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once if you can hear me clap twice if you can hear me there we are good morning everybody thank you and I hope day one of the AI Summit has lived up to or exceeded your expectations we're excited to be GA together today on day two of the summit and we'll have a busy half day together we have a special treat this morning a student soapbox speech to introduce our student speaker superintendent Michael matsuda thank you good morning for a week there's been so much networking and talking and learning from each other uh we're getting really really good feedback I I just want to I know our we have a soft lunch and kind of a grab and go lunch but uh we encourage uh you to stay uh that's I just want to open it up and get some feedback from you uh about this conference and Beyond uh we hope to be able to host a a conference next year in 2017 I was invited to India by my good friend the former mayor of this great City Tom Tate who um is known for kindness and creating a city of kindness I was invited to have an hour and 20 minutes alone with uh Tom and his Holiness to Daly Lama and of course I said yes I'm in I'd love to meet him and we went to uh Delhi and uh I had um some time with uh just a a great spiritual being and uh the reason why he was interested in I guess meeting me because I represented metaphorically all the Educators in the world and we with Tom Tate and I we really were trying to be make kindness real and it's more than just a smile it's more than just our prayers and thoughts are with you it's really about taking action and his Holiness said one of the I mean the guy really is has an aura and you feel it you feel that energy and that love because he's always smiling and and um and he laughs where like like that it's very it's uh endearing and he said the challenge with the United States this was in 20 17 is that um many adults need emotional hygiene he laughed like that he goes you need emotional hygiene but we had a deeper conversation about the purpose of education and he said the future of the world is in your hands and really Educators need to be more intentional about education and educating and he we had a really interesting conversation about empowering young people with their own through compassion and affirmation of who they are and giving them spaces to share who they are and fast forward I had a chance to meet some amazing leaders in our business in corporate world ahsd has about 115 corporate partners and nearly all of them say that it is so important that young employees have a sense of purpose and belonging in the organization that they choose and I think that's so true more true now than ever before that we educate ators need to build spaces for students to share who they are to affirm their identity affirm their stories and listen to voice and I think that we are at a very critical juncture in this country and in the world and so in Anaheim Union High School District we've instituted um all types of ways for students to Express themselves through student voice and we years some years ago we sent a number of teachers myself included to Chicago to be trained in the Mikvah soapbox speech and again I want to put a shout out to Brian Brady because he led that nonprofit for many many years where's Brian [Applause] yeah that really influenced me because basically the soapbox Peach is a truncated Ted Talk Ted Talks only 15minute two to 4minute speeches that affirm a student's ID identity and voice but what we also did in Anaheim is we grafted that speech um the kid would then um think about what their purpose was and what they wanted to do with that purpose and hence I I think it made our Civic engagement grow because often times when you find your purpose you want to do something about it and it could be writing letters or it could be presenting to the school board or the city council or I mean figuring out what level of government for example is responsible who's respons who benefits and who's responsible for what and I think what you're about to see and listen is one example of uh our amazing students who are in your district and we're 7 through 12 District you can imagine when we start this in 7th grade all the way to 12th grade right what type of kids are coming out of Anaheim Union so I am very very proud of the the teachers who've done so much work unleashing the student voices in our district so we have a young lady that's going to share her soapbox speech a senior from Magnolia High [Music] School not notice the Clapping started from a magnolia teacher right here so um so let's give it up for Leticia Alvarado [Applause] Franco hello everyone my name is latisia and I guess I'll get started out at the age of 8 I spent my evenings brewing coffee for my mother at 10:00 p.m.

before locking the door behind her as she left for work and putting my siblings to bed my story began with burnt coffee grounds on a dimly lit stove over 20,000 ahsd students according to the Department of Education identify as lwi income we spend our evenings riding the bus home or working afternoon shifts to support our families however despite the work that bus riders and part-time student workers pour into their education the reality is that disparities and lack of access to educational resources continues to inhibit our College Success with intensive tutoring upwards of $1,500 at the disposal of children whose parents fall under the higher income tax brackets students without these same opportunities fall at an incredible disadvantage and research exemplifies this Gap quite clearly according to the National in Institute of Health low as measured through academic assessments fell on average three academic years behind their higher income counterparts and even with local schools implementing free after school tutoring programs the reality is that staying after school might not be feasible for thousands of students for bus riders staying until 5:00 p.m.

translates into rushing home at 6:00 p.m. or even arriving later into the day as such our time spent attending after School tutoring often comes at the expense of compromising family responsibilities we need support that works for us but with the rise of generative AI tools we might just hold the key to maximizing student potential where students previously lacked access time and resources to attend after school tutoring we now have the ability to leverage AI able to summarize data at any grade level tools such as Chachi BG can easily adapt to the unique needs of our struggling students in fact research conducted by Carnegie melon University determined that after receiving assistance from AI in addition to in-person instruction 83% of participants increase their subject test scores that is to say that combining teacher assistance in the classroom with generative AI tools could further support low-income students in overcoming educational barriers imagine a world where as students arrive home from the their afternoon shifts or return from picking their siblings up from school they no longer feel unsupported in their academic Endeavors instead with a touch of a button students can now access personalized support to understand Shakespeare or the answer to a three-hour long calculus problem whether it's by speaking at our school meetings or can all play our part in helping the bus riders that live within our local communities through our advocacy for ethical AI use we can can advance equity in schools both locally and at the national level 16 and 17 we still brew coffee for our parents we still put our siblings to bed every evening and with the support of our teachers districts communities and most importantly AI we look forward to a future brighter than the light on the stove thank [Applause] you [Applause] thank you letia for sharing those amazing insights and perspectives with us this morning another round of applause for letia Alvarado Franco Magnolia High School what a great way to start the day now let's keep things going with an outstanding fireside chat on the important subject of how we can develop AI strategies to advance Equity our fireside chat today is moderated by Kenji trainer vice president of Partnerships and learning at the Stewart Foundation and includes ano Garcia professor in The Graduate School of Education at Stanford University and vice president of the National Council of teachers of English and Rudy Escobar the stem and computer science coordinator for the Stannis County Office of Education let's give him a hand as we're getting set up here take it away Kenji good morning with you I am Kenji trainer vice president uh at the Stewart Foundation of course want to start by um expressing big big thanks for the invitation and the opportunity to to participate in the conference um for those of you who reviewed the app and the program I'm not Sophie Finelli who is the president of the foundation unfortunately um got stuck with some family obligations at home but I'm so pleased to to be here with you all uh of course if I had a choice would not have wanted to follow latisia I mean amazing like what a hard act to [Applause] follow so you know uh we have just deep appreciation to to uh superintendent Mike matsuda and and everyone uh in Anaheim Union for organizing this amazing Gathering and of course for all of the sponsors and and panelists and contributors so it's it's really just been a fantastic event so far um and you know reflecting back given this topic of AI and Equity um so happy to have heard this theme and and set of questions and and tensions come up already so much through through uh through yesterday um you know Mike actually opened with this powerful framing story of Prometheus and fire and how humans were given this power that they didn't um is that really needs to be core from our from our Humanity so you know these these were critical cautions because of course we now have ai to to sit on top of these what we know are existing uh inequities in our society of course the pandemic made that so so clear um yesterday we heard from Jean Claude and Alex and and Mary do about Equity concerns with AI um including access challenges um major disparities and who gets connected um in what ways they get connected biases in algorithms and llms um you know I was struck in that session in particular by a comment that llms cannot realistically become unbiased really anytime soon um and that it's important and necessary to provide feedback to developers and um and a combination of of domain expertise and experimentation will make AI better and and less harmful um you know that sounds very very clear and practical uh and I get it but it also struck me personally as placing a burden to some degree on on users and we know that the least resourced and the least powerful among us including many young people um are going to have not such a strong ability to carry that burden but they're definitely going to bear um you know the greatest harms from these biases that that go on addressed um Dr an you know directly I think just challenged this question about Equity around amplification and intention you know are we going to acknowledge and address uh equity in in AI what is the Sorting function that we know schools were sort of set up um to ration out opportunities and you know how can AI be used to to either reduce those disparities with intentionality or are we just going to let the power of AI actually amp amplify who's already advantaged and who's already getting left Left Behind um I personally in one of the breakout sessions went um to hear from Dr Allison Scott and Shaina white from the Caper Foundation about how they're putting Equity front and center through this deep work um helping Educators and students and others examine AI in the context of Education um you know why I think fundamentally in that session the question was asked why should we allow AI to impact us like other prior Technologies when companies quote unquote moved fast and broke things um instead of taking very very seriously the moral and practical obligations to just do deeper thinking about what the negative impacts can be from from supercharged algorithms and AI tools and and who's going to bear um those costs so these these two women Allison and and sha are amazing their work is super super powerful and they've made it all available to you right here in a guide uh on on on responsible Tech Justice and and AI so please please check it out k a p o r foundation.org um we heard yesterday at lunch from from Gabby Lopez at at the Chan Zuckerberg initiative really that like dignity and belonging and engendering our Humanity that is so much the core purpose of education and schooling that can never be replaced and and should not be diminished either by AI or or other Technologies um and and Gabby's comment about the humanness uh of of of the education Endeavor reminded me of of lessons from Michael fen's work also about adults in the system and understanding that human beings and our cultures and our mindsets fundamentally Drive systems um and AI can help change more positively those things or just continue to reinforce um you know how we're set up with with inequities so at the very end of the day I was in a a packed room um with Educators and and very much District leaders who were hungry for like the most practical of practical information and support on things like policies and and guard rails around AI what is acceptable use um and you know there was very much a sense in the room of Chief business officers and litigation and financial liability and all those things but there was just as much this like very protective desire for young people and adults to have a sense of Safety and Security and the risks are really really real data privacy and Ransom attacks and geolocation and targeting and all of those things and so for young people who may already be vulnerable due to other kinds of inequities in their lives you know what is the responsibility of every teacher and every District to mitigate what might be unequal risks also online and with school provided AI applications so you know given all of these ideas and discussions that have already surfaced it's it's really a privilege to be able able to moderate this conversation with with ano and and and Rudy as two experts who are going to share their thoughts about uh equity and AI this morning um and and while they're not here on stage I also feel like uh definitely have to express real big gratitude to the folks at the UCLA computer science Equity project um particularly Dr Jean Ryu and and Dr roxan Hadad who were just like generous and and and giving as as planning contributors as as we tried to think about this session um and I know I've been talking for a bit but before I turn to Rudy and Intero wanted to offer just a point of view about like the steuart foundation who are we why are we even here um you know we come to this discussion as a foundation that's not technology focused frankly uh we're not born out of a technology company like Chan Zuckerberg initiative or google.org um we're a family foundation and we were formed nearly 40 years ago we're really committed to supporting life outcomes for young people through education uh since 2020 we've been reflecting a lot on what we already know about adolescent development in particular that for adolescents is this critical period of human development and major physical changes puberty no fun but also you know hyper malleable like brain growth you know the same as in early childhood honestly um and and these very other consequential social and emotional and identity changes are happening in adolescence but those are built from the experiences and the relationships that adolescence can have and so at the foundation we're really driven by this belief that adolescence is not to late to find purpose and to find passion to learn how to learn which came up yesterday to struggle and become proficient at engaging with people that are like really different from ourselves right this cross tribe experience if we're participating together in school um all of those things are are are going to have implications and and affected by the Learning environments that young people are in so at the Stuart Foundation we also draw from Decades of work that is not focused on education but actually on young people in the child welfare system and experiencing foster care um and we know that these youth along with many many other systems involved young people whether that's the criminal justice system or homelessness in the public Sheltering system you know many of these young people are already experiencing really unfair and unjust costs from the role of algorithms and AI in how these systems behave and operate um the national Center for Youth law which really focuses on a civil rights frame for young people is going to be releasing very very soon some recommendations about policies to protect children and young people in an AI powered world including Beyond education because as we already know you know more than 50% of American young people have integrated AI into their lives somehow whether in or out of school it's like these are the generations that cannot Escape they're are living with technology woven into all aspects of their lives more than a third of students are using AI tools not for schoolwork but actually to learn about and deal with anxiety and mental health issues I mean amidst a crisis of social connection do young people need more adult human engagement or simply communication with chat Bots to like find their way to Greater well-being um you know and and and in some of these most sensitive areas of young people's lives around education and health and safety public systems are using AI tools for surveillance and for profiling particularly with immigration and criminal justice they are applying biased Diagnostics and intervention actions in health care and to some degree in personalized learning particularly around you know disability responses is um and again the background that we have around young people in the child welfare system you have ai determined family removal and Foster placement recommendations and decisions happening already um and so given those realities and harms you know the national Center for Youth law is really putting forward this idea of a civil rights framework uh for young people in Ai and I think in education the question I I have for us is whether we've thought enough about that kind of civil rights frame um and are the potential Harms in education just as Stark as what we're seeing some young people experience outside of school so the steart foundation most simply were focused on on on these two high priorities of supporting all of California's adolescence to thrive and then transforming systems for Equity so we we believe in the immeasurable potential of young people despite what any AI powered prediction of their future might say we we we're all in on them and we are really certain that public systems are going to remain essential for any kind of social contract that supports dignity and equity for everyone across Society so given of course that next Tuesday is California's primary uh we view public education also as core to a healthy and functioning democracy um and and that of course is the means that we have for for establishing upholding any kind of social contract um so step off my own soap box now and and turn it over to uh ano and Rudy but but just wanted to offer some of those those thoughts to get us started um and and for Ando and Rudy would love maybe for you all to start the discussion with your thoughts about how AI is you know often framed as a tool for efficiency particularly in education um but what about equity and what about authenticity um you know what what are your views on on some of those things whether that's authentic learning and teaching or as we already heard um you know authentic voice and expression from young people yeah thank you um there's a there's a nice we get the the fire picture here so can kind of warm our hands up in front of us um I'm thinking about authentic authenticity and efficiency together particularly to leticia's words and in her in her Soap Box uh and I really appreciate the way that I'm looking at her there a big room but I really appreciate the way uh that you um they really reminded us I think of the most disruptive and Powerful form of Technology that's shaping schools right now and that's the school bus uh it's not gen right I just want to recognize that every day in California except on the weekend Saturday uh 700,000 kids get on a school bus in this country in this in this state alone right and we can think of the ways and my research team and I have have argued that the school bus is the most disruptive form of educational technology to ever shape US schools uh setting aside every single form of technology that might be on your minds in this room right now right none of them come close to the ways that students lives are disrupted it for the sake of efficiency right not for the sake of authenticity right it is efficient to get kids in the name of school desegregation in the name of equity to get kids from one place to another and we treat them like Cargo in these spaces right um and so I just want to kind of like acknowledge the the kind of uh we'll talk about Downstream effects I think later in this conversation but kind of acknowledge the kinds of long-term effects of what's it mean to spend thousands of hours on a school bus across your K12 schooling experience right what does that do instructionally pedagogically right and if we think of that as a kind of beginning thinking activity we can now kind of think through similarly right what are the ways where implicitly tools like gen right uh uh large language models might also uh over time shape our dispositions shape our assumptions of what our participation in society in our uh in a healthy functioning democracy can look like right uh and so I just want to like name that as a starting place um as a as a former English teacher someone who cares about English I think it's the it's the most important subject I'm I'm biased about this uh go go English teachers by the way for the uh so as someone who cares a lot about English we talk a lot about authentic voice right uh and we talk a lot about authentic voice and most of the ways that we assess in English classrooms and that teachers are evaluated in English classrooms is our ability to regurgitate uh generic arguments right argumentation and persuasion are the name of the game in this moment of Common Core in this moment of the rise of Science of reading again kind of thinking through what are the trends that are happening in in ela spaces and so when I think about authentic voice right I think of the many inauthentic ways that textbook companies that teacher education programs tend to focus on what is supposed to happen in English classrooms even though that doesn't look like what reading and writing looks like outside of school right I I would I would argue because I'm a professor I like to argue I guess um uh to my in-law Chagrin uh I would I would argue that uh my that kids today uh read and write more than any other generation right they spend most of their time recreationally reading multimodal complex texts that we don't count as reading in schools right that we don't assess that also I'm not I'm not advocating that we assess the by the way that is that that's that's not the that's not the goal um but I I would argue that knowing we're in this hyper literate moment as a society right uh is the best we can do uh how use gen geni to write a better version of The Great Gatsby essay right I want to put that up as like the straw horse argument that I don't think most of you actually are are advocating for in this room um but kind of hold that up as the we can do better in schools because we know kids do better outside of schools right and wondering what that bridge might look like maybe as a starting place for um a push towards authenticity as a way to getting towards equity that's a hard act to follow uh so yeah building on on what you just said about the authenticity of um how to adjust to what's happening in the classrooms and it makes me think about how we used to teach in the past and how we are having to teach now and I think about I've always thought about AI being an efficiency tool just that nothing else creativity critical thinking is always coming from the human being and we have to think about how can we get our students to continue building that that momentum to continue having those critical thinking skills to continue having that an authenticity of their own voice involved into AI we have to be very careful not to worry only about the tools and what the tools can do but what are those tools doing and how are we actually having our students involving in these tools and I think that that's extremely important I always think about right now that big term prompt engineering right that's a big term right now there's a prompt engineering pathway I guess in that we know pathway I guess is going to go away because the more those language models get uh trained the better they're going to become but problem formulation will not go away and we need to think about how as teachers we can get our students to continue building that critical thinking skills for problem solving that's really what the student Bo comes into place that's when they really can give their own ideas their own thinking and we got to be careful not to standardize it to where everybody uses the tool everybody uses the same thing everybody gets that opportunity because then we take the creativity away me I think I would just add to the I I agree with you unfortunately I wish wish we had an ARG but I would add in addition to bringing in student voice right I think the voice that often times is missing in these conversations is teacher voice too right that uh anytime again I teach at Stanford so you know you can you can see you see the Google buses just kind of going by us right you see the Facebook buses kind of going by I guess I'm really fixed on buses apparently this is that's that's what I'm that's what I'm really charging against um but you see you know you you are immersed in in the workforce there um and often times when we think about educational technology and we think about the tools that happen in classrooms uh these are tools that are largely created not by teachers or often times not with the input teachers maybe they come in as like an advisory or like a test group at the end kind of rubber stamp I think what what someone else made because that's what they think kids need and it can be sold to districts and ways to make lots of money on teachers and kids right and so I just want to recognize that often times uh often times what I worry about in in maybe in this room in in these conversations are the ways that we Overlook teacher expertise and assume that teachers are not the experts in these classrooms right and so I just want to like acknowledge this is a this is a key part of yeah but for teachers that's great um just obviously acknowledge right that teachers in this moment what one I I can't difficult it is to be a teacher right now given all of this right everything right I'm just going to point existentially to the world um and thinking about kind of like what that means so recognizing like how difficult it means how difficult it is to be a teacher and a student right now I think gets us to the real heart of authenticity to some extent right so what are authentic tools a lot of my early research was on uh the use of cell phones and classrooms um uh it's outdated now because everybody's figured out how to use cell phones and classrooms we don't worry about it anymore uh that's actually not the case right we are still regularly worrying about turn away your devices turn off your devices and the reason we're in this problem today uh is because no one has taught adults how to properly use your cell phone right we uh you we are you are all I'm I'm going to blame all of you you are all at the dinner table on your cell phone right getting yelled at by your spouse uh the authentic ways that we as adults use tools penalizes what kids do with their with their Tools in schools right it's probably a similar kind of challenge we're going to face with geni right that the ways kids actually want to use technology uh like chat GPT like Dolly like you know whatever the next thing is right the video production stuff that's coming right the ways that kids are actually going to want to use that uh allowed and we're going to find ways to build up structures around it to remove the authenticity from these tools unless we are actively working with teachers and young people along all these steps I think that's just like one design consideration for us to think about I like that you bring that bring that up because um something that really caught my attention this morning when we were having breakfast hearing the difference the different types of level of understanding of AI in in for educators and when I think about bringing in those teachers teacher voices we need to think about all teachers and we need to think about not only which is typically what happens or we get this the ones that are above the level of tech understanding we need to bring in those teachers that have zero knowledge yeah of AI it's zero understanding of AI because their voice ALS also matters and they got they have to think about how how can they actually bring in what's the barrier what are some of the things that can that can make it more difficult for them and what are some of the fears that come out of this work yeah so thinking about what is already happening what is sort of in this near-term reality of education and AI um and ano you touched on this we also know that there's there's going to be to hear from from both of you about uh what questions you think we should be asking ourselves around those potential long-term impacts what are you seeing in your imagination what are you worried about you know in around the future of the long-term impact that AI can AI power tools can have in education I'd like to start with thinking about what what will AI do so five times because that'll be about 35 years above anything else that we do uh but I like to think about how what is the impact that it's going to have in our social interaction and how our students are going to be socializing are they going to be socializing with a human being or are they going to socialize with an AI and is that going to we are so working so hard for to do now so it's very important to think about what are the what are those things that are going to be touching later on if we just allow AI to take over we need to actually have an opportunity for for students to have steal the interaction they can I like to think about AI being AI but not making AI the main tool and that's important to think about to for students to have an interaction Educators also to have that interaction but don't allow it to become the number one thing as well as how are those models being impacted I mentioned a little bit ago about they're going to become better those those models are going to become better what we're feeding into those Models All of Us for example when you put a prompt in in chbt what are we putting in there what are we actually guiding it to do that is a long-term impact because that is something that depending on what we feed it that's what it's going to give us back so garbage in garbage out idea that's extremely important to think about I think I think about the long-term and I mentioned this earlier I think about longterm as um maybe like Upstream Downstream so you know if you or downwind right so if you were near some kind of industrial space right like what are the downstream impacts of living around there and so just want to name kind of like very very literally the the environmental impact of gen gen right like the the huge kind of energy use that we're talking about here uh in a moment when our world is on fire feels like a thing we should probably be thinking about right I've worried about the future of kids maybe we should think about energy consumption just seems like a basic thing that I have nothing I I don't know how to fix that but I don't think most of us in this room do either and that seems like a problem um so just want to acknowledge that right this is uh at least for most of us who are who live in California uh I didn't know the word atmospheric River until recently and now it seems like a thing that we just now just regularly have to encounter so thank you climate change I guess right in terms of like what this means as a space so just want like recognize there's some long-term impacts that we don't talk about and don't think about how to mitigate in this moment right in ways that I think are pretty scary uh and are going to directly impact the lives of of our children um so I want to name that I think moment from my mother-in-law um I love her very dearly uh and uh I think of during Christmas she wanted to play this like Christmas playlist that she saw somewhere on her Alexa um and she and her Alexa had like a real Tiff they had a real moment in the kitchen together um where she got like her voice got like quieter and quieter and more Stern right it's like Alexa I need you to play and you could I feel like you've seen this interaction um and and it's like I I still love I love this moment right because I think it shows you know the ways that we communicate with with robots uh and and there's a question around civility right and should we should we speak lovingly to robots or not right is a kind of thing to think about but I do recognize that with chat GPT uh as or you know as as a maybe a placeholder for for uh gen Tools in general um there's a way where we are programming young people to figure out how to effectively communicate with robots in order to elicit the information that we want where that is time that we could spend thinking more effectively about how to communicate democratically with each other right uh and yes these tools are going to get better at us being intuitive with them and kind of being conversational that's great right but the more and more time we spend on how do I revise my prompt in order for Gen to give me the right kind of response right is more time spent from looking at each other right and thinking about these assist of agents and so I worry about the long-term impacts of what's it mean to communicate with robots and teach young people how to communicate with robots uh in lie of the kind of uh increasingly limited time of of talking with one another right I think there's ways where gen tools are going to mitigate some of this and are going to support face-to-face interactions um but I don't think that is going to be a fix all right so I just want to recognize that to me the most sacred thing that can happen in schools is for kids and teachers to have a thriving loving joyful environment where they get to interact with each other that is as toolfree as possible Right There are very few places where that happen um and they have difficult conversations right so a long-term impact uh that will be uncomfortable to acknowledge right but a long-term impact is that we are always excited to talk about educational technology right as a field as Educators uh as folks in this field right this is a space that we will always show up and parents and teachers and students are going to be supportive of this in general right uh there is a there there is data that shows that this is going to improve long-term outcomes right we are very very afraid to have difficult quote unquote controversial conversations in schools right there is a highly contested uh presidential election I don't know if you know this right there's there's there's an election here get this let me let me tell you something you haven't heard about there's a presidential election happening right um there are multiple Global Wars right that students do not feel safe talking about in schools teachers do not feel safe talking about in schools right uh and we do not have space to talk about it here because it's not the focus of this conference right um but our ability to not have those conversations is teaching intense amounts of information to young people about what is valued in schools and what's not valued in schools we value the teaching about gen and learning how to do that better but not about teaching about the kind of real world crisis that we're going to throw on the laps of young people right and so I think that is a long-term impact that we've been encountering for a long time to to add on to that I I think that also something to consider that it's a long-term effect is the digital divide we are already are in a digital divide and now by bringing Ai and giving the opportunity for certain schools or certain districts to have the opportunity to have these AI tools or AI uh type of models it's going to create that digital devide that is going to be a lot greater than what we have now um I have experience with uh in the same school system div division between some groups are getting Ai and some are not and we know very well who are those the the ones that get that opportunity I have fear of that that's going to become a greater issue because like you said it has to do with a lot of uh where that money is being spent where everything is going so we need to also think about how can we make this more Equitable where everybody gets the opportunity and not just use it as one place I I feel like brudy that feels like a um this this feels like an opportunity to actually say something positive about gen someone who's been really down on it in this conversation I'll say like particularly to the digital divide you know I've been I've been doing a lot of work with uh uh individuals who are labeled as undocumented in this country um and one of the tools that I've been working with them around um is is using chat GPT as a writing tool for translation right and so just recognizing like the great leveling function of if you have an open AI account uh you can basically translate things effectively and free and almost instantaneously participate in the business world through email and and conversation in ways that probably weren't accessible to you um before right I just want to recognize like this is this is like a really powerful tool for um Second Language learners for uh for individuals who might not feel comfortable uh in particularly communicating in standard academic English and just that this is a really powerful opportunity that I don't think we we I we broadly uh teach effectively so just I think yay this is this is probably a bigger call for the digital divide work so particularly given all of those Dynamics and I think with the backdrop for example in a formal way of um participation in Civics and democracy but even in other ways and and um again as we heard from from Leticia earlier this sense of voice and agency uh is is is key and so you know any other additional thoughts about how you think a sense of agency in the world for young people might be impacted by you know by by Ai and and maybe these Dynamics around you know being a consumer or a Creator or as you said antera already you know um like AI for whom and in service of what you want sure may I think when I think about the agency piece uh I I wonder where can young people see their lives affirmed in these tools uh Dr Rudy and Sims Bishop has this kind of foundational idea of uh Windows uh mirrors sliding glass doors right and often times and this was this is kind of key theory for uh young adult literature children's literature that um young people should be able to pick up a text and see their lives affirmed in those texts right or see someone else's life as a as a as a window into other kinds of possibilities right and I wonder right so thinking of the the biases questions um bi bias question there's a plural thing that's going to drive me nuts now me driving home later like it was a biases uh but kind of like thinking of biases in Genai tools uh when do young people see their lives affirmed right when you when you type in uh engineer right does the engineer look like the person that looks like you right uh June when you created the picture of yourself right in your in your slide right does it look like you it kind of looks like you it's pretty good um uh yeah is good um and so like like all of these kinds of things right like do you see yourself affirmed like do you see your lived experiences when you um I had I had a student write down you're like what is the most popular fruit in in ch GPT and it said Apple uh and then um tried to say you know what is the most popular fruit in Cairo um and it still said Apple even though maybe it's it's pomegranate like we kind of kind of kind of think through like there is a western bias that exists in in in in these tools presently uh and so wondering you know where do we see ourselves affirmed feels like one piece of that agency aspect right but the other side of the agency is often times to me I think about agency as tied to like what do you get to do with this right and so when it comes to teachers and what happens in schools most of the ways we think of digital citizenship or online Civic reasoning or media literacy as kind of like some buckets um are around kind of like two foundational pieces that teachers are told to spend most of their time so one is about safety and civility right this idea of like you need kids to be safe and not bully each other and like stay safe in spaces that's probably important we we spend an inordinate amount of time on that rather than fostering agency right and the other side is around interpreting misinformation right and I think increasingly as we get to multimodal work with geni we're going to spend a lot more instructional time on the tools for like does it pass the crap test right do can you look at the kind of different kinds of media literacy Tools in order to understand if this is a real piece of information or if this is fake right and those are going to get harder and harder which means it's going to suck up more and more of our instructional energy on rooting out deep fakes rooting out fake information disinformation in ways that are going to be really pernicious for this existing Democratic crisis that we're in um but on the other hand and the more time we spend on that the less time we spend on agency and on allowing young people's voices to lead us and to ask critical questions and to innovate and to think through what powerful possibilities might exist and so I think those are kind of like key foundational pieces I'm also just in the back of my mind and I don't know how to link this together but I'm just going to say out loud we yesterday was the 21st anniversary of the Department of Homeland Security right was like a massive data space right one of like the key agencies that uses the kinds of texts that we're talking about in this space and so recognizing right the kinds of long-term impacts of these spaces and the ways they've changed what it means to be a young person in this country feels like an agentic conversation to kind of hold on to as a starting place I I think about student you know um student voice and agency are really what going what's going to move our society to strive and the opportunity to have them interact with AI what are those tasks that we're giving or we providing for students to interact with versus what are the tasks that students are going to interact with I feel like we have to uh be cautious to allow uh students to use AI for certain tasks but don't allow it to take the personal part of it that that voice right because it is important for them to continue having those conversations at you you mentioned something about uh giving them opportunities to discuss those Democratic systems discuss those ideas giv the opportunity those tasks for them to have voice in everything they do and yeah use AI for efficiency but not substituting it for the opportunity of agency yeah that's good there's so many more po questions here about uh for example who owns young people data and the portability and the transferability and the as you talk about the Department of Homeland Security in 20 plus years will this data ever go away or will it continue to follow and and haunt young people uh I wish we could get into that question and other questions but we're actually coming right up on time and so wanted to just throw both of you more of an open invitation is there anything else that you've been thinking about um and that you feel like this particular group of folks really you want to share with them about this question of of equity and Ai and you know maybe a minute two minutes each and then and we can wrap so I'm going to speak from my own perspective and my own lens and uh last thing I want to really you know with all these Educators here to think about is AI is here it's not going to go away the question is how are we going to use it and I like the the analogy of the fire right uh are we going to use it to make things better and be you know have efficiency or are we going to use it to make things that can be destructible and that question is always no matter what choices we make when we think about policy when we think about student agency when we think about the classroom itself and what are the things that we're using in the classroom think always about what are the two sides there's always two sides to to AI what are the benefits and what are the disadvantages of it and think about it that way as you bring in to bring in AI into your systems uh I was telling the story to some teachers that you see Irvine a month ago so but so hopefully this doesn't repeat for anyone in the room but I I have four-year-old twins they're monsters um and one of their favorite books um is called there's a monster at the end of this book uh this has some nods I see the parents in in the room um some of you are like what are you talking about but but but the rest of you I see you um and so this book is about Grover from Sesame Street and he's in the and he's B I'm going to ruin this book for you by the way if you're worried about it and turn the page like I can't believe you've done this you're getting closer to the end of the book right and if you if you finish the book I guess um and at the end it turns out that Grover is the monster at the end of the book right um and this book was not written as a cautionary tale for edtech people in general uh but I think about it right in terms of of right is the monster by us in the room right I think of this maybe from like a ship of thesis kind of way of like we've thought of these kinds of challenges and different kinds of ways with different kinds of tools and maybe this is different maybe it's not right but if we look at the history of educational technology one of my former colleagues Larry cubin spent a long time thinking about the histories of edtech in in the United States since like the 1920s since a century ago right and thinking through the kinds of continuing crisis that we've worried about the existential threats to what happens to classrooms right I think largely the same is that classrooms still kind of look like classrooms right they like that is one of the most resilient things that happened right for better or worse for young people classrooms continue to be what classrooms are and if we are not going to disrupt the traditional core model of what happens in schools not through an app but through policy through hard work through reimagining our Workforce uh nothing substantive is going to change around us as much as the world might be eroding at the same time so I just want to acknowledge Grover as our prognosticator in this space maybe as a as a final thought so thanks to Rudy and anio thank you all for being here it was a joy to spend Saturday morning with you thanks thank you thank you so much this amazing panel for your authenticity and real world perspectives this morning let's give Kenji Antero and Rudy another round of applause if you are looking for presenter slide decks from the AI Summit we have some amazing content on the AI Summit website we'll put a QR code up on the screen check it out to connect with our AI Summit content and resources presenters if you haven't yet shared your resources with Brian 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sure Mr Hopkins [Music] here here Mr here and I'm here okay and we've appointed an acting clerk so may I have a motion to adopt the agenda I'll make a motion I'll second itkins I I please stand and join me for 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 and time for public comments but we have no public or we have no public or public comments so on to the consent agenda we have a motion to approve the consent agenda I will make the motion I'll second it I I okay uh first item then is the revision of the certified scary salary schedule yes Mr H is MERS of the board um advisers from True professionals with the administration and revised the certified salary schedu for the 2425 school year this Revis salary schedule when approved will be used to issue 2425 certified contracts there is no board action necessary at this time for this informational item we do have a Mr Tyler Moore he is our true professionals consultant and also uh he Ser he works as a the Chief Financial Officer for Gilbert hle UniFi he's going to go over uh some good information with you all you have it also in front of you that shows the highlighted yellow part is what we want to do for 2425 and then you also have the other sheet that that doesn't have highlighted parts of what affs the current Sol so um Tyler can you hear us yes can you hear me yes go ahead Tyler you're on all right yeah good afternoon uh president members of the board um yes I have not going to share my screen I just got finished with the track practice a new coach track team high school track team um but I am sharing the the proposed certified salary schedule which is on the agenda tonight um to discuss and so um in consultation with Dr Sho Lance and then off staff um looking to next this next school year we wanted to look at some areas where we can make um some adjustments to the budget um this proposed salary schedule addresses really two two scenarios addresses one um increasing the the base pay utilizing the classroom site fund and then number two it provides some U compensation for those employees that have certifications above a ba and also creates some salary compression with this steps and honoring some of those teachers that have your a longer longer tenure so the proposal um is highlighted of your screen um essentially what uh changes I am recommending um are across the steps um at ba we're not changing your starting teacher salary um but I did want to address and provide some um opportunities for individuals who are on those steps but achieving um greater C certifications um to have opportunities to move up in in a grade um and so what you see highlighted is a essentially it comes out to about a 1% increase so from looking at step one uh ba so if you if you were a teacher at 35,000 with one to three years of experience um and during that one to three years you achieved uh a VA plus 15 um now there would be an opportunity for a slight compensation adjustment to honor that individual for achieving such a you know the next step up um the second part of that is putting the classroom c um putting a portion of the classroom cyclum into the base pay um so it's still separate bucket um but what it does is it um moves at 8421 that was currently getting paid out and a couple different um lump sums that now gets paid out it would be recommend that this gets paid out um across all the pays that individual is working and so uh provides more money per paycheck to that individual um and also gives you a a higher starting base salary but keeping those buckets still separate um gu I'm not going to go over each step but you can kind of see this similar um theme across each one of these steps is that um you have a a base amount and then there's a 1% incremental adjustment as you achieve um different accrediations and so um the total cost for this move for the certified adjustment would be just under $50,000 um I done some sustainability tests and and um even if classroom site fund than or take or we go through a recession and that and that bucket of money is decreasing um AO is in a place right now um where you guys are carrying over about $1.2 million in your m&o um we would be able to sustain that amount for the next um two to three years and so the reason I say two to three years is because um that is about as far out as I feel comfortable kind of estimating for this this type of bucket because it's based on sales tax and so um that kind of has an inherent um risk but it also is something we look at annually um on the EO side so the salary um highlighted here the base salary um those adjustments again would be sustainable um with within your annual appropriated budget from the state um with Dr s help we've been doing some cleanup um as well as Lance and uh looking at positions that are that have been budgeted in the system historically but not have been filled and so we've seen some uh opportunity to basically move some positions that essentially will not be ever filled um and use some of that money to put back into the salary schedule so like that kind of highlights some of the adjustments not not not huge changes but um I feel some changes that move the salary schedule in a positive way again addressing kind of increasing That Base teacher certified teacher amount and then um honoring those individuals who achieve those various different accreditations throughout uh you know their career as as long as they stay it so with that I'll be happy to take any questions um I've got one question I know you said that the um classroom site fund increase um you can only tell if that's sustainable for the next two or three years how for how long is the actual raise sustainable not counting the classroom site fund yeah so for the the base adjustment like I said I left you're starting teach salaries are the same yes the adjustments I made across the schedule um are about a $50,000 um increase per year to the to the operational budget um now is sustainable for the next three to five years um like I said we've looked at some of the positions that were being U basically budgeted within the financial system and yet we're not being filled and so you get basically budget capacity there that we utilize to to make these increases but that also will be sustainable because we're not going to be filling those positions so um that's three or five years within your budget you're also sitting on again $1.2 million in contingency and so if something changed in that budget in terms of student count right that's the main multiplier and calculating your your annual budget um we would be able to offset some of those basically if there is a decrease with that contingency that you've been carrying over so I feel very comfortable that this is again a small adjustment but that's sustainable for the next three to five years okay thank you Tyler Tyler can you hear me there's also there's also I just want to make sure U there's also a pretty a very healthy Reserve in classroom site fund correct that is correct yeah um and yeah and the last annual financial report so basically the last school year you Clos the year out with a um a fund balance of about uh almost a million dollars and so um again very you have contingencies um in both the operation budget and this classroom side fund so um you know the last thing I would want to do is move money to the the teacher base and then have to reduce it the next year right that's that that's not fair to the individual um and so um making this recommendation that you know I wanted to make sure it was sustainable and I do feel again it's sustainable for the next again I I used two to three years because you look at this annually um but uh yeah if they if that fund were to completely fall off the face of Earth and and sales tax would completely um tank over the next 2 years again that would be sustainable um for 3 years without you know having to make an adjustment to that allocation amount and again on the bottom of the sheet um we have the the total um 301 um that's that's eligible to teachers so the 8421 would be the recommended amount put into the base and then um eligible teachers have an opportunity to earn up to another 564 in performance pay for a potential Total 1 allocation of 14,00 over 14,000 from that classing ccle um Mr Hopkins uh I want to just also go over just some of what Tyler said just to try and put it just in summary of so Tyler I'm just going to kind of reiterate what you said okay um some of the from from from talking all of us working as a team uh step one $2500 increase at the starting point so before it was $335,000 all across now from your VA to your doctor you can either be at n46 step two that you have in front of you the the with the yellow highlighter um it's 2,800 from B to the doc Brit that you can that you can be starting at whereas before it was $37,800 cross so at step two you can either start at 46221 or 48 948 some other notes that that that we've shared um Tyler touched on the classroom site fund the 8421 uh collapsed into the base pay and I know the other districts have done this also son Unified School District he also shared with us uh um the uh some districts in the valley do this uh performance pay up to 5614 to be paid out in May of 23 and 24 and every May afterward so certified staff will be rewarded for achieving their smart goal in the same year what has happened before in the past uh and talking with our leadership team and the advisory committee the performance pay performance pay was given out o oober or November of the next fiscal year so this year teachers are going to get it before they leave so they make their goal this year and they get compensated for that go before they even May um like Tyler stated the ml carry forward is healthy talking with him around 1.1 1.2 million uh but also as stated uh the classroom side fund Reserve is is very healthy between one and 1.3 million uh he shared this right now the state annual payout it's around 440,000 for a USD the6 sales tax so uh that comes out to you know going to to our certified staff that 14,000 amount uh sustainability I wanted to mention also uh Mr Hopkins and Miss Rodriguez and Miss Olson this was a team effort it started January 26 he came here in person um Mr jingi Dr Shotz and myself met with him to discuss uh uh the performance PID for teachers to get their performance paid the same year that they meet their goal and the analogy Mr Chu made was like if you're a doctor and for that year you work you get your performance pay compensation that same year it doesn't happen the next year five or six months into the next year it did make sense how we were doing it um February uh uh 29th uh under Dr sh's leadership we met with a principal advisory committee himself sou Mr Casey Mr Fernand Mr V mringo mria missa right after school we discussed uh this this uh new plan we want to go to they all saw it they all got a copy every member gave some input they were very excited at looking at the performance pay before they leave but also the classroom site fund being into their pay periods over from August all around way through m versus waiting for the lon payouts um they also were excited about as Mr Casey stated the increase you can go with the lateral move of each step whereas before there wasn't a lateral increase you could have a doctorate at 35,000 and you could have a Bach at 35,000 one to three years on step one so now there's lateral move which is very critical and um from from from last uh Wednesday to right now there's been a team reviewing the salary scheduled amounts you know it says their contract amount making sure that everything is is set but with uh you know going forward with this to have the correct amount Angelina's been working very hard Dr shol Ginger Tyler myself we we're double cheing we're triple cheing so there's at least five sets of eyes looking at okay do we have everything down right is it correct a salary schedule is a very challenging task to take up and and we need to believe the way we're doing it we have a whole team effort involved so that all the none of the details are not missed and so uh relying on multiple budget sources is is is is is is a good practice like I stated earlier um other school districts also are finding creative ways to to do this as well and it makes sense to to reward your your certified staff your teachers so uh from the M site also from the classroom site fund they're both very healthy reserves and so that's all I wanted to add okay yeah if I could just add one thing this is step one um we wanted to start with the certified salary schedule and the teaching sta first and building the budget for next fiscal year um the next in uh April I plan to bring a recommendation um to adjust the classified salary schedule um and we're just kind of slowly uh building the budget for next year and then um working through the the employee groups as that's the biggest that's the biggest budget impact you know takes about 70 to 80% of your your annual budget um and so we've been spending a lot of time working with these two salary schedules uh this one certified salary schedule was first um and then in April I'll bring um recommendation to review the classified salary schedu and and te U 's comments Mr Hopkins and members of the board that you know this is in line with the ecba professional staff salary schedules other certificated Personnel the salary schedule pertains to Personnel holding provisional basic or standard certificates at the elementary or secondary levels so we're all we are using policy to guide us as well just for's information and I think this could have huge positive consequence for Teacher retention just looking at you were saying even if somebody comes in here with a just a bachelor's or all the way to a doctor under the old system for the first three years there was no raise built into it it was they were making the same base pay and then it only jumped up once in the next five years so for eight years you know even the most highly qualified of those teachers only got one pay jump and it was after many many years but I think it to me to have them increase annually like that should really help us with retention of of teachers and this was very I want to give L I want to give TI a lot of credit you know when you have a CFO or a business manager who wants to work with you and help you figure this out it makes a big difference and he has his background and experience over to unified so he's sharing with us these ideas and Dr shab and I have met with him a couple of times and uh and he's also now going back and forth with Angelina and ginger so it it helps that you have some good guidance and that you have guidance from someone who really wants to help you wants to help you you know for the reasons you guys have just said um you know no one person can do this by by themselves but when you have someone guide in you it makes a big difference well I know this is another one of those pieces of information that members of the board had requested many times just getting what the pay scale was and I think when I met with you was the first time I'd actually seen it so are there any other comments on that okay then next item is the first reading of the AO Unified School District governing board policy review okay Mr Hopkins and members of the board um we have before you uh Angelina and I um we divided this up so the best way I can think of this is I'm just going to highlight um I'm not going to read each policy per se you have that also I just have some highlighted points but I'm just going to go from the the topic the the cover page that has all 26 uh um policies I'm just going to go through a one by one just the key points this will come as the first reading then Wednesday I'll just refer that second reading we're referring back to the first reading and we should be good but um any any additional questions please let me know either right now or between today and Wednesday but I'm just going to start off with I believe the first policy is yes okay policy advisory 763 uh BB agenda the main difference was um the email is an acceptable method of communication that's the main that's the main uh the main change the next one policy advisory 764 regulation bgcr policy revision and review um language is updated and revised to align with current practices that's for bgcr next one is policy advisory number 765 policy BGE policy communication and feedback and regulation BGE are once again very very direct language has been updated and revised to align with current practices you have in front of you you have where all the different words or phrases have been have been lined out and just uh so I'll just refer to that so you can you guys can see that as as I'm going along with the uh summary next we have policy advisory number 766 regulation C ecbr line and staff relations I just have highlighted on my part ASR 15353 is no longer a statute and thus its requirement for a parental satisfaction survey for parents is no longer relevant and there you see the key Parts in the regulation in front of you policy um advisory number 767 policy CF D and that's a school based management pretty much it's just stating the policy has been revised to mirror the requirements of the statute and there you have in front of you the key uh the key Parts uh from that from that uh policy cfd School councils promoting the main focus is to promote District Mission and gos have a shared Vision um the next policy advisory is 768 regulation EBR environmental and safety program um my highlights have ar1 15-22 has been removed as the stat the statute was repealed the current relevant statute is ARS 41-5 7289 it just has there on on as you're looking on the regulation in bardocks um the different maintenance staff what they have to do uh principal schedule regular inspections state and federal safety regulations Transportation supervisors um responsibilties of employees and students and so responsibilities of other individuals with school buildings building grounds and so we we have that with our we our facilities team is set up next we have ebaa policy 769 reporting of Hazards Warning Systems a summary State's current relevant statutes are ARs 3-36 and ars1 15152 once again the policy has been edited to conform to the current statutory requirements so so that's cly talking about um pesticide application notice Angelina does a great job with this adequate notice prior to pesticide application ARS 15-1 152 48 hours prior to such application the location and area or areas where the pesticide is to be applied name address phone number and contact person of the certified applicator so that's something that we have been doing on a regular basis EBC policy advisory emergencies and this has stated um it states here uh emergency response plans this is important confidential and exempt from public disclosure the district shall not release emergency response plans to the public as part of a public records request that's with ARs 41-8 um 1803 also local responders shall periodically be invited to review the plan we have had a very positive uh uh feedback and review from local responders uh helping us out IM County Sheriff's Office and Emergency Management agency' been very positive um uh we have that is abbc um and once again the policy was updated to M language in ars1 15- 341 regarding emergency response plans next is policy ECB um advisory number 770 building and grounds maintenance so um some of the highlights there uh ar41 5832 does not require an IAQ indoor air quality plan or coordinator nor is there any EPA requirement for such that language has been removed um it cites there the legal reference and this just talks about a program of inspection and maintenance supervision HVAC systems new construction and Renovations Plumbing Systems electrical systems and we have a real good uh system here with our facilities and operations uh we have managers ground custodial Services they both oversee HVAC and they both also help up with the construction and renovation our leadership team and Facilities next we have policy advisory number 772 that is Walkers and Riders EAA summary ars1 15- 81601 governing board provides student transportation limited to 30 miles each way the highlights from the policy you have in board dos regular school bus transportation to and from school for the following categories and it has their listed um to go to H section c students who are residents within a school attendance area and live more than one mile from the school if high school students live more if high school students live more than a mile and a half and Angelina and I were reviewing this before the meeting our transportation as far as where it starts and when she review she has it there she's going to show it to you right now just you can have a visual about the old Dairy Queen goes north 5 Acres on roster until Hayworth across the highway to Elliot IA 85 to but she's going to show you right there real quick that's what we have in place so we're uh we're in good shape there um then we have uh policy advisory number 773 regulation e aeer bus safety program once again language has been updated to conform with the Arizona administrative code and so pretty much the highlight of what you have uh in front of you in board dos this talks about any person boarding or attempting to board a school bus whether or not a passenger a passenger or nonp passenger boards or attempts to board a school bus refusing to comply with the school bus driver's instructions the school bus driver may seek emergency assistance to remove the passenger a non passenger so it's just highlighting the bus safety program I got one question question about the one right before that on Walkers and Riders yes yes I'm and I'm assuming I know what the answer is but it says limited to 30 miles each way I know our lukeville students are on a bus a little bit longer than that is that exemp because it's County bus that's yeah that's what I was want to just make sure I knew that I had that right yeah because I knew that wasn't our bus going down there didn't know if they had a different radius for County yes sir okay Sor policy advisory uh GBF staff use of digital Communications and devices the summary as you notice several of the lines in these summaries has been the same language has been updated and devis to align with current practices the parts I highlighted in this in this U policy social media blogs instant messaging Facebook LinkedIn YouTube smartphones the board equally recognizes that the misuse of such Technologies can be potentially damaging to The District employees students and Community uh District employees shall adhere to all governing board policies related to Technologies including but not limited to the use of District technology responsible for the content of their posting on any form of Technology any form of communication use District controlled and approved Technologies um Technologies used to communicate with students and District staff are maintained separate from personal technology so but but you all are well aware of that so um that I believe is the first read for these 13 policy advisories and we'll do the second read on on Wednesday any questions okay if there's no questions or discussion thank you sir for that and on to the next thing which is approval of the Emergency Operations plan yes okay so um just an explanation uh we''ve been work the administration in cooperation with P County Sheriff's Office and P County Emergency Management have completed the attach Al school's Emergency Operations plan there's no board action necessary at this time for the informational item but I do want to highlight the administrative content you see a little description there just the sensitive nature of the document the administration is requesting the document be kept and and you know it's very sensitive nature but the policy advisor we disc earlier also stresses that as well um you have you do have in front of you just a little quick summary um January 18th uh we attended a webinar to the a auditor General's office uh that came as a result of the joint legislative audit committee um also met with our local law enforcement January 30th to review the Emergency Operations plan and get feedback from local law enforcement uh Representatives we also had our legal department review the Emergency Operations plan Dr sholz and I had to complete a survey regarding the Emergency Operations plan um when we reviewed the uh Emergency Operations plan with our local law enforcement Representatives we really looked at uh closely the incident command structure and responsibilities that you have on your Emergency Operations plan in front of you if you guys go to Pages 13 and 14 that highlights the incident command structure and responsibilities Whenever there is any kind of emergency response you have that in front of your uh in front of you and your board Ducks um that's where we are [Music] um this this is coming from as I stated joint legislative audit committee a special audit for school safety from the auditor General's office uh there survey was due February 27th march to June of 2024 the auditor General's office will review and conduct audit fieldwork um July of 2024 they will complete fieldwork and begin report drafting October to November of 2024 they will have their preliminary draft report to selected districts we don't know who's going to get selected they will let us know what districts are selected okay um so December 31st 2024 issued a public report the three Auditors the senior auditor and um also the division of school audits director so that's where we are just so you have the background on on how this came about okay and um that's pretty much uh it's pretty much it as far as with the okay Emergency Operations plan and the whole process for the potential special audit on schol safety now one thing I noticed about it when you made reference to page 13 when when I tried to go there every page in this document says it's page 33 page 3 no every page is Page 33 the bottom of the bottom of it each one just says page 33 so have fix that because I even the little hand thing appears when I go over the the blue stuff but it's not you know I would think if I clicked on it when the hand appears it would go to that page but it's not okay we'll make that correction box color box yes okay we'll make that correction okay please look through this um uh any feedback you have U please contact either one of us myself Dr shabot or Angelina um your feedback is important and um we saw how it also correlates with the policy on emergencies yes so okay um I do have to add and I know that you just dropped the phone with him I am not a I'm not comfortable with the word approved right right yes um is there any way that we can re verbage that before it's sure okay problem this is this is a draft so that's why you guys look at it check it out any other feedback let us know so um if we are selected we want to turn in right the best possible revised plan okay okay there any other questions or comments on that then we'll go on to the approval to dispose of school property yes Mr Hopkins um L the district's fixed assets inventory specialist has request disposal of equipment forms that include outdated absolute unsafe inoperable equipment pursuing to Arizona Administrative Code the AO Unified School District has qualified technology equipment to dispose this technology equipment circuit 2008 to 2018 has surpassed the useful life schedule and is obsolete unsanitary and therefore unsafe for student use technology will be recycled Data Destruction documentation is required from the recycler no board action necessary for this information one thing that POS I think when we went over the agenda there were some equipment from the old wood shop on the agenda but I don't see it on any of the disposal lists in the there's like 32 pages of stuff that uh she sent me and then there's another attachment that is it doesn't meet the qualifications for being on visions and that's the list that's why because to be on vision and get one of the little red you have to be over like ,000 or $1,500 so this little one page attachment is the less than you know whatever the limit is to be to have one of those little red tacks and this 31 pages is everything that has the little red so that's what she told me today and then if we have questions I can I can ask her and then come back with those on okay well I was puzzled because when I heard about it it was included the table saw and the band saw from the old wood shop and by my recollection I was going to say five or six years ago we voted to get rid of those back 2018 okay I just want yeah I wasn't sure if something had happened where it didn't sell and we were still had them but okay okay any other questions or discussion on that and on to the next item which is a certified employment issuance of the 2425 certified contracts Mr Hopkins administra requ appr contracts no actually necessary at this time for this informational item but we very excited sh if we correct coming back all teachers coming back no one's leaving as far as we know that's amazing right now and that was before they even knew about that that was before that want to stay stay twice now okay any questions or comments on that then we'll go on to Spring intercession employment Mr hin members of the board the list of certified and classified employees have expressed their interest in working during intercession March 18 21st 202 8: a.m.

my name is Alexa danani cor and I'm January student of the month here at with Chicago I am involved in the dance team for the past 3 years I'm also involved in NHS yearbook club and wrestling team manager I've appreciated how open teachers are they actually like want to help you or like interested in like your academic achievement and like your goals they really like push you to just accomplish things the advice I would have given to my younger would be to get involved like not be scared to like start something new I know I was scared to join wrestling but I actually love it so much after high school I plan to attend Royal University and then after that I transfer to to fall and get my Master's Degree for accounting and then minor in forensics

all right Julie would you call the rooll please Cara Casten here Ken Dawson here Chelle Fuller here thank you Terry pavich here and Don Runner here thank you very much andal Mo than so excuse me now having a quum let's stand for the 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 for all find a park well Hank it's a special night so I'm going to turn it over to you for some uh special recognition of the students all right this is a wonderful evening uh one of the things that the board was focused on this year was getting better at celebrating our successes across the district we didn't expect to have so much so soon after we passed our new uh our new procedures uh so we have a few groups to recognize tonight and the school administration's going to uh uh call forward some coaches and sponsors and we'll work through there so uh principal lip good evening today is a really really special day I um was telling Mr movich in the hallway I've been looking forward to the Celebration all day and I'm so excited um to be able to share some of our successes with you um to start we're going to start with our tro sangs gymnastics team they as you know are our Shar District 99 Co-op gymnastics team um I am not going to spoil all the celebration I'm going to turn it over to coach Kristen Campos so come on up and we'd like you to just to share with us your successes so far or thus far the season okay um hi everybody those you haven't met I'm Kristen Campos this is ending my 17th year as the head coach of this program um we've been a co-op now five of those I think it is um but we had a wonderful season kind of rounding out um undefeated in conference Regional Champions sectional Champions uh and at the state meet finished second in the state in a really hard fought meet and had three of our varsity girls advance to finals um and from that uh jna haran was our beam state champion um with her teammate right next to her I think in addition to the things on the screen it's more important really to think about all T of them as a group we wouldn't be successful without all 10 of them playing a really important role whether they were a teammate that was braiding their hair or giving them the best pep talk of the Season or you know cheering the loudest from the stands it was really a nice environment at Palatine to hear all of them uh come together but we also had um um Kaylin landre was a beam State finalist as well finishing ninth in the state so really proud of her for that but to have six routines go in finals uh to improve our team score on the second day was something that was really quite amazing and I know it's not up there but Ed is a fresh who was the highest scoring freshman in the entire state of Illinois so she finished so I will um say we're very lucky because we are only losing one senior so we will miss Maddie dearly but this is just the beginning of more great things to come I think so can you introduce I can introduce uh geneveve is GNA come on up uh and say a few words awesome come on Jen with moral support of M can you um hi um first of all I want to thank everyone in the room for all their support this season um our team we just had so much fun this season I'm so proud of everybody and through all of us pushing through setbacks and coming together and getting really close as a team so yeah we have Christine can you introduce each of the players there okay so that was that was Jenna harion um Ed Condon can you stand up hi wave be embarrass Madison and Maddie Maddy will be representing um our district at the Illinois girls gymnastics High School National meet in May um which I'll will be accompanying her coaching uh in Fort Meers so she'll represent us nicely in Florida um kayin Landry Natalie Martin IDI [Applause] Schmid Alan Rez Lauren DC Emily C and then also uh Kylie Basco and Bill Norris as my trusty assistant I have to say just a shout out and I'm sure some of the other coaches will Echo me but our training staff here is one of the best in the state and um Steph and DJ have been a big reason for our success and I I think they don't get enough appreciation for what they do to keep us going uh and right along with us the whole way so without them I don't think we would have been as successful so I know they're not here but a big shout out to our training staff I was going to say um before you sit down Kristen was also recognized as Illinois High School Gymnastics Association Coach of the Year good congratulations to you to all right so so we have I have a few proclamations to work through so uh both the village of Downer's Grove and the village of Woodridge have offered proclamations towards our gymnastics team so for the trust angs um so I have a proclamation from the village of Downer's Grove that recognizes the hard work dedication sportsmanship talent and team chemistry of the 2024 trust angs as a serving as an exemplary representation of Downer's Grove to the sport of gymnastics and to the state of Illinois bringing pride and recognition to our community and inspiring all and uh mayor Barnett has declared today uh we're going to have a lot of day a lot of celebrations today as uh gy girls gymnastics day in the village of donor's Grove what uh mayor Cunningham in the village of Woodridge is recognizing uh the team uh for representing this region so well making both Downers Grove North and South High proud and for bringing the community surrounding Downers Grove high schools together during this exciting gymnastics season and has also named this day as Downer Grove Gymnastics Team day in Woodridge the village of Woodridge is also recognizing individually Genevie uh and her highlighting her commitment spirit and pride for the entire Woodridge community and is also declared uh the first day of March of 2024 as Genevie haran [Applause] day congratulations again to all of you all right so the best news is we get to keep this celebration going um because we also are celebrating our donor's Grove South speech team again I won't spoil all of it but the big news is we were state Runners up or number two in state which is an unbelievably exciting accomplishment for our speech team so with that I'm going to call up coach movich to share with you some of those celebrations from his end hi everyone if you don't know me I'm Justin Movic uh kind of fun for me to be standing here because when I was a student I got to sit there during this um I was a d Grove South alumni graduated was on the speech team and I've been a coach on the team since 2008 and I am very fortunate to have been able to keep our tradition of Excellence on our program through this entire time uh and really while I you know think the coaches have a lot of roles to it my my job would be far harder if it wasn't for the wonderful students that I get to work with um and really the support from the board and the district for our speech team is something that I'm exceptionally grateful for um but honoring our students I want to make sure that we uh have the students who are here honored so um we have seventh in the state we have Sabrina Crowley and Sebastian Blanco uh we have sixth place in poetry reading Lea Rosco um we have uh sixth place in info and fifth place in deck Naomi young uh we have fourth place an impromptu speaking Juliana coner um we have our state Runners up in humorous stward acting gaan capgro and Maya Flanery we have our state runner up in radio speaking Sebastian Blanco and we have our state champion in humorous interpretation Giana C and um part of our second place team as well I do want to call out uh will Elliott um who was part of our team in original comedy um as well as CLA rhods who was a state qualifier for our team as well part of our second place team um but the great thing about our speech team is that we don't just travel down to state with this group we travel down to state with uh 40 of our students um and they are involved in every aspect of the tournament from being in charge of the timers and room chairs and being the ones running the rooms to competing to our P um so this is something that the students are always at the Forefront of and I'm so proud of them and I'm so proud to be a part of this team um and I would like to call up uh gaan capgro to say a few words about her um thank you all for having us here today we really appreciate the recognition and I just want to thank Mr makovich um he is such an amazing role model for us and I don't think that any of us would have been able to um accomplish what we have accomplished this year without his hard work so I just want to say thank you to him and um being a part of the speech team for me has been such an amazing experience I came here as a transfer student and even doing speech online was such an interesting experience but it was honestly so welcoming and I have just found such a home here and being a part of speech has helped me in so many other aspects of my life it's taught me um confidence it's taught me resilience and um being the state champ was so amazing I got to perform in front of um every school that was there so that was a really awesome experience and also my parents were there to watch me so that was also really fun and just seeing um my hard work throughout the season because speech is kind of um parents aren't really as involved in it so them being able to see all of my hard work was really amazing so yeah our village Partners were also busy recognizing our speech team from the village of Downer Grove um they recognize there's a lot to this you'll see but uh we have a lot of recognitions this night so I'll get i'll get to the the highlights uh recognizing the hard work dedication talent and team chemistry of the 2024 Downers Grove South speech team serves as an exemplary representation of Downers Grove and the state of Illinois bringing pride and recognition to our community and serving as an inspiration for others and has declared March 4th 2024 also is Downers Grove South speech team day uh mayor conningham in the village of Woodridge uh thanks the competitors coaches students administrators parents and all others involved with the program for representing the region so well making Downers Grove South High School proud and bringing the community surrounding Downers Grove High School together during this exciting speech season and has declared Monday March 4th as Downers Grove speech team day in the village of Woodridge and also has recognized Giana CPP greo I messed that up you can tell I'm not a speech uh uh let's see uh recognizes her commitment spirit and pride of the Woodridge community and should be recognized and has uh named uh the first day of March 2024 in her honor [Applause] and the best part is we're still going oh so next um I'd like to introduce um our head wrestling coach Mr Loveless uh he's going to celebrate both some of the successes the team have but importantly we're celebrating individual MD laes tonight um but I will we'll have Sean come up and get us started thank uh thank you so much for for having us tonight I think this is I look back 16 years ago coming to Downer's Grobe in a community like this this is kind of the essence of Downers Grove and and District 99 um I think uh the essence of our school is in our Athletics and our activities and it it makes the student experience just just so much greater um and I see I I I see justce of kids working year round um hour after hour I see christen's um gymnasts working hour after hour um it's just an amazing part you know to be part of a community that supports their Athletics and um activities like we do so um thank you for the administration thank you for um supporting these these student athletes as as we do um I wanted to celebrate uh Maddie mattye leic is a is a senior two-time Captain uh finished fourth in the State this year uh earning All State honors it's the man part of part of mass journey is uh and in the eighth grade he he qualified for a state tournament that that didn't happen this this the senior this is the kind of the co class uh freshman year was was was was Rocky at best and even sophomore year we kind of limped along um and uh uh you know mty Matty has done everything uh that he could to put himself in a in a great situation um um he had a lot of adversity this year he lost his uh football SE senior football season due to an injury um actually missed onethird of the wrestling season and and for a while we we didn't think that he was going to get a wrestling season at all um but he never missed a football practice he never missed a wrestling practice um he was always there and ready and when he when he got cleared from the doctors um he hit the ground running so he had an amazing run uh finishing fourth place at 190 lbs for us again it's a two-time state qualifier um is a 4.26 out of a 4.0 GPA student um so he's getting it done in the classroom and and on the wrestling mat um he's he's been an outstanding leader um when I point to uh to to to our younger guys in the program or even our our kids at Jefferson or or Eisenhower or O'Neal or or Lake View I I you know I can point to Maddie and say you know this is this is what you want to be this is this is who you want to emulate um and it's it's easy to do so um I wanted to thank Maddie for giving me the opportunity to just kind of go along for the ride um I wanted to thank his his family as Mom's here a teacher in our our feeder feeder District um I wanted to thank our our coaches or wrestlers um you know for supporting Maddie uh we had a great team season we lost in our sectional final um won our third Regional R row a conference for 12 out of 13 years um but it's it's because of efforts of of individuals like Maddie that really really make it worthwhile right um standing here on a Monday night and you know you're kind of like oh man I just want to go home but now I'm looking at I'm like this is why I'm here right I mean this is why I do what I do um for guys like Maddie and and I know coach uh coach Campos and and Coach movich feel the same way um uh coach Rico is going to come up here and he's going to say the same thing so uh thank you for have letting us have this opportunity and celebrating the successes of these amazing kids um hi I'm mat la as um thank you all for having me here uh I just want to thank my coaches uh my trainers my parents and then my teammates um I truly wouldn't be standing here if they weren't pushing me mentally and physically past um my injury I didn't really think I was going to even have a wrestling season this year um so to just be on the mat this year was just phenomenal and it was a dream true for me cuz I was just I was hoping for the best and then just to go down to Champagne and wrestle my my heart out and then to place was just truly a blessing for me so thank you all mayor baret mayor Barnett from the village of Downer's Grove uh yes our our village Partners have been busy uh has recognized the hard work dedication and sportsmanship and talent of Maddie serving as an exemplary representation of Downer's Grove to the sport of wrestling and to the state of Illinois bringing pride and recognition into our community and inspiring others and he is declared Monday March 4th as Maddie LLC day mayor Cunningham in the village of Woodridge uh has also recognized Mattie's commitment spirit and pride to the Woodridge community and has recognized him and the coaches for all of his hard work and his named the first day of March is Maddie replacing all right hi everybody um I'm Ain lewick I'm one of the associate principles at North Hyde I'm really excited to be here tonight um to recognize the accomplishments of Kaye Lou um Kaylee is a member of our girls wrestling team and has some awesome accomplishments I'm so proud that I got asked to introduce her but I won't take the the stage away from Marcos Rico who is the head coach so I'm going to have him come up and tell you exactly all the things she got done this first and foremost I wanted to say thank you to the district it was actually two years ago I had the opportunity to come out here and work for District 99 so thank you so much for that um yes so this year um we had the opportunity to go down state and this amazing young lady uh young lady Kaye Lou uh who won the ihsa Regional Championship took first took first at the sectional and became the first uh sectional Champion um and it was our very first ihsa girls wrestling Placer for District 99 placing fourth at the ihsa girls wrestling championship this year finishing the season at [Music] and and again there was a few other tournaments in there I I didn't jot them all down but there was definitely a few other um it's been a privilege and I think uh as uh coach love ladies has mentioned it's all because of the work that's being done within the district right um and acknowledging some of the things that some of these amazing individuals are doing and and that's and that's what uh what makes us different from all the other districts out there um coach LL coach McGrath they've been a uh definitely building up the wrestling program here in Downers uh in District 99 so my head goes off to them they're the ones that gave me the opportunity gave me a call and I I definitely I still remember that that phone call we had uh so that thank you so much but Kay if you come up here say a few words I'm kayy Lou I'd like to thank like everybody um who's helped um with with uh my wrestling career and it's been great it's uh definitely a sport that pushes you as Madie said um yeah it's yeah it's just been great great four [Applause] years uh mayor Barnett would also like to recognize and he says that uh Kaylee persevered after suffering from an ACL te during her junior year overcoming this often career-ending injury and becoming the first female medalist in Downer grow drers Grove North's high school wrestling history also District 99's first medalist recognizing the hard workor dedication sportsmanship and talent of Kaylee serves as an exemplary representation of Downer's Grove in the sport of wrestling and his named Monday March 4th is Kaye Lou day uh mayor Cunningham in Woodridge uh recognizes that Kaye Lou has been wrestling since seventh grade while attending herck Middle School joined the wrestling team at Downers Grove North her freshman year as the only girl on the team and recognizes that kayle's win would not have been possible without the fine exceptional leadership of their coach Marcus Rico uh recognizes that kayle's work highlights the commitment spirit and pride of the Woodridge community and recognizes her along with everybody else involved in the program and has declared uh Monday March 4th is Kaye Lou [Applause] day well I just like to say that um you know the various accomplishments that we recognizing here tonight all of you should be just extremely proud of yourselves um but what the mayor said tonight which I I find to be really true is they both talked about inspiring others and not just the community but kids who you know are doing gymnastics when they're six years old 7 years old and they're looking up and seeing uh the tro stangs come home with the second place finish and stay Champion I mean that plays a huge role in inspiring a lot of young girls in our community to want to Aspire to do what you guys do and I that holds true with all of you but I I I think that's really important and is a takeaway that all of you guys can bring home with you tonight so congratulations on all of your accomplishments all right you're all welcome to stick around for the rest of the board hold on one second the spirit of Downers Grove Woodridge District 99 is on the table for the whole world to see thanks to you student athletes it's just amazing what you guys have accomplished thank you thank you thank you and thank all the parents that have taken the time to be here to support them and I know all the things you do on a daily basis you guys are the true Superstars as well so thank you thank you thank you I I believe we're going to try to grab some photos out in the foyer so uh chill Browning our Communications expert we'll grab some photos of you uh thank you for all coming and allowing us to bask in your glory a little bit this evening thank you thank you thank you right there [Music] did they spell her name wrong spell her name wrong several I thought about it and I was like I mean they're probably not going to come around do anything but I down the block I know I thought about going out and moving it but watch oh well my age kind of like at least I miss the presentation success very good two minutes did you say name that too yeah going to try to keep this show love um we are um going to keep the celebrations going um a little bit different through our um student perspectives so we just had celebrating all things Athletics and this gives us a chance to celebrate more academic real I'm going to introduce our librarian Stephanie Beck and student will um and they're going to talk about Will's willingness to lead at the state level in terms of literacy so I'm just as excited about so come on up I got it I got it as much as we want everybody else to hear I'll they can hear out there as well um we did provide a a handful of slides um for tonight so uh we can just kick it right off cuz I wanted to go ahead and give a little bit of background on the Lincoln award itself um so I'm Stephanie Beck I'm one of the Librarians um I started out at North I worked there for seven years I went to South America was the director of libraries I had an American school there for two years and then when I came back I came to South so this is now my second year at South so thank you for that leave and I'm happy to bring back like uh so much of what I learned and the opportunities that we have here that we are able to bring to our students because we have well staffed libraries um so the Lincoln award is the Teen Choice book award for the entire state of Illinois it is a list of 20 books and they are a variety of genres and every year um students can read four of these books and then vote for their favorite and it becomes the team Choice book award of the year it's sponsored by the Professional Organization of school librarians in the state of Illinois and really its job is just to like encourage reading for leisure right we do have teachers who try to do that this is like an added bonus for them and it actually becomes a pretty big go-to list for a lot of our teachers when they're looking for some books that are High interest to help students um develop a habit of reading information um I was on the nominations committee and uh last year Will's freshman year this kid was showing up in the library all the time right but not only did he show up he also was like have you read any good books lately and like any book any of the Librarians would offer he'd be like great sounds great I'll read it kid would come back next day we're like did you get your homework done you read this 500 page book overnight um he is a voracious reader and I thought this student would be perfect to be a reader on the panel but there is a process that he has to go through so I introduced will to the process and he will tell you about his experience uh hi my name is Will phalo um uh I'm a sophomore at D South High School um and I as Miss Beck said I applied to be on the uh the committee for the linkoln word books um which was really cool I she sent me a link and I filled out a Google form and it's asked me why I would be good to a good person to help select the books and I said that I've read a bunch of them uh because I had read a bunch of them that was usually the default recommendation if they hadn't read anything recently because I had maybe asked yesterday or something um I'm also very active in the Bandit down Grove South that play saxophone and Ogo um I'm working on my Eagle Scout project uh in Boy Scouts um and I love to read um about kindergarten I started reading chapter books and I just kind of haven't stopped since um that picture over there is me next to all the books that I've checked out from the DJs Library which I think is a really cool picture uh anyways so the Lincoln award I applied and I sent in the application and at the time I didn't know that they only accepted 10 teens to be on the panel uh I thought there were going to be like 40 or 50 people you know I was going to be like surrounded by people um and I found out maybe 2 or 3 days before the the meeting that we had to discuss the books that there were only going to be nine other kids there uh which is pretty cool um anyway so I sent in the application and I waited for a little bit and then around mid November I got back the response uh yes you've been accepted woohoo um and they sent me a list of 15 books 10 of the books I was required to read and then fill out a little Google form uh saying what I thought about them do I think that they would be good books to be on the Lincoln word list and then I had five optional books that I could read as well and uh do fill out the same Google form except I didn't have to do like the full review write out everything that I thought about it um and so I read 14 of the 15 books uh all to of the required ones and then four of the optional ones um and one of my favorite books called little thieves uh I kind of uh thought would was a really good book and I ended up getting it on the list uh which was really cool to be able to do um and along with a couple of the other books that I read uh but all the books that I read really good they we started out with a list of 75 I read 15 of them uh or 14 of them and from that list of 75 the 10 of us students got to decide um what would be on the uh on the list um so next slide yeah all right so we had a uh Google meet uh at the beginning of February um and we kind of there was a spreadsheet that had the 75 and just kind of the preliminary rankings so whether like the students would rank it yes or no it would be would it be good and then we kind of had the them list uh and of the top books to the worst books or the least preferred books they all're all very good um and so we started off by all of us the 10 teens that were there we all kind of split off from everybody else all the adult Librarians and we just decided on the first book um and then we went back in and we did a round of discussion uh on the bottom 50% of the list and if anybody had any books that they really liked they could say something about them and then we went through some voting and based on what people said in the 45 minutes or so we had to talk um we could kind of choose whether or not we wanted the books to be on the list or not they're in still in the running for the list um and so then after that voting we got rid of of around half the list and then we did some more talking and discussion about books that people thought that they would like to see on the list and then we went into another round of voting and we uh we decided um on the the next eight books then we had the top nine books uh it worked out very well because it was books that were 75% yes rates are above and there happen to be eight of those which is great um and so then we had a little break time to go to the bathroom or get a snack or whatever and then we went back into the 10 teens went back and discussed the next two books that we' be added to the list uh one of them was little thieves which was the one that I wanted uh which was cool and so then we went back into talking about books and whatever was still on the list we had the first 11 by that point and then adding them kind of became a little slower it wasn't like two or three here and there because people were kind of like there's not that many spots left and I really want this book and I really want this book and I really want this book and so we did a couple more rounds of voting in a total it was about 5 hours there was a lunch break in there somewhere um but it was just a lot of book discussion which was pretty fun um yeah I don't know that was my that was my experience um I really like seeing how things go on behind the scenes um and so that was really fun to kind of see how the books were selected because that's kind of where I default to or where the Librarians suggest me to default to when I'm in there during lunch and oh I finished my book what should I do um so that was that was a lot of fun for me to be able to do and just one of 10 teens in the state yeah thank you then sh sophomore are you going to ask to be on the on the uh uh committee again I am going a request or send in another application and then if they don't get or if they don't find the right people and they'll they can add me again oh so you're kind of at the bottom of the list it's not guaranteed yeah because they don't want the same people for like yeah yeah yeah was it difficult for you to pick the books it it was pretty tricky for me to kind of decide because with how many books I read um I have like a really wide like range of books that I never really would have tried if it weren't for them being on the list to begin with and so um yeah it was pretty cool to it was tricky as well to decide which books I like one of others and I you know I sat there in my room with the books kind of spread out on the floor like moving them around here and there which ones do I like more no I like this one a little more um yeah do you have a certain genre that you like uh I really like fantasy and sci-fi those are probably my top two all right but after that it's kind of just what is the book more than the genre okay all right m Mysteries yeah I like Mysteries too thank you so much for all you do what I want to know is how do you find time to do that the band and boy scouts going for an eagle scout our son is a eagle scout and also graduate of downest Grove South so I know firsthand how much work it takes to climb the ranks of scouting from Cub Scouts all the way up to Eagle Scouts but for you to have excellence in all three areas as well as I'm sure your academics is just phenomenal as a sophomore that's just fantastic keep up the great work thank you yeah I will time management is all right sleep is overrated yeah sleep is overrated every once in a while it's a really good book you know I think down the road you may be able to write a book on time man we'll see about that I was going to say my son is in Boy Scouts and he's in the orchestra not at the band and I got to get him going on those books I'm like I'm liking everything I hear and I'm like got to tell him about you and the books more books he needs to read love hearing this so thank you yeah thanks congratulations thank you well thank you for your leadership and representing our district at such a high level at the state I we greatly appreciate that you're leading in that way and the amount of work that you're putting in and as an eagle scout myself I know how much work that all takes so well done will thank you thank you very much thank [Applause] you right more students it's [Laughter] hard all right so as you could tell there was a lot going on just in what we're in March right yeah so just in March especially February was like a huge jam-packed like funfilled month overall so like along with speech gymnastics wrestling and book reading there was also like our dance team getting 12th Place in the state and then also our swimmers going down state and swimming their best they can and then with that we also had the CBS News come so that was also fun and then you yes I got my debut my new debut and then um there was also which happened Thursday our Leap Day celebration so like I know our access leaders hid the frogs all around the school in the top 29 whoever got the Frog like rubber ducky frogs they um got like a nice prize for it so that really like lifted up the spirits of February especially since like so much got accomplished during February it was nice to end it in a way where we can like find frogs in the school and I don't know if there's any frogs still there cuz I know there's 129 like all over the scho we'll be finding them by the next yeah yeah yeah maybe like that's what we were talking about like in 10 years from now like maybe there'll just be a frog in the like in the cupboards or something we don't know and then with that we also had our spirit assembly recently and that was also fun to see how like the seniors were down by like 100 points by the spirit assembly and then all of a sudden they went up um like 150 points and then won the spirit jug for our spirit so like I don't know how that happened but it did and um seniors also I think this is the first time in history that they lost the tug-of war against sophomores so so like everybody was shocked there but it was still like that I feel like that really set the Vibes of the spirit assembly everyone is just shocked of all the different things that can happen and we also had our um seniors versus staff basketball game and that was also a cool experience because it was like a lot like a like a homecoming football game but like in in the stands for Access so there was just like the refs the the cheerleaders like everything everybody was involved in the halftime show so like it really set the experience for everybody to to see something like this and then we also had our spring Sports start I think last week so everything now spring is finally happening and our Deca also went down State this weekend and they also did really good for for Deca and then I'm in Deca too so there's that and then we also have our choir concert coming up so there's still a lot there we still have 3 months left of the year so let's see see where we can where Downer South can take it thank you it's very good Julie do we have any uh visitors no sir slips okay Hank I'll turn it over to you for item six uh that was for that all right Staffing process to Rob yeah this is just a preview for uh the next time that we meet um we have been deep the Weeds on this entire process uh just to remind you it's a it's a huge huge undertaking uh and um many many people in the organization uh feed into this puzzle and then the people who fit the puzzle together are our associate principles of instruction uh Jake Giblin and Keith Pals and uh they have their massive spreadsheets and then we gather together to figure out what this is going to look like uh really for tonight is just to remind you that that process involves what what we call sectioning FTE and so that is the course requests that students uh put in through their registrations and then um us working through that to determine uh which classes we can run uh depending on student interest and then we have the other uh FTE the non- sectioning FTE so those are our support positions uh some instructionally based positions also but they're not tied to course selections uh so you'll see the next time that we meet that those are broken out separately so you can see staffing recommendations that are in there and then uh at the next meeting we'll have that chart and then we'll go through um all the normal pieces that you see including the Personnel reports that are then attached to uh the staffing recommendations so that that will be the core of the meeting next time okay um I'd like to ask any board members if uh anyone has uh the need to go into Clos session um to talk about the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of a specific employee specific individual who serves as independent contractors a park recreational educational setting or specific volunteers of the district or legal council for the district including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee specific specific individual who serves as an independent contractor in a park recreational or educational setting or a volunteer at the district or against legal council for the district to determine its Val validity does anyone have any grounds for going into closeup okay hearing none then we'll bypass item number seven uh item number eight recommendations for Action I need a motion for the Board of Education to adopt the resolution authorizing the July 1st 2024 through June 30th 2029 performance-based superintendent contract between the Board of Education and Dr Henry thely so moved second Terry moves and Ken second thank you T pavich hi Ken Dawson hi Char Fuller hi hi Jenny hagstrom hi car Caston hi and Don rener hi the motion carries um I just wanted to take uh just a brief minute to talk a little bit about uh Dr thy and um what we just voted upon and the impact it'll have on our district I want to focus on three main points that I believe are key to Dr the's tenure and impact on d99 um that's one Innovation two continuity and three fiscal responsibility um Terry and I were both um on the board of education uh when we went through the process of searching for a new superintendent after Dr McDonald retired we conducted a thorough search and whittel the field down to two candidates um the first was a seasoned superintendent who had go on to lead another reputable School District in the area and the second was Dr thy um I can remember the discussions we had as a board back then and the board was split honestly um because some of the board members were more comfortable choosing a a candidate who had proven that they could be a superintendent but we ultimately settled on on Hank because we saw promise and we saw him as a leader who could help our district grow and innovate um during the last seven plus years Dr thely has done just that he's overseeing major changes in in innovation in District 99 before Hank joined the district in 2016 the master facility plan was just a vision without direction under Hank's guidance we completely reimagined how our buildings could support modern learning we ask the community to approve the renovations and received it and our students will re reap the benefits for Deca decades to come as a result of the master facility plan beyond the complete physical transformation of our buildings Hank has championed numerous initiatives all of which ensure that students receive the support they need to succeed in the future um under Hanks leadership we have reformed our processes so that students who are at most at risk have a clear path to pass classes and graduate we expanded and keep expanding dual cred op options Hank even went beyond her own boundaries to introduce dual CR credit legislation that eventually became law here in Illinois knowing a Chromebook is only as useful as its internet connection we closed our digital divide in the district so that families in need could receive Wi-Fi at home impressively Hank spoke to the US Congress at the capital about this work believing in the benefits of professional development we have ample access to programs and opportunities for our teachers and staff to keep growing and learning Hank also helped to develop a comprehensive 5-year strategic plan based on input from our community the plan is both Innovative and practical giving the district courses of action to help us prepare students for college career and life and finally Hank helped to develop and Implement a hybrid block schedule to allow our students to have more out of classroom tutelage opportunities and to give them some autonomy over how they will meet their educational commitments much as they will post High School the list goes on and on and it shows a pattern of how Hank has positively impacted our district since 2016 we know and expect Han to continue to look for ways to innovate at d99 over the next 5 years I am especially excited about how Hank and his administrative team are using technology and metrics to address student issues proactively and to better identify students who may have previously fallen through the cracks that was Innovation two is continuity cons continuity of leadership is another major component of tonight's vote by the time Hank retires we will have had the same leader at d99 for 13 plus years when an organization as large as d99 has strong and consistent leadership it tends to thrive when we look at other area districts in DuPage County County and Beyond d99 is blessed to have sustainable and consistent leaderships from Dr the and his administrative team District 99 continues to be a destination district for top talent in the Chicago land area and much of that has to do with the level of leadership exhibited by Hank and his administrative team and finally I would be remiss not to mention the financial aspects of both Hank's contract that we've approved here tonight but also the health and well-being of District 99 as a whole the Board of Education before tonight's vote surveyed not only do paage County school districts but other Chicagoland school districts of similar size standing and stature and Dr th's compensation under his retirement contract will put him smack dab in the middle of other similar superintendents in the new pagean Chicago land area Dr the's compensation is well in line with his duties and overseeing 135 million budget two high schools and over 800 employees District 99 is a top five employer within Downers Grove and a top 10 employer in in the district 999 area Dr thely is a widely respected superintendent amongst his peers across the state of Illinois he takes on several leadership roles has testified both in Springfield in Washington DC on numerous occasions has presented all over the nation in regards to technology and education and was awarded the 2022 superintendent of Distinction in DuPage County during Hank's 10e District 99 has been a financially responsible taxing agency District 99's property tax rate has been relatively flat even with the passage of $136 million referendum in renovations of both high schools d99 continues to maintain its a uh doublea Bond or doua plus Bond rating leaving District 99 an excellent Financial standing should it need to issue Bonds in the future in summary Hank has been an Innovative leader for District 99 who will continue to provide continuity and Leadership ship over the next 5 years in addition this retirement contract and Hank's role in overseeing our budget has left District 99 in an inviable financial position for years to come thank you very much thank you thank you have anything to say just thank you Hank because you've done an excellent job so thank you thank you and as as you stated Han is a leader not only here in District 99 but across the state Across the Nation so it's truly a privilege for us at d99 to have someone as of his stature leading our schools so thank you Hank that's right thank you all for your continued support and trust it's an honor to be here and to serve this community thank you all right Julie do we uh second reception of buiness we have any nothing sir no okay then I think the last item is uh I need a motion to adjourn uh before that uh where can we see the basketball game ISS and uh as soon as we adjourn Miss P start watching it it doesn't start for another five minutes so I thought it started at 7 30 7:30 730 we're get you out in time you're okay yes I'm okay 995 on nfhs is that what it is okay I just wanted to make sure that everybody could find out where it is all right I I for updates I I wanted picture in picture in 10 seconds uh all in favor motion carries we are ajour great thank you and

and and our students are incredible amazing human beings tonight we will partner as board members students parents administrators staff and community members to share and develop ideas about what we want our district to be when we share common Vision we can all move together in the same direction and accomplish great things again thank you for being here tonight and we're glad you're here so I'll now ask Dr katti to come to the microphone good evening everyone I'm echoing the comments of our board president I really want to thank everybody for coming out this evening um this is really a important stage in any kind of strategy development we've got to go know where we're going and what's more exciting than to have our students really take the leader leadership ship here and to think about all the ways in which we want to realize where we want to go and all I ask is that we dream big and we lean into those truths and those authentic feelings and ideas that we have and we are here to listen and to engage so thank you okay all righty well thank you all for coming today how are you guys today good good awesome all right well my name is Luke Lockwood and I'm the student ambassador at iGo high school and I'm Isabelle gishan and I'm the student ambassador at ASO East we're so happy to have you all here for this um public forum and then is this the clicker here let's see there we go all right so first off we're just gonna uh collaborate within our tables we're going to be having a lot of collaboration time through this event um so first off we want want to start before you guys collaborate uh discuss get to know each other we'll give you guys a couple minutes to introduce yourselves maybe what you do if you're an administrator in the district or a board member uh kind of what you do there and so yeah we'll turn it over to you guys for just a couple of minutes uh just for you guys to have some introduction time to get to know each other and we'll we'll come back here in a minute uh yeah if you want like just like five minutes or so and then I'll go through this one and then I'll go through values if you want to go through the values and that yeah can and then I can do the belief and goal and then we'll watch the video yeah and then just more leader yeah yeah okay I have it done here too just sit at any table we'll give them to like we give them to like 75ish four more minutes okay okay's that one one one a lot should send someone over so I could go to that table and I can yeah I can float I would do Mr he's a board member okay yeah yeah okay go time.

thank you very much the entire board is here and present so I will call this meeting to order Dr Roberts thank you Mrs Wen so we do want to start off each of our school board meetings uh reminding ourselves of our vision mission and core beliefs uh the vision of our school corporation is for bcsc to be the choice to learn work and play our mission is to develop expert Learners by partnering with our community to invest in people our 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 community our democracy and Democratic institutions are strengthened by civic-minded citizens okay we have a lot of celebrations tonight te up our first one we'll jump in with our state wrestling finalist so we can have our um athletic directors step up uh perhaps we'll start with you Mr Miller for Columbus East first I'm David Miller I'm the athletic director at Columbus East High School um I'd like to thank Dr Roberts and the school board for recognizing our student athletes tonight um I have the honor of introducing Chris Cooper our wrest wrestling coach um Chris does an amazing job of leading the wrestling program a few of their accomplishments this year um they won the conference Championship for the eighth year in a row they won the sectional championship for the eighth year in a row and the Regional Championship for the eighth year in a row um also coach Cooper picked up his 300th win this year um as as a wrestling coach um but really the most amazing accomplishment of the wrestling program um had this year was they were academic um Award winners of the academic challenge which means they had the best GPA amongst all wrestling programs in the state of Indiana and this is their second year for winning that we are proud that Chris Cooper is leading our program and proud to call him an Olympian um excited to be here tonight thank the board and the cabinet for for having us and giving me the opportunity to talk about uh two of our wrestlers we got Monica McMahon who is uh a junior this year was 15 and five on the season first year wrestler in fact uh a year ago we didn't even have a girls wrestling team she was her and her sister uh instrumental in getting that started at Columbus East I mean I definitely uh maybe wouldn't have done it or couldn't have done it if they hadn't been on me just about every single day to to get things going so uh they you know they started wrestling a year ago and and to make the state tournament is incredible in your first year uh Monica placed fourth at the girls semi-state and then the next week placed third at the state finals so in your first year wrestling that's incredible also have uh Talon Jessup Talon has has been wrestling for us as as long as I can remember probably since kindergarten or maybe even before uh he's he's been a member of our wrestling club and and always been around I mean you talk about reliable didn't miss a practice all year does everything we ask uh wrestled 97 matches in the off season this year which is insane amount um one of the hardest workers on our team consistently as well Talent placed seventh in the state this year he was 37 and five uh five losses two were to the runner up two were to the third Placer and he split with the with the fifth place wrestler so uh both of these two I mean incredible academics as well you know really high GPA Monica was a junior academic all All State uh Talon will be next year for sure and uh you know both underclassmen no doubt in my mind they're both going to compete for for state titles for the Olympians coming up con okay if we could have Mr Lewis from Columbus North come to the podium first of all I want to thank Dr Roberts and the school board for recognizing um Columbus North uh wrestling team I just want to give credit to coach Joyce and his his um coaching staff coach Geor has has done a fantastic job over the last several years of pushing our kids to be better day in and day out I think one of the biggest things that I've noticed with our young men is that they become they have become really great advocates for our Athletic program on and off the field um coach Joyce this is his fourth year he came in with me and he's done better every single year our boys wrestling team hasn't been hasn't been a finalist at state for over nine years and I think this is um a really g a great job of Matt showing that how well he's done with our our wrestling kids so now I just want to um say congratulations to you guys and Coach George it's only you so first of all I'd like to thank the board and and Dr Roberts for having us and for recognizing these two outstanding athletes um Asher and and Justice they've they've been Staples in our program for a long time um and for them to reach this this level this early uh Asher being a sophomore and Justice being a junior um it it really shows a a testament to their commitment to wrestling and to um to our program in in general uh it's been 15 years uh I believe since we've had a a wrestler on the podium from Columbus North um I I believe it was 2009 and uh it's it's been a long time since someone's been here to to thank you guys for your continued support of our program um and for for your supportive wrestling in Columbus in general um I'd just like to um yeah uh recognize these two outstanding athletes awesome okay now we sorry was distracted by the cube kid by okay we are going to move the human resources part of our agenda up to the beginning because we do have two principle recommendations to tonight and uh with State Statute being as it is and that public comments need to be provided or at least opportunity before any approval well this particular time on the agenda as it indicates is just if there here I don't see any on that topic so I don't think anybody signed in on that topic so if there are any public comments for human resources okay we'll move into then the approval for our human resources pieces Mrs wer thank you you're welcome Dr ple we will keep the celebrations going this evening we'll do one at a time um it's a great time to celebrate the promotions of hardworking Educators that are very deserving of these opportunities and before I get going uh before we discuss either one of them I do want to recognize in the audience tonight we have interview teams from both schools we have some staff colleagues friends and family for all of them so it's great to see the support come out this evening first I will ask for approval of the recommendation for Kelly McIntyre to be the CSA foda principal beginning July 1 thank you do a motion from the board I move that we approve the appointment of Kelly McIntyre as the principal at CSA fodrea thank you Mr Grimes is there a second second thank you Mr Schultz all those in favor of appointment of Kelly McIntyre to CSA fodrea principal please say I I all those oppose say nay motion passes unanimously congratulations Kelly as Kelly is stepping to the podium just a quick bio for Kelly uh Kelly's received her education from uh Columbus East High School a graduates at oranges kind of matching real well with this new school that she's taking over uh got her Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education from Indiana University and then her MBA from the University of Ed uh University of Indianapolis and educational leadership her experience has been all bcsc she was a Parkside Elementary School teacher in first second and third grades she then became an elementary curriculum specialist for our Corporation she then serves as assistant principal at Cliffy Creek Elementary School and has been director of prek since 2022 again she is a proud product of bcsc as a Columbus East graduate but also attended Clifty Creek Elementary School and Northside Middle School congratulations Kelly thank you so what an honor it truly is to be standing here tonight um and as Dr Roberts just mentioned I did grow up in this District um it feels very much like home to me um and in Columbus and I have worn many hats in bcsc um in serving our student in teaching population in several ways but I have a a feeling that this is going to be my favorite hat so far um having graduated from East High School in 2009 I did retire a lot of orange t-shirts uh but I figured those would not be appropriate to wear tonight so I do have an orange dress but um and you know Mr Charles Edwards he could actually vouch for that because he was there when I was there um so anyways I'm back in Orange today and it feels really great um on a serious note I want to thank all my friends and family colleagues mentors District leaders and staff and even some students who have supported me in my professional and personal worlds uh 2024 has been a really exciting year for me seven weeks ago I moved into a new house with my husband and my daughter uh that's two and a half and currently out in the courtyard sorry six weeks ago today we welcomed our second daughter um Violet who is quiet back there um into this world and and then three weeks ago I was interviewing for this position at CSA fodrea um and today I'm standing here before a whole lot of people who have supported me um and accepting that position as a principal at CSA fodrea so it is not lost on me how blessed I am and how many blessings I can count today um so in closing thank you bcsc School Board um thank you Dr uh Roberts thank you Dr pleek uh Dr hack and many others in this room and outside of this room for giving me yet another reason to count my blessings and for trusting me with another opportunity to serve the amazing community of Columbus um in CSA fodrea I cannot wait to see what the future holds for our school Community go [Applause] Falcons we'll go for our second one um I request approval of Dana bodart as the principal of Mount Healthy Elementary School beginning July 1 I move that we approve the appointment of Dana bodart principal at Mount Healthy elementary school thank you Mr Schultz is there a second a second thank you all those in favor of appointment of Dan bodart to the principal of Mount Healthy please say I I all those opposed say nay motion also passes unanimously congratulations Dana well Dana is also a proud product of bcsc a colus North High School graduate I'm not sure that's the blue we've had blue orange this evening perfect U Dana received her education uh from graduated from Columbus North and then her Bachelor of Science in elementary education was achieved at uh Indiana University Columbus she received her master of education in elementary Ed from olette nazarine University and received her administrative certificate from Indiana Wesleyan University um her experience has been in our system as a teacher at first and second grades for Taylorville Elementary School she was also a teacher at Schmidt in second grade Title One and served as an instructional coach she was then assistant principal at Parkside Elementary before helping us out and becoming the interim principal at Rock Creek Elementary back in December and that's what she's currently doing now uh again I mentioned she's a proud product besides Columbus North she also attended Taylorville Elementary School and Northside Middle School congratulations Dana dear esteemed board members and school board I extend my heartfelt gratitude and the opportunity to serve as the principal at Mount Healthy it is with immense honor and enthusiasm that I accept this appointment and I am eager to embark on this journey of leadership within our esteemed institution Dr Roberts Dr pleek and Dr hack I'd also like to say thank you to you thank you for believing in me I am deeply appreciative of the trust and confidence that you have placed in me I am committed to upholding the values of Mount Healthy fostering a culture of academic excellence and ensuring the holistic growth and development of every student under our Care Mount Healthy interview team committee I thank you for the time that you have dedicated to this process and the school I am eager to collaborate with the dedicated faculty and staff as well as engage with our supportive parents and guardian Community to continue the tradition of educational Excellence that Mount Healthy is so known for together I am confident that we will do amazing things and create an environment where the students feel empowered to achieve their full potential my family um Mike Abby Trent Bailey Corey cydney da and Craig um friends there are just too many to mention um your unwavering encouragement has been my Guiding Light whether it was a listening year a comforting hug funny text messages which I needed a lot or words of wisdom you were there for me without hesitation your belief in me has been a source of strength pushing me forward when doubts crept in I am truly blessed to have such amazing family and friends in my corner I've spent my whole life in bcsc it if I was not attending as a student I was reporting daily to my passion teachers make a difference difference the relationships I have made with Mary Jane and Herb Perry Mr and Mrs Perkinson Shirley trap Teresa heiney Deb Davis Dr Dana Katie there are just way too many to mention but many of her who are in the room tonight to celebrate with me you have helped make me who I am today I am bcsc and I am very grateful to all of you thank you again I would like to say thank you especially on behalf of myself and Dr hack the interview teams at both schools were phenomenal to work with and very dedicated and passionate for selecting the correct leader so I do thank them um on to our next uh I request approval of all other HR recommendations as presented in the packet this evening I move that we approve all other HR recommendations provided in our packet by Dr ple thank you Mr Grimes you have a second second okay thank you Mr Schultz and Mr major all those in favor of approval of the additional human resource recommendations please say I I all those opposed say nay motion carries Dr B thank you all right we're going to jump over number two Mrs Wen to number three because we don't have any additional Ones based upon the statutory Provisions for that okay Schoolboard member reports can I start with how about Mr Stenner tonight nothing this evening thank you thank you Mr major uh we've I've met with both the Redevelopment commission and with the health trust but there's nothing really new right now to speak of okay thank you Mr Bryant nothing Well L counil we met uh February 7th uh they talked about the difference uh mental health and how to deal with that in our school corporation um they're on top of thing they're working forward they look good and so forth and we got to play B and go Dr Roberts won but I think he Che but anyway maybe it was fun it was fun it was good thank you Mr RI Mr Nan um so all three of my committees met since the last board meeting so the council for Youth Development met on Wednesday February 7th we heard from several different local groups that provide different services to help support local students including the Indiana youth group which provides an after school Gathering Place once per week we also spent time discussing data from CD's most recent data collection and they are hoping to gather data in the future around the impact of social media on our students um the high ability broad-based planning committee met on met virtually on Tuesday February 15th the meeting focused mostly on the current process of identifying students who qualify for high ability programming whether that is the elementary AC program housed at Parkside and Southside the elementary cluster program at all schools or the Middle School AC program a total of 2,482 students were tested mostly in kindergarten grade three and grade six and the IU Columbus Advisory Board met on Wednesday February 14th we got a report on the impact that introducing Sports as an option for students at IU Columbus um is impacting their current students and future students the sports provide an option for IU Columbus students to get involved with peers on campus it is also attracting new students that might have otherwise gone to other schools to play sports the comment was made that Franklin College now considers IU Columbus as their number one competitor for attracting local students we also heard about the um the Admissions Office at IU Columbus is working with bcsc and Charles Edwards to look for ways to remove barriers for bcse students wanting to go on to college none of mine met this last month um a couple things here uh first off from the School Foundation um one item of note um Dale on the trail one of our uh school board members I I won't say uh much about it I'll let Dale talk about it at the end here but uh is very graciously uh is going to embark on a journey that will benefit the school foundation and then also um from the school Foundation uh the fourth annual good better best 5K date has been set Saturday April 27 and that is a race in which the school Foundation recognizes a vcsc teacher um for essentially going above and beyond and and being out of the box in their attempt to reach kids uh registration information has been in the last couple of newsletters and can also be found at Indiana timing.com uh from the legislative front Indiana school boards Association Friday wrapped up um the short session of the legislature um the school boards Association tracking list is down to 33 bills and I have to admit I kind of lost track today so it I'm sure has been Whitted down even more um bills have uh bills that have moved on to the second chamber um have to be um the deadline is today in the house and tomorrow tomorrow in the senate for those bills to remain remain active and legislative leaders have said that this session will end on Friday uh roughly a week ahead of time so I would expect a flurry of activity at the state house this week uh lots of bills uh that could be mentioned um two that have been decided upon probably the bill that received arguably the most attention Senate bill one has uh is on its way to becoming law it has passed the third reading of the house and it's awaiting signatures from both the speaker the president proam and eventually the governor but the school boards Association certainly um hopes that Senate bill one will make a real impact on reading proficiency levels uh for elementary kids across the state and another uh bill of note that has been decided upon house bill 1376 um has met its demise um that was a bill that proposed limiting um controlled project referenda to only be on the November general election ballot so isba passes on a thank you to the Senators across the state that that took a stance in opposing that bill so again Lots uh lots of activity in this final week at the State House you Mr RS um there was a diversity council meeting uh about two weeks ago um Mr Edwards leads that there was a review of um data that the team kind of manages and and puts together there are a lot of um updates regarding inclusion initiatives that are active in in the schools that was was really good to hear and then um there was a um review also of another summer camp that will be offered this year focused on how to help kids get involved in their Community kind of good stewardship I think it was a big hit last year they maxed out capacity they're looking at how they can add additional capacity this year so for parents who might be interested in that please be on the lookout um I also wanted to provide an update on our superintendent search um reminder that Dr Roberts has announced he will be leaving us and so we we need to um find someone to fill those shoes we had presented a schedule uh several weeks ago and we were on schedule with that yesterday the board had an executive session with the University team who is who we've asked to help us through the selection process um we reviewed candidates that had applied and we also aligned on our selection process so what the interview schedule would look like what what we will walk through with candidates um on we are on schedule to start interviews the week after spring break that was our plan and that gets us to to superintendent in place for July 1st is our Target we have some cabinet reports for this evening and we'll start with the Envision 2030 update just a couple of weeks ago we had a strategic planning session and focused on this topic and wanted to get it out in front of the public again here this evening Dr bosan good evening thank you again for some time uh I will try to be brief we're making good progress tonight it's nice outside so I'll see if I can um help continue in that in that path um much of the information I'll share with you tonight you've already seen as Dr Roberts mentioned we shared this in a strategic planning session um did get a couple of questions from uh Mr Schultz that I'll try to address uh within the presentation here and then we have just a little um additional information on next steps with with the new Elementary School to share but um as I said most of this information you've seen um but in an effort to be open and transparent with you all and the public uh we we did plan on showing this over the course of two two board meetings this being the second this slide uh we started working on this gosh almost a year ago um but this is from the original presentation of needs that we've identified that we've we've brought to you and to the community and with this first phase that we'll discuss tonight um most of those items are being addressed in some capacity not to completion of course but um all are being addressed in some capacity with the exception of the expansion of um space at the high schools to address the PE and extracurricular needs as you can see there we have eight projects listed within phase one of our Envision 2030 project scope a couple of these I can speak to now and a couple I'll speak to in a little more detail here shortly so Johnson phase one uh that is just relocating Bright Beginnings from MCD from mcdal to Johnson as part of the phase one project there new Elementary and this west side of of town I'll speak to in a couple minutes um the east and north um C4 that's most down Dental area um of existing square footage in those buildings more at East than at North Central Middle School is is really just one stem lab um all new technology and some new furniture in that building Northside Middle School on the other hand is a full building renovation uh that building as you're aware has not seen substantial renovation since at least the early '90s and part of the building and before that for other parts of the building Smith similarly is in need of renovation it's a high priority site uh mcdal I spoke to um a minute ago in connection with um Johnson we're interested in moving CVP out of least space to McDow and then my healthy also high priority site uh not so much in need of renovation necessarily but um to improve the learning environment there because as you're aware that is still an open concept School which which needs addressed some photos we have here uh and they're around the room and and um this presentation's been shared with with all bcsc employees um as well a couple couple weeks ago just for your awareness um won't speak much to this but you've seen this material already with some example and and some um photos of the scope of work in terms of need um the new old mention on the west side of town in other cities uh this the design the layout etc for this building has not yet been determined of course I'll speak to that here in in just a bit um but we do only 23 Acres on the west side of town just south of the Westside Community Church that is targeted for this site uh C4 expansion at East and North High School as I mentioned a Smith Elementary full renovation to that building as I as I had mentioned these are just photos from Parkside Elementary that may look familiar similarly we have not met with the staff at at Smith yet to determine what that layout is and and what those needs are so we don't have renderings similarly at at North Side Middle School these are photos from other other projects and and what things could look like at Northside Middle School but that's a list of the needs at that building as I mentioned that's a high priority site in need of renovation as well and Mount Healthy I I spoke to as well uh we currently have um we're using a construction manager as Constructor and you actually have an approval item on your agenda uh to receive um bids for for this um currently Maxwell is our construction manager as Constructor for the Schmidt and Parkside projects um we are pleased with that framework so we continue we plan to continue that um in other packages uh We've packaged these five projects uh basically because of size and scope and complexity into three packages for biders um uh that we will have probably 10 or so different construction managers um solicit bids for so they're they're package there as you can see on the screen some of the smaller P projects like Johnson will be a traditional design bid build um that we'll do with CSO and contract out um outside of the CMC this is material seen you've seen before but this is the timeline these are the timelines related to that um CMC approval and uh some more information about the the new Elementary on the west side of town uh the additional information that's on your screen now that um was not last time are those um dates March 25th and 27th so we have four firms that I'll show on the next slide of who they are that have been invited to help design uh this Elementary School with CSO and our involvement uh they will come to town on March 27th excuse me 25th and 27th at 4:00 we'll do two presentations each night so uh one firm two firms will go on Monday and two firms will go on Wednesday uh those are open to the public we will host those at the Westside Community Church which is the neighboring property to the school as you're aware um that that uh Sanctuary seats up to 300 people I'm not sure we'll have 300 but we do expect a lot of folks and a lot of interest in there so we'll send out plenty of reminders and marketing opportunities with that um but that is around the corner so those those firms are coming to town um and this is my formal announcement of that event so I hope you will be there I hope many folks from our community will be there as well these are the four firms that the cumins foundation has invited to help design this new elementary school um we're terribly excited about this as as I've said that word many times in your presence over the past year or so um Jim Funk from CSO and I met with all four firms SE separately last week about a half day each one of them um they similarly are very excited to be considered to work on this project with us um we had a good visit with all with all four of them we met at Parkside Elementary and and walked that building and and talked a lot about what 21st Century Learning environments look like what the needs are of our students in Columbus are what we're trying to achieve um and it was it was time well spent so um three of these four firms have been involved in uh consideration for projects in Columbus previously a couple have participated in exhibit Columbus so they know Columbus well um and and they are excited to be here um to be considered so just as a reminder the way this process works is um as I mentioned they will come to town March 25th and 27th at 4:00 at the Westside Community Church and uh they will give a public presentation on their firms in response to our RFP so we've given G them uh 34 pages of M material to look through and um some questions to answer such as talk about your project team how would you um support what we need in Columbus how would you you know how would your design reflect the cultures of of the community etc etc um so they'll spend about an hour that night um talking about that and going through all these things we have not asked them for a conceptual design of the building uh I want to be clear about that that would not be fair to these folks and frankly would not be fair to our committee to select um on a conceptual design by somebody that the building may not look like that um but we've also we've also spent some time with them explaining um you know these are taxpayer dollars and and we need to be fiscally Mindful and and uh they understand that and respect that as well um I mentioned last time we together we have a committee of about 15 people or so that will serve on that um selection committee um we'll bring We'll Meet April the 4th I think um as a group and then bring a recommendation to the board for your formal approval on April 15th for the the uh the final selection of that design firm Mr nen and Mr Stenner represent the school board as as that as that group this is uh new content as well this slide was not on the last presentation I won't read it to you but you can see some of the um timelines we have drawn in the sand here written in pencil so to speak on on the new building um we are we will start soon on that design team creation so uh different than Schmidt and Parkside those design teams are able to be formed by existing teachers and staff in the building that's not the case on a new building obviously so we'll need to uh pull folks from across the district for a good representation of that um some folks are already starting to ask about um what is districting look like for this so I've added some bullets here uh that we'll work with an outside consultant over the course of really the next two calendar years and determine what that looks like um that will engage uh lots of stakeholder groups and lots of feedback sessions Etc with a tentative date of bringing a recommendation to the board in December of 26 on what boundary lines would be affected by uh the creation of a new elementary school and um any other adjustments need to be made um in other schools at that same time so uh we have a uh we will form a committee it's not facilities committee which would then bring the recommendation to the school board for your your review um and approval this is my last slide and then uh Dr Phillips has one at the end for some financial information this is the same material you've seen uh before I'll add a couple of a couple of notes here you can see the timeline at the top for Parkside and Schmidt which I think you're aware of um the um on on the same topic of of the 12th Elementary um we've we've talked pretty openly one asked especially in community sessions of you know where does that 12th Elementary Fall in terms of priority does it does it happen in a first phase as it happened towards the end um our demographic study that we've we've been talking about for the past year um has really indic um so it's in it's in the first phase for that reason um the data suggests that that we we have the need of course I know you're aware of that we've talked about it many times um one other thing I'll mention up here is you'll see on the future phase projects at the bottom um that those are the other projects that we've been chatting with you about over the course of the past year they're in alphabetical order um no particular order down there but um East and North project two that that includes both um existing excuse me uh the need we have to expand C4 programming to meet the needs that I know you're aware of and also um that extracurricular um those projects as well in there um we did as a team chat about trying to you know we talked about welding quite a bit um early on and we had some sort of rendition at East of some welding solution and a few other se4 Solutions in that first phase uh the but the more we talked about that frankly the more unsettled we we were on some things such as should we have welding at North and East both or should it all be at East or all be at North that sort of thing so uh we didn't get settled on a great solution for that so because of that Mr Edwards is going to work with the team get some feedback from some stakeholders families and students and staff to determine what the best course is and we'll put that into a into a future into a future project here so um and then Mount Healthy you may see that number on there at 8 million that's actually grown um the more we um have spent time on that that's grown I think it was about 3.8 originally now it's eight uh we'll do what it takes am Mount Healthy um Elementary School uh CSO uh is starting to tour that building now uh they know the building well but they're starting to spend more time in there in the coming weeks and then uh we will the schedule you see shows some pre-design work um or schematic design work rather in January of 25 I actually met with the staff at Mount Healthy um a couple days ago and and we'll probably meet with them um in the fall to help get some feedback on that so we'll do what it takes to Mount Healthy elementary school if that number needs to grow then that number will grow but we'll take care of the needs there the last thing I'll mention about Mount Healthy is that's listed as CMC there but you may remember it was not one of the packages on the previous slide for CMC um so Our intention right now is to put that through a construction manager um design uh but we didn't want to put it out to bid now if we're not going to start any work out there until you know the end of 25 or early early 26 let Dr phelp speak to the bond issue estimates here a bit thank you Dr Boseman uh so this just lays out the the schedule of when bonds would be issued based on the construction schedule that was on the previous slide and so um we intend to issue the first set of bonds to come to you for approval to issue those first set of bonds um probably in May or June and that first uh that first bond issue would be for approximately $ 44.1 million uh principle that's an estimate at this point in time all of these numbers will be finalized and in the public documents when we hold our first hearing later in the spring the reason we're going to wait till later in the the spring and the summer to start that bond issue is so that we have the assessed value that comes out in August and we can have a accurate prediction of what the the tax rate might actually be for the following year so that First Column there is actually all the dollars that that Mr Funk has projected we would spend on all of the projects that Dr B bosan described during the remainder of 2024 as well as through the end of 2025 and then the next column is the bond that we would issue in late 2025 for all of our spend in 26 so on and so forth going forward so the first set of bonds that bond issue for 44.1 million uh in principle would uh then also have about $24 million in interest over 19 years and at an assumed interest rate of 5% today we'd probably be closer to four projections they always tend to overestimate on what it's going to cost us and then if it comes in lower than that um you know that's to the our advantage if we were not to issue these bonds this 44.1 million in principal 24 in interest that's uh 68.1 million in total payments over the 19 years the tax rate in the community assuming we didn't do any other debt issues would go down by about about 5 and a half cents in that each of those 19 years so 5 a half cents would be the decline again all of this is laid out and the final numbers these are estimates at this point those final numbers will be in the documents presented to the board in the spring and are every time that we issue bonds but um we had some questions from the board earlier so that's the uh um detail on the first set of bond issues that action will come to the board for the first time in and probably in May have any answer any questions may have thanks any questions from the team I got one or two uh one I want to thank for the feedback on Mount Healthy I'm really excited to see its prioritization out of all the schools I've toured I mean that was one that I received the most looking forward feedback to the construction just given the open concept do you does the scope of work now try to mitigate given that it's increased the the sound issues across these classrooms is that what kind of adjusted the scope upwards towards the 8 million is actually and again we I say this without really getting in deep with the staff there yet but um that 8 million is reflective of a um small proposed addition to the building which is a little counterintuitive because we actually as part of the project with the 12th we'll actually have lower enrollment and get Mount Healthy back to where it was designed to be um but the thinking right now um that's reflective of the eight is at a small addition which then uh which I can't tell if it's two or three classes classrooms in there but then that gets the the condensation of so many classrooms in the existing space a little more out and flexible so we can have some common learning spaces in the middle separate those classrooms a little bit more so that's that's what the the uh reflection is of the change and then the other question is around the 12th Elementary itself I mean I remember going back and I was given information that uh my memory may be a little bit uh fuzzy and I'm trying to make sure I understand is a lot of this was predicated on the Garden City project do we have an update from the city of where that stands and I guess are we getting is the is the wagon in front of the horse so to speak of this coming ahead of the um their approvals it's it's not contingent on that project so if you remember the demographic study um was based off of census data which was um you know current bodies from the 2020 study obviously and projected um enrollment of those of those families um not including any potential or rumored or expected growth so um so that's my way of saying the need exists out outside of Garden City so even if we even if the Garden City project City View project um as it's tabbed um doesn't launch we still have a need um that South is going to be over capacity um in the in the I would say mid to long term but it's really short term from what the data we have so that that Garden City City View project just exasperates the when you mean the demographic study you mean the study that said that the preference is a Elementary School 700 or less no the demographic study was um we do those every 10 years that was uh from Dr brudvig out of Northern Kentucky that is that the 2021 study it was given to us in 21 yeah yeah because I was confused because the 2021 study actually showed a decline in population over time it had inflection opportunities but and I believe the data I got from Dr Phillips was southside's ADM is down slightly not very much and mount healthies is also so in reality these schools could hold into a holding pattern it's not ideal I agree with what the feedback from the community was but because it's not an elementary school of 700 or less which is what was the feedback but there's no impending undue pressure on these that I saw as of now in that 2021 study that was given to us was there new I was just making sure there's no new students that are added as reflection of that study from last year that was provided the the 21 study is the most recent demographic study that we have right thank you questions you have Mr Stenner um when we were on the slide looking at the uh Construction manager as contractor or contractor as construction manager I can't remember the acronym uh you mentioned that we're using Maxwell now for a couple of projects in that role and you mentioned that we were committed to that going forward I wanted to make sure you're committed to using the CMC style of Contracting not necessarily all the business would go to Maxwell oh that that yeah that's correct yeah we have to publicly bid that so they're have an RFP that's been prepared um and then as we did previously um firms will submit responses to that uh and then we'll bring a selection to you for approval but yes that needs to be publicly bid um yes and and just for clarification that um not all projects from phase one are under CM as as I mentioned before so thanks for that clarification any other questions okay thank you Dr bosan and Dr Phillips appreciate Okay I uh we have another agenda I'm first reading policy 5830 jumped ahead too soon yeah so in your uh in front of you two things in your packet you had a revision for um a policy on student fundraising which is number 5830 we've added another copy in front of you tonight it's because we added another sentence it doesn't change the the content really of the policy it just stresses um that is in certain situations that uh when we use a raffle it has to make sure and comply with Indiana Law so so the reason for putting this policy in front of you is because sometimes you have practice and policy that start to uh get apart spread apart from each other as a Gap and what we noticed is we've had the practice over the last few years of allowing the sell of raffle tickets we've even uh approved those uh under fundraising and but but our policy didn't state that so it was using uh old language from Indiana code Indiana code changed in about 2018 this was the last revised in 2017 um but there is um State Statute does allow for students even those under 18 years of age may sell tickets or chances for raffle they can't participate in in something that's a game of chance but they can sell Raffles uh for a chance um we did add then the sentence that you see in front of you tonight however any fundraiser involving games of chance must comply with Indiana Law including obtaining the appropriate license or permits uh so we just wanted to stress that a second time that sentence is earlier in the policy and was before we we wanted to stress that uh when we're saying that students are allowed to to sell raffle tickets so this is a first reading just wanted to make sure and and get that in front of you again the ration now being that we are approving fundraisers where students might be selling raffle tickets over a period of time um and just want to make sure that practice and policy were or are aligned I'll take any questions any questions from the team thank you Dr Roberts thank you Mrs W okay next we have public comments just a reminder of our policy regarding public comments um everyone will get three minutes to speak if you do want to um to speak here um when you walk in the door there's usually a blue sheet on the door so or on the table so you can sign up we you put your name um kind of the context of what you would like to speak to um will get 3 minutes there will be a a reminder here uh we stick to 3 minutes so I'll wave and and do things to distract you and try to get you to move on if we get close to that um please do not use names of specific individuals um or specific titles it's kind of the same thing we want to talk in generalities if there's a concern um you can pass if your intendant Point has been made so if someone comes to speak and they say the exact same thing that you were intending to say you can you can pass or you can say I agree with the person who who just spoke prior I also asked for the audience no cheers or jeers um it can be really intimidating to stand up in front of a team and speak um and so I just ask that we hold all all comments and and things like that um you can always speak to someone afterwards if you'd like okay so with that we will go ahead and get started the first person on our list is Mr kit key okay thank you Kermit I appreciate that um next is Sandy Watts I want to say that I read the book people kill people it's 107,2 53 words it was brought to our attention a year and a half ago I read it then but I Revisited it I feel like I'd be remissed to talk about a book I haven't read I would expect no less of my elementary students throughout the years yes there is a gun on the cover it is a dotto dot gun if you find this concerning I find it very concerning the mass murders that are occurring across the United States I also find it concerning then for children that go into our big box stores you see racks of guns you see cases of guns they're next to the toy department so that kind of sends a confusing message I think um in the book there is a comment six tens six reasons someone will fire someone will die guns just make it easier if you read the book you find out it's not the teens that are doing The Killing it's the adults it's a man who is racist who accidentally kills his wife it's a child who a gun is unsecured accidentally kills his aunt these are the people that die in this book there are many lessons there's racisms there's sexism there's anti-Semitism there's child abuse and more there's a young man named Rand we've not been told his name that's his name the trauma he felt because he felt he was alone he didn't know anybody else had this trauma but he made the right choice he decided not to kill the perpetrator because he wanted to be a policeman and he wanted to leave a valued life that's a message that has not been told I think it's important we know those if you did not see 60 Minutes I recommend that you watch it it's on YouTube it's about Ms moms for Liberty and gun violence it kind of foreshadows and tells what we've been going through during this time in closing I want to read the uh dedication in this book this book is dedicated to the far too many victims of gun violence and to the loved ones who grieve for them sending love and light with a special ND to young people that have been taken too soon the future expected you now it Mourns for you that's what this book is about and that is the main focus it's not two pages it's 107,2 53 words and I'm going to leave quickly because I'm late for my book club so thank you very much and thanks for all you're doing and keeping in trying and thanks for all of you that keep reading all these books for us so thanks so much thank you Mr I have Ann Cooper I hope I got that right that's sorry I work in healthare I don't have the best um so I have some questions about the proposed or past uh health clinic or health clinics in the BCC schools and if you'll forgive me I have a lot of questions oh sorry yeah microphone microphones making me nervous okay I have a number of questions about the proposed or planned health clinic or health clinics in the bcsc schools and if you'll forgive me I have a lot of questions please help us understand how this is going to work what is the plan going forward what is a third party and I by third party I mean not in insurance but the the people providing the clinic so what is the third party's plan for the clinic and how is it to operate how is this to be funded is this federal state local monies who's responsible for any liability involved for example who is responsible if a student has something happened like an allergic anaphylactic reaction seizure fall Etc on the way to or from the clinic whether that be at the student school or on bcse transportation and what or what about actually in that clinic and speaking of Transportation what kind of Medical Training do the drivers have will the student's parents be present at all clinic visits what kind of relationship will the clinic have with the student and parent medically financially Etc who is responsible for keeping the medical records updated upd dated and Reporting visits to the students primary care provider or other providers will bcsc follow up with a third party to ensure that proper care is being given to students and that local state and federal law is being followed What kind of providers will be in the clinic is it an MD or do PA nurse practitioner CMA it would be very helpful to have these answered um in the future thank you thank you Miss Cooper okay next on the list um we have Jason major uh so later on in the agenda we actually have um a book or review to discuss that Mr major had um submitted and so um if anyone outside of the board had submitted a book um review and it was up for decision they would have an opportunity to be part of the public and speak so so he is um acting as part of the public um I don't see any kids here so I think we're okay all right I'll do my best to stay within my three minutes but I wanted to make sure that people understood my perspec perspective from my words and not words that have been put in my mouth by other people in the community that have tempted to degrade my character by spreading negative and false narratives I've been interviewed by at least three e students in the last year for senior projects specifically about this book and my position will remain consistent from discussions with them and my statements tonight I know it has been stated that I'm trying to attack different cultures Lifestyles and beliefs with my attempt to push for a Restricted Section my concern is that we are presenting material to students that includes age in appropriate elements miners as young miners as young as 14 have the ability to seek out this book and this age group is generally not capable of understanding more adult level thoughts what I will read shortly is clearly beyond that capable of a 14-year-old to comprehend quite honestly I don't know most adults will comprehend the two pages I will read I fully anticipate this book will de be deemed acceptable by this board and remain in the library however I would like to challenge the Republic to publish these pages that I'm going to read I'm sure copyright law will be referenced as why they will not but would like to challenge that they do this the use of a Restricted Section would be ideal ensuring the parents are able to understand what is available to their child and allow them to Define the limits for which their child should be allowed to roam within the library it is not feasible rational or reasonable to expect a parent to read every book that a child can encounter parents have the ability to set limits on technology they need to have the limits set in a library the following is an excerpt from the book people kill people by Ellen Hopkins has anyone ever showed you how to feel good what do you mean you really didn't know has anyone ever touched you like this this is all in reference to a 9year year old boy and a grown man okay he pulled you onto his lap one arm remained possessively in control while the spare hand dropped to stroke his crotch of your jeans that part didn't hurt in fact you were surprised that your wiener responded positively still you knew nothing was you knew it was wrong so wrong and you tried to get away oh no not yet the hand holding you grip tighter while the other unzipped your pants and yanked them off in one swift well practiced motion you struggled but couldn't come near to matching his physical strength he unbuttoned his own fly freeing his sorry erection to worm its way between your butt cheeks he slapped a hand over your mouth this might hurt a little if it's really your first time let's see if it is if there was one small Saving Grace it was he possessed a small pencil dick still when it he drove it inside you the pain was Exquisite and you screamed into his filthy Palm but your please carried no weight the wind blew Cinder heavy ashes into your face and he grunted like a hungry Pig over and over until he was finished thank you Mr mjor appr out I've got I've got just a slight bit more and we've allowed people to go over in the past but I I paused them and I think you're at a point where you can pause if you would like to continue um we do have time at the end for board comments but I think we're I would I I'll go ahead and finish real quick um Mr major Mr major please as a board m the same expectation to stop at 3 minutes for everyone else you paused which is my practice thank you okay we are going to move on to Barb Wills hi I'm Barb wills and I also am a speaking about the book appeal um first I looked up what the Indiana requirements are for a librarian did you know they have to have a teaching license um I didn't actually know that but I knew that they did need certification so I feel like our Librarians are well-versed enough to know whether a book should be in their library or not also it is very clearly stated on this book's page that it is for 9 to 12th grade it will not be in our elementary schools it will not be in our middle schools it will only possibly be in our high schools has the right to choose what their child can or cannot W watch read and view but I have a question for you have you read the entire book I did and yes those pages are heartwrenching but there are 99-year-old children in our community who have dealt with that and they don't want to be felt like they're left alone if this book helps one person feel like they're not alone isn't it worthwhile and I will end there thank you Miss Mills Miss Wills sorry Megan Johnson actually I'd like to use my minutes and what he had to say was that all that's where I was from there down okay sure I've been coming to board meetings for three years I've witnessed several people go over the time limit it's unfortunate that fellow board members will not allow people to finish speaking so I'm going to choose to finish for him it pains me to say stuff like this when he shriveled out of you he let you go and you crawled away bare knees and hands through the dirt you would have run except there except there was no place to go but further into the wilds and it grew colder and colder as the distance between you and the campfire lengthened once you evacuated what you could wash with frigid stream water you wandered back to Camp claimed your jeans and crept into a sleeping bag that wasn't so bad was it Dean asked from within the warmth of the adjacent bag here's the deal if you tell anyone what happened I will come after you you he vowed I will H your mother oh and I will kill your ugly dog too again I understand the judging a book as a whole but at some point we need to wait until the storm is over to know it was raining people daily are judged by a single or a few events that occur in their life I'm sure there are a great number of people in prison or jail that made one mistake and were judged by that incident alone I hope now that you have heard heard my words that you better understand my perspective this book contains extremely graphic descriptions you of pedophilia and rape pedophilia and rape what is wrong with you people the student in high school is as young as 14 will not have the ability to understand this topic thank you for letting me explain Jason's positions what Have We Become feel free now to vote to allow this in the library as you do please have the courage to vote by roll call vote thank you should I go down the line is this what I do no Miss Miss Johnson we will vote that we will vote yeah yes awesome Y and for the rest of the people that are watching that are caught up in all this back and forth stuff we are literally beating a dead horse we're literally beating a dead horse they're not going to do anything about the sexual content and your child's Library do your dueil D due diligence and find out for yourself protect our children thank you thank you Miss Johnson Nancy merbitz thank you hi um first a quick word hearkening back to the um the new school being built I just wanted to throw out a thought I had as that was being discussed and then get on to another quick word about about the whole book thing um I would like to encourage you all to consider if it's not already being done um evaluating the presentations for you know who will Design the school um based on factors of environmental um you know Energy Efficiency and environmental design um I think in the long run that ends up saving money um I don't know if you could go as far as lead certification but anyway that's a thought if taxpayer dollars are going to something thinking about the long term um I have spoken before um referring to the National agenda that um of the purple for parents and moms for Liberty and the candidates that ran for the board and two of them that were at least at that time affiliated with purple for parents which has a agenda that's anti-public education so I've said that before I will just say it again the the true goal of the people that they've Affiliated themselves with is to privatize education um so they move from book Banning stuff to um um endless questions about the budget which of course that has you know that they have a right to question that but it's been a lot and then um one of their Affiliates imputing the Integrity of somebody who's going into you know leaving his position after a stellar career and imputing his Integrity um so and my last thought on this is wondering what kind of dual role conflict there is with having somebody um on this School Board able to present a complaint about a book and then is going to vote on it and then gets to talk in public comment and for just future um consideration consider whether or not a board member can bring a complaint as a member of the public when he or she is in a role of making decisions about public complaints thank you thank you Miss mettz okay those are all the public comments we have tonight Dr Roberts okay we'll move into the request for approval the first item is old business and includes the minutes from the regular school board meeting of February the 5th and the strategic planning session of February the 19th I would ask for your approval on those minutes please I move that we approve the minutes of the two meetings that are listed in our agenda under 5A thank you Mr Grimes do you have a second second I have a comment I think there was a mistake but I might be wrong um on the on the item of it was back in that meeting it was item 6h which was about buses um and it says Mrs wien and Mr Schultz abstained from the vote and it should be Mrs wion and Mr major I believe page 30 could catch I saw that too thank you Mr so I move that we amend amend the the minutes to show that correction okay I'll second okay my name off of it okay so we are now voting to amend the minutes yes there's one more thing I'm sorry and I can't I don't have it in front of me but I was I believe I was referred to as Mr Todd once in the minutes too so that probably should change to Mr Grimes okay I didn't catch that sorry okay you call me Mr was that a motion yeah I guess maybe that's a motion yeah I second that emotion that motion okay can we have a clean motion I'm going to ask someone to make a motion with both changes as an amendment to the minutes could you do that do you want me to put them together yes I do thank you so I make a motion that we correct item 6h to reflect that it was Mrs Welden and Mr major that abstained and I also move that if there is a spot in the minutes that says Mr Todd we correct it to Mr Grimes thank you Mr Nan do we have a second for this amendment thank you Mr major okay all those in favor of amending item 5A per Mr Nell's description please say I I all those oppose say nay okay we now have an amended minutes would anyone like to move to approve those I think we have to oh we need a new motion to I think you have to approve theend so I move that we approve um the old minutes as amended thank you Mr jelan all those oppos say nay all right no thank you thank you we're good all right this next one is old business as well we went ahead and separated it out for for you so requesting a determination regarding the contested library book in your packet was a uh recommendation in terms of uh keeping adhering to the decision of the committee that reviewed the book okay thank you I move that we approve the recommendation of the committee um as as written in the board packet thank you Mr Nan second thank you Mr Grimes any discussion from the team I'll I'll keep my comment very brief um as an educator sitting here as an educator in a rather unique setting um just last week I had a conversation with a student who uh has read several books by this by this same author and unprompted by me he referen this book uh explicitly and it's just a couple pages I believe after Mr major the selection that was read this evening there there's a poem in there about human resilience and that student um spoke to me and and could almost recite the poem verbatim and it was you know and she made some comments that this author has helped her immensely and I know that um you know I have read the book um and I'll be the first to admit it's rough and you know in the in the rather unique setting where I teach I can assure you there are kids that have been through many more um not to if you put them on very unspeakable I mean hores that um are every bit as bad or worse in some cases than are mention um in this book and I think um you know any chance that we have to be able to and again I sit up here with first and foremost in my mind the best interest of kids and and you know somebody made the comment if it saves one kid it's it's worth it and um I'll I'll stop my comments uh there but I just thought it was important for me to um let people know um where my stance is and why thank you Mr Grimes to to be clear it's not listed here on the screen but in our board packet was a decision to um um uphold the decision of the Review Committee and maintain the book in the library okay just want to be clear I do also have a couple comments right I I know where I'm going to be on this decision and and that I'm at I'm at peace with it I will say it's been inferred that I have association with outside groups I can tell you for sure that's not the fact um in governance which is what we do here you regularly have to make tough choices that may or may not please a group um but in my opinion you always stand strong to your principles um I've read the book uh Miss Hopkins tackle the tough subject that we have in the United States I actually believe there's a couple of Miss Hopkins books in my own personal Library uh based on it my recent review but it clearly possesses our rated material in the forms of racial slurs excessive profanity gun violence sexual assault and child rape General access is a concern that can lead to long-term emotional distress especially those with traumatic pasts that may knowingly or unknowingly get emotional triggers from that material as a father of children that have suffered what those two pages say I can tell you there will be a child hurt as well when they accidentally walk onto those two pages there will be a rein a reinvigoration of their emotional trauma and it's hard for me to say that but I feel an obligation as a person that represents the Foster CH care system and also children from that system there will be children hurt interestingly enough during a board me I was not present I was on a work trip January 8th this same board joined a class action lawsuit that focused on the impact of social media companies that are having on the mental health due to providing adult levels of content to minors the same content is just in a different form in that lawsuit the United States Surgeon General notes and I quote evidence indicates children are exposed to harmful content ranging from violent and sexual harassment which impacts future State medical conditions we've talked a lot about the Mental Health crisis this is where it starts this in joining this class action lawsuit BCS is quoted in our Republic as stating and I quote we're going after the major social media entities that have laxed rules in place of in terms of how people can access them we're just hoping to enact some changes in some of the rules and regulations to better protect our kids as they grow and immature and their brain develops these discussions are both about adult content the same adult content but one is written in books and one is written on an online social media platform the children are the same the brains are the same and they're maturing at the same rate the content is the same but in one we want firmer rules to the point that we're willing to join litigation and here no rules in we want to have rules and around no parental content on our own we want no parental cons consent on our own policies the lead attorney on this exact class action lawsuit that is now representing bcsc so essentially us publicly stated in an interview and I quote that the level of adult content in the form of sex profane language racism violence and harassment is atrocious and we need firmer rules with these companies that also help Drive parental engagement there's never been a desire to ban there's been a desire to get parental consent why the difference now why are we not going to hold ourselves to the same standard that we are going to litigate companies for it is a principal obligation and I said at the beginning we have to stand by our principles if we're going to hold a social media company to it we better darn well hold ourselves to the same rules parents need to lead it needs the parental consent to get to that information they know their parent or their children the best the parents sits at the head of the table therapists pastors family members teachers sit around but at the end of the day the parent can decide whether that child can handle that content I appreciate thank you Mr Schultz okay I I'll ask the audience please give M minut to to make our decision um any other comments from the board middle of our motion okay Mr major can you confirm your participation in the vote tonight what's that just confirm your participation in the vote tonight I'm I already told Mike I just wanted it to be on on record yeah I'm not I never had the intent or plan or thought that I would be able to vote on this because I was the one that presented it it's no different to me than conflict of interest y yeah thank you thank you okay so we have a motion in a second oh Mr yes sorry just I was going to say nothing but um but I I think I have to report that I did read the book um and and and for any of these issues that really are hard to read um I think it's important when you see it in the context of of the narrative um that we often often the books and that was the case with many of the there were six characters that intertwined I think it was six I read it a long time ago when we first got it but um it's kids who read it get to see how people overcome some of those things and I think that's an important part that's often left out when we only look at at certain paragraphs and certain pages thank you Mr nelan okay I have a motion and a second to approve the determination regarding the contested library book as presented in your packet all those in favor say I I all those opposed say nay nay motion passes the remainder of my requests for approval are on the screen so I'm asking for approval of the supplemental contracts that were in your packet the FI trips and professional leaves you did have a couple of extra profession or excuse me fi trips that came in since you received your packet those are highlighted on one of the sheets in front of you uh we also have school fundraisers additionally we have claims and payroll uh two sets of Claims One dated March 4th uh over $1.6 million of pre runs for January 27th through February 23rd that's over $3.2 million and then payroll for February 9th and February 23rd that was about $7.5 million and then we have approval of HVAC equipment bids for Schmid Elementary that Dr Boseman had information about in your packet we also have permission to receive bids for Envision 20130 Phase 1 CMC work so this is not giving you a recommendation for who uh is who we're giving that bid to but they are we're going to receive bids and then be able to open up them up shortly and then lastly approval of the HP 103 waiver resolution for the 2425 school year this has been an annual thing for the last few years for us HP 103 was a legislation passed a few years ago that gave us the ability to file applications for waivers on a variety of things the two that we have concentrated on one is the ability to wave time in a manner that we can count hours ver versus days uh we do exceed the number of minimum hours uh in a school day by uh about an hour per Elementary and secondary and that gives us some some ability to then have professional development days during our contract time so an example during President day we had a professional development day students were at home we had all 2,000 plus staff members together so we're asking to be able to do that again for next year additionally we're asking for a waiver of legislation that indicates that a virtual school is to considered a school given its own School number and then some um is required to to certain reporting requirements after it exceeds 100 students we have more than 100 students in our virtual pathway but that number has been decreasing since uh covid and and the the um the largest number that we had at one point in our virtual pathway so we are just asking for a waiver to table that till that number uh evens out um over a period of time to make sure that it's truly going to be a virtual school for us um so those are the two waiver resolutions that are in the two waiver Provisions we have in the resolution so asking for your approval of that too okay thank you Dr Roberts do I have a motion from the board I move that we approve all the items under new business number seven letters C through I is presented by Dr Roberts thank you Mr Grimes do have a second second thank you Mr Schultz any questions or discussion from the team did have a question yeah on the uh for Dr Boseman on the the bids it looked like some of the bids had come back uh on the Schmid Elementary project had come back we asked for bids on things that we didn't get any bids on they weren't a major part of the project but maybe some bathroom accessories and things like that yeah that's correct uh big category one and two both received no bids and it was actually due to some confusion with the the couple of biders um so we will when we we've rolled those two packages into the larger package of bid categories for the rest of the renovation so there's no risk or or anything um we'll just move those categories out the reasons the others are in there um we're just try to get ahead of some long lead time items on the HVAC equipment so thank you okay any other questions or comments okay we have a motion in a second to approve item 7 C through I all those in favor please say I I all those opposed say nay motion passes Dr Roberts thank you okay board input and review you start with Mr Bryant nothing tonight okay thank you Mr major I'd like to thank all of those who were able to travel last week to watch both of the Columbus high schools play in the first game of the boys basketball sectionals at East Central High School I think that uh watching that game we were probably able to fill their gym up with our students and families it was something that was really a sight to see I want to give a huge thank you to the sponsors the supported the fan buses I probably am not going to get them all but I know pritchet Brothers Roofing Exteriors and the Columbus Bowling Center were two of them that I caught that uh were able to provide sponsorship to allow the students to to travel that was a wonderful thing that they did um I also saw that uh the north gymnastics won the regional and they're off the state so wanted to wish them the best of luck thank you Mr Stenner um ffy in Columbus is nearly a hundred years old now um in many communities there are boys clubs and Girls Clubs in Columbus we have the foundation for Youth and their facility on uh Hope Avenue and programs that coordinate and cooperate with a lot of organizations in the community I'd like to point out that they're going through a strategic planning process to help set uh their goals for and vision for the future the communities invited to participate um just wanted to give a shout out to ffy and all good work they do and uh their need for Community participation in their strategic planning process thanks thank you Mr Stenner um I could not read my writing earlier when I gave an update on our superintendent process and I I left to point out um in our working session yesterday um we did um include Amy London and I appreciate actually saw her in the back a minute ago um who leads our teachers union and she was able to collect a lot of um input put from from teachers and present that to us in terms of their input for the superintendent selection so I much appreciated her time um and presenting that to us and all of the teachers who partic to do next so thank you for that Mr Grimes uh thank you to all the community members stakeholders that are here this evening and uh also certainly those that took the time to speak um like Mrs wien said Thank you to Mrs London and the teachers uh for their feedback and input regarding the superintendent search and also thank you to the community members who took the time to fill out uh surveys and provide input as well uh congratulations again to miss bodart Mrs McIntyre for their new principal ships that will start next school year congratulations again to the four student athletes SL wrestlers from East and North that were recognized here this evening for their accomplishment and then lastly um just to kind of end on a positive note here I I just want to say there lots and lots of good things going on and and some very admirable accomplishments taking place right now in bcsc and just to uh um you know as evidence by The Weekly Newsletter um that we go out that that goes out and um so yeah I just wanted to end on uh a little bit more of a positive upbeat so we'll we'll keep positive things going thank you m Schultz I want to also do very similar I think it was very insightful hearing from what the public and Miss London the teachers I've had several talk to me personally about what they're feeling and I can say it was heard it was definitely well received and appreciate all the insights congratulations to all those that uh Miss McIntyre Miss bodart and bcsc wrestling um and then also just thanks to all those that talked it takes a lot to get up there um I I do know and I'll continue to challenge this board on principles if we're going to do it this way then we should back out the litigation stand by principal take it by principal um that's where I'll stand um even though I do agree with joining the litigation um I I will say as I asked this board I never thought books would take the highlight of two years on or a year and a half on this role I I feel like honestly it's very memorable that we have the reading achievement celebration picture here and uh bcsc has an impending crisis when we look at I think it's c a bill one the reading bill I mean we've got 300 third graders that need assistance and we need to see a plan I we can't wait for next year we can't I mean my daughter is one of them and I can tell you right now her teachers are having very similar struggles of like what's the there's four different systems all of them have different criteria I I would love like to see a plan here to how we're going to address that before we get to I next year um and I I that's the one thing I'd ask this board to consider requesting um I don't I mean we can talk about Wellness clinics we can talk about books uh but at the end of the day I think we need to see where do we need Tas where do we need uh extra book buddies where do we need these resources compiled in our Title One schools to make sure that those child children are not left behind and the Senate bill is going to force us but it doesn't mean we can't act ahead get head now um test first graders I mean that was one thing that was brought up to me today why are we stopping at second graders just because that's what the state says test the first graders let's move forward let's get ahead of the problem so um you guys stole my stuff but maybe instead of talking about books we should talk about book buddies maybe that's the the the the theme there and I I guess I will also reiterate it because because it was very very helpful to um get the feedback in the superintendent search from the teachers and from the community and um and I really appreciate the amount uh the the percent of people from both groups that actually did participate in that um and on a personal note um so some people know this for for stress reliever I go out and um walk in the woods with my tent and my food um and and you'd think once I retired I wouldn't need the stress Rel anymore but somehow I I still do so I have been talking with Nicole Cunningham um from the school Foundation of how I could use that to to the school foundation's Advantage so um I hike the appachan trail every summer I've actually gone from Georgia to New Hampshire I last summer I ended at mile marker 1,875 um and this summer I'm planning to do 200 miles in New Hampshire and Maine and um and I will shamelessly put it out here I have um some info here if anyone is interested in donating or pledging um to help the school foundation with my hike um this was Nicole's idea to call it Dale on the trail

[Music] e [Music] a [Music] you saying the intro welcome to double points week of the IH seen postseason today the bluon Cyber Tigers will be facing off against players from 21 other schools totaling 36 different players throughout Indiana in the game of tetrio in this Swiss style bracket players will attempt to win best of three matches in a total of five rounds yes let's talk about what makes tetrio and battle Tetris what it is talk about garbage you're going to need to know about garbage whenever a player clears lines he will send a certain amount of garbage to the opponent and the garbage is just gray blocks on the bottom of the board and it's meant to fill up the board until it can get to the top and yeah first to get to the top of their board first and can't place any more blocks loses we've already got a match going on oh it's a run back wow it's Opie and Sam we did this last time we did we did the last time Opie did pull out the victory but Sam getting that stain on the record that one round win against Opie let's see if Opie can redeem I don't know the gender Opie is already starting off with one win so I don't know to say if I don't know if I should say himself or herself whatever self just themselves it's a good work around there we go tpin the single just a small little it bitty guy Sam throwing Sam throwing some combos out looking at set up a t spin there it is there it is yeah t- spins are just spinning a t-shaped block into a t-shaped hole to clear some lines and it's very valuable sends a lot sends a lot of garbage yep sends as much garbage as clearing four lines at once W uh sending garbage is really useful because it it basically inhibits the other person's ability to even do anything yeah op getting another win see there those Gray blocks that filled Sam's screen up to the top that is garbage and if you can send enough of it at once you don't even have to let the other player place a single block if you're just fast enough MH Opie setting up a t-pin tower it's just basically a factory of t-pins and torture oh wow and that is unfortunate that seemed to be the game Opie redeeming themselves that one round loss Jordan plus what is that Ander that is Ander Ander won the first the first of many all right we go we got Jordan starting off with some basic gameplay yeah believe he's looking just set up a big tower so we can get those quads Jordan is very good at setting up the combos yeah quads are self-explanatory just right there just clearing four lines at once quads is as the older Tetris players would know a Tetris yes a Tetris it is a Tetris it is a Tetris that is what it's called outside ofet second win there we go hopefully a full sweep I forgot they were called tetrises mhm my favorite little uh I don't know tidbit that everybody knows yeah here you go we got Jordan doing basically the same exact strategy from last round oh let's see and he's just going for it getting a little bit of a combo oh that might finish off his opponent it's gonna he's going insane good combo there was a single a double and a quad let's go Jordan the boss good stuff there from Jordan the boss as you said all right this is Owen going up against is that guy named anoi I believe Anon I cannot read these usernames a bit too far away for us to notice but you can probably read it you at home you right there the viewer sitting on your I don't know if you're sitting but whatever you are sitting on the toilet right now I'm sure somebody out there just got absolutely called out yeah Jessica maybe there's someone Nam Jess just making it super specific if only okay it looks like Owen's just going for a basic strategy not going to build anano got a anano getting a quad there and that's going to take Owen out for the second round in a row yeah that's anano anano anano or anany or anio anano rolls off the tongue it does just sounds better are let see both players just taking a slow all right we're both just watching it let's see here okay The Good the first line Owen sending some combos a single and a single and a triple let see here just looking to get some lines clear to perhaps start chipping away at that garbage that was sent by anano y he's doing it though I mean slowly for surely getting there anano with a quad single single single double Owen or just three singles and a double Owen chipping away let's see here wow Owen's getting pretty highing oh the triple the single but he's getting high oh okay can he pull it through though he's starting to chip away he's starting to do it he's almost done oh he's freaking up I bet he's panicking not the best block placement ever it's fine he's got it he's got it still gonna clear some blocks there gonna get a little bit of breathing room he is going to go down though that was a that was a slow like battle for control congratulations anano for that win good gameplay is this I believe that's a replay of Jordan in his match is I think Sam is just running it back for fun I'm not sure what Sam is doing something's happening we do have one match still we have EMT going up against toxic tan I've heard this guy's name toss around tossed around a bit I don't know much of what toxic tan can do sure will show us got emit with the double with the single with the triple sending some combos towards toxic tan the quad there toxic tan getting a little bit high up but the double single and just a double saying double single might be a little bit confusing probably shouldn't do that yeah keep in mind all of these something to note all of these matches will feature your cyber tigers on the left side of the screen yes yes yes always on the left yep their opponents will be on the right oh toxic Teran was going towards the top of his screen but he fired back with a quad good move there can emit send enough lines to knock him out he's just widowing down the blocks on his screen at the moment getting kind of high we're get pretty we're getting pretty pressured dangerous territory but emt's staying alive and never mind there he goes all right this is looking like it's going to be a good match let's see here believe we got EMT fixing his screen a bit gonna set up here so did emit make his username off based off of his name because it sounds like EMT no we just call him EMT his username is Lego master I see appropriate because he very frequently has a pair of Legos by his side inside of the Esports room mm mhm he's very on brand almost as on brand as me and I make a lot of my gamer personality liking the color blue uh yes my favorite personality trait blue yes the most interesting one mhm okay we're having ref pressure again is he able to oh oh he's handling it he's getting something let's see it let's see him pull here EMT looking to build back just like Lego is how appropriate see unfortunate there there it goes O2 toxic Teran looking to finish off the Lego Master let hope at least at least not a full sweep mhm knock on wood MH I don't have any wood near me getting weird Deja Vu this is the second time I've commentated a Tetris and I've never done it with you but for some reason I feel like I have uh probably Esports yeah like that whatever let's get back to the actual not Esports match enough about me this is about Tetris I mean tetria I don't know if they actually care I don't I don't imagine anybody he cares most people just know it is Tetris it's just Tetris it is Tetris okay toxic Teran coming away with the wind yeah speaking of Tetris toxic Tan One Tetris weird way to put it he won Tetris whatever he won the match who cares well anyway we have a bit of an intermission as round one is fully completed will say some sponsors all right we got a very special thanks to the Wells County foundation for a special grant that allowed us to purchase the computer this stream is currently running on without their support we wouldn't be able to provide the quality programming you are currently enjoying huge shout out to the Ws County Foundation should I do one yes okay what the thank you to our spor Adam Wells internet Telecom TV your local service provider with gigs speeed internet well where did you come from okay yeah and telephone services for business and residential customers in Adams and Wells County they provide everything for us as well as right here in town if you're looking for a tasty treat sweet obsessions bake shop has got you covered located on East Main Street across from the flag Star Bank mhm all right I believe we are going to go to the current bracket of this round are we doing that please I beg of you bracket look at that bracket look at how awesome that bracket is I can't read it I can't read anything so we're hoping the viewers at home can cuz m mhm with all those green markers I believe this is the result of round one oh yeah not much to commentate on we are looking at should we do another sponsor while there reading we just read them up I don't think we should do another sponsor that's what we got yeah I believe right now everyone's just looking at replays of their own matches either that or they're just staring at the bracket just as us all right okay we'll be back for round two in just for a moment then are we on when it's showing the bracket does that mean we're off I think so yes I think I did last time is that the case got it all right yes all right oh my goodness round two is starting no way here oh this seems to happen fairly often in uh this bracket we have Sam and EMT meeting each other despite being on the same team they have met in bracket oh so what do they do when this happens they fight each other and whoever wins gets points just like normal seeing quite a few te- spins coming from Sam is Sam like good at specifically going for t-pins Sam is good at a lot he's very good with the t-pins very good with all clears which is self-explanatory it's clearing everything on the board and it sends a bunch of garbage let me actually see how much specifically it sends it sends 10 lines it always sends 10 lines 10 lines let's see here we got Sam the minion throwing a bunch of combos just throwing everything he has you know I wish there was an origin story for Minion the gamertag of Sam and I don't believe there is every time I've asked him he's always been like I don't know I just liked minions so for me it was always a little bit yeah I don't know yeah most gamertags have origin stories mine is there's a bird called Blue Jay and it matches my name so I made that my thing yours is it's a nickname mhm the band gave it to me when I was in Middle School mhm This Guy's in band no way oh wow I'm also a B nerd wo Z every kind of nerd you could possibly be mhm here we go oh oh the minion with the combos and the M drop I don't know if that was it was it definitely was he's got he's got the Lego master in some trouble I'm I'm getting into a habit of saying gamertags now okay whatever I don't know G do gamertags are fine yeah gamertags are fine the parents who are watching for their child probably knows their game tag I mean yeah they might want to hear their kid's name though yeah probably yeah one are the other matches going on this is all so spread far out that I cannot actually see who's fighting who yeah there are quite a few matches going on oh anano is back facing off against Jordan o I do like seeing this what is it anano seems like like a very good well adjusted player anano I like watching them MH very nice name I just like saying their name anano anano we're probably saying it wrong too yeah probably but whatever sorry sorry anano you're probably not watching this but if you are oopsy doodle whoops let's see oh we do have Owen taking round one against Ander who I believe we did see earlier as well wow you have a good eyesight thank you we've also got the match between Sam and EMT raging on with Sam going up two rounds to nothing oh wow meanwhile Jordan gonna take a round on an anio there I like seeing that so Sam's background is obviously an error screen how did he do that that um I know that it's a thing that you can do that's all I know there's a there's a custom background option tab in the uh options I've tried to do it before but for some reason it didn't work it just gave me a black background I'll have to try that then yeah I tried to do a Kirby background just ask uh ask either Sam or or Jordan he's done it before he hit the te- spin he hit that te- spin I know that one yes he knows the t- spin out of the combos that is the one let's see here oh okay Sam just thinking about what to do going to send a triple emit way farther down on the screen looks like Sam's more focused on building yeah Sam just getting the combos in right now you got four straight singles in a row which will send only one line huh is that one line per thing I assume it's one line per thing no it is only on line because sending what a Tetris how much is that that would be four yeah so it only makes sense to send four ones yeah and it would equal one yeah it's probably four ones let's see I just heard I just heard our coach cheering for specifically EMT I guess he's doing well but bias epic bias gaming moment I love when our coach loves people more than other people yippy skippy my favorite part emit fairly close up on the screen all right that is going to do it for that match all right Sam is going to pick up I believe that's his second one of the day now we're on Jordan going against anano still on anano anano did manage to take a round on Jordan off screen currently one to one it's always is a little bit sad to see mhm but it's fine Jordan's got this oh the coming in with the with the combo at the perfect time right as Jordan's trying to build yeah those two quads big from anano that's uh when I play that's like the only thing I can do is quads same no t- spins no nothing when a t-pin opportunity occasionally comes I'm like oh would you look at that how do I do that W I actually like celebrate when that happen happens I'm like guys I did the thing look I'm a pro Tetris player all right Jordan keeping his ground this time anano building kind of a center Spire perhaps to get some matches on the edges we got Jordan all right he's sticking to the bottom yep just trying to get those little matches so we can take away that little bits of garbage that he's got there high up on the screen the outline red which means it's time to put to bed that's my new catch phrase when I'm specifically when I'm commentating Tetris all right Match Point got a tiebreaker around right here either one of them could win high pressure big match Jordan anadio who's winning I would really really like to see Jordan coming out with the win it would be very cool I like seeing Jordan when it's always fun yes he's just fun just overall fun guy double quad G to send an anio straight to the top of the screen that was good the victory they can't hear your small little golf claps that was kind of the point maybe you can hear those he hopefully I do kind of do a golf cab we got Ander and Owen and they fairly big at the top of the screen oh wow oh and clearing him off you see Owen celebrating in the camera there we go yeah that uh that one specific M drop you saw how that like L-shaped block was just straight there specifically when it's at the middle that's bad cuz you got to like maneuver your blocks around that specific block and that's what led to Anders demise in that matchup I know having a t block and having to maneuver around a a twoo tall like height yeah impossible it's just no you have to spam it so fast before it even slightly moves it's crazy if I ever do any sort of crazy rotation look the Z or the S or whatever it's on complete accident yeah crazy how well these guys do it anyway that is very impressive yeah that is going to be round two of Five ending there so we'll be back in a bit round three coming up soon please round three coming up soon see him a little bit slow bracket be very cool if you put the bracket on the screen oh bracket's doing something silly things are happening quite silly goofy y all right all right here we go I don't know if we're back here we are we are back we got round three I believe that's Ander going up against EMT the Lego Master currently my co- commentator Tristan is in the bathroom right now so so I'm going on my own for a bit let's see here we got EMT just piling up a bunch of his blocks high up onto the screen going for those quads there we go doing some pretty sizable damage there to Ander hey look yeah we're on got it round three just began oh we've got zanu taking a round up on Jordan here you go and here comes their second round oh well I think zanu was trying to set up some sort of uh all clear special technique I barely even know how to explain it but he's looking like he's recovering from it quite nicely going very fast okay so this one's definitely done his research or their research he's been going all right that's kind of really scary that looks terrifying yeah zanu is gonna take round two there we got a bunch of matches going on against a bunch of Players let's see here oh I think they're I think they were just thinking about stuff to do for a bit um then they just let it all out in a flurry t-pin coming from zanu I see just kind of building uh building Towers on the two corresponding sides to do some stuff middle the perfect time for Jordan to just send as many rows as he could oh my gosh what a combo from zanu to end the match he really he lined that all up and just knocked him out incredible there from zanu meanwhile we got Kyle the rep taking on our own Sam the minion the minion I don't know if I should put theth there it's just minion just minion not the way one of the one of the minions many a minion many much many many lots of them I don't know what I'm saying I'm just saying many multiple times many many times anyway let's stop with this we got Sam Jaden Sam getting the first point there I'm doing great on commentary anyway it's all chill mhm here you go Sam just getting some piles up Kyle the rep did send something pretty big there the triple and the quad kind of a lethal combo you see I'm just sending a bunch of quad combos towards Kyle the rep normal gameplay mhm nothing much normal gameplay not bad gamep play he's going to take out Kyle the rep for a second round there oh this just in I can see that EMT has won his match the Lego Master yes sir very good let's see how let's see how Sam does in this round let's see if he can put away Kyle the rep Sam's got a lot of pressure t-pin single oh t- spin yeah there's a couple different types of sing of t- spins there's ones that clear only one line clear two lines clear three lines the three line ones are really rare oh oh I think I know what kind of ones would do a three line interesting I didn't know I've only seen a t-pin triple like one time and it was actually in last week's match I believe I think it was op all right so Sam playing normal gameplay doing what he can taking a little bit of time to think about what he's going to do and then just executing it to perfection you know sometimes you take it slow and you grind away mhm sometimes going fast is you're Doom yes especially when your opponent can capitalize on it mhm yeah sometimes you build up a tower so fast and then your opponent just drops like one quad and the garbage just blips you up yep happened to me a couple times felt pretty bad how often do you play uh fairly often I play casually to pass some time if there's nothing going on you know Sam losing that one point you know just played in Home Room oh really yeah I like to play in Home Room whenever I've got nothing going on I've gotten like fairly good ideas as a casual player definitely not awful but I'm definitely not the level of these guys I mean yeah these guys I can't even relate to like it's hard to commentate for them because the things that they're doing are are specified to such a degree that I just don't have the words yeah I don't know if you watched the last Tetris stream I made the very quotable it's uncomment table it's uncomment table it was uncomment table anyway we got Sam trying to put away Kyle the rep trying to make the comeback at the century all right let see you're just getting those small combos trying to get a little breathing room into theine of garbage there it is oh big quad like to see that KY the Reon a lot of danger and he's going to go down there let's go good job Sam very good now we got Owen is that guy's name the funny creature okay I do not know about I do not know about the funny creature let's see what he let's see what he's rocking with I've never even seen this person in like the papers talking about uh all the players in the league I did not know about the funny creature the funny creature the funny creature the funniest of the funny creatures oh Owen misplacing a block that's probably the hardest thing for me is I misplace mine all the time yeah and then I sit there and I cry about it exactly lose very discouraging whenever you m you just you're just constantly on on that Ro and then you miss one thing and you're like huh okay you're like uh how do I come back from this m disappointment players seem fairly even in skill level oh and starting to lose the grip it's kind of like a tug of war yeah I think that'd be a good way to describe it it's an interesting way to put it never never heard it described like that or I've never even heard Tetris described yeah Tetris isn't necessarily A anyway the funny creature did get the victory over Owen there the funny creature yeah what I don't I know nothing about the funny creature I've said how many times have I said that I don't know nothing about the funny creature I have so many things to talk about if you couldn't tell anyway that is I believe that is going to be round three all wrapped up we will be back with you in a short bit for round number four of the five rounds rounds today see you in a bit we're doing this again guys please Eli I know you're behind there thank you hey yo breaking news yeah I started that with AO that's how you know it's going to be good Jordan with a new personal best time in 40 lines 40 lines is just how fast you can clear 40 lines rather self-explanatory but yeah he seems to be getting just constant he's constantly improving yeah it's like every week he just does better and better look at the speed look at this look at him go can you even process what is happening I don't know what's going on yeah he's constantly getting these new uh personal best 40 lines times specifically while he's waiting for a new match in bracket I think it's cuz he's warmed up he's all adren adrenalin out yeah adrenaline in his soul every fight out of control he's got everything ready to go and all of a sudden Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam 40 lines look at that 47.6 I couldn't even realize that was over that is yeah this happened twice last stream he got two different yeah he got two different personal bests in one stream crazy my PB right now is actually like a minute and 30 mine's like a minute 09 and that's still hails in comparison to this anyway we do have a bit of a intermission time where we can conveniently mention do you have a favorite nonprofit that could use an awesome fundraising idea auction is an in-person and online auction platform that can help your favorite nonprofit host a great Charity Auction find out more at auction.io that's auction.io yeah yeah wowe zoi I don't know what to do now I don't know if the next round's starting soon or if we should just go back to intermission I think so looking like we're going back to the bracket all right see you in a bit oh my goodness all right looks like round four is starting ignore my oh my goodness yeah we got round four starting soon I believe all the players are either in the lobby or waiting to be in said Lobby let's see here oh another instance of two of our own players meeting in the same bracket we have em yeah that's EMT the Lego Master going up against Owen let's see here these two from the little that I know I believe are fairly matched in skill let's see here two doubles Owen staying at the bottom let's see here two doubles would send believe that's three blocks total it's kind of hard to read the chart yeah we got a sample chart so that we could understand some of the things that are happening but it's only somewhat useful when things are happening so fast M all right Owen continuing to stay towards the bottom of the screen em it building towards being at the bottom of the screen they're now fairly about in the middle looks like Owen's starting to lose the lead can he pull it back see em EMT with no garbage on his screen nothing he's at the very bottom I feel like it's harder to get all clears than it is t- spins yeah absolutely unless you're playing four wide which is just literally the exact same thing but it's only four rows wide mhm in which case it's super easy to clear just noticed a different match I believe um Sam the minion just lost around to I believe it was a guy called rock and roll rock and roll rock and roll rock and roll whoa whoa that oh there it is here he is meanwhile let's see here Emmit going up one round against Owen but currently we got we got Sam going up against rock and roll all right let's see how Sam can put the pressure on Sam's got no garbage but he's he's really stacking up pretty high here throwing a quad almost taking out rock and roll it does there it is all right back to being tied one round to one for Minion versus rock and roll all right now we're on em and Owen yeah who is uh we haven't checked in on Jordan who is he facing it looks like he's facing oh Owen No Jordan is facing off against Grim Reaper where is he there he is found him him you still got this matchup between two teammates two comrads meanwhile Jordan did just go up around against Grim Reaper every time we hear the word comrade I want to do a really bad Russian accent I just randomly thought of saying the word comrade comrade's a good word just want to add some spice to calling someone a friend you know okay Jordan is very very fast as we saw minutes ago I mean yeah I don't know I'm just starting to realize just what that means in this game yeah it's why is he building so high oh yeah building super high did give he should have dropped that that four wide or that forong yeah gave some lethal consequences there building up too high it's all right he's got it he's going to start with the hold holding his block to later one round to one let's see Jordan should know now that he is in for a fight against Grim Reaper oh and a nice a nice detail that separates this game from all the other tetrio games is in this game you have the option to hold blocks yeah we should have mentioned that earlier round four and we're just now mentioning that you can store a block in sort of an inventory to keep for later mhm and you can only use it once so you can't just like keep swapping between them yeah uh but it's very useful oh and Jordan taking the second one this is a very close match yeah two two quad matches and then a t-spin double very few people who can actually come back from that big moves coming from Jordan very respectable tetrio player MH see if he can put a away groom Reaper thinking about his moves throwing a triple throwing a single another single and a quad big matches big moves from Jordan okay Jordan's waiting for the fors there's the quad if he can send another it's going to put Grim Reaper in a very distressing place he's already very distressing right now Grim Reaper trying to handle the pressure but he can't he took the win like to see that impressive stuff from Jordan there getting another double points win we're at a tiebreaker here between Sam and rock and roll yeah offscreen it seems to have been a very close match all right rock and roll seems to be taking a little bit of the lead but that's all right Sam's got this let's see here I'm trying to think of a rock and roll pun but I can't think of anything that would fit the situation I'm trying to think of classic songs I youd find in Guitar Hero but I can't think of anything H dang it now you got me thinking about it yeah I'm trying my best come up with something cool to say it seems like rock and roll is definitely they're keeping their Edge yeah Rock and letting it go staying at the bottom of the screen Sam hitting the quad though yeah Sam trying to fight back he's trying to get something he's going to try to stay in it until the very end the Bell has not rung oh that is a good that's a good reference what is it a reference to I'm just making yeah the sport of boxing thank you for boxing for sponsoring all right Watching Sam go up against rock and roll he managed to get away from the top this is exciting stuff here mhm why why is my friend Aiden texting me get away I'm say get away to my phone all right whatever oh wow Sam really rocket roll should have cut the edge that's all I'm saying he had everything he needed and then all of a sudden but see it was looking like Sam was going to lose there for a bit but he fought until the very end and it paid off he is going to get the victory there what happens when you don't give up yes but unfortunately not everyone on our Squad can get a win in this round because because still in a battle we have EMT and Owen currently two rounds to one in emt's favor the Lego Master now I'm trying to think of a cool Lego line to say let's see here probably something around building you're always building in this game yeah this is theoretically a perfect match of a game for yeah this is supposed to this is supposed to be like a really good One MH pretty uh even on skill level oh and there goes there goes EMT taking the there goes EMT with the victory MH there we go EMT is going to pick up a victory against his own teammate Owen there so three of our members getting wins in that round very good round for the Cyber Tigers awesome speaking of good rounds round five is going to be a good round and we'll be back for it in just a bit five is now starting hello always coming in with the weirdo I'm still in a silly goofy mood I've got to calm down because it's Tetris time and now I'm on camera for seriousness I'll embarrass myself if I do any of the if I do any of the random stuff that I do while I'm off stream like this I don't know why I just move sometimes you know he likes moving yes aren't you glad your kids's going to school with me oh no that sounds very menacing anyway we got let's move past that all right we have EMT going up against the funny creature the funny creature the funny creature one and only funny creature in this entire what a name yes all right we're going really slow this round it looks like compared to some of the other rounds I don't know if saying we're going really slow this round is offensive I don't know compared to how they like compared to me they're not going slow yeah exactly but compared to how they have been going it's a little bit more calm they're thinking it through a little bit more they were thinking we got the funny creature building up a tower with a small little air hole for a bit of combos as he's doing right now all right looks like EMT playing more towards the ground emt's definitely sticking towards the bottom that's the only way I win is just keep clearing doesn't even matter if you don't get the combos just keep going cuz I'm bad he's bad at video games guys Po and laugh at him through the cameras and I'm and I'm on the he I'm on the Esports team W zoi but you have been showing Improvement in Super Smash Bros which will be featured Wednesday the better of the three games actually exactly speaking of the better of not three Emin coming away with the win there and we're moving on to Sam versus what is this one that's definitely going to be a great matchup off screen that's Brian Master Sam and Brian Master both have gone three and one today and are tied for second in a four-way tie for second if Sam wins this bracket he ends up taking second which is it's going to be worth a lot of points I believe 18 as we were told yeah that's a lot and it's looking like he's on track right now going to take the first round and right now Opie's in first with four solid wins I don't think anyone's going to catch up to Opie oh speaking of Opie he's facing off against Jordan right now oh wow look at that oh and yeah speaking of not catching up it's like they hurt us yeah they hurt us and just got the got the tinglies and the fingers and all of a sudden Opie goes crazy look at look at this Shenanigans how is Jordan gonna keep up he's not he's going to place a black run oh he's choking he's F rather unfortunate rather unfortunate Jordan's still going to stay in the fight mind definitely seems like op's not from this you know yes Opie is one of the creatures of all time not the funniest not the funniest creature that belongs to somebody else yes I wonder what their name is it's so not obvious okay Jordan's literally just trying to keep up here doing everything he can he's doing good he's doing a fair job holding his own against the best player in the league that is that's arguably the best player in the league I mean yeah oh meanwhile we were talking about the funny creature earlier he's going to go down zero rounds to two we have EMT looking to put away the funny creature oh Jordan's barely gonna there it is Jordan put up a really good fight that that time Opie getting the signature winning the match that's Opie's signature move just winning just being good m when you're so good that when you play you're good and that's your that's your that's your style you're so you're so good that when you play you're good well you're so good that anytime anybody is ever good you're doing a signature of somebody else if you couldn't tell we have some masterclass commentators here at bluon speaking of Master Class we got two brilliant Tetris players going at it right now on your screen Sam currently up two rounds to one against Brian Master looking him put him away looking to clinch second place in this week he can put Brian Master away one more time one last time and he will do it let's see if he can get it Brian Master fighting back putting up a great fight meanwhile EMT just won his final match of the day great job by the Lego master all right Sam sticking to the bottom keeping his Edge playing is safe just trying to clinch this Victory he is going to M drop there rather unfortunate that's all right he's got it mistakes are common we're humans there might be one who isn't but you know most of us are humans you might know who we're talking about somebody is a robot yes someone with a name starting with o and then ending with p ending with p yes wow he said P how funny no that's not what I was trying to I mean yeah very funny very funny I like that that's his own individual joke a bad joke it it was a joke though see we got Sam just trying to stay alive here it's looking like it might go to a final round here a lot of pressure here on Sam yeah everyone else everyone else is already finished up it's looking like Sam's trying to go for that second place staking towards the bottom not going to risk anything if they don't have to mhm brand Master did get some sort of big play there t- spin double and a quad and a single that's going to be a lot of lines there let's go come on Sam brand Master's red I I can hear people in the Esports room you got it everybody's freaking up yep he's building he's building mad can he get away with building so high though another quad he got another almost puts Brian Master away a quad but they're both fighting they're both fighting hard Brian master in predicament he's going to put them away all right triple yeah yeah all right and there is Sam second place what in the in the league in for this week in the league yeah whoa impressive congratulations to Sam incredibly impressive stuff from Sam especially when going up against the god that is Opie Opie Opie Opie Opie Opie Opie I believe I just stop repeating the same word sorry let's talk about uh the current match up we got we got Owen going up against I can barely read his name Saucy Wing I can see Saucy something we'll just going up against Saucy just call him Saucy Holo there he Saucy currently up two rounds to nothing on Good Old Owen all right this just in he technically is in second kind of a little bit actually no he's not I just read it Sam instead still very impressive currently in third place tied with a player named stalo that we did not see today so still incredibly impressive for this week third place in the entire league tying for it oh my looks like my goodness yeah yeah just to let you guys no we're currently waiting and calculating to see Sam's final score to let us know if he is in fact in first place because stalo was a noow today mhm oh okay all right well I got to say Tristan your hair is looking awesome that stylist really did wonders for it wow thank you I had some people do it for me who's probably watching right now yeah so hello you did a good job to Tristan's hair yeah yeah there you go look at it look at that show it off I'm glad I to do that my hair is not long me personally I'm I'm rocking the barcode look you can probably scam my hair and bu Oreos specifically Oreos specifically Oreos cuz I cuz I think some lines are too thick to buy cheit so it's probably that's is that how that works I don't know that's that's definitely how it works anyway let's talk about something that isn't barcodes yeah like how is your performance today how' you think about it yeah I mean I lost I won more than I lost which I'm very ex happy with um I would hate losing more than um oh sorry I don't know which one of you to look at but you can look at the camera you can look at me you can look at whatever that that doesn't really help he's the main one pick one and stick with it I'm probably going to ask questions yeah he's going to ask most of the questions okay so I guess I'll look at you okay he asks I answer you look at him he asks it's like the Trinity of power okay and after explain that I'm going to stare at you how do you feel like you did today I feel like I did really well actually I feel like I did really really well I feel like I did awesome I feel like all my skills were on point um kind of sad that I lo that I won 3 to2 against anano purely because of those MISD draws but hey anano is doing better than I thought it's all right you were probably the most interesting one to watch I try to be from my I I try to be cuz some other commentators were commenting about the fact that it's kind of hard to commentate Tetris because of how hard it is how boring it is actually it's just not a riveting game I try when you when you compare it to our other Esports such as OverWatch or OverWatch and smash yeah five different people shooting each other with crazy guns jumping around the teleporting around the place and Smash Bros with a fishing rod across the stage pretty cool yeah riveting when I use fishing rod and then I use fishing rod and then I use fishing rod and then I use fishing rod and then they die yeah and then you realize actually that if they're not wearing clothes like someone like Donkey Kong it's hooking onto their bare skin and pulling them by said skin that's kind of gross that's a lot more interesting than blocks and then more blocks and then you have some more blocks but like I said I feel like I did really well um it is a shame that I got matched up with two people that are that high on the list but they're kind of like they're kind of like measuring sticks you get to see where you are in skill I guess so I guess so I'm not as good as Sam here where um not good at Sam where I didn't even get a single point on opai which confirms my argument that he is a better player than me he's doing great things I'm very excited to see where he goes in the future maybe he'll go to Harvard we don't know yeah Opie's a very impressive player I me talk about Sam and Sam both okay they're both both of them I don't know for some reason I didn't know who we were talking about we were talking about two different people at the same time it was confusing both of them very impressive players ow want to interview Owen wants to do an interview so come on in Owen look it's Owen inter there you go enjoy well Zoe hey Owen how do you feel like you did today good I like won a few matches and like I feel like I did pretty good tonight yeah I also liked watching Owen as well as uh Jordan I like watching all of our cyber Tigers yeah all cyber Tigers how do you feel about the opponents that you faced I feel good like like I lose some matches like every once in a while and like like I can like go back each week like when we're competing and get better each week yeah that's the name of the game improvement it's just getting better every time that's what the Cyber tigers are about yeah MH uh we got new information coming from our coach mhm uh Sam got third place confirmed tied with stalo who wasn't even here so that's very interesting interesting but very still very impressive uh all right all right yeah it's looking like we're going to going to wrap it up do you have anything more to say Mr ran no all right cool I guess that's ours now all right yep we wrap it up all right thanks for joining us this evening we will be back tomorrow at 5:00 pm for our first postseason match of OverWatch 2 against Lille Lancers laville Lancers laville Lancers I don't know whatever we just call them the Lancers OverWatch Squad Varsity undefeated regular season so things are looking up looking forward to that match uh special thanks to auction bite speed Indiana Esports Network and the Army National Guard for their support of our program thank you 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sure Mr eing presid Mr gri here M heran here you have a qu stand for the pledge Al to flag of the United States of America to for it stands all right not seeing any uh audience members present um moving to review policies for a second reading uh policy 6145 point21 instruction status level sports program and attached evaluation form so each of you has a copy of the updated policy that has the revisions we've talked about about uh embedded in the new draft that you have before you for sports program adoption um so if we were to update uh if we were to consider a Newar sport uh these were the criteria that we felt made the most sense after the last meeting and you had asked for a new Varsity program evaluation formed and basically what I did would just take all of the criteria and um put it into an overview of a form that would have to be submitted along with the student and parent attestation form um because one of the criteria to the criteria more or less ask for um parents and student athletes to acknowledge that these are the rules we're going to have to play by that you don't have to play by if you're a club for example the C rule uh and Student Activity fees and student conduct things that are embedded in our uh student athlete handbook uh and then everything else would need to be submitted by the folks that are advocating for the program again there's a there's a um you know process where this stuff gets submitted and then we uh would go to the budget process and determine whether or not that's going to be adopted then we would maintain a three-year but probationary period on the back end to make sure that they you know continue to be in good standing and had a viable team to participate and things like that so question yes you may so remind me I'm assuming but I want to make sure um you've had conversations with the leaders of the group about that se and yeah so they know all about right actually the biggest um I think item that they had to consider and they they've acknowledged is that you know you're committing to a Varsity Sports schedule um it's um you earn a Varley letter through participating 5 six days a week you have competitions regular practices is it's not like where a club could just show up two three days a week and it's good enough I mean this is if you're committing to a vars City Sport and you're committing to a Varsity Sport and so you know they acknowledge that and think of you know already again we've approved this in in the current condition of the budget I guess I'll say until the Town Council comes back I guess there's still room for us to to reconsider everything in our budget but um you know this they would I guess be adopted as a probationary program for 3 years and monitored and assuming that they're continuing in good standing we would retain the program thank you yes um there is no mention there's no language for the probation part in here it's on the second page Adam if you roll it over uh what do you mean on the on the evaluation form um or on the policy looking at the policy I didn't see it on the form either it's not on the form it is on the um policy back page back page B let me see if it's oh that little paragraph yeah thumbs up it just didn't didn't fit on I mean I probably added to the um I could add that exact paragraph to the evaluation form too yeah CU my my question was going to be the way it's worded is that okay so if any kind of Club sport that's been in existence for three years can become a Varsity Sport if they agree to the um contingencies here um but with at least the probation part and then that means that all of those participating will then have to participate at the varsity level and so that that may shrink the ranks potentially where they're no longer a viable sport after that yeah I think it's easy to say oh yeah we're all in right and then you start doing every day for 3 years and maybe you're not right and we're not going to be able to feel the team I don't know that we could recommend fing a team with six kids on you know what I mean right so that gives us some insurance on the back end well you know that so that being said is should there be anything in here about minimum uh minimum roster requirement is there any do you know what I mean like yeah so is that steing you know like for fening let's say you need you know like for baseball like you probably need uh maybe 10 or 11 uh players before and if you didn't you have a forfeit or something like that I mean so yeah so maybe we add another bullet on the policy page that says that um you know a documented history of sustained participation as a club for three years I think in my mind I was thinking that that means you have enough kids to field whatever team it is right um or you know at least participate in a viable Co-op like girls hockey did um and so I think that would be a determination with the ad but I don't I see what you're saying and I don't think it hurts us to be explicit there and maybe after that documented history of sustained participation as a club to say that um the the if to to create your own chesher high school team you would need to have adequate rostering to to fill out a team like because like you know I thought it was in my mind I think it was just more inherent but I I will be more explicit about it it can't hurt we've already got the policy going because it's possible that you know like I think there was a post today on Facebook where they they uh showed I I think maybe there was their seniors and there were like three seniors yeah for and so it's like okay so how many underclassman are there you know like and it was hard to tell how many like when they came to visit us it was hard to tell how many people were actually in high school or were they in middle school like you know where was that there were a number of graduates too right so it's hard to know how many we actually talk about yeah and I think when we collect attestations and we get four uh that's a bad sign right right and and I think that's got to be a administrative decision at that point do we put this before the board um and I could I could Envision a place let's say like this happened that you actually only got four and we you know superintendent makes the recommendation that you know maybe we don't go forward with this is a varsity program because we didn't have adequate number of people indicating that they would participate you know I I think that's a very clear in public rationale uh indefensible rationale for not moving forward with it you know and so um there should be uh adequate an adequate number of participants to feel the team as determined by the attestation forms and the athletic director yeah you know yeah but I also propose one more thing I didn't get this which was because they are probationary at least for the first year so let's say the attestations commit what three years three years so all right so then so I propose so I put this out here for for each of the three years should the when the forms come in and the ad says maybe it looks like it's good to go should there be a quick motion from the board to say they're approve the movement head or anything like that or is that too I I think yeah I don't think that's a board decision at that at that point um I mean I maybe we give a status update just having a board approval for it is maybe a status up status for probationary sports or something I think that would be kind of the superintendent board's responsibility to have that conversation manually yeah um just it's more of a cuz yeah you don't want to do it for all sports because it's a special [Music] circumstance okay um for the and we I I understand the intent here the it is important to note the Fulfillment of these criteria does not necessarily guarantee formal adoption should we put a line in there saying that it is at the discretion of the athletic director the principal whoever you um that's on the evaluation form I'm I'm just looking when we have that in there I was looking for it I couldn't find it I think I had on here something about um when this had to be submitted didn't I by October 15th um so I just wanted to add right what if it's a false Port maybe August because then you'll have time to process it for the budget I was thinking October would give me time to process it for the budget so it it should be October 15th in the year preceding the okay so full year before okay in the in the fall it's a full year before yeah if it's a winter sport you you're submitting it that year I think it's tough to ask win a full year in advance yeah it's but if you're a if you're any fall sport I don't know in the or something then you know asking them to get a year in advance might be challenging well the anti well it had all of them are year in advance though really because if you can't submit to me a form on October 15th for the winter for the this winter The Season's already set cuz we already have this budget we already have this season we couldn't possibly do it like that so so October 15th is always for the subsequent school year right okay so that's why I think we could get away with that well would they would we need to have all the attestations by them as well yeah because that's going to be the hard part I would think it depends I mean I I think for a team that's forming and wants to is like these guys would have had on October 15th for next year we ask him to yeah I think if you've been a committed sport you're looking to make that transition to a the Varity level yeah I think you should be able to do that and I'm sorry Mark you talking about just yeah on the evaluation form it says that important to note that fulfillment of criteria does not necessarily guarantee formal adoption just something that it's up to the you know the athletic director say say for whatever reason it's a really expensive sport we don't we don't want to take that sport on right it should be should we be set clearly it's at the discretion of the athletic director the super yeah yeah it's really it's our budget yeah okay what if budget cuts what happens to it it would be subject to every other every other sport yeah I mean once you're a Varsity Sport you're on par with the other Varsity Sports so so it's not like last in first out no you know I it could be I we'd have to make decisions about at that point you know like like you know Vin and I always make recommendations whenever we have to pace reductions in the budget process about like what are we reducing and what's the rationale for that and then the board ultimately makes those decisions as they see fit so it could be the reason that we're reducing it is just became a sport I don't think that's the best rationale to present but could be the superintendent might do that but um usually we just try and raise the participation Fe the Salvage of sport unless you be dire so um should any of that language be in the actual policy what's that um this language the last s sentences yeah um or a sentence that represents so so would you consider that administrative action or should it just be in the policy and just a sentence saying determined by superintendent and design or design or something you know what I mean well those those lines that you just typed up sure I'm I'm I'm okay with that I mean I think that makes sense it is important to note that fulfillment these two lines here I think make a lot of sense to add to the you know just to your point to maintain I think you could start that first sentence with fulfillment more de rather than passing what about that down on the third bullet point where you have something crossed out is that just to show us what it was yeah do we need to list all the sports just in case the cic adds Sports does that mean we have to go back and modify later thank you I I like the idea dropping it the list dropping what dropping see this list of cic control Sports cuz it's really incoming upon them we'll know what the cic controlled sports are when ever anybody submits it and you're right it could you know change what if they fig skating next year and drop hockey or something you know so you don't want forid yeah you don't want it so we so we don't yeah so we don't have modify because CH I mean it doesn't change often but you're right you don't want to be beholden to it in our policies and your policies as C control plus you also mentioned the uh other you know maybe identify another Statewide or National Organization yeah so we cover the bases in the in the bullet point there so we good with dropping it yeah except it's nice to for us to see it too though can we just have it on a page that's just it's easy to it's easy to um call up okay it's easy enough to find yep on the CIA website M oh so these are all of them they're not necessarily no no no yeah this is everything cic Oh I thought these were ours we do have most of them I believe it's not exactly if you put that scene on the website that can dat it so wait a minute so fencing is not on here no it's not no it's not that would be another state wider National Organization instead yeah there's a a state body that but the point we're making is that this will be treated like it right yes oh that's interesting so girls ice hockey is not a right same thing same so okay should the governing organization be listed on the form or like for girls ice hockey is there a governing organization yeah so all right so then which I'm guessing fencing has so like you know just that to listed since it's not CAC you know just have a line on the form perhaps well well that's an atation yeah but I think I could include here uh participate in one of the CIA designated Sports Seasons we require you to do that anyway I don't care who's governing you you can't you can't say all right we're going to have a fencing team that runs from October to July you know that just blow out our budget so you have to participate in one of these Seasons right and most groups do that um and so and here we could say which one would defensive fall winter winter if not CIA designated uh please identify what who's your governing yeah Authority yeah might be nice to have that on record yeah the international F Society yeah that well also if there they have a season designated that does run differently know that since they do competing against other high schools the same rules yeah yes they all they all have the same rules that they have to abide to that governing body all so when you're talking um I'm looking at the please attach a detailed Bud M but then we say the coaching part of it is ours to tell you we'll identify with the c you can't give us a budget of $48,000 a season for the C I mean you could but I would reject that we're not going to pay it yeah fencing booster club yeah could they would could they do that if they wanted like is that a possibility like if they wanted to hire you know they want to go for it and hire that top so we permitted um folks to pay assistance that weren't budged for that way but not the head coach okay so do we take the money from the club and hire the coach or are they doing it on their own we have to issue a W2 to that coach that become our employee in order to covered by our insurance and all for participation and so the uh booster club rates us a check we pay the coach withhold taxes or whatever the way we supposed to that's part of our uh our Student Activity accounts and things like that all that fun stuff that we talked about before other thoughts or considerations here appreciate you guys looking for this I've learned a lot of high school sports there you go pretty PR air tight you go big time with this one right Jeff Statewide this is this is uh everybody's going to copy our policy we've already had a number of requests for this policy because everybody we reached out to said no but we' love yours when you're done with it you know so all right fair enough we sent we sent ad find one no we sent the other SEC Southern Connecticut conference which is basically coming uh we sent them the draft that we had they're like oh yeah this is really good they didn't have a lot of feedback other than we want when we guys are done playing with okay we let cheser do all this thinking yeah yeah all right so we ready to move on to our next item we are so you guys good y okay um there are several copies of different plans as you requested for Equity diversity and inclusion um the CPS version I mean we spent a fair amount of time going over in the last meeting which one is that's this there's a yellow highlight at the top right that says CPS draft Equity policy that's the one we looked at last time if you wouldn't mind me just pointing out a couple of thoughts I had about the other ones that were provided to you um there's a cave version where um they talk about I don't think it you know I think it makes sense generally speaking this one um I I had a couple I had a question or two on a couple of different lines the first being in the second paragraph here where it says is um achievement gaps between white students and students of color unacceptable if we are to meet our mission and vision statements and our moral obligations to students and families in our community honestly I didn't like that because it was only race based you know uh in the policy and in several other policies it talks about you know uh more inclusive Equity work that's not just grounded in race I mean obviously if if uh you know all of our female students were out way outperforming our males we want to look at that too you know think any area where we're seeing um substantial uh disproportionate performance with uh folks we want to try and close those gaps so that was one issue I would think about modifying within this one and then there was um um is that but that's not in the CPS draft no um this is the cage draft the other one I had was here H um where it says District shall provide PD to teaching staff specifically designed to strengthen employee Knowledge and Skills for eliminating opportunity and achievement gaps between groups of students I I just say where and when necessary you know the last thing we're looking to do is add annual PD um we're already choking with all the state mandates for professional development from bloodbound pathogens to um sex trafficking to you know DCF mandated reporting to the list goes on harassment sexual and otherwise so there's a laundry list of these very long PDS that were required to produce I'm not looking to add another to the list but if we identify place where we're having issues I think we need to intervene are any of those things that you just mentioned like the recording to these are any of those available in like an online they are but you know um like an online course that that your employees can just take yes we have an online platform called Vector yeah that um assigns you the videos and is incredibly valuable to us because it tells us who has and has not completed the trainings and we can make sure that they do now um you know the the there are some videos where it's like okay this is something that is not necessarily does not necessarily have to be done exclusively on employee time because you can't be a teacher in Connecticut without it you know so we work with the Union to say which of these videos are we going to give you time for which is the vast majority of it to be honest um and which ones might you have to complete independently it's the vast majority we have them we give them time to do because it's critical today to them and so we we sign that time but you know the list continues to grow the last one was the sex trafficking which is a 2hour video program you know you have to complete um and so you know the the hours that we have for PD collaboration time continue to sh shrink it because of these different mandated trainings and not that they aren't valuable but also what is our role here you know as a school system um law enforcement body or the you know public health agency yes what are all the all the above yeah exactly so it's I'm not looking to add more mandated training and that's why I would add the winner went the other one um that you have the uh there's a one actually I'm not sure that you were have a copy of this just few copies of it this is from Canton um here's a few C I apologize that we didn't make copy have that also should be among we do have this don't have this one this is um this one I think I mean most of the ones that we're looking at tonight all kind of read very similarly and I think they all have a lot of Merit to them um this one um what's the what is the third one that we had in front of us I see the cave and new new town is other yeah and then this one is c i i i didn't love the land language on the front page of canton's number seven um where it says remedy the practices including assessment that lead to over representation of course we want to do that but I just thought maybe the language would be read than remedy um I would might change that to ensure practices including assessment that thead to over representation uh are we continue the practices this don't we already do it no this is this this says like um it's basically saying that every time you have something that has over representation or that's desparate that you need to fix like you need to fix all the things that you're doing wrong and to me that seems relatively obvious I would rather change the language from the negative though to the positive POS ensure continued um practices that limit these things you know what I mean um so that's one thing and then um are you proposing to add the entire one gr setion I think I'm not making any proposals right now what I'm saying is here's a copy of a uh policy from Canton I think if we were going to do this if you love this version I would change the language on number seven and I would also look at um under superintendent's responsibilities number two which is the last page implementation and responsibilities superintendent and design shall collect review provide the board ACC quarterly report on data regarding racial or gender disparities and area including you know it's not we don't have quarterly reports on everything there and um I don't know that we need to create more work to to do that uh there are a number of places throughout the year where we review data uh of all sorts and I think that if we disag make sure that we're disaggregating when we do that I don't know that we need a quarterly report on disparities that do exist those are the those are my two highlights on that that policy the last policy was from New Town and would you know that same Spirit where if people said hey you know what we we love all of this there's there are a couple of spots that you know just kind of struck me I mean I understand the definition of institutional racism but um you know I don't know it doesn't reference really institutional racism in other places um so we don't have like that list yet is that correct what like these two policies can't and new town have the one through eight for the they're part of the policy they're just part of the policy they would just be adopted as part of policy we don't have a policy on that has that sort of stuff so like but it's not in our draft yet um in our draft no yeah that's what other say and if you look at um yeah I'm sorry I thought you like we already had one adopted if you look on the last page for example in the new town one the second to last bullet says ensure staff and leaders set goals to promote and monitor the implementation of well they it looks like they were editing and crossed out goals and stuff monitor the implementation of commitments outlined in the diversity and Equity resolution which we don't have so I would include that obviously but um so that suggests that new town has right some sort of draft resolution that they did probably yeah a couple years ago or something about and now they're putting together a policy to right which I don't think I I would rather have the policy than have it in two separate places because I just think that the only be a statement right I'm sure that's is more right yeah yeah guys probably so you've looked at the you've looked at this more carefully than I have do you think are there similarities between one through eight on page one of canton's and the eight bullet points on page two of um yeah I think all of these kind of read similar similarly um they sound a lot like each other the preferences I had were probably first for Canton second for cab maybe third for us and last for New Town if I if I had to like rank order these in in terms of ones that I thought felt best for our system but certainly so my question is do we take the time to look at to look at these more thoroughly before sending it to a second reading to the full board or or do we I think that'd be fair I think that'd be proven or do we involve the full board in this work at this point well we involved the full board last time and we sent the draft to the board and got some feedback about the draft about this kind of mandering a lot into um practice rather than policy incorporating that feedback I would tell you that the um that's why I think I would move this to three in terms of my my preferred given that feedback that Canton would probably be the first present uh you know one I think if if you said to me today like all right we're going to um kind of hold on these and we're not going to move this forward for another reading until we get more feedback from the board I would make the modifications to the two versions that I just shared with you like some of the things that I thought should be updated in these two and I would probably recommend we send them to the full board for more feedback and then we come back to the next meeting and say had more time to look at these two we've gotten some board feedback what do yall think now kind of thing Mr Carol your thoughts i' be more comfortable with that because it's completely changed yeah but we're adding yeah we're adding hug I would almost like take it from the top with one of these two so I think that's probably the better more prudent move but you know it's totally obviously up to you three to figure out more comfortable with un comfortable with what he just said yeah g thoughts um I haven't read it all the way through but so I have a more positive feeling on this Canton policy than we do on our own policy yeah I thought you might and so basically what we're suggesting now is to just more or less pull it send back the um send the updated versions of the can one and the um c one out to the board looking for feedback in our April meeting we'll come back and take those really two up in Earnest given the feedback that we've gotten from the board members have weighed in um if they have any strong feelings on either of them um and then we can go for so we have the table it or anything well I'm just thinking about that Carol I don't know if we if you if we table we're basic table we have to make a motion just we'll just don't bring it forward for a second meing yeah that's what I was thinking we just pass on it recently okay whatever the technical term is do we have to get a motion do we have to do that no not if we're table okay so okay um all right so that's what we'll do I'll send out updated that won't be on the list to move forward right when we go to the board meeting it won't be on the Motions to move forward because tonight when we say you know moving um Athletics forward for a second reading we're just going to say Athletics we I can the the equity diversity so the third reading policies are readings we've certainly kicked around a few times um it's the 2132 is just a shift uh to make that assistant superintendent just change the language in that policy uh so that's just that's just a name change though yeah yes yeah pretty straightforward uh admission and placement that is uh a required shift for kindergarten if you remember the state Chang the law on that um 5112 is the same thing it's about ages of attendance so it's the kindergarten issue all over again and then new new not new board number or ation that would be awkward but new board member orientation um It just strikes out some of like this language where we have to mail people stuff when they first declare they want to run for the board we all thought that was beyond outdated um and then they'll have an orientation program we're not like printing packets like linked to uh the board's policies rather than a paper copy of things we just updated this policy from uh 2014 so now Tony talking at the board meeting about cave coming up with their program do you think that's going to change the policy um I think we'll still have to provide orientation it might the train is going to be different yeah yeah it might be them providing it versus us but um I still think I mean I don't know how you become a treest Public Schools board member and not have some sort of orientation about what we're doing here in town it would be malpractice I think on our part to do that so those are the the third readings I don't know if you guys have any questions on those third reading ones we kick those around pre so it sounds like 5111 and 5112 are both about the kindergarten changes yep so but they're in different policies because one's a policy admiss um the I'm sorry the 5 years of age see that's the kindergarten thing right here by the 1st of September it used to be the 1 of January and this is uh the other change I forgot about the transition programs now it's up to 22 when it was 21 the other thing I mean this get started on here we'll do 22 it's technically you know if you turn 202 on the first day of school then we have you through the end of the year and you get no more State money for that it's really because the doesn't allow to pay it so they will tell you oh yeah sure you can come with us but we're charging in tuition they're really just pushing the cost of care back into the schools in public you know to rather than improving their system which is really important I think for the state but whatever um so that's this one kindergarten age of 23 so my question is how is that different from what 5111 is 5111 really just speaks about the kindergarten missions piece that's um with the written request oh okay that's is that the waiver that's the waiver piece yeah which is again this um in this legislative session under consideration again but we're doing pretty well as far as that all goes actually we have uh assessment date set up in April and number of people have signed up for the transitional program at a tuition basis so that should cover the cost of the program what are they considering uh they're cons considering no waiver like the same way they didn't have a waiver for January 1st to start school you had to be bu by January 1 they're considering no waiver by September 1st you'd have to be five by September 1 we didn't have a waiver before I I I really hate the waiver um oh right because we were discussing well yeah how do you determine yeah right yeah yeah and it's like you know we've spent our entire existence saying we'll be ready for you when you come to us you don't have to be ready for us you know and now we're saying well you have to be ready for us put a bad taste in my mouth and you know I I hate the idea that you're taking four year-olds and saying well yeah exactly yeah you're not good enough for kindergarten like you're poor so whatever see figure that out this is all going to iron up it's going to be just fine yeah but not a lot of growing things yeah that'll be fine all right civility um was the last item one of the last items for discussion here we had a civility policy um and you should have our our policy here and then there's a Code of there's a um cave version of the same thing yeah and they're they're really this is mine over here I'm using the computer too so it's really pretty close which one are you cility but I got it from the other so Jeff I don't know if you answered this question last time so this pertains to School Employees parents interactions with School Employees and staff this one more just students staff but it's under the 5,000 the cave one well ours is under the 5,000 too but it it does speak to like broadly this is our expectation for engaging in our community right so right so I I couldn't recall so this would also pertain to Citizens interacting with the board at a public meeting yes and we already I we have that guidance well we have a framework yeah that was already established that's a bylaw that's pretty broad right yeah I think it is a bylaw we have bu yeah that's actually the next item we talking about well this is public statements by the board I believe yeah it's public statements by the board so this is a bylaw of the board that kind of talks about let me see when this was last updated 2014 as well so you know this kind of speaks to some of the cility issues right was like what the chair would read right you know name calling specific uh what calling employees yeah profan yeah that kind of that sort of stuff this is much more detailed but it's it's vague enough that it could be applied in the same way but it's seems more specific to interactions with staff and employ and employee to employee and even student to staff or student to student yeah that's all fine I think to your um to your earlier point that this is really more Global in how do you carry yourself in our community U for adults as a role model to to students and how do we engage one another um frankly there's no real teeth in a lot of this because it's all dictated by law and stuff like that um first guidelines yeah yeah First Amendment rights and dark Constitution yeah so um you know there's like I said there's not like consequences you know if uh we've had parents do some things that are really appropriate sure yeah you know throw a desk in a meeting or something ridiculous and you know there's there are legal steps that we can take um I think what our policy tried to do is walk through more of a media mediation sort of process and outline some of the legal Stakes I i' I've had to have conversations with parents you know you can no longer address our school staff because of the the conduct that youve demonstrated in that process and that's within our legal rights um that is extremely rare I I can only remember doing it twice in the eight years I've been superintendent maybe a couple more times in the time I've been I was principal so there are legal guidelines to these things too I think this is um in some ways like an equity policy po equity polic provides a little bit more practical guides but this is this is really a message sender for everybody in the community and a place to turn to let me say this we we have a a civility policy that talks about you know here's a or I I would send a letter if necessary to an individual that says here's a copy of our stability policy you know here's what occurred on this date encourage you to consider this happy to discuss it with you and then I'd probably get an iate demonstrating a wild back of inability or a wild back of well what it does is it gives you the ammunition to do that and say we have policies I I didn't just pull up I didn't pull this out of the air you know this is the bigger thing for me is I think you know at the end of the day I think we're responsible for modeling civil conduct for students that um you know it's okay to be upset it's okay to be angry um engaging there's a way to engage in dialogue that's productive and then there's on civil dialogue that's not productive when did this um civil policy when did we start discussion of it yeah because I wasn't more than that Trac Tracy was here so that was preco okay it's been a lot yeah do we know are there other school districts that have yeah the cility policies sure I mean if you'd like to look at those to see if they're if they deviate from the cave don't know yet I mean I don't want to assign you anything right now because um because I'm not sure how much I like this yet I guess it's just the mention of community members now I know that we could have people out there who call the school system SC you know call the high school or something or call your office and just harass you I suppose theoretically about a certain thing that you're doing or not doing um but I don't know it's just that I guess maybe because I I think everything in here is is pretty good as far as you know staff students within the confines of the system when you say in here you talk about the cerss I just want to be no no I'm talking I'm looking at the the one CPS version or CPS ver I just want to make sure that's why I as most yeah so mostly it's the the part that I guess bugs me the most is the section that says expectations okay and so that's on page two yes sorry um and just that at the first paragraph it says and community members and so that would lead to inference because if it's like what you know like what's the line because if a Community member comes to a public meeting they have the right to speak right as long as it doesn't get totally crazy right right long as they're not disrupting the meeting yeah right well right sure um but so I'm just wondering what the what the context is of that paragraph and it should that be clarified I could definitely work on that yeah yeah I can definitely if it's in the confines if you're calling and you're you're hammering the phone lines cuz you saw something in the paper you're riled up about a national issue or something yeah you're you're taking it out on you know locally then that seems appropriate but you know you know as far as you know using this Adam you know we've had people to meetings your tenure you know seen like and there's definitely been civil times and unil times and and I I think you know unil that we' had we've had to manage that and uh Tony did an exceptional job of managing that at the time when we saw real incivility at a meeting um but it's extremely rare um thankfully and that I you know really appreciate the members all the members of our community who have an interest and speak out um things related to CH Public Schools um and rarely does it cross that threshold um and you know I think in a at the school domain you know the there has it's not as bad as it was right after Co but some of the interaction um were inappropriate with people coming into the schools with you know I think that there's a different threshold that I have for disability when it relates to conduct with teachers versus conduct with principles versus conduct with the superintendent you know the leash continually gets longer whether that's right or wrong um and I think you know I hear you saying here are my reservations and I can go back and and look at that and maybe do some clarifying of language that supports what the concern happy to do that I that was that's my thought and then one other thought is as I'm reading through it is there a potential that a student could be charged with like inability no so that that's yeah that was what yeah so there's a lot of guidance around St conduct for students things like that um yeah I mean in the worst case scenarios you get a breach of piece or something somebody's 18-year-old picks up a desk and throws it through a window if you're going to get a breach of pece vandalism and some other things um legally in addition to insubordination perhaps or vandalism but this wouldn't cover like um let's say you wouldn't get disciplined an in school student protest of some kind or something like that no that would that would not fall like if you didn't like the you know like you could you know you didn't like the protest so I'm going to nail you guys with some sort of breach of Civility and you know you all get in school's detention or something no yeah um that it wouldn't be breach of cility you you could get uh discipline for some sort of uh protest in school depends what the protest is you know if you're disrupting the school B like marching down the hallway shot of profanities yeah you're probably going to be disci for that but we've had um we worked with students uh the biggest protest I ever remember is parking post parking there were a number of kids who wanted to voice strong uh concerns you know school safety and they did so with the support of administration in a very when I say the support of the administration it was it was scheduled it was you know everybody who wanted to during a certain period of the day went outside we had several hundred students outside uh I remember at the south side of the building um kids gave little you know short speeches and uh was quite powerful and when it was over everybody went peacefully back into the building and that's that's how you do it um not tearing civil disc B bling windows out or anything like that you know it was very appropriate um yeah I guess I suppose my theme Here is speech yeah right yeah and I I hear you saying I want to make sure that that protected and it should be and and we I think we could maybe do a better job of articulating that here so this wasn't necessarily um up for reading or anything like that I don't know there anybody else have any other questions concerns it's not something that we have to vote to move forward but um I would just work with you guys to determine if and when it would be appropriate for first reading you know once I make that sort of feedb yeah are you all fine with those sorts of modifications why don't we take a look at at least language yeah we'll look at the language next next time then we'll uh talk about the last item is for monitoring products and services which I think is kind of a a weird uh products and processes that's why that Services said Services yeah I was like why didn't it say processing services but um the what is it supposed to processes not Services the policy agenda says products and services sounds like the sort of AI accident it would happen but this is products and processes uh Tony had asked at one point if we could take a look at this this is the board's policy around uh excuse me bylaw not a policy around self evaluation and uh last updated must 2014 must about a busy year did you know what we did is we went through all of the bylaw all of the bylaws only made little adjustments were you on the committee then Adam or no proba 2014 oh no uh it was Tony Mar so that was the year before I came yeah and somebody else and we went through every single bylaw and just read the language and make sure there was nothing and then as a group they were all approved for 2014 doesn't mean that there was anything major done it just may come okay Adam was here for the last like thorough yeah so that was that was policy though not bylaw no policies yeah that was an undertaking and a half so are we saying this is policy or bylaw this is a bylaw um but do does do we take charge of that too y okay yep and so this basically calls for self- evaluation of the board as needed um each member shall participate and I don't know Adam and in you guys remember but years ago I want to say like six years ago maybe s um we engaged in a in sort of a cave self- evaluation where um I sent everybody on the board a form to fill out and they they sent it back to me that I sent to Cave or something um we never necessarily completed that process and I can't remember why it was a long time ago but um was that in conjunction with the we did the board retreat no this was way before that actually yeah we did a board retreat at Cass years ago when I first started we did a cast Retreat I want say that August Maybe 2016 the most recent one was you said a couple years ago yeah was it last year year before last year Faith was there so it wasn't that long no you know must be years Sam was not on the board so two years ago yeah yeah we did that a couple years ago big cast had dinner we had a guest speaker and remember that something so basically oh I know what we're talking about so basically um I think Tony just wanted us to raise the awareness of this again um the closest I think that we have to uh self- evaluation today is the cave uh Awards process which kind of highlights best practices and a number of different domains and we've been recognized um in each of the last two years for our success in that regard um I don't think it's a bad idea if we're going to give a policy report on March 21st which is our next business meeting we have a meeting Thursday night that's a showcased so we wouldn't be talking about policy on this Thursday but the 21st um for us to redistribute the cave award CR iera just kind of say Hey you know this is what we do it does require um board participation in professional growth and advocacy experiences and um Tony's been carrying the water on that for the most part for the last couple of years given his significant involvement in Cade but I think it's probably good good thing for us to look at today I mean um did both of you guys I think both you guys went to the uh caps cave conference this year I didn't go this year you went this year so you know it's things like that that you know board members engage in professional growth experiences that support board processes in the community so I I would just say you know I think it's good to talk about the fact that we look at these things and we try and stay current um and I can hand out a that we send several people every year to to different things I mean I know yeah Tony's been super involved obviously and he's advocating down the DC but you know and it's not that everybody has to do that but um he has a position yeah with K yeah and I think but just making people aware and uh we could continue to make sure sure that people are aware of opportunities as they arise through cave uh for professional growth so that's that's it for this guy I don't know that this really needs any tweaking or anything like that but again it's it's all as needed so I'm pretty sure last year we did look at those um requirements yeah for we've looked at them every year for last because actually we have to pass a resolution in order to submit the award so the board has definitely seeing it in the last couple years but we should see it every year yeah and I think this is a good time to look at it because we'll have to submit it I think it's like next September or something and you're better off seeing it today and knowing okay well here are some things that maybe we can engage in rather than waiting until the DAT before to do your homework I have students who like to know when things are du ahead of time that was not me I will say that was me and my my kids too I was wake up at 5:00 a.m.

to 12 p.m. you have the teachers list the par Professionals for this informational item at this time okay no questions or comments and we'll go to the next one classified resignation of Paro teachers Aid Kelly braa Mr members of the board Kelly Bron a teachers a to the district office her last Daye of appointment was February 23rd 2024 she has verbally relate to the district office staff that she would like to continue to be a substitute teacher permits board action okay if there are no questions or comments on to the next item classified employment of Paro par professional and teachers Aid Ivory Bell that's the one weing right yes so I think we yes somebody just have to okay I didn't know if we needed to hear but okay I'll make the motion I'll second and I will move that we table this indefinitely can we ask why she withdrew her application okay great we don't need a vote on tabling it or anything because we're not in a voting meeting so okay uh next item classified employment of care professional teachers Aid Carl waga m j members of the board Carl waga has been interviewed for the position of par professional teachers a his first day of employment will be upon the approval of a i fingerprint card no board action necessary at this time this is informational item I Believe Miss he has his card right yes so he can start Thursday excellent very and it's this is great this can be a a grow our own kind of situation where you know you can just keep working from there thank you very much okay if there's no comments on that uh last Personnel item is volunteer coaching employment of baseball and softball Hopkins members of the board the following individuals are requesting employment as extra feay coaching positions very excited talking with Dr shabos this this side want to get involved and help out our our our teams we have uh M Lewis long baseball coach edega volunteer baseball coach Kaa volunteer baseball Troy Brown volunteer baseball and Al Nunes volunteer softball coach I believe played softball here also was a very good player so it's great that stud to see former students coaching them helping them out uh no board action necessary at this time information item okay there any questions on that um it says extra pay are any of them actually extra pay or are they just all volunteer they're allte I believe volunteer yes okay okay there no other questions on that or comments next item is possible new agenda item for next meeting and it's not quite an agenda item but I do I'm curious about making a change that would uh make things a little bit more efficient on the board which is every time we do a vote we're doing a roll call vote of each person voting individually we don't have to do that we could say all in favor and then everybody in favor says I the clerk Records who voted I and all opposed and they and that way we're not going through each five names getting a vote each time I think it would speed things up a little bit if we just did all opposed all in favor okay and did the count because like I said it's not going to change the records of the meeting because it'll be recorded who voted which way yes ma'am so on the M I have to I have to say who votes no yes and that's what I figured it would still if we did all oppos we would have to the name who so if you have somebody that votes know you're have to do a r call anyway oh so they would have to vote no by roll call they couldn't vote no like you couldn't say have to say on record who voted no but it would it's for poliy I can't not I'm thinking it would wouldn't the record still show that if the clerk said oh these three voted yes and these two voted no how's that speeding things up um because it's not stopping at each person for your vote your vote your vote it's just calling that when I'm typing and I'm listening to the actual that I can there okay because I has to be if somebody votes know I have to hard for policy say I don't have to say who votes yes but I have to add who votes no on every item okay so as long as the clerk says if we had a no vote who voted no then yeah I wouldn't think I wouldn't think that would be a problem either but we just have to get yeah and I I think it would speed things up a little bit I don't know we could try it and see because I said it's calling for two votes instead of calling for five on each item and if we have like one like this where we've got that many items it might you know um not a whole lot for March meeting I would like to review the bullying policy if by chance April yes sorry April yes sorry no for April I don't I don't like doing it for the next yeah for April okay that ways it gives us some time app yeah anything else okay and if we have a motion to adjourn I'll make the motion I'll second it all those in favor no [Laughter] post wasn't so bad how many kids do we have or what grades do we have for Wednesday for awards

is I love time do is okay we'll give it like more seconds we'll go at 35 should we wait for them though come on okay yeah so then you'll [Music] go perfect perfect all right everybody hopefully within the next couple of seconds here we'll kind of turn it back to the front as we keep on going with our Forum all right well we hope you guys all kind of get a brief understanding of each other and we'll we'll dive deeper into that in a couple minutes as we as we move on but just we wanted to go over a little bit today um about where our Focus lies for this forum with a little bit of structure here uh we're really going to be diving into um portraits of a learner portraits of an educator and portraits of a leader through this forum each table has um a different one of these uh portraits and you guys should know if you don't know someone will come around and help you out with that um but these are really the three um core values that we're going to be digging into today today and uh if you see the QR code down in the corner if you want to take out your phones if you have them on you uh and you want to scan that QR code you're going to get a link uh where you can fill out one or two words about what each of those mean to you so a portrait of a learner portrait of an educator and portrait of a leader um you'll get a couple of minutes to just kind of go through there um and if anybody needs assistance we can come around and help you uh but once again with each one of those you're just going to put maybe one or two words on what that means to you and how you view that we'll give you a couple of minutes to fill that form out [Music] there spe all right so now that you've gotten that set up we oh we got to click that where's the we just wanted to go over the sd308 values so the values that we have decided upon are humanization Integrity dignity courtesy collaboration and empathy and that is what we're trying to Center all decisionmaking on to focus the entire sd308 community and the value that this for is really going to be focused on is equity so we're trying to focus on including everyone especially our student voices and making it an equitable environment for all so that is the lens we kind of want to look at our work tonight with so a little bit about um the belief and the goal for uh today uh we believe that the student is at the center of our work we are a school district after all and so the student really is the center of that and so you can kind of see on the little diagram up there um kind of the different levels um as it starts with so it starts with the self-portrait kind of yourself where you view yourself and kind of the goals as you go up through graduates systems and eventually you can get up to that educator um and a leader as you go on and that's kind of kind of the path that's followed within education but you can um also put that into perspective in any area of your life as well as you go on um kind of those different levels but these are just kind of the tiers that we see it as where you might start as a student a portrait of a student a learner and as you go on into uh leadership roles and positions so if you just want to take a look at that right there all right so now we are going to be we'll turn it over there we're going to be showing you guys a quick video about a local school district in the area that um took some of these same values and same approaches with the portrait of a student or a learner sorry A Portrait of a learner a portrait of an educator and a portrait of a leader um and I believe uh we'll we'll look at this video and discuss here in a minute but why don't we watch this real quick students staff well represented group of schools our what do our gr to have what to suful GRU having specific that's powerful we know that future Market is conly changing the rate of informationally increasing there's a lot of unud having able to I think most important competency to me being able to read write and listen really effectively is really important really pleasing to being able to achieve all the other competencies collaboration essential for us to live Harmon each other it's essential to be able to work productively and effectively with one another C important thing I think students are the most impressive we give them the opp we see that they will well what we expect it's important for student to be self-empowered because when you School you need to be ready to understand yourself what your goals are what you might help and how to accom everything I think all important competencies but that up most me for many personal reasons is iners learn a lot each other in terms of the world and how it works and how important it is to communicate equally with people of different backrounds andile graduate process that ideas it was really impressive to see how people from all Community GP come together collaborate and do a consensus on what's important for all of our my vision for graduates is that they feel confident in their next steps whether that be more education or entering the workforce or whatever they choose and make posi contrib to their commun wow I'm so excited to work with the progressive board the staff and support Community as we launch trans our profile gives us a vision for what each of our students need to be successful life and will all right so that came from the glenbard school district as you saw just kind of their graduate program and what they saw with uh different forums like this one um so we're kind of emulating that in a sense um but as we as we go on uh we just just really want to dive into uh the profile of a learner educator and leader and uh we want to build the districtwide mtss the multi-tiered systems of support and sip the school Improvement Day plans uh through this some of those uh key values that we're looking for with those three um that's that's really our goal through that and what what the community and what our students value through that as well and we're really taking that into consideration so I see some pictures we'll we'll wait for you before we move on all right all right we'll turn it over to Isabelle about a portrait of the leader okay so we're going to start with portrait of a learner which each table is going to have a different portrait so we have portrait of a learner portrait of a leader and portrait of an educator so you can see what is on your table with all the little the like um on the paper it we'll say what it has but we're going to start with what a portrait of a learner should be so and then so this is kind of examples you also have the questions for each each one on your table so we're not going to read through all of them just because it will differ from table to table but these are kind of examples of what we're looking for we want to think of qualities that we want to see within our Educators our Learners and our leaders and then again these are the questions we're kind of focusing on for our profile of an educator we just want to keep centered on these ideas and then just another example we can go back if you ever want us to go back we can go back and take a look at those examples and lastly our portrait of a leader which can really Encompass our entire community and even as you're looking at these one thing that even when I saw them earlier today thinking of it a learner can be anyone in a district an educator can be anyone in the district and a leader can be anyone in District so you don't have to focus on what would I want a teacher to do what would I want a student to do I think it's good to have that in your mind but also think bigger scale what can we enable our students our teachers our community to do and then just one more example okay all right so now at this time it's we're going to turn it to you guys within your uh little groups here uh depending on your table uh you guys will be discussing the portraits of a learner uh educator and leader um and so those conversations can happen at each of your tables um if at any point you want us to go around and we can uh go back to a slide uh that you want to see some more examp examples to bounce off some ideas you can go for that but at this time uh we have questions at each table we'll be bouncing around but the time is yours to kind of discuss and have those conversations and we'll be around Dr you oh yes yes yes um and each of you have um yeah the sheet that Dr Waller's holding up there yeah the ciry poies you guys can uh write all of your ideas on there all right right so happy discussing and if you need anything if you need us to go back to a slide we'll be happy to do that as well yes for sure e spe e for e than e for e spe e I hope your conversations are going well just so you know we're going to be wrapping up in about a minute and then oh yeah yeah yeah no we're oh what do you what clap three times if you hear me there you go I I'm new at the call and response stuff I'm learning I'm learning um but we're going to be wrapping up our conversations here in the small groups in just about a minute so finish up anything there um and then uh we'll go in and uh kind of share as a full group kind of what we talked about at our table so if you want to pick a representative from your table or maybe a few people to kind of share that out you can do that now as well but finish up any last conversations and thoughts and we'll get into that here in a minute be do you want to do a attention get her what's one you know I don't the problem is I don't know if everyone's going to know it so you're going to do a people are going to um call out at their tables we'll walk around with a mic and they'll we'll get what time supp what time is that all done I'm not sure okay I want to do I know them but I focus focus focus everybody Focus but I don't know if they're gonna you say everybody Focus all right you need to yell everybody focus when I say Hocus Pocus okay are you ready you're going to yell at those so I don't look D I got you focus everybody Focus I Hocus Pocus everybody Focus oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you got it do it again do it again come h Focus Pocus everybody Focus there we go there we go loud got it focus and the mic God I got overshadowed by the class I know we're still working on those attention getters all don't worry don't worry we'll get there next forum next forum they're going to be stronger than ever all right so we're gonna just kind of start with each portrait um and so and uh we'll start with uh portrait of a learner so where are my tables that did portraits of a learner one back there all right so what okay so we'll um go over somebody's from those tables stand up and we can kind of bounce ideas going off of there kind of what you shared at the tables we'll start over here and if you guys have anything to add you can as well so just anything that you guys kind of talked about through there oh great skills now all right guys my name is Gabriel Lopez I'm a senior out of suis and our portrait what's your name my name is Gabriel Lopez I'm a senior atais and and we did portrait of a learner so one of the things we discussed or here here let me just list it out what we said so we said as portrait of learner they need to have strong work ethic uh listening skills um be able to collaborate well and then use technology appropriately and limit social media and then continu with learning growth and change um basically we just the overall of our discussion was just how do we you know as Learners how do we just improve ourselves and how do we also just understand you know how do you collaborate with others how do you agree to disagree how to do all these things in a learning environment without you know causing you know a fuss or anything like that and it's just where does that where does this stuff happen where does this learning happen where does this growth mindset happen is it you know at what age does this happen at and we just said that you know I think the biggest thing that you know we took out of this is that students needs to learn how to listen and they need to also have a good work ethic because those two things if you put them together you're going to have a great student already so that's overall what I feel like what we said and [Applause] yeah okay hi I'm Hannah Gro I'm a I go to oie um uh we talked a lot of the same things that they talked about in their group with like important skills and like we also talked about a lot um like career-wise and like what what is important for like after high school and things that like we should be taking account of in in in education um we also talked about how to like keep students motivated and passionate like in courses and how different ways we can improve like um like uh like connections between content like a specific thing we talked about was like we could combine like a chemistry and culinary class to keep like students who are more interested in culinary like on board for like learning about chemistry and important things like that all right is there anything else from the portrait yeah Dr Paul for sure yes awesome we'll get the mic over to you all right so we identified several uh things that we would like to highlight trustworthiness um seeking to understand tenacity anything you would add we also said overcoming barriers acceptance conflict managing conflict self-management advocacy adaptability anything and empathy and that is it you go all right so that's kind of the portrait of a learner um and once again a learner can be anywhere from a student like that we have today um or you're I like to say lifelong Learners which is very true you're always learning at every stage of your life whether you're a leader and educator or in school now so those are kind of some of the things that were talked about thank you guys from the portraits of a learner um now we'll move on to our tables that were um focused on the portrait of an an educator so where were those tables at I know we got one over here one over here we'll start over here and we'll work our way around all right so I'm lyanna and so we did the three e for the educator which are engaged enlightened and education so we think that if students are engaged it might also help um bring people to Enlighten and like understand more of like uh whatever they're learning and then that brings in education for them and that's like our three main points for being an educ Ator you want to complete those three things for each and every student and then we also had um classroom has to fit all narratives so as a teacher you got to work with them and adapt and reassess every time you have discussions with different students and see how your education and your teaching um fits their narrative thank you right and now we're this table over here over there okay hello I'm meline Hayes and I'm an eighth grader at plank Junior High um so some of the things that we wrote down for a portrait of an educator is that they have dedication and commitment to their job um something else I wrote down just on my own was like they can control the behaviors of the students and they like can like control classroom behaviors because like that's a big thing especially for like some like schools because Behavior can really disrupt the learning of other students um they want to make sure that their students like Thrive and they're not like trying to like ruin them I guess or like they just want to make sure that their students like learn um they are able to change their teaching to like help the students and they're not trying to like you know fail them um they are aware of the needs of their students they connect like their teaching ideas to like the real world so we at least get like something out of it so we know like how that would apply to us in the real world um allow the students to be like social and interact with each other and like collaborate um they're empathetic towards what the students need um they uh add more collaboration opportunities um and um a teacher okay I just repeat all the same things thank you [Applause] did we have any other tables for a portrait of an educator I'm not sure no okay all right so once again thank you guys for sharing your thoughts on that I know I was able to sit in on one of those tables and um there were there were some really great discussions going on uh just like being a learner with an educator you can always be educating and uh teaching others um no matter what stage as well so I remember in our table we had kind of talked about how all three have different individual aspects but how they all three do come together at some point um so kind of making those connections as well you might see some overlap in there and that's that's kind of the point there how all three of those no matter where you're at come into play can come into play in your life and others so thank you guys for the portraits of an educator um and now we'll go on to our final um focus which is Portrait of a leader um so where are my tables at for that one we'll start down here kind of work our way back what were your thoughts I'm Grace Gordon I'm a sophomore out of swo East High School and our table just discussed like a leader really should be constantly growing seeing as how the times are changing so the people who are leading us need to change with them and we also said that a leader should be approachable they should be willing to hear other people and make people feel heard even if they're not going to follow what they're saying exactly and along with that just being open-minded and being able to respond to criticisms and things like that and we also think a leader should be able to hold themselves accountable and kind of like a practice what you preach so if you have values that you're trying to implement into the community you lead you should have those values for yourself as well all right we're back there all right hi everyone my name is Andrew madano I'm a sophomore at asle East High School um and what we discussed is the first thing that we discussed is a leader kind of like what Grace said should be um adaptable and agile because um the the situations that we're going to have to be leading in those are constantly changing right the situations that we're going to be in and we're going to have to step up and being leader that's not going to be the same a week a month a year from now right so what's important is that a leader has the ability uh to change the way they communicate change the way they lead change how they respond to different situations um and Mr gate will mentioned a a Bruce Lee quote that I think is Pretty Tough like sser pretty well um says Be Like Water making its way through the cracks do not be assertive but adjust to the object and you shall find a way around or through it if nothing within you stays rigid our things will disclose themselves so that's an we thought adaptability was important we also thought approachability was very important as well and we kind of talked about the specific actions that build that sense of approachability um the first thing is presence when you see school administrators even just your teachers walking through the hallway it builds that sense of familiarity um and even more than that when you have administrators like just miss Bowski as an example right when you see her you know saying hello in the hallways saying good morning with a smile um whenever you in that situation you got to visit her go to office or something it's not as intimidating because you see those leaders are present you see that um they're friendly and that they they value you on a personal level um and we also thought that students could be leaders too um just by really breaking down barriers not uh categorizing people in a specific uh group but just being open and accepting and treating people right yeah that's everything oh yeah one more thing I'd like to add I already like I know I know I was like already been yapping for a little bit um but we think it's important to be a servant leader right I I think this applies to us students you know if you get an executive position but it really applies to anything it's very easy for you to use your um position of power influence just to benefit yourself only be thinking about yourself but the good leaders they think about other people and they use their leadership position to serve other people people they use this no new um position uh new influence that they have to help people even more than they could before and yeah well thank you guys for those um just like all oh we had one more a you okay uh well just like all three of those um whether you are in a leadership position whether you're an educator whether you're a learner all three of those um you can be and um whether you are whatever position you're in you can be a leader and uh lead a team lead whatever lead a group um and you can also be a lifelong learner and a lifelong educator as well and using all three of those is really important and especially as we go along with school so thank you all for sharing your ideas I hope there was some good overlap in there and we we got our brains moving and flowing tonight so awesome and Dr Waller would just like to share a couple final thoughts such a surprise um thank you all so much for being here um I want to make sure that I think um the the individuals in this space they're all scattered through whether it's a student or a leader um or support just a lot of great thoughts and intention into tonight and I really also want to thank Dr Paul Miss cellario they came together and created the the presentation and put together the different questions for all of you um if you don't mind we would really like to um collect those curvy bodies from you yes we would we would like to get your thoughts and ideas and so um as you all are doing that I would like to actually call Dr Paul up here because she's going to just share a couple of different things so we can add context to the the reason as to why we're doing this work um and then they'll share the minty all right thank you everyone for coming this evening it's so helpful to hear um your perspectives as students parents and leaders as we continue to build out what our profile of a leader an educator and a student is this is helping inform our work within our district to continue to look for individuals who can cultivate these skills in our students and you can see behind me this is initially before we even engaged in the work these are some things that have risen to the top the words that are larger are actually the ones that were repeated over and over again and the things that we're looking for um in regards to learning for kids and we're looking for experiences for students that are relevant and engaging challenging differentiated fun Innovative and this is so powerful for us as uh leaders in the district to hear from you and engage in this work together so thank you so much for coming this evening Dr katti would you like to close us out with any final remarks as we end our time together no I mean I I would say the only thing that I don't know about you by sitting at your table um not only did I feel like the future is bright I felt like the future is now anybody else agree with me the future is now and the work we're doing was just so inspiring for me so kudos to the organizing team uh uh uh let's give them a huge round of applause um just this is not again the future is now because those efforts to get us to today is what made it happen so thank you secondly to the Board of Education your leadership in prioritizing student voice brings those who need to represent those values to the table and if if it wasn't for that I know this is the third this counts as the third public form with student voice centered is that correct second so I just think that's important not all Boards of Education very few Boards of Education are doing this so I'm not just paying lip service I'm just stating a fact when we were at the I iasb conference this past year it was said very few boards and the reason why we have why am I doing this because I'm excited so I'm excited excited and I really appreciate everybody coming out this evening um we've got work to do and this is how it starts with a Clear Vision together Madam president you okay so we got a couple more things we need to do so public comment so on behalf of the Board of Education I would like to thank you all for coming out and attending tonight's meeting we value the feedback we receive from our members of the public and encourage everyone to take an active interest in their school board in their school systems residents interested in speaking speak to the Board of Education tonight are asked to have completed a comment card and presented it to the secretary to the board when the secretary calls your name I ask that you step to the microphone state your name for the public record and provide your feedback please do not make please note that comments are limited to three minutes per person and no responses to your questions are permitted comments should address the Board of Education as a whole and not be directed to an individual board member audience or staff member the board of education will not address concerns against individual employees rather a complaint card against an employee must be in writing and signed by the person who makes it and the Board of Education will refer any such complaint for appropriate review followup to your questions or concerns will be addressed by Administration through the contact information provided on the comment card thank you I think we have one comment Katie heyen hello all I just wanted to give you a friendly reminder that Wednesday this week at asigo high school is a I still want to encourage you to think about different forms of Education this can start right after high school you could go on a Google and get Google Search that could help our SEO you could help build websites you could go into real estate you could take even more licensing exams to be an insurance agent and you can also o go to the union hall these are all ways that you can start to make prevailing wages at 18 you don't have to make 14 or $16 an hour if you go this path right after high school you could start making 20 $25 an hour plus at 18 do something with a sht or a license and you could go to school at the same time and not encumber that amount of debt that can follow you for decades so this Wednesday I encourage you to come and learn about the triel traits you could tuck point some Thin brick some joints learn about safety and PPE and I'll even teach you about LinkedIn because if you're not on LinkedIn your senior year I'm telling you you need to be it's going to connect you with top industry leaders people who are out there looking for athletes people who are out there looking for musicians or artists and if you create that that PO profile now with social media video photography your volunteer hours your community service I guarantee you somebody will find you but you need to get on LinkedIn now so thank you so much thank you Miss Heiden okay now I'd like to give our board members any opportunity for final comments would any of our board members like to say anything okay okay all all right can I have a motion to adjourn all in favor

and stud for than i' still be pretty well but not the healthiest strategy anyway so um I guess then we're looking for a motion here in the the 61 4521 for uh a second reading and then we' be looking for motion here on those three for a third for third reading I made that motion have has to be two separate motions you want for the third no I'll I'll do that do the I'll move to take the 61452 to a second meeting second all in favor we need a motion for the third reading of those items do it or you want me to sure I'll do it uh move uh for a third reading uh policy 2132 uh assistant superintendent for in uh for instructional Services Services is the current uh that's where that Services went to it must be uh 5111 admissions placement 5112 ages of attendance and 9230 new board m orientation second hold on as yeah I don't we're not we didn't change anything byw yeah they it can go together they can go together yeah they require three reading yeah because it was a byw make sure need to be separate yeah my motion remains unchanged I'll second or unless you really want no I'm fine with all in favor you get to say all in favor all in favor I get to say so the last say we need the motion next motion to adour second second sure all favor we're done okay lots of reading today

welcome to the March 5th meeting of the regular meeting of the an arbor Planning Commission for detailed information on meeting procedures please review the full printed meeting agenda provided uh M Kelly will you please call the RO can you make yourself louder yes I'll try to speak closer thank you chiee I'm here Vice chair AB brand here secretary W here commissioner Mills here commissioner hamers Schmid noted as absent this evening council member dish here commissioner Clark here commissioner Weatherby here and commissioner Adams you have a quum great uh may I have a motion to approve the agenda uh motion by commissioner um weatherbe and seconded by commissioner Mills all those in favor please say I I all those any opposed seeing none the motion carries may I have a motion to approve the minutes of the February 22nd 2024 moved by commissioner or council member dish and seconded by commissioner Mills uh is there any discussion of the minutes may all those in favor of the motion please stay I any opposed seeing none the motion carries uh next up are reports of the Planning Commission and written Communications um I will first go to staff um any report from Council council member dish I again failed to prepare but um it was not a big meeting last night and I don't remember anything and I am getting a second from yay Mr Leonard gotcha thank you um staff and uh manager Leonard yes good evening commission uh two items that I want to draw your attention to one for the work session next T Tuesday um we have a concept discussion for a site plan at 2854 South State this is uh a little over 10 acres it's a proposed mixed use develop vment uh it's the site of the 777 building and proquest building this would be a a proposed a pretty large scale proposed development in our tc1 district so they're going to um um be coming to the Planning Commission I am also um going to be uh recommending that we that's the only item on that agenda that we alter the uh starting time of that work session to 8:00 the reason for that is to give all of you a little bit more cushion for the first uh and members of the public of three dates of public workshops that will be held next uh week uh we are doing a series of joint public workshops at the downtown library uh the workshops will be held on Tuesday March 12th at 4:00 to 7:30 with a presentation at 6:00 p.m.

when you're ready and we'll get started um we'll go ahead and get our meeting started calling to order the Tuesday March 5th 2024 bobber K UniFi schoolers regular governing board meeting um as I call the meeting to order I just want to bring to everyone's attention and I know this has been hasn't been something we've done in the past however um out of respect of the district our superintendent and all of our schools and all of our student and you as the parents who are here um just to share our vision statement with you if you have not heard the barue Unified School District uh shares overall Vision that our students will be loved encouraged and prepared to Take On The World by embracing our Huck our mission statement is we create healthy inspiring motivating developing achieving graduates um for those of you who may be unaware uh himd is theum word for meaning of life meaning our way of life our purpose statement we create a nurturing nurturing learning environment for every child every day with an additional commitment to support our hdu um our culture and our heritage as people of the daal the nation is ingrained and has been ingrained in each of us as a board member and as representatives of the community we are sure to make sure to uplift and uphold and hold in the highest priority uh as Bo board members who represent the state so to speak still have and understand that this is our land and we genuinely make decisions based on the fact that what is good for the community is always at our highest priority above anything else so with that I'll turn it over to Mr sabala forok y make sure you turn your mics on please for thank youwood St back thank you we do have a quorum we'll continue with this evening's meeting letter C is our Pledge of Allegiance please stand if you are able and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you letter D this evening is our routine business number one is the approval of the March 5th 2024 board meeting agenda without objection a motion to approve is there a second second second by Miss Sylvia Hendricks all those in favor motion M number two this evening is the approval of the February 13 2024 regular board meeting minutes board with your uh without objection I would also ask that we approve the February 21st 2024 special board meeting minutes as one without objection a motion to to approve second by Miss syia Hendricks number four this evening is our call to the audience call the Audi for the record we have no call to the audience moving on letter e is our information items number one is the barue Unified School District students of the month Mr Diaz um president Mia members of the board members of the community it's a pleasure having you guys here thank you for being especially for this segment we want to celebrate as students of the month um and at this point I'm also going to ask uh Miss pabl representation of Miss Enriquez to come and join us she's going to be reading the students that were nominated for the student of the month and issue their um right say as well okay good evening president bnda governing board members and Mr Diaz for our first student of the month we have prek student from Miss Vegas class Gabriella melow if you want to come up and join uh Miss Vega says it has been a pleasure having Gabriella in the classroom Gabriella has a very kind heart she plays with all of her classmates if there is a student that is having trouble making a puzzle she will help them if a student comes in sad she will go and ask them why they are sad and will'll ask them if they want to draw or play with her Gabby I'm so proud of you and I am so happy to have been your teacher when she was asked what she wants to be when she grows up when Gabriella grows up she wants to be a chef so she can make [Applause] cakes [Applause] um we are going to do our first grade student Terren Anon from Miss spotted Wolf's Class I haven't seen him okay Terren is an absolute joy to have in my class he is always so kind to me and the other students if a student needs help he is one of the first ones offering to lend a helping hand during partner time if stence if Terren notices a student doesn't have a partner he will ask that student to be part of his group I can always count on Terren to give a big smile and a warm hug through throughout the day or offer a student a few words of encouragement I have enjoyed and have been impressed watching Terence Blossom throughout the year in his reading and math skills I look forward to watching Terren grow as an Indian oas's primary student great job Terren when he was asked what he wants to be oh there he is come up here Terren the family can show when Terren was a um asked what do you want to be when you grow up Terren wants to be a firefighter he says he wants to be a firefighter because he wants to save people from danger and fight the fires so things don't burn [Applause] down for the picture we all going to do congratulations thank you for your support [Applause] [Music] congratulations our second grade student is Colton Lopez from Miss Granado's class Colton is truly a remarkable student student who brings a sense of joy and positivity to the classroom environment his hardworking nature and diligence are evident in his dedication to his studies and his ability to grasp Concepts quickly Colton's positive attitude and willingness to participate make him a valuable asset to the class as he not only excels academically but also contributes to a collaborative and engaging learn learning atmosphere his passion for learning shines through in everything he does and his enthusiasm is infectious to those around him Colton's presence undoubtedly enriches the educational experience for everyone involved and his posit positive impact is truly commendable when Colton grows up he wants to work in the hospital because he wants to be able to help sick people and those who are in need of medical [Applause] help our third grade student is Bo Wen from Miss to Ball's class Bo is a focused student and a great friend Bo started wearing his glasses this year Bo has moved more than five levels in SFA this year because of all his hard work and practice Bo is also a respectful honest and kind friend also Bo is helpful in the classroom when anything needs to be done thank you Bo Bo wants to be a police officer when he grows up so he can help [Applause] people Mr Carlos from our specials classes nominated Tyrus Lopez Tyrus is an excellent student in PE he displays great effort and willingness to challenge himself and others it never takes him long to accomplish new tasks but more importantly he is always helping his classmates accomplish new things as well he always makes sure his peers understand the rules of new games and he always is always checking in on classmates who may be struggling our Kinder student is on their way we have a kindergarten student and she's on her way so we will wait and then do hers later so up next we have Miss beay Lewis from the intermediate [Applause] campus good evening um president wendia board members and superintendent Diaz I have the teachers here who will be presenting the awards skik anik Mr Flores fourth grade teacher from bab Intermediate School it is my part and honor to present to you our fourth grader student of the month ladies and gentlemen Bailey Ramirez Bailey has been nominated as the fourth grader student of the month for February due to his consistent dedication to academic excellence exemplary behavior and we waving posi positivity positivity in the classroom Billy consistently demonstrate a strong work ethic actively participate in class casion and eagerly assess his peers his enthusiasm for learning is contagious inspiring those around him to strive for their best be academics Bailey exhibits kindness respect and empathy towards his classmates creating a supportive inclusive classroom environment his exceptional qualities make him a shining example of a modal student deserving of this recognition when he was asked how can he make the world a better place he says I could make the world a better place by taking ev even simple steps to ensure that our water sources are not polluted I will be mindful of how I threw my waist whenever I go to places with bodies of water even the washes and I participate in community cleanup efforts by protecting our Waters we will have clean seas and oceans where future kids and people can enjoy drinking and swimming ladies and gentlemen it's our pride Billy Ramirez [Applause] scash everybody anik um Miss bulata from fifth grade it is my pride to present to you all our fifth grade student of the month Selena Francisco Selena is a diligent student she keeps herself organized she participates in class both answering questions and providing great comments and feedback she is also someone that I can depend on in assisting her classmates she is a responsible student who does the right thing and provides a shining example to her peers in both behavior and academics she puts her best effort into her work and encourages her classmates to be their best selves and when asked on how she can make the world a better place she said and I quote how I would make the world a better place if I could is I would try and solve world hunger because that is one of the biggest problems in the world right now ladies and gentlemen one once again miss Selena [Applause] Francisco um grandparents if you may come in front friend as well thank you to the hello M Tess to the governing board president vas superintendent Diaz principls friends Kapa starlock Philippines for the month of February our class centered attention on the character trait of kindness in observing of my student of the month interaction with both classmate and teachers it is evident that he consistently embodies this virtue he not only demonstrates a genuine and considerate attitude towards his spirits but but also exhibits a commendable sense of responsibility and eagerness to engage in learning process I asked him how can you make the world a better place and I quote we must cease littering in uh littering bodies of water Aid endangered animals contribute to environmental preservations work towards preventing Wars address world hunger in Africa and promote a smokefree environment ladies and gentlemen let us all welcome the six grade student of the month Michael Migel from the house of isind yeah an Miss Hannah tuala I am going to present in behalf of Miss April woy our librarian in the intermediate campus um the student of the month is meina Johnson meina is an Exemplar student and a natural leader on campus she is very inquisitive in every subject and strives to excel when whenever she is finished with her work she asks what she can do next in library class Melina is always an active participant in the lessons and is very eager to check books out to read she displays perseverance patience and kindness towards her teachers and her peers meina is a joy to have in class and lights up the room with with her smile with her sweet smile and when asked how can can you make the world a better place she said a way I would make the world a better place is to help all the people that are in need of help in any way thank you and miss miss Lea from high school good evening good evening governing board president wendia governing board members Mr Diaz and Community I am here to to present the February 2024 students of the month starting with seventh grade I did not see her here is this on can you guys hear me the seventh grade team named deelia Carlos is a February student of the month deelia is the daughter of Darlene Jackson and Damian Carlos senr her home Village is crang in shukto and she is a proud member of the House of dreamers her favorite class is Ela with Miss tan because the work is easy to understand her favorite teacher is Miss clovia Martin because she is a fun teacher deelia is a m is a musician playing the piano after graduating from the secondary campus she plans on attending college at the University of Arizona bear down her current career goal is to become a world renowned Baker two people that deelia greatly admires are her mom and her Auntie Linda deelia would like to thank them for supporting her and pushing her to be her best keep up the good work deelia next the eighth grade team would like to recognize Robert [Applause] Garcia Robert Garcia is the student of the month for February and he is the son of Pauline Nas I don't want to mess up nasai Nasi naswa her home Village is um Garcia strip in the shik district he is a proud member of isind his favorite class is science with Miss Ain Martin because labs are interesting and fun his favorite teacher is Mr Jones because he is nice and kind Robert is a basketball fan after graduating from babok K secondary he plans on going to college hopefully at UCLA his current career goal is to become a mechanical engineer the people that Robert would most like to thank are his brothers his sisters and his parents he would like to thank them for all their constant support and love over the years good luck Ro good work Robert keep pushing to learn and grow as a student we can't wait to see what you accomplish yay Robert one more ninth grade would like to um recognize angelite Garcia Angelique is the ninth grade student of the month for February she is also the daughter of Pauline Nesta her home Village is also um Garcia strip and shook do and she is a member of the House of dreamers angelique's favorite class is photography with Miss Lopez because it's interesting and Angeli likes taking pictures her favorite teacher is Mr Akuna because he is cool funny and a great teacher after graduating from babok kver secondary Angelique plans on going to college at the U OFA her current career goal is to become a culinary Star Baker she would like to especially thank two people tonight her grandma and her uncle she would like to thank them for all the support and encouragement they have provided her throughout her life congratulations Angelique we are so proud of [Applause] you next 10th grade would like to recognize eaglebear Toro Eagle bear is the 10th grade student of the month he is the son of Leah Anton his home Village is topawa in babok KY district and he is a proud member of the House of isab Indi eaglebear is an athlete playing basketball this weekend in the Special Olympics his favorite class is world history with Miss kaburan because it is very interesting to know about history his favorite teacher is Mr me because he is cool and funny eaglebear is a big basketball fan and his favorite college team is the U OFA wild cats after graduating from the babok key secondary he plans on entering the workforce his current career goals are open and he is exploring what is out there in the world if he had a super secret power it would be super strength so he could be super helpful you're doing a great job Eagle bear [Applause] congratulations 11th grade would like to recognize jayen Donahue Jaden is the son of Rell Bernard and Alan Donahue his home Village is Sil Nakia in shukto District he is also a member of Amistad he is a hardworking student with excellent attendance who is always eager to learn he is a junior class representative in student council and a member of BSC Future Farmers of America Jaden's favorite class is Otto and his favorite teacher is Mr nullam Jaden likes Auto with Mr nullum because he because he's learning to fix things after graduating from Babble K secondary Jaden plans on going to trade school to become an auto mechanic if he could Jaden would make the world a better place by making sure that everyone has something to eat and drink every night if Jaden could have a superpower it would be to have all the people to have a house it would be to help all people have a house to live in congratulations Jaden you're doing a great [Applause] job one more and finally for 12th grade we would like to recognize Christina [Applause] Ramon Christina is a 12th grade student of the month for February she is the daughter of leatrice Escalante her home Village is Santa Rosa in the guachi district Christina is a member of the House of river her favorite class is agricultural with Mr Davila because we are always learning something new her favorite teacher is Mr Coulson because he helps her in her classes Christina is an artist and enjoys painting and listening to music after graduating from Babble kver secondary she plans on either going to community college or joining the workforce Christina is considering many different careers a few she is thinking about our photography video editing or Visual Arts one person that Christina greatly admires is her mom mom she would like to thank her for always showing support and love and for being a great example we are so proud of you Christina congratulations and last but not least Mr [Music] Fox good evening everyone my my guy's not here today um I'd like to take a second just to talk about a young man 11th grader named uh Darius Dickens uh it's I'm a little surprised he's not here tonight uh he did let me know um he's had 100% attendance since beginning of this semester um so he did have 100% attendance uh up until today uh he did text me and say apologize for not being here and told him I didn't have to give him the poola I said don't worry about it uh we have a little thing that we do at alternative um and I told him if you're not here you don't get that special prize and I didn't realize he had something pretty important to do today so Darius Dickens completed 255 activities last month he finished off four classes which is two credits um that's up to three and a half since mid November so he's really moving he's doing what he's supposed to be doing and again what I'm very proud of is 100% attendance um Darius is a very very um levelheaded young man when you ask him like Darius what are you going to do after school um he pretty much says future will take care of itself if I handle the present and I'm not even going to worry about the past so he day I appreciate him greatly for doing so and dar I will see you tomorrow thank you [Applause] guys so it is um of course with Honor on behalf of the governing board to say thank you so much you are a complete inspiration to all of us our students and to our parents our community members and to our staff members who nominate and recognize the successes and the achievements of our students is always always such a blessing so thank you so much we'll continue our meeting you're welcome to stay but that'll conclude our students of the month for this uh for this month thank you we have cookies what's wrong with Bri Brian Daniel or Brian can we can we can we mute only isn't going to come yeah that cuz I forgot all about it done no I'm take it [Music] home good what's her name from the primary I learned something new about her her dad her D is cliffer Pao Clifford Pao the one that works for the college for the ACT program oh oh really yeah I've heard the name but I don't know I've never maybe I have but oh yeah mom is ang D yeah so they gave him an award at this one thing last week him they recognized him Amy and celo and then somebody else from Apache I think but she was there with him and I never knew that was her we know his he has a sister um in um Priscilla her name Priscilla Vernon knows her really well because he used to spent a lot of time with her in San Diego when he was up there because she lived up in San Diego Then when she retired she out car she's a funny lady though okay uh are we ready Mr okay good all right we'll go ahead and continue with our meeting this evening number two um I don't see anything on it so if there was nothing we could have removed it but nonetheless um for the record we do not have any um award for the Huck award this month so we're going to double up next month all right uh so for the record there is no information item board for um number two this evening number three is our Civil Air Patrol pres Civil Air Patrol presentation please sir and it's second Lieutenant Gabriel Cutler right yes sir thank you sir all right just to make sure to announce you so welcome and you may begin thank you sir I want to first start Miss won Larson and and Miss Larson and Miss uh we first want to uh thank you president buendia and superintendent Diaz and Ford for allowing us the opportunity to speak this evening so the very first thing I want to do is explain a little bit what Civil Air Patrol is civil air patrol was founded one week prior to Pearl Harbor it was founded to as a civilian air force for the United States uh of America as well as became the United States Air Force auxiliary uh is the PowerPoint presentation available or just the principle oh okay if you will give me just a moment of Grace I have my laptop with me with the presentation on does anybody have access to that we can so he doesn't have right now okay you should have access Daniel refresh yay there we go they got it so members of the audience that asking us to turn off the microphone during the presentation to prevent uh next it is a congressionally chartered nonprofit all of the time so all of the time that Civil Air Patrol operates it is congressionally chartered as a 501c3 there are three main missions within Civil Air Patrol Those are Cadet programs emergency services and Aerospace education during the time of serving under the air force uh we are a member of first Air Force which falls under the total Force Partners which includes the Air Force National Guard Air Force Reserves the Air Force active duty and Air Force auxiliary during our auxiliary missions we fall under the United States Air Force auxiliary we were found December 1st of 1941 uh after the United States was thrust into World War II we became a part of the civilian defense we patrolled the Atlantic coast from Maine to Mexico and monitored and harassed German new boats in shipping lanes searching for survivors of ships that succumb to the torpedo attacks or weather and training military Pilots next slide please Congress passed a public law 79 Tac 476 stipulating that Civil Air Patrol post World War II will never again serve in a combat role our missions now are purely that of service we are designed and are accustomed to serving individuals through search and rescue through emergency services and through Cadet programs next slide please we are a volunteer driven force of 56,000 members as of 2022 the numbers have increased uh to about 58,000 we currently have 23,000 youth we operate the world's largest Fleet of single engined aircraft including 555 aircraft 47 gliders and two balloons operating more than 2200 drones we offer high-tech aerial Imaging that includes liar flare forward looking infrared high definition video 3D scanning for damage assessment search and rescue as well as many other Emergency Services operations next slide please our core competencies in youth programs include leadership training character development Aviation initiatives physical fitness career exploration special activities Aerospace education includes a k through 12 fully funded fully designed Curriculum by the United States Air Force and Civil Air Patrol stem kits are provided to all squadrons at no cost classroom support career explo exploration and then for emergency services we are able to certify and license for search and rescue Flight Training we participate in joint military training aerial Imaging drone support and transport it is aligned to National academic standards Aerospace education offers more than 40 educational products consisting of hundreds of lessons plans that span from prek all the way through grade 12 subjects include mathematics weather robotics model rocketry flight space science unmanned aerial systems and more next slide please the youth programs youth programs has a robust physical fitness program designed to ensure that our youth of today are up to the presidential physical fitness standards as well as providing them the knowledge and the background to maintain that we also offer a robust leadership program this leadership program is some of the best in the world provided by the United States Air Force educationally backed and is funded Civil Air Patrol performs 90% of all search and rescue missions in the United States we have advanced search capabilities Cadets are allowed to participate once trained in search and rescue and that is a program that we are excited to offer to the nation the emergency service teams uh also respond to local state and federal agencies for natural disasters uh Hurricane Katrina Civil Air Patrol was there performing missions as a total Force partner of the Air Force the auxiliary plays an integral role in joint Readiness training for the military this includes operation Noble eagal operation bird dog green flag srpa RPP J stars and many others now there is one thing with the uh if you don't mind going back just one slide there is one thing with uh the military missions military missions are set to adult members for most of the missions and that is because they are operating directly with the United States Air Force uh this program is not just open to Cadets uh for the school class setting it would be set for 9 through 12 but anyone in the community once they pass the background C uh check and the FBI clearance card can be a part of this there is a 3:1 uh return on investment for every dollar spent in service of others every year Civil Air Patrol is credited with over a hundred lives saved we have in our capacity over 555 aircraft 1,000 Vehicles 1,400 locations we have flown over 100,000 miles within the past year or hours flown 500,000 students have been impacted Across the Nation and over $200 million in excess of volunteer time Civil Air Patrol never requires and this is the most important thing on this slide is civil air patrol never requires a military obligation this training though military in design and structure is not designed to build the military it is not not designed to push anyone into the military that does not want to be there the design of this program is to offer leadership capabilities and career exploration besides just the military Civil Air Patrol offers the experiences of exploring law enforcement of exploring search and rescue of EMS of first responder of in many different fields including stem GIS uh and excuse me sorry GIS as well as communication aerospace engineering robotics technology there are many different avenues that cadets could take how this would benefit the community Cadets can provide color Garden presentation teams and Community for community events and ceremonies they can Aid in set up and take down during community and District days service projects and Community Serv service cap will provide a positive environment to create leaders for the community career opportunities and exploration and increased visibility of community youth learning leadership and benefiting the community Civil Air Patrol offers orientation flights for all uh Cadets in the program it also offers Flight Training scholarships I've had many a Cadet who have graduated this program with a pilot's license with no money paid out of their pocket before they've had their driver's license sometime provides activities and competitions for cadets at the local state Regional and National levels cadets at the national level will actually attend at Maxwell Air Force Base National events to compete makes opportunities for commun Community involvement available through Color Guard drill teams and Emergency Services missions so besides just providing the formal uh involvement it will also involve the Emergency Services aspect besides one of the plans that I have is working with Mesa Falcon Field composite Squadron to actually have them fly down with the Air Force aircraft down to Ryan Airfield to provide search and rescue training for all of the cadets it challenges youth to be ambassadors for a drug-free lifestyle it exposes thousands of cadets to cyber defense careers through cyber Patriot the Air Force and space force Association National Youth cyber security competition Civil Air Patrol accounts for 10% of the cadets who make up each of the US Air Force Academy's classes in addition to that once a Cadet reaches second Lieutenant which is the award of General Billy Mitchell they are allowed to list in the Air Force the US Army and the Coast Guard at a higher pay grade usually E2 or E3 which equates to quite a bit of an increase in Pay they they can participate in International Air Cadet exchange programs with countries like Australia and the UK award uh they can be awarded different College scholarships in several disciplines including stem each Cadet will be required to perform 20 hours of service to the community and or School a year to enable the Cadet Squadron to flourish on campus cap will provide the following which includes a comprehensive curriculum of thematic areas including leadership Fitness Aerospace and character program rules governing Cadet progression program content award criteria and similar matters via cap regulations so Civil Air Patrol will provide a proven structure for the entire program adult professional training and development so besides just providing the cadets training it'll provide anyone that wants to participate in the program the training to properly interact with Cadets and relay this information per the standards it will also provide the wing has agreed to provide a mentor coaching for the squadron's first two years at a minimum to ensure the in the uh stability and longevity of the Squadron in addition to that the curry Blues voucher which is a program that offers uh a financial need based assistance to uniform now the way that this Squadron I would like to be designed is that all uniforms will be provided to the cadets at no cost to them as long as those uniforms once they leave the program get returned in a serviceable condition to ensure that any financial problems do not keep a Cadet from joining it'll also provide a new Cadet kit stem kits at least two to start with web-based system for track tracking Cadet progress uh as well as access to summer camp weekend programming career exploration acmy which include there's the National Emergency Services Academy that uh will provide the most robust Emergency Services training that I have ever been a part of also access to need-based tuition for summer programs including the encampments which are required to uh make the rank of second Lo in it'll screen and train cap adults to who come in contact with students so it'll ensure that the safety of the students are the top priority to enable the cadets and the Squadron to flourish on campus the school will provide the following so these are what the rules and regulations of Civil Air Patrol have dictated to actually have the program a classroom and activity space at no cost at least one faculty staff member or Squadron leadersh ship team which both I and Miss Larsson have agreed and would love to participate in this program stiens if any I'm not requesting any stipend and I can't speak on behalf of Miss Larson but for me this is actually just solely to provide something for the students that I think would truly be beneficial to them opportunity for squadron to recruit new students and Cadets and opportunity for the Squadron to contribute to the Student Life on campus including color guards and honor guards to enable the cadetes in their Squadron to flourish on campus the school or cadet's family will provide the a following an annual membership fee of $38 which gets paid to the wing and unfortunately that is set by the wing and higher command and I cannot wave that but there are opportunities for financial assistance for that as well and $35 for squatter me membership fees one of the things that I want to ensure that we provide for these Cadets and these students is sustainability and that we can operate uh without additional Financial funds from the school district to make it as easy as a transition is possible we plan on providing the uniforms the rank and signia the achievement ribbons and awards tuition for summer programs special weekend activities and plan to uh actively fund raise throughout the school year to provide these it is also requested that school provide paid time for faculty of Staff members only for professional development of staff to include conference attendance for required promotion of leadership team training for leadership team provided by Civil Air Patrol in United States Air Force which primarily includes the uh initial fee and then the transportation an opportunity for staff to progress through the training set forth by by Civil Air Patrol and the required Commander's call so there are certain instances where the wing Commander may call all uh officers in the program to attend a Commander's call before a request for school staff to attend the training is brought to the school district for approval of paid time the following will be required of the squad Squadron commun or Commander approval Squadron Financial Officer approval and squading resources review and approval so with that the wing has agreed to provide a Certified Financial Officer for the Squadron as well failure to receive the following approvals will result in the denial of the request or will be required to request leave with or without pay and be the member's financial responsibility the Squadron as a whole would like to take on the responsibility of the costs associated the only thing that we would request is that that staff member be uh provided theay paid time off for professional development a lot of this information I I respect your guys's time I understand that I have a very limited amount of it and that's why I did provide the uh information for you and I want to make sure that I have time to answer all of your questions so the main information on this page is capap regulation 60 Tac 3 that's the cadet at school program and that is the main governing document for cadetes at school and school-based squadrons the elective class during the school day uh with after school opportunities after speaking with the wing command and higher command we have decided that based on the student Avail availability as well as geographical distances and other extenuating circumstances that a school in school based class would be the most advantageous for the cadet program as well as offer it the best chance to succeed and provide the program once a week the cadets would be required to wear a service uniform or uniform of the day which may include a field uniform so the service uniform looks like this one uh the field uniform would be a camouflage uniform with Civil Air Patrol Insignia on it and Cadets would be uh as directed by staff every Monday uh it's proposed that that will be the physical fitness day and they will pre prescribed and provided a physical fitness uniform to wear including shoes socks everything required the school may require Cadets to maintain certain standards of academic performance to remain active in cap the big major takeaway from this is at no time can we ever force a student to be in Civil Air Patrol should they not want to so if nothing else fits in their schedule and they do not want to be in the Civil Air Patrol program we cannot just place them in the Civil Air Patrol program where they do not want to be we want to make sure that the cadets are not only excited about the program but want to be there and want to learn these skills next slide please as I stated the Squadron would like to provide all uniforms including uh undergarments as well as footware socks everything as applicable um and then the main uniform items so the jacket the service Insignia the shoes or the uh shirt and trousers would still remain property of the Squadron so that we could reissue it to Cadets once they graduate and new Cadets come in to ensure this sustainability as well as providing as low a cost as possible for this program Saturday activities are going to be required and that's required by Civil Air Patrol and that can include um field trips such as I've taken Cadets to The Maritime Museum in San Diego to stay overnight on the Midway the USS Midway I've also Tak taking Cadets to the Puma air and space museum and I've also taken Cadets to search and rescue missions or search and rescue exercises throughout the state with other squadrons to meet other Cadets like themselves permission slips for activities will be required Civil Air Patrol has the specific forms that are required to be filled out and presented to them Squadron summer activities include Squadron leadership team um training as well as input from the cadet staff and Cadets on what they would like to do during the summer Cadets or and or the Squadron may decide to participate in group Wing or national activities though there will be a cost that we will hope hopefully be able to fundraise for to pay for next slide please next slide please Civil Air Patrol can and will provide a vehicle for certain usage that will be paid for by Civil Air Patrol we would have to requisition that from the Davis Monon Squadron but assuming that they don't have something pre-planned that transportation is provided for us next slide please the Squadron funding the program the Squadron will operate independently from the school district in terms of finances in operation that is set by Civil Air Patrol Civil Air Patrol Wing uh so the higher command actually holds the account and grants we plan on fundraising as well as seeking opportunities for Grants which include things like uh just recently uh Lockheed Martin had a grant for uh I think $40,000 the school would also be able to apply for the 21st century Grant this program does qualify for that next slide please expected startup finances are $40,000 for 12 Cadets that includes all uniforms including classroom sets of textbooks Insignia programs Awards Furniture appropriate storage honor guard and color guard equipment and the expected overhead cost yearly will be about 8,000 the curry voucher I will allow you guys to look at that yourself I know I am running out of time time and I do not want to waste it next please next please Insurance Civil Air Patrol maintains liability insurance policies for all general liability insurance vehicle liability insurance and Aviation liability insurance including for Cadets and senior members so the insurance is solely on the responsibility of Civil Air Patrol and the United States government in United next slide please next slide please the syllabi uh which I have included in there for your uh ease so next slide please next slide next slide if you want you can go ahead to the uh quick video and then I will take [Music] questions [Music] questions before I go first of all thank you so much for the presentation um Miss Larson second liutenant Cutler um the only questions I have are more so on our on our end just to the school to the superintendent um I know that right now as far as fitting the the the programmer to be introduced into the elective programming that we have the current block schedule that we have is that something that's going to be necessary for us to need to adjust in any way or are you guys pretty much ready to just slide in wherever you guys going to be able to put wherever we need to be okay that was one question the other one I just saw was kind of answered you know where else and how else um and I didn't see the video I guess I should have looked through through the um presentation um about the success stories or any kind of things that we could actually look at and I think seeing that definitely gave me me answered all those questions [Music] um the other the last question I have in particular was for the funding um I know you said that you actively seek funding so we shouldn't have to but is there any necessity for us to just probably prepare just in case that doesn't happen or is there ever a moment where you don't get the funding and we do have to get those costs covered it is possible that we don't receive the grants uh I know right now unfortunately most of the grant season for next year is over there are a couple of Grants specifically the Lockheed Martin one right so it may be difficult to start the initial funding and if that's the case the option that we have is to actually become a flight out of Falcon Field uh Mesa area Arizona uh which is the current current Squadron I'm a part of until we are able to get that funding to stand up on our own okay uh I know that 305 the Squadron 305 at Mesa has already guaranteed a a stockpile of Abu uniforms for all of the cadets as well miss Sylvia that was going to be my question is what other schol within Arizona do you are are you uh sponsoring right now so currently I am not sponsoring any of them Civil Air Patrol as a whole usually operates as a after school activity on a volunteer basis this is a newer program that they are implementing for areas that it's difficult to get uh programs like jrtc in uh so this opportunity is something that the director of Cadet programs up at the wing has implemented at two or three schools and it has been relatively successful uh for short periods of time because they lack the longevity of the teachers and I think where this will differ is that I have been a part of this program for 14 years and I love teaching here at bobq Bri high school and I don't plan on going anywhere anytime soon are you a teacher here yes ma'am okay um so what schools are those excuse me um so one of the other things that um we have there high schools across the country that are um that have capap in their curriculum um our high school that we went to in New Mexico um we we had a cap and my sister was actually a part of that program at that time I didn't even know what it was I just thought it was cool their uniform but um yeah they did a lot of community service and they were out with and it was just it was unbelievable and then to see that transformation from you know just a young young girl young man or young boy and then having them grow into that so I just wanted to share that part and then the um what was the other thing that you had asked about what schools in Arizona is school that are participating oh I know um so the he had mentioned JROTC um one of the reasons why our school district doesn't have one or has never had one that I know of is that we don't have any retired military either in the Marine Corps or in the Army um and if we do they're not um so much interested in teaching uh because they know that the way that we're trained is specific and you know they don't want to have that and and that's different because then they don't have any support they're like the school district has to fund them I just wanted to make that um go ahead what other schools as far as the rest of the schools I don't personally have those names the cadet programs uh director does and I can get those for you ma'am all right I just thought maybe just looking at their program if they have a website you know just to learn a little bit more about them if you would like to learn more about the uh Cadet life I know that I served as the uh Deputy commander of cadets at the Falcon Field Squadron and I I would be more than happy to have some of the cadets one of them who is actually currently I he he started with me as a eighth grader and now he has graduated and going into the army as a Green Beret so and and he would be more than happy to come down and speak with you as well I was just a little bit curious about what is a SC Squadron so a squadron and I'm sorry I I should have explained the uh design a little bit more so at the base level you have an element an element is usually made up of a junior Airman or a junior Cadet and three to four other Cadets and then after that you have a flight that flight will be made up of four elements and we'll have a flight commander and then from there you'll have two or more flights that create a squadron and then from there that Squadron will become a group and then from a group to a wing and from Wing to region and region to National oh okay so and there are a total of 51 way or 52 now actually including Puerto Rico uh and Civil Air Patrol Athletics you have JB and then you have hookie hook Miss V hit your mic I know at one time the police department did have the um program for the Youth and they did something similar to this um I think it's a great opportunity for our youth to discover other parts of you know like you have mentioned the forensics and or the Robotics and all of that stuff because I think that's really important for our kids to know that there's so many options out there for them and and just um given that opportunity um to move forward in those directions and and you know it's just helping them grow helping nurture them in in a positive way you know and I I think that um it is kind of frightening at first um to see that um but I know it's good I know it would be good um so I I you know I just it it it surprised me to see that but I I um I think that it would help our youth you know um I think that um there's a lot of benefits toward it so you know I just I just think that stuff has to be I guess worked out between the school and and you know the program and you know all all those sorts of things but I'm pretty sure that we're going to have enough kids that are going to want to try and want to move in that direction so um thank you for your presentation thank you I think unfortunately I I was supposed to have some students here that were were going to speak with you as well that would like to join the cadet program but they are actually at the baseball game right now they are playing I think I just finish with I I I am I think I have and been really impressed and excited about the things that we're finally introducing as far as what the efforts that all you are making in and bringing it forward and feeling confident and comfortable too so I will say uh at least on my piece on my end as well that I get a I get an A a deep sense of Pride because I know that part of a part of part of what I know of our heritage and who we come from is a long strong line of military personnel even my grandparents and of course I know that there's instances where there there wasn't really a choice at some point I mean you know it was either that or or anything but it didn't mean it didn't it didn't diminish it in any way it made it even stronger so I I'm 100% want to say if we can move forward let's let's do so um I know I think in the instance that I feel the same way um as um Miss Vance but I I truly want all of our kids students anyone that comes to bosd to feel like they have uh and are supported in things they want want to be able to do and and and be shown options and that we're able to bring something to them that maybe they I know we haven't I haven't never seen anything like this I went to the same school hook you not that long ago but a little while ago um so if we can start the convers or whatever you need from us once it comes forward I don't have anything Mr Diaz go just the same sentiments um and just that I agree that it gives them a positive more um yeah more positive way to a direction in life and also keeping them out of trouble you know I know that that and I know that my late husband we did Rodeo so that kept my kids my boys out of anything else that they wanted to do so it's just giving them that type of yes ma' Senor di well one of the question was um in the event that we have more than 12 students or more than 16 students interested how would that then um the funding um what would the funding look like and would it what would it come from um and to answer your question president M we do have a memor of understanding um included in the packet that we will send to our legal department for review and bring it back to the governing board for review as well and all right great so with that with that the what is the timeline if any on rolling out if possible just just a guesstimate next schol year sir I do believe that it uh take place next you talked about some boys coming to speak on the on their interest so there are some interested students now okay uh so out of the students that have been in my classes I have spoken to quite a few and there was a probably 10 to 15 interested okay now the follow through will be another story but I I do expect that with the incoming eighth grade into um freshman year as well as the interest that is already at the school to the students that I have access to I think we'll have a good turnout of it um is that everything B thank you oh go ahead Miss Ella sorry I forgot you were there go ahead Ella um you mentioned um the students must want to be there and excited to be there but what if they like maybe halfway through the training and they drop out what what do you do with those students so those students would have an option and and this is up to the school administrators as well as the school counselor uh th those students would have an option if they no longer want to be in the program and they no longer see a benefit of it obviously we will reach out to them as well as their parents and try to uh bring them back into the fold but if at at some point the student does not want to be there we don't want to force anyone into this we understand that the idea of wearing uniform and we understand that the idea of engaging in paramilitary activities can be frightening for some people and we don't want to turn anyone off of it and we sure do not want to feel like anyone is being forced into the program that it is a remedial program for like a military school that is that is not our goal our goal is to solely create a positive environment for leadership skills as well as Li and opportunities for these Cadets and students and if that's not what they want then we will be sure to work with the school to make sure that they're put in a class room that they feel comfortable in and is more appropriate to them okay thank you I think it's a a good program because we we do see the ROC other schools and they perform very well especially when some of them perform at um a conference conference so uh I agree with that Miss Vance mentioned okay thank you thank you ma'am thank you for presentation and we'll bring it back next month um or after our legal canc review the for the final approval board thank thank you so much for your time M lson Mr thank you so much continuing continuing with our agenda this evening number four is the barue reen of High School District governing board financial report Miss Rago let's give it out for Miss Christina Rago our [Applause] CFO yeah good evening president buendia um governing board members and super superintendent Diaz I'm going to go over the um February Student Activities and auxiliaries balances so going in order the Student Activities account received deposits totaling $598 and dispersements of $6,6 n534 in the month of February the high school student council account had dispersements totaling $2,882 198 for credit card purchases for meals and hotel stay for the aasc leadership conference and Amazon orders for po 24482 the class of 24 received a deposit of $1,194 from concession sales at the warrior basketball game on February 7th and had a dispersement of $745 199 from Amazon orders for p 24593 the high school FFA received a $200 donation from arid state land and AG Associated LLC the High School boys basketball team received a deposit of $2,379 from concession sales at the warrior basketball game on February 10th and a dispersement of $1,135 for a payment on invoice for p2400 625 the high school girls basketball um account had dispersements totaling $1,931 37 for credit card purchases of meals for players at away games and invoice for po 24592 the 8ighth grade promo account um had a receipt totaling $1,642 from concession sales at Middle School basketball games on January 30th January 31st and February 22nd finally the high school spirit line received a deposit of $565 from the high school Valen time gram sales the ending balance for Student Activity account on 229 924 was $3,883 the student auxiliary fund received deposits totaling down that's a little bit further down sorry Daniel thank you um the auxiliary fund received deposits totaling $477 in February to um Middle School auxiliary for All-Star basketball admissions on February 22nd the high had dispersements of $990 68 to pay for fuel for athletic travel and hotel stay for the BD bus driver and the intermediate auxiliary had a dispersement of $3,313 cents to Scholastic Book Fairs the ending balance on February 29th 2024 for auxiliary was $1,592 cents do I have any questions on the Student Activities and auxiliary accounts is that typical to pay for driver Transportation yes mhm because why they're re they're requesting the driver so it comes out of of the or they they approve it in the minutes to come out of the to pay for that yeah and then did you mention what the IIs intermediate is it Intermediate School what that 3,000 the intermediate um payment for Scholastic Book Fair oh okay M okay okay sorry that's okay anything else okay Mr di president Mia um I just would like to um ask Miss Lea um and the SP sponsor uh for class of 2024 to give us an update uh regarding on their field trip and assurances that they had the funding to be able to complete um their trip and complete their responsibilities to be successful in the trip and also how many students were eligible m not not right now not like for April if um in based on the the amount of money that I see for class of 2024 um they can give us that update um it can be an informational item that we can put it so for everyone's review I just want to make sure that they have reached their financial goal and they they will be able to um come through with all of their um financial responsibilities uh with everything that they re um sitting for their trip I'll have them update their last okay thank you miss Lea was that presentation share with us for okay I think it was two board meetings ago I think December Bo meeting okay I think um the deposits have already hit um that they put down so it's just the remainder of whatever's left and and we haven't received a a true student count yet thank you thank you sure okay next you can um it'll be if you go back Daniel to the it'll be the last there you go okay so and you can just stay on that one that's the main one um so now I'm going to go over the um budget expenditures for February um attached we have here the um fiscal year 24 expenditures through the end of February um emino reflect a budget balance of 4,435 19794 um we are 8 months into the fiscal year and everything is looking steady um we will reallocate teacher housing funds to um impact Aid um for the encumbrance is making it go negative so that is when we're going to review the requisitions that are are submitted for Teacher housing costs and we reallocate to impact Aid when we don't have enough to cover in teacher housing um and that is is normal for each year um and the Grants Department is currently requesting reimbursements and allocating funds between the grants um negative balances so we have um we're looking at Jed and U first things first um so we have those already taken care of since we were time crunched at the end of the month we didn't give us much time with the weekend falling in between um to cover that before getting um to the um board reports but we are working on that currently um overall we currently have a 5744 per or 17,219 677 budget balance excluding incumbrances we received 23 m690 18042 2 cents so far in fiscal year 24 in revenues from all funds excluding funds for Student Activities and Insurance Fund do I have any questions for the um expenditures for February yeah I was just okay Miss Hendrick so I was just um oh I was just wondering why um the impact date was still in the negative then in joint with j and first things first is SCH do so we just H for first things first in Jade heads we just have to um request reimbursements and also for impact Aid We're going to have to either move monies around or it's just it's a budget balance so it's not the true balance of impact Aid it's just that expenditures and what we have incumbered has gone over what we budgeted for the year so when will we see a balance uh well during the for the budget we don't it's not an exact balance it's what we budget out to the sites and the school district and so part of keeping a reserve we don't allocate the whole balance of impact Aid out to the sites we give them a budget balance so um we will be reviewing requisitions um because we're going to be closing soon the incumbrance period we're going to start that off early the end of April April 30th we're going to close it off so we're starting to review and look to see if there are POS in place that have not been used yet or will not be used we be closing that which will free up incumbrances in Impact Aid and which will cause that number to go down and it won't be negative so right now we just have what we are expecting to spend but it doesn't necessarily mean we're spending all of that money so once we unencumber a lot of that it's going to free that up which will take us back under the budget balance if that makes sense it's just a little scary that because I've never seen an impact dat and the negative in my years yeah and then um I know that that the floor I guess came out of that gym floor and then we have extra Transportation expenses that we didn't expect to incur um that we've we've put money in towards so it's money that's going to to needs that we needed for the school district um that we weren't expecting to spend when we did start off with the budget so that has gone a little bit over two but um I think once we go and we start releasing money from um requisitions when we start closing them down um it should be more of what we expected to have spent is that meaning that we're behind on that or no no no no no we're actually starting off a little bit earlier than we usually do um because we want to be um in a good spot to be able to wrap things up give accounts payable enough time to pay that any last minute things um as you remember last year um we extended the deadline for purchases and that caused a lot of delay in the work with um in finance so we're trying to be ahead of that curve this time and start off closing the POS a little bit earlier which will give people more time so we do notify at the cabinet meetings we let the principles know it's coming up soon at the deadline we'll be sending out emails um um quite frequently with the deadlines and reminders so that the sites can get in any purchases that they need for the remainder of the year um so I know we have had a lot of sites turning in um a lot of requisitions to to get what they need to be okay for the rest of the year so um yeah we're trying to do that and be a little bit ahead of that that part of it and then with the uh floor and what we're looking at trying to get back for wedding then that would go back in yes is there where are we at with that um our legal council still fighting with that um right now it's on their Court um they they will let us know and we'll continue to get out from Mr ER in where we are um he has been on that on his to-do list um and we'll we'll be more than happy to bring any updates from our legal council um we're not going to give up this fight it's a lot of money that we have to put in on our end that is not our fault so our goal is to recuperate every single penny and that um that payment just went out last week so that was quite a hefty payment okay thank you you're welcome one of the this is why I'm going to say what I'm gonna say little louder one of the only core and most biggest things that we're responsible for is our finances it's really nothing other than that and policy and then this gentleman um so I I'm just going to reiterate again for everyone and I want to make sure that we I I know for myself I'm expressing I really really don't like seeing because if donations and things in here gifts and donations that are that are provided and we need to follow processes or submit documentation or even have it approved by the board getting it months later um is really really it I don't like it um and I think in the short term I'm gonna say again over and repeatedly that needs to not happen anymore acknowledge because I feel like that responsibility again lies here and if we can't have that consistent or that return in what we need in order to be able to have that that confidence then then we're not doing what we're supposed to and making sure that that's happening so um I know can we get Mr man's latest update on whatever that may be as far as for the gym floor and what we're going to get back if we're going to get back anything um you can send that to us as the board whenever you have something from him and then I I don't know how else to impress on everyone um especially I mean I I know we try to give as much support to to the superintendent so that you can support the CFO but again to everyone in in their processes or what they need to do if you're not sure please make sure you're asking um because it's it those are the my questions right away when I saw what was in consent as far as donations and contributions or donations that are being presented that were received in December and it's March now is that typical or is it or can we shorten that up or make sure that we're at least catching up or keeping all of those things um in a timely manner so that we have some kind of a true it's part of our gu our guidelines um in finance that we have to deposit within 5 days of receipt yeah um and that's part of the what the Auditors look at us for so um I think we did talk about a plan that we might have to help um Rectify that issue or at least you know um hold some accountability um so that maybe we can be on track and not happen so um we have a few things that we discussed actually today that we would like to put in place so that we can make sure that this doesn't happen Okay well we're going to lean on and press on you as much as we need to because again you're our only um employee to make sure that those things are being carried through and taken care of so that's all um was there anything else Miss ra no that's it all right thank you thank you [Applause] number five this evening is the bar re of High School District's principal report president Mia members of the board and members of the community as well as colleagues at this point let's give it up to our uh designate Miss Pablo from the far far away land coming to present on behalf of Miss Enriquez welcome good evening president buendia governor board members and Mr Diaz we have submitted our board report in writing I hope you had the opportunity to read it here is our [Music] video [Music] representing the creation story of the Butterflies the butterfli beautiful color movements are a symbol of the a them children's Beauty and energy the song that inspired the float was composed by the late Sandra Orga in the song it says the butterflies dance beautifully around me and Inner Circle then fly into the sunlight all right IND oases Primary School continue to butterflies and FES Pap good morning good morning [Music] little bit rodo K K thank you Don domination for your welcome we are excited to share in the festivities have an enjoyable [Applause] weekend [Music] one [Music] the next patient oh yeah you Che the next what yeah the next patient oh the next patient we're checking all the [Music] patient [Music] know [Music] am um Mar sometimes we we think of [Music] big oh my God we need to practice [Music] [Applause] that are there any questions I just wanted to thank you again so much um I know and and uh and say thank you for putting a little extra on the video I noticed it was a little longer than usually not that not that I count but I was like it was really good to see you guys celebrating a little bit more um is there any any feedback you feel like you want to give something you want to highlight that really really want don't want us to miss in your report um I think this month we really focused on reading and having guests come and read and we had a lot of people come and read to the kids and they they really liked it they enjoyed having all of the readers come and it was a highlight for the month awesome uh any other questions from the board comments I did notice again that the as far as the the pre to Mid testings are are looking a little bit better which I'm really grateful for and thankful for so just to acknowledge that so yeah good job to you guys our second grade team is working really hard definitely third grade too well if if there's nothing else thank you so much M Pa thank you good evening president wendia board members and superintendent Diaz so I turned in my board report I hope you had a chance to read it um the biggest highlight uh that I do want to mention is um to say thank you to J hopefully they're listening um to let them know um we do really appreciate that they were able to sponsor our two assemblies the mash unit and the BMX show to help us um prevent drug use on our campus um because we do care about our students and so we want to um make sure that we tell our students that um drugs do hurt your body and so we want to um try and prevent it [Music] your hearty go go [Music] breathing [Music] all right time [Music] morning okay [Music] so anybody we were yesterday ell the way we do that [Music] is [Music] never ring day no matter what it [Music] h window n we ain't got the same this story kind of czy from you and [Music] I you now I'm tring figure out [Music] my name is my Miss Hannah nice to meet you nice to meet you [Applause] too awesome Miss spay thank you so much uh questions from the board any comments Miss Vance you didn't highlight your um attendance that's speak because all my classes are perfect yes no I again I know I mentioned before about the and please if there's any other way that we can we can show appreciation to jom for those were what I was able to attend and participate in as far as the the assemblies I'm I'm Greatful and so whereever you know whatever we can do to show them appreciation however we can help support whatever you need let me know or let us know um but thank you so much for looking for those types of things for our kids it's really it's really great so I appreciate that thank you thank you miss Lea let's give her a big hand welcome aboard you're [Applause] next good evening president wendia governing board members Mr Jas and community members I have submitted my report hopefully you've had a chance to look it over and after the video I will be glad to answer [Music] questions [Music] hey [Music] hey all right let's head over to [Music] the n n [Music] n hey [Music] hey he hey [Applause] hey [Music] was a short month and it went by really fast thank you so much Miss Lea and and to the staff at uh secondary anything you feel like you want to highlight I know there's a lot but I don't want to um a couple of things I want to highlight the last month I talked about teachers doing some PLC training and then bringing it back to the teacher leaders did it then they brought it back to their teams and we had um our second meeting last Wednesday and AD happened to be here and she I let her go in because I didn't want to intimidate them anymore and she was very impressed on how well our teachers have taken the PLC training that they did and they're implementing it with their teams we are really looking at data a lot more effectively now instead of bringing it to the table and then staring at each other um now we're we're creating the agenda ahead of time we're having those conversations and we're making the changes immediately the following week so I'm hoping that next month I can share what some of the that data looks like for you okay thank you thank you so much for that anything else on the board keep up the amazing work thank you thank you Mr Fox welcome Mr [Applause] good evening again president buendia board members superintendent Diaz and the remainder of the crowd I've turned in my report I've hope you have had the time to review it and Play that video [Music] please [Music] [Applause] what I'd like to just add on the video is all of those pictures they are of taken here in cells whether it be sunset or Sunrise so you notice M barbecue repak you notice um kit Peak uh our friendly horses we left out the dogs we don't want to promote too many of them but all that nature is within ey shot of our parking lot with the exception of the bird that was found uh on a nature hike to see if there was water in the pond any questions regarding the r just the same question I've been asking is there anything you feel like you want to make sure just highlight it that we're that we you don't want us to miss you know it's not highlighting it might be low-lighting it's actually how hard we're work well we're working very hard on our attendance um we're finding that that we moved to seven periods we are running into the numbers looking lower than they have in the past and I've been talking with a few folks in the district about why that is um how many hours are required to get a half day full day because at this point I just see full day absence if they've missed two out of seven periods um so we're working on that so those numbers should go up but I don't want to minimize the fact that they do the the 12th grade looks pretty scary I think it was again it's a low light but it's something that we have to look at we have to consider yeah they're at um like what it says is a 44% and I know that's not exactly 100% accurate I don't think it's 90 but I most certainly don't think that we've gone down well I always curious how you calculated your your the attendance uh we take it first period second period third period fourth period fifth period sixth period seventh period and then we let Synergy do its thing so at this point I'm not sure how many minutes constitutes because we're new to this section how many minutes constitutes half day full day and do I see what a half day looks like oh on the attendance okay president yes sir and members of the board um I want to bring out or point out uh the changes that took place over the winter break and how we reimage um Accelerated School um after December all of the students they have now uh six period seven period and um now um the attendance is taking every single hour so um the students they need to be present every single period and this is how moving forward the attendance will be calculated for the campus as well um we continue to work in how we're going to be adding the online system um that will also help uh not only a great deal with attendance but also a great deal with uh students continue to have access uh off campus and I just like to add the email came in just tonight as we were sitting here from the state so I'll share that I've shared it with t yall bring an update on that okay I was just curious I saw the on your video your growing back there they're doing well that's our that's our front garden um it's kind of cool you see kids out there picking around and they're eating the green beans oh is that what you're growing yeah that had that real pretty purple flower that's a green bean vine that's just there but there's um Mr Alvarez has lettuce he's got he has broccoli um leave it to Mr Alvarez to to bring nature to us um so it's a small little garden but it's very well taken care of and and uh the students is 10 or 11 that care for it every single day water it make sure the the the troughs are right they take a lot of pride in it and uh we we love it thank you awesome thank you thank you sir thank you principles thank you Mr Das oh moving on with our agenda number six is the barbecue reunified School dist govering board member reports I have a short one I even I even thought about it in the moment while I was doing work the other day and so I wrote it down because I didn't want to forget it um be very brief but I want to make sure to impress or at least Express from my my my uh um participation in in much more of the um I guess walkthroughs of of some of the campuses and and and I really want to I guess Express from my end the honor that I feel to be able to participate but mostly to be able to see learn feel and engage in what it is to to to um see how hard you work how hard each of our teachers each of our administrators each of our and and our and our superintendent truly give um and administrative staff um I forget the titles of of everybody here however everybody who puts in so much is is such a blessing I think to each of each and every one of of of our students um there was some discussion I know that we had at one of the walkthroughs and it won't be specific but what I will say is that if at any moment there are any teachers in any to any who are graded based on whatever it is that we're utilizing to to to grade per se their their effectiveness in the classroom um I don't want them to to walk away with the sense of they're not doing enough or they're not getting what they should be getting whether uh whether they are effective or ineffective or or basic whatever the word verbiage is on the um on the sheet thing see this is why I'm this is why it's good to be involved um but what I really want to say is that hopefully the more that you see us or the more that you have the engagement of not only the board but and I and I know you see administrators and everyone else much more so than than the board but what I just want to really really try and get across to each and every individual who is committing themselves to to teaching our students and really given it their all is that I for one as a Bo member of the board am am so proud to see the progress and the hard work the effort and the commitment that it is noticed and that I do give my two cents at these at these uh walkthroughs I know all of us do if ever we're in the same room together it is never in in a way that we would ever question what it is you do in your profession but it is always to support and encourage and to commit as as much as we have in seeing your successes and in your goals and everything that you are trying to achieve um I know that engaging and understanding much more gives us a better way to to support not only what not only our students but our teachers as well so I just want to say again you know to be able to see the passion the love the effort and overall your professionalism as teachers as administrators or as individuals who come here every day sometimes from Far Far Away it is truly um appreciated and and no matter what um comes of it I just know the capabilities and the possibilities are that much more simply because of your effort to be here every day and to to be a part of this District so I I wanted to express that and I and I Tru truly want to be as present and I'm hoping that the presence is being genuinely felt that that it is not to act as though I know better or I can critique you I think that I do want to understand and feel much more confident about not only this role but specifically our support for the profession and and the schools and everything that y all do so um that is from me to to anyone else that needs to or feels like they're not they're not doing what they should be or not doing what not meeting where they feel like they are because trust me I've seen amazing things in in a in one walk through to the next walk through a few months later progression excellence and just commitment is just amazing so that is what my report will consist of because I have been Tred to be much more um open to the the opportunities that we have as board to to be to be involved um and I don't mean that in any way other than I'm grateful that I can be involved because I know not much of not many of us can be um but I'm also hopeful that it helps the Board to feel confident that you know these these are the things that that I'm observing and it is being done and we have very good um individuals working for us and for our students and for our parents and our communities and all of those things that we're here to to ensure that we're speaking for and and and you know doing this job for so um the last the other thing that I just wanted to mention um in in I guess closing um is the well I mentioned earlier any anytime that we can create any form of opportunity for our students I'm so glad that y'all are are are really trying to grab it feel comfortable in bringing it and and that we genuinely can have a conversation or see if we can make it work it is what I imagine um if I were back in school I would really truly engage with and want to have as well um but I also understand that right now it is a completely different environment time and world that our students are growing up in um but y'all are doing amazing things so that's that's genuinely what I want to say um from from my end on what I've been able to observe in the last month and what I look forward to continuing to observe throughout the school year so please you know I know it's big scary when you see us walking around that we're scary but nonetheless um hopefully it gets easier um I know it's easy for me to say that because y'all are the ones doing it but um we see you and it and it's very much um observed so anything else Bor yeah I just wanted to share that I did I was able to attemp the um the new uh the orientation for uh potential employees uh uh potential teachers wanting to come to the district and um I thought I see a whole bunch of cars parked out there but uh we actually had one one and I think we just really made him feel special um we had the district office here introducing themselves telling about about what they do and you know and how they can assist um the employee the potential employee and and Ella and I were there and also welcomed him here and um I'm hoping that you know he's looking at a upon especially if we do have those openings um but I that was the first time I think that's ever been done I think you will I hope that you continue to do that just to make sure that second year yeah oh second year okay and you only do it once um last year we do we did it three different times this is our first one uh depending on how many more recruitment opportunities we have okay uh we encourage them to come and and have a visit um what were of the district yeah I and that was the first one I attended so it was it was a great um opportunity and like I said I think we made him real special okay one counts whatever we can get I love it thank you miss siia anything Miss V not this month no problem Miss Ella are you still there I keep forgetting I'm so sorry you have any report uh no I don't have anything but I did attend uh the same um uh teacher um trying to get new teachers that day we only had one and I was just going to ask did he did he apply for the job probably not working prog um he did mention there were two different opportunities and it was the fact the because of the attention and and the tour that we made him feel welcomed so we work one yeah like he enjoyed everything uh what what we was presented to him so I was hoping that um you know he come you know attend our school um that that's all I have Mr B so do we thank you Mella I said so do we we hope that we he chooses us I believe he turn he turned it an application um but he has a few follow-up questions okay that we still need to address do your thing all righty thank you Miss Ella uh we'll move on number seven is our barbert CU UNIF High School District superintendent report Mr Diaz president with members of the board members of the community co-leaders and respected teachers are still present thank you for being here tonight a few highlights that I want to point out not only my report but also some of my director's report um February was an a very busy month I want to thank um every single one for the ongoing support and commitment um I want to celebrate um the ongoing collaboration with uh Toc and also miss Hendrick representing both entities um in in the ab uh hopefully have an academy um is starting next year um also um for all of our principles that took the time and energy um to collaborate um in in the recruitment at the U OFA but also participating the entire team and introducing themselves as part of the recruitment um I want to thank the governing board for helping us in in connecting not only with the community but U not only supporting doing the walkthroughs um during our visit with some of the community uh meetings that we attended during the month of February um also including Pino that was one of the ones that we attended I want to thank Miss Brewster and our student council uh this month that we're not able to present but to be able to continue to be present president Mia thank you for also being present doing that meeting um and a few directors of Transportation as well as operations for being available to answer some questions for student council and address their concerns as young leaders and uh during the month of febru February I want to thank um our principles and the the um assistant principles and sis for participating on what are going to be the next steps not only to complete the year based on the data that we collected during the first semester but also working on what are we going to be focusing on uh for next school year as part of our reports I want to thank um Miss AGI Hart for the 19,826 pounds that were distributed toing the shortest month of the year so congratulations of all of the um 158 Pantry um families that were sered um for8 uh households and for adults um coming in and and and taking advantage they they had a total of 257 for the month and a total 384 children that were serve during that month a big thank and appreciation for the sunrise house um I want to also thank um um the special department for highlighting and extending during the month of uh February in the report highlighting we have three um special ed members um that had been working in in a special ed department for over 20 years so thank you for their commitment and their support uh for transport uh for transportation thank you for also celebrating that two members of the team that had been for over 20 years as part of your report and also to also welcome welcome um or some student apprentices into your department um as part of the um U Accelerated School that kids are interested and to be able to provide that opportunity to see what it would be like to be in transportation thank you for welcoming that um um and having said oh I have one more um but that's a an item on its own so I'll wait for the summer school so at this point if you mind Daniel playing our video uh representing all of the different activities for the month of February uh through the lens [Music] [Applause] [Music] of I did it how long oh how long yes what was this right here these moving yes what reason be energy about R we have king and the queen or I want to start my own government and we can have our own rules onion good job give him a hand that [Music] are [Music] good [Music] [Applause] any questions might CL uh good job thank you for keeping us informed we'll try it okay number eight is our coaches and Club sponsors and approved positions Andre Antone for uh be Bob High School assistant basketball coach again board this is information huh baseball sorry baseball coach information items only um just for your information number uh sorry letter F is our action items this evening number one is the second reading of the barbecue un SCH uh policy advisories are there any question comments questions if not is there a motion to approve I have a motion by Miss syia Hendrick d Miss Kathleen V mapo hi okay motion carries number two is discussion and possible approval of the 2024 2025 barbecue reunified School District employee evaluation tool Mr Diaz uh president Mia and govering board members we are on a second year of using U this specific uh uh program to be able to um um manage the evaluation process for all of our employees um we just want to continue um our contract with this company so the office of the superintendent is recommending the approval of renewing the contract with the advanc evaluation software to support the evaluation process uh the contract with the advance will uh cover the evaluations from July 1st all the way to June 30th of 2025 okay without any objection the item is there second second by Miss Sy hricko Miss gwood hi I'm sorry uh number three de evening discussion and possible approval of the bud summer school program 2024 Mr Diaz president members of the board and members of the community this is once again an exciting exciting time to be able to come before you to approve our summer school program which is similar to the previous year um we're going to have or we're planning to have a a three week for primary and a four week for secondary uh students um starting from May 27th um and June 13 for um elementary students K through um 8 um and also starting on the same date and all the way to June 20th for uh 9 through 12 students uh we have included a list of all of the positions uh this is still going to be covered through um um through erer funding um but I now I saw that our presenter is here sorry I did not notice it earlier she's knocked she's saked in so with your support I would like to call on our department of curriculum instruction the math department to present our um project for summer school Miss kiny let's give it up for Miss kiny everybody come on down Miss K for The Price is Right thank you good evening president vendia governing board member superintendent Diaz um I hope you had a a chance to review the summer school flyers and the memo um and so like Mr Diaz was saying we do have the attached calendar there um and so nine uh Kinder through 8th grade will have three weeks of summer school and then our 9 through 12 students will have four weeks for summer school we have our flyer and if you don't mind opening the second documentation please with a calendar just a little bit lower there you go yeah and so um included in that calendar but we don't have the dates specifically designated there are some planning hours for our K8 instructors um within that time between May 16th and May 24th so they'll have some chance to plan for um the summer school activities we do have the 27th off for the holiday and um do you have any questions just one for me um how much are we committing and are we committing and is there is there an estimate or guesstimate on our seniors if they're if they're in need and need to be in here we don't want to use space or make sure that are is space for them yeah so we at this moment don't have the numbers available um that's not something that I have currently in front of me um but we do have allocated for um 9 through 12 we do have eight teachers allocated so if do have the need for it budget wise allocated so if we do have the need for it um we can definitely support any of our students that are in need of credit recovery 9th through 12th grade perfect Miss syvia so is a summer school um um students are they recommended for summer school or is it open to all students so we are going to have some targeted interventions so there will be recommendations made based on some assessment data um teacher recommend ation site admin recommendations um but we are planning on having room for students to opt in as well um but considering the goals that we have as a district um for mastering proficiency we really want to make sure that we're supporting those students that really need that targeted support um but we are not in a place right now that we're planning on excluding students who are interested but we do want to keep those ratios of students to teachers fairly low um just to make sure that those students get that individualized attention that they need so what what is your and your and how many students that you're going to I don't think we have a a current estimate um but we're trying to keep those numbers low right now we have um two teachers per grade level K8 and the the on the on the U calendar for May you have uh what's the Highlight in pink is that the preparation that is our last day of the school year of the current school year before that is the the current school year I just had to have that blocked out in my brain as as taken up um so May 1st through the 14th are school days and the 15th is the last oh it's a regular school yeah it's just the regular school year MH and and the preparations or the um for the teachers to be get ready for what where where were they in the calendar so we don't have those days specifically allocated on the calendar because we are planning on hiring a coordinator um and so we want to work with that person to find days that work well for them so instead of just choosing two days that seem right for us we want to wait until that moment is ready to go um and then we can solidify those dates what is your timeline to get the um so once we have um if this moves forward today at today's board meeting we are planning on sending out um a survey to staff tomorrow morning um letting them Express their interest we will then conduct interviews and bring their names to the board um in the April board meeting okay Miss Ella any questions okay if no to talk oh Ella you're muted if you're trying to talk unmute okay Mr Diaz president Mia and members of the board just a reminder that goad go ahead Ella I'm sorry um can you hear me yes okay um I think um the teachers and counselor should know which students uh need to take this um uh tutoring and not recommend them but I mean they they should make them go to to school and if they want to be passing their grades you know and be at the level that they're supposed to be at and it's uh the seniors and they should take care of their um credits if they haven't earned it so and I think um the opportunities are always open for them but some of them don't take advantage of it and and also like to ask if um having all this um tutoring year after year after year and is there any Improvement in any of these students are taking them so that that's my question so for our tutoring students we do see some growth so that is a comparison data point that we look at um when it comes to all of our benchmark assessments for second grade um all the way through 12th grade so we do look at those students that have been um in the targeted tutoring and we are seeing um more growth than their peers in most cases um and so when it comes to your your comment miss gwood about um recommending students and forcing them to be in tutoring um we would love to have that as an opportunity but the best that we can do is um have our coordinator communicate to the families of the students who are being recommended the importance of them being there um that's ultimately the most that we can do is really stress the importance um academic of the students being in summer school if they're recommended for it do do was that Ella was that it Miss [Music] Ella um there's also um on this new um U policies that we just approved and uh there's a there's um there's some new uh issues in there that uh that's part of the requirement which is um the um testing that has to do the same testing as they do with the immigration and um they have to there's 100 questions they're supposed to at least answer 60 of them to pass or fail and that should be in their record and so that's not are coming up very soon so they need to really emphasize on these um new new um uh policies that um is written up in this last this new one that we just passed thank you thank you Miss Ella yeah and that is absolutely something that we can keep in consideration for our 9th through 12th students and even our seventh and eighth graders um is finding ways that we can support that academic growth with regards to the Civics test as per board policy and it may be we probably have this information but be good to see some data points release something that may maybe you have just to share nothing specific but like for Miss Ellis based on Miss ell's question about for the tutoring grow yeah okay I know it's B ask but just very deep in my Google Drive but other than that Mr Diaz No I just wanted to remind our G bore um on our weekly uh superintendent highlights report on page four we do have a timeline uh I know you asked for the timeline it is on page four um is been there since the beginning of the chel that we following regarding our summer school program we are on track um we are uh scheduled to have the um memo approved today and our goal is to have um the staff approved by April board meeting so we are on schedule but if you would like to learn more about the timeline that we following uh for our summer school program it is on our weekly um superintendent report page four did you have another question Ella no I don't thank you go ahead Mr Hendrick I have no questions if there are no other questions i' like to real quick transportation is good or what are we doing on Transportation site for this and so that's a conversation that we've started with Mr B um but once we have an idea of um number of Staff interested things approved that is a conversation um that we're going to have with him we have it built in within our own personal checks and balances timeline um we didn't want to start that conversation fully but we did have a preliminary conversation about the dates and the times um and so once the memo if it's approved this evening um we will finalize that conversation and and have um numbers for bus routes and buses and all that good stuff was there a total th up was there a total number of students that were anticipating P one yes on page one page one I was looking for it sorry okay that's it I will go ahead and if no other questions uh make a motion to approve I have a motion by Miss syvia Hendricks second by Miss Kathleen Vance m hi I know what's wrong with my microphone thank you thank you Ella we heard you yes um sir I made a mistake um I was reminded that as part of my superintendent report there was also a video that was put together uh from the sunrise house and my mistake I should have pointed it out uh and I already passed it so if you have time on please go back and see it in your own time but but I take responsibility that's my mistake for not putting it up to Daniel okay thank you and I apologize for I'm sorry I was going to mention maybe bring it back next month okay so thank you and I apologize for my employee that um they put they spend the time and energy and my mistake for not pointing that out letter G this evening is our consent agenda if there are no objections I'll motion to approve is there second second by Miss Kathleen Vance m I letter H is our request for future agenda items I think one of the items I think was mentioned earlier in regards to the promotion and people that are having to I would like to hear about the graduation uh what we are looking at as far as graduation how many people are are on track and both from the alter the the um iOS and the high school accelerate and accelerate yeah and be it just I'm GNA I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna hold I'm gonna pause you because we had to have it on the agenda this will be in the future thank you I apologize I'm glad that you're super ready but we we'll put it on the agenda and we'll have we'll have it presented would you like that as a standalone item or do you want it as part of their principal's report separate item it's fine because I think I want the public to also be able to observe and see it's good for the communities and the parents to to know if they don't know and push push push your parent portal so they understand so they know where they can see the info too again was that it Miss syia future was mentioned earlier about the um 2024 class update I have it all spot of my future items I includ it agenda okay anything Ben no you got got coming up ail 15 summer opens up okay great super duper all right if that's it I know for the summer um we are looking to having two days during the summer for um a policy review okay um we have so tenative days um that we'll we can we can share those with you via email as well okay but we want to give you plenty of time to um say the date on your calendar it'll be during the month of June um and tentatively we have it for the 27th and 28th of June okay we'll put it on your calendar as tentative um save the date I might have something on the 27th Ben do you know when the summer Leadership is get for I think it's the fifth I think it's the fifth through the 6th through the eth I think yes I have it out on the field six and seven the asba yeah mhm Ben I may not be able to attent but check with me but I may not be be able to go this summer Leadership okay okay again uh we not to to add to the agenda I just wanted to the um application for the scholarships are still open I think uh it closes on March 29th I think so please encourage our seniors to perfect H okay motion to adjourn is there a second second second by me syia Hendricks hi it is 8:06 p.m.

your St I was Steve it's good it's a good [Music] year pretty much a I still have a voice she wasn't planning had to pick up today she's SI so would you break now are we recording two minutes before the that would I guess installing system I don't know if ours that smart so you could say I think Alles are students that had red shirts between these hours almost but then I think ours has we had the option of getting hear this buzzing sound what hey there hey stranger what do you know not a whole lot thank you for calling Continental dist that seems to be the answer these days so I like someone to say I know everything number I guess it's only Steve a little bit of everything [Music] that's all right we'll have call order 5 o' start to the flag of the United States of America stand Nation indivisible withy andice okay aoll kind mixed up so we'll go to roll call we're going to reverse uh item three and item four amaras here Mrs Le Mr MCG Alan Mr OS here okay with that we will take a break and go into executive session to discuss uh midye review of annual [Music] I figur if I just do like every other hi St Rick can you come everybody how was everybody this evening very well all right we were just in an executive session discussing we've already had our uh roll call so now we'll move into uh and a pledge of allegiance so we'll move into approval of the agenda which is a action item an action item just so you know is something that we vote on um and then some items that we have are just for discussion go a little bit faster I'll move to approve the uh agenda is written I second any discussion call Mrs yes M Amar yes Mr M yes Mr thank you and then approval of the minutes from our last meeting I move to approve the minutes for February than Mrs yes Mrs yes Mr M yes Mr and do we have any call to the public that is our superintendent's presentation which is informational only actually very fun one of the fun parts of our meeting because the best part is our student so we'll get to you in a little bit um again welcome everyone thank you for being here members of the board president Austy we have a lot of exciting events to just highlight you see there are mission and vision statement in front of you and as you know that we are always working towards building for the future learning cooperating and caring for all registration for next school year is in the work so teachers that I mean parents if you have not registered yet please do so miss Emma would love to have your registrations coming in again it helps us with Staffing and looking at number of students that we can approve on open enrollment once we get everybody registered pre- rodo um days kickoff we celebrated Friday February 16th and I'm very excited to say that my horse Rio got to come on campus and the boys and girls were able to see Rio and my husband and my um stepdaughter came and read to the classrooms and he said that he had been he's been in a lot of stressful situations but he was super nervous waiting to Inner gardeners I thought he was not GNA make it but he did good so there he is on the left and um we were outside on the field you can see our preschoolers were all ready for the day so we even had some roping practice and we had some of the horse and ring equipment set out for the students and there on the right hand side you see Mr maganis he loves Rodeo days he even took a day off from his new job to come hang out with us and I even had to recruit his wife to come help us learn how to rope the dummy as well so once a cult always a cult for sure um our Jazz students have been doing amazing our Jazz and Orchestra students have been on tour as I say they were at the aboda jazz festival our jazz band received a superior with distinction rating which is the highest possible rating and it's the first time in Continental history that they have ever received this rating correct Mr Ferguson yes um so congrats um to our students and Mrs bti and of course um she was turned over a phenomenal program that Mr Ferguson um has worked very hard to build and instill uh so we're excited about that jazz in the desert matina was Saturday and there's pictures there on the right of our students and our Jazz and Orchestra students were off to Disneyland this morning for clinics and they did arrive safely so Mrs weas and Mr Nathan are both on that trip the na Jazz and Orchestra Festival happened during um Thursday Friday of rodeo break so again you see our students in jazz received a superior and Chloe quas received outstanding performer award for her um her outstanding trumpet soloist which is also the first time that Continental has received that award at a clinic as well and our students our Orchestra students there on the bottom left um they played at a nursing home in Flagstaff so I think you know we really are again working with our students to be well-rounded and they continue to be of service even when they're out of town Lions Club presented us Flags to first graders so we really appreciate our community involvement and thank you to our Lions Club they shared um The History of the United States flag with our students and gave them little flag so we look forward to this annual event for our students our gifted ed students went on a fi trip to the biosphere so there's some pictures there um as you know we've worked very hard to identify students in the gifted realm so we do have Mrs Roman romanell is servicing our third fourth and fifth graders and Mrs quas is working with our mle school um gifted student she does have a gifted endorsement but we would really love to be able to get to a point in our budget where we can hire one teacher to service our gifted kids on campus so that's a future goal of ours third grade musical they uh presented Wild things on Friday again thanks to Mrs bti and the third grade team at teachers um it is available on our live stream on our website so I don't just just a little [Music] so um Mrs MTI has been doing this this year how many of you have been to a grade level performance that your children have done this year so far okay so that's just something that music teachers don't have to do so that really is going far beyond the Call of Duty I remember when I was a teacher and the music teacher used to come in and play that real of Sarah spanda Sarah sponda and I thought if I hear that one more time I'm G to just go use my mind um because she is exposing the kids to the ability to to sing perform articulate so there's just so many great things that come from ideas if you have an Enthusiast enthusiastic music teacher which we have who goes beyond the Call of Duty these are the things that we can offer for our students and parents so you see Mrs bti just give her an extra shout out uh PBIS so um of course we you know we are a PBIS school so we focus on positive behavior intervention support so we have started to have monthly meetings with students to talk about building good character to tie in to leader and me so um on the left we had a meeting with Mr Nathan when he really did talk to all the kids about the Power of Words and um what they mean even though kids may agree or the name calling so we had a good conversation with a lot of students here in our community room and then we had another um speaker come in to talk to the students about sharpening the song which is also the seventh Habit in leader and me that I mentioned in our parent newsletter in terms of life choices that you make and decisions and how it starts now um to start to prepare to think about your future and what goals you have eighth graders we're also prepping them for high school so we've already had our eighth graders go visit Walen Grove we've had the high school counselors come to our school to talk to the students we have a few students who are going to saita high school so we had counselors come to speak to them as well and um we have eighth graders that are going to be going to Walden br to take the PSAT test um so again what education is for so we should be preparing young people for jobs that do not yet exist right using technologies that have not yet been invented and to solve problems of which we are not yet aware so when we talk about what we're really trying to do we're preparing kids to have skills and jobs that with technology and the increase in the world there so many people virtual um trainings and nationally communicating with each other it's an exciting time for our kids and we want to make sure that they're prepared for success in high school so again thank you so you see um spring break is coming and you can see that little cartoon where kids are telling their parents schools out entertain us so be ready parents for an adventurous week with your children for spring break this week thank you that thank [Applause] you so with that we'll go on to actually probably the real reason besides the pizza that are all here so with that if you want to start the cult for the month yes and I'm going to have Mr Ferguson gonna help and visiting Mickey Mouse right now what we life boys and girls if you can come line up win your certificate with you we're going to line up with preschool come on up boys and girls don't be shy [Music] all right so what we are going to do is we'll have the students come up you can say your name and you're going to go stand by and Mr Ferguson is going to read all the great things that your teacher said about you okay then you're going to go see Miss nanii over there to get your T-shirt okay all [Music] right say what's your name she can talk much louder than that ay Connor was nominated by preschool we are so proud to nominate Avery as our student of the month she has grown so much this school year she is kind to her peers and a friend to all she is is always willing to help others she uses her communication skills to offer a solution when needed congratulations okay so this is Sophia Sophia works very hard to be kind safe and responsible she is a caring friend she knows and understands how to be safe and she has become very responsible and independent during this school year MX my name is and okay this is this is what mea wrote Ryan is such a sweet and kindhearted young lady she comes to school every day with a positive attitude a smile on her face and is ready to learn and take on the day she follows the classroom rules as well as the school rules she has a huge heart and is always willing to share with others and help others Brian is a wonderful student and I enjoy having her in my class [Music] this ABI is kind with his classmates he looks out for everyone's safety and he is responsible for his work this is [Music] NI we are happy to have Jameson in our class he is kind because he is friendly patient and uses good manners he is safe because he uses School equipment and classroom supplies appropriately Jameson is responsible because he comes to class with a positive attitude he is ready to learn and he completes his work on time every day keep up the great work Jameson this is Rodriguez okay Faith is Cult of the month for February she is kind and caring to all she is responsible for her learning and always takes pride in her work I catch her often just being her amazing self continue to shine Bri Faith this [Music] my Lance has made big improvements and works hard in class he's always safe at school and shows responsibility by trying his best Lance is a kind to all students okay Juliana shows kindness to every one of her peers she is quick to help others and offer guidance when needed she has taken her role in student advisory very seriously and often comes to class offering new ways to challenge Inspire and include her classmates she follows our class class in school rules daily and often reminds others to do the same jul can we can we have all of our uh Colt student Colts of the month to come up and line up in front of this mural while we honor C have cic it's a good time parents if you want to take pictures [Music] too okay here here for next award here okay so I'd like to call up Miss Janelle Miss is she here so um it was a recommendation from our governing board that we um start to celebrate our volunteer of the month because we have a lot of volunteers and a lot of people who are very involved who help us day in and day out and when we talk to the office staff and talk to leadership and AD to say who should be the person to get this award um they all unanimously said definitely this Isel so we appreciate you coming for work at Wednesdays and for just being an overall supporter and member ofc so thank you okay we also have golden our Golden Horseshoe award recipient so if we could please have Miss clisa Molina come on up okay so this is this how many years have you four years she started out as a PA professional and is now working um in our friend office so I know you've all seen her at some point or another um but U Mrs Molina was recommended by her colleagues so we have a Google doc where people recommend um someone for this award and glisa we just want to say that every your colleagues and everybody at Continental really appreciates your helpfulness because there's not anything that we um need that we can't ask Lisa and she never says I don't know she will always figure it out and she gets the information she's very efficient um very good at what she does and she knows parents and she knows kids and so whatever questions we have Miss Molina usually has the answer so we really appreciate you and on beh of Continental Colts we' like for you to have the um our next award is um for the golden Porche award goes to Dr Felicia Robinson who is our new preschool director she um is in Phoenix today at a woman and leadership conference so she was going to try to make it back but I told her not to stress with the traffic and that if she can make back we present it to her next board meeting so I'd like to officially present it to her our next Bo meeting we really your children with our recipients allous pictures thank you well with that I don't know if I enjoy the kids Smiles better or the parents Smiles better it's a really special moment for us as well we always tell each other that's one of the reasons why we're here besides the good pet with that um if you guys W to feel free to stay we probably got another 20 minutes but uh you want to grab a piece of pizza head home and feel more welcome come back and visit anytime and we'll take a two minute break thank youone over by [Music] [Applause] all right we go on with the move on with the consent agenda just a handful of items in there discussion on the consent agenda Mr Lan we'll uh we'll talk about your res later off we'll miss you it looks like what we've all been waiting for the district financial report right on started page one so fortunately this week [Music] you have any questions on [Music] it you guys Pizza Greg is there anything on there that jumps out that changed low budget stuff you transfer you wer expecting there's nothing in there that's surprising those are taxes received real estate tax and there's really nothing nothing spectacular nothing out of the ordinary you go down just a little bit more please [Music] okay so I move to approve the district Finance report I'll second it Miss okay Mrs Le yes mrsas yes Mr MCG yes Mr yes and it looks like we want to use an S of mind to by Mr Ferguson some laptops that's two minutes I'll make a motion to approve the money purchase of laptops for 30277 I'll second it any discussion yeah what's what's s fund what's what's left we got get down to nothing um after we make this purchase I believe there's going to be right around $120,000 substantially it start this fund itself started out at 440 so so we're about two record the way through it by when do you have to use September um when when would you say that we are oneon-one with computers R we are now are they do they take them home or they have to leave them here they Kinder in first grade leave them here second through eight take them home okay and um these are going to be replaced in the end of life computers that some of the eighth graders have have had their computers now for six years okay and and it's not just eighth grade computers it it's those it's the Chromebooks that are no longer Bank supported by Google so they're not going to be getting any security updates or anything El like that so they're just at the end of their used to life what are you doing with the old computers well they don't serve us a purpose so most likely they will go to auction okay we are looking at I know that they're um in the past they've allowed the students to take them for like a dollar okay or $2 dollar so that's something that I want Mr Schubert to look into so that we can have offer them to the kids to take home I know that there's a nonprofit in Tucson also a week here Tucson and they take the electronics and they do a Tech camp during the summer with them too so I just I was curious for that reason so looking at this they're roughly 4 space more or less uh they were two so there's more in this than just the purchase of the laptop it's the Google education upgrade it's the U the carrying cases so it's it's all inclusive so you're getting six years out of these things well um am I okay to talk right now can you just come to [Music] the so the the the devices that just went end of life um I I believe we had we got about six years out of them they were the g5s that were purchased um uh with a um I think it was either a large donation or large large brand um there's approximately I want to say 150 of them that're they're going end of end of life um what Google has done is that uh they they've they've extended their support life um up to 10 years um which is great except it doesn't help us for the you know roughly 120 that are currently still serviceable that are no longer receiving updates right now so that's all that's only for new new devices that were purchasing um when I when I looked at how many of our devices are going end of life and when they're going end of life this is uh this this is the last big group that that's going end of life until I want to say 2027 2027 I think there's a group of 40 devices but they're still working the batteries are working I mean I'm so shocked at a $300 computer besides all the software and the update stuff can actually function that long yeah I mean they're um kids the kids are hard on I know they are they are hard on them these this this particular model was was very easy to repair I mean all the times I see my kids pick it up by the screen I'm sure it makes you cringe too yeah you know but they all do it else okay V please Mrs Le yes Mrs Amar yes Mr M yes Mr yes now a discussion item to discuss the the M the reason we're discussing it now we're GNA vote on it next so with that so we had um Chris aerle came and presented to the Metta Reserve HOA meeting in where he explained and Laura was in the meeting as well and I think um he ex he was able to explain the plan to rectify and I'm I think that we will be able to justify to parents and help them see the separation between the tax bill versus an override and um so I think it's going to be all in the way we message it um so again we just need to talk about whether we're going to do 15% or 14% with a reminder that if we say 15% if we say 14% it'll be on the ballot as a renewal if we say 15% it will be considered a new overright so we would have to message it appropriately to let parents know the difference remind me what that one% it's like $40,000 is what it means to us also makes a big chunk of people saying no to also that 1% oh yeah that makes a big difference yeah I and as we um discussed um we talked we talked to Paul Olen and I think he had mentioned when he was on the phone with us that we could possibly survey our parents to see what they would want and if they would vote but Mr a and I were kind of talking about that additional expense and is it really do we really need it or can we put in our efforts into just messaging it um appropriately in this day and age every additional expense to anyone is not appreciated everything is going up everything so and with that in mind like when we were talking with with um Mr schuber I don't know you want to say what you were talking about in terms of our one shot deal to so so where we're at in in the renewal cycle this is our opportunity and this is our best opportunity as it we are going up against the Pres with a presidential election so there will be a larger turnout to vote on this on this matter um but this is our one shot to actually increase it from the 14% to 15% now granted that's only an additional $4,000 but that's going to help you know that'll bring on another pair of programs you that's a that's a salary that's you know A Gifted a part-time gifted end teacher you know so it's so it's 40 a year yeah and if it doesn't pass we still have another we can do it in 20 election of 2025 at 14 whatever at whatever we want but this is our one shot with a large election coming up with a large voter turnout expected to Move It from the 14 to the 15 and and and we do we run that risk because when we when when this goes marketing out for it it is a new override versus a um Contin a continuation of an override that may yeah but the different but the the on the other side of that is is that if this doesn't pass the following year we can still go out for a continuation a of an override of 14% if we don't feel that we can get the 15% pass and that's the first year of the reductions or following Years first the year after that the first year so we're kind of doing a year and and I think um Laura correct me if I'm wrong that in the discussion with the homeowners and the way Chris was presenting it saying that we really do have a pro-education you when you think about the overrides and bonds that were passed in with saita and with Sunnyside and with Morana and the districts that right now are pro-education so really saying a lot of times on the ballot people will see school and say okay not just that's my theory people are going to look at oh tax no or they're gonna look at schools yes or I don't know and Skip and granted we our history is mixed and he also explained to them at the ho meeting that he the next year's taxes since they prepaid they basically prepaid this year's taxes so they're not going to get that double tax for this year either it's like they paid their car ter or their car taxes for two years their housing taxes for two years instead of for one and I think when you think about it because I know people in TD were talking about the taxes that went up with property tax everything's so much more expensive everything went up so taxes did go up substantially but I was saying look at what it what you what it went up in terms of school funding for TD and when you break it down into a daily rate what is it a dollar a day okay so can we afford a dollar a day towards public education I mean it would be kind of that level of messaging right when Laura I know you were comparing it to I did I asked yeah that's what I asked because he kept saying you know your taxes went up 43.3% well to me that seems like a lot but I'm like I don't recall seeing that on my tax increases for my own home so I asked him to break it down to a monthly and he said for a house of two2 200,000 it was $12.50 a month so I'm like that's two cups of coffee at Starbucks you know most people can afford that granted most people don't have more expensive than a $200,000 home but I hadn't break it down on a monthly because that seemed less expensive to me than 43% it's like when we break down the data percentage wise versus actual number of right to even $25 a month if you doubled it seemed less expensive than 43% for some reason 43% seemed like a a large increase and I and I think when we look at also our tax credit donors like a negative you know our voters that are still donating the tax credit amount of money that they do is phenomenal and amazing and I don't think that we've seen a a decline per because of the whole property tax right but when you're out there get trying to get this P the people that are against it they they're going to out there voting too so when I was out there getting this approved I had a lot of people um talking about how they didn't want their taxes to go up and um so it does matter these people did go out there um to vote for against for this and what was the percentage rate that it passed us Ian what was was it a large percent or was it just you know 54% I mean I I didn't know what was the percentage of passing was it 57% lost by one too prior to that was by one vote I mean and and it would be since we're at a time where we're going to have three board members also advocating their for their seat at that same election that we could have more of a a push as well for override election I think if you spin it you could say well you're paying for the override alone now you're paying $20 a year you're going to be paying 22 it's not a dollar a day it's minimum 1% of what the override is well if you take 40,000 divide it by all the constituents that's what it is which is you're having to remind these people how much they're paying already right I know that's the and and then okay well you're already paying 20 and it's really only a handful really pay attention and it's like I said before the ones are going to go no taxes I'm a no and all this crap I don't know what it is and other ones they look school fire blah blah blah all this HOA people here they knew exactly how much they paid they did everyone of them they you could have asked them how much they paid for their and how much they they know I I and and I think that since we are really minimum wage keeps going up it keeps affecting our budget our dollar is not going as far as it used to go so I think I mean in my mind in terms of operations and you know keeping up with inflation and keeping up with minimum wage and that compression and being able to um I mean we weren't able to provide raises this year so I really feel that this could be our one shot time tell them really want 25% very costly too remember it costs a lot of money a lot of fundraising to to do this and and it's gonna be a lot of work if it doesn't get approved and to do it again you're yeah and and you're G to be tapping into the same people for money and next year to you know if it doesn't get approved to help out with this over right it's the same people that you guys are going to be asking for m so I think it's like anything we can't go into it thinking that it's not going to pass um we have to be willing to do the work to to make it possible and I think we did the financial state of the district so teachers also understand what we're up against so we are going to have to really get our teachers our parents that our teachers who have children in our school and who live in our area to to help us out to vote and to help us out with you're so hopeful the campaign I know don't sorry they don't v no they don't help push this do they feel like it's a conflict of interest though I mean it'd be like me going out saying I want to increase Medicare rates I mean because I don't get paid enough you know I mean well it goes back to our messaging and and our committee I I talked to our parent advisory group too and they're willing to help and one of them was willing to um to to be the chair so I think with our PTC and our parents that we do have our foundation newbies who have joined us I think are yeah our go-getters so to so we need to sleep on it till the next meeting y so well if we're voting on it for the next meeting I will have to have um resolutions and everything else prepared for you guys so I need to know what we're looking at whether we're deciding to the 14 or 15 but we could still do it in May right I mean we're not if or April here I thought it was the vote on it in April and then you can get your resolutions based on the vote well we're going to try and get resolutions to you next month but if that's the way you want to go that's what they can do what's or just Prov or have both and we approve one of the other copy cut paste no the L you the document you're talking about basic language of the document it's a percentage difference I mean you have to provide the numbers but you don't you don't necessarily have to do that until it submitted correct I don't have to do numbers until we start putting together pamphlets what what what everything that we need to have done is from the from the attorneys make sure everything is up so May's okay or May's too late is it too late I don't think it's too late it's getting it's getting it's it's shutting so Friday we have our volunteer breakfast I'll have all the staff and a lot of community members who are volunteers I think it'd be a good time for us to PLL and and maybe talk about it and and ask the teachers and say you know we are really going to need to your help and support and get a feel for if they're going to be willing to help us get this through with the ones who live and I just feel like the work Contin the way it is I mean I'd like the 40,000 a month believe me I I love that but I just think that Continuum is going to pass I just feel like you say nothing's changing that that' be easy to pass rather than tapping into it two years in a row that's my personal opinion I mean I would love an extra 40 Grand a month for you guys too I just feel that this economy is on walking on eggshells in the moment and I'm not saying I'm I'm not sure I have strong feelings either way but I would vote for the 15 but I don't think my neighbors would yeah I don't know I don't know what to say it's just a well maybe maybe you need to talk to your neighbors too and just get a feel so that we have more of an idea because before when we call for it that's when you know we have to back away and let the committee do their do their work so I think that we can well the reality is is even if we wanted to we can't make a decision tonight it's not such yeah so the the soonest unless there's a special meeting called would be is this March April right anyway right yeah how much choice at this point unless we call separate meeting to do right so so I think maybe we talk about it and and see what get a feel for what our neighbors are saying I'll get a feel for what staff and teachers are saying I'll ask all my neighbors ask all your neighbors the council will vote Yes there isas and then we can okay so we're gonna vote on it next time whether it's 14 or 15 I mean preferably but if we're not I said we we need to vote on okay yeah so it'll be the standard prove the motion and then we'll approve let's just say we approve 15 and then if that doesn't win and we have to go for another vote to approve 14 okay I believe would be the right protocol or vice versa or didy then amend the motion something 15 doesn't 14 like continuing I I think he's talking about the vote you'll do whatever whichever one pops up gets nominated for yeah you make a moot whoever makes the first motion you like it or you don't it doesn't you can if it if if it votes down it dies and someone else can make another motion and it would still be withinin the posted within yeah I just want to make sure follow the guideline right or Robert rules so as long as you have in the uh in the agenda that it's to decide on 14 or right as an option so we'll just be careful all right I think we thank you and the board meeting so everybody's seems to be cool with the second Tuesday of the month with a couple exceptions only still working out okay okay so that's just a discussion item yes and sit back she's going to read the whole Community engagement policy that's just a discussion item right discussion so we'll make that a consent item next vote for the what you for the board meeting dates okay okay so the next um item is just discussion and information it's a first read of the districtwide family communic community engagement policy this is something new with title one as you know our Title One funding um covers parental involvement and parent engagement so as people in the state department change and policies and expectations change so this was part of we are in cycle one so every year they they put schools in different Cycles you go through the process I believe there's six Cycles um six or seven Cycles so we will get a visit on like cycle I think in three or four years we'll get a visit but in terms of what happens is every year I have to input stuff into Grant Management into emac to show that we're in compliance with all that title one requires so this is a Title One requirement to have the districtwide family community engagement policy so um it's there for you to read this is first read we will approve it and put it up for vote for next meeting six pages come on now it's only six pages and everything that it um discusses like where you see we put in our monthly board meetings our parent Communications via newsletter Class Dojo our Title One um Family nights when we do family science night math night literacy night art night all of those are part of Title One family engagement um activities that we have to demonstrate that we do um our parent advisory committee our parent climate surveys so I just included everything that we do already into the this policy template and what we will do with this is give it out um during parent conference time and during meet and greet so that parents understand we all we used we already have a compact which those of you who have had kids come through Continental know that it's that annual um parent student teacher compact that says the teacher will do this the student will do this and the parents will do the following so this is in addition to um so during the AG greet we'll get the Compact and the policy okay okay thank you you're welcome that takes us to events so you said this Friday is the U volunteer breakfast yes what time is that 9 o'clock in the morning in the cafeteria chicken chicken chicken Chen Fri steak so you are all invited we hope that you are here um so that we can recognize because you are volunteers and it has been in our newsletters and it has been in our events and I believe that no we're elected officials always wanted to say that yes you are elected officials so o' um for breakfast so please come join us thank okay all right um do do you know when the talent fair is by any chance the what the talent Fair the talent show the student Talent it's in May okay no that's fine I just Olivia 17 May 17 favor since you have the FL if Mo on our discussion oh wait I bring up so we get out here by S no I think I'm good thank you that's not the right date but it'll be around that 17th date that was last year's La Okay so seventh here show sir that's my Mr Lane sir I'm not pleased that you're leaving but I wish you the best thank you I appreciate don't don't forget about us poor souls here when you climb the ladder of success remember about us remember us little people when is your last day April 19 I I appreciate what you've done for the district thank you and Mr N Night also appreciate what you've done and he has the he's put a lot of systems in place and things are ready for us to operate between now school year we starting next school year on Monday we're ready he's ready to go already so thank you and we just as you saw a centage item was a raise for the drivers did you see that you don't know how long we had a sweat so with that we'll take a quick break there's only you have a predecessor to send have a predecessor to send our way yes and [Music] no sorry behind disted you know what that is oh that's true [Music] S no it's water from the only the best come back in minutes yeah wish I could a [Music] couple didn't a nice get like this [Music] um right that's it we areour at 7 even 7 powerful

e I all right we win as noes good evening to everybody we're going to go ahead and getting started the crane school district understands that our community of schools is located on the ancestral land of the oam jimam people who descended from the hokam and have inhabited these lands since time in Memorial the oam whose name translates literally to people are a vibrant culture in community sping countless Generations into the past continue to thrive in the present and carrying a powerful Legacy for Generations into the future with this acknowledgement the Katon School District formerly recognizes that the traditional care in keeping of these lands by indigenous people is an aspirational model of community stewardship that we are committed to honor with practices policy and human relations and with that Dr dupin do you mind leading Us in the Pledge of Allegiance please I pledge Alle to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation God indivisible thank you with that brings us to roll call we have everybody here we have Miss Gibson McLean Miss SS myself Miss MC cheffrey and miss miss Caleb and we want to welcome everyone to tonight's meeting and remind the audience of the request to um request to address the board cards that must be completed and submitted to the board secretary if you wish to speak to an agenda item those cards can be found over here to the left um board policy provides for two cards White cards to be submitted in order to speak to an agenda item and blue cards to be submitted in order to speak during public comments due to the open meeting law board members are not allowed to address items that are not on the agenda and that's part our policy B e DH and with that that brings us to the approval of our agenda I move the governing board approve the agenda as presented second all those in favor I perfect and that brings us to governing board reports and Miss MC cheffrey you want to go ahead and get us started just um real quickly I really enjoyed going attending um the Katon kids Congress a couple weeks ago um and getting Fe feedback on our student outcomes Focus governance from the students um uh they were a little quiet and shy in the beginning but then they really warmed up and um were their feedback was um invaluable I would say and I'll talk about it more when we get to the sofg part thank you Miss MB yes um well first of all almost made it through quarter three um good luck at parent teacher conferences and I hope everyone has some relaxation and self-care time scheduled for Spring Break um I wanted to take a minute to share a tough decision that I recently had to make um some of you that work in cronar in the role I'm in I am Esser funded and so I am currently faced with a what's my next step next year and so I decided to apply for my PhD next year to start doing it next year and I was accepted um yes it's very exciting that being said um I know that a lot of my classes will be evening classes and I won't know from semester to semester what my schedule will be and as I got more information about the program I realized that I will not be able to commit fully it will be out of my control and there's a likelihood I would miss a lot of board meetings so and I'm trying to not get emotional but um so with that um I am had to make the decision that I'm not going to run um for my for the next fouryear term that being said I just want everyone to know how much I absolutely love this district and I've been a part of this District in some capacity for the last decade um and you're not getting rid of me Jay will wrote me into some committees and things and maybe doing some research in the district um so but I wanted to make sure that the board has a Clear Vision going forward we've done so much amazing work and I just knew that knowing that I will probably have conflicts I couldn't commit to this so um also by next meeting I will also be married so I have a lot of life changes happening right now thank you uh Miss SS yes I'll make it sure as my voice is still not at full capacity the sickness has really been kicking my butt personally and it didn't really help that I went to a concert this weekend and I tried really really hard not to scream and yell but I can't help but sing along it's Dave Matthews I knew you were gonna say what can I do I knew you gonna say day Matthews Noah con it was amazing um so just enjoy your break um I think I'm probably going to end up sleeping for like half of it because I'm just so exhausted um so I made like no plans really um to do anything so enjoy your break and um I hope that you get to do something fun and relaxing thank you Miss Gibson McLean um we just had you know we're still chugging along on our student conduct committee honestly we thought that the uh dress code was going to take a lot more time than it did uh we really just breezed right through that and I won't say Breeze we had some really good conversations um and it's really interesting to see how where all of us are at um and you know we all have different perspectives on things and so it's really interesting to hear everybody's perspectives and see where we're at on that and so one thing that I will mention if you go back and watch and you look at our policies I'll just make this transparent as of now you know we have a district um dress code policy and there is a uniform policy however it really it really delegates the um guess the implementation of what the What the uniform looks like at a school or if there are even uniforms to the schools themselves and I I know there's been like a little bit of a misconception over the years that the district has a districtwide uniform policy and so I just want to bring that to folks attention you go to our policy you'll see that it's actually you know kind of left up to the schools themselves and so that's something to take note of um and uh so we had a really fruitful discussion you can go back and watch that um and see our disc discuss on that next meeting we are um I'm blanking it's a big topic Yeah March 18th yeah yeah it is March 19th but I'm I'm forgetting jic I think but I'm trying to remember remember what that is yeah not great we just know the letters um it is a big one so pay attention to that I think it's if you go back and watch our video we discuss or watch our video of our meeting we discussed it at the end um just a reminder we have public comment at those meetings as well you're welcome to come attend in person or watch online um and so yeah we don't have another meeting until after um after spring break and yeah I mean on a personal level just uh I also went to a I went the day before because I love Chris Stapleton I also went the week before and saw the r chili pepps I am a concert person um luckily it hasn't interfered with these meetings very often so good the food Fighters responsible for that um so yeah and they just going swimmingly at work and then I also you know it's the legislative session which has also been very interesting to be in the middle of as well and so just ready to get to like a place where you're in the roller coaster of these things that's not so slammed because I have like three trials coming up now so yeah happy to be here it's always a a step outside the normal to be here and it feels refreshing even if that sounds strange thank you I don't have a governing board report so I'll differ it over now to Mr Man thank you very much Madam president um so I am going to start off by sharing um that it is women leaders month and so I you know kind of looked to my right and realized I have the Good Fortune to work with five very important women leaders um and we have a lot of very important women leaders in our district in fact one of our agenda items tonight will be about potentially adding another woman leader to our district so um so I just you know as I've thought about that I think I've shared the story with a few people and I'll try to keep it brief but um was very close with my maternal grandmother and when I was a kid um one of the things that she always told me was that she would always be very proud proud of me but she'd be even more proud of me if I helped women break glass ceilings so that's always been part of my lens as I've worked my way through my career um getting to work with these five amazing women leaders that lens has grown to a broader spectrum of equity than just um you know doing that to help support bringing more women into leadership roles and so um I guess I kind of wanted to leverage women leaders month to she's passed but to give a shout out to my grandmother for setting me on the right path all those years ago what was her name Jay her name was Gert it was one of those good oldfashioned names so and um and then we there is an item and I know I'm getting ahead of the item but this is just a very touching story so um we have a donation that's going to be on our consent agenda and um I kind of wanted to read this letter that went along with the donation because it has to do with um sort of the dedication in the life of someone who was who was one of our staff members for period of time and so the letter reads excellencia of school is requesting permission to accept a gift of 40 plus pairs of shoes and socks to be distributed to our students through the Welcome Center this gift is from The Truman family in loving memory of their sister Terry Truman we had the privilege of having Terry on the excellencia campus as a long-term substitute this year and she was preparing to transition into our Middle School Ela position she passed away suddenly a few weeks ago Terry retired from teaching only to return to the kids and the learning she loved she wanted everyone to have a good pair of shoes so her family and friends wanted to honor her memory with the gift of remembrance and share it with the community of students at excellencia so I just thought that was too touching and important not to to share that with everybody and you know it makes me think of again there's another example of a woman leader but it makes me think about how hard and how dedicated all of our staff members are to supporting our students and our community so as others have already expressed take some time for yourself the spring break we're always very busy filling the hearts and souls of our students and um please take this time to regenerate spend some time with family do what you need to do uh to fill fill your bucket so that way um you're not coming back after spring break working from a deficit and that was all I had to share this evening thank you Mr Man all right that brings us to our student outcomes Focus governance Tab and this time I am super excited because we're actually going to have some Benchmark data that we're going to be sharing talking about um before we get into that data I do want to share a little bit of community council um meeting that we had and also the site Council meetings that we've been having at some of the schools we started off with our community council meeting on a Thursday and we brought the student outcomes focused governance framework to the community and it was really neat to see um different community members parents even Grandparents were in the room saying that they were really interested on what was going on and they've been hearing these kind of different things so that's why they decided to show up and thanks to Loma Linda for hosting us out there um it was really great to see everybody engaged talking about you know the guard rails the board goals and getting the really the feedback because one of the most important things that we're doing in the district and adopting these new goals for the first time is we really want to make sure that it Envision and encompasses what the community wants we have to work with um together with the community and our staff to make sure that we're um giving the best outcome to our students because at the end of the day that's what we're all here for right I'm up here because of the kids I believe all of us are staff speak of the kids and we just want to make sure that we they have all the support and resources so um we got a lot of feedback so that's what we're doing we kicked it off at the community council meeting and then last week I along with um Mr Man and Miss htis was able to accompany me at some other cafos we were at excellencia we went to Mackin and we were at Loma Linda again to give those parents that weren't able to go to the community council meeting in the evening sometime during the day like they usually have their coffee seos and it was a whole bunch of other parents and community members that came to those so it was really neat to see that and have these conversations um we had three um different families who had just come to the United States for the first time and for them to for us to get the feedback from them was really neat because they were saying that for the first time and being in an unfamiliar place and knowing that they're prioritizing their children's learning even though they don't speak the language that made them feel really included and like wow you guys really know what you're doing and it was just so cute to hear you know a parent say that like it it was gratifying that we're kind of working together in the same way so um I'm not sure if we've gotten the feedback yet or when the feedback will be shared with us because I know we have a couple more um schools that we have to go to some of it's attached yeah it's in here okay yeah perfect oh yeah I see caito's feedback so this is some of the feedback that um we can go over and look I'm not it's been on there so I don't know if you guys had an opportunity to look through it but for the majority of the part you know a lot of the guard rails they really thought that that was an important thing and the important feedback that I'm that keep carrying back is that everybody feels appreciative that they know where the district is moving as a whole now they know what the goals are now they understand how it's going to be measured and I think that's one of the most important things about this framework is now we have the vision once we adopt these goals we'll be able to discuss this and a fluid conversation going back and forth on where we at what's working and what's not working what changes need to be made so out of the comments or the feedback that you guys had from Community Council or from any of the site councils you guys have any questions any feedback remarks thoughts wonderings so I was reading through the caco notes you said that was just from Friday three different schools it was three different schools um I just thought it was interesting um some of the feedback that we got back was mostly about like behavior and teacher raises and yes some of that does play into some of the goals that we set but I wish it would have been a little bit more streamlined to like our goals and not things that sometimes are out of our control like teacher raises um and I think maybe that's a conversation that we need to think of start start having with our parents um as to how that whole system works because I don't even think like some teachers really understand how racis and things work um I'm not sure that they know that we don't get like an unlimited amount of money and then like just say oh you're going to get this much or whatever um and I think it would be great to have like parent advoc along with teacher Advocates to go down to the legislature and um advocate for those kind of things because I feel like they want them but I don't feel like uh it's necessarily something that you know we always have um control over so that was just kind of the one thing that I was looking at when I saw it along with of poorest behavior in schools which I know is being discussed in that committee y um yeah and I think what part of the feedback for those is because part of this framework is like yes the board has their five goals that we're going to focus on at the district level but those to us as board members are more the Academia portion of it right like what are students learning what are they not what's working what's not when it came down to the guard rails I think that was really important for us to hear because then we in return can set up the system of saying hey you know obviously our community things behavior is a huge issue that conduct so then we set a guardrail for superintendent regarding you know conduct and then it's up to them to come back and tell us within the intrm guardrails hey you know this is how we're going to start working towards conduct is it working is the CGA working is the new curriculum that we just bought on social emotional learning working and that's I think the beauty of these kind of comments because now that we're kind of hearing what the majority of the community wants we can come put it as a guardrail and then have our Administration and our principles work back with us and tell us hey this is how we're going to be following this conduct this is how we're going to make sure that it's lowering getting high I don't know what that looks like but I think that's what's so cool about this kind of feedback and in one of the um cafesito that we had that actually was a really good point that was brought up because the first question I asked was hi I'm the president of the governing board how many of you guys know what the governing board is nobody raised their hand so there's a very big education component there too and the ptos were so excited to even because I told them if you guys want to have a PTO governing board 101 then that's what we can do right we can do US sofg 101 at the PTO level so those were some conversations that we're bring brought up to and how we can mobilize our parents to to help us because part of this is too is having these conversations with the community because when we empower the community of what's going on at a district and they feel empowered in their students learning then that's when they get activated and in return hold us as the system that's telling them that we're going to take care of their kids and we're going to have them produce when they go to high school this is how we do it the more parents and Community more know the more they can in return come back and say hey no you said that you were going to do this what's going on with my kids math or what's going on with my kids Ela so um I just love this and I know I get super excited because I I love to hear this feedback and I want our parents to know and feel or Guardians whoever it is that's the caregivers to feel empowered and that they can work together with us to get these um outcomes and results for their students any other comments questions anything um Miss yeah go ahead Miss MB well I was just gonna comment um I'm super happy that we kind of paused and then circled back to do the CAF SE I'm sorry I haven't been able to make this round of them um but I really really enjoyed Community Council um I we've talked about sofg at prior Community Council but I really felt like a lot of the misunderstandings that we saw in the previous feedback were really addressed and the conversations at the tables were so rich that we really went over time um sorry Mr carbal um but it was worth it you know it was really valid deep just it was really amazing to listen to and and some of the concerns that I heard brought up about some of the goals um were concerns that we had shared too and things that we had grappled with and being able to provide some clarity on kind of you know how did we get here because not everybody's been able to watch or attend every single meeting right um so I just thought it was a really really valuable use of time um and looking through the recent feedback I think think I'm starting to see that Clarity come through and I'm starting to see alignment from more and more people um which is huge because that's the ultimate goal here so um I just it's a really exciting process and to see it all really start to unfold um but I think definitely like you know continuing to follow up not just caitos but PTO and and what are the different touches we can do and we talked about you know getting in front of the teachers and things like that um I think it's just going to keep that momentum going yeah and I think that's one of the most exciting things too because even when we get these progress monitoring once we're at that level we have to go back out to the community and tell them hey six months ago we came and asked you your feedback this is what you said was true to yourself this is what we're doing and it's this continuing relationship and commun two-way communication between us and the community it's up to us to let them know what we're doing to make the system work for their kids so they were really excited about that because they're like when do you guys ever come and tell us what's going on at the district level and I'm like well now this is when it's happening and continue yeah Miss mcrey yeah so I just wanted to share what happened um at kraton kids Congress we don't have the notes captured from that right we have them they're not available in the materials tonight we absolutely could get those out okay I'll just share the things that were highlights to me and um those of you that were there especially Mr Man please chime in I'm going to share the story that you told without using the name y um but so two big I would say the two issues that the kids had um and there was one young lady who really had an issue with the present of eth grade black students that score proficient on aasa math and so what do you mean when you say had an issue she I think was offended by calling out black she said do not call out race or ethn ethnicity and another student said they're not calling out ethnicity they're just calling out race you know I mean you know it was a really great conversation but I said look the reason my takeaway of why we chose that is because it is so unacceptable to us that it is 0% um and Mr Man um is so good at phrasing it in a way that we don't think these students are failing we are failing them there's something we are doing wrong as adults that this is happening so we want to fix it um that was not good enough for her um um we didn't get in this depth of the conversation I you know there may be opportunity to do this moving forward but she may identify as a black person I don't I didn't ask her that um but she she's like I'm not going to be the maddest person about this by the way away um and so you know at first I was like well we're not going to change you know in my head I'm like well we're not going to change it but thank you for your feedback and I have been thinking about it ever since then and she was obviously it bothered her a lot and I shared it with Mr Man and he shared another story with me saying well that and he overheard a couple kids saying well that means that Kevin didn't pass math his math thing so it's there's a privacy issue too because um we know who the we don't know but the students know so if we're calling this out that means that their friends who they think are black is all public though on the ad website okay that's what I'm saying like right like there's no way to hide it okay so us having this goal isn't hiding or like exposing anything is what I think I was wondering how because I had heard at the conference that um other districts are doing who goes on the ad website looking at all this in their free time who knows but yeah it ain't us the students yeah so my takea away from it was you know I don't want to unintentionally contribute to um a stereotype you know um and make kids feel bad about it so I think it's something we should think about and maybe even bring the kids back and you know have a deeper discussion about it um and then the other one was um the percent of third grade El students that score proficient on a Zella they thought that was too high of a goal because um they think the supports for those students who are trying to learn English is not enough um and so um you know the group's answer to that was like well then maybe we need to increase the supports and not lower the goal which I think is absolutely right but I think it also means that that's something we really need to look at and the student who talked had so much insight into that that I had never heard about um it's just these kids are really struggling and it's challenging being in Arizona where you're not I mean I don't know that teachers really know what to do in this situation when they have so many kids that are learning English so but the kids really recognize that it's a it's a problem that we face so and and I think they were saying it's mostly I mean it's people coming me they've just arrived at the country so it's just um they recognize it as a huge challenge thank you and I think that brings an important um conversation too on the long road on how when we're speaking to our students too because it's different when you're talking to students and adults and bringing this data on how we got it and why and how we process things right but it's also um a good conversation to have with their youngs on how systemic issues are started right and for us the only way that you fix issues is where you go to the most directly impacted and and that that's in any in any scene right it's not just race or job is you always want to go to who is the most vulnerable and who is the most hurt and who is the most that doesn't have the support and resources so I think when we bring this information to our students too because they have such a different lens our our our dialogue with them has to be very different from when we're out in community council and just saying well this is it because their understanding of they're looking at it like oh my God my friend of course they are because they're looking at it a child mentality basis so I think and this is really good feedback that when we're are having kids Congress maybe we're bringing this information to them more on a at at a their level that way they're not feeling that and why we brought this too um part of this process is not just giving Community Information and saying this is what we think is good good is how did we get here and why so we're all on the understanding of this is what we have been doing that's failing a a certain demographic or whatever and this is what we're going to do to get it to what the space that we need to so those are good conversations that maybe we can reshift our presentations when it comes to the student portion of it and I'm not sure it even needs to be reshift it I I think they they understood it and they wanted to talk about it and it because it's about them you know so um I really felt like there was a there was some feeling of offense you know um and and that troubled me um so I just think we need to be careful because it's yeah it's us from from up above saying this is this is how we're going to do it and they're like that that's not how we want you to do it that's not how we want you to look at us you know right thank you any other yeah I have a few things one um which I um had already brought up at the previous meeting um we need to have these cafesito times at least some of them all of them are still inside business hours we have to have something outside of business hours I can't attend any of these I'm sure there's plenty of Guardians who can't go to anything that's not outside of business hours I do understand that there's a lot of people that work nights or that are at home or like this these times do work for them but I'm considering workingclass neighborhood there's probably a lot of people that this does not work for them at all so I just want us to be cognizant of that um and then also getting more notice out about the dates and times of these events um I think some things that I noticed uh that I wrote down is make sure we're covering our roles within these goals I think there's maybe a few disconnects and this goes to like laying the foundation when we're doing these presentations is addressing like you know here's the board here's the District administration here you know kind of going going through and saying well we're setting these goals but the board is not the one who then is deciding what supports right it's going to be up to Jay to figure out if he's Implement like how he's going to implement these goals to get us there right and so I saw a few comments where it seemed like maybe there was a disconnect in understanding exactly what everyone's role is in achieving these goals and so that seems like something that we could do better at um I would also encourage folks because it seems like there is a disconnect and understanding how we came to these goals um I it's we can do a better job explaining and if you really want the detailed version our study sessions are online on YouTube go back and watch it I know it's not that entertaining but if you really want to understand why we came to certain issue or like certain goals and we've had it's not like we just you know closed our eyes and put our finger on something and decided it we had a we had robust like conversations about these and so they're not just from like willy-nilly like let's just set these goals okay so please go back to our YouTube if you want to understand more comprehensively why these goals and then the very last thing I'll touch on is kind of going to um you know some there I mean there's some qu some feedback in these as well as what we're hearing from the kids Congress um I think Sophia is like right on I when we have those um issues be brought up we need to like step in to the um actual issues which are the systems which is race-based conversations and so like have it's like stepping into those without walk stepping around them and in our reasoning and why we decided on these goals right I think it's hard to not address I mean of course there's going to be a disconnect especially if we're not addressing those the systemic issues uh the historic issues Behind these goals and that sort of thing and um and and that's something that we need to start being very comfortable stepping into I don't know I know we have Equity work in this District but um if we're not comfortable having like stepping into race uh race centered conversations where we're decentering whiteness and focusing on some of these things that's going to be difficult and I'm coming from working in Portland Public Schools where I was in a program called courageous conversations around race and I was a facilitator and that's something that we'd probably get skewed for having if we had it here in Arizona at our school district but like that's that's kind of like the school like that I'm trained in and so when I hear a comment like that we got to step into the discomfort and explore that that conversation in that moment and not let it fly like not let it pass um because now we have a kid sitting there that maybe doesn't have the full picture and it's still feeling frustrated or confused or doesn't you know what I mean isn't feeling like things are resolved and that's another element that things aren't always going to get resolved right but I just want to make make sure that when these issues do come up that we're explaining them in the best way possible and giving as much uh context and foundation and the appropriate topics in those as well and so I think that's going to help tremendously um you know it might not fix everything but I think it's a start yeah and one of the things that I'm going to wrap up with this before we get into our actual Benchmark data is that this district has been built since 1884 and for the first time since 1884 we've adopted District goals that have something to do with this so it's new language new everything and it's going to take time then I think we're going to get opposition we're going to get well what do you mean what does this mean and as we continue going through this having these conversations we'll adapt more to it it's a growing face for everybody so we're not going to have it you know perfect right off the bat it's really really hard to move institutions especially when you've been doing the same thing for years and years and then you throw in this new thing and it's a reshing of funds it's a resif of administration and it's a whole new mindset as well I mean one of the biggest things that we're adopting right now is student outcomes don't change until adult behaviors change and that's really putting the the blame not the blame but the the responsibility back on us as adults in the rooms with students from the governing board on how we present ourselves as board members to the administration to the teachers to the classified to everybody you know in the system so it's going to take some time this is why I think it's so awesome that we have this feedback and yes I do believe that we could be a little bit more flexible on time but those caitos have been standing for a long time so a lot of those community members already have that kind of system set in in mind in Mackin the other day had 65 parents at their cafo I'm saying maybe said 65 parents that's so exciting we don't call it a capito maybe we have an actual outside event for this person I showed up to a caito at 2 p.m.

Mrs Wilson will you do the roll call please miss Lorie wood here Miss Sheila ug jetti here miss Ronda pige here miss Jill humph here Mr Chad Thompson is not present Madame President you have a quorum thank you Mrs Wilson we will move to uh 3.01 um appointment of Lucas Blackburn as the principal of Gilbert High School for the 2425 school year do I hear a motion I move that we approve Lucas Blackburn as the principal of Gilbert High School for the 2024 2025 school year thank you Mrs Humphrey second second thank you Mrs Paige it's been moved and seconded that we um approve the appointment of Lucas Blackburn to Gilbert High School all those in favor please signify by saying I I I opposed nobody 40 um 3.0 two appointment of Scott Smith as the principal of Desert Ridge High School for the 2425 school year I move that we appoint Scott Smith as the principal of Desert Ridge High School for the 2425 school year thank you Mrs wood is there a second second thank you Mrs humph it's been moved and seconded that we approve the appointment of Scott Smith as the principal of Desert Ridge High School all those in favor please signify by saying I I so on a 40 vote and 3.03 the appointment of Katrina as the principal of Burke Elementary for the 2425 school year do I hear a motion and I'm going to move that we appoint okay Katrina I got your name right this time do I hear a second a second thank you Mrs Paige so it's been moved in seconded that we uh approve the appointment of Katrina Gru as the principal of Burke Elementary for the 2425 school year all those in favor please signify by saying I I so on a 40 vote and Welcome to our new want to have come up yeah yeah yeah um if you Lucas if you'd like to come up and say a few words there's a microphone you can just pull it and then we'll have Scott come up and and then Katrina well thank you to the board thank you to Dr McCord and uh just the whole Gilbert Public Schools family um I sit up here very humbled uh with this opportunity um I don't take it lightly I'm very excited for this I it's uh it's it's a wonderful opportunity I'm so excited to get working on this I know I still have some stuff to do over at Patterson Elementary and I would be remiss without saying I you know really thanking uh the Patterson Community uh going to be really going to miss that place quite a bit uh so a lot of excitement a lot of mixed emotions but uh once again thank you all for this opportunity and go Tigers thank you Mr Black Scott I just want to say thank you um to the governing board and Dr mcord uh for giving me this opportunity to be the new principal of Desert Ridge High School um I am super excited um I also want to thank Brian e principal of Highland High School who brought me into Gilbert public schools and uh got me into Highland High School as an AP and and my wife and my son that's here in attendance to just their support throughout this whole process um I got to tell you I can't even express how excited I to be at Desert Ridge High School and leading that high school so thank you again thank you and your son has a nice haircut what's that your son has a nice haircut correct no he uh he's do okay Katrina think 5 minutes Madame President governing board Dr mcord I just want to take a minute to thank you for this opportunity I am honored to be sitting here tonight um with all of you um I am so excited to start uh at Burke Elementary um I know we still have a lot to do to finish out this school year but I am so excited for next school year um I want to also just thank my family for their support and my journey and I also want to thank uh Miss Julie auster who has um really supported me in my career and who will be phenomenal in her next Endeavor as well so I'm just honored and thankful for this opportunity and um I'm going to say go Bobcats thank you um we we will take about a three to four minute break for anyone that wants to chat with our new principles and thank you very much this is one of the fun nights being on the [Music] board you to see that's are we ready to come back to our work [Music] study thank you I'd like to call the work study to order 4.01 um we will move to five presentation and discussion topics 5.01 instructional time model plan for online students at Global Academy Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board member if I could have Miss Long come up as well as Mr oh Mr Ryan will introduce somebody for you is that correct yes come on up Mary I'll turn it over to J here good evening Madame President governing board Dr McCord um we're really proud of the work that's gone into Global Academy in recent years and as you know um a tremendous amount of effort from Mary and her team and a number of other people who have spent time with global Academy and trying to figure out the best way to connect with our community and support during both trying times as well as now just supporting students in their lives that that um need an online format for a variety of different reasons um along with that comes um different times that we make different decisions based on uh what the model actually looks like and how we can best serve our entire Community as well as all the campuses in the district as a whole so um Miss longan is here this evening to talk with us about what the plan is moving forward I know some uh items have been shared with you prior to be able to review and so able to answer any questions related to those so I'm going to turn it over to her all right thank you well thank you for saying all those nice things U Madame President members of the board Dr mcord thank you for having me Mr Ryan thank you for um sharing that and that nice introduction um so I am going to be my briefest my briefest of brief because I like to chat and so I will give you exactly what you need to know but happy to answer any questions that you have um about four years ago is when I started working with global Academy and from that time on we were um kind of tasked with looking at what this would look like as we moved out of that time we don't talk about into what do we need how do we support our students and um in 2021 during the 2021 22 school year or just before it um Governor Ducey introduced a bill that became part of ARS um 1591 and that's the text of the law that's just in front of you and what that offered to um schools and Char charter schools and districts in the state is the opportunity to um organize a portion of their schools or districts under um what's called an instructional time model allowing flexibility and the school district basically the local agency was able to determine um this constitutes the learning that is needed for this class and so that could be something like Project based learning um and it could also be something like online learning and so this is something we've been looking at consistently over the last few years to see whether or not it would be a fit for us so um just to give the briefest of overviews or the highest level of overviews the governing board is allowed to um go through two public readings of a program and in that they um State and adopt what um an instructional time model will look like in terms of how we will um determine ADM how we'll determine who's present each day and how to count attendance um and what the student count looks like and so we've gone through a process um that I'll share with you just um as an overview to be able to um see what that that would look like for us at Global Academy can I ask you a question yeah absolutely the state law that you're referring to here is that just secondary no it's K through 12 K through 12 absolutely yeah great question um and so through um our annual instructional time that's required we can um develop a plan and different districts across the state we've studied what they've done to inform what we could do and then thought kind of outside the box and at the Glo uh the gber public schools level right because we want to be the best at what we're doing um and so that can be any combination of direct instruction Project based learning Independent Learning Mastery based instruction and with that becomes um um online instruction as well um and so the school district and a governing board can Define that in terms of um a combination of in inperson or remote instruction um the caveat for um remote instruction is that it can be up to 40% of a student's um total instruction all time so um that is a if you think of the number of uh student enrollments or course enrollments at Highland High or at M high or any one of our schools up to 40% of the students total time can go to that so what we've done at at Global Academy for um definitely the past three years as we've kind of seen um our numbers go from very high to a little lower to really stabilize the last like two and a half or so years um we've watched what's happened we've looked at what the the needs are of our school district and what our our mission truly is and we're supporting um our sister campuses um students who are partially online and partially in person sometimes evit and Global and then our full-time online students um and as we do that and we look at some of the factors that go into that including accountability and funding um this is the the model that um after lots of thought and lots of work that we decided to recommend to the cabinet and then bring um for your consideration so what we would like to do is um shift Global Academy So currently we're um organized as um an aoi Arizona online instruction and we have a school entity number um and we would like to shift that into an integrated program so similar to Canyon Valley but actually more like vik because every student would be enrolled within um their home campus their their home campus but all of their um courses and all of their programming on the online side would still continue to be handled by us and so from the student facing side from the parent fac facing side and and the teacher facing side um very much would be almost identical and they might not even notice um the shift but what we want to do is be able to establish them as full members of both communities um what we would do is um the enrollment line would be tied back to the brick and morar campus um and we would continue to op operate the global Academy side as that community and that home base for the full-time students um for processing all of the like unique um oh systems and processes that go in and we would continue to how our online teachers evaluate them and continue to grow and make sure that the online courses we're offering are um commensurate with what is happening in our buildings um and so that is what we would like to do um our current model um as an aoi um we operate as our own school and have for for as long as I know of um and that means that we have our own grad rate and we have our own accountability rate however because of the way the state um model Works only our full-time students are counted into that so that's a big challenge because that's less than 10% of the students that we see every single year um about 32 3400 um this year and last year we've had and um right now we've got about 320 full-time students so that's about everybody else has kind of a combination of that um we looked at a number and we called them alopops but we had about, 1500 alopops last year meaning gilber Public Schools graduates that took at least one Global Academy class so um when only 110 or 108 of those kids are counted in your grad rate and our mission is to support students who might be slightly off track or or even like have had some significant challenges in their life and have like just a different plan it becomes a bigger amount of that pool of kids um and then when we look at having them attached back to their home campus it is five or 10 per um Campus of you know current seniors um and maybe 30 to 50 depending on the size of the campus that we would currently have in our entire um 9 through 12 group that would be attached back to those campuses um and so when we have a handful that are off track it it is absorbed into the great number of students that are on track the other challenge that we have is the accountability measure for um for academic growth or academic proficiency so in this past year if we just look at the um model for high school um the measure that we had was our ACT scores for our Juniors um full Academic Year is something you'll hear um talked about when we look at which kidss are counted into those academic scores and in a brick and mortar school that's anybody who is there from October to after testing time um and in an online school they have to accumulate um I'm going to say it wrong Peter's watching and it's either 900 or 600 minutes and uh it's cuz it's upside down um and there we don't know how many have those minutes until June 30th so on the day of testing we have no idea which kids are going to count as full Academic Year because whether they came to us in July in October in February it could be that they accumulate that many and it could be that we don't last year we had 45 students test which we were super proud of we were ready to go drive them and bring them to us so we had a good percentage Jo join us only 12 ended up representing our entire High School score so if they do great it's great and if they are the ones who might be struggling a little bit more then um that affects our um grad rate or our I'm sorry our total school grade in a different way this past year we had elementary junior high and high school included and um our our school earned a c um and yet that c if you look at that portion that represented High School just as an example was based on 12 students and we helped support 3500 so the benefits that we have here are that we're tying um our students back into our brick and mortar schools um and they are able to be part of that Community but able to be supported by us if they're fully online or is if they need to transition in and out at different times of our lives and and our students come to us for many different reasons um but those who need that would continue to have that support but then in terms of enrollment um they are counted in and as long as they digitally raise their hand on the 180 days that um the regular schools are in operation then they may work still anytime anywhere um within the country um between the first day of school and the last day of school um and so that will still offer a lot of flexibility for our families um but with that piece we then are able to um capture up to 100% of um the the student rate so that's um one of those are the two biggest benefits um right now it's up to 95% and then it's based on the total minute count like so the percentage of that total minutes um is our percentage of student FTE there whereas this is a straight if they come in they part of our um program then we're able to count them um what we have done is we have kind of um sketched out what it would look like on campuses I've worked with um Ryan um Nelson I worked with um we've worked with um Joanna katenzaro our admin team I've checked in with different people here and there and so the differences that would happen would be that there would be a handful of things that we would have the campus staff be part of doing um and we would set up trainings to make sure that they knew exactly what pieces those were but all of the tricky online pieces would still continue to be filtered back to our campus so that we can maintain Integrity in our courses we can maintain um our system and um keep kids going on the right track um but of course working with campus staff to make sure that um we are supporting them in the best way possible and and really working on a collective mission to keep our schools um moving forward in the right direction and and um you know just meeting all the goals that we have as a district so um that is it in a nutshell what your next steps would be if this was something that um you thought was a great idea um is that there are two total reads and I think that if um if you were um in agreement that the next two board meetings um would be where there would be a public read and then upon that vote it actually is in effect um and so if there were any things that we needed to preemptively get ready for the following school year that is all part of the law and then there's a summary that is submitted on the Arizona Department of Ed's um site it's not an approval process they say that if governing board um has agreed to it that they just take it and it is there um and they hang on to it um and then after that we would go through and start the work of getting everybody organized in the right direction making sure of course our families knew what was going on and how we would continue to support them and that on the back end that all of our um principles down to attendance um Specialists all the way through would would know exactly what to do and how to support our kids so that we could just keep giving them um that uh individualized and uh kind of customized learning that that we are so happy that we can give so that's it what questions do you have the one question I have is the so the full-time students are there full-time students that are not in our boundaries there are some um and so what we had I don't know how many off the top of My Head by and large the the greatest majority are um with our within our boundaries mhm um but there are a handful that are are outside of the boundaries right now so they would be attached to one of our schools though um correct so the ones that we would um be kind of bounding in um we had talked with um I talked with Marcy and looking at following what AIA um rules say and attaching them to the closest school possible for those that would be kind of grandfathered in as already part of global Academy and um on the right track anybody who was applying to come in um My Hope and our hope as the team that we were working is working with um um the high school principal group to ensure that the practices they would follow to bring in enrollment would be mirrored by us so that we were on the same page Following also the the direction of um of you guys that's good yeah so I think mostly mostly this is to meet the needs of student our students because I think for a little while we were talking about maybe this could you know serve the whole state maybe this would be an entity to itself that would but it feels like it's kind of settled into meeting the needs of our students and finding ways to you know let them have the flexibility but also the opportunities that we can mostly basically students that are within our boundaries are already attached to a school yeah you're correct I think in the past couple years um things have settled into somewhat normal um and as that's happened it really has become a Gilbert centered place um not all of our um surrounding districts have a um an online school and so I mean I think there's some opportunity to share communities um we have some families where they're U multi- or double household families and so there could one that's in and one that is out but mhm you're right it has really become more of a community support okay thanks yeah thank you I just want to say how proud We Are of what you and your team have accomplished over there I remember when distance learning was across the street in the strip mall oh wow and it was two people maybe one and a half and it was it was peace mail together and it's just matured and become something that we're very proud of so thank you for what you and your folks have done we apprciate it we have a great team and our teachers that I mean some of you may have experienced the teachers will chase those kids because they do not want to let them um fall behind or or lose them at all and so um we're excited about what we get to do to help what I what and I got to witness this when you had a meeting with your staff and and just them sharing the the ideas the things that they do with their students I think if if you guys want to see that sometime Mary will have you over because what we think I think online learning is and what it actually is are are two different things it blew my mind and I just knew that our students were getting a great education so thank you well that means a lot thank you very much yeah and Mrs humph came and visited one time too and did it was great to have her and and um just show off a little to you too yes it was it was wonderful but um let me go back to this did have a couple questions so um just to clarify we only have about 12 fulltime students that aren't connected to a campus is am I understanding that correctly that that when we get our grades it's based on those 12 students is that oh I'm sorry I understand what you're saying so in last year's calculation just for high school so as an example just it was a complicated algebra problem because I don't even know if it was algebra but they took the metrics for elementary and the metrics for junior high and the metrics for high school and made this big math problem that also included variability for um proficiency and growth and then at the high school end the grad rate um the dropout rate um subgroup C so that part is much more complex but in terms of the academic score the the high school math and um reading proficiency scores they were based off of the the 12 of 45 so we had 45 Juniors test okay we had 12 of them that had enough minutes to be full Academic Year uh because of the nature of Juniors transfer over at various times during the school year and so we may have had a 100 that were enrolled we had about 60 that were enrolled at that time we got about 45 of them down there to test and then of those 45 only 12 of them of them earned enough minutes by um the end of the year and that's based on when they transferred in and how many minutes they were able to ACW by that time um and so that that was just one measure just as kind of an example okay so the the other students that tested but weren't counted in that accountability score were they already tied to one of our schools so when they're not attach when they leave one school and go to another then they kind of um their scores don't attach really to anyone and it's it's really to prevent or to ensure that the school that has the student for the greatest amount of time is accountable for right so if uh in a brick and mortar school if somebody moved in a week before testing whether they had amazing scores or not so great scores um it wouldn't necessarily be that schools uh work that did that right and so that's what that full Academic Year ensures um but in the online world it is it is kind of a crazy calculation and so they tend to come to us in the middle of the year when something interesting happens in their lives and so because of that they don't necessarily have the ability to have earned 12 full classes with us 12 full semester so those other students just they're not tied to any campus they're not contributing to that measure okay yeah okay but they're they're still not tied back to correct say Highland High or Desert Ridge correct they're just kind of orphaned I guess well we adopt them really fast but they're not in that number for sure yeah okay okay and this is an effort so that we're not because we can't have an accountability score for 12 kids right I mean and we serve you know U on average just over 3,000 students per year over the last few years um and um so we would love to be part of what all of them are earning right um and so it's a little bit simplified to say 12 of them got us our whole grade but that also means that that um if if our school has its own grade that it is calculated at the same rate at the same weights as all the other schools when we go into that District GPA and so that has a big impact when we're only measuring a tiny group of students okay yeah okay I think I understand it better but thank you and if you have more questions too I'm happy I mean come visit give me a call you know okay so well I think this is the best way to I think it's great too because it helps even our brick and mortar schools again let's keep accountability right the more people that we have working to gather and help and then you'll still keep I mean you have the list of all the things that you guys do to also keep them it just gives a few more people helping that student and again to have full funding for that yes that helps a lot to be able to provide all the things that we're providing absolutely and then again I think it's I think it's in the best interest of students to have this as things have evolved I think this makes sense to in the best interest of students going forward thank you so thank you yeah thank you for all you're doing okay so I had a couple questions just so that I'm clear yes you have 320 full-time students that are tied to their homeschool correct currently our full-time students are tied just to Global Academy as a a separate School entity okay so when you're talking graduation they're graduating not from their home school but from Gilbert Global Academy you'll hold your own graduation ceremony we do not hold our own graduation ceremony um so right now global Academy is a 365 Day School which means every day is the first day of school and every day is graduation School a graduation day we had to graduate on Friday okay um and he was actually early we put a cap on him a gown we take pictures sometimes parents come in we have a bell they ring we make a big deal we put that g in the transcript um and so they graduate that if they want to participate in graduation um we uh attach them to either their home school um or um mosqu if they're out of District but that is not for accountability or graduation rate purposes that is just for the ceremony okay so with that said is your goal to grow this even like larger or are you trying to maintain close to this status I think we've found homeostasis I think we are where our district needs to be but I think that our truly at one point it was bigger and bigger and all of these things were happening right now everything we're doing is supporting the mission of the school district and the mission of our sister schools or partner schools and so I would say that uh we would want to kind of maintain what we're doing do it well and if there's a need to grow in a certain area we have a lot of kids that take social studies with us um but if there's a need to grow in a certain area if there's a way we can Pro uh provide an opportunity or partner a different way um then we would certainly love to grow into that okay um my last question is um how involved are you with the uh career counselors and the counselors on campuses at these high schools to kind of steer some of these kids that might need a half credit like in help to take one of your classes online um and take advantage of that because I think we could um untie a lot of kids' schedules if they were to even have a half a credit during their junior or senior year so how close do you work with those counselors very closely and I was on the phone with one of them this morning and a different one on Friday and so uh they know they can reach us at any time um but we like to have our um our practices really closely aligned um each year at the end of the year and the beginning of the year because at the end of the year our brains are busy with certain things at the beginning of the year with others we go and kind of do we call it our road show um we show them all of our procedures there are um uh aptitude kind of measures that we can share with families to say if you're really good at these things but maybe not these practice this before you do online um they have little flip books with QR codes so families can scan right away um and then anybody who is um uh concurrently enrolled um any when they apply to us the um family goes through does a little paperwork the student does a um a uh course request and then it's shipped right over to that um counselor so that counselor is approving it because they're ultimately in charge of their for your grad plan um so we're we're very closely tied um when we announce anything I will share it with principes and with counselors and um they have all of our numbers and we we work really closely together and that's what we want to do is we want to be the ones if there's a problem we've got some sort of way to help yeah yeah like if there's a senior that's a half a credit short before graduation that needs to get something done we announce it and announce it and announce and we go here is the day and then we also have reports we're running that go back to all the counselors every single day so they can see anybody who's in danger or has like wandered away for seven days or more um and so we are we are definitely wanting to do whatever we can to help kids cross that stage awesome thank you so much yeah thank you so sorry I have one more question is that okay okay to oh so will this change you said Now is it going to be tied to the school year or will you still be able to off for like the summer school or will we still be offered able to offer the um continuous enrollment great question um the school year will start on whichever the first day of school is in July July 20 whatever it might be um and then students will be able to continue their classes through that last day of school um and then if they would like to continue during the summer after this year they would um do summer school so they would enroll in summer school if not they can pause their classes and pick them up the following um school year to Mir online summer school calendar right yes so that would be a little different for a little bit different okay but there yeah but there will be an online summer school offered yes absolutely okay thank you yeah okay so just remind me again how many we have about 350 students who are full-time how many um students are taking a class or two or how many classes are being taken by students at you know some of them are doing that at the campus um so total humans okay to date so I say humans because um like some of them take one class on campus and five with us and some take five on campus and one with us right so we talk about total human beings about 3,200 32 3,300 um about 15,000 enrollments but those are semester classes ours are semester so we are we are busy busy bees over there MH yeah yeah that's classes that's semester classes right so everybody gets 12 a year all the things you referring to in terms of counselors working with one class two classes one semester a full year it's constant it's in out completion done it's some students that are just EV and then us so they're we're their only school because that Transportation piece it's fun good stuff that's a lot yeah that's a lot more than I had anticipated yeah there's a lot of there's a lot of moving Parts it's exciting yeah okay it's really an aw awesome opportunity for kids to either get ahead or make up yeah I agree yeah okay any other questions all right thank you all right appreciate thank you for this opportunity to chat with you thank you thank you well thank you because I couldn't have gotten all of that from the presentation I needed more come by any TI I'll share whatever you like okay all right thank you thank you thank you we'll move to 5.02 fiscal year 2023 uniform system of financial records usfr compliance questionnaire Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board member I have Miss maton Miss torsa here uh Miss Betts is out of town uh but they've got this no problem they're going to be presenting the you suff for questionnaire and uh or the usfr and this is something we we do it every year and so if you'll look down on some of the action items um well it's there for your approval as well so uh as as was the previous one in terms for the instructional time model so I will turn it over to miss Matan thank you Dr McCord governing board members um as Dr McCord mentioned we are here to present the FY 2023 uniform system of financial records compliance questionnaire uh before we start I wanted to again introduce Lauren toska she is our budget manager um she started uh just at the end of last year so these results are not her fault all eyes on me this year um but we are we are make sure they're better next you're saying but we do want to celebrate this is um excuse me a great audit uh cycle we had a great audit um no findings on the single audit and a very successful compliance questionnaire so shout out to my team for that so have to turn it on maybe got it there we go so um today's report will we'll go through the results of the FY 2023 uniform system of financial records or usfr compliance questionnaire and we'll talk about some of the best practices that we've implemented um to minimize future findings so before we get started I just wanted to remind folks that this is kind of the the final piece of the audit annual audit cycle um in January we presented the annual comprehensive uh Financial repor or the AER which is the districtwide financial statement and also the single audit which drills a little deeper into federal funds and um overall financial management so this is the last piece of that um FY 2023 audit um the usfr is a state document issued by ad and the auditor general it's kind of what I call our Playbook if you will it's kind of our the nitty-gritty of our of our day-to-day work um so this is really exciting for me I know um so but the auditors come in and they examine they're there um remotely at least twice and on site at least twice and they examine thousands of Records um related to finance um even payroll HR um transportation reporting it is uh it is quite a heavy lift for them so we'll get into the some of the details so this year we had 171 yes or no questions and it is yes or no there's no maybe or sort of or sometimes I wish there was that would be kind of nice um but we had 10 no answers or areas of non-compliance out of 171 uh which is which is great we had um uh finding and accounting uh deposit timeliness student attendance after the fact so we'll I'll talk about some of these um as far as accounting we had a a a coding error which happens we've got you know so many so many records um and then deposits we are required to make deposits Within 5 days of the receipt um this one was late due to winter break so I was going to say it came in and we left for for winter break and then we took care of it when we came back so we needed to have taken care of it real quick right and it was safeguarded at the school um and I asked them you know can can you wave this and of course no the law is 5 days so um but before every break we remind the schools to make sure that we we get the deposits in we did have um some findings in student attendance which is um pretty pretty common year-over-year um the withdrawals were not entered within five days there were some overstatements and understatements of absences um and then we had uh one after the fact which means the items or Services were received prior to a purchase order in place um and then one thing that's not on the slide here I wanted to talk about a little bit technology the section in the usfr compliance questionnaire and technology has grown um quite a bit probably doubled or tripled in the number of questions over the past few years this year um thanks to John calano and his team we have won um finding and technology and it's it's actually our um Finance point of sale software it does not time out so we are working with our um InTouch vendor to make sure that we can get that timed out after a certain period of inactivity any questions on those okay uh we wanted to show um a graphical representation of our findings now um honestly the the usfr compliance questionnaire has changed over the years there were more questions in 17 and 18 um but we certainly um are improving so I wanted to share that in a in a graph well I'm I mean you're talking about a few items out of probably Millions right millions of entries and so less than 10 I mean I think that speaks to our efforts to really um be careful in our bookkeeping and in our training of people because um you know as one person said mistakes happen that's why they're called mistakes right right and for a district this size to have 10 is is um pretty fair so um so we'll talk about best practices that we've implemented uh Financial processes are consistently reviewed and updated one of one of the ways that we do this is um as Miss Betts and and Lauren and I prepare for the monthly financial report um we you know kind of scour the general ledger we look at expenditures and encumbrances um and so that that is one of the ways that we that we view our um financial situation also uh just to note that all requisitions come through Finance uh before they make their way to purchasing so that is another way that we can verify coding and budget um there is ongoing training for staff and for finance staff and school and Department Staff last year we implemented um kind of a rolling cycle of um training modules um we had uh trainings in purchasing Finance um timekeeping or payroll and also in I Visions we had we held about 18 trainings and we had about 250 employees attend so it was really well received um we communicate deficiencies with staff so one example is an after theact purchase so if a if an employee makes an a purchase and then uh creates the purchase order an a notice is sent to the employee and to the supervisor and then student attendance trainings are offered numerous times throughout the year uh we also uh Joanna Canton zero and Kim provax um with our student information um system they implemented an internal audit last year and it was really quite well received they audited um I believe believe it was 18 elementary schools and their goal was a 97% accuracy uh rating they on the first go round they weren't quite there when they went down for the for the second um review after some training um most of the schools hit that 97% so um it was it was very well received and I think this the attendance Folks at the schools appreciated the support So as Dr McCord mentioned there is an action item uh the usfr now requires a roll call acceptance so that um will happen at the in the action items that's all I have for you any questions thank you for all your hard work you're welcome my pleasure really appreciate the effort put in that we're we're doing much better and uh I mean we weren't doing badly to begin with we were doing well to begin with but we're doing much better and I appreciate that hard work to make sure that we're accurate in our reporting and our recording so thank and I'm just happy there's somebody to gets excited about this thank you I do I know nerd alert your job is extremely difficult and and it I don't think people really quite understand on the outside just for the mere fact that you have to make sure that we're in compliance with everything and everything we do runs through Finance uh no matter what but and so I know you have to tell people no you have to give them bad news and I know that sometimes that that doesn't go over well with certain people and and I just need you to know I appreciate it because if we don't hold that end of our of our district tight everything else will loosen up and we'll just be all over the place so I truly appreciate what you guys do every day so thank you thank you let me let me just say one thing too I I liked how you said let's celebrate 10 findings because that is awesome and but I really loved how you said we're taking those we're putting processes in place we review and make sure that whatever the finding is that we say okay how can we how can we look at that and better improve so that we won't have that next year and just your example on the attendance that you'll you're taking the time I know it's many many employees the attendants is is offices throughout the whole district and many of them turn over at different times you're trying to do constant training and I appreciate that you're taking it seriously I liked that internal audit and I I'm hoping you guys will continue that and just keep again assisting supporting all that you do to help all the employees and and keep us in on track and accountable so thank you guys you're welcome thank you thank you very much thank you we will now adjourn the work study and reconvene the brief board business meeting do I hear a motion to reconvene the meeting I move to reconvene thank you Mrs Humphrey second second thank you Mrs Woods um all those in favor please signify by saying I I I opposed so on a 4 Z vote we are back to our brief board business meeting and we'll move to 8 point um 8 to8 consent agenda items Dr mcord I believe we have an item we need to remove correct correct I would like to remove item 8.0 2 certified uh professional exempt support staff hourly support staff and substitute Personnel um this actual item was um inadvertently um uploaded with last week's uh information and so the request is to eliminate it okay so do I hear a motion to approve the consent agenda items as presented with the exception of 8.02 so moved thank you Mrs humph second second thank you Mrs paig it's any well no just um all those in favor please signify by saying I I I oppose so on a vote we accept or the consent agenda items we'll move now to number 9.01 under action items advertisement for public hearing on fiscal year 2025 instructional time model Global Academy and do we I think we would like to a motion that would approve the advertisement correct I move that we approve the advertisement for the public hearing on the FY 2025 instructional time model for Global Academy thank you is there a second second thank you Mrs humph um is this is the other one is the role call or is this one no the next one the next one okay so all those in favor please signify by saying I I I opposed so on a 40 vote and we'll now move to number 9.02 which I believe would be a do op the fiscal year 2023 uniform system of financial records compliance questionnaire do I hear a motion so moved thank you Mrs Humphrey second second thank you Mrs Paige and now we is there any discussion about it we just talked about it if anybody both of these things we just discussed our so okay this one we do have to do the roll call though correct yeah Mrs Wilson will you please do the roll call Miss Ronda pagee here you have to say hi i m michila ug jetti I Miss Lori wood I miss jel hre I Madame President all board members voted I thank you Mrs Wilson so I that's been on a 40er vote roll call vote we'll move to adjournment of the brief board business meeting do I hear a motion so moved thank you Mrs wood M pa okay she beat you too thank you Mrs Paige a second second thank you Mrs humph all those in favor please signify by saying I I we are adjourned thank you than

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mode does not have a time limit unlike others we're just waiting yep and it seems that the first uh round is starting let's go introduced me yeah the guy in the this loser is this loser is late you know yeah what a loser I'm here for the player for the player perspective of the varsity team and subbing in for me we got Aiden galanis hey no last name last name Aiden G he is a g no last names all right looks like we're going for uh kind of a semi diable brawl poke mixture all together all at once it's weird um mostly it's mostly braw I've always been wondering what is brawl and poke and all brawl is just like up like it's just like up front just going in and just smacking them so think of like Dive Dive would be like dive yeah just one target all at once you focus fire really heavy you have like mobility and poke would be like like Sig like like a Sig and Ash like that's usually the main twoo that you see they're just people that they don't do big damage but they do just enough over time to like just like slowly get you lower and lower cool like so yeah just got like a three-man Boop or something and we and we missed it yeah good job to Caleb good job we didn't even see it he it's so laggy it's so laggy it's it's all good well I'm the game is breaking what I'm hoping to see is mac and Aiden do a do a combo get a grab and then wait do they have Nano no playing Anna Caleb doesn't like to play Anna for AR Genji it's very sad but it's all right did he get another Boop kill he got another Boop kill that's crazy here it comes oh he missed don't you also play Genji yes nice play I play like everyone on every role it just depends on the day I I can't play Genji at all gen Genji is like he's like he's like probably the hardest to learn like mechanically like besides like Tracer yeah I could play Tracer I think Genji's also pretty good this met right uh yeah he's I I know D like a lot stronger there's there's a lot better options for what he does that people can do better Noah already having artillery wow yeah um it feels like they're trying to go for a left push the uh enemy team but it it seems like they can't even get past front gate just yet yeah showing why we're the number one seed yep we're just better no we go here no we go here yep Noah popping it oh the dash but he still finds one did he get the Zen I can't see can't tell no he got like a turret or something oh yeah he got a sub thing going with wheels trying to find a pick overwhelming let's see oh he can't knock him off with the back on the Doom making quick work on the Doom yep punching going for Soldier Cale having SRI he gets it I think what sound Barry or Lucio's Al we've got both of our support alts here so if pressure gets too big then fine which we're at 99 so just going for aop does he get theop on Zen he get Zen and Zen is like one of if not the best character right now he's like insane going back in Solo Red Shell get him Red Shell oh wait get him and he gets the sold right at the end of the game wow no that was Aiden G what all right and we're going into our second round of control so this going to be a completely different map part of it like almost like a sub area mhm see all all of our beautiful players all in the dark got to BR now bringing their best Reinhardt oh no he's feeling honorable Max feeling honorable let's just hope they don't bring a B I actually played Ryan at State my sophomore year on this exact map H really mhm and they won because they're good at the game and I was gapping them cuz I was doing the corner Tech the the In-N-Out but nobody plays Ryan anymore so it's kind of sad he's still my most played character dude I love Ryan so much it's this meta he's just so bad okay they already have point and they have a Sig Sig is actually pretty good against Ry um from what I'm seeing uh lville has like the better like counter picks but they'll just have to play their utility right they just need to just I guess play right skillfully making quick work that first fight chilling off his pixel spray got Caleb on on the brig which we don't usually see him play at least for ma for matches we got a lot of diversity here yeah I I I I don't even think Mack has locked Ryan for like a while I've never seen him play Ry even in comp so getting the Genji yeah Max about to have shatter get shatter going back to his tank Roots where's uh I'm ready for that fan where's Noah at I can't see uh Noah's a little bit farther back yeah going for the shatter soon let's see waiting for him to walk in give him one getp up oh he has Discord so we could just saving it saving it smart smart he might be trying to wait for Noah to get artillery so they can just nuke the team nope oh wasting it um he's honorable going around to everyone oh actually fun story from my sophomore year Mack killed a mercy on Reinhardt and he teabags her and we got a whole talking to about it cuz the M team was upset and then he was like we were just dancing your sophomore year was it uh most of the people who are on Varsity right now uh yes it was everyone but um wait yeah yeah it's everyone but uh Chris yeah Chris and Chris was on one of the varsity teams that was like a whole mess we we went many different yeah I remember and uh when whenever the thing started I was in seventh grade and at that time Mr Brooks was the head coach and uh I would always talk to him about it he said after switching a few M uh just a few of the members around the vars team just played in like just way more better yeah or no it was like JV got a few other members from varsity and then they started playing way better than Varsity that's what he told me if I remember correctly so he was I remember always talking about it alts coming out Chris still has yet to use his window I think I don't think he's youy yet but it seems like they don't even need it yeah we do pick up the first round nice all right so coming up next is going to be the ES esort map and I'm just going to go off the page um escort is almost like um the same as like the push map which is this the triple Boop that you were talking about yes yes oh my gosh one two double Boop yeah but then I thought he got a third one maybe no I think it was after guess we'll never know okay but we are going into circuit Royale for our escort map um escort is basically you get this pay load you got to get it from point A to point B there's two checkpoints in between uh each checkpoint you you you get will get you to one point or or one point more and then you get three for the total so it's basically just going to go whatever team attacks at first which means that they're going to push it and then after that round they're going to do the opposite and they're going to defend it all right let's see what we got going on I've seen oh nope I was going to say I've seen Caleb playing a little bit of okay we're getting uh more way more of a dive heavy comp here wait is that we got the reaper Diva Zen Tracer is on tank he is yeah he's he's playing Diva or my okay no hece locked in the tank now is he he's going to orisa about to see that is he is he going to be a Spartan just like you D maybe what do I hit my javelins yeah you're Spartan talking to her yeah the person in the background you that you guys can't even see you you guys don't even know who we're talking about she's a bul just waiting for the round to start up here you have a name tag now yeah you have a name tag whoa whoa whoa they did something special just for you coaches looming over spectating no pressure I don't think I've ever heard of Caleb G about to open in three seconds I didn't even know Caleb would like willingly play tank is this your first time seeing this too oh he he wants to play everything it's just that everything doesn't work so we get to have fun it's just everything doesn't want to play him like like like when we're in quick play he'll play like DPS sometimes yeah I've seen that and I remember I think it was your last game or the game before he played Sombra yeah that was the last game our last Quick Play yeah but M terrorizing the backline some might consider this toxic according to the coaches what just I'm not GNA say what I was going to say did you see that match where I was on Reaper and I was just in their backround yes I saw that trying to get a pick aen G he's not Kinder what do coner plays Zen yeah he plays Zen he he's amazing better than her well she is the mercy man and she doesn't even play mercy she doesn't even play mercy she plays Anna and Carrie sometimes she plays just getting melted oh my good Lord oh my Caleb does wait no no I'm wrong never mind he he no he he has Harmony on him got alt coming up here soon uh we do have TR and we just got pulse bomb pulse might come out here wege doesn't get a stick Noah doing some ancient Tech I don't know what that is what's he trying to do Mac one one HP I want to see what Noah's trying to do so Noah's trying to just get another position I guess on the monkey now chilling we have I think every every up but Max and Noah's we have window see if we get a window here soon oh Trans coming out we want to make sure we don't use more than one here yeah overheating overheating who is that Sombra they have a Sombra now probably for Mac most likely Mac trying to find the pick on her she TPS away Caleb having Discord on him so if they play this right Caleb can just die any Zen orisa oh there's popping trans okay uh that's uh that's a oh that could be big oh no and then Diva bomb they used Al like most of their alts right there so basically when you when you play Zen into orisa they didn't really do it right here um the the the the the lville Lancers but um you but you usually want to wait until her shift her fortify is gone and then you want to discorder yeah and just so it's way easier to pick off the kill bluon still winning the fight there though yep com what was that Noah picked off the Sombra they just was that tire maybe that just jumped over there m getting the damage in on De Diva people always unrest me and he gets the stick yes people underestimate just how fast Tracer can just get rid of a tank's Health I've also seen some like Tracer Tech where if you're on a soft wall and you look like slightly to the left or the right it looks like you're uh blinking that way uh no alss from our team yet oh fast pick there from the Bastion seems like it's um three to three oh Noah picking off most of their team then Mack getting the junkrat good teamwork Caleb going in round one complete they got zero so now we're going to move into the second portion of escort which is basically it's going to be our team defending this time and all they have to do attacking sorry and all they have to do is push just a little bit further than they did yeah and then we'll secure the win for the1 me yep oh no Caleb DA's going malga oh he going Maui he's going with the funny malga man he's going with the Samoan Maui um seems we got seems like we got more of a poke comp here Maga is like the Poke tank with burn effect you guys should do the uh like a full on like like Maui comp malga far and just like just like look up a Maui team comp cuz I no cuz far for the chicken that feels wrong to call that a Maui team comp why just just something about it okay not like that I know what you're saying I think oh my goodness Mac is on torbjorn the best character in the game he's on dwarf man Mac doesn't agree with me but torb is a lot like echo in the function where you can just stand still and shoot through one angle and get head shots and kills what what is Brig doing Brig you were not you're lost Brig ma Caleb going in going in junkrat on the floor dead Caleb with the two-piece gets wed off May slams him Mac looking for another pick oh Weaver disconnected going in room oh getting smacked by Mac that should be it Noah showing off his little tich his little rocket jump jumpy jump Rocket Jump and then the Cyber Tigers secure the second round all right we have one One Singular round left yep yeah oh are we getting um oh that's are we getting Aiden to fill in or staying okay I guess we just have a live mic yep you want to you want to join us I can do it for five minutes all right she's joining us for five minutes deserve thank you so I go yeah I'm want to go to the why hi I'm the weird person they were talking about yeah yeah this look at this bozo look at this nd I'm the best Bozo look at this nerd she did do my hair though I did and his she did she did mine very quickly which I was very reluctant about I I did not want that to happen Dom stop flexing stop it you're not that strong wait a minute I swear I swear to you not on stream oh it's gone dang are we having Caleb on the quidd maker on the quiddle maker oh God Noah he's he's going to do malga the funny malga man funny malam man it it's Bastion just on steroids he's playing ryanard ryanard we all took German I'm taking German these bozos took German yeah you guys should take my German final for me deal it's not that hard it's really it's really not that hard running around the spawn room what are you do stop messing with it Caleb shooting his teammates thank God there's no friendly fire in this game if friendly fire was no if there was you'd be killing us all the time yeah yeah I wish I am Travis 17th reason just shut up they don't need know they don't need to know now they know actually you're my 14th now but now yeah I moved up in the world oh God I'm getting a text that sucks maybe stop getting a text get off your phone my mother's coming to grab me oh wait grab you like physically gra oh yeah she's physically going to drag me out of here you'll see it live we should cut that when that happens she'll grab me by the Scruff of my neck anyway we got Leon on the Zen back back on the Tracer pushing the bot yep we have Leon on Zen we got Caleb on the whdd maker we have and we have Noah on Ryan I've never I've seen him play malga but I've never seen him play Ryan before who Noah Noah yeah I've never seen him play tank I've only seen him play Basher yeah he knows how to play May too he could play M I think he could play Tracer no play Tracer yeah and I've I've seen him play May a few times M laar getting in there let's see did become uh she got launch yeah funny ragd doll physic OverWatch yep I love the physic God Ma just going in there oh May failing to wall uh ma off completely yeah yeah which they could have definitely picked off the kill if that wall was placed correctly Chris is doing his best to support his team yeah getting the kill yeah picking off car going in onar oh getting picked off by the I think that's their b or somebody yeah yeah we can't see we have a glare so Caleb switched to Sombra oh I can play Sombra too debatable I can play Sombra let's not make this about us we're watching the better people play crappy yeah yeah we're watching The Better People the good people oh we we must have both support alts So by time Ling gets there we should have a sber as well yep they can make a good push off of Lon Al too yeah oh l if he doesn't get head shot in the face by yeah they're definitely espec with Zen being so good this meta they definitely want to Target um Leighton how did Zen get buffed he has more damage output yeah he has more damage output and he also just is just really good with the way the SE like even if he didn't have the damage output uh buff he still would be top tier this season with just the way his kid is and like how the season and everything got reworked indeed w so you know you should just stay for these games tell your brother wait Leon switched to Moira oh more of a DPS kind of healer yeah not that good the Healer I can the Healer I started out with I one of their teammates AFK kid picked off Leon going in on that may trying to get revenge someone's a little salty Caleb getting the Kei they're just camping the May the disrespect as a as a person who's played may I I know the I know the feeling I'm going to slowly out does slowly leave Mike yeah give us the mic now slam it on the desk no that's going to like break yates's ears now I have an echo now I have an echo oh not not the character though let's see we got Caleb just looking for a a position to hack let's see getting the pick off the KIRO going in with his te he's being very damage oriented yeah cuz at um last split it was mainly L on the think oh the coalesence o let's see using fire in my laser getting pulled in by zar going back let's see can pick off the kill on the zarya gets the killar wait no that was Caleb heing his team C get off your phone we got Caleb not Caleb Leighton pushing in on the team just trying to distract seems to be like it while his teammates just slowly push getting killing the junkrat going in on the May getting the May let's see let's see who's he going to accidentally jumps off the I can hear him I can hear him yeah he he he overcommitted a we have we have Ma on Tracer now not on tracer on Widow what am I saying yeah what are you saying you illiterate Mony let's see Dy team is contesting very well hack zarya if you if they get the car code that should be game yes and that is game our Varsity cyber Tigers win 3 to0 in the first round of the ihen um OverWatch playoff season if they keep this up they will definitely go to state oh we got Lane with the could today gameer game game and you can't R your RS like me no I can't yeah I'm better than you you're Latino Jack Frost so you have special ways um but before we go quick shout out to some of our sponsors auction do you have a favorite nonprofit that can use an awesome fundraising idea uh auction it is an online and inperson platform that can help your nonprofit host a great sh auction find out more auction.io that's auction.io uh another sponsor is Adams Wells thank you to our sponsor Adams Wells internet Telecom TV your local service provider with gigs Speed Internet TV and telephone services for business 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healing I had no I H one or I healed once on Moira hey you you didn't s Mo and you you definitely did really well on the DPS on MOA thank you um you did that was also a really nice play of the game it was at least for us I I heard you scream whenever you open when you fell off the going play the game play the game guys get ready to play the game and went day no cuz when I was in that grab if KIRO would have just like stopped and hit my head once then I'm dead but she was just like shooting my like pinkies or something I don't know what oh okay why did you just m whoa but um uh they had a they had a good run yeah I think they had good good team comp just wasn't going the way they planned yeah just wasn't as good as ours sure we'll go with that yeah we we had okay team comp they were trash talking too they were yeah they were like get alive who has 800 hours on this game it's like dude like over like 70% of the player base has like a thousand hours more this game's been out since 2016 what do you want it's been out for eight years now if you if you don't have a thousand hours you probably like just start at this point I kind of feel feel bad because because they lose to and then they get the Grim Reaper of Moira who doesn't heal in the backline wow sounds like me did you see me fall off the map yes yeah no that's what I was talking that was so funny I heard you scream I I so I dove two of them damage bubbled and I would have killed them both but I used my phas and I like i ph jump too good yeah I like I I like accidentally did like the bee hop and I just flew off yeah yeah we both heard you like screaming yeah but it was fun to watch everyone feel like it was good good coordination we're moving fast getting things like what' you guys I guess like say back to like their trash cuz I saw like in the middle of the match they had like a whole like paragraph oh I wasn't there for it but they just they just filled me in but yeah we'll still be good sports yeah cuz that's that's what the Cyber Tigers get in frame I didn't know CU that's what the Cyber tigers do we we are good sports on stream on stream on stream off stream is a you guys don't need to know about that yeah okay I'm heading out all right um again thank you guys don't drop the bik catch it catch it okay um amazing sound effects again thank you for everyone who joined um and see you guys tomorrow at 5: for uh ssbu that

[Music] all right uh I call this meeting of the Board of Education March 5th 2024 6 p.m. um our agenda tonight for this particular portion of the um we have two two meetings but this special meeting uh will be I think fairly quick um so with that we will do Kim didm okay we will do the Pledge of Allegiance and then we'll get into the uh to the budget again so if you join me in uh the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible liy and justice for okay I will turn it over to the superintendent super thank you Mr Daniels so what I'd like to do for the Board of Education and the public and for anybody that watches this recording is to just quickly go through the the budget as a reminder to this board and to the community that is watching so the the the first slide and all these materials are posted on our website very visible to the community this budget is certainly grounded in our vision of The Graduate of creative thinkers communicators collaborators could IAL think critical thinkers and compassionate citizens this budget aligns with the Board of Education goals Board of Education goal one student growth and achievement partnership and Community engagement board goal number three Financial stability and efficient operations board goal number four learning environment and board goal number five embracing Equity our priorities this year as an administrative team was number one student achievement in all areas across the district District maintain class size according to the Canton Board of Education policy focus on teaching learning professional development and social emotional well-being of students and staff focus on creating an inclusive and culture responsive learning environment provide a safe and healthy school environment propose a fiscally responsible budget that aligns with the camp board of education goals so as you recall on December 8th 2023 for the first time I presented to this board of education a forecasted budget and at that time I proposed a net increase of a 5.55 and then I from the time of December 8th to when I presented to you on February 13th I made reductions and additions to this budget and in this slide shows you that from the date of December all the way to February I actually had to add in $23,000 into this budget so that right there increased my budget even more from the original 5.5 and then I provided you a list of $342,000 worth of reductions and that's over a percent within our budget so from the time that I presented in December to the time that um I presented you in Fe AR I had net addition at 203 but then I subtracted 342,000 and then with if you offset that I from the the difference between December to February is $139,000 which brings us to the next page of a net 5.39 I want to remind the the board in the community just to roll over this budget with salaries trans Transportation fuel health benefits liability and insurance oil natural gas contracted Services just to get out of the gate on the starting line it's a 5.5% then when you add in our increase net excess cost of special Le at a 4.85 we're at a 9.85 with just rolling over fixed cost and special education at a 9.85 so this budget was a a pretty difficult budget to put together and we as you know we had some net increases relative to the increased cost share that is coming to the town of 398 and then the anticipated har for revenue for special education so we're able to net out those um in our open Choice which negated a 5.67 and then the additional Revenue Nexus cost was of 1.26 and that got us to a net increase of 5.39 and we've been answering the Administration has been answering every question that this board of education has asked and community members have asked because I've received Community member questions also and I I I feel that we've done a really effective job analyzing this budget and really going through we did have one other question that came in this week and it says were there other funds when preparing for Budget that were labeled as open choice that needed to be reallocated to the general fund such as the textbook mentions if so which line items were previous mistaken categorized at open choice so I want to clarify that question a little bit that last last time we met we had some questions about textbooks because there was a $166,000 increase in textbooks and we wondering why there there was such an increase in textbooks and the rationale was in the past that has been in the open Choice budget and I moved it to operation so there's things that I felt that should be in the general fund that were previously in the open Choice fund so the only item that was forecast in the forecast budget categorized to be open Choice was the kindergarten teacher if you remember we if you go on the cut list and the addition there was a kindergarten teacher in the open Choice budget previously that wasn't put in the forecasted budget at all so I had to add that into the general fund there were no further items that were in the open Choice forecast budget that had to be reallocated besides the kindergarten teacher in regard to textbooks in previous years textbooks were funded out of the open choice but not in in the general fund so there were there were no mistakes it's just things look a little bit different of how I put the budget together and what I put into open choice and what I took um out of open Choice from last year I I don't feel that we should be putting a lot of Staffing in our open Choice fund because if we don't get those funds in the future or our enrollment drops it's going to be a harder hit for the the community the the next page as you could see the fiscal year 25 operating budget request is a 5.39 a total of 33 million for $ 57875 and then on the the next slide just shows that if the Board of Education approves this budget this evening as presented or wants to make any changes we will immediately put the budget together as the board of education budget it becomes your budget as the Board of Education and what we will do is that is due to the Board of Finance on March 11th we will make new books for the board of finance and you with a different cover on it so we can distinguish between the administrative proposed budget and the board of education budget we'll also email that out to the board of Finance on March 20th the the Board of Education will present the budget to the board of Finance Mr Daniels will do that we will have uh a presentation for Mr Daniels to present I would encourage all the board members to be at that meeting since it is your budget it is no longer the ministrative budget I would put on um your your calendar that March 26 we could have a special board of education budget Workshop depending upon if the board of Finance makes any cuts to our budget and then April 23rd is the annual budget hearing and then the budget referendum is to be set by the board of Finance but must be on or before May 9th so that is the administrative budget I will take any questions at this time questions for the superintendent Jo Peggy Y no Felicia Cindy Kim no okay so what we have here I think we we have a very um fiscally responsible very prudent budget for us to move forward on I remind everybody that uh the way we're budgeting we we are making up for about a million dollar shortall in our budget so uh a million dollars is about uh 2.8 uh percent so you could take that 539 down even further uh I suspect and although I don't know years ahead will under the uh the way that superintend budgeting we'll do much we we'll have a better uh Rhythm to our budgeting going forward I I want to point out that this budget has gone through Community uh involvement that the board has sought out as well as the board of Finance up to this point there's been Community workshops we the board started working on this budget back in December when the superintendent started to give us updates and meeting with the staff on where things were so I think we've given this a pretty good vetting I think at the last last week Joe When U you ran the meeting uh public input there was really no public input at this point so we we've worked hard in trying to get as much public input I I would like to say that uh the fact is that I think that the our constituents thinks that we're doing a pretty good job so I don't see it with this has to go to the board of Finance on the 11th I don't have a problem with passing this budget tonight but it's what you all want to do so you feel comfortable passing the budget tonight Peggy yes okay Felicia Cindy Kim okay so does anybody want to add anything to what I just said concerns comments thoughts before I might just before we go through a motion I think I'll open up to public forum and see if there's anybody on that would like to say anything do we have anybody we have one person online tonight um if you'd like to make public comment you can go ahead and use that raised hand feature and I'll call on you by your name we have no one in the audience tonight so that would be our only public comment no thoughts okay uh having said all that then I will take a motion that we adopt the superintendent's budget have right here uh we moved at the camp board of education to adopt the 2425 administrative budget totaling 33,45 7,875 which represents a 5.39% increase as presented may I have a motion motion Felicia second Erica I have a first and second any further discussion on the budget anything come to mind Now's the Time after this we own it okay I'll take a vote all those in favor I I I I so we have seven members here 70 right do we have seven yeah 70 okay so this budget passes unanimously 70 thank you Dr grman thank you good job good job Mr Bishop thank you very much and thank you she's not here but Claudia put together the book and all the other good stuff that went on so I want to thank her to publicly okay with that um I'll take a motion for adjournment at this meeting Felicia Second Joe any any other conversation all those in favor I 70 so we adjourn now to we will go into the U into the second part of our meeting which will uh entail the uh interviews and appointment of a um new board of education member so we have uh 10 minutes good job