curriculum for us too um okay also um come to talk to you about our micro business so that this has been I've kind of taken it over I don't know if I was supposed to take it over but the last couple years been my baby um so many many years we've been doing the shred dock the shredding has been a huge business a huge activity for our students it is a preferred activity a lot of our students really enjoy doing it so we collect Str confidential documents from area businesses the district um our feeder districts give us all the their stuff too and other people bring in their personal items that they need shredded and it's just something where shredders are working all day and the students really enjoy it so we take it any any you have you can bring it to us uh We've expanded then on to dog treats so again this is more for our students who are not quite ready to go out and job train into the community whether they're not ready yet or they might not be able to get get to that point where they can be independent in a job we can do it safely in our building and they can work on those skills and get fulfillment and they do get we do offer payment too they earn gift cards um through our seep grant for the work that they do as well so we have our dog treats in is um very student Le so we try to make it as student le as possible so it's students measuring and making those treats rather than the staff um because of the d99 education fund Grant we were able to get a Cricut and a mug press so we've expanded to making custom mugs and stickers um so we people can send in what pictures they want we've got a lot of pets that we've been making into stickers um seller recently um but it's been really great and we've expanded that we now come to the high schools once a week we come to North and then every other Friday we go north or south and we have a table where the students can sell and they can work on those the money skills and just the you know social skills and personal skills to be able to talk to others and sell so it's been a awesome experience for us so thank you very much now I'm going to turn it over to the students I know we've talked a lot students and we bring up Mary she's going to start us off oh and if you're interested in anything we have Flyers that open up though put this on hello yeah sorry oh hello I'm Mary re I'm a freshman at t99 and in typical day at t99 I SP choices of things to do in my free time one of my favorites is going to the downers girl library for the True Crime Club I just started job training the Downers Grove Library where I collect books and gather reserved items my favorite part of t99 is going on community trips and my business Hub my favorite trip this year was going to the field museum it was really cool to see the crystal section and dinosaur in my business class I started making bracelets for my Busia and I sold them at a community market one the photos is me working at the Oak fitness center another me is singing at a teeny n party and the other one is volunteering on Meals on Wheels uh thank you for supporting T I brought bracelets that I made nice thank you thank you you thank you thank you thank you we're thanks thank you Mary like thank you thank you don't want to break thank you very much like Taylor Swift it's like Taylor swi hi my name is R I'm a senior at t99 I have learned many at t99 over 30 years I draw training at the p and got hired as a runner I now work at DGM for shw where I meet B boses B and other tests I'm learning how toart my own business make making clothes and our B I learn how to use pce so I can get to work my favorite part of t99 is making friend and99 FS my favorite Community trip with T9 is going to open up fness Center for working out with my teacher Jerry PR sure I working out at Oprah Park Des Year my my hood team made it St every one last year that's me with my teacher Jenny thank you and that's up y right thank you thank you hello my name is G this my three year at so or can't we wait with morning routine as grass next l in into comedy speed light time hope broke finish and Andy twice we go to humpton in for work into cleaning and hry at afternoons okay how I do housekeeping back business my favorite part of going to 10 and9 going to work bring and ped my favorite comedy trip you're going going to the is a goo war game I like see my friends and was it that game this is me the worker it's me my friend B and Ma and dby dark sweets with Mary and park going say swings much thank you thank you and then our last student is TJ come on up TJ I'm TJ postas and I'm in my first year at t99 I start my day at t99 in my home room getting ready for the day we wash and fold laundry take Community trips and make micro Biz items like dog treats my favorite part of t99 is cirle class to learn about safety my favorite Community trip is going to Oak Brook fitness center to walk on the treadmill doing sign language with my classmates playing oops volunteering and Feed My Starving Children at the Wolves game with t99 [Applause] thanks hello my name is Trisha broy I'm the vocational coordinator with t99 um our program has a huge focus on building vocational skills for all all of our students whether that's in a supportive environment of our building with our micro business and our in-house jobs um or out in the community and we have so many outstanding business partners most of them are up on the screen there's a chance I missed some but um all of the students here are job training or working somewhere in the community TJ is going to start this week at PDF progress which I'm so excited about raran has job trained and found competitive of employment through that which is incredibly wonderful um Mary is at the Downers Grove Public Library and Jackie is at Hampton in where she does some housekeeping jobs um through these Community Partnerships we do a service for um our students and the community and they do the same for us so it's really wonderful and we're so grateful for them um just today we had two students who started competitively working at mod Pizza which is incredibly exciting that we had a partnership with them kind of preco where we were job training um we went back after covid once everything opened back up and they were really interested in us being there with job coaches but to competitively employee students so we're very grateful for that so thank you thank you so that completes our student perspectives um we hope you really enjoyed it obviously come see us at t99 anytime just drop by one of us would be there to take you around if you'd like to see it um but we'd like to open it up in case um anybody had any questions they might have either for our students or for some of our staff members and if not that means we did a really good job great job thank everybody for sharing their story tonight thank you yeah those are wonder it was very interesting and very good to see the students and yeah how they're doing yeah so again come on over any time and you'll see a bunch more of them um kind of in their you know in their uh their daily schedules um and um thank you very much for the opportunity well I I do have some questions sure almost he almost escaped how's the new building and how how is it um improving upon Andor opening up new opportunities for educational opportunities yeah I mean obviously it's beautiful so who doesn't like to work in a beautiful environment right um but just from a space perspective um you could imagine we had about the same number of students previously and so and these are adults they're they're they're not kids right um and so we are able to really spread out and have those experience where we are not sort of trying to hurry up like be on top of each other all the time one great example are the two kitchens um because there are two kitchens we don't have to have um four different lunch periods to rotate students in and out they can use it not only for the meal prep that the folks were talking about but also creating and making group lunches like some of our students would do for their families um preparing their breakfast any every morning or preparing lunch to take with them to work like really trying to um to mimic what a regular work day would look like right when we get up before we go to work we're preparing all you know we're taking meals with us to work we're doing all of that in our kitchens right and we're really trying to simulate that exact example um we also now have some swing spaces so if we need to do smaller groups or move things around we have the space to do that um right now we have seven classrooms but we have the ability to house eight um and so we're using that extra classroom right now for recreational um means like that wck in Leisure piece um when the weather's not great and we can't get outside that's another place for us to be able to to experience those types of things but the kitchen being a really big one um not just for its function of a kitchen but it's multi functional purpose right um that I think every like the Commons in both buildings um same kind of concept um so we can utilize it for different reasons um but we absolutely love it um we've had lots of people from the community prior students come back and just show up and want to see it and everybody's walking around like oh my goodness this is so wonderful so we greatly appreciate it not only for our students but Al also for our very deserving staff thank you um Lisa the um partnership with the UIC and the um the grant program how did that come about and um are there more opportunities um yeah so I went to a conference at University of Illinois um in champagne and they presented um on their program that they were accepting area schools and they work with high schools or transition programs and you I just had to contact them and we applied and the students then and parents signed off on that they could be be part of this research and this is their final year though of the grant so as far as the money goes that they would provide that ends this year but the curriculum is free for everyone so we can continue to use the curriculum for years to come and hoping that maybe like through our micro business money maybe we can use that depending on rules and regulations how we can then support students to have these side hustles or if they can't be compatibly employed they have a home business that they can you know work on every day and to through that way so thanks for doing that I mean a lot of the the kids who talked here tonight mentioned that that is one of their favorite things at t99 so that's a great really I wish we we have a detailing service thatone open up a his own detailing business and a landscaping business so I think it's plus our clothing line and our bracelet so I think it's I'm excited to see where they going to take it yeah that should be like an end of the year t99 student perspectives and we'll come back and definely and allow the other students in the class to present sounds good what hours are they like the students yeah when when are they there they're there from 8:00 to 2:30 oh okay mhm and but we're in and out of that place all day so um probably at the very beginning of the day at the end of the day you'll see all of them there but very infrequently throughout the day will you see all of them there okay now are you doing 365 no we're we're the regular District 99 calendar closed over the summer and then we do our our district esy program that we've always done um in the past we've housed that at donar's grow South um because t99 was just physically too small to house our full District esy program but we're going to actually be there um the summer which is wonderful because of the location and access to the community um that is just more prevalent at that location than it is at doners gur settle okay so pretty much all the month of June that's okay say how many weeks is that is that just it's it's June 3rd through June 27th um off the top of my head yeah it's pretty much always the month of June same same okay yeah okay I know I said this at the ribbon cutting but it Bears repeating um the you know we always talk about d99 being a destination district and I think that applies to t99 as well and t99 touches so many lives for the students and their families and um there's a lot of families that moved to our community because of the the program that we offer at t99 and also the in the schools themselves so least I just want to commend you and your staff and all the work that you guys do and the the daily hard work that's put in and the lives that you touch so thank you so much oh our our pleasure our pleasure we have a lot of really happy staff m members um who get to see our young adults walk in every day um and I will say huge upgrade for me I get to be smiling all day every day cuz you can't not smile in that building um so um it's it's been wonderful being there every day you know I would agree with you 100% having attended the ribbon ribbon cutting your staff is just Magnificent the energy and passion that they bring every day is just phenomenal yeah Y and what I love the most is that they're smiling even when there's big problems mhm um so we just smile through it and help each other um but um you know they just love the students and really enjoy working there and they enjoy working there in this lovely facility but they enjoyed working there when we were a little more crowded right either way they loved working with our students and I think it's just a very big thank you to them too as staff um to be um in an environment where they're now physically comfortable as well um and our students and our families just love it so again we appreciate you all for supporting that um we know it's it's a big investment can I to I mean you have a very impressive list of Community Partners um so you know how can we help I mean what are the are are you always looking for more Partners what kind of partners are you looking for um um little more about that we so a h huge initiative kind of in the land of special education and vocation is carving jobs because there's a million jobs we've like carved out like the district Pony we've taken over as a job training um that's inter Office Mail yeah sorry lot of words but like finding tasks that our students can do because often the robust job discription Des cription somewhere is challenging but we can pick things and say I have a student who can really do this and we can really build out your Staffing and make you more efficient when we do these things um so any contacts anybody has they're welcome to have my email um send me an email I'm more than happy to communicate and facilitate conversations of how we can help our students access the community yes Trisha has been I mean done a lot I mean she supervises four job coaches that work with our students but a huge part of that job is not only doing the schedule for all of our students which is always really challenging every week but um is really going out herself into the community walking into businesses asking those questions how can we help your business be more efficient I have a student in mind who I think could do X Y or Z and really trying to build opportunities around those questions but it's walking into businesses and talking to owners and talking to people and trying trying to carve out those specific jobs that might not be posted a specific way but maybe we can create something that would be mutually beneficial to everybody and we have so many wonderful businesses in the d99 community um to really like work with and Anderson's Bookshop is a great example of a small shop where I walked in had a conversation with a manager and then they called me back and it took a little bit but they wanted us there so so it was it's been a really exciting kind of Adventure in that sense and our students are the best employees there's so many studies at individuals with disabilities they come to work on time they're not distracted by their phone they're so loyal so really a big piece is finding like a job culture where there is natural supports where people who are working like at the patio they'll still like Q our students oh keep going here this is ready those natural supports are embedded and once our students get hired and are competitively employed they stay competitively employed we still like go to cers and students who graduated 8 10 years ago are still working same thing with juwel Trader Joe's so if we can get them set up make sure they're successful then they stay and it really brings so much meaning and importance to their life because they have something to do every day get up and then they have people who are caring about them because we know the work aspect of our life is huge so it really when we can find employment for our students even if it's volunteer or supported it really this so impactful for them so that's why we put so much emphasis on the vocational training piece of T9 right thank you thank you [Applause] guys this [Music] all right Tiana and Alla have a tough act to follow I don't know how I'm going to follow that that was really good am I turn to go first yeah all right um A lot's been happening at dgn lately um first off I'll touch on winter sports because we're pretty good at those um uh for basketball we're killing it just like we did last year um we're both both the boys and the girls this year are doing just incredible um our girls gymnastics is at sectionals tonight so cheer them on um and our girls bowling and wrestling sectionals are on Saturdays as well are on this Saturday as well and um really importantly coming up we have a um spirit week coming up to because February is kind of that L month so we're we're trying to pick it back up again get get the excitement back in so we have next Friday we have a pep rally so we have a special schedule on Friday and we're going to do class competitions team competitions and just kind of like amp everyone back up again um Monday night we have a dodgeball tournament which is super fun and we have spirit days coming up so Monday is going to be Pajama Day Tuesday's Marty gr day we have a Valentine's Day we have class color day it's going to be so fun so yeah everyone other than that it's just kind of that lull kind of time right now so everyone's kind of in the second semester thing juniors are figuring out what they got on the SAT score and they're either like oh no or yes um seniors are just waiting for college decisions to come back sophomores are gearing up for next year um lots of cours registration going on right now I was just in the College and Career Center and um hunting down scholarships and um our it was slammed with um which I think is really good because it's become a really really good resource for a lot of kids like I saw freshman sophomores Juniors and seniors in there just being able to have a resource of just questions they had about different classes or different scholarships so yeah it's been really good thanks thank you so for at South we have been we've we have a lot of activities coming up for February to make it a little bit more again like Gian said a little bit more happy and fun because from the transition from January to March cuz March is even going to be more packed it's going to like having this time to have fun is very important while also focusing on studying of course but um so with that in February we have so for Valentine's Day our Key Club is actually selling Crush cans for $2 meaning they purchase a crush can so like a soda can and there's like different colors like different flavors stand for different types so like purple is I don't know your crush and then orange I don't know orange is significant other and then another one is friendship like there's different but you could choose whichever one you want but with that they're selling those so then you would just put like your friends name that you want to give it to and then they'll send those out to classrooms so on January 13th and January 14th they're going to deliver it to the classes and the students will just be shocked on if they got one if they expected or if they didn't expect it you know and then we yeah we also have our Ace spirit week coming up so I think that's in like February 20th so it's a few yeah a few weeks from now with that we're also ending with our uh Winter Dance so that will be fun to see and we'll also have a bunch of like spirit days competitions between classes and then hopefully seniors can get the spirit jug again during the assembly and then um for leap day our Mustang access leaders are actually trying to figure out something to make it fun on leap day since it happens one in four years right so we we've definitely come up with ideas so that day can be really fun and engaging and everyone can be like happy that we have 29 days instead of 28 so so that will be fun and then with sports the winter sports are kind of of like in the closing period so we're going on to our Issa like competition levels and I know a lot of people are working hard to get where they want to be so that's really cool to see like them Reach the level of sectionals or state and just seeing that like our Phillies our Varsity dance team got 12th in the state last weekend or week two weeks ago but other than that like everybody is just excited to see where dgs can go in sports and in February so I's any slips no no s no no okay Hank I'll turn it over for item number five items all right we just have a few quick uh items for the the board this evening uh the first one is usually at this time of the year we bring recommendations for increases in student fees however this year uh we're going to recommend leaving them flat for a year so there's nothing for the board to approve unless they would like for us to come back recommend with a recommendation to raise fees but our business department uh feels like this is a a good recommendation for this school year awesome yes I'm pleased about that um you know it's hard enough for our families without having to add extra money to it so that's very good yeah well and a a reminder a no increase in student fees is essentially a decrease in student fees cuz we're not keeping up with inflation right so uh although it doesn't look like a decrease essentially is it's a little easier uh in front of you is a rough draft document it went out to the board earlier it went out to our staff as well and I've been Gathering feedback from staff uh this is the most uh recent version it hasn't changed since I shared it with the board end of last week but this is uh a project we've been working on this year as we've looked to better recognize students and staff in District 99 uh so what we've been working on is a staff and a student and staff recognition program criteria that would lead to uh students or staff members coming in front of the board and being recognized uh or dedicated ceremonies that happen at the schools that board members would be invited to attend um listed in here uh with specifics are for athletics and activities for team and individual placements that would uh automatically initiate us as the administration reaching out to uh the coaches or sponsors uh to try to find an appropriate time to invite them in to be recognized by the board um so I have a couple of things for the board first is any feedback on this second is a question as to whether we would like to do this quarterly by semester by year in real time as they happen kind of those are the options and then finally how do we want to make up catch up for this school year uh whether it is we want to do it on a board meeting night and we find a location invite everybody in we missed or schedule a special board meeting that's just a celebration night separate from our normal business so I'm going to go in that order so first of all any feedback on the document as it's presented and this will just continue to morph and change because things change in recognitions and as we get feedback from people I'm not going to ask for the board to approve it but to review it so uh any feedback on this document I I just had a question so if I understand this right so the dedicated ceremonies are around these academic things that are listed here this list of like 10 right everything else would be coming to AB board new so all this other stuff is okay just make all the other stuff when it happens would would happen at AB board okay I think you yes is this differentiated by north and south or are they just put together they're just SM we tried to smash it together no I think this is a really good idea yeah we've gotten a good you know we did share it with the entire staff last week I've got Jill and I have gotten a great deal of feedback and have tried to work that into this I imagine as time goes on and as things happen we might have to tweak it and adjust it but we think it's a pretty good spot to start from I think it's a fantastic program it would be a great thing anytime we have a opportunity to highlight um the accomplishments of our student and staff I think we should take full advantage of it and as much as possible if we can do it in real time yes I think the closest to the actual event the more meaningful it is yeah that was my next question so thanks for the transition C I I I definitely agree with that um real time is the best because then you don't get so backlogged yeah because we are kind of backlogged right now you know school year so although we're backlogged because we're choosing to real time Al so I think what Hank's trying to cut to ch is what what does that mean is that mean every single board meeting we have sort of a like a new business old business we have like a standard like I would recommend we open with celebrations like that and any guests that are here a lot of the feedback we when we used to do more of these recognitions from students is we are very busy this is night on the schedule you know and concerns about students taking another night out so I would if we're go going to do it in real time I would have the principes work with those coaches and sponsors to find the most appropriate date for their teams we'd bring them in and that would be the first thing we do from jump so that they could be recognized and then they can be off on their day um and we may actually have some groups that are like thanks but no thanks right and and that that would be totally at their discretion but they would be invited uh to come in but that's how I would recommend we do it if it's a very large team we might have to relocate the board meeting to another location right and that's always a challenge as well based on facility usage and everything else so we as close to real time as possible with all of those factors brought together is the timing of all these things like really scattered like are yes some of them are seasonal you know and you could end up like we did this year where like football and cross country at North all had great seasons and they'd all be in close proximity to one another um so each of those Sports Seasons ones kind of happen uh at three points throughout the year although some of the sports kind of staggered as they end right some end like golf is going to end early in the fall where football's going to end late right yeah GI we can also just do like student Representatives because that way so like for example like them like the captains of the football football team come and then just talk cuz that way then we don't have to relocate and it's not like a ton of people talking and then that way it's just like a little bit of a segment at the beginning too that we can get more people in too I I kind of like having um all the students come that you know I think that they would feel a little more important by I think so too yeah like to rather than if we have to run over the cafetorium in south or something like that true so be it so I I like the idea of um starting the meetings with celebrations I think though if we do a you know take a trial period and see if it's going to work doing it at every meeting and you know try to get the right fit for it we can start that way I think and then we figure out if that's the best way to do this this is is something new for us I don't think they'll happen at every meeting you know it's not like every week there's somebody finishing at the top of the state or national level right or every month oh well um the other thing though is there are some sports that may choose to have their own celebrations and would rather invite you to theirs right so that's a Poss you know the coach and the team could say no we'd rather have our own night with our parents and families invited and in that case we'll invite the board to ours right so I would like for us to always defer to the students and coaches as to what their preference is or they might choose to do both right but um know that they will in this approach like our our teachers and coaches and we'll find out I know when I first got here we did these uh Julie was it twice a year qu three times three times a year and we did hear from a lot of students that it was another thing kind of added on their calendar and interest and attendance waned greatly uh from before I got here into the first couple of years that I was here um and then we went to celebrations at the schools instead of at the board level um but we're going to try to bring it back we saw that the cross country team really enjoyed being here with us and being recognized so uh and we are really focusing this year on how we can better recognize people's accomplishments throughout the district so I I think it's time to reboot it give it a try learn from it and then we can see how it goes it looks like though most of at least to me most of the students who have come to be recognized over the years I've been on they're excited to be here and they you know like the fact that we're recognizing them so but I think we should be committed to if their preference is to have the like we should all try to have some and have some representation absolutely so what we'll do is uh work with the principles as these great events happen try to figure out how to make it best work for us time location all of those pieces but know that they will at least receive an invite when they meet this this criteria um and we'll try to it sounds like in as close to real time as possible is the feedback now we have a whole bunch of people from the beginning of the year through January that we haven't uh celebrated yet uh would the board like for us to pick a meeting in the future to do this or Julie and I could work with the board and the principles to try to find a night where we just do a celebration of kind of the first half of the year and invite people out thatd be in favor of the ladder yeah we have to do a special meeting yeah CU I'm thinking if we invited everybody we missed to one meeting we probably wouldn't have AAC be a long night we've had a lot a lot to celebrate this year yeah yeah yeah so we could just do it doesn't even have to be a formal board meeting right we don't have to do a formal agenda but we could do a recognition night where the board is inviting these different groups we'll once again work with the principles to identify who we should you know make sure we're catching up with and inviting out and then we could just do a special celebration night at you know one of the locations we be open to doing it during the day or do you feel like that would exclude families or that's the challenges yeah is is the the families I think parents probably would enjoy participating MH uh with parents it it's either breakfasts sometimes are better parents can come and celebrate before they head off to work right and kids can show up and do that but if it's a longer program it would have to be in the evening evening I will say we had the uh National Merit Scholarship uh recognition breakfast and that was a very nice event and it was attended by the majority if not all of the parents who you know just push their work day back an hour or two if they had to but it was very well attended and it really didn't interfere with the structure of their day so that was really good yeah the the I would say the majority of the things listed down below either happen at like an evening celebration but a lot of them tend to happen at breakfast now right yeah we do a lot of breakfast people are busy after school so we we've had a little more success in the morning agree so I I'll talk through it with the cabinet with the principles and we can try to figure out if it makes sense to do one night for the district or a North night and a South night or North morning and a South morning I don't know we'll we'll talk through it and try to find a time that makes sense if we're going to do it independent I would say we do it just separate from like a traditional board meeting yes we just have a a celebration in some way it's too sterile here for something like that yeah well with and with the number of groups yeah that we'd have to catch up with yeah all right we'll get to work thank you uh couple other items uh car's Grant uh Scott has worked uh really hard for us to have access to this cares Grant Scott can you give just a quick summary of what it offers our community yeah so the we were District 99 was awarded the 249,000 by the Illinois Department of Health in the state of Illinois to provide Mental Health Services and it's the it's the services of counseling outside of the school day um the way the program will work is that we will do um the kind of the marketing to the Strategic marketing uh to students in need um referral GPS is a company that we worked with in the past they're also going to be part of the grant they will connect families to um outside counseling the district it's Anonymous for us we don't know we Market it but we don't know which students get the support um which is good though they you know the whole Spirit of it is to get mental health support um and so what we did on the memo we listed the um contracts that are part of the grant or subcontracts and so what we're asking today is um for you to authorize us to you know work and move forward and sign those contracts uh to keep the crant moving so um we're super excited about it um it's going to be a great resource for our families and students and Scott's working through each of those contracts with the board's attorneys so once the board's attorneys we're asking that once the board attorney authorizes us to move forward that you've authorized us to execute those agreements and enter into them so any questions for Scott sounds exciting it's a great thanks for the work great resource for our community all right uh the next one is uh the bond issuance we brought at the last board meeting uh we're about to open a public hearing for anybody that would like to provide feedback on that Bond issuance none of the terms of it have changed uh it's still the same amount for the same purposes uh $5.2 million for the additional Capital Improvement projects which includes the turf field the tracks the scoreboards two large classroom projects at each side of town the internal scoreboards and the Fieldhouse floors right so uh and the cost of issuing the bonds uh Jer here if you have any questions otherwise we'll ask Don to open up the public hearing no questions okay so item number six uh this agenda item or I'm sorry the next agenda item for the board of education is a public hearing to receive public comments on the proposal to sell Bonds in the amount of $5.2 million for the purpose of increasing the working cash fund of the district the working cash fund bonds all persons Desiring to be heard will have an opportunity to Present written or oral testimony with respect there to the reason for the proposed issuance of the working cash fund bonds is to enable the district to have in its treasury at all times sufficient money to meet demands for expenditures are there additional comments from the members of the Board of Education hearing none um if there is any written testimony written testimony concerning the proposed issuance of the working cash fund bonds will be read into the record by the secet if there is no written testimony um if there is any I'm sorry if there is no written testimony if there's any oral testimony or any public comments concerning the proposed instruments the working cash phone bonds um public may make those comments Julie do we have any there is no written testimony there no written testimony there's no oral testimony is there anybody that wishes to address the board regarding the public hearing hearing none hearing none um all person Desiring to be heard have been given an opportunity to present oral and written testimony with respect to the proposed issuance of the working cash fund bonds I need a motion for the hearing to be adjourned so moved second Terry moved and K seconds thank you is there any discussion on the on the bond issues hearing none Julie please call the role for a vote on the motion Tre pavisic I Ken Dawson hi Chris Espinosa hi charl Fuller I Jenny hagstrom I Cara Caston I and Don rener hi motion is carried and the hearing is adjourned moving to item number seven the consent agenda is there any item a board member would like to remove from the consent agenda hearing none I need a motion for the Board of Education to approve the consent agenda as presented which includes a authorization for the administration to sign the contracts associated with the car's Grant pending attorney review of the contracts B amended summer 2024 calendar and C extended school year esy compensation so second second by thank you cherl Fuller hi Terry pavich hi Cara Caston I Ken Dawson I CH Espinosa I Jenny hagstrom I and Don Runner I motion carries item number eight is there any additional no sir no slips no okay so item nine is um close session um I need a motion from the Board of Education to go into a closed session for a the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees specific individuals who serve as independent contractors in a park recreational or educational setting or specific volunteers of the district or legal council for the district including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee a specific individual who serves as an independent contractor in a park recreational or educational setting or a volunteer of the district or against loal Council for the district to determine its validity and B collected negotiating matters between district and its employees or their representatives or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees in accordance with 5 ics1 1202 C2 so moved second Terry moves Chris second thank you Terry pavich I Chris Spinosa hi charl Fuller hi Jenny hagstrom hi Cara Caston hi Ken Dawson hi and Don rener I the motion carries for the members of the public the board will not be taking any action other than to adjourn when it comes out of closed session thank you all right we'll be back in here let's take five all right all right
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ni here 630 yeah I said I just have to want me to say something ready okay hello hello hello I'll start singing soon if we don't get quiet hello can we get started we have someone to celebrate tonight I'd like to make sure everybody can take part in that um so I know we're very anxious to get to the festivities but we will um will we do this first yep we will go ahead and and start our evening with the Pledge of Allegiance for those that can stand please Al to FL United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all we do have a quorum here so I will call the meeting to order Dr Roberts thank you Mrs wildon before we get into the heart of the agenda uh we do like to make sure and review our mission vision and core values each board meeting uh the vision for our school corporation is to be the choice to learn work and play and our mission is we develop expert Learners by partnering with our community to invest in people our six core beliefs we all can rise to the challenge of high expectations learning is most effective when we have Choice flexibility and see relevance we Thrive when our physical social and psychological needs are met our community and School District are stronger when we partner with one another we flourish because of the diversity and variability in our Comm Comm and our democracy and Democratic institutions are strengthened by civic-minded citizens with that I can keep on going Mrs Wilden uh we have a great crowd of people here tonight so thank you for being here on a Monday February the 5th the first thing that we're going to jump into is our 2024 education Hall of Fame award and before getting into um our recognition of Mrs wats I do want to call our attention to um the select ction committee who participates in this annual um event to to make sure we find the the greatest that is has been a part of our school corporation and we get a chance to celebrate them so Mr Schultz Logan Schultz a school board member appointment to that committee and was our chair for the committee anybody else in the audience who was on that committee I know Mr Perkins Perkinson I saw you earlier please stand if you're on the committee for for that Larry's standing but it's kind of behind behind some people back there so perk thanks as always and anybody else who is participating in that group uh we appreciate the effort to again choose uh this this recipient so we are here tonight to celebrate Mrs Sandy Watts the education Hall of Fame award is given to teachers former teachers or administrators who have made a noteworthy and extraordinary employment contribution to the Bartholomew Consolidated School corporation which merits recognition for excellence and we certainly believe that Mrs Watts has done that I do want to thank Brad Brad Davis is in the front here with the Republic very good article Brad that you did on Mrs Watts great picture Sandy on the front page and Mike Wen always does a nice job of getting the photos and things so thanks to the Republic for for their coverage uh at this point I'm going to bring Mrs Watts up to the podium so Sandy I hope you have a a presentation or a speech or whatever you're going to give to us here may maybe a lesson plan you start reading start cry okay before we have uh Sandy speak to us um I do want to read the plaque from our 2024 education Hall of Fame award and just a remind or maybe new information if you've not heard this before but anytime we give an education Hall of Fame award away or to the proper recipient we have two plaques and one will be will go wherever that person wants to to put it and one will come to our our place and so we we uh make sure that we recognize the individual uh here in this building as well so uh the 2024 education Hall of Fame award is presented to Mrs Sandy watts and what we always do is make sure to to take quotes from the uh letters of recommendation that we receive and so on this particular one we have tireless leader for Education can do Spirit the community is her extended classroom I think in that article Brad it said something about they're my kids right uh approachable and engaging Master teacher keen understanding of individual student needs Community Advocate and activist builds teams to make the community a better place the ownership she demonstrates for each student is unmatched committed to helping her students reach their full potential so it's great pride that as a representative for our school corporation I present this Hall of Fame award uh to Sandy Watts [Laughter] I'm not shaking you're shaking thank you I am so humbled to receive this award I know of all the amazing people that preceded me they set the bar high and it's an honor to be in their company first I want to thank my husband Dave he's back there in the cheap seat well he's actually standing um we've been married for 51 and a half years wow I know I was young uh we were young dumb broke but we were in love evidently at work because we're still together he's a reason we here we've always been a team I know you all recognize him he's the guy that be wrote a tillering the garden at the school for the school garden he's the guy that went to hundreds of activities not just for our own kids but for all your kids he love the dance recital especially when they were three hours by the way he really liked the sports events I've got to say Aiden you're out there you know that um there's a song it's called he's one of the good ones well I have one of the best ones when I retired he thought oh the honeydew list is going to end for for school at least well Kathy Dell called me and said would you choreograph Annie we need you to do that I bet you didn't know I'm a tap dancer neither did anybody in the halls of the school but he ended up building all the beds for the orphans and doing the backdrops a he also so for years as you know because a lot of you do this we collect plastic caps for recycling to get furniture around the community and I came up with a bright idea that we ought to collect them and coordinate it with Parkside Elementary and First United Methodist Church this community in less than 6 months had 1,500 lbs of caps they overtook our garage we couldn't get our cars in so Elwood Staffing came to the rescue and they gave us a place to store them unfortunately it was upstairs you know what it's like carrying 1500 lbs upstairs yeah I may be calling on you guys the next time so then we took them back to Parkside and around 130 kids helped us sort them the teachers helped sort Laden and Sheila Turner who I can always depend on Linda Young and Janice Montgomery all came to sort and we weighed them all as well and loaded them up in a truck that Driftwood Builders donated for us that's what this community is so thank you honey I love you and the honeydew list is going to continue sorry so and then I want to thank our kids Jennifer and Michael Jennifer flew in from Washington DC she owns very creative she has a great husband Sean we have two perfect grandchildren um Connor is eight Becca just turned five they aren't here because they're busy attending public school and they know I don't want them to miss school so they are not here um I also want to recognize our son Michael uh he's a civil engineer for Pure development in Indianapolis he's here with our soon Tobe daughter Lindsay his fiance so we're thrilled that we can be here um they can be here I tell you what about them they always knew they were first but they always knew that my students were my kids too they knew that and they were never jealous they donated did so many hours to me in my classroom and the schools I taught at they were amazing we were at Taylorville school one time late at night like on a Saturday night and we kept the lights dim so da is working in my classroom surprise and we go down to the library when we're at the library I'm reaching up to get books I'm going down to get books and there you know the songs Stuck Like Glue they were stuck to me like glue it was really dark in there have you ever been in a big building where it's it's all dark it's kind of creepy it's kind of they were scared fortunately I didn't traumatize them too much they kept volunteering we love you so much not only your achievements but the way you love and care about others that's a special gift so thank you it's really special them being here next I need to say my dad and I hope I get through this he passed away 36 and a half years ago from ALS he was the youngest of six children as soon as he graduated from high school he was drafted into the military he was in the Infantry in the Philippines where he acquired malaria he came back fortunately the GI Bill he went to school on that GI Bill while being in and out of hospital because of the severe malaria that he was suffering from when he graduated he became a basketball coach and a high school teacher at Aurora High School then he went on to Emerson Elementary in Seymour for 30 years and also he owned a small business I'll never forget when he got ready to retire his eyes teared up and he said Sandy I'm going to miss the kids I'm going to miss the staff I'm going to miss the parents well he taught me two great lessons to love education and to love people what a blessing that is next I must thank staff you see that has my name on it but it belongs to all of you it wouldn't be possible without all of us working together so the part with my name on it and maybe a few of the adjectives that that's my part you get all the rest well I graduated in January of 1980 when you graduate you take and substitute teach I substitute taught at Smith Elementary School Larry Brock was the principal he came in and he said I'll never forget this Mrs Watts I need to see you immediately in my office after school oh my gosh I just started and I'm called to the principal's office what did I do already so I go in there and he goes I've got a first grade opening I'd like you to take it for the rest of the semester it was Mrs Watts for Mrs Watts but we weren't related so I was in first grade that was really special so I wanted to meet the children ahead of time so I came in early so they didj just before their teacher had to leave and this little guy on never forget he jumps out of his seat he's a toddler size and he's running at me as fast as he can his arms are outstretch and tears are streaming down his face he said Mrs Watts I knew you'd find me I just knew you'd find me well I dropped to my knees and we're hugging and both crying you see I student taught with Janice cell at Taylorville in first grade all of you that knew Janice she's one of the world's classiest ladies But Not only was she one of the classiest she was one of the best mentors in the world she taught me to believe in myself I'd never believed in myself before what a gift and that little guy was in her classroom and he told us about the severe abuse he was suffering from and he had the scars and he didn't even realize what was happening so that was a godwink moment God just told me you're supposed to be a teacher and you're supposed to be with Eddie the rest of the year what a blessing that was so now I'm out of a job again oh my goodness after all that I'm out of a job I get a call from Pete orid and he the interview went great I thought then he said uh Sandy you have anything else to share and I go I'm four months pregnant he said excuse me I go well I told Dave I want a baby for graduation and I actually had a miscarriage while I was student teaching and are Jennifer who's been our photographer um that's that baby well amazingly Pete H me anyway that was amazing back then in the old days so I had the blessing to get hard and teach with Betty Everett I bet a lot of you know her she she had taught for years and then she got stuck with three rookies myself Becky Williams and Glenn Brown oh my gosh Becky's over there and we spent a lot of nights together didn't we Becky we kind of lived at school you might say well it was amazing there those parents at F threw me a surprise baby shower and they I just come you know and they do this for me the kids would beg to stay after school and I'd let them if their parents approved and I drive them home in the old days you could do that how special so I was there for four years and it was great there but my heart kind of belonged to Taylorville because that's where I student taught the song We Are Family that's Taylorville elementary school because it was a family atmosphere oh my gosh we we had hay rides we had where we'd roast hot dogs on pitchforks they told me they were sanitized I'm not so sure when I got there I was with Mary Helen Espen lob and I was with Jee mclen she had grown up with my dad as they retired I was with Kathy Calvin Brenda christofel and Janice waltmire and later on I was with Amber Elwood she'd been my student teacher how about that's pretty cool isn't it so also Mary Jane Perry was there she was a music teacher everybody knows Mary Jane Perry I had I was now teaching with her she had taught for my dad and she had taught me so what a great experience be brown was there and she would help with all our crazy ideas that we decide to do often I had whole families if they had two kids I had all two kids uh my three sons are here I think tonight the Richardson family Carol and Steve I had all three of their boys the last one was Matt and I said I'm going to miss them so much they they volunteered they were so supportive what am I going to do without you guys well on down the road at an open house here they come in with a little bundle and Carol looks at me right Carol and she said we did this just for you okay I I was kind of dumb struck which comes easy for me at times uh and then she just burst out laughing and she goes actually we borrowed the neighbor's little boy we wanted to pull a trick on you that's what family's about well one of the things that created the family was John quick John quick was our principal and he came to our room almost every day not to check on us but to support us he would if you'd whisper wow this child did great he was over there going way to go if you were having issues he was over there discreetly redirecting what a gift that was that was special Peggy Lawson was my ta there she took work home Pat knew her we tell her not to take work home I mean she made the big bucks you know that and we just thought it wasn't fair for her to be working all this overtime but unfortunately John decided he wanted to go to greener pastures now you know he's a Horseman but you think horsing around anyway no he became a superintendent and we became a revolving door a bunch of the Taylorville teachers were just at our home and we couldn't keep track of all the principles that we had they divided our teams up they made us move to different rooms and teachers started retiring so I decided to go right out that revolving door too and I went to Parkside what a special place that was I see a lot of my students here and that tear me up um I taught with Jolan Bodkins I taught with Debbie brow and Sabrina Rawlings while I was there teaching with them I had as and I lost my notes I had with them um Michelle Payne Sylvia Smith Lesley Jones and Colleen rowski rotated around his teas now Colleen rowski she got desperate to get away from me she moved to China that's pretty desperate no seriously she did move to China but fortunately she came back and we e together about every week so that was pretty special while I was there we adopted adaberry my classroom did we would put on shows we collected toiletry items remember that uh we coordinate throughout the building we collected thousands and thousands of toiletry items we did a service project called putting you in the Uso I'd arrive at school at 7 the parents and now I want to thank the parents they were there for us they would come in we'd have the Uso Canteen at school and we would feed the students then we would have them put on their antlers and their candy cane hats and all the elf hats in the years the whole bit and their Parkside shirts of course they were all decked out we even had Elvis was in the room one year he had on the white you know one piece jumpsuit I know you're all looking at Dr Roberts um it wasn't him it was Ryan clulow he stood about this tall but it was a lot of fun so we'd load those buses or the cars up 26 of them can you imagine all these parents with their kids in the car and we're trying to get through security at Camp adury thank you Teresa heiny she started giving us a bus so things went a lot smoother so we're up at camp adury and we didn't just sing about Christmas we sang about Quanza and Hanukkah we heard one of the soldiers and she's dancing and singing the drle song and another Soldier says how do you know that well I'm Jewish that's why an elderly man walked up to Dave now he doesn't seem so elderly does he honey he walked up to Dave and he goes do you know this teacher and he admitted yeah I know her she's my wife and he said well give her this and he had a whole lot of bills he tried to stick them in Dave's pocket and Dave said no and he goes this is for those kids this is for her classroom and Dave goes I can't take that I just can't take it Sandy will be so mad at me because she wants the children to learn to give and to respect the soldiers NOP nope you don't understand you see I lost my wife quite a while back I'm here at adury to help me to be with these soldiers I haven't smiled for a really really long time tonight I smiled and it was all because of those kids when I was at Parkside I had parents from all over the world what a what how special is that and I would hear them talking to their students my kids well their kids too and they would say oh my gosh look at all these soldiers this is what freedom is about this is why we have freedom here and this is why we want to live in America what a great lesson we also one time it was really rough I was there on December 14th with my kids think about that date December 14th if you're a teacher you'll never forget that date that was Sandy Hook so I'm with the kids from I get to school at 700 they don't depart till around 8:30 because we put on three shows they were exhausted by the time we hit it out three shows we're at we're at Applebee's eating because I was too nervous to eat all day and I see it on the TV screens and I go to Dave Dave what's going on I you know I didn't know I I was with my kids and he told me 20 first and second graders were gone were murdered in their classroom and six staff members we had had great joy that day and I lost it I totally lost it and I couldn't stop crying I just couldn't and I bet a lot of you lost it on that day and I find I'm still losing it unfortunately because it's still happening so Dave and I are part of the B smart initiative which is just about safe gun storage it's a small thing but maybe it'll help so thank you parents thank you thank you staff for trusting me now I want to say thank you parents again because I didn't realize how trusting you were you gave me your most precious what you value the most and you trusted me you respected me you gave of yourself I'd have volunteers and a lot of them are here every single day in my classroom Beth hegley wouldn't give it up she volunteered for years in my classroom and she still brings me food I mean wow so at when they finish I they come up and say can we still volunteer in your classroom grandparents and parents and I go well yeah that'd be great but I also with Dave's help had thousands of books in my classroom they range from pre-primer through High School believe it or not I had students in Pre Premier and High School in the same year in my in my classroom and I need to meet every child's needs I needed all those books I read to them they read them the students checked them out parents would say oh our kids love this book can we check it out well sure they' check out books thank you you trusted me you believe belied in me you respected me in my choices you let me teach I didn't realize how special that was until the last two years that respect and that trust let me teach how special is that well next I need to thank my students my kids they'll always be my kids they taught me so much and they gave so much one time I had a student Max and he walked up and he goes do you know the song He's Got The Whole World in His Hands and just like that and I said I sure do Max and he goes well can we sing it and I go well and before I could say anymore he goes but we've got the whole world in our class we had 15 students from other countries their parents in my classroom I want to sing We've Got the Whole World in our class and we did we'd sing We Got the Whole World in our class we got China and Mexico in our class we've got India and South Korea in our class well you got it we sang it all over town we sang it at Parkside Court and you know those are kind of elderly people older than me and they they not only sang it with us they would stand up and cheer for the countries they were from as the children stood up for the countries that their family was from we were learning social emotional learning we were learning diversity equity and inclusion before it was called that that's just what you do that's what makes us all better and these children were a perfect example the other thing we did was called the holiday train thank you Kathy Dale she would help us and we combine shell Silverstein silly poems we did plays now these kids I found an article from the newspaper and it said not your usual Christmas program nothing is out of bounds well those children dress messed up in the clothing from their cultures and they taught us about their holidays I found where Kevin Zang said I got to teach everyone about Chinese New Year another of my students said you know it was Autumn cavan just came back she said you know we learned about all kinds of holidays and you know what's special about holidays no matter where they are they're about family love and fun what a special gift that they gave all of us I had been to both theier and Charlie Ricks they were terrified to get in front of people in this newspaper article they said for the first time they like getting in front of people they couldn't wait for the play Venta was the butterfly we had a diverse group in this Christmas show she was a butterfly how appropriate was that because she had a metamorphosis she was no longer afraid to stand up and speak in front of people I just hope for those kids I taught them to love learning and to love people if they have those two skills they're going to be successful in their lives so thank you thank you so much for the students they were eight and nine and they got it they really got it sometimes I think they got it better than no offense all of us they really understand it so finally I want to thank Columbus and bcsc you made my children successful with the education they got here it was because of you you're simply the best we all know that song Simply the Best bcsc and Columbus are simply the best they were amazing I would go into store and they got to know me if you're a teacher you spend thousands of dollars out of your pocket over the years I would walk in in this one manager he'd he'd come and approach me before I got to him he might as well well I was going to hunt him down and he'd say what do you need this time Sandy and I'd tell him maybe it was something for the troops and he goes I can give you this manage in dollars go pick out whatever you want how special is that we would go up to camp ataberry and do a program up there and we also when I was at Taylorville had pin Pals in Desert Storm when they came back we had a welcome home party I bet you remember that the whole school we had had it decorated it was outstanding people stepped up for us and donated our school it was Brenda christofel Janice waltmire and Kathy Calvin we were teaching together in Sharon fields we we were the ones writing the letters well they went and asked around the community for sheet cakes because we were going to keep them all day we wanted to celebrate them all day everybody gave us sheet cakes they were unbelievable Uncle Sam red white and blue flags they donated the yellow ribbons a lot of you probably remember that we tied them around the trees Gail and Dave Burnside I think Jeanie's here that's her brother big flags that we got to present I'm told not to do that big flags that we got to present to every single soldier how special is that also Gordon Ellsbury opened up his Greenhouse I know Amy and David are here opened up his greenhouse and said just bring your vehicle take anything you want and I did we did the program twice and our whole school was decorated with red white and blue flowers and because of the art teacher we had the walls were covered welcoming them to our school those kids will never forget that and neither will the soldiers how special was that we did all kinds of things at Taylorville we had Alice and Wonderland day we built a wigwam we planned a garden oh on aliceon Wonderland day all of you know Shelley lwhy yeah she was Queen of Hearts boy she pulled that off well I think they really thought she was we even got a voting machine brought in now you older people no offense you know what a voting machine is those great big ones the big metal mon yeah they brought it in the children got to vote on it and the candidates came and wandered around during lunchtime and told about the office they wanted to hold why they they wanted to hold it and what was the responsibility how special is that it was really special we also got to be at the salute concert my little third graders had sandwich boards on the pays Jackson had them on they made them and they wandered around through thousands of people trying to get people to volunteer at the Uso we also had a big table and those third graders made PowerPoints I was told they couldn't do it yeah they can you set the bar High they'll achieve it they had PowerPoints they had a book they had made we'd gone to the Uso and they'd roleplayed and we took pictures and we had a hardback book we wanted to demonstrate what your job would be when you went the Uso when I was at Parkside we walked out to the airport first we went to the forest station and they learned about those Heroes then we went to the air museum Gordon Lake skip Taylor and others veterans taught us about the Tuskegee Airmen they taught us about Nancy War they taught us about women pilots we even had Gus poti there he had been a prisoner of war in World War II at the Bridge over River Quai look it up he taught us all kinds of things he donated a a painting that I hope still hanging in Parkside School and it has an angel in it every painting he did had an angel because he said that's what protected him that angel so every painting has an angel so after we did that Mara van Amon she's right here in the first row uh she arranged for us to go to iupu Columbus Learning Center ivtech and that Purdue school I went to IU that Purdue school because she we wanted kids to learn about what you could do right here in Columbus but also all the opportunities in the world we went next we would get lunches from blacker be hanger he'd fix over 130 lunches for all these third graders and he didn't make a dime because he didn't charge anything for him he did that out of kindness we'd go on tours downtown we'd be walking downtown and we were there and I hear Sandy Sandy bring your kids come on in here and then he said oh I mean Mrs whats come on in here I want to tell him about the great job I have and I want to tell him about this great great City well I bet you can guess who it was mayor Fred and everybody knew him as mayor Fred he proceeded to turn get this beautiful Container full of jelly beans and said do you like jelly beans I love jelly beans here and he goes it's from a distinguished visitor from Japan and I thought oh my gosh we're going to drop this so quickly my dad didn't raise a dummy I had a parent take care of it I didn't want that to be sh shattered on my watch that was a giving we felt I want to thank all of you it takes all of us all the groups I've named it took all of us that's what makes bcsc and Columbus a great place to be working together we're going to be with our two grandchildren in Disney World and you know the song where they say you make a wish your dreams come true I want to say you don't have to go to Disney World stay in Columbus go to bcsc your dreams will come true I have students that are anywhere from living in Canada to Florida I have students that live in New York and DC to California I have students my kids they're my kids they always will be whether they like it or not my kids all around the world we're Facebook friends we're still going to to high school and college graduation parties and weddings for my kids cuz they're part of my family so I want to thank you oh my gosh I can't believe this I made it this far um I always wanted to be a teacher ever since I was a little girl with my cowgirl boots on and Mary Jane Perry was my teacher I always wanted to be a teacher you made my dreams come true and now you're honoring for what I love to do with all the people I love that are here thank you so much I'll never forget this it's like having a funeral before you die and you get to hear all the good things thank you [Laughter] congratulations oh my gosh we go way back well congratulations Sandy I think with uh sy's words of wisdom there we can all understand why she was so successful and without a sign out signin sheet I think I know everybody that attended tonight because your name was somehow brought up at some time or another during her her remarks so thank you for your your attendance this evening oh [Laughter] [Music] oh all right Mr sprong we'll go ahead and get you up here and start to transition into the next next presentation [Music] Dr quick we rely on your help but back there to for this [Laughter] transition heard some cats you click the video and get her back to the thing right yeah yeah she asked me that I know she asked me [Music] that [Music] s all right well thank you again ladies and gentlemen for being here we are going to transition right now into the uh presentation from Richard's Elementary School with Mr spra and his team Darren good evening okay thank you thank you to Dr Roberts and the school board very difficult act to follow I was hoping some of these they're probably just going to watch this online I guess so so we'll move on from that um thanks for the opportunity to share a little bit more about Richards and who we are as raidar Nation um we are proud of our building um and who we are from our architecture um and the unique design of our building to the horses um and the art we actually have right inside of our building um we've had visitors from all over the world come to see our noola horses uh the sculptures so we invite you as well what we're most proud of is our diversity and our students and staff um and who we and who we are every day so our goal for our presentation is to show you a glimpse of how we're living out the goal of allowing our students the opportunity to provide community service develop a strong work ethic and connect to the community our motto is Big Dreams plus hard work equals success and we try to live out that goal every day so Karen Allen and Amy mochas are co-chairs of our PBIS team um they are going to um show you a littleit more about our strategic plan uh both are also members of our uh cic um and Karen has been the co-chair ca co-chair for 12 years with with me right um retiring this year is after 32 years of service so started when you were eight something like that um so this strong team of leaders behind me are going to show you um how how we carry out uh the core belief Bel of developing C civic-minded citizens and we'll show you the flexibility and choice as part of that from kindergarten through sixth grade as we develop our leaders our work is most closely connected to two of these bcsc core beliefs those two being that learning is most effective when we have Choice flexibility see relevance and that our community and School District are stronger when we partner with one another so our connection our goal is connected to these bcsc strategic objectives we believe that every student having Equitable access to learning growing and demonstrating success is deeply connected to their development of a strong work ethic and a sense of the value they bring to their classroom and school community Through classroom routines and structures and grade level and building-wide groups our staff work to remove barriers to participation so that every student has the opportunity to be a leader and see the ways that their hard work benefits their classroom and school Community some of the benefits of building a strong work ethic through school and Community connections we believe that through the responsibility of classroom and building-wide jobs students are able to see the Direct Value they bring as they help to make their classrooms and school and engaging environments where every student can learn they have the opportunity to partner with each other staff members and Community groups to work hard and participate in areas of high interest to them as students practice working hard at school our goal is for them to develop confidence in their role as Citizens so that they are excited about and prepared to volunteer in their Community many of our sixth grade students especially enjoy volunteering in the community as part of earning the mayor's work ethic certificate as we saw saw their excitement around that we considered what more we could do at Richards through grades K through six to prepare all students for that opportunity and for working and volunteering in their communities as they grow as you'll see in the video on the next slide we're highlighting these groups and these activities at Richards our students love having classroom jobs being building helpers joining gym crew being peer leaders in young champions and Community volunteering in sixth grade one thing I want to know as you watch the video the first student that is highlighted is a classroom greeter and you'll see her shaking Mr spr Strong's hand and in the video it doesn't come across how effusive she is with her greeting when you walk in that room she is immediately popping up meeting you at the door putting her hand out to shake your hand and saying Welcome to our classroom she has taken to that role loves it so much and is now training others in her classroom in that role as well [Music] my name is addessa um we're going around in collecting food for the homeless and and the people who in need um um because um the people are in need um they need help and they need and they need um food and water I like doing this cuz it's like trick-or-treating for other people we are Tak our to library it helps our books get down to the library hi I'm auri and my job is teacher helper um teacher helper is where we help um what will we help the teacher anywhere when she needs help or if we need to pass out papers we are the main um resource to where like if like anyone needs help or if or we need help ourselves the other teacher helper could help us and we have out the teacher these are our morning jobs uh we take the library books down to the LI Library um and I take down the breakfast count and then I take down like lunch money gym crew really improves students um ability to work with groups every every week we have to set up a certain activity for the for the whole school and it it requires a lot of um working together to be able to quickly set up those activities being in JY crew and applying is a very easy process and it will teach students how to improve their social skills and how to work together as a we are hi my name is m and I'm working towards the mayor's work ethics certificate I did two different um things for my community service and ended up getting 6.5 hours one thing I did was I rang a bell outside of Walmart and then I made cards for kids in the hospital for the holidays and me and my friend worked together for it and we both shipped our cards over there [Music] young champions is an opportunity for students to come together to support encourage and challenge each other as they learn new skills and then they're able to take what they learn about including others and being kind and be role models to their [Music] classmates thank you so much to Josh Bernett for so perfectly capturing the Civic Spirit of our Richards Raiders we appreciate his time and expertise so much here we have a couple snapshots of the of some things that didn't get into the video one is that um juvenile magistrate Britney long was able to come and talk to our sixth graders about um Civic engagement as an elect official and then um we have students being Library helpers students receiving the mayor's work ethics certificate from mayor linp last spring and then something um we do at Richards so we really want our students to get into the community to volunteer for their volunteer hours but there are barriers that some students have to getting into the community to get those hours so we provide opportunities at Richards um one of those is students sometimes help pack food bags for the food distribution that we do at school each week and they really enjoy that and then we also were lucky to have Dr Roberts come visit one day and get to get right into it with helping the students set up for young champions so we were happy to have him join us for that hi I'm Karen Allen I'm a special education teacher at Richards I'd like to talk a little bit about the connections that we've made between helping students build a strong work ethic and udl and PBIS udl short for um Universal Design for Learning is the framework that really guides everything we do in bcse uh udl allows all students to access and participate in curriculum and activities in the way that suits them best um it allows students to show what they've learn in the way that suits them best for udl to be successfully implemented it should should be implemented across the board at Richards we provide multiple means of Engagement representation and expression in the curriculum but we also provide multiple means of being an active part of the Richards community in our school different roles and jobs suit different children we try very hard to give all students the opportunity to learn the importance of a strong worth work ethic by contributing to the Richards community PBIS or positive behavior instructional supports is another uh foundational component of bcsc schools at Richards we have consistent behavioral expectations for all students in all School settings we provide direct instruction on these expectations and we um have a culture of positivity and accountability uh the connection between building a strong work ethic and PBIS is really a two-way street uh when students participate in the school Community by being helpful to others or by being responsible for part of the classroom or the building they experience engagement and empowerment that has a real positive influence on their learning in turn uh this sense of ownership and pride then helps Foster a stronger work ethic let me give you an example we have a student at Richards whom I'll call Jay Jay has has had a fair amount of trauma in his life and frankly his behaviors can sometimes reflect that um he's been known to leave the classroom without permission disrupt learning sometimes he hides um earlier this year we started enlisting Jay's help with some jobs around school their jobs any of us could very easily do their simple jobs easy jobs but we wanted him to start to experience the positivity of hard work and feeling ownership in our building and our school Community since we started that he's now asking for more jobs to do around the school and sure enough his behavior has really improved a great deal I we'd like to take this opportunity to thank our many partners with their contributions we are helping our students be their very best any questions for Mr sprong sure uh could you talk a little bit about the requirements and the achievements that lead to the mayor's work certificate work ethic certificate so students in sixth grade have the opportunity to earn that work ethics certificate and there are nine um characteristics that they need to meet and their teachers so their teachers for the year and any adults that work with them can consistently have to sign off so some examples and I don't know all of them just without seeing a list but some examples are um taking initiative completing their work in a timely fashion um practicing collaboration so if students are able to show that and then there all there are also requirements they need to have two hours of community service um they need to have 98% attendance and have shown growth academic growth throughout the school year to earn that certificate so it's open to all students in sixth grade and then leads to the chamber certificate in 8th grade and then the governor's work ethic certificate as high school seniors very good thank you questions what's the favorite job what's the job that all kids want to do at the I hope it's dishes no it's not dis it's probably delivering library books good any other questions no awesome great job thank you thank you okay comments okay we uh we're going to move on to public comments so um for for people who may not have been part of this process before when you come into a Schoolboard meeting there's always a blue sheet on the table in the back and if you wish to speak um during the board meeting you just need to sign in um so so people have done that our our process is you get three minutes um so there's a little timer up here that lets you know um how much time you get um and it will buzz when you're done and I'll ask you to step down I'll usually let you finish your sentence or your thought but we try to stay on the 3 minutes um if you're here with a group you can refer to a spokesperson or just say I agree with so and so and and and take your seat if that's what you wish to do um please don't use names of individuals students staff members or specific titles of roles it's kind of the same thing we just want to make sure we're making it a um inviting environment for everyone um and I think those are my highlights no cheers and deers so even if you really like what somebody said just tell them that afterwards um if you wouldn't mind okay so uh first first person who signed up tonight is Caleb sharp yep thank you Caleb good evening my name is g a junior at North and and I have high function in autism so I have somebody with me as well she she she's my mom and she was also so a student of Miss of of us once I was wondering if if that would really like the like that sorry not only I actually have two relatives though I can't really say the other person's name because that would be [Laughter] [Music] VY not only has she a great teacher she's also a great advocate for public education but apparently there's some people that want to destroy it I'd like to introduce to you said talk to you about Senate Bill 270 in the Indiana city house which provides that all School corporations who he to adopt a resolution for leving taxes via Opera taxes via an operating referendum or something after the 10th of May M who received from the levy was certain charter schools at all School group in all School corporations I don't think this is a good idea because it's a direct transfer of funds from the public school to the charter school put it down which in our case is the Liberty Academy de on 22nd Street near L Caesar I have a qu I have a question for anyone here if give me a moment if people people are so it turns out that the same school is a also advocates for the CC also uses the curriculum as a spouse by the hensdale college which is a which has been well known for its Ro in overturning public educ for advocating for for privatization of scho schools like and they're also stakes and also stakeholders in Project 2025 one more thing if anyone to watch Wheel for ar ar they might might know who Pat a is he's not only a well-known G host but he's but he's also their also Hill sales chairman of the Board of Trustees even though he was a good game show host he's not a really good human I'm sorry but he's not really a good human being a general thank you real quick Caleb's first time speaking in public so I think you did fantastic job and and mom mom is is Mom correct is there anything you want to add to Caleb's comments in terms of he takes care of it very good okay thank you so much appreciate it thank you Caleb okay all right um we have Crystal Pumphrey hi Crystal um my name is Crystal Pumphrey uh thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak I appreciate your time and I just have a couple of topics that I wanted to mention um with that being said uh I spoke at the last board meeting with the intent on speaking on the weather and how a few weeks ago it was 8° and the windchill or with the windchill and we still had school and I understand a lot of variables go into the deciding of if you cancel or delay but however instead I chose to speak on a book that I learned about during that meeting that is in our high schools when I spoke I went off of information that was provided during the meeting itself for that I apologize for my ignorance on the matter um please know that I am an avid book reader um and I finally read the book that was discussed and for speaking on a topic that I know nothing about I don't usually do that and I'm mad at myself for it um but however I have read the book and educated myself on the topic with that being said I personally don't think a book should be banned or removed from a school but I am a big believer in warnings and after purchasing the book and reading it I realized there are none on on this book and um with some of the information and topics that are inside the book itself um shame on the author for not putting something on the book itself um but also with that being said if there's going to be anything in a book especially one that's in our schools that could trigger somebody especially a child clarification anybody under the age of 18 is considered a child um I believe they need to be warned and it can be something simple as topics in this book may not be suitable for all for all readers that's a simple General warning that could allow the person who is getting the book the chance to understand that there may be something in that book that upsets them I'm not coming here to complain I simply just wanted to provide a possible simple solution for a controversial topic um whether anyone chooses to listen to my recommendation is their choice so um with that being said and with the few seconds remaining uh the last thing I wanted to mention is there is a video that is circulating and I didn't know if you guys were aware of not um are you aware that there's a video circulating from Columbus East High School that shows bed bugs in the carpet and if so um do you guys have a plan to solve this issue and uh prevention measures that might help as well thank you for thank you Crystal I appreciate it okay uh Amy hail hello my name is Amy hail um I'm a parent of bcsc students and I'm also a physician and I'm here tonight to voice my support for the Windrose mobile Health Clinic I think it was discussed at the last meeting um this is a great option both for preventative care and acute Health Care needs for students it will provide flexibility for parents and it will minimize time students spend away from school for appointments but most important in my opinion it will allow access to care for lowincome or uninsured students Windrose is a federally qualified healthc care clinic so what that means is it receives Federal funding to take care of um patients who may not be able to afford Healthcare otherwise um it provides care for medically underserved areas and populations and currently we don't have any Windrose clinics in Columbus so bcsc will benefit from the mobile clinic but this will be fully funded and operated by Windrose sounds like a real win-win to me and um I hope that you all will support this important initiative we all know that good health is essential for our students academic success thanks a lot thank you Miss hail okay that is all we had this evening in terms of public comments appreciate everybody coming out to share their thoughts with us okay next we have Dr ple good evening I request approval of three HR recommendations two were in your packet and one was at your table this evening for um this the third one here is the approval of Kathy Jackson as the principal at Rock Creek elementary school starting with the 2425 school year drers you want to take over I can do that um actually let's have the board go ahead and vote y so that we can then move into the next pieces so you have a recommendations for the human resources that does include Mrs Jackson as a principal at Rock Creek elementary school we would ask for your approval please I move that we approve the HR recommendations as provided by Dr ple which also includes the appointment of Mrs Jackson as the new principal at Rock Creek thank you Mr Gs have a second second thank you Mr Schultz any discussion amongst team okay all those in favor please say I I all those opposed say nay motion carries Dr B all right very good thank you for that approval uh Mr Jackson if You' please come to the podium and on your way up I'll talk about you so we do want to provide or offer congratulations to Kathy for her appointment to this position Kathy is a proud graduate of our school system Columbus East High School uh her experience uh with us um actually her first experience began at Franklin Community School Corporation as an art teacher but then she has been with us at Columbus North High School Northside Middle School and Southside Elementary School and Southside Elementary School uh since 2014 uh so is is is finishing her 10th year as assistant principal uh Kathy was recently recognized as the elementary assistant principal of the year for District 9 for or by the Indiana Association of School principles and when I mentioned she was a proud product of our school corporation she also attended Smith Clifty Creek at Northside before graduating from Columbus C so it's it's great to have a person come through our system uh become the person an educator that Kathy has and then give us the opportunity to reward her for that and and put her in a place an awesome place like Rock Creek elementary school so Kathy congratulations okay it is with joy gratitude and humility that I accept this honor of being the principal at Rock Elementary School thank you Dr Roberts Dr ple Dr hack the riew committee some of you here this evening and members of the board for your approval I could not be here today without the mentoring guidance leadership and friendship of many Educators along the way including Phil Miller my high school art teacher Pam milikin my former principal and Mentor in Franklin and Jeff bachmeier the principal of Southside Elementary School for the past 10 years Jeff has poured into me his knowledge guidance and support and as has prepared me for such a time as this my Southside Family of teachers support staff students and parents has helped hone my skills to become the leader I am today I am grateful for their support something you did not hear in the my in my bio is the fact that Rock Creek has been part of my life since 2001 when my oldest child entered there as a kindergartner and then I spent 14 years there until my youngest child made it through and completed sixth grade it was during that time that I learned Rock Creek has roots that run deep and their commitment to each other as teachers students and families is undeniable I look forward to being part of this tradition lastly as you can all see I may stand up here alone tonight but that's only because of those who have stood behind me alongside of me and sometimes even stood for Me Through The Years thank you to my support system my husband Robert my children Dakota and McKenna my daughter-in-law Haley and of course my mom she has always encouraged me to dream big and to follow those dreams and that is what I have done I remember when both of my children came out of the basketball tryouts from Rock Creek excited to share their news well now I too can say I made the team the [Music] Bulldogs [Laughter] congratulations all right some some good stuff tonight Mrs Wilden with Mrs watts and Mrs Jackson so again great to uh celebrate those those things on an evening like this thank you before we go to the next one and I tell you don't have additional human resource recommendations I would like to remind the people live on their crowd we are um still nominating teachers for teacher of the year we've been doing it for two weeks so far and they close on February 19th and as of today we have 365 nominations for teachers for teacher of the year so while you're here please tell your friends to please nominate thank you that's amazing than us the school board member reports okay D would you mind starting I do not have any okay I believe Mrs was covered Hall of Fame committee pretty well okay okay great Mr Gres uh a quick plug for the school Foundation uh the school Foundation did me I think the night after our last meeting but just to anyone here and anyone out there that might be watching or later or now um please please consider helping support teachers as they bring their creative ideas and projects to life for students through donor's choose which is a matching program through the school Foundation there are currently 13 projects um out there waiting for donations uh teachers from nine different schools there was a link in the last newsletter or you can go to bcsf stars.org to check that out and then um if I can follow my notes here and I'll try to keep this brief because this could go on for a long time the the Schoolboard Association report uh week four of the short session has just uh completed so we're approaching halfway through this short session the goal of the legislature continues used to be I believe Friday March Friday March 8th there were originally 116 K through 12 bills on the School Board Association watch watch list um and it looks like about a third of those are actually going to cross over to the second chamber um the third reading deadline to crossover Chambers is today in the house was today in the house and tomorrow in the Senate um just some quick bills of note Senate bill one which I talked about in the last meeting uh which isba supports the reading bill um has passed the third reading and we'll now move on to um we'll now move on to the house um two bills that I recently contacted Senator Walker about one that was Caleb just mentioned Senate Bill 270 which takes uh potentially U dollars raised through referendum through school corporations and shares It With Charter Schools and then also Senate Bill 146 which deals with um youth employment in the state of Indiana which many parts of are in direct conflict with with Federal legislation and then lastly um House Bill 1376 which was has been amended uh several times that um allows School corporations when they can put referendums on the ballot and so there's been a compromise um reached there but it has uh passed the third reading narrowly and is now also been uh moved on to the Senate so that's just kind of a quickie I think by the time our L next meeting March 4 things will be wrapping up up and we'll have a pretty good pulse on what it looks like we'll be dealing with moving forward thank you Mr GMS um for me I will cover that our superintendent position is posted that was a it went up last week um I haven't looked yet to see how many applicants we might have they will just continue to roll in is my um expectation and then the next um major part of the process for us is um that week of March fourth either a couple days before or after um the school board will meet with that University team and we will really organize ourselves around the interview process we'll select our questions we'll make sure we understand what that looks like and then interviews will take place the few weeks following spring break so that's kind of a high level what the next major steps are in that process um and then for my um committee assignments I'm on the uh County Redevelopment commission our first Mee for the year is on February 19th so I don't have anything to share here today Mr Stenner the uh districting and Facilities committee met last week uh Dr Boseman Dr Phillips used it as an opportunity to uh collect feedback and thoughts about next steps for Invision 2030 um and we have a meeting on on that topic coming up on the 19th so okay Mr maor yeah I want to just say for the Redevelopment commission there's nothing new but um I want to highlight Amy London shared some information with us on the Health Trust I did not see this until after she had mentioned it but the 2023 readers Cho Republic uh Readers Choice best family doctor for Columbus is our Dr Klein that serves the bcsc healthy clinic so it's it's a really good uh thing for us to have such a wonderful doctor here in inside of our health clinic serving uh so many people so I just wanted to make sure that that was highlighted and uh thank him for all the hard work that he does the nurses to support him and the staff and secretary as well so thank you Mr Brighton anything no okay we will move on to Old business no report sorry got ahead of myself Dr Phillips good evening thank you everyone I just have for you the uh quarterly Financial update and this wraps up all of 2023 is financials um and coming up here was just quicker because I could click myself and point to the highlights and move on um as you know we always budget revenues conservatively as in lower than what we would actually expect them to be um and that uh worked out in 2023 in that our actual revenues exceeded uh budget in the prior year for all three of our major tax supported funds as far as expenditures go of course the education fund is the largest of our expenditure categories we like to do the same here which is overestimate expenditures and try to come in under but as you know in um 2023 in the fall of 2023 um we we passed a a very strong contract with our Teachers Association and increased salaries there so we did exceed the salary and um budget by uh just a little bit um benefits were pretty much right on Target and the others uh the other category were uh very near expected on the operations fund side we also exceeded the budget uh for salaries and benefits again just by a a small margin um but again we have cash on hand um and you approv the additional Appropriations required to meet those uh to meet the um the needs in those categories in uh the other category which of course in operations is the the largest category since we do so many um facilities work and purchase so much equipment um from that side um we also came in u under budget in that category um this is just a summary of all of our debt service expenditures for 2023 um and we put I put the prior year on there too for you as well just to uh have a a point of comparison you will um you know note at the bottom that we were just under about 2 9 million uh more in expenditures in 23 compared to 22 you'll see at the end that some of that as has been the case for the last three years has been from existing cash balance so some of it's from additional property tax revenue with increased assess value because our tax rate actually went down uh from 22 to 23 um but because assess value went up we were able to um make our payments and use some of the the cash balance to do so as well Mr Phillips Dr Phillips go back yeah I like this slide because of the maturity dates that you have included in there and I think with it's that relationship to what we're doing with our facilities project kind of tells the story there because we have eight I believe uh that are that are maturing by 27 and and a ninth one by 29 which is within the the time frame of our of our project between now in 29 so that's correct so thanks for yeah thanks for sharing that on the operating uh referendum side uh again we also exceeded the budgeted amount for the teacher uh I put most salary and benefit together on this slide broke these up into the basically the main four categories that were spending operating referendum money for the teacher benefits and salaries for their increases are there just um ahead of budget again we had a lot of lot more people reached that fiveyear um threshold to start receiving those dollars um which is a good thing and means that that the operating referendum is at least to a certain extent successful um I will point out that we were um well behind the previous year under the security safety security and wellness category and that's simply because of the timing of when we paid for buses so still the same purchases that we expected it was just a timing issue there um on digging into the operating referendum just a little bit this is a slide I've used for the last uh couple of years uh over the course of calendar year 2023 we had more than 540 teachers that qualified for the retention increases due to the operating referendum those teachers averaged more than $9,400 in additional salary that's actually down a little bit from the previous year as far as the average goes because we had a lot more people reach that $5,000 threshold as opposed to the larger uh 10 or $15,000 threshold after their 10th 15th year of service with bcsc so we had more teachers qualified but the average was just a little bit lower for those folks um and more than 1,200 classified staff averaged more than $1,100 in increased salary in 2023 due to the operating referendum and these other two categories are the same as they have been in in previous years just to just pointing out um you know it were it not for the operating referendum what would we need to do the operating referendum between teachers and classified staff um contribute an additional 6.3 million and increased employee salaries that does not include these stem teachers this is just an increased pay for the existing staff if we didn't have that operating referend in place we would need to find 5.2% cut in the operating or uh education Fund in order to uh to fill that gap which as you on the education fund side since we're you know 96 to 98% salaries and benefits that means cutting staff this is a new slide uh that we put together for you um I do we do track this often this is from the um Indiana emplo education employment Relations Board report available on the Gateway website um the state's average salary here is um tracked in the middle in on the black line and you can see that prior to operating referendum we trailed that by $3 to $4,000 depending on the the year um for 1920 and 2021 after implementing the operating referendum we surpassed the state average by nearly $4,000 per teacher and that has grown even more in 2223 were it not for the operating referendum if we took those salaries out of all of those teachers um for the same report that we submit we would go back to being um you know between two and uh $23,500 behind the average State teacher salary and this is just a summary of the entire year I pointed to this um earlier and said that we would talk about the fact that we are reducing our our cash balance in The Debt Service funds and again um I've said this before but you don't live it so I'll just say it again quickly as older debt rolls off older debt we were allowed to keep f 50% of the next year's payment in cash balance when when older debt retires and newer debt comes on we're only allowed to keep 15% and so every District that had those cash balances in place is currently reducing slow the the uh cash balances that were in uh were in place for your debt service funds and so we were just at that about uh just over 65 million uh between those two funds combined at the beginning of last year of 23 and uh are closer to the $5 million $5 million total Mark at the end of 23 um on the education fund side I want to point out that this slide looks differently than your packet I apologize I included our tax anticipation warrant principle repayment in this number the 89.5 million initially so it is now accurate on the slide in front of you um I mentioned before on the very first slide revenues exceeded our budget they exceeded our budget by more than usual because of what we talked about back in January um significant increase in the interest earned on our cash that is invested during the course of the year and so largely for that reason both in the education fund and the operations fund um the cash balance actually increased in spite of us exceeding our budget for salaries and benefits um operations you might remember for the last two years we have budgeted about a million and a half more in expenditures than we expected to bring in in cash and yet for both of those years we brought more revenues in than expenditures so strong uh from a financial perspective there uh up in all of our major tax supported funds with the exception of The Debt Service fund which I explained earlier happy to answer any questions about the 23 financials if you have any Mr Gs I've got one one observation and one question and I just the observation I just want to say thank you for the slides on the in regards to the referendum particularly the line graph that quite obviously demonstrates the importance and significance of the referendum um and then my question is on the chart the and I hope that I haven't I hope I don't sound foolish here and I missed something but the rainy day um the the curriculum materials did that that money got shifted from rainy day to cover the shortage of curriculum materials that the corporation does not charge parents for now is that correct or we have not transferred any funds that would have been in 24 that was for calendar year 2024's budget and to to date I haven't I haven't transferred anything not had to happen my intention obviously from a cash standpoint we're in a healthy place as a school district my intention would be as we look at the the 2025 budget this fall is to bring that back in front of you with those options again and say you know we're nine months into the year now what's your preference for covering that $250,000 transfer thank you you're welcome good question any other questions D so I you know I like graphs anyway but just to reinforce what Mr Grimes just said that that line graph really does show the benefit that we got from the referendum that's that's powerful thank you I had a question on the next slide actually oh not that one um when we're talking about rainy day funds and I'm looking at all in reality is our rainy day fund and just for the audience in my better understanding is that the secondary level of because you have cash balances in each of these supported buckets so in reality it's almost a second tier of rainy day fund support am I looking at that correctly you're exactly right most most districts and I would do the same if I'm going to if I'm going to look at what is our emergency Reserve I'm going to consider the education fund cash balance operating referendum fund cash balance operations and rainy day those for The Debt Service funds are not you you can't touch those they're obviously committed to paying on your obligations but those other those other funds combine those dollars and that's the cash available to make up for any unexpected um emergency we can and do often times budget for um expenditures using some of this cash we will we will this year because of the the contract that we passed but we don't at least in this District traditionally have not ever budgeted any R rainy day funds with one exception since I've been here and I think the only advice is on the rightand side even after the balance it would be great to see the percent of anticipated spin for the next year and what do we have on cash on hand so for example right from my knowledge of the education fund is somewhere north of 80 million so you're somewhere shy of 10% but I believe in operations you're going to be somewhere close to 40 or 50% so just as we all see we can then look at what what reserves do we have on hand against the anticipated expenditures we'll do thank you thank you Dr Phillips no I'm sorry thanks the uh following up on Mr schul comments it looks to me like if we got about 30 million and in and outs 150 each year that's about 20% as you talked to your peers uh in conferences and Association meetings it's 20% about the right number do we have any idea if it's too high or is it too low that's a good question um every districts are all over the place when it comes to this money and honestly I'll just say that I'll tutor on horn when it comes to the operations money we are very transparent about the fact that there's now you know $14.3 million in there um there's easy ways to obligate that money and and carry forward unexpended dollars from the prior year as an obligation and then have it not look like that it's available cash um we don't we don't play those games um my predecessor who most of you know Dr Silva used to say to me uh the goal is not to finish the year with the most money in the bank it's the the goal is to invest the most funds in our kids learning and so I do believe that um again that's why in operations the last two years we have um passed a budget of million and a half dollars more than expected revenues um to start drawing that balance down and it just hasn't come to fruition so I do believe that we're in a comfortable place now and probably have a a slightly higher than the average cash balance across the state making some assumptions based on numbers that I've seen um but I do think that because of the co year when people didn't expend as much operationally and assistance from Esser funds most districts across the state do have significantly higher cash balances than they did prior to 2020 and then the the followup we can see here the beginning of 23 and the last day of 23 are there any stress points during the calendar year at which you start to worry about the balance in any of these funds yes almost always in uh in June and December when we have to make our debt payments and the county hasn't distributed our property tax payment to us yet um again we we could make we could make our June payments for sure but it's it's one of the reasons that I stress this that property taxes are the most stable um way for us to make obligations particularly towards our debt and um the reason that we do carry significant cash balances because twice in the last decade we've had significant interruptions to the the economy and both times has resulted in a dramatic one time a dramatic decline in the education fund revenues and then the next time a delay in property tax uh during Co property tax distributions thank you Dr Phillips um Dr Boseman Mr Williams all right good evening thank you for giving us a few minutes to update you on bcse technology so our mission in technology is to create flexible productive universally designed environment that responds to the needs and challenges of all of our stakeholders and we do support uh everybody who walks onto a bus to the classroom to cafeterias uh we do see the entire District so it's quite diverse uh I have my team here with me tonight uh who we will kind of share this presentation but breny cumer is in charge of educational technology Brian is in charge of Technology operations and all three of us now are on kind of the the biggest state boards for these different groups um and I think are the only we're the only District now that has representation in all three which just means a lot more uh access to resources and just kind of General Knowledge from the state and we have a fantastic team uh across the district that are listed there so if you look at our Network and kind of our infrastructure it's big it's one of the biggest in the county we have over 2,000 staff members that we take care of uh over 12,000 student accounts and we also support a lot of parents sometimes um we do have also a 247 monitored Network and we manage over 70 systems so a system could be anywhere from like a power school to Skyward to parent Square uh and a learning management system and then finances uh we haven't talked a lot about this before but there's some changes this year that I'd like to point out uh we on average have around 3.5 million as an annual budget outside of personnel costs it takes about a million dollars a year to sustain student devices and that is new devices for every first Fifth and ninth grader and one of the changes is that the 12th graders the seniors now get to take their device home that's been a request from uh ibtech local colleges for quite a while uh and this is the first year of the seniors having uh touchscreen Chromebooks that were able to send those home so that's exciting um and it would be a four-year cycle that we replace them on and I think all all in all including laptops iPads it's about 1.5 that we end up spending total on devices and then over the last 5 years and again being on these committees and uh boards help is that we've had over 2.5 million in Grant money come into the district uh which has included all of these things and the most recent one uh is family engagement one that breny got um so we're excited about that but it is funded a lot or at least helped funded a lot over uh The Last 5 Years and this has been a big year for us um so nationally Dr Roberts was awarded last spring the 2023 empowered superintendent of the Year this was uh kind of a joint Award with this National superintendent Association and the national technology educational technology organization so that was really cool and then just a few weeks ago bcse was spotlighted in the 2024 National edtech plan for our work around udl so that was really exciting as well it's the first educational Tech plan since uh 2019 so it's been quite a while since they've released one and we got a full page highlighting our work in CSC all right I'm going to pass it off to BR hello everyone and good evening happy Monday I'm super excited to talk to you tonight about the connections between our uh strategic plan and really how our learning management system supports that so we have a very udl focused approach with what we do and what I'm going to talk to you about are the edtech pieces that really help our teachers and our students meet those high expectations and support all the diverse Learners that we have in our our classrooms so a few years ago we were doing a lot of remote learning if everyone remembers that and in the midst of that remote learning uh I got an email from our learning management system at the time that said by the way we're going to be leaving the United States Market in 5 years um so farewell so I remember going to Dr Roberts and saying okay what are we going to do and we started a process to select our replacement for that and honestly I'm glad that it's learning gave us some time because that allowed us to have a year of reviewing getting feedback from all these different groups including parents classified staff a range of teachers and all of those different staff members who support our students and that that also gave us year last year to train all of our staff on this new learning management system which is canvas and to migrate their content because we had its learning for about eight years so there was a lot of stuff there to move over so this has been our first year using canvas and it's gone really really well I have some examples on there of just some of the wonderful things our teachers are putting in those courses we use this K through 12 um and we have a lot of exciting features in canvas that it's learning kind of had some of them but not all of them and I think we kind of had outgrown its learning so it's nice to see some of these features that we had wanted for some time all in this one system a number of them include supports for our U multilingual Learners we have translation supports accessibility tools all baked in to that system there's the ability to have the elementary interface for our Primary students so that the buttons are bigger it's easier for them to navigate that system and there's a much more uh robust mobile app that goes along with canvas as well so we have many training opportunities as well I have just some screenshots I was able to cram onto this slide and I was like oh gosh that's probably a lot but um we have lots and lots of training opportunities for staff in the district to learn about canvas partly because we're firm Believers that we have a lot of different learning preferences and our students and our staff also have those different needs and strengths and want to learn at their own own pace in their own flexible ways so we've provided sessions on every District PD day for the last two years we've given staff the opportunity to learn at their own pace in staff baced canvas courses um summer professional development opportunities workshops Hands-On things and I always like to give away prizes and things as well so the most recent one we did was 12 days of tech and I actually need to go through and pick all the Prize winners for that but it's also just to give staff the opportunity to learn and grow and get a nice little prize for their efforts so that has really lent itself to the crazy high usage we've had in canvas in our first year um we have 96% student engagement in canvas each week and it's been on an upward trend on the graph every single week which is insane it's super exciting we were close to that in our last few years with its learning but definitely not in our first year at that usage uh and then what's really exciting for our Middle School and High School teachers and students and staff and parents is that the canvas grade book can sink over to our power teacher Pro grade book which is something something our secondary teachers have begged for for years and I'm so glad that we were able to deliver on that with canvas so next up I'm going to give this over to Brian thank you all right so it seems like every year we have some sort of system that comes online as Nick was alluding to we have quite a few that we manage maintain that we really hope support the staff and educ educational outcomes for students so one I was talking about for this year that we've started curating and working with the high school specifically is called performance matters and it's really like a data warehouse it's pulling all the data in from power school and it is allowing us to see for here on this example students that have some at risk potential um early warning indicators are showing you can see a little demonstration here of attendance rates of failure of courses of Behavioral incidences so what this is allowing our high school corts to do is really drilled down and see what students might need some supports and uh maybe some interventions earlier on so they can support these students and have just a better educational outcome for everybody as they're working through their High School uh careers and getting to that graduation Finish Line and then kind of one more thing with the uh kind of supporting the district's strategic plan especially the safe piece is we focused a lot over the last year and a half or so on cyber security so what we've been utilizing as a we have a cyber security task force in the IT department that we use what is called the center for Internet Security or CIS controls as a framework where we looked at our practices and compareed them to what is recommended for Best Practices as far as cyber security and trying to obviously reduce incidents reduce vulnerabilities and just really secure our uh uh internal and external facing systems and and really our staff as well to just make it as tight and secure as possible um we have a team that meets monthly we go through these cyber security framework pieces and see what people have done what people are working on and if they've completed something what's the next step in cyber security that we're going to be pursuing so some of the 2023 things that we've done we've uh updated our backup system and we are in the process of getting yet another way to have an off-site backup a air gapped backup if you will that is constantly being scanned for vulnerabilities for potential things that we want to keep obviously off of our systems and uh keep our data safe and our students and our staff safe as well we conduct self- fishing which is basically trick emails is what it is to our staff it gets it to um so we work through that if you get through it that's great um if you click on it there's a little message says sorry you might need some little more training on that we do provide training uh to various schools for fishing and other cyber security initiatives um we do tabletop exercises which is just essentially taking a real life example and working through that process to say what will we do at 8:00 a.m.
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M Dr her here Mr Grio here Mr chair you have a quum bud United States stands godible andice for all audience seeing none let's move to number three review policies we have a drafted dis affility policy and E diversity so the first ad some discussion at the board level and concern that perhaps you they didn't want to do anything to stifle participation or anything which you know from where I sat I'm not not sure what in the language might given that opinion or given that concern rise to that concern because I think you know there are some points as a matter of fact where it explicitly encourages public discourse and things like that so this was one version the uh other item that I just handed to you was this the civility policy um and it focuses on students but um a lot of what you see in our policy uh that was drafted like I said about five years ago is a derivative of what you see in this student civility policy uh I think the major difference being that uh the the draft that we had encompasses students staff and Community participation I think other thing I think is um this got reviewed again right after uh the incident at Highland with uh a public meeting there really I that's a panel discussion with the governor and others that was uncivil U which I think might have might have led people to think that this was some sort of uh direct relationship to that but kind of was just bad timing I think that was that was my initial reaction when I was reading it cuz I've been out of the out of the thought that that was addressing that yeah this was drafted actually before that ever happened and then it was reviewed shortly after that happened I think and then or brought guess revived maybe is a good word and then there so I think tonight's meeting is more or less to get a pulse on this civility policy I will add one component um the I know our board is proud of the C recognition award that's been issued in the last two years uh for for which recognizes board leadership uh there's a it's kind of quirky that there's in essence a civility policy would uh qualify us for the next level of recognition from them I don't say that because we're chasing down civility like chasing down Awards like we're needy or something but um I think it reflects that you know this is part of their definition for Quality board leadership and that's why I bring it up not not because I'm I'm going to write my diary that we got the gold star from C so we don't have anything really there's nothing like this I mean I guess there's um a community relations policy to a degree that talks about conduct on school property I think that's we looked like what's the the closest part of this W which does it's not uh wildly different it talks about you know based on aboveboard expect no person on school property or at school event to injure threaten harass intimidate staff member curse and and use obscenities disrupt or threaten you know damage or threaten property um damage or to face District property violate Connecticut Law smoke or other use tobacco products be under the influence of alcohol illegal drugs Etc so this one is is ours we don't have a policy right now well who's is this is the one a draft that a civility code following a possible District civility policy yeah that was a draft that we had done years ago then there's a a student cility policy con cave community relations that's the one I'm and then so those are the two that we're looking at right now I the right two in front of me yeah the community relations one um you know you could in effect I guess call this a civility policy it's um I would I would say ours is is similar to it um Without Really encouragement of discourse I mean I think ours our draft goes a little further in terms of encouraging conversation and stuff I'll make a copy Carol is this that there was that in the policy that's just an just we didn't okay that makes sense all right so it looks like the draft that we're looking at has a lot more to it than just oh yeah because the expected standards that promote a POS climate that interfere Poss so what were we look looking at when we drafted all of this um well I think it was taken from the King for the most part but I think part of it uh is hard to argue that there there hasn't been in society an uptick uh behavior that could be categorized as less than civil and um this was meant to to be uh a part in part uh an educational tool in part a statement uh about why the board feels it's important to model Civility and then you know lastly a place to turn if conduct was becoming uncivil is a again to educate whoever was involved and you know I think what's a little unique about about this is we do include uh staff as well um I wouldn't say that you know we're infallible you know we make mistakes too and so if there's uh any party who's feeling like our staff is being less than civil than it could be addressed that we as well obviously then for a staff member as it indicates in this policy there are other considerations you know in terms of our Progressive discipline and whatnot so Jeff is uh is the idea here to have this apply to students and to staff and to parents who communicate with staff I think it's just general members of the school Community people that are Eng you that which would be student staff and parents know students and staff kind of have their own set of rules too right because it seems like a lot of this would be like in the student hand blog yeah or let's say a code of contact for employees MH so is that what you did is it's just lifted out of there and place into this it's kind of a hybrid yeah is it not standard procedure to have page numbers on Doc um actually it's not weird but for need the for any of like we don't in our board policy well the a BC are the page numbers so if there's a is page one B is page2 go so you'd have that in the cave model policy yeah but these ones aren adoped from cave then they don't have so it's both this in effect already how about it say um I I think there there's this has more detail about steps to take when an individual is not being civil um I think there's there's a lot more me on this than anything that we have today uh Carol just made a copy of other cave conduct policy I mean I would consider this the skeleton and you know the the civility policy a little bit needier and then the draft policy to be the most you know fully developed in terms of what sort of behavior are we looking for why is it important to engage civil what happens when somebody is not being civil you know terms of what steps should be taken to to resolve that whereas this is really like just don't do this you know don't right don't break things don't it's just that the the activities that are listed under unle conduct are basic sort of unruly behaviors so are we now categorizing them to be penalized in a different way um I don't I I don't know that there's there are no uh identified consequences in here uh specifically like if you get tapped is being unmil what happens then I I think what this says is you try and mediate that with somebody and try to resolve it if you think I'm being un civil you know Carol could mediate between us to try and resolve the issue wouldn't that happen already um I don't think there's any place that spelled out that I know that there's not so that's what I mean in terms of it's the most robust um but I think you know is part of good practice out try do that I think he would be I mean yeah the school district has existed for 100 years yeah whatever yeah more 300 years more than 100 this building itself is this is 112 years old so been around a l yeah so I I I like the idea of having a civility code and I wouldn't want it to have consequence activity spelled out in it because the minute you cify that you have to stick to it and there there different levels of being unil and different circumstances and you want to have flexibility to deal with them in an appropriate way but I I like the idea of having civility code that's spelled out so that we can you know this is what we're about we're going to lead the way so I mean there are definitely other districts you have well that was my next question so do we know like is it pretty common practice for I can check the area districts if wom who doesn't I don't know I can't tell you how common it is I think it's it's enough so that c is indicating that you know it would be a standard of right that level of leadership within board so yeah I do agree with Jeff it's been practice to have some sort of model to go by and re establish norms and so forth our students and staff so why not a generalized Norm for how we should do business so to speak you know kind of setting its own for exactly Community engagement I mean we've we've definitely had to work through processes of these with not many with some parents um so what are we because I'm new to it policy as am I um so what are we supposed to do with this so um this is a little atypical in the sense that I mean not that this is the first time we've ever encountered a policy that's not a legal mandate but often times you know we'll see a legal mandate or you know like the um the policy we're working on with respect to adopting of our city sport so like with that you know like all right this is we're we're here for this outcome here that was kind of straightforward we had a really good productive conversation around that in our last meeting but uh this is um really kind of open-ended in the sense that there's no defined script that you have to adopt there's no um I we don't have a lot we have a couple of options in front of us today I'm hearing that it might be beneficial to have a couple other options from adopted District cability policies to to go by uh which we could provide but at that point I think we could say all right if we're committing to a stability policy you know often times we've had these conversations about well I love the language from this but I love that part of this one and we do this kind of amalgamation of of different uh existing policies and we craft our own um that we then you know put before the board for consideration and I think that's kind of like what we're looking at with these guys both of these policies I just would be really interested to see if if like we're talking about other districts having like a onepage policy or you know five pages is kind of the standard yeah this ability draft um is a little lengthy it is a little likely you know I think you could probably be reflect the same sort of guidance and tone in less words um I don't know that I have a problem with it I'm just wondering sort of what do other people say yeah what do people have what do you I kind of like it yeah I I like that it sets up clear expectations without handcuffing the administration on on recourse um I think it's all good I think you know do you all have a civility civility code I'm sure we do I'm sure you this this is more you know this is just I think guidance about how we hope to treat each other and if things aren't working how can we hand to be more productive it's it doesn't not at all meant to stifle engagement uh to the contrary it's meant to make engagement more meaningful yes so does it stay in draft for now or are we well we can't move it forward because we haven't had a board meeting since our last policy meeting we're going to move those forward so this is all for review I think we could do first readings we just can't the other ones if we wanted to I don't know if we're going to move on yeah we're looking at other policies but it's up to you my only other comment would be is that this reads like a combination of policy and administrative action seems to me like anything pass guidance for School Employees that should not be in this that should be part of the administrative part CU that it's that's more about how it be implemented and that's kind of what you would do after you have the policy right so you get rid of that all of a sudden you're at a page and a half you know because it you know the first page and a half lays out you know what it is and then everything else is expectation and mediation rules and you know I mean maybe you could pick up some of it um I hear what you're saying I mean it is in um part of some other policy too some similar language I'm not saying maybe that's wrong and just because we were wrong someplace else doesn't mean we should be wrong here but you know I can look at it I mean I don't know if we normally have that kind of detail in a policy I would say it's Unique if you changed any of these mediation tactics then we'd have to change the policy when normally if it's just administrative action you're just changing it right so talking about the expected standards that promote a positive School climate and the behaviors that interfere with the c of school climate I don't think those are the same as on the fourth page so that's why I need to pay on the fourth page is where we talk about the following steps can occur at unacceptable Behavior but I I think that I would add to you said we could cut up here on page two but I I like having at least the expected standards and and just here are some examples of what we're talking about if we're going to go out and fish other uh policies the other thing I could do is ask the policy Guru at C to look at our draft policy they've not reviewed ours they've reviewed theirs created a boiler plate so I could ask yeah that' be good them to do that too sure these are just suggestions that because I'm hearing a couple of things like I'd like to see a couple other examples and you know feels like it' be tighten up I yeah yeah I maybe could I think it could probably say as much by saying less maybe in terms of the volume um and then your point about at what point does it become stop being policy and start being precedure that um as much as I I think there's a lot of benefit in having some of the you know what would happen next in here there's different place or it could be set a different way Jeff if you take off what Adam said procedure portion where does that lie and just so that one could reference yeah it could be a regulation perhaps and I think that's where I would be Consulting cave on on their guidance on this between their attorney and policy person would some of this be considered regulation versus policy or recommend it all be embedded in policy that's what some the so I think this happened uh when we worked on our policy when it was 26 pages long or whatever it was there was a lot of that administrative action there and then when it was gone through by um the wonderful woman I forget her name or was it was it attorney I forget who it was back gold yeah yeah to trim that down and made it you know yeah man we like a lot better so could be the same thing five pages yeah I like up to the point of I mean I'm all forly you know spelling out what next steps are but I think policy should be a bit generalized and give you or Administration flexibility to yeah follow I definitely appreciate those points too that that you know we don't want to tie our hands either by doing that is that are we potentially doing so I wouldn't want to do that too because I think we you know the more creative we're pered be in terms of resolving issues the better the potential Solutions so but I appreciate that it does call out that at least take steps to have some restorative action prior to a punitive yeah you know yeah we we definitely want to solve problem yeah for you know we considering so I'll be honest some of the procedures in here sound familiar to things that have occurred over the years they and resolutions that have happened we learn from uh challenges yes so yeah so it feels like yeah we have processes in place well the language is careful the following steps can occur yeah they may or may not have occurred it feels like the Preamble the uh uh what's the show Law and Order yeah so just to be clear this is for this is not this this does not pertain to board meetings right inter you know treasure public school meeting too now you're given a lot of latitude and I think part of what happens in um and I I don't know maybe this needs to be expli explicitly written in there I expect you know a teacher to not have to tolerate the same sort of uh ey that I may tolerate um or the board May tolerate or in the classroom or in the school right no I'm talking about like if we're at town hall right like examples that in previous years where uh Tony would have read off the the policy referred to yeah and then it's up to the chair to run the meeting and yeah decide the tolerance it's the chair latitude where this might be a little more constrictive I don't think so I don't think it's constrictive you know based on what's in here right now yeah that's that other policy is going to dictate What's happen you know when we're having that that be my concern you know let the people speak yeah until they get two rowy yeah I mean you get three minutes has the G of course three minutes and then you know and I know we've we've shown a lot of attitude in the interest of you know soliciting public feedback and I think that's a great thing you know when time permits where things have gotten actually in my recollection it wasn't ever really the person at the podium that caused the issue it was chirping from the peanut gallery when the person at the podium there was that one time maybe there were a couple of incidents so but I I you know this is uh this is I'm not hearing and I and I would never proposed a policy it's like how do we curtail public criticism and that's not what this is um this is just encouraging people to engage productive criticism to find positive outcomes you know swearing at the board chair um you know you might be given a certain degree of latitude in a board meeting swearing at your teacher in parent conference should I see this applied in in that environment where you know it's a parent teacher transaction or administrator transaction sure um I'm say you know public yeah discourse would be another thing so that's another item that we can you know uh I like I said we have a policy that sort of deals with that already other policy versus regulation the other District other districts so we can pull those things together for our next meeting um and have them ready to go unless you want you know if you want to move this forward still out there for first wait to see what else doesn't feel fully baked yeah pry I wouldn't yeah I wouldn't suggest it was it's up to you guys okay all right is everybody okay with this here this ability that we're moving on to the next item I'm just thinking in terms of when it goes to the full board do we want everybody sort of in on the process for this one because it's not standard the language dealing with should we bring them in a little bit sooner yeah it's really what the three readings are designed to do so we'll we'll draft um if you know rather than typically what we'll do is send the minutes to the policy committee to the whole board you know as part of the packet and um some people read it with a lot more depth than others um based on time or whatever they got going on that week or whatever what we can do in this case uh you know for the recommendations is to single it out and send it to the full board and say which may be appropriate for the next item we're going to discuss as well okay uh which is I see you're wanting to segue no no it just seemed like a perfect time to segue I'm happy to talk about civility all day I don't want to be on civil so so for the next meeting you'll bring draft once you do the F we'll bring the uh other policies will'll bring clarification on this and you know if there's an obvious update from cave about what we should do with cability I would just make the modifications if they say oh no no no this perfect the way it is then probably report that back too um trouble with your copy Mach getting double copies copies in between oh get get BL copies speed that it printed out too so this is there are two here there's a CPS draft Equity policy on the top it's got the yellow highlight version on it and then about four or five pages in there's one that says Cade version yeah so this is our draft is the yellow highlight correct it's not yellow on it's gray can tell it's see be the color copy SC so Jeff where do these definitions come uh the C policy version wonder where the C right yeah but where does c get legal team yeah they they do policy itself great okay thank you for [Applause] I want you to yeah they're pretty similar you know language is a little bit different different I think just kind of a different tone my question would be just what are we currently doing what are the practices that we're doing that speak to some of these already sure school choice what I'm sorry school choice yeah school choice but I think are you thinking that we would put some of that into the policy no I'm just trying to see like what we can highlight that we do that speak to some of these points already with regards to yeah I guess school choice would be an example of that's opening access for you know different diverse groups sure um but also exposing our students to more diverse yeah but how how are also we educating our staff you know what are we doing right now yeah as far as strategic planning we right did that had professional development all throughout last year members of those teams work at the building level uh to exam practices and support growth I mean the simple fact of Are We translating documents for various you know subgroups and yeah access is probably the the base right like you don't do that I mean come on that you that is something that we've uh focused on to make sure that you guys know we have a real diversity of languages in our school system and um we last year started subscribing to service that families can engage with the teacher through any language really just set up a an effect like a Google meet let's say and you can speak in any language uh through a translator it's been really effective to engage families that are native English speakers yeah and I know like Mar has said we're trying to build capacity with instructional s up practices too so that's I'm just saying there are points in here that we are doing that we can highlight or is there anything else to kind of elevate the other areas that may not you know sure it's definitely something that we need to improve upon um in terms of not just the you know during black history M will do presentations and things like that but that's I think that's token yeah surface level yeah and just the same way I would think that translating documents into somebody's native language like the presentation is Meaningful to kind of token level um how do we really be conscious about supporting diverse Learners that comes through some of the more engaging professional development that we've done so this is in draft as well what does that mean in terms of how is this meeting um what's what's the T So this guy uh before you is a draft that the policy committee could amend in any way uh that they see appropriate uh or you could just say you know what this is I like this version of the draft why don't we put it forward to the board you know Jeff send it to all the board and see if there individual points of feedback to you know something like that and we come back and review it because this would go because it's a first reading it could go on the board agenda for next Thursday if you wanted to move this one forward we can't move the other ones forward that we've already that had has gone to the board yet but we've already discussed the policy I know so how would any of this be enforcable and measurable because there's a lot of proactive language a lot of enforcement there's a lot of eliminating can you give me an example um well paragraph two we have uh CPS Educators be proactive in elevating their understanding and responsiveness to students backrounds Etc um yeah what does that look like there's also under educational Equity eliminating racial or cultural predictability and dis disproportionality per yeah that um that one's easy easier to do than to say right I mean you know including rates of graduation our rate of graduation is like 97% sure so but I'm not sure how that's applicable to to us so exactly educational iy piece I think from a a data perspective you guys have seen when I shared data points um we do look at U or certainly when we get into grer even even greater detail at curriculum committee where we're diving into subgroups um spite High needs students students receiving special education services uh different uh racial backgrounds you know today I'm call with the state about our right to read we LED with a graph that showed uh students that were black or biracial you know their trajectory of success on our reading um so disaggregating data uh based on different subgroups is something that we do and remain conscious of as we close a achievement gaps uh you know I've certainly been vocal about um our efforts to close High needs achievement gaps and and the work that our team has done there quite successfully so that one's a little that one's a little bit more straight forward in terms of proactive and elevating their understanding um I think when you say uh for teachers how are we doing that I think as a district we can remain proactive and that's probably easier to measure than individual teacher proactiveness in terms of lesson design right so because I like I I have a lot of notes Here sure and a lot of and I end up writing PD extra PD right so is that stuff that is happening currently does it take the form of the training that we were exposed to during our um uh what is it our retreat in 2021 where we uh received that uh sort of high level overview of what could be being taught to our or trained to our teachers or is it take a different form or because there there seems to be a lot in here sections D and E seem to deal with HR issues um and some of the S I'll tell you he guided by State Statute uh as well right so in terms of you know employment uh you know some of that's Guided by State Statute Mark Mark asked the question before about um and here it talks about uh you know being considerate of uh vend District shall promote the diversification of its vendor and supplier Court in accordance with law and District policy so by law we set La yeah yeah so you know we're required to do that stuff right so some of this in here is just following statute some of it is some of it is yeah I think some of it is aspirational uh in directed to uh from the board to community and administration to um engage in practices that provide Equitable outcomes for kids that's I see this more so is that policy it's um like I said aspirational and directive to the um Administration to engage in practices that support more applicable outcomes for all students I mean the short answer is it's really hard to measure yeah well I mean through data uh outcomes are easy to measure you know the outcomes that we have available to us we do have a lot of data and you know we are very intentional about you know pulling data from a variety of sources um and evaluating that data [Music] so outcomes are easier than intentions or practices that so for example um section D talks about providing e equitable distribution of resources opportunities facilities and supports even when it means differentiating resource allocations on the basis of student needs does that mean that that paragraph um handcuffs us uh from a budgetary point of view like what is that what does that mean when there's a an equitable distribution of resources sure so what that means to me whether it's articulated well or not what that means to me is that um resources are uh provided based on you and we already do not equal we don't we don't yes we and and I would say that you know there are some people that are of the belief um that's just take the number of kids in a building divide it into a resource pool and that's how much every Elementary School gets so regardless of circumstances in the building you know every Elementary School gets four bucks a kit and that's the budget right well we don't do that we don't we don't it's the difference between equality and Equity right so what we look at is you know when we we're looking at certain things like you know uh mental health supports and uh you know that's a perfect example you there's uh there are demographic differences between our elementary schools um there are massive size differences between our elementary schools you know um we're not going to say every Elementary School gets one one counselor because it's equal you know we look at what the needs are within a building uh both demographically and through enrollment and we um provide Equitable resources rather than equal resources so is that a practice that we currently engage in as a school system yes um does is there uh there District policy that tells us to do that no it's good practice but would this restrict what you currently do no no it it it articulates what we're currently do this is all it does it doesn't doesn't restrict it in any way I I certainly wouldn't want to propose anything that limits what I consider to be the good practices that we already engage in in um the section e um when it talks about Staffing process yeah um is that an as is this an aspirational statement or because I know for years you talk about trying to hire essentially non-white teachers yeah um and you've had a hard time doing so um and so is this just more codifying that I think think what it what it tells us or is something else no I agree with you in the sense that this is a directive to the administration to do whatever is possible to hire uh uh staff that's reflective of our student body to the greatest extent you can I think the problem would be is if we weren't diversifying our staff and there were no efforts on the part of part of the administration to do so that would be problematic um as it's written in this policy and it probably shouldn't be addressed by the board but is you just indicated I have communicated on a number of occasions the efforts we've taken to try and uh recruit a more diverse staff um unfortunately there are very few students is coming out of University uh in Connecticut of color and um all the research we've done with students and other employers says that well they often want to go back to communities that they grew up in that are more diverse and contribute in those communities um and that stinks you know we we try we still try and approve um we just hired somebody uh faculty member who's black the other day umed to be able to add to our diversity we're in the process of creating um a diversity recruitment plan as is required by Connecticut uh and we have at least one black teacher on that committee um to try and gain some insight into additional strategies so we are um we are efforting in this direction I think chesher and a lot of other communities find it it's been difficult um just first because of the pool and the lack of candidates that exist and unfortunately it's it's not even just candidates of color that there's a limited pool just candidates is the problem today so um it's been difficult to diversify ER but this is like you said irational to do so and you know I think it's important to hold Administration to that aspiration what are you doing to try and do this it's also um helpful to think of diversity as broader than just racial great and also um you know Hing candidates who are lgbtq plus I know there are other letters different more religious backgrounds Rel backgrounds linguistic backgrounds the the you know the even economic as we've said you know our students be chure uh which you know is pretty clearly predominantly white Christian background community and go to universities that are wildly different in a lot of cases and we are doing a disservice to those students not just on that practical level but I think on a moral level by not exposing them to diversity and hiring is a part of that practice I think this this policy seeks to more broadly defined ways that we can support uh to to grow as a school system through the value that is diversity so again being new to this we don't have anything in place like this right now yeah so to um under Section f um the to shall offer provide opportunities for all staff to improve its cultural confidence do we do that now or would that cost extra would that be additional line items in our PD budget for that um but we do it now we we do do training you know right so is it so it's just this a codification of what we do or this be an additional I think the administration would work you know continues to work with the board whether through curriculum committee or otherwise to identify areas of focus and we provide professional development in those areas some of it you know we're not always you know putting through the board there's a lot of legal stuff that we just have to do that we do um you know if we wanted to prioritize for all staff I think that's more of an administrative decision the doesn't it says all staff yeah oh yeah yeah and we do provide professional development to a variety of staff and there's a plan to ultimately get to everybody but I I wouldn't want when we said we provide professional development to all staff that's that's not time limited it wouldn't say I wouldn't want a policy that says every year we're going to provide eight hours of PD to all staff around diversity equity and inclusion right you know I think administratively we try and be responsive to the needs of our students we use data to determine that if if we were to find that all of our Asian students were performing two standard deviations below the rest of the kids in the district then I think we would be wise to say whoa we need we better fix that yesterday and that would require much more professional development um and we would do that and Target it mean you want to Target your personal development what you so I you know to provide I think it is important to provide professional development to our team but it it needs to be reflective of what the needs are and that is everchanging so I wouldn't say like annually or anything like that um there's a one last section here practices procedures and programs that result in over or under representation any group of students compared to peers shall be subject to close review to assure that such results are due to meeting student legitimate educational social emotional needs that that's that so that um if we found that uh in every chem lab that we have there was 100% boys I would want to take a look at that you know why why is that that's dramatic over representation we about 47% male at chure high school why is it 100% of our chemlab or some other class um and then we would work to understand what those differences were and hopefully if there was not some real clear U explanation for this then we would work to balance that class better um so the over representation or over representation and we do stuff like that now too you know we particularly the high school sure we do at the high school I mean at the K through uh eight level I think that's your point sure we do yeah the at k through eight level we intentionally balanced classes uh by gender um by other variables too for the best of we can in 9 through 12 when kids are self- selecting courses it's kind of harder to do that um and not always appropriate but we still look at the data to make sure it's not like why why why would we have a class that's 100% female or male or whatever the case might be and we try and make adjustments there that would be that would speak to it you're just putting out the over under representation so this couldn't move forward to a first read said you know is it really relates to communicating with the board I would probably send this out separate in advance to say hey this is what we're looking at what would be my recommendation please send any comments to Mr and I'll hold directly do not passco $2 set up right up the J email forwarding all right so suggest we send a copy out for comment the rest of the board do you want to make a motion to move make a motion to move policy to a first reading or would you want just feedback thoughts feedback gri dissected it though I'm looking at his notes so we'll leave it to you Adam have you been sufficiently I'm not voting for it so I will second it to you you're not voting for it for what reasons I I don't think it's necessary to have that's why I think you should go because Dei is tricky the topic we deal with it at the University too it's still tricky mhm indeed so and I you know I kind of feel like everybody should be on board with yeah on board so if we were if we were to move this to a first reading the full board would look at the policy and we could adjust it later sure all throughout the process you can you can adjust that's kind of what it's designed to do to solicit feedback from U the board and community Through the iterations and then hopefully adop the third reading I I think since we we're holding off on the other one maybe we should start to move this one okay all right so how do we do that by moving it to so I know but you have to make can I second your motion yes okay but the um Carol's drafting a motion right we go thank you you want make Ive that that the draft policy 0523 go to the full board for a first reading what about the part about having OU Cheryl's gonna capture second I second all in favor all in favor that's all we have on our agenda for this evening Mo for Journal did you do that yeah yes yeah second I'll say all in favor all in favor unanimous
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to order uh the first order of business is to selection of a chairperson for uh the um hold on selection of the chairperson for the community relation committee are there any nomination for the office of chairperson nomination motion made by nomination made by a Rich chanell made the second motion okay wait a minute who made the motion jelli who okay and who second motion Al okay thank you Al okay okay uh all those in favor of Kate becoming the uh chairperson of the community relation committee could I hear I I I motion so carried at this time I turn the committee over to Kate and thank you all for coming uh thank you glattus and uh uh thanks again for for your vote I appreciate it um so this is just a quick meeting uh we wanted to get a chair in place uh you know as quick as we can uh so we can move forward um we work with uh Dr selig and Dr me primarily as liaison for this committee um and uh you know it's a little bit more fluid of a a committee than some of the others in that we don't necessarily have the same the same specific things that we're working on um from from year to year it really depends on what the drive is of of the particular committee and the folks who are on it so um with that I'm going to turn the meeting over to uh Dr selig and Dr me to sure to give us uh an overview of the upcoming community events which is what's on the agenda this evening as well as an update on the budget process thank you so much for having for being here thank you Kate congratulations um can I'm sorry can I just interrupt Kate sure do we have a secretary for this meeting uh we do not I don't know if anybody's taken minutes um Lauren are you voling I well yes I've already started taking minutes but I just wanted to sure nobody else was thank you so much I appreciate it you're welcome you're welcome thank you um just two quick items on the agenda the first is just an overview of some upcoming community events uh and me will talk through those in a second and then we're just going to give a real quick update on the budget process um I know everybody here is is uh well uh well informed about the budget and what's coming up um but we'll just do a quick review for anyone else who may be listening so um and you want to just give a quick update on what's Happening um in our our Outreach community outreach office great great thank you welcome aboard congratulations Kate good to see everyone's face tonight so I'm working off of two computers tonight because we have on my left computer our parent supporting educational Excellence Workshop going on it started last Tuesday night with about 12 parents I think we'll have some more that will join um as the training goes on and so it's virtual tonight we go between virtual and um in person uh Dr car casmiro will be at one of the sessions the group as part of the curriculum we'll be coming to the board meeting um at the end of February I believe it is or might be the end of March and so we're excited about that um we also have partnered very closely with the uh Adult Ed we race and have many different workshops going on all over the place but our partnership is with those that are happening at the Ellsworth building so there's epap which is uh people uh empowering people along with ESL classes that happens there three nights a week um child care and dinner is provided and and that's just an absolute awesome group and then in two three weeks two weeks I guess it is we'll kick off a new what we call Family literacy program at Moore Street school and that will involve um starting off with dinner for the families then we'll work towards um bringing in some literacy and math coordinators for them to talk to the parents about um strategies they can use at home then the children will join us back in that group and we'll do a parent and teacher time together and then followed by uh child care where the the kids go off and do their things and the parents will get an hour and a half at ESL service we've had that model at Ellsworth school or not Ellsworth at Mo Street in previous years really excited to bring that back coming up uh to know on all your calendars is Our Family University and early childhood Fair on Saturday March 23rd uh normally those are two different events happening on different days and the fam said can't you combine this on one day so we can get some really good workshops that the kids can do things and then bring in all your vendors um so we'll start with breakfast at 8:30 followed by um some type of Kyo opening at 9: and then parents uh will go into workshops from 9: 30 to 11 uh one of the feedback that we had receiv received from last our last two family universities is that parents wanted a longer Workshop than just the 45 minutes or the hour so we moved it up to um an hour and a half or 90 minutes so um they will have that and then the re while we're out of the cafeteria the about 40 to 50 vendors will come in and set up tables um mini polar from action Early Learning is working with with us and she's shairing that part of the um event that day and normally we see between 400 and 600 families that come out to that that will go to one o'clock and that's all types of resources that families can use from Early Childhood programs to um you know Extended Learning programs summer programs other programs that uh parents and students can take advantage of as well as um some Mental Health Providers and then all of our uh Community Action providers in uh Danbury as well so we're excited about that day um and so that's what's going on right now um we continue to register students we continue to um reach out to families having families come to the center um as many of you know that we are a center that um families feel safe at so they come out with any type of problems or needs that they have so we we definitely work with them through that we also uh partner with the Richfield VNA that's ongoing we had a clinic two weeks ago we have a clinic going this week um we saw 15 children two weeks ago I think we 15 or 17 children this week so there are new enroles to danber public schools um that don't necessarily have health insurance and so with our partnership with Richfield VNA Health they provide the service through their private um and public donations that they receive to service our children get them vaccinated full physical so they can start school um within you know usually a two week time so so that's it on that's it on our end is that [Music] all and a couple other things that have going on too but and thank you you always have such exciting stuff happening over it is really cool it is really please come we'll do some type of open house for the board too um remembers um when Dr cronin's up and going again we'll do some type of open house again but feel free at any point to come out and visit the center um I guess I should just really really quickly um mention that the collective impact is up and goinging our new director Melissa hanquin um that was hired um from United Way which is our backbone organization um is doing a a superb job at leading us through uh the collective impact and the work groups um of chronic absenteeism and learner engagement mental health and then the Early Childhood group are often running um at our chronic absenteeism were're uh subgroup last week we had 20 20 participants including more families so we're really excited to um see that so um save the date of March 12th it's a evening event 5:30 to 7:30 I believe at Family and Children's Aid for our first big Community um kickoff for that so you'll all get invitations to it but just save the date uh so you have it in your notes so that's it now that's all right I just I just want to jump in real quick and thank you Dr me as well for um the the digital information that we get provided now and I know that that list that goes out to the entire uh School list as well yes um it's a really helpful way to have like all that information condensed in one place because I know you guys are running a lot of programs and you have a lot of different groups that also connect with you yes uh to provide ancillary services so um for board members who may not be aware uh you will occasionally see an email come through from um uh Dr me's office and it really it's it's a great summary of like all the different things that are going on um and different events that might be you know uh beneficial for board members to show up at from time to time yeah yeah it's it's really a central clearing they come to Mike and I and Grace Molina my assistant director and then she puts them all together and they go out into one uh PDF and out in an email on Sunday morning and believe it or or not that's our highest readership time is that 7 to 10: in the morning so um if we want to get critical things out that's the time to get it out to our families thank you sorry to interrupt mik oh that's quite all right thank you okay in the last item on our agenda is just a quick budget update um I saw John's on too so John please feel free to add anything here that that I don't cover um just a couple critical dates we have coming up uh tomorrow is finance committee and for anyone who's going to be at finance committee I think you guys are at 7 uh we're going to have sites at 5:30 in person right before so we'll roll right into Finance from there um and then we have a week and then I believe the U the vote is going to take place in the board meeting on uh next Wednesday um for the budget final budget approval and then that final number has to be up uh to the City by uh the following day on Thursday close a business um and then my team will be uh getting getting the books assembled and out to the uh board and City Council Members shortly thereafter so um just depending on how many changes we have to make we should we should only be a couple days behind uh the delivery of that that number on the 15th so hopefully we'll have books to you guys within about two weeks are there any questions from committee members about any of that information okay any questions from uh other board members that may be on okay no thanks Kate no problem um so uh for for committee members uh one of the things I'd like you to think about between now and when we have the next uh committee meeting which um I don't believe we have one scheduled for I want to say another at least another month um we may try to to uh adjust our schedules I think we had to reschedule a couple in March um one of the things I'd like to think about though uh as a group and have you come to the table with some ideas about what we might uh do as members of this committee if there are particular projects that we want to uh take on and and have a conversation about um or particular areas where you think we could uh work on improving those community relations um and and putting our making sure that we're as board members we are putting ourselves in spaces to uh be good listeners for the community and to bring some of those concerns back to the full board um so if we could each take a little bit of time and come up with a few ideas uh for the next meeting um you can certainly email those over to me and I will uh relay those to um Dr selig and Dr uh me uh so that we can put an agenda together all right are there any questions at all before we sign off all right this was a record quick meeting I want to thank you all for being here I appreciate you making the time this evening uh could I get it uh Dr kmir did you want to say anything nope I just was gonna get ready to say goodbye so I told okay just making sure just making sure um could I get a motion to adjourn please I'll make a motion thank you Rich and a second please I'll second that thank you Al I appreciate it all those in favor please signify by saying I I I all right all right have a great night
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same conference room thank you thank you you are adjourned thank you thank you calling to order the committee on education our second agenda Monday February 5th at 3:15 p.m. first item on the agenda is Senate Bill 3087 relating to Early Learning expands access to Early Learning programs on other State properties and public lands besides the Department of Education public school campuses sorry to testify superintendent Hayashi [Music] good afternoon chair Vice chair uh members of the committee curo um testifying on behalf of our superintendent Keith Hayashi and for the Department uh the department stands on its written testimony in support of this measure just want to share that you know Studies have shown that the quality of early learning opportunities have have lifelong impacts uh positive impacts on the Hawai Ki and their families and as you know we've been working with the r Kiki program and E to expand the number of classrooms um thanks to the leadership of the lieutenant governor and so we're very much behind this happy to answer any questions thank you thank you members questions moving on to Yuko AR recol cross e hello chair kirani Vice chair and members of the committee I'm Yuko Aro across director of the executive office on early learning we stand on our written testimony and strong support of this measure I'd like to quickly quickly highlight a few comments that have more detail in our written testimony the intention of this spill is to expand the current Pre Plus contract model to also apply to existing underutilize spaces on other public properties in addition to what currently exist on Department of Education campuses this measure has no fiscal request nor requires any operational funding as it would provide eel the authority to contract early learning services on existing underutilized spaces we also want to note that the Amendments also include using the verbiage early learning as early learning is already defined in our statute I'm available to answer questions and Mahala for the opportunity to testify thank you members questions thank you next to testify office of Hawaiian Affairs kopu release release Al chair Vice chair members of the committee my name is kit I'm the director of advocacy for the office of wine Affairs we stand on our written testimony in support and just a quick highlight um we are four years into our 15 year strategic plan and when we were building the community input to that strategic plan one of the most clear needs that came from our community was the the ability to provide high quality K and Cuna care so we stand in support of this as a as one piece to to move the needle on ensuring we have access to Kik care Hollow thank you members questions thank you next to testify Sher Nakamura nakam thank you Sherry members any questions on Sherry's testimony next to testify Angela Melody young Aloha chair Vice chair and the committee Angela Melody young testifying in strong support on behalf of cares so um Early Learning and early childhood education is so important to our school systems and to supporting parents teachers and the community the new policy is to request to create additional public spaces for early learning programs the executive office on early learning has a public pre kindergarten program and it's provided in collaboration with the Hawaii Department of Education and the program provides high quality learning experiences which addresses children's physical development and health and social and emotional development cognition language and literacy and approaches to learning the ready Kiki program from the LG's office reflects a superior quality of early childhood education program and this is a good time to work on this as the city has also created a Early Childhood Program from the Department of Community Services The Early Childhood Division office so we are in strong support um we have a small team for our art class and we have to talk to parents and teachers and students all the time so this is very relatable to the community and to cares thank you thank you members questions of thank you on Zoom we have chabel Davis Aloha chair kidani Vice chair Kim and members of the committee My Name is shabal Davis director of early childhood and health policy with Hai children's Action Network speaks standing on our written testimony and strong support of this measure Mahalo for the opportunity to testify thank you chel are there any additional testifiers present who would like to testify if not members questions of any of the question there's no appropriation in this measure is there any cost associated with putting programs on other properties So currently with the Pre Plus contracts that are on doe campuses um it's a partnership with the it's a public private partnership with the Department of Education so sometimes there may be nominal fees like if electricity and some other cost um that come with use of facilities yeah but now you're going outside of thee properties right so what's a cost might be so that's where we'll have to negotiate with uh different um holders of land um so we know that there's different holders of land even on uh doe school campuses and so we have to take a look at um agreements with them whoever is willing to enter into these agreements with us so you're looking at more of someone um reciprocating in a partnership versus is charging you rent um I think we're open to all kinds of agreements right now it just be expanding the the ability to have a public private partnership so if there are funds Avail required where's that money going to come from so that would probably have to come into the agreement of the contract of the space yeah but where are you going to get the money to pay for it so that could come into the agreement with the contract with whoever the provider might be the public private partnership provider so so it wouldn't come from government I'm not expecting it to no okay come back next year and ask for Mone thank you so do you have any any uh leads on places that might um want things like I know um OHA has has discussed this several times I don't know if they have um recreation centers on any of the Hawaiian homelands that could have these kinds of um facilities so um nothing is 100% certain right now but we have been exploring many different places for example um one one exploration was at like kamamalu Park let's say for example or another example that was thrown out was in the library systems or in different developments that the city and county is you know kind of bringing up and um Partnerships with other um uh facilities developments for housing and so I think that uh right now eel does not have the ability to support the early care and learning system in this way so I think that this is one method that we can use a strategy to be able to increase access for Children and Families thank you I think that it would be a good idea possibly to look at some of our libraries or other spaces that are not in full use during the day um of course it depends on the location and the size of the library but I I think I think it's a great idea yeah absolutely and we do utilize the um University Center on the family they did do a research in terms of um access and opportunity across all of of Hawaii so we are taking a look at that in addition to Lieutenant Governor's map thank you thank you is there anyone else wishing to testify on this matter if not moving on to Senate Bill 2114 relating to feral animals why is this in my committee sorry prohibits the feeding of feral animals within a certain distance from Department of Education public school campuses establishes fines do you have your tape measure ready for measuring sorry doe good afternoon chair and vice chair members of one one member of the committee kurle toguro Deputy superintendent Department stands on its written testimony uh offering comments and um as Senator you said while we are supportive of the concept it is it's we need clarification as to how you would Define the the the footage and more importantly how we would um enforce it and when you enforce something with civil penalties then there's a lot of requirements for signage and there would be expense associated with that kind of notice to the public so uh the execution in this bill uh it needs further clarification thank you for this opportunity to testify thank you members questions so you said B require putting signage no feeding so then how does the city and county enforce they're feeding on feral cats because most of the areas that they feeding and getting ticketed or reprimanding don't have signs then legally it's difficult to enforce right we we need signers that refers to an HRS specifically um then that would allow the enforcement officer to take action without a proper sign you can say that but it it's hard to apply the uh civil penalty so somebody told me that was very intelligent that is there any way we can partty train all the F animals all we could wish it's a it's a challenge for our entire State there's no question about it thank you thank you for the questions anyone else wishing to testify on this measure my H H oh sorry helloo good afternoon thank you for listening to me I am Holly hok president and founder of pooki place aahoo cat sanctuary which is a large scale plan Sanctuary um to help feral cats um I appreciate and respect the work of the committee of education and the Department of Education but when I read this bill I was wondering why did you feel it was necessary to write this bill and create such a law that would impact every public school in the state what happened why did you need to take a drastic step I wondered who would enforce it as he said it's going to be very in expensive to to try to figure out who's going to have fines and if the feral animals you're talking about is cats please understand that those who are feeding are also doing trap neuter release manage and the feeding is an important part of identifying the cats that need to be trapped and neutered so that it reduces the population over time um it's a slower way to reduce the population than killing but it is effective and it is Humane I oppose this bill and stand on my testimony and I'm here to answer any questions and I urge you to vote no thank you col question I just like get you in clarification I understand um the part about the cats but I don't I don't know what area you live but where I live in a lot of places where I live we have Ferro chickens yes and they're very very aggressive yes um and dirty too but they're very aggressive so this is not just about cat going after the cats is just any of the pharoh animals that is being pee with bread and all this kind of stuff is very much a nuisance when the kids go in they dig like this in the dirt so the kids go play get holes in the ground from the chickens you know digging up the dirt so it's not just you know feeling that way it's not when we looked at the bill okay wasn't just about cats I appreciate that and I want to say something I was the director of Weinberg Village wi Manalo for 17 years was a homeless shelter for families uh in a very rural setting with three acres of cats and chickens I walked onto the property and there were cats everywhere and there were chickens everywhere and they make those holes and the chickens are really more of a problem and when I would feed the cats the chickens would come and eat it all up as fast as I could so I ended up feeding chicken feed to the chickens over here and cat food over here but I must say that in the 17 years that I was there I never had anybody complain about cats causing a problem for them nobody got sick nobody had even my pregnant mothers didn't get sick I never got complaints about that I know there are issues with cats and the reason I created pooke place was because of a direct result of my experience there I want to make a difference and um I have brochures for you that I can leave with the clerk so you understand who we are and I don't know how you would just identify feral chickens as being one in that bill or feral cats being in the bill but if you could allow the colony caregivers to continue to feed the cats nearby they can be at the edge or whatever but as long as you have food coming from the cafeteria or whatever you know animals will come all animals will come thank you chair thank you anything else thank you for your time I appreciate it thank you well I have two dogs that are adopted dogs and I understand testimony just trying to figure out how we deal with it on school grounds we have another testif also okay next to testify noro Freeman's noico Freeman oh next to testify lesie wit good afternoon Cheroke kidani Vice chair distinguished committee my name is lesie witton I'm here today as a um enthusiastic citizen I'm really excited to be here today um I've been part of the the feral cat tnrm volunteer Force across this island for years trying to make a difference because we do have a problem I also volunteer for po dog and pooki um I also work at a school I work at a school that's had feral animals positioned on it since the beginning of time we're along the Cav noi Marsh I'm not here representing the school to make that clear I'm here as a citizen to share my experiences um the language of this bill is why I oppose it it broadly covers all feral animals and I think the Nuance is important when we talk about feral cats to not be able to feed directly inhibits our ability to help with the animal control in 2022 my school stopped allowing feeding they prohibited it it interfered with our tnrm efforts standing for trap neuter return manage efforts and I witnessed how the problem got worse the cat population increased the area that they roamed looking for food increased they were under classrooms in the trash cans pooping outside of the library the exposure to to potential contaminants increased because the designated feeding areas were prohibited on the perimeter of the campus plus hungry cats eat birds which are native Wildlife we need to protect they also eat rodents which are the disease carriers when you don't feed the feral cats in this bill that equals more cats less Birds more disease disallowing feeding simply won't work but partnering with tnrm feeders will I've set up a program at my school that has a registry of authorized feeders we document our feral animals we sterilize them microchip them we work as a community in collaboration with Community organizations like the Humane Society po dog and pooki and other organizations to make a difference this bill should be opposed because it's too vague too hard to manage and there are better ways we can do it I'm happy to share our schools program with the doe and other schools to try to make a lasting difference thank you for your time thank you I'd be happy if you would share that with commit also thank you thank you next to testify Jasmine May Jasmine on Zoom Stephanie Kendrick Stephanie loha chair kadani Vice chair Kim and Senator favella uh Stephanie Kendrick with the Hoin Humane Society thank you for allowing me to be with you today I wanted to share our comments on this measure um for the reasons that other testifiers have brought up the measure might be counterproductive Ive to its goal of reducing the population of feral animals on and around school campuses feeding is a necessary component of the Humane population management for animals living Outdoors including feral cats uh chickens pigeons even pigs need to have their traps baited so we would encourage um the committee if you are going to pass this out to adopt the language that we had inserted in our state microchipping law uh would exempt uh population management programs from the prohibitions outlined in this measure to distinguish folks who really are working to reduce these animal populations from those who might just be putting food out on the landscape which is not an activity we support I would also point out that the definition of feral in this measure uh is really inconsistent with the way we normally use that term which regards an animal socialization toward people the definition of feral in this measure would really apply to any stray animal whether it's an owned pet or not so I would suggest a definition of feral that has to do with the lack of socialization to human beings I appreciate the committee's time thank you for hearing my testimony thank you Stephanie next to testify Kathy gole gole on Zoom not present on Zoom chair thank you next to testify Renee RAB also on Zoom Renee thank you chair and me and Senators members of the committee uh I'm not going to take up your time uh I'm going to Echo briefly some of the thing I am very opposed to this bill I want to Echo the information that you've already been provided by uh varieties of organized groups that work with rescuing and rehoming and adopting animals um one of my primary objections to the bill is the definition of uh feral animals as Steph just mentioned it is very vague it is going to be very very problematic for anybody to be able to enforce thank you so much and please um please defer this bill it will cause more problems than it solves thank you for your testimony members questions is there anyone else here wishing to testify on this measure [Music] Aloha chair Vice chair on the committee Angela Mel young testifying in strong support actually I'm so sorry in um opposition opposition opposing um on behalf of Roar Rescue of animal rights so living creatures have a right to life and if the people from the community are caring for the Pharaoh cats and Pharaoh chickens near School those living creatures have a right to life and should receive care and if the state has not legislated parameters to manage those species then people will have to provide medical care trap and neuter services and feedings to the feral chickens and cats typically these resources and Care can be provided by dlnr and DOA dlnr has the perview to manage forestry and wildlife sanctuaries and various animals and various species DOA manages animal industry Division and quarantine and health standards of those operating with living creatures the most appropriate offices to manage the animals from the state are those offices and the City Works with the Humane Society and so this is the rationale to why we oppose this bill because um if the due diligence is not done to manage and to be stewards and although the state has every right to make a law about no access for people trying to provide medical care for feral cats and feral chickens this law will be working against The Advocates who have spent endless time and resources providing surgeries Medical Care food and also um The Advocates are working without support from the state and the city although works with the Humane Society that is one of the only support systems to the cat community and the bird rescue community so I you know War if we could propose it would be to create signage and a graphic design with informational fly ERS to post at schools in public places about appropriate animal resources who to contact if you discover a kitten what to do if you find a group of chicks and list the resources Humane Society animal abuse division Hoy bird rescue the struggle right now is getting the state to learn about these resources and then to create the management policy with the advice from the clinics the cat community and the rescue teams who are the doctors the nurses and The Rescuers thank you thank you is there anyone else here wishing to testify on this matter um de I have a question one or two how many times in a day or a week do you guys have to deal with feral animals on your campus I would imagine almost every day depending on the campus um chickens um how do you deal with them depending on the severity we will have to contract um for eradication in some cases set traps um depending on the situation is that your first choice um that that like I said it depends on the principle and the sity of what they're reporting uh so our maintenance Branch would would assess it and then make that determination well may I suggest that you contact some of these um organizations that have testified to work with you um before it gets so severe I would think that there are other ways to deal with this sure um yeah it was it was good to hear the testimony understand the problem I understand um you know the um especially with young children on campus having to deal with um feral cats and dogs and the mess that they may leave um and I'm not sure if they're coming on the campus Because of food waste not being properly stored or whatever it is but maybe that's some of the things you guys need to look at yes very good good suggestion yeah but I you know if you can if you can give me a complaint a list of complaints that we've had in the last say two years okay of colonies or feral animals on the campus and how long it took you guys to remedy the the case okay sure thank you question how many people have your folks identified as feeders feed oh I I wouldn't have that answer who actually comes on campus to feed the animals or nearby I mean obviously this bill is is pointing or is directed to them so I'm just wondering if there's regular people that live nearby that are the ones that are feeding them or I I don't know that answer because it doesn't necessarily solve any problem on the campus with these feral animals whether you know these people are feeding them or not right I mean the fact is you have them on your campus you have them on your campus so but is it's directed at feeder so I'm just curious if there's a bunch of people regularly nearby I'll see if I can pull the system that's a good idea thank you so um Kurt I I just want to say that my intention is to defer the bill and I'd like more information from doe as to you know what steps you have taken to contact um some of the the organizations that deal with you know her casts lost dogs whatever and see if we can try and resolve the issue that way and if not we can address this matter again next year great thank you thank you okay next 252 okay Senate Bill 2252 rela to the Board of Education authoriz the board to consider qualified individuals Associates for your high school education and industry experience and contact expertise to teach Career and Technical education testify good afternoon chair kadani Vice chair Kim members of the committee Sean bacon assistant superintendent for the office of talent management for the Department of Education we stand on our written testimony and support and just one thing that we noticed after submitt of the testimony is it references in the description of the bill uh the board of education but I believe in uh 302a 803 it actually falls under the subsection of the Hawaii teachers Standards Board uh so we'd really defer to the the Standards Board I think you know the this really this amendment I think would really exercise more flexibility I I think Career and Technical education has been a really really big focus of the superintendent and you know as we're looking to try to fill the shortage of our teachers and having those with industry experience I think that this bill would definitely help us so We Stand by ready with any questions thank you thank you questions next to test testify Felicia good afternoon chair kadani good afternoon Vice chair Kim uh Felicia Vios executive director of the Hawaii teacher Standards Board on behalf of the board we're in support of uh Senate Bill 2252 with our suggestion amendments and htsb would like to thank senator kadani for introducing this bill the board would also like to acknowledge htsb CTE workg group comprised of a variety of CTE stakeholders that identify the revision of this language and it should be a way to widen the pipeline for CTE teachers to enter the classroom uh we hope this bill can be amended to identify htsb as the authority charged with this task so thank you for the opportunity to testify available for questions questions okay anyone else wishing to testify on this matter that's the end of our agenda yes recess thank you for being patient the recommendation of the chair for Senate Bill 3087 relating to Early Learning is to pass with amendments the amendments are Technical and non-substantive chair V Senate Bill 3087 um recommendation to pass with amendments chair Wai Vice chair Wai senoro hi uh Senator Richards and Senator flla excuse your recommendations adopted thank you for Senate Bill 2114 recommendation this is relating to feral animals the recommendation of the chair is to defer this measure defer this measure Senate Bill 2252 relating to the Board of Education authorizing the board to consider qualified individuals with at least an associates degree or high school diploma with comparable education and cours work industry experience and content content experience to teach Career and Technical education courses recommendation of the chair is to defer members questions thank you meeting a j what
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to backo for the expenses we have the all in total the Disneyland would be approximately 1,800 for the 16 students in the two shron which would be Mr B and Miss Breezy and for for Disneyland the hotel the hotel com modation for the two nights we'd be staying would be approximately and as of January 31st the senior fund is about about is about $2,550 186 and we have around seven activities planned out still as we are just a little bit short but we've been making around just below 500 for each activity so I have faith that we'll have enough money and we we are still we still we are working very hard and on behalf of this class thank you for your time and listening to us so 16 students right 16 students nice so why you choose to go the small bus instead of the large bus for it would be we wouldn't have to hire a driver which would be more pressure on our fund because then we have to get Hotel accommodation a Disneyland ticket and on top on top of the expensive we plan on with the fund we plan on providing one meal for each students from the fund and then they'd have to pay out of pocket for their next meals and the hotel should provide breakfast so is there room for more chapons we've been asked because I know myself and another individual from the community would be more than happy to do it and you're probably familiar with them so we're more than happy to Joy you drive the bus drive the car with two students in the car with her and then we have the 14 students us and we've already we have bought shirts correct yeah we' bought shirt bought shirts from our own pocket the same nice are you wearing that shirt both days or just one day just at the park maybe one day yeah yeah so you're going to leave really early in the morning yeah get there the basically day two then no they're leaving at 3:00 a.
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on the first day if something happening what we do at 2: p.m. on the third day of something happening and then we take what we learn from those tabletops and app them to some of our practices do we need to make adjustments do we need to adjust our uh procedures do we need to look at investing in something that might help us avoid some of these issues that have been pretty well publicized throughout the United States uh improving password best practices I think everybody's updated their passwords in here at least I hope they have at this point um so again we're just following security practices make them a little more secure and just trying to keep everybody that's in bcse as safe as possible and uh we work with various partners and the cyber security and infrastructure Security Agency to do pen tests on our Network what a pen test or that's short for penetration test is is we're trying to find vulnerabilities what's out there that someone could exploit get into our systems and take over or give us a virus or do some sort of ransomware so we have places that are scanning our environment they're scanning our outside they're scanning our inside trying to vulnerabilities they give us a report and then we remediate those so we really try to make sure we are keeping everything tight everything secure as best as we possibly can to try to keep everyone involved inside and outside of bcsc as safe as possible and do you have any questions one quick one canvas a the the transition bigger pain less of a pain or about what you expected I think it's gone exceptionally well um like for the e-learning day I think we had six phone calls in first day we had its learning we had almost 200 so between the communication that we can provide now through parents square and the base knowledge that our staff already had of having a learning management system for so long um I think has helped us kind of have a successful adoption but it is it is a big step up how connected everything is is quite amazing awesome I was going to ask about the canvas statistic like uh Miss cumer I was kind of amazed that we hit 90 96% that's measured each week what what counts as a contact so engagement includes signing in and then it also looks at interacting with the course so it can be clicking so you go to your course you get your homepage that's technically not an engagement if you click to another item within the course that counts towards that statistic so it's not a matter of just pulling up signing in it's looking in the course and actually interacting with content and then I think canvas is used at a lot of postsecondary Institutions as well so students will does it look different or will they recognize what they're using when they get to College they will recognize it the only difference is just some of the branding but all the buttons and pieces are the same and that was one of the pieces that when we did parent feedback sessions that some of the parents were like I use this in my classes or I know what this is because I have a student who's using it right now and that was a big selling point and something that we wanted to make sure that we could easily support so they had that ease of use moving on after they're not with pcsc anymore and I think working together with Dr hack and Mr Edwards and Mrs vogle too over the years really every group group uh has had training or is focused on this but if students want access to curriculum they're logging into canvas and it's their kind of single sign on point to the reading to the math science everything else any other questions I will also add you have excellent board member Tech Support to Mr Williams you can add that to that slide as a whole category okay thank you we have the best K12 technology department in the state of Indiana um I will go on record to say we're fortunate to have that team um I'll be very brief good evening just a a standing um item on your agenda for Invision 2030 update just a couple of items for you unless you have questions um we continue to work with CSO on short and long range planning for our facility updates um actually met with the cumins foundation today and they hope to have a list for us this week or next on potential design Architects for the 12th Elementary that uh we will have a very uh public facing process for that selection that you'll be involved with um we're finishing up the RFP for that selection now and we will make that available to you and put that on our website as well for for public review and just a reminder thanks Mr stanner for uh his mention from the dnf meeting but we will meet with you um in strategic planning the board on the 19th that's an open session for the public will be upstairs in the boardroom we'll bring to you a phase one um proposed schedule for our facility Renovations and no action required by by you all at that uh just an opportunity for feedback and review um and then we we plan to issue an RFP for construction managers for those projects um that next day uh we'll bring that same um presentation with any items back to this meeting on the 4th of March uh for another public meeting so just a quick update for me and happy to answer any questions you may have any questions no thank you Dr BisMan okay on to Old business yeah so we have a couple of items uh both old business and new business so starting with the old business I request approval of the minutes of the regular school board meeting from January 22nd our last one but we also had a special school board meeting on January 29th so asking for approval of those minutes from both meetings also asking for approval for Neola policy 5710 which is student complaints my error did not make it into the the batch of policies uh the last time that you had them and so just need to make sure we approve that one as well student complaints the big changes in they we just making sure to reference back to the new policy we have uh which is um the uh parent or the uh complaints and concerns public complaints and concerns so just need to get that one done so we can submit that to Neola for publication thank you Dr Roberts I move that we approve the old business items as listed and presented by Dr Roberts second thank you Mr gson Mr Nan any discussion or questions from the board before we go to vote okay all those in favor of approving item five A and B please say I all those oppos say n motion carries okay thank you under new business we have a few items uh first supplemental contracts then field trips and professional leaves under field trips and professional leaves we had a couple come through you should have an additional sheet in front of you tonight that on the back side of that has a couple of highlighted ones these field trips were going to occur before the next school board meeting so we took advantage of having uh gotten the information about them to put in front of you tonight so we will add that additionally we have school fundraisers we also have claims and payroll the claims uh dated today February 5th are a little over $1.1 million the pre- runs from January 1st to January 26 of 59 almost $60 million payroll for January 12th was about 3 a little over $3.3 million and then we have um request for a letter of support for the health Clinic Grant we talked about that one at the last meeting also Dr Boseman is asking for uh permission for purchasing buses and also to accept bids for Schmidt Elementary School which is the next big project that we have going on and those are the items I have under new business thank you Dr Roberts I'd like to break out item G real quick to um I didn't last time when we had bus approvals we had a quote I forgot to ask about this earlier but do we have a quote for those and again since I work for Cummins I did not vote for buses the last time and if those engines are Cummins engines I would I would ask for that one to be broken out too so I won't vote on it okay is that okay yep all right we will pull out J and H separate g g g thank you H good C to F and I okay I will ask for a motion from the board now I move that we approve the new business items 6 C through F and I as listed second thank you Mr Grimes and Mr Schultz all those in favor of approving oh any questions or comments on those items before we go to vote no okay all those in favor of approving um 6 C through F and I please say I I all those opposed say nay motion carries thank you then the first one pulled out is the letter of support letter J G letter G again so we do we need a motion before we discuss it so I move that we approve um letter g under item six letters of support for the health clinic Grant thank you Mr Janel do I have a second thank you Mr Bryant any questions or comments from the team I think the only comments and I know Dr Phillips and I have been exchanging emails I honestly am still left with a lot of questions and not as many answers as I would like to see to give a letter of support um and so that's really my ask for why we're breaking this out I'm still unsure on costs I know the 150,000 for our build out but at the end of the day there's cost to the us taxpayers as well on here and given the tax season we we all know what that is and so I think we need to be see that I also have questions around the location at the clinic at North versus downtown East Columbus Taylorville and rural areas I also still don't understand the demand besides generalities um provided by Columbus Regional Health and I appreciate Mr Williams and the tech department we have all these tools to connect to our students and we haven't leveraged them to see where their need is and I think that's a step that we should take before we uh puts the burden on taxpayers um so I think that data should be collected and support I mean at the end of the day I want to support it I think there's an opportunity here I I believe Dr hail discussed it but at the end of the day we don't know the five ws the who what when where why and and that's the the questions that I have and still continue to have until we honestly can and we have the ability that's the hardest part for me not to understand is we have the tools and mechanisms um I know as a parent we fill out the sheet just like everyone else of if you got a pediatrician you list it um we could look at it that way or we could survey um um and both of are available to us and both I've discussed this um since it was brought to me in November in the ccic meeting uh the subsequent board meeting uh last board meeting and now and still um not using the tools I think is a Miss um when we're asking the taxpayers to burden those costs thank you Mr Schultz Mr Nan so I have a question around that either for Dr Boseman or Dr Phillips maybe um so a yes vote here I know it's a vote to approve applying for the grant um if it comes down to does it also approve an expend expenditure of $150,000 to build out a um clinic or is that something that would come to the board later if that occurs it would come after the grant was received it does not it is only approval for um actually I guess to give um Miss Weldon authority to sign the letter when it's when it's completed when once once the grant is released in the next couple months so we're not committing to $150,000 clinic at this point correct okay thank you thank you Mr gmes so I I've got a comment um a couple comments one it's my understanding that the expected cost would be a minimal and consequently in in my opinion certainly would be well worth it um from a personal standpoint um I work in a setting where our school counselor and social worker spends the bulk of her day trying to get caretakers Guardians parents foster parents grandparents proper Behavioral Health Care and medical health care for their kids and and I think since this topic came up here it's been on my mind a lot how beneficial where I happen to be employed such a an opportunity would be there and I think it would be in my opinion a big Miss not to apply for the grant thank you Mr Grimes anyone else from the team okay I have a motion in a second for item 6 G letter our support of Health Care Clinic letter of support for health clinic Grant all those in favor of approval please say I I all those opposed please say Nay Nay Nay thank you let let it show as a pass 52 vote next item then is the purchase of buses letter H I move that we approve um agenda item six letter H the purchase of buses second second thank you Mr nelan and Mr Schultz um I think as previously said I will abstain um from this vote and Mr major you'll do the same yep okay so Mr major and I will abstain from the vote um all those in favor of approving um six item H purchase of buses please say I I all those opposed please say nay 5 Z vote thank you for input Mr Bryant would you have anything to say help close this out yeah I think it was uh great uh miss wats my daughter had her at tville and uh all the th that she name uh they did at tville and it was great and uh my brother-in-law um was in as and he was going to uh my D got a re of the flag and so forth so I brought back some great memories because he made it back uh but uh yeah I want to thank her more than you could possibly imagine thank you thank Mr briy Mr major yeah there's a lot of things that have happened in the last couple of weeks we've got some teams that have played their last games uh some teams that are still moving towards that as far as sectionals are concerned for all winter sports but one of the things I think is the coolest thing that has happened in the last couple of weeks is uh the East boy swim team won their first Conference Championship in 42 years and so um I want to just congratulate uh my friend uh coach True Blood and the team for you know the success that they've had this year so that's great thank you Mr Mr major Mr stanner uh i' Echo the comments of the other board members that have already spoken it this is a tremendous meeting the uh Hall of Fame award uh best practices um annual reports on our Corporation finances and our technology use of Technology um really good meeting and then to Echo what Miss Weldon was talking about earlier in the meeting I'd just like for as many people as possible to participate in our superintendent search process uh by going to the bcsc schools website and then uh taking that survey to help us make uh the best possible decision as we're recruiting and selecting a replacement for Dr Roberts a sad T thank you Mr Stenner um on that note I would like to thank U Mr brette Mr Williams Dr pleek and Mr mcgyver who were very um efficient at collecting all the information we needed to get that position posted quickly get the survey out there Etc that was not easy and um I know there's a lot of work put into that so thank you for reacting quickly to our request um well I I'm sorry to interrupt I forgot there there is a time limit on the survey right it's it's two weeks two weeks okay so it will actually close before we meet again days I guess y February 16th thank you um uh uh Lisa Haynes had reached out to me and wanted to highlight something um Parkside um robotics team the fourth graders at Parkside won an Excellence award in the Fall Creek um robotics competition which is which is pretty awesome that qualifies them for State we have two other schools who qualify for State um Smith and Central I believe so just a great show knowing across the board bcsc in the in the area of Technology a special shout out goes to Lisa hu who I think does an awesome job Liz stran Vincent Rees via gajan I think and um D Murray who were the people who were most influential in that Victory along with all of the amazing children who dedicate their time and the parents that helped them do that so congratulations to them congratulations again to Mrs Watts on her very well- earned honor and her uh many years of dedication and service to bcsc thanks to Mr sprong and the Richard's team for their presentation thanks to Dr Phillips again for his always um thorough well-explained financials uh Mr Williams and the tech team thank you all the community members that are here community members stakeholders that are here or maybe out there listening and then lastly um I got this information from the regular newsletters that come out from Mr Bernett that always contain lots of good information with with the legislature paying so much attention to reading uh book buddies still needs volunteers and with the possibility of legislation getting passed um in terms of possibly retaining gosh many many third graders across the state that are reading below grade level U we've heard presentations about book buddies and the success of the program here so anybody out there that has some time on their hands please consider volunteering feel like I'm Bas basically repeating everyone but uh again thanks to Dr Phillips and Mr Williams for their presentations to us I also want to recognize Mrs wats I was a part of that Taylorville family when she was coming through and I mean I in preparation for this I mean I talked Remis with a lot of friends my brother included that had her and um the adjectives that are on that plaque are immortalized in everyone so at the end of the day I mean she she touched a lot of Souls and uh her and Dr quick and others made Taylorville the family that it was uh during that time and so really appreciative of her work with those children um and then I appreciate uh another teacher of mine Mr sprong for uh the best practice and and shareed for Richards again I think looking at I mean as a parent of child's children with trauma pasts holding them to an opportunity where they can Excel and have accountability is something that we can scale across the district and this is two back-to-back best practices with CSA Lincoln en richers that are easily scalable that we can bring um in being able to uh help our students that have that tramatic background and I just want to thank the two uh or the couples that uh spoke for public speaking Caleb for his bravery it's not easy taking on uh public comment and Crystal for her self-reflection um and giving us that input and I just appreciate everybody uh engagement um so I will add to thank you to the technology department um I don't know that I have hard data to back this up but but I am convinced that we have one of the best if not the best technology department in the state on a personal level I'll tell you that um five minutes before you join a school board virtually is not the best time to change your password um but even when you do that they come through and help you out so um and to miss Humphrey I want to thank you for sharing tonight and I especially want to thank you for for reading the book and sharing with us after you read the book I appreciate that um and to add to the Kudos of Sandy Watts I have one Sandy Watts story that I want to share uh at the risk of sounding political um it when I was running for school board she joined me at the German Township Fire Department in Taylorville um on Election Day and I don't know how many years it had been since she taught at Taylorville but I swear over half the people that came up knew her nobody knew me but they all knew her okay so on next board meeting we have our strategic planning session on February 19th 5:30 um in a boardroom so that's where we'll get some more information about project 2030 Vision 2030 um and then a regular board meeting on March 4th um 2024 in the Terrace room right here with that call the meeting adjourn everyone have a great night thank you
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they'll probably get there around 11 10 11 all day then the rest St at the park yeah St at the park then we'll check in at 3 nice good deal and what are you guys planning on doing if you guys don't raise all the funds how's that going to work if we don't like get enough money for it well we still don't like I don't have like a second but it's like we still have like seven more like fundraisers like bigel car wash and then we're planning to do a activity on March 2nd which uh with that maybe we'll work so it's like with that and then the the six more like b car we make it I think what you should also do is maybe reach out to parents to see if anyone would be able to sponsor a student who might not be able to come up with those funds I'm sure there'd be community members willing to sponsor absolutely students so keep that in mind yeah because I did the math if we split that thous that you guys will put like that you guys are short right now it's about $55 a student for each person so yeah I did the math not too long ago the it's as of January 31st that was the what we was in our account we've had two big sales since then yeah and I only included one of them but we were only short around $400 like almost 500 wow nice so the way it looks you guys are going to be able to raise the yeah and then we we also have some left over yeah because the right now with the hotel like taking the hotel we have 810 plus the jary big like something yeah so we have like a thousand something nice you driven that bus before yeah last you know one is none and two is one Rodney so two [Laughter] more hang on Coach Bree is driving the bus right now as we speak she has so situation might have to switch Rodney you had something always any trip should have two CH and you get over St going what's the ratio 10 10 to 10 to one okay or anything older than six grade seventh grade so so it's a 1 to seven right now right ratio right now 8 to one okay yeah she said a normal ratio is 1 to 10 so since it's 16 so 1 to8 right now anything below sixth grade is is 5 to one and anything below sixth grade is 5 to one hope you have a good time thank you ladies very much you all right any more questions on there and now we're going to move on to the uh we have that bu service for yes sir okay moving on to the 25 2425 budget report yes Mr K members of the board um TR professionals will present a first review of the fiscal year 24 2025 budget there's no board action necessary at this time than this thanks guys good night thank you this is an informational report only um we have on the phone with us uh he is the CFO out of Gilbert Higley Unified School District and serves as our consultant with two professionals Mr Tyler Moore Mr Moore can you hear us yes can you hear me yes hold on Angelina just stepped out she'll be right back in to uh to uh get the PowerPoint set up hold on hold on sh she's she GNA get it started everybody has this on their computers yeah Okay Tyler she's at the cover page and I'll just let you communicate with her when you want to go forward and stop then uh it's all yours all right all right thank you uh Soo and good evening president members of the board um like like Dr sotero just mention I'm just gonna present a a quick early very early look at the you f25 budget projections so you go next slide this will be the agenda um I'll look at the FY 24 revised budget number two I know I was just in front of the Ward um in December for the first budget revision um but there is a state statute that that does have one more revision to this current year budget um and that revises that's going to be budget revision number two that revises the budget to the 100 day ADM so that would be the final budget revision for the current year we we'll look at what those budget changes are projected to be to both M and capital or also known as daa and then I'll look at a very early budget projections for fiscal year 25 so this would be next school year starting July uh 1st 2024 going through to June 30th 2025 and we'll cover some of the upcoming uh kind of Hot Topics in the legislative process right now go next slide please there estimated budget highlights um just kind of some of this recap um what I presented in December but um AO has stayed above the minimum wage um as I mentioned back in December that increased to 1435 an hour back in January um the the Ariz state budget um at the state level is experiencing a about a 700 $800 million deficit however most of that deficit is going to be handled at the state um there's little to no impact at the K12 uh budget level looking at fy2 um there's a lot of unknowns right now um there's about 180 uh bills on the floor at the legislative office right now um only time will tell how many of those actually get approved and then um with those few that get approved we'll see how they impact case funding the two things I do know um inflation so this is inflation to the the overall M budget um currently right now inflation's running about 3.3% at the state level uh the state is only obligated to provide a 2% uh inflation increase so um even though inflation may be realized a lot higher um they are only obligated to fund 2% and that has been the practice for the last decade so that's what we're uh we're going to take into consideration the 2% increase when we're looking at the fi25 budget projection um the estimated daa or Capital increase I have at 4.6% this is because of Governor Doug duy's um he put intact a three-year inflation increase to the capital budget um we are in year three of three going into year three of three excuse me and I know that increase amount is going to be 4.6% I'll show you how that impacts the budget later in the presentation and again I already mentioned this but the budget revision number two is required by ad and that will be done prior to May 15th I'll look at some of the projections on the next slide so go to the next slide please so this should be the fy4 projected revised M budget so this is looking at your M budget and its entire entirety to your total M budget this isn't looking at the detail expenditures Etc we're gonna we're going to get into that detail as we get into March uh but looking at your total budget if you look at the revised budget column number one um that is what I presented in December that is what the board approved and is currently in place um how we're trending towards that second budget revision um we're seeing a slight increase in in average daily membership so ADM um but um the the RCL is decreasing so the reason for that is because there's some Group B weights so those Group B weights are all your um students that have special education those uh elll funding um you typically get additional funding for those students um some of the students aren quite classified yet at the ad and so until those get um classified that that funding doesn't come in place yet so we're going to watch that as we progress to that may budget So currently right now we're trending for $92,000 reduction in the total M budget um if that again we're going to watch that a lot of that would be coming from the budget carry for it can make that that deficit up we going to go to the next slide so this should be the fy2 estimated proposed ml budget so now we're looking at the potential July 1st budget so as I mentioned earlier what I do know is there's a 2% increase to the base level amount so that's that first line we should see the per pup amount increase about $98 and that's the equivalent of 2% increase um right now we don't know a lot about where enrollment is going to go and so we're going to keep everything flat in terms of this uh kind of estimate um on the bottom uh session versus add-ons you'll see a decrease of 143,00 000 um that mostly it's all attributed to the one-time funding that was appropriated in the in the current year budget um based on the uh state approved budget from um from this current yearr 24 so that was one as a onetime funding increase that will not be as of right now that will not look to be continued in the K12 budget bill um you'll see a total budget proposed Bud next year being 4.6 million again a slight decrease mostly all all of it really is because of that um one time add-on that's coming off of the budget if we go to Capital we go to the next slide it should say FY 24 projected revised daa budget number two a lot less activity here um you'll see the revised budget that we that we the board approved in December revised budget number one in the First Column and we'll look at the revised budget number two the slight decrease is attributed to the again the group b weight fluctuation in the in the budget formula um again we're not we'll watch that um and see if that that changes as as we move into May um but any if that decrease does come to bition on the May budget report we'll look at reducing the budget balance carry forward but it won't affect your current year budget we'll just reduce that budget balance carry forward to balance the budget looking at the next Slide the FY 25 estimated proposed baa or capital budget um again I mentioned the 4.8 % increase in the capital budget um being year three of three f25 will be year three of three for that increase and you'll see that increase reflected in that First Column the adjusted daa or unrestricted capital budget that Inc that increases the equivalent to about $2,323 and so we're still uh tracking for to carry forward $824,000 into next year um but as you know it's February we still have five months of spending for this current year and so I'll update those numbers as we uh progress in the year um and track that carry forward and then lastly if you go to the last the next slide please is the FY 25 budget initiative um again this is a first review of the FY 25 budget uh I met with Dr and uh leadership team and and we've looked at kind of identifying four targeted areas to um as initiatives for for next year and so the first one being the salary schedule adjustment um I noticed and and it's been brought to my attention that both your classified and certified salary schedules have not been updated in several years and so um I know a lot of changes have been made in terms of job responsibilities um there's been some or changes and so we're going to look at that holistically and and look at what um uh make some recommendations possibly for next year compensation increase um obviously we got realized inflation affecting every employee and so um we're going to look at the budget and look at uh what the district can afford in terms of compensation increases for next year I don't have any any numbers right now but uh we're going through that process currently insurance provider evaluation um as I as I spoke to Dr sotero I mentioned to him the board and the district's biggest costs are in salaries and benefits those are your two biggest costs and so um we're evaluating your current insurance provider uh to see if you're getting the best price or the best thing above um that process is is ongoing but the current insurance provider proves that you know they are the cheapest you know most affordable option but that's also giving your employees um options that they need for for benefits um and the services that they need uh will probably stay the course but it is good uh practice to review um what you're paying in Insurance um and have that review you know annually or semiannually so that is part of the fy2 budget initiative and last one there um we've talked to uh I've talked to a couple teachers and looking at the cost in sight fund plan it looks like we can make some some changes to kind of get those dollars into the teachers hands sooner uh but again we're gonna look at what those changes look like bring back a recommendation um for next fiscal year and that is all I have um just a quick budget update for fi25 again I'll be uh back in front of the board um in March and we'll look uh to provide some details to some of these f25 budgeting inies um and look forward to next year so with that if there's any questions I'll be happy to answer don't think you got any questions um wait rney just more of a concern I had talked to I mentioned this to Dr Sal on Insurance um one priority there is to make sure that it's an insurance company that has providers here in town because um we don't want to be saving money by making everybody drive all the way to Buckeye to get it's breaking up a little bit can't what what Mr Hopkins concern was if there's any changes to the insurance provider that they have contracts with providers here in AA so there wouldn't be any increased travel for the employees oh absolutely yeah so that it's not just cost and I try to allude to that a little bit but like the ease of use right we we want we don't want them yeah again employees traveling out of like that's an incurred cost to employees even though maybe cheaper plan that's not that's not convenient or or um you know conducive to providing a benefits package that's in the best interest of your employees so that is certainly something we especially with r District okay thank you okay anybody else any questions comments concerns all right I think we're good on that did I did I see the news the other day where they're trying to take more money out of the state land trust and and give it to school districts for increasing teacher salaries did did I see that right yeah I can I can speak to that so uh there is a proposed bill it's um called proposition 123 um it's an extension of that so that actually expires this year and that currently is pulling money from the state trust land uh to fund uh basically additional dollars for teachers uh for AO that provides about $30,000 uh but they're looking to increase that uh next year and then extend that out another 10 years so um there's some concerns whether that's sustainable or not but I'm watching that bill right now nothing has been approved yet but yeah that's that's one that's been proposed um going into next year so and that funding would only be for teachers right it wouldn't be for auxiliary Personnel that what I saw also that's that's correct it would only be for certified staff so um you know yeah it'd be uh kind of like the class saund uh similar similar kind of uh rules and regulations where that can only be used for the certified teachers or um anybody that's providing instruction or assisted instruction and so yeah that would be that would that would not be funding available for classified or Administration thank you okay that's it we're good on that all right moving on thank you very much sir appreciate your time thank okay Mr ker members of the board um the next item Emma Emma Vasquez has been interviewed and reference checks completed for the position of a special education secretary Emma pre recently served as the special education secretary from 2017 to 2020 there is no board action necessary at this time this is a study session item only any questions comments concerns no okay moving on the next one Mr C members of the board the administration and the grant coordinators are requesting the following individuals to be approved for title and tutoring after school from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
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