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e 2m and my name is Claire McKenna I'm the chair of the anber energy commission and as chair I'm calling this meeting to order and participating from an arbor tonight um welcome to the April 2024 installment of the energy commission electronic meeting style uh we will conduct this meeting like in-person meetings Commissioners during roll call please indicate your current location and during the meeting please remain on camera uh public comment will be via telephone only tonight to speak during any of the public comment opportunities please call one of the following toll-free numbers 877 853 5247 or8 78899 and enter the meeting ID number which is 956 8718 7876 on your phone this information is also available on the published agenda in the Public Notices section of the city website and on the broadcast of this meeting on CDN Channel 16 AT&T channel 99 and of course our home a2gov.org CN Joe would you please read the land acknowledgement statement for us tonight yep um I acknowledge that the land the city of an arbor occupies as the ancestral traditional and contemporary lands of the Ana shanab including Odawa oji and badmi and W do peoples I further acknowledged that our city stands like almost all property in the United States on lands obtained generally in unconscious ways from indigenous peoples The Taking of this land was formalized by the Treaty of Detroit in 1807 knowing where we live work study and recreate does not change the past but a thorough understanding of the ongoing consequences of this past can Empower us in our work to create a future that supports human flourishing and justice for all individuals thank you very much and now we're going to move to the roll call um Joe do we have any excuse absences today and then would you please take the roll call yeah I've heard from um Commissioners uh Sandra Levan and covin Garcia that they'll be a little bit late so they should be joining us at some point um so yeah for roll call on gja state where you are located um commissioner burwitz from an arbor uh council member Briggs here and an arbor um said commissioner cven gcia will be running a little late um let just make sure they're not in the lobby okay um commissioner Hans you Arbor Vice chair harp president here in an arbor um commissioner 11even will be running a little late today um chair McKenna here um commissioner mki eron an arbor commissioner overp eron an arbor council member Rina here in an arbor uh like I said commissioner Sandra is running a l late today um commissioner Smith here and an arbor and commissioner zlan here and an arbor all right Cherry you got a quorum back to you thank you so much okay so we're going to move to approving the agenda so we can uh move forward with our meeting tonight is there a motion to approve the agenda as posted tonight so moved thanks commissioner mki and a second second commissioner burwitz um Commissioners please raise your hand if you want to propose changes or discuss an issue any issues tonight on the agenda great um so seeing all hands raised all those in favor of approving the agenda please raise your hand and say I I I'm seeing unanimous agreement and so the agenda is approved now we'll move to approve the minutes uh as posted is there a motion to approve the minutes council member Dina thank you and a second commissioner mki Commissioners any any changes proposed changes at this time to the minutes from last month okay seeing No Hands um all those in favor of approving the minutes as posted please raise your hand and say I hi thank you unanimous agreement there and uh the minutes are approved okay so we're going to move into our first opportunity for public comment tonight um folks may speak for up to three minutes um if you're watching on CTN again the numbers are8 78899 or 877 853 5247 and the meeting ID number is 956 8718 787 six this information is also displayed on the meeting agenda in the video feed and City staff will s that callers that have raised their hand one by month one using last three digits of your phone number to electronically raise your hand to indicate your desire to speak please press star nine on your phone you will hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak and when doing so please move to a quiet area so that we may hear you clearly and please set your name and address as you begin your comments thank you Joe anyone on the lot yep and do just want to note we have a number of callers so we will again be focusing on that thre minute uh time period I'll give you a verbal notice when you have 30 seconds remaining so um first up we have caller ending in hello hello hi this is parel mcarter um I'm at 560 little Lake Drive Unit 30 an Arbor Michigan 48103 um yeah I'm calling because I want to ask um I want to express my concern regarding proposed Lang ballot language um for having um a sustainable um electric or energy utility I do support having an seu in N Arbor I think it's an important and critical step um in the direction that we want to go and I think one of the valuable things about it is that it can be um a step towards full municipalization which the city of an arbor needs to reach a number of different goals from environmental to um social justice to equity to cost Effectiveness over the long term um to financial um and I'm concerned that a proposed B language as it stands right now is by biased Against full municipalization um this needs to be amended to remove this bias and to remove this these obstacles from municipalization um there are a whole host of reasons why full municipalization is important and needed in an arbor one of the things that I care about personally is the fact that DTE is has been moving towards um the use of more fracted gas braen um I I'll just read some quotes from a Yale environment 360 article it notes that a paper by the Yale School of Public Health this summer this was writing a little bit before but showed that children living near Pennsylvania Wells that use fracking to harvest natural gas are two to three times more likely to contract a form of childhood leukemia than their peers who live farther away that followed a Harvard study in January that found elderly people people living near or downwind from gas pads have a higher risk of premature death than seniors who don't live in that proximity it also notes that since 2014 a compendium of various studies um has tallied 2,239 peer-reviewed papers that found evidence of harm with nearly a thousand of those papers published since 2018 um DTE um is planning to use fracking for the foreseeable future really not an end in sight um and so we should not be using um you know residents of an arbor should not have to pay their utility bills to a company that uses fracking full mun municipalization will allow n Arbor to have more reliable cost effective and Greener electricity thank you so much thank you um caller ending in 683 I heard 683 I hope I'm the right person yep you're good um my name is Greg marks I live at 1621 harball drive off Broadway in Ward one I'm a homeowner um and I very much support both of the municipal um uh electricity utility and the sustainable energy utility um and I believe that in terms of what I'm reading in the draft uh section 1510 um it's too restrictive and it may well get in the way of the overall goals that we have in the long run uh giving us a chance as a city to uh move quickly and creatively as possible um and my understanding and and history with such things is you want to leave maximum room for maneuver in your um bylaws rules regulations whatever um so that you can adjust as the field of play changes is a very Dynamic area so I would drop the opin Clause I would drop the uh seu will be fee based and I would rewrite uh the section on renewable energy just to say with the goal of 100% renewable energy um I appreciate the effort to get this on the ballot I hope uh that you'll indeed give both the folks working on the seu and very much on the meu maximum chance to be flexible and adjust as this uh progress passes forward thank you for the time I'm done thank you uh next up is caller ending in 228 hello uh my name is Greg Woodring I am the President of Ann Arbor for Public Power I'm calling in like the other previous speakers tonight to encourage you to recommend an amendment to the proposed ballot language that would place an seu on the ballot uh an aror for Public Power does support an seu as a step towards full municipalization however we do not believe it is sufficient by itself the feasibility study report that came out in September uh showed that uh the estimate is that it will only provide up to 10% of Ann Arbor's total energy demand we do not have enough rooftop solar potential within the city to reach 100% Renewable Power with the seu alone without the ability to do power purchase agreements the utility will be significantly curtailed in its ability to roll out renewable energy to the city and without a built-in Revenue base it'll be slow very slow to start up creating a green field utility is very difficult and while it can accelerate the expansion of Renewables it will never hold a candle to full municipalization potential as it stands and number for Public Power believes that the proposed valad langu City Charter language would not allow the Su to transition into a full Municipal energy utility if the city chooses to condemn and purchase BTS infrastructure the restriction on the utility being exclusively an opt-in utility would prevent it from being the exclusive power provider for the city Additionally the uh statement that the Su would be fee based is likely not compatible with a rate-based utility like fulled Municipal energy utility and finally while it is anra for public power's goal to reach 100% Renewable Power it is a significant logistical and legal liability to require that within City Charter language instead we would propose that the city uh State something such as the goal of powering the local grid with 100% renewable energy to serve all of an arbor which is in line with our A2Z goals I very much hope that you will have a good discussion about this and that these amendments will be made so that we can continue together in a spirit of cooperation towards a Greener and uh more publicly owned and sustainable and just energy future thank you so much thank you next up um caller ending in 897 caller ending in 897 if you're speaking we cannot hear you thank you my name is Katherine Daga I live in ipsan now uh since 2014 but between 1998 and 2014 I was an arbor resident we who are living in other municipalities throughout the county and indeed throughout Michigan are really interested in what is happening with all of the efforts in an arbor to decarbonize and to move to to a legitimately um sustainable energy program and that's partly because we can all follow Ann Arbor's lead presumably once you set a standard but that's also why I'm calling today because I support the publicly owned Municipal municipalization programs and I support the idea of having an seu as an intermediate step but I find it dismaying for ballot language at this point to foreclose any additional options to boost decarbonization and to maximize affordability and reliability for all residents of an arbor um this 10% cap is pernicious there's no way of being able to um make that an equitable program and I urge the um commission to reconsider language that doesn't um shut down options before we um know what we need to take as next steps thank you thank you um next up is caller ending in 023 hello can hello can you hear me we can hear you okay this is uh Sue Haden I live on 1730 ivywood um and I would just I'll be brief um I would just like for the proposed seu Charter language to uh be tweaked so that it's possible to transition to a full Neu thank you thank you next up is caller ending in hello my name is m mcel my address is 2451 Yos Boulevard an arbor um I'm calling to reiterate essentially what everyone else before me has already said I fully support a um fully publicly owned electric utility here in Ann Arbor um although I am concerned about the ballot language as it presently stands on environmental terms on financial terms um and I feel that as it is now the proposed language undermines an seu from transitioning into a full meu which I support um and I hope that the council will reconsider thank you thank you um next up is caller ending in caller rendering in 763 if you're speaking and you're currently muted all right we will come back in a couple um next up is caller and in 462 yeah hi I'm Joshua Jacobson I'm at 1755 Franklin Court South I'm calling in today to Echo some of the um concerns raised by some of the other callers i' support a sustainable electric utility um and and the progress we would make there is a great first step in some of our energy transition here in the city um but like the others have said um I would like this to be able to be a piece that we can transition to a more broadly scoped Municipal electric utility at some point in the future um and I think that theed language specifically around the opin nature of the sustainable electric utility um the um 100% renewable energy as a requirement instead of a goal um and some of those other pieces there um are are somewhat hostile towards full municipalization I look forward to supporting this bill on the ballot in November um and I would like to see this be um a piece that we can transition to a more complete energy utility in the future thank you now I'm muted um caller ending in 893 can you guys hear me we can okay uh my name's Grace Whitney I live at 3378 Landings Drive in an arbor um I'm just calling uh to say um pretty similar things to what you've already heard from other participants um I'm really interested did um in an arbor adopting a municipal electric utility uh for a large variety of reasons um not only for um the pathway to more sustainable energy um and I think that the sustainable utility is a great step on that way um but I have some of the same concerns about the specific language involved um eventually being an obstacle to that broader Municipal electric utility that I think should be the end goal um I think it will help us reach a lot of the um important uh goals of the community in terms of equity um and sustainability um and so I think that it's important um with the bout language just to not limit ourselves on being able to transition to a full Municipal elected utility thank you thank you um caller ending in follower ending in 134 you were unmuted for a second we're tapping noises and now you're muted again hello can you hear me hello can you hear me yep okay hi my name is Gretchen kle Alex I live at 1215 Newport Road in an arbor um I'm calling today because I fully support having a publicly owned electric utility here in an arbor there's a lot of evidence from other communities that when Progressive communities such as an arbor push for municipal Community the benefits Cascade to other communities in the state so this is a way for Ann Arbor to be a leader in pushing sustainable energy more broadly than just our own wealthy community I think that a critical benefit of a sustainable energy utility is that it could ultimately be transitioned into a full Municipal energy utility but the proposed seu Charter language undermines the seu from transitioning into a full meu I'm not sure why this is but I really believe that putting an end to DTE would make for better energy policy for people not only in an arbor but throughout the state GTE is a rent seeking Corporation and it makes many people in this state vulnerable to a wh whims of a profit seeking Corporation I oppose Reliance on DTE and having only an seu would leave us vulnerable to predation by DTE for the future the language that undermines the transition to a municipal utility is unnecessary and I believe that passing this resolution would be hostile towards full municipalization which is what we should be seeking vers both for Equity reasons and for climate and sustainability reasons thank you thank you um next up we have caller ending in 245 hello uh my name Isen Murphy I live at 3:15 Linda Vista Street in Ann Arbor that's in word five and I'm speaking tonight because I saw on the agenda this quote resolution supporting um advancement of the anabor sustainable energy utilities or seu I work with the organization anabor for Public Power A2 P2 and we are interested in bringing about a municipal that mean public um Electric utilities or meu and replacing our current utility investor owned utility DTE we have always we A2 P2 have always however supported the seu and have seen it as a beginning Arrangement um with optin options for residents along with still working with DTE we think the seu could gradually transition to an meu and be able to then serve all residents of an arbor last Thursday a22 and and OSI held a joint uh very well attended Town Hall about how the seu and meu could work together uh Dr Missy stal spoke for the for OSI and grade wood woulding our A2 P2 president um spoke for a22 given this history of trying to Foster togetherness um we were we were and our surprised to see some of the language in the seu proposed Charter Amendment which people already talked about tonight language that would be detrimental to ever having an meu possible we hope uh you Commissioners can consider uh the following three points we we'd be happy to support the seu charter Amendment if these points could be better clarified and those points which um others have already mentioned tonight but I will just mention them briefly again um issue one is the opin message we think that the word opt in should be taken out and then for this reason removing opt in from the city Charter Amendment leaves open the possibility that the seu could be opt in while the M meu could be also um the words all from renewable sources um we thought that put um uh a A2 P2 prop all all from renewable sources to the goal of powering the local grid with 100% renewable energy and the last one issue three was the seu will be fee-based um this wording would preclude the transition from the proposed seu into a full meu and meu would likely be rate based such a specification is unnecessary so for these reasons um we hope you will um consider this and um maybe get some feedback to ey be necessary thank you thank you next up is caller ending in 763 attempting again caller ending in 763 you're currently muted all right we will Circle back at the end and um next up will be caller ending in 529 caller ending in 529 hello uh this is MIL Baker can you hear me okay yes we can uh as I said my name is Milt Baker I live at 628 Green Road in Harbor and I've got some comments on the proposed uh valid initiative on the seu uh I 100% support theu and I I do have a rooftop solar and batteries and I've seen the technology and it really works well and obviously Detroit Edison's poor reliability and poor performance are reasons to have an seu uh but the thing about the seu is the information that I've seen and I've heard people say it tonight is uh It could only generate about 10% % of Ann Arbor's energy needs by 2030 so that any ballot uh proposal needs to recognize a transition to other things like an me and I think the specific proposal uh in inhibits the ability to transition for example as others have mentioned the optin um obviously you can opt in for an seu but if you're uh you have an meu you you can't really opt in you you have to be a part of it and also the % uh renewable portion of it there may be times when with an meu it can't be 100% right away but can migrate to that um so I really hope you'll take a look at the ballot language the that's on there and make sure that there's nothing that precludes uh meu because it seems to me it would make a logical progression from the seu to the meu and uh thank you very much for your time thank you um next up is caller ending in 474 caller ending in 474 you're currently muted all right we will Circle back um next up is caller 58 Z there can you hear me yes we can hi I'm Kyle leash I live at 1755 Franklin Court South anber um and I was calling like other callers to Echo sentiments that I would like to see some of the language around um the sustainable electric utility to be modified so that um it's more easily attainable to to move towards the full municipalization um and generally I would like to Echo the sentiments of the other callers um and that I would like to see the specific Ballot or the specific language on the ballot change uh so that it's not restrictive of adopting Municipal energy utility I think that that's a really important thing for you Ann Arbor as it moves forward and I would like to see the commission Rec recognize that so um yeah that's all for me thank you thank you um next up is caller ending in 661 hello hello can you hear me yes we can great great um hi uh my name is Gus teski I live in Ward five also I like to say to 763 have you tried pressing star six that might help you unmute I don't know if you know that or not but anyway like I said I live in W five I'm calling to oppose the current ballot question language from the city for a sustainable energy utility and seu uh for the November 2024 election that language blocks or hinders the creation of a full Municipal electric utility or meu in an arbor I support an arbor for public po proposed amendments to the ballot question language to remove the blocks we need to build the seu and meu in parallel and then transition from the seu to the meu because only the meu can deliver 100% renewable reliable power to all an arbor residents and completely replace DTE not replacing BTE is a non-starter for me um I'm tired of their failures um so the muu is the only solution because it actually provides 100% Renewable Power to all an arbites and the phase one feasibility shows that the Su can provide only 10% by 2030 and M you can also do it by about 203 can you know provide Power by 2030 and but if not if there is some delay or something it will come in soon thereafter and a little bit late and and providing a solution is better than early and never being able to get there so that's what I you know please um fix that ballot uh language and thank you very much byebye thank you uh next up is caller ending in hi my name is Matt bosart I'm at 615 West hon Street in man Arbor and I'm a PhD student and I study the electric power system um last week I attended the town hall event um whose purpose was to discuss the seu and the meu and how these two ideas might complement each other and throughout the presentations from both and I Public Power and the office of sustainability and the Q&A um supporters of both of these ideas mention this idea of starting with the seu and eventually transitioning to the meu and so I just like to kind of acknowledge that it's important to act quickly and I think that the seu can help with this I also want to encourage uh the energy commission to really consider the ramifications of their actions well beyond the 2030 a20 goals um I believe that as an investor owned utility BCE primary goal is always going to be to maximize the profit for their shareholders and this means that their interests are simply not aligned with the long-term interest of anal residents I believe that to enact a meaningful change on a longer time scale we must eventually fully replace DTE and establish an meu like others I'm calling today to ask the commission to revise the seu charter language so that it becomes less restrictive and does not directly undermine the possibility of transitioning the seu to an meu as outlined by an for Public Power and by simply modifying this language which seems to me to be an easy fix and Arbor will be well positioned to continue to study the feasibility of municipalization um through a phase two valuation study thanks for your time thank you um next up we have caller ending in hi my name is Lisa jevans I live at 1312 Cambridge in an arbor um I'm a neighborhood association leader and a longtime volunteer with Ann Arbor for Public Power um I strongly urge the commission to reread the portion of the feasibility study from last year that details the relationship between a city-run seu and a municipal energy U it clearly recommends that any seu should be able to be folded into a future Municipal energy utility however that could not happen with the unnecessary language currently in this ballot initiative it makes me wonder whether the city is truly invested in a clean energy future for all of its citizens or is simply focusing on its own pet projects it would be extremely shortsighted of you and a huge mistake to pass this as written I urge the commission to rewrite the ballot initiative as others have suggested so that Ann Arbor can have the flexibility to truly achieve its Net Zero goals and be free of DTE down the road which is what we all want and deserve we do not deserve the poison pill language in this ballot initiative thank you thank you next up is caller ending in 038 yes hello can you hear me we can all right hello my name is kiplin calal I'm vice president of Ann arber Republic power I'm also calling in regards to the resolution reporting the advancement of the anabor sustainable energy utility or seu like others on this call I also believe that f municipalization is the only true path for an arbit aeve 100% renewable energy for all of an arbor and I support uh revising the language for the uh the new section of the city Charter Amendment uh as has already been outlined by other members of atp2 by removing this unnecessary language the city has much more flexibility to transition to few full municipalization in the future without having it to introduce yet another section of the city Charter and likely cause more confusion among an arbor voters this will create redundant betic structures in the city if the meu has to be created separately from the seu and ultimately time wasted on this critical issue of addressing the climate crisis so thank you very much for your consideration thank you um next up caller ending in 678 yeah hi um my name is Gia Kyle I live at 530 Miller Avenue in an arbor um um I'm first of all I want to just um thank um the energy commission for your patience through all these comments I know that can be tedious sometimes for people who are on boards and commissions um when you get inundated like this so thank you for your patience I like everyone else um in supporting change to the um language for the seu um initiative or whatever it is uh I want to make a political point and also a technical point the political point is things work better when we're all in this together um obviously there's a a movement trying to get full municipalization and elections can be close and uh you know we don't want to alienate people um who might decide to vote against or stay home uh rather than saying hey we're all in this together so that's the political Point um and um um uh the technical point is really to say there even for the seu there may be times when non-renewable energy is useful in for instance Battery Systems that provide support when if there's incoming energy that can be gotten that's um that's a mix of renewable and nonr renewable and so even for the seu that Clause seems uh ill ill advised uh I think the other Clauses that have been talked about also are um problematic from the munity perspective and I hope that you can remove them from the language all right um thank you much thank you um next up we have caller ending in caller ending in 897 you're currently muted all right um next up we have caller ending in 134 thank you Mr and chair McKenna Ken Garber 28 H Hill Court um yeah I agree with the previous speakers about the seu ballot language and municipalization but I'm mainly calling tonight about the administrator's beneficial electrification memo um we urgently need to end fossil fuels and new construction I know you share that concern but the administrator's memo is absolutely the wrong approach it proposes eliminating Planning Commission review and citizen in participation and suggests waving fees easing natural resource mitigation presumably things like replacement of removed Landmark trees loosening storm water retention requirements even providing direct taxpayer subsidies uh to developers um incidentally it allows gas connections for commercial kitchens and backup generation in violation of the A2Z plan these are all terrible ideas first they normalize gas um so I think they're unlikely to even work very well and second they're completely one-sided in favor of giveaways to developers at the expense of public funds and public process no disincentives for gas now the argument has been that state law gives us no other choice than this sort of thing this is false or at least has not been shown to be true you don't have to modify the building code look at what other cities have done Burlington Vermont charges a carbon pollution impact fee for new developments and major Renovations you had first reading for such an ordinance for an arbor last August one that proposed a fee equivalent to the social cost of carbon for gas burning developments uh I haven't seen that ordinance since uh at your table um I mean one could argue that it's not a fee it's a tax in which case fine put it to the voters like Burlington did uh also at your December meeting you heard Cambridge Massachusetts city council member Quinton xanden tell you how the city of that City amended its energy benchmarking ordinance to require all large buildings to reduce emissions to Net Zero by 2035 or pay a compliance fee this has the effect of preventing gas and new construction for these buildings neither option compromises development standards or penalizes taxpayers so I suggest you seriously examine both those options and probably others before approving any of the administrator suggestions um yeah I think if people in Burlington or Cambridge were to read read that memo uh they would be astounded so um yeah uh like Mr Kyle uh I beg your forbearance about the number of comments tonight and really appreciate your PA your patience in hearing all of them uh including mine and I look forward to in the meeting thanks always for your work uh caller ending in 795 hi there can you hear me we can okay great uh my name is Brian garinger hello Commissioners thank you so much for your service to the city you know it can be a lot I also want to take a moment to thank all the callers tonight who took time out of uh their dinner hour to get their voices heard this is very important um and I just really appreciate it it's very cool to see I am a new addition to this wonderful group of an arbites that call ourselves an arbor for Public Power and in my short time working with atp2 so far I have just found such an incredibly dedicated passionate and compassionate group who truly want the empowerment of this community The Greening of the planet the pursuit of environmental justice and ultimately affordable reliable Public Power in many conversations with other people in this community I found that the idea of gaining control of our electricity back from DTE is wildly popular and I think we're seeing that here tonight in many years of organizing experience I have to say it is very rare that an idea will excite people like this one does and it's for this reason that I am calling tonight to uh Echo what everyone else has said um with gravity I think this this community deserves a pathway toward full municipalization of our energy Grid it's very clear that that is uh something people are very interested in we're not asking for you or city council to approve the condemnation of dte's infrastructure tomorrow I understand it's going to take more time more public input but we are asking that you strongly encourage city council via resolution to amend the proposed sdu Charter Amendment language so that it does not preclude a later transition into a full Municipal utility that is connected to the grid I think people have gone over this already but we hp2 has identified three specific pieces of language that must be amended in the proposed Charter amendment in order for it to be amendable to Future full municipalization the first is the opt-in language which we are asking to be removed um the second is the specification that all the energy must come from Renewables that should be changed to just a dedication towards 100% renewable energy we know that a full munique can operate provide many times the amount of renewable energy to an arbor than the fdu could ever hope for and I do want to also make sure that we I'm bringing up the the line that says Fe base as well because that should be removed and is unnecessary all three of these things are unnecessary um and these amendments would not change the spirit of The Proposal but they would open a pathway for future collaboration thank you so much I look forward to working with you all thank you thank you uh next up we have caller ending in hi there can you hear me yes we can hi my name is Aaron wolf I live at 1215 Newport Road an arbor and I just want to Echo what has been said before um about the change to the language to be allow it to be able to not only support an seu but allow for the opportunity that an it can transition into an meu um I'm a scientist and you guys did a study and the study showed that the seu is great but can only support 10% of an arbor residents and that in order to cover everyone which is a major Equity issue um we're really going to need to transition to a full meu and this seems like a no-brainer if we just change the language on three little specific Parts it has no detriment for the um uh ability of an seu to be created uh through this measure and it leaves more options open I really appreciate uh the time of the Commissioners and I appreciate um everyone else calling in and I just remember this is like not just a sustainability issue but it's an equity issue we want all in our break and eventually leaving leading the way for people all around the state to be able to have access to clean affordable and reliable energy that doesn't just enrich a large corporation thank you very much I really appreciate it thank you um next up we have caller ending in 1 194 hello this is Rita Mitchell calling um I am the chair of the environmental commission and I'm speaking for myself tonight not the commission um I just feel from looking at the agenda tonight and hearing comments that there is information missing from the energy commissioner uh packet that would be very useful to to have before voting on either item tonight um there is um information about the ballot that I don't see in your agenda and yet you're being um requested to vote in favor of moving forward with the SCU um and there is almost no information providing details with respect to the beneficial electrification um uh information so I think you need much more information in order to have an adequate discussion and to certainly to vote with respect to the seu so that's all I have to say tonight in addition so I do uh support the other comments that have been made tonight thank you thank you uh we're going to circle back to the ones who were not able to speak previously so uh giving one one final call uh to caller ending in caller ending in 474 if you're speaking you are muted hi this is Cheryl sibilski I live at 839 Bruce Street in Ward 5 here in an arbor and I'm really calling just to Echo what has been said many times here this evening um probably the only thing I can add to that is that I personally have experienced living in a public power community in Lancing for many years um and also in Gul Shores Alabama for a while um there is a difference and it is notable um in many ways in terms of responsiveness and in terms of costs um uh inconsistency for certain so I have supported um uh Public Power here in ant Arbor ever since it was very first mentioned uh for those reasons I have family in Seattle I go back and forth there they also have trees and many of storms um yet they don't seem to experience anywhere near the problems that we have here uh during those issues so uh Public Power is U has been good for me and it's been my experience so I think people in an arbor deserve the opportunity to move in that direction at some point it's going to take some time and the changes that are suggested in from the callers seem like they're the right way to go to me so thank you for your time and for listening to all of us thank you no further callers at this time well we got one more last second caller ending in 934 sorry I didn't realize that I had to do that at the start of the meeting um can you hear me yes we can okay hi I'm Natalie Maxi um I live off of stone school road kind of in the south of an arbor just wanted to add another voice echoing um kind of what nearly everyone else has said um about changing the language in the proposed um City Charter Amendment just to make sure that um we're not uh hindering the creation of a municipal electric utility in the future um again of those um or the language of the opin um it's honestly more like that's um not uh what what how do I say it's unnecessary and it kind of eliminates the possibility for the SE to transition to a full Municipal energy utility and also having more people have a say and especially like wealthy more privileged people um having a say in their like electric policies and in their electric utility will make the whole process um more efficient because those people will be able to provide resources um to accommodate those that don't have the the resources to obtain this 100% renewable energy utility um also the language um all from renewable sources we understand theist ially that is going to take a while before um our city of Ann Arbor will be able to give everyone power from specifically all renewable sources it's going to take some time to transition this is not going to happen overnight but I think that language should be changed so that um it's to the with the goal of powering the local grow with with 100% renewable energy just so that it allows for that transition um and also the fact about the SE will be fee based I don't think that makes sense especially because the muu would be rape based and I think that leads to people being um more energy efficient or encourages them to be more energy efficient because they're paying based on how much they use um but yeah just those three amendments to that um proposed ballot initiative thank you that's all I have to say thank you um and is all the callers I have at this time uh reminder there is a second public input session um at this point so back to you chair okay great yeah thanks everyone for calling in um very enlightening comments and I know we'll have a very uh fruitful discussion coming up here in a minute I would like to take a three minute break um just have everybody let's just collect our thoughts and um we'll come back and and dive into this uh next agenda item which which is discusses the resolution so I'll see you back here um at 7 p.m.

in the April 4th 2024 notice in the coar and the April 8th 2024 notice in the Asbury Park Press setting forth the date time and location of this meeting similar notice has been posted on the Bri School website and the burrow clerk has been notified we to do roll call Mr Becker pres Dr de brosia pres Mrs mcdevit here Mr Milano here Mrs re here Mr starky here Mr Vitali Mrs Walsh here Mr Waltman we can stand to the flag of the United States of America and to the rep stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all if we could get a motion to approve the minutes from March 13 I'll make a motion to approve the minutes for March 13 second thank you brosio Mr Becker yes Dr J brosio yes Mrs mcdevit yes Mr Milano yes Mrs re yes Mr starky yes Mrs Walsh yes right there's no presentations this evening of any sort no long one uh at this point visitors are permitted to comment on agenda items only uh we just ask that even if you've been here before you state your name and your address and that you approach the microphone Arie anything okay Miss Quigley any correspondences no correspondence I'd like to suggest that uh because we have a regular meeting on the 24th that we uh forgo committee meetings for this meeting and just have them on regular sched second uh no administrative report SE course of action no hi nope that brings us to action items curriculum and programs Miss Walsh if you could present them this evening sure I would like to make a motion to move the following items of the agenda A1 and A2 second Mr Becker yes Dr D osia yes Mrs mcdevit yes Mr Milano yes Mrs wath yes Mr starky yes Mrs Walsh yes all that brings us to District Operations Julie I think you're on District off I am do you mind I don't I'd like to make a motion before the board that we uh put through items B1 item B1 um I'll second that okay Mr Becker yes Dr D Osio yes Mrs mcdevit yes Mr Milano yes Mrs we yes Mr starky yes Mrs Walsh yes there are no policy motions at this time which brings us to Human Resources i' like to move items D1 through d three second I would also like to recognize Mr Slater that's in the audience here assisting us with our uh electronics tonight um for his retirement effective June 30th 2024 and having a conversation with Mr Slater previous before the meeting started he did his entire career in this building thank you for that congratulations in your retirement thank you well said I will second thank you [Music] okay oh I'm sorry wanted to you were the second to second that one Mr Becker uh yes Dr dambrosia yes Mrs mcdevit yes Mr Milano yes Mrs wath yes Mr starp yes Mrs wolsh yes car all right thank you very much [Music] everyone you want to stand in clap for thank you well respected uh at this point we come to visitors business uh the visitors are permitted to comment on agenda and non-agenda items at this time we just ask you again that you state your full name Street and approach the microphone okay all right there are no payments of bills because that will come with the next meeting uh there's the board secretary's confirmation there is no executive session which brings us to adjourn can I get a motion motion to adjourn I'll second that one yes hi thank you [Laughter] everybody Becker Becker time

folks we'd like to call this meeting to order um and we'll begin with the Pledge of Allegiance and Chuck Waldo would you lead us in that I pledge allegiance to the flag flag United States of America to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you for all all you who are here to um be a part of this meeting this evening we'd like to excuse uh Jennifer Brimhall who's had knee surgery and can't be out this evening we have Diana Butler on phone with us tonight we have Chuck Waldo and U Margaret gobby so we have a Corum in present today so we'll begin um with recognition of the students of the month and we'll just turn this over to the principes if you don't mind we'll uh why don't we start with the elementary and go up to the high school this time so our student of the month at the elementary school is not here he told me today I've got baseball practice I said well we're giving you an award he said well I've I've got a team and I've got to be a baseball practice priorities so um anyways our student of the month is Nash Terrell he is a third grader um I've got Miss Butler here she knows him probably better than anybody else on campus she's going to come up and say a couple couple good things about him I'm sad he's not here that he can hear me talk good things about him but I have the privilege of working every day with Nash and he every day he's such a hard worker he what can I do more give me more give me more give me more so he he just wants to learn he wants to do his best he is has drive and ambition and I'm so proud of him he's kind to everyone he always has a smile on his face he is very deserving of this award so Nash [Applause] Terell can I have Gabriel as Gabriel okay do you want to take high school and then we'll okay thank you all right Troy liser come on up please so the high school we'd like to recognize Troy lisst as a student of the month for this month there's your plaque and free cookie as well so Troy he is he's really come out of his shell the last two years he's involved in so many different activities at the at the high school um he's done the last couple years he's applied himself he's taken dual enrollment classes college classes he's got on a track to head to the next level and he's also put himself out there with student counsil and also with the yearbook he's the Editor in Chief of the yearbook this year we're we're excited for this one they this is the first the soonest that they've completed the yearbook as long as I've been here and I'm not sure how long before that but they've worked hard on it and that's a lot of goes to Troy and and his crew for putting that together and he's also our senior class vice president correct and he has really come out of his he was a freshman sophorn yor is a little more shy but he is willing to get out in front of people now and and grab the microphone and just bear it all to everybody and so he does a great job get the the kids pumped up um he's one of our super fans at all the games and he's he's done a great job at the high school we want to recognize him for the month of April so congratulations [Applause] Troy if we could wait just one moment Gabriel is coming from track why don't we right here why don't we jumble things up just a little bit and do our teacher of the month uh Mr Grace so our teacher of the month um she didn't want to be be teacher of the month I told her it wasn't an option is shamain right so if I was to list everything that shamaine does on a daily basis around campus um that keeps us moving forward we'd be here all day um from the announcements and the joke of the day to absorbing classes um when we're short on coverage uh to running the variety show and making sure that our kids are are seeing music that takes them to our high school program um she's there before I get there every morning um she's typically in her car still but she's there uh but every everything she does is is something that is vitally important to how we operate on a day-to-day at the elementary school and we are absolutely blessed to have her we're going to miss her next year um she's built a tremendous program that turns out kids that that love the Fine Arts that love music um I've sat through three years of recorder lessons for observations 30 kids with recorders is not something that I will miss sitting through but um it is it has been pleasure and honor to have her on campus so sheain right thank you so thank [Applause] you I think you just came in all right I think we can do that now could I have Gabriel Garcia come to the front [Applause] please we are recognizing Gabriel this month he is um he was nominated nominated by of his teachers um and so I just want to read some information from her and then give a little bit more information that I have as well Gabriel has grown so much while at BL Junior High he's a smart friendly helpful young man he stands up for what is right and has become a positive role model and leader among his peers he makes the classroom a fun place to be another teacher said he is respectful he submits his work on time that's a big deal and he is friendly and kind in class we've seen so much growth in Gabriel over the last two years when he first started started we thought wow he's got a lot of energy and he has and it's such great energy he is a leader um and what I've told him before is For Better or Worse you are a leader people follow what you do and he has taken that and really become a leader um for good and I'm excited to see what he is going to do when he gets to high [Applause] school all right next item is uh Mr web would you like to do yes there you go if I could have M armo come forward please all right hand this off to you so each month the District we recognized one outstanding employee within the district and um we chose to recognize Mrs armo this month and she's for the time that I've been at the high school I'm just amazed at the level of commitment and integrity um just those core values that we have that we want to recognize for and her willingness to to help out wherever she can I she's at I'm at most of the events and it's kind of a requirement that I'm there but then Gerald 's there too and she's always helping out she's volunteering with any of the counseling events that we have um she's there to help recognize the kids and she's she has bought into the kids and loves and supports the kids what her Beyond those things what her real job is is she helps the the students that are taking the Talon classes with NPC um and so she helps monitor all of the different subjects that go through that building over there and then also help with she she we also s and some kids who struggle with some Spanish they need some extra help with the the Spanish class that they she's always willing to help out those kids um and and also get provide feedback from between the the kids and the professors at NPC the class classroom instructors but it continues on after the class closes she's able to help those kids and help guide them be successful in that program so just anywhere you look geraldine's going to be giving her all to to bluid and that's why we want to recognize her she definitely is a bluid supporter and everything she does and says is we're just super grateful to have her on board thank [Applause] you thank you that's awesome we did did um did Benjamin Nash Terrell just walked in there we go Mr Grace he got here all right come on Nash Miss Butler we understand he was at Little League practice and we understand that that's a legitimate excuse so we think it's special that he's here [Music] today so yeah so Nash like like Miss Butler said is one of our our best at the elementary school he embodies everything um all of the values that we have here Blue Ridge he is those uh he's got a smile on his face and he's always looking for more to do he's a friend to everybody uh I see him every single day at lunch um he asks me the same question every day uh and typically that starts with you know something along the lines of how is your day going um Nash works hard and and has shown tremendous growth uh he is just an outstanding student and well-deserving of this award Nash we understand that your teacher really loves you she got a little emotional talking about you yeah Nash with the teacher let's see um next item on the agenda we asked uh we've asked Matt Peterson to come and do a presentation Matt turn the time over do you have a mic there you go good evening president Merill um thankful to be with you tonight I think they're going to get my presentation started but just a little background here I think two years ago I stood in front of you guys and explain the project that I was trying to get accomplished after we had several near misses with young children on Porter Mountain Road and I felt like it was our duty as the town to really try to find an Avenue to fix this problem um over the last two years the partnership with the town and the school has been incredible three years that we've worked together Dr Wright um everybody at the school has been willing to help participate put their opinions in and we've worked really hard at trying to bring this to you guys so tonight I'm going to go through pretty quickly of what the plan is um construction is supposed to start May 17th 18th I always get it wrong 18th school gets out on the 18th and or 17th and then we're getting started on the 18th so um anyways so here we go um the study was was completed by kimley horn in 2021 and the bluid school district was part of that in Navajo County was also part of that we worked in conjunction with everybody to get this done the project purpose was the Blue Ridge Elementary School and Middle School served approximately 1,200 students with a total capacity of 1,600 we identified and evaluated potential improvements to Porter Mountain Road to recognize congestion during pickup and drop off and I'm going to go through some of these as we go but most importantly was to improve student safety that was the most important factor of our study um recommendations for the road roadway and onsite improvements for the school district the first here is is what we were seeing out there as you can see this kid was passing right in front of a car um this was during our drone study as we were running a drone out there videoing the the queuing times um we caught this image uh this kid actually if if you've been out there and walking you know that there's no sidewalk after you leave this Edge so he had to run off the little Hill there to get down to the school a little bit of the C crash data I know it's hard to see on here um but from 2014 to 2018 there was 42 recorded crashes um most of them were not severe uh but they're all scattered through that whole portion of Porter Mountain Road and there were five crashes within the roundabout and I thought that was very interesting with two of them during drop off time uh typical queuing at the roundabout you can see here it's it's backing up all the way from inside the school out to the roundabout which is which is causing a little bit of backup um throughout this process we've learned that the roundabout is actually doing what we wanted it to do it's slowing traffic down it is causing about a 15 or 20 minute backup however if we speed that up we take the chance of getting somebody hurt or a young child hurt so through the study we recognize that we want to keep that feature there because it's doing exactly what it's supposed to it's slowing the parents down and making it easy for the kids to get through there okay this is going to start all the way out at um 260 and we're just going to work through this project real quick and then um I'll go through it but starting at 260 you'll see on the lower side of that that drawing is the sidewalk and curb and gutter and that'll go to Adeline Lane um and on the opposite side of the road it's kind of hard to see there but there's a new path a 10- foot path that is detached from the road we'll slowly move forward through this so at Adeline Lane to NEC Lane this is what or NC's yard this is the first of two pedestrian crossings that you're going to be able to see out there so what will happen is we're going to separate the road in the center and we'll put the two traffic Lanes on the outside and we're going to make a pedestrian island in the center and it'll also have the flashing beacons there and this is closest to right there by Adeline Lane it's quite farther down on um the Porter Mountain closest to 260 so that'll be the first crossing right there um there'll be sidewalk on the east side of the road and on the west side of the road there'll be a path as you go down toward the bottom image is getting closer to the NEC um yard there and we'll go ahead and move forward um this is from the NEC yard to about the roundabout here's your second um Crossing it's right there by flag Hollow and this will will actually add a turn lane into flag harow one of the things that we were that we found during our study was if there was somebody trying to turn into flag Hollow after they go through the roundabout they weren't able they were stopping all the traffic inside the roundabout which was also causing congestion so now there'll be a turn lane into flag Hollow there'll be in a a pedestrian Island here that connects to the path and we've also found that there's significant amount of kids coming down flag Hollow to the school district um continue forward the path goes all the way into the school district and then crosses over and follows on the other side of the road the west side of the road here we're looking at where the bus stop or the bus is turned into the school it's the second entran is for the school the path will follow the west side of the road it's also detached but also what we put here was a turn lanane for the buses this will allow your buses to get off of the road and make the turn lanane without backing up any cars into the 260 or into Porter Mountain Road this will help with the congestion at the roundabout as as well so all of these factors were're trying to clean up the congestion in the roundabout this continues all the way down um and the path continues on the west side all the way to um Porter Creek or yeah Porter Creek subdivision um and we're excited to be able to connect that subdivision to the school as well a couple last things that are important we add added some Landscaping out back in front of the school um we felt like that that area needed to be landscaped uh with trees and brushes to make it look nice and we also added um a secondary access to the school this is one of the things that we came through on our study was is that heaven forbid there was something going on at the school I wouldn't be able to get you First Responders um they would get jammed up in the roundabout there's not a good way for them to get around the roundabout so this road connects to the parking lot that you guys expanded already and goes out to the church the where the church has their parking lot currently it'll actually tie into their parking lot and then tie into the main road on Commerce Drive this will allow First Responders to come down this back access if there was something going on in the school and get to the school without having to go through the roundabout so we're excited about that addition um lastly we've added lighting to the whole project so there'll be lights all the way down the path every 60 ft to light the path for obviously in the winter months it gets it stays darker earlier in the morning and the kids need to leave earlier in the morning so we've added lighting for that and we've also lit the roundabout so that the roundabout will be lit in the in the future as well lastly I think it's important to talk about the cost and where we're at currently the total um project is 2.8 million um the town was awarded 2.24 three million um through legislative money that we worked hard at getting and we need we were asked asking the school to um do 611 of adjacent ways and that will come back to you guys at a later date uh your Administration will bring back an IG for that um there's another ask of the of the school district is if you want me to take over the rideway here in this area what that means for you guys is if I take over the rideway in this area currently it's under your your your maintenance and you take care of it so what I'm planning on doing is bringing or administration's bringing you back a two ride of ways and what this would do was Encompass the whole Road that's your second access will allow that to be under her funding which means that I will maintain it and I will snowplow it also up front I incorporate I included the whole area where the Landscaping was so that the town would maintain that and all the way into that first crosswalk on your land um that'll allow me to use her funding to m maintain that that area and currently we already have a great relationship with you guys we we help plow we do a lot of different things for you so I I think that this would would make sense so that I'm able to spend funding in this area but those are the two asks that your Administration will bring back to you um after that Dr R I don't have anything else unless we have some questions I just have a couple of comments for the board so there'll be two more steps the board will need to approve an IGA once that's completed between the town and our legal review and then once everything's completed the board will be asked to deed over those those areas to the town and then that would enable us to release adjacent way funds and adjacent way funds these These funds have a very narrow use this is not something that can be used for raises or increases or salaries or anything other than Ingress and egress to campuses or other school facilities this has a safety element it also provides access during emergencies so it is it's something that the town has worked really hard on for more like seven years and the last three years have been really important if you recall we started discussion about six years ago when a kid one of our students after school ran in front of a full truck a big old truck and came so close to be becoming hit and injured or killed the driver had a heart attack and so that again the ne the talks about what can we do and the towns to be committed for getting this funding I mean 2.2 million uh through County state and federal funds to get to make this happen for our portion 61 is a relatively small portion compared to the safety increase the walks and the lighted areas that will be there will enhance the safety of this area immeasurably so thank you Matt for your effort and and for the town for the partnership in this so there'll be two more steps that we'll we'll still have to go through but uh I just wanted to add that before the board had any questions for anybody that's here can you mention some things that have been covered with adjacent ways some of this uh the in the Ingress egress at at Yellow Jacket Lane when that had flooding we we did some of that uh that was a project that we used with adjacent ways uh um over at the junior high during that construction project with some of the curbing there and the and the the uh parking that was there in front of that not parking but drop off area those are two that come to mind it has to be something that enhances the safety has something to do with emergency vehicles having access which they will have much greater access the other thing it does it's it's just the reality of 2024 is if we ever had the need to evacuate because of forest fire or any kind of other emergency we have the ability to get emergency vehicles First Responders in there a lot quicker and without delay if we had something bad happen during a release time now it'd be very hard to get folks in and out of their First Responders especially so it really does enhance the safety of this area it also will make a lot of our community members happier because we it'll flow a lot quicker than it does now and in the end it'll be a lot safer for for everyone concerned does that answer your questions mark thank you um I don't have a question I'm spent quite a bit of time with Matt going over the plans I just want to say thank you to the town to Matt especially for all his efforts and thoughts that went into it and uh we really appreciate it second what Chuck said thank you so much for what you did and I know there's a lot of work went into that and uh a lot of thought and and money appreciate that so much um whenever we do anything like that it makes the town look prosperous prosperous and that Prosperity helps us grow and we appreciate that that makes everybody look good you and us so thanks any other comments or you'd like to say to us or anything no I thank you for your time and it's been a great partnership so I appreciate you guys as well just to let you know we were going to vote on that IG today but didn't quite get worked out so we'll put that on the May agenda we'll drop it from this agenda okay thank you sir you bet all right the next item on the agenda we'll turn the time over to uh you Mrs dugdale for um oh I'm sorry um Jennifer and Diana did you one of you have a question or comment you'd like to make all right Kimberly all right good evening governing board president and governing board members I have two presentations tonight so we're going to load up the first one and that is our annual audit there we go all right so our annual audit is complete um and so this is just a uh presentation on that audit so as you know we get audited each year uh we have three um sort of kind of audits a financial audit which um audits all our financial statements um a single audit and that's on our federal programs um and that's for any school district that gets over $750,000 in federal Awards which we do um and then that's and the uniform system of um Financial records audit and that's a basically a checklist from the auditor General's office that we get audited on as well and these are annual um great news we have an un unmodified opinion that means we did a good job um and that um we have uh a good running school district and we are functioning well uh so the two Federal programs that the Auditors looked at this year were our health and nutrition so that's our food service department and our Esser funds uh we uh did really well on both of those audits um we did have a finding for reconciliations with the county we have worked that out and we believe that all of those issues are resolved at this point O um so in our usfr finding that's that checklist that I mentioned we did have some audit findings with our Capital assets that's like our school buses our technology stuff anything that's over $5,000 uh we had um student attendance um audit findings as well we always all school districts have student attendance audit findings that's because it is a very technical process that requires a lot of people to be involved in that process and it's either yes or no no matter what the sample is if you get one no then you get a finding for it so if they if they sample 100 student attendance records and you have one out of those 100 records that are incorrect then you get a no on that um on that on those findings um and then I spoke earlier about the reconciliations that's reconciliations with the county and um us and the county treasurer's office and again we have worked out the capital assets issue we've worked very hard in my office to get that um rectified and to where it needs to be and as student attendance we're working very hard on that as well and our reconciliations we have rectified that as well are there any questions I Jennifer Diana any question no so the financial audits a couple years ago um the legislation changed on them and they require a roll call vote um for you for the board to accept the audit so at this time we will I will ask if you would be willing to accept our audit but via a roll call vote all right we need a roll call vote which means verbally Chuck yay or nay y yay Margaret yay myself David ml yay Jennifer Diana I need a yay or a nay in regard to that audit yay yay it appears it's all unanimous thank you so much all right that next I'm sorry next item on the agenda we'll let you go through with that all right they're going to pull my presentation up so another thing that happens with the auditor General's office is that when you submit all of your information to them for your um Financial audit and your um annual financial report they um put that data together and they come up with something called a district spending report and you may have seen an article in the paper um before I did this presentation in March about our district spending report and um it was a great article and I just we just appreciate the White Mountain Independent so much for publishing that for us um so this is a report that is released by the auditor General's office every year um it's on every Public School District in the state of Arizona and they've been monitoring school districts since 2001 they do make changes to the audit to the to the district spending report report periodically um there was no significant changes this year on what they report on you all have been here so you've seen this before um it'll look very familiar um so the Statewide District school spending was 12.6 billion for um 2023 and that was a spending change of 98922 million in the green so they spent more last year than they had the year before all right so we're going to go through um the results that we have so here is the state results I just wanted to show you kind of for reference where the state was in the things that they're looking at um so they look at classroom spending and then they look at non-classroom spending and you can kind of get an idea here of where the state averages are and you can see there that the state average for those three items for classroom spending was 69.1% and then their non-classroom spending was the rest of the pi which is .9% um when the auditor General's office um talks about our peer groups they're not talking about districts that are around the mountain they're talking about this list of schools that's who they're comparing Blue Ridge to whenever you see that report that those are the schools they're comparing us to and you can see on that list there's a wide range of schools on there kenta's on there um Benson's on there wiberg's on there tuba City's on there some of these schools were somewhat similar to maybe Round Valley but the rest of them were not really that similar to um how they come up with this has to do with student attendance and some other metrics but I just wanted you to be aware when they talk about our peer groups this is what they're talking about all right so our district results so you can see our classroom spending was 65.7% and our non-instructional or non classroom spending was 34.3 so close to the state average um there and I think we're doing pretty [Music] good so we have increased 1.6% in our classroom spending and we've decreased 1.6% in our non-classroom spending report so that just means that classroom spending that just means that we're increasing our classroom spending and um decreasing our non-classroom spending uh so here is the demographics for Blu Ro Unified School District you can see that we're a medium-sized District um you can see our graduation rate is there um it's really small sorry about that but I just want to give you an idea this is at the top of the classroom spending report all right and so what they do the auditor General's office is they give us a little bit of a grade on how we're doing um pertaining to our peer averages and remember those peer averages are that list that we just looked at that had Tuba City on it and had cayenta on it and so there're those numbers are comparing us to them and you can see that our Administration is low our plant operations which is our maintenance department is very low and our food service is High um I doesn't necessarily mean it's bad that just means that we we spend a little bit more on our food service um feeding our students um in transportation is very low um you can see here um we're just comparing um again us to our peer districts which is that list um that you saw at the beginning and you can see that we're above um in our classroom spending see how they're all in the green and we're pretty much Below on our non-classroom spending um which is means just means that for our peer districts we're spending more in the classroom than they are on average all right so here you can see a little graph of our non-classroom spending and this is where I went in and compared us to sholo and snowflake just so you could kind of see uh where we are at with our non-class rooms spending compared to them um and then here is our non our non-operational spending and that's our land buildings equipment and then here is our average teaching experience you can see that we have a considerably higher retention rate than our surrounding districts which is a good thing for us that means that we have low turnover um and we're keeping our staff here longer um here you can see this is a comparison of our average teacher salary um throughout the years and we are progressively going up um as the White Mountain Independent stated we are one of the highest paying rural school districts in the state of Arizona for average teacher salary and here you can see um just what what categories our teachers are in so the auditor general office looks at um teachers that are less than 3 years and then teachers that are more than 3 years and this table just shows you um where we're at each year and this can fluctuate due to retirement and things like that um so as time goes on it'll fluctuate up and down um and then here is a graph that shows our student per teacher and you can see that we're we're low compared to the state average and we're low compared to sololo and um snowflake for how many um students we have per teacher in our district real fast yes can't see the would you will you show the inform sure can you give me one second Jennifer I have to pull it up on my computer because my it's not large enough on the screen for me to read it is that okay Mr I don't know if I'll be able to read it sorry my old eyes I can see it 16.9 State seven I can tell Jennifer Jennifer the state is 17.7 we're at 16.9 if you go to the right I can see it even in the small one you got big offet and then uh sholo it looks like it's 19.2 and then snowflake is 23.6 right so it shows that we're our classroom size is significantly smaller ma' yes ma'am um I'm sorry to go back a little bit because I also wanted to know about um the graduation rate did she go over the graduation rate I did not hear that 86.6 I think it was it was like 86 86.8 86.6 yeah okay was our percentage graduation rate yes cool what's the state average um for graduation rate um I don't know I'll have to get back to you on that Jennifer I didn't put that I didn't put the state average in my in my presentation I just put our demographics okay no problem thank you all right okay so oh oh what happened to it there we go so this is just a graph of where we're at with our state testing and um what in our passing rates so the district is the orange our peer group that's that list that I showed you is the dark blue and our Statewide is the light blue so we have math English language arts and science on here and we're we're doing okay I would say so here is our um here is our comparison to our peers on the mountain so Snowflake and um sholo and all of this data of course is on the classroom spending report all right are there any questions so you said you thought it looked it looked pretty good where's our biggest Improvement needed for looking at next year testing what should we be aiming at as a district I mean some years we aim at math some years we aim at more money for classrooms what do you think our biggest aim is for the coming year I mean we don't want to just hold steady I mean that'd be great if we don't go down you mean for academics or for financial I all of it um well I don't really feel qualified to give an answer on the academics only because I haven't done a bunch of studying on the academics I would say that we're doing best in our English and language arts programs we've we've struggled in math and science as has most of the state since Co um but we did make a little bit of gains in math we can always do better and our science is probably the one that's lagging the most where that needs the most attention but if we looked as a district what would be what do you think our Focus would be for next year the very top like some people would say we're not spending enough in the classroom but we are compared to other districts are they going to compare our math scores or English I me if we had to Target one specific thing to tell the the administrators this has to improve well I think we'll have those discussions before the next school year generally we have that meeting in June it looks stable yeah right I would think that the biggest push has been on reading especially at the elementary levels and part of that is is increasing the volunteers to try to make up some of the learning loss and also just to improve reading I think that's and in the primary grades too so I think it's a discussion that depends on the grade level and the campus in our primary grades we're noticing there's more and more kindergartens that don't know their colors their numbers their letters and then we have a handful of emerging readers we have some like Mr Archer Beck's kid that can read in kindergarten so first grade that's what they good they right so but I mean the average we're noticing that in the primary grades the kids aren't coming with the same skill set they did even five years ago I would say that our focus is continues to be on improved reading at the at the lower levels we're trying to keep our class sizes small in uh Kinder through second grade or through third grade those classes were average 24 in uh in grades fourth and excuse me Kinder first and second grades will average 24 students in per class next year in grades third and three and four we'll have 26 kids as an average and then grades fifth and sixth we'll have about 30 kids so our class averages will go up we have 18 fewer teachers this year than last year and we'll feel some of that it won't be 16.9 next year students per class it's not going to be 25 or 30 but it will be higher than it was this last year if you recall we used Co funds to keep class sizes artificially small to try to make up some of that learning loss so one area I would think would be will continue to be reading but there's always room to be made Improvement at in the grade levels especially at our our junior high high schools at math and science and I think too we're testing right now we're in the middle of testing so we'll have a better idea of what we'll focus on for academics once we get our testing results um we have a we we'll meet during the summer and go over that to see what the what that testing those testing results have said so that we can compare it to what we've done in the past to see where we're growing and where we're not well it's good to see that it's good to see that we aren't clear down noticeably down in something I mean if we're holding our own with the state um I know other teachers you know it's been a hard Road since Co digging kids out so I think we spend our funds wisely yeah the kindergarten kids coming in question Jen FR has a question let me let's make this statement first kindergarten kids coming in with less knowledge is a demographics issue that's not an educational issue that doesn't reflect on the school that's a demographics issue and I think what Elementry has done with those kids taking them to third grade where they can proficiently read most of them I think I hope by third grade they're reading well is is a uh big chore and one that needs to be uh acknowledged so thank you for that Jennifer have a question I just had two questions one I what something that Mike was saying in regards to um the aage class size do we know what percentage or you know our average class will be across the board because if we're at 16.9 now what's going to be our um class size districtwide I I don't know off the top of my head Jennifer if I had to if I had to give a a guess looking at kindergarten and grades K through 2 being 23 the next two grades being 26 near the 30 it's going to land somewhere around 24 25 all right that that is a little concerning compared to um our class sizes for other school district in our area so I don't know if we need to revisit that and then the other question that I had is um do we have information on and this could be a different meeting percentage of children that are doing dual enrollment it's not classes AP honors and whatnot for our high school because I know in the future we've had in the past we've given that information have we recorded that to see if our kids are on track on the first on the first question question Jennifer the number won't go down will only go up because we have 18 fewer teachers um that number that's a static that's that's baked into our our headcount after the consolidation the second item we can put if Mr Merl you'd like me to look for that we can get that information for you at the next meeting but we probably can't address it it's not on the agenda for this one yeah okay so we will put we will make sure that that information is on the agenda next month thank you right just just be clear a class size to double to have 10 more children average per class size is definitely a concern and that's that's a function of budgeting when you lose 18 teachers that's a natural function it's simple math and so on that one uh we're we're still at about where our our peers are we we were keeping our classes artificially slow with those Esser funds but with the run out of Esser and the failure to pass the bond that's where we're at I'm just being honest it's not going to get smaller than that um if we get more students I think in Snowflake that the average was 23 almost 24 per student right there yeah 21 you override correct not Bond because yeah I mean I I mean both override and bond because we were going to pass a bond and use about 900,000 a year over the next 5 years and transfer money from District additional assistance and M we can't no longer do that okay all right any further Chuck yeah I guess just in my own mind to sum up what you showed on that bar graph and um on the uh testing results uh basically we're below the state average in all three categories and we're ahead of our peers in two of the categories but science were lower than our peers it's what it boils down to and um I I guess it concerns me that we're below the state average in all three of them but I think some of that goes to demographics and so forth but um anyway we'll see what this year's thank you m d all right next item go go ahead you're welcome okay next item on the agenda is a consent agenda board after looking over the agenda is there any one item on the consent agenda that you'd like to to take out and vote on independently or shall we just move forward with the consent agenda as it is we're good I'm good we're good okay so can I have a a motion to accept the consent agenda as presented in the agenda so moved I have a motion from Chuck I need a second second from Mark all in favor say I I I all right thank you next item on the agenda is 3.1 recommendation to approve out of state travel um I don't see Bridget here Lauren would you like Mr Webb would you like to just tell us what's going on with that SOA is requesting to depending on how they do in the state competition oh so this is contingent upon the state okay correct let me and I've got a statement here from Jackson Woods I was important I should read from him so I don't want to disappoint Jackson and so let me pull his letter up and when read it says thank you for your consideration of our out of state travel request the trip requested would include travel to Orlando Florida via Phoenix Sky Sky Harbor airport for the national FBLA competition dates on or around June 29th through July 3rd we're expecting anywhere from 5 to seven students and one to two shrs not only is this trip a competition but also a conference with business and life skills workshops from real professionals it also will provide students with a chance to plan their college Futures and to connect with universities around the country I apologize for our absence at tonight's meeting all of the fbl is currently down at Tucson for state competition with hopefully all of us becoming eligible to represent blur and Arizona at this national competition thank you to the board and district for your pre previous unwavering support of fpla program at blidge we greatly appreciate it as it provides so many valuable experiences for our students the conferences we have traveled to in the past have provided amazing learning opportunities for us we hope for the board's support for this trip and as always we appreciate your consideration sincerely Jackson Woods at brhs F president well said yeah that was uh well put any questions about that M check the only comment I can think of is that I'm amazed that they can make that kind of funding through the student store to pay for the trip the student store is doing really well yeah and it's great that they're it they're doing amazing job the the kids are wonderful well we wishing the best of luck in Tucson right now so we have a motion to accept item 3.1 as presented I have a motion from Chuck second from Margaret all in favor say I I all right that looks unanimous also item 3.2 recommendation to approve out of state travel for a trip to Anaheim this would be the senior trip and I don't see any representatives for that so Mr web you are our main man tonight I should have been Megan up here so the senior trip they have decided to senior classes decided to do a trip to Anaheim this year students were aware at the beginning how much they would have to raise and they're coming up with that they they limited the trip to 50 students um due to the charter bus and so they're basing the cost on that the cost of thisp has gone up from the the last time that they went to Anaheim due to the cost of fuel that's the the biggest expense that they're having to cover in the increase in the trip so other than that the trip cost her they trying to keep it as low as they can um whatever areas that they'll do and they'll they have different nights or planning the the big event that is planned for them is the grat night at um Disneyland where it's California Adventure park closes at I believe 9:00 and then it's just seniors and the chaperon until 2: a.m.

just for be later than [Music] that I think James good job [Music] was I came up no will I hey every hello hello hello welcome to Gover Bo so this is our what we call our call we're kind of formal but not a lot but we're going to start with a pledge of [Music] Le I think I saw miss tesso here somewhere would you like to lead [Laughter] us I pledge alance to States great first of all thank you all for coming and you probably see there smell Pizza have Miss here Mr MCG here Mrs alen here Mr and with that is the approval of the agenda when we have there's some items where we just talk about and then there's other items where we have to go through the whole I motion and then vote on it so you'll kind of get to see how little that works which is kind of interesting I think to some extent so your own Mrs Le yes Mrs Amaria yes Mr yes Mrs alen yes Mr yes now we have the call the public and we do have one from the esteemed Mr Steven L em and I have talked about the rules earlier so we're all good to go if you'd like to introduce yourself first okay good evening uh my name is stepen Lane I'm the current director of Transportation here at Continental um next Thursday is my last day so tonight I'm saying goodbye and I'm going to try to hold back tears because it's very very hard for me right now so um Mr President members of the board B administrators staff students and Continental families as I read this letter I'm overwhelmed with a mix of emotions sadness of leaving behind cherished memories and relationships excitement for the new journey ahead and above all gratitude for the incredible experiences we've all shared together over the last 5 years the communal school district has provided me with the opportunities to grow as a professional transform an apartment into a Powerhouse and be mentored by three great administrators Mrs Rico thank you for your guidance and encouragement Mr lean thank you for being there to teach me the wise of being an administrator and the importance of building relationships with students and parents your guidance will be treasured for years to come Mrs quas your passion for teaching and mentoring those around you is like a shiny light that guides a lost ship in a foggy bed when I started at Continental I knew nothing about gardening but as I prepare to leave I now learned one thing about marold I proud to say that I have found my marold and I hope our friendship continues to last for for years to come in the TV series t lasso Ted lasso says the following I hope that either all of us or none of us are judged by the actions of our weakest moments but rather by the strength we show when and if we're ever given a second chance thank you Deanna Roxanna and Steve for giving me that second chance when I truly needed it my Outlook to my own education and professional goals look a lot better today and that's because of your never-ending support in my department it was never about the wins or losses it was about making my drivers and students better people first and foremost to my fantastic bus drivers your unwavering commitment to the Excellence in our job has been the driving force behind our success in the transportation department your creativity professionalism and tireless efforts have transformed challenges into opportunities and I immensely proud of all that we have accomplished together I am grateful for the Friendship support and invaluable Lessons Learned through our collaborations serving as the district's director of Transportation it has been an honor and a privilege beyond words over the years I have been continually inspired by the dedication passion and resilience displayed by each and every one of you on my team please remember the quote on my office wall I am not here I am not here for me I am here for we and we are here for them I have been blessed to have worked with in one capacity or another here at Continental for the last 30 years I will be I will greatly miss the students as they are the reason I chose to get up each and every morning their smiles jokes positive energy and individual uniqueness will forever be imprinted on my heart as I move forward in my next chapter I have one question to ask you know what the happiest animal on earth is it's a goldfish you know why a goldfish has a 10-second memory and I ask all of you to be goldfish next week as I walk into my next chapter thank you well you're a tough back to follow thank you and you weren't here the last meeting thank you that thank you again for your service to con so just remember want a cold there we go all right now on to the fence or some so we had approve the minutes from uh last March 5th Mr M yes Mrs yes Mr that move on to our superintendent's presentation [Music] esteemed I know why I always call you good evening president a members of the board and members of the community and all of our amazing family and students we have a lot of things to celebrate um to show you from our busy end of March and April again you see our vision statement building for the future learning cooperating and caring for all which is what we are all about summer enrichment Camp you should have all received the information and the um the Roo call on summer enrichment cap June 3rd through June 14 current registration we have 27 students who have responded we have capacity for 100 students so please um sign up for summer enrichment have a lot of fun activities planned for our students this summer Foundation sweetheart data update just want to thank again our foundation uh for the wonderful Gala we made $188,000 in profits due to sponsorships and our admissions improved with 170 people attendance our silent auctions were a hit with approximately $6,000 so it's truly a team and Community effort of everyone who supported the sweethart G this year and we want you to stay tuned for the mural that's going to be coming up in the cafeteria here pretty soon getting started where all the students will participate PGC parents governing board members and you see a little picture of what it's going to look like there on the bottom left and that again is going to be funded by our foundation our Continental Foundation artist and residence experience for our students Civics cornhole fundraiser an update we had our third annual cornhole tournament raised over just um $2,600 we have um we had 50 teams registered so cornhole tournaments are the way to go great fundraiser so 43 of our 63 faders are scheduled to go to DC along with 17 adults that GC that include sponsors admin staff members and parent chap room so we're looking forward to a great trip student meetings you'll see our student advisory shirts there on the left from our student Lighthouse team thanks to nurse Moren for the relaxation and stress management te techniques that she presented for the student advisory students and we always pick um employees to receive the Ben's Bell so the kids will write down who deserves to have the Ben's Bell for kindness and the elementary group picked Mr hismus there in the middle you see him thumbs up and the middle school students Mr our PE teacher there on the right hand side parent advisory we had our um our topics discussed for the override options which you'll hear more of later on in the meeting we reviewed our um ala parent and family engagement policy that's also on the agenda for approval today and we're doing a book study on the seven habits of hiding effective families which ties into leader and me so it was great discussion for that as well and thank you to parent advisory committee members we have chairs and co-chairs for our override committee so we're very grateful to our parents who are participating in her advisory staff appreciation days so last week we celebrated Mr Nathan for assistant principal week um they don't have a national director of student services day but serves as the assistant principal in that role Mrs naan for National Librarians day and our Care Professionals um their national day was Wednesday as well but we celebrate them during our teacher appreciation week we truly appreciate this Dynamic duel um you can see the L the leens everywhere working after hours before school weekends and we really appreciate the dedication because it is is a family affair and we often see their their children who are also students here or former students helping out whenever we need something extra done so thank you Christie and um Steve also our programmatic assistants our prayer Pros you see Miss Rosie there on the left and Miss charine who was presented her golden hor show award at our last Bo meeting but we truly could not do it without all of these essential people they really matter and all so thank you Earth Day Green Team event so come and celebrate Earth Day with us on Monday April 22nd from 8:15 to 10:15 um we will have a student assembly and earthday projects for all gr levels to help and participate in so please um parents we'd love for you to come work with us and your students on that day your children we're also having a contest so the class who recycles the most class bottles whether it's your laundry detergent your dish bow any plastic bottle that you have um please bring them in because the classes are going to be telling what plastic we we collect and they'll receive a popcorn and a EG party um for the winners in that contest also we have the recycling blue trash can in the back so please make sure that your uh paper plates they get there and we're also saving the caps as you know we have been um saying that in Mexico they help for children with cancer so there's a little cup back there for you to put your caps in from your water bottles and send those into school as well our special events where our Cults continue to shine thanks to PTC we had our glow wathon how many of you participated in the wathon raise your hand all right good job our kinder students went to the zoo Friday on the windiest day of the year and they were Troopers you can see all of their smiling faces so as you know Wind and Rain rarely affects our students so they had a great fill trip on that day so thank you to the teachers and our fourth grade musical um also occurred so thank you to fourth grade teachers and Missy for their great performance that's also on our live stream so anything you want to see um if you want to go back on the live stream some of our musical are there as well the solar eclipse thank you Mr austr for your generous donation of glasses they were appreciated and put to good use another amazing experience for our Cults and there's a few pictures there um unfortunately all the kids cannot go out at the same time because we are in the middle of testing and um we do not want to end up with our tests all invalidated because of the scho Clips but I was excited because my granddaughter who is in TD said none of the kids are going to get to go outside on this day and I said ours did because they all have glasses so um and also to continue our condent our recycling efforts we're going to ask for glasses to be returned so that we can send them to Latin America for children to enjoy the August 2024 Eclipse so we'll be sending out a message so your purchase is going to be duel okay other kids will benefit as well registration for next school year please make sure you register you haven't already done so again this helps us solidify our sizes arrange our students and make sure that the kids are in the right place in the right grade and um we try to honor parent requests as much as possible so get your registrations in okay that concludes my presentation thank you very much and again it's great to see so many you here today so now probably why you're really here is uh we'll start our introduction of the Cults of the month for students and I believe Mr Le and all right good evening if we could have our Cults of the month come up and make sure you bring your certificate or your your certificate that has the summary of why you were nominated parents and fames please don't be shy to come up and take pictures video [Music] m [Music] w [Music] Dr Robinson says James is kind and helpful to others he has a wonderful sense of humor and a great smile he is safe and responsible and follows classroom roles and procedures and reminds his to do the same [Music] congratulations my [Music] Mrs Salsbury and Mrs Casey say Robert is kind safe and responsible student he has shown so much growth this year Robert is a very motivated kindergartener we are so grateful that we get to learn with you you and watch you grow this year keep up the great work we are proud of you [Music] congratulations Mrs tesso writes Joshua is a kind and gentle student he's always willing to help his class needs Joshua is a wonderful student and a friend congratulations Joshua [Music] Mrs Gracia from kindergarten rights I want to make sure I say name is nice and kind to all of her peers she completes all of her assignments with a huge smile and asks for help when needed she also stays safe and follows all of the safety rules around school I absolutely love teaching her congratulations [Music] Quinn is always kind safe and responsible in music class she's always looking for ways to help others and to be a leader in and out of the classroom Quinn constantly asks others if they're doing well and is genuinely concerned for others wellbe I am so proud of Quinn and she was nominated by our music teacher Mrs [Music] belet my teacher Miss Isabella is kind with her friends always looking out for the sa of everyone she is responsible with her classwork and homework congratulations for miss m so Leila's teacher is Missy get up but she's nominated tonight by Mrs V her Elementary PE teacher Lea is a great student she's always kind and responsible I love having her as my student in class congratulations Lea my name is El and my teacher is this [Music] is such an amazing young lady she works hard every day and never fails to get her work turned in on time she's a great example of being kind to others and sending a great example of what a safe student is thank you for being awesome El congratulations Miss [Music] my Hazel has the sweetest personality and always wants to help others she has been a great classmate to the rest of the girls and is kind to them everyone loves Hazel congratulations Mrs hi and my teacher is Miss [Music] way Audrey has made a huge has made huge improvements and uses her time wisely to study the spelling words and to accomplish her work in a timely manner she's always respectful to me as her teacher and the other teaching staff Audrey is kind and shows kindness to all students and classmates she is extremely safe in the classroom and uses her environment wisely Audrey always tries her best in everything and she works hard congratulations M my name is my teacher Charles always follows our school rules and comes to class each day eager to learn once he's finished with work he frequently takes initiative to help those around him who may be struggle with he shows respect to everyone in class and is very responsible with his SC congratulations this Jasmine is a superstar in our class she has shown growth academically and socially she's always asking to help in our class make sure everyone is safe on the playground and shows responsibility through her homework and classwork duties she sets her goals high and is always eager to learn more Jasmine has set some amazing goals for herself and has met many of them we are all proud of you Jasmine way to go you'll accomplish everything put your heart into and work hard for congratulations Ian has an amazing had an amazing third quarter he is always been tremendously kind and responsible he has an amazing friend group and is known throughout fourth grade as someone who can truly be trusted what I most proud about of Ian is his determination to succeed in the classroom this young man in front of you is reading more and more words solving some pretty difficult fraction equations and can build an awesome Contraption to show the transfer of energy Ian is engaged answering questions and doesn't shy away from asking for clarification this Skittle loving boy who secretly has the best dance moves impressed all of his teachers and I can't wait to see what this quarter brings well done Ian I'm so proud of you love Mrs flow Ladson is an exceptional cult getting to know him has been a highlight of my year lad is respectful to everyone he comes in contact with here at Continental he works hard to learn new Concepts and show what he knows his excitement when he does well shows that he truly cares about his achievements most of all gladson has a kind heart he genuinely cares about others and he shows it this quality alone will help him get far in life keep it up Ladson Creed is a great young man he goes above and beyond in class for his peers the class put on a reader theater and he was kind enough to bring multiple props for his classmates Creed gets along with everyone and makes sure everyone knows he's there to help congratulations this so Adeline was nominated by the middle school team of teachers Adeline is a superior student in many ways she's ready to go every day is extremely organized and works very hard she's not afraid to go the extra mile she's kind to others and works well alone congratulations Madison surprises me every day with the amount of growth she has shown she advocates for herself she works really well with Miss Rosie and she's an overall amazing addition to us all congratulations Madison if we could have all of our FKS come back up take a picture and if they can stay up here while we and bring your certificates spe [Music] pi all right okay so we have decided to honor and recognize our volunteers as well as our employees who received the Golden Horseshoe award and this month we wanted to recognize Kristen and Brett could you please come on up and Brett they are amazing contributors to Continental and like a lot of our parents we always have Continental in the Forefront in terms of trying to apply for Grants trying to help us increase Revenue trying to help build knowledge most importantly for our students ch um Kristen has been essential in helping us during our Earth Day and our plantin and working with our students very active in the preschool in our school General and Brett also help is working with us in the Heritage grant that we received through Arizona game in fish and um he's also at the Sanita experimental range where we've taken our students and we are looking forward to going and continuing to um offer different experiences for our students so we just want to thank you so much for all that you do and for just keeping Continental in your hearts and in your minds con absolutely so long time ago but not forgotten is the day of Co and as many of you know Continental School works really hard to stay in person as much as possible um and we put it out there for some parents to participate and we got all stakeholders in the community to form a committee to write a 74 page document that we had to submit to the federal the county and the state for us to continue to operate and the blums were a part of that team and they never missed a meeting at least one of them was always there and that wasn't true of even us administrators teachers because we have Liv but they made sure that um they were their advocating for their students and your students all the way through so that we met the criteria but we were still a fun safe friendly environment and I contribute a lot of that to them and their passion for raising a child not only in our school but in the community that's loving and kind and we see that in everything that they do for our school from planting sunflowers and and just beautifying our campus and helping with the nature trail so it's very difficult as an administrator to see everything and do everything it's volunteers like this power couple that makes that possible for our school to be what it is and so thank you so much like thank you as well for all the support that you're constantly giving us all over the community we see you at so many places and you're always such a bright light shining so our next award that we're going to do we call it the Golden Horseshoe award um it's kind of like the employee of the month for most places what's very unique about ours is um it's kind of evolved it's gotten to the point where now our the peers decide who this is not management not Mr Rico not ourselves um but everyone on our staff in our campus has the option to put in and select um the individuals um today's going to be a little bit different so what you're going to see is we're going to do one from um last month that wasn't able to be here we're going to recognize them tonight because they are able to be here so we're super excited about this person and so just start off with no further Ado M you could have our preschool director Dr Felicia and Dr Robinson's colleagues WR wrote Dr Robinson has been a delight to work with she stepped into this position new to the school and has been amazing with the students parents and especially the preschool staff we appreciate all her hard work and dedication in making this the best pre she's an amazing addition to our contal family [Music] congratulations hey it's me again so um tonight we're going to honor a couple of my bus drivers for their excellent work and things that they've been doing around campus so I wrote a little something that I want to just say yeah um Luke Hardy Jose corales and Robert who's not here tonight because he's on a field trip right now over sports teams so come and again these were nominations that were done by their fellow bus drivers and staff here around campus so it kind of means a lot when they get the opportunity and I want to say thank you to Jose because tonight's is today is his wife's birthday and they had a special dinner plan they chose to come here instead so we can look back to miss Esther back there just say happy birthday okay it is often said that the work of a school bus driver can be underappreciated but when drivers make meaningful differences around campus and in the lives of the students they transport each and every day appreciation must be abundant the statement could be further from the truth as tonight we celebrate Jose corales Luke Hardy and Robert millish for the difference they are making around campus and on the bus each and every day over the past couple of months these individuals have stepped up dedicated their time in between bus routes to ensure that projects that needed to be completed around campus were not missed or overlooked after the departure of our maintenance technician these three bus drivers stepped up to ensure that our Fields were consistently ready for our athletic teams they worked to retile floors around campus painted a few walls and even participated in a welding project to fix our desk in our science room in the Middle School the dedication of these drivers the dedication these drivers show was not only for students but to make sure our campus look great when visitors came to visit these dedicated individuals are there for our students giving them a greeting when they get on the bus in the morning and bidding them a fond farewell as they get off the bus in the afternoon the bus becomes like a family and the drivers get to know their kids and do the best they can to make a little bit of difference for them each and every day the school bus is there in the rain and the Sunshine and their job is to get the kids to school safe safely and happy and these guys do it every day they accomplish this incredible Duty with Amazing Grace and talent that is like no other and our students are better for getting to know our bus drivers bus drivers are hard to find with many drivers becoming bus drivers simply to look for a job in between careers or if because they want to get back to the community I can I can assure you that these drivers we are honoring tonight are here because of our students and the difference they make for them school bus drivers are a very unique group of people and I couldn't be prouder of them for the example they set when they come to work I am very lucky to have been able to work alongside these caring talented and professional people for the past five years they are simply the best tonight we say thank you for being our bus drivers and I ask all of you what's your superpower please join me in thanking and congratulating these bus drivers tonight as they represent the very best of what being a cult really means I'd like to say that that um and Robert just like they greet the students in the morning many times they're greeting me in the morning and saying good night to me in the evening and I really love you guys and appreciate you because you're always checking in on us in the offices around the campus you're always saying hey is there anything we can do is there anything we can do to help and I just hope you know how appreciated you are thank you these these three specific we we're so lucky here all of our drivers are amazing every one of them and they all help out in their own way at their own time um I'll personally say this last three months has probably been the hardest three months of my 16 years working here atal school um along with getting through third quarter pushing getting ready for all the promotion all the stuff e grade um our a maintenance technician um it was best that time where he felt he need to move on and I picked up a lot of those rules and I tried to do it by myself for a little while and then Mr Curtis helped out a lot and our team came together and at the end of the day these these three specifically they never said anything but they saw me drowning and when we were getting ready to go to um to Disneyland we left I don't remember what day but the day before I was here mowing the Lawns until 9:30 at night the football field because it was about me high and these guys found out about it and I got as far as I could and I knew I had to go home and sleep because I had to take a bunch of kids to Disneyland on jazz concert stuff and when I came back every lawn was mow the weeds that were around campus had been weed with and since that day I haven't got on the long Mower and it's because these guys they they're are bus drivers and they see something that needs to be done and they go and they do it and what a great example not only to me but to our students to their families to our community of endless service And when they see something they do it and I love that in employees where we don't have to go ask and tell them and here's another one so now that he's here I'll talk about his part we're we're coming into baseball softball season once again that's normally the grounds maintenance technician's job um he saw the need that the grass had totally overtaken the infs and so with pickaxes with hulao um with Robert leaving the helm on that these three went out and they cleaned that up they brought in gravel they smoothed it out they dragged it they borrowed my fourwheeler and made beautiful and I didn't have to lift a finger and it was fantastic and so just what selfless service that you're willing to give to all of our students above and beyond yourselves and all forever be in your debt and and grateful for the time the effort um that you and your families have sacrificed to be a great part of this Continental School award for employee of the month nominated by their colleag is Miss and Miss Knight's colleag right Mrs Knight has come to us as a first time special education teacher and middle school teacher in the same year in this short amount of time Mrs Knight has built an amazing relationship with her students where she's able to push them not only academically but also in their personal lives to become contributing members of society Mrs Knight has built relationships not only with students but also with the families that she serves she's a great addition to our Continental family and we're fortunate to have her as part of our team she's done an amazing so these are multiple people she has done an amazing job with our resource middle school students she's worked very hard to build up her skills adequately to write up students IE Miss Knight goes above and beyond to help the students and staff she's been such a great asset to our school she checks in on staff members to see how they're feeling and if they need anything Miss Knight is pushing for a healthier living style among the staff and is willing to help anyone or give advice when needed we are so happy she's joined our staff and has become a member of the family [Applause] congratulations so I just want you to help me give one great big round of applause to our rock stars at this time if you would like to scoop closer to get a picture of your child that would be just fine all right tired everybody say pizza [Music] pizza all right thank you everybody we Tak a five minute recess some pizza feel free to stay or not Al spe [Applause] you by [Music] conratulations [Music] [Applause] [Music] aome good job man you want a [Music] picture okay this leads us into the consent [Music] agenda I to approve agenda it's a pretty big one any discussion Mrs Le yes Mrs EMAs yes Mr MCG yes Mrs Alan yes Mr Al and I'm yes so the district financial report Mr schuber So within your packet is our the district financial report the same one that I give you every time um I will let you do your thing and open it up for questions could you summarize maybe any um big things change anything over budget under budget five oh sorry I mooved to approve the district report I second sorry now it's discussion done I violated the rules but we always do that Financial so with that shooter is there anything that stands out that you're a little nervous about or you had to move money from here to there I mean not every $5 or well we're tracking we're tracking the way that we we thought we would we are getting down the wire after we did that giant budget cut back in December you know things are are getting slim um we still have the funds to meet all of our obligations and and meet payroll and everything else so we are tracking just like we thought we would do you want to address the the federal the UN cut the grants yeah the Federal grant that they so have for and they took way you might explain I so within um the esa Grant we had to cut $47,000 out of our Title One funding um this is a federal thing this wasn't something that we did here or wasn't something that the state did locally um that funding decrease was based solely on the level of poverty Within our our School District boundaries um and my biggest fear is within the State of Arizona we're going to continue to see Cuts within title one simply because we just keep raising the minimum wage every January and the federal property level doesn't change so the more we increase the the the minimum wage The Wider that Gap gets between the federal partty level and we just will continue lose funding within one so correct me if I'm wrong I understood that we already had that money allocated that they committed to us so to speak and then basically said oh sorry you're not meet these guidelines so now we want you only get 40,000 less so according to the feds what we're given is just an estimate until the final all the final allocation don't cast the check itself true yes yes and final allocations didn't come in until April and we budgeted for the whole thing yes that's where we were keep the okay so that's 40,000 which will then translate into further discussion later on down so typically we use um Title One to pay for summer school and so when we had to increase the budget we typically plan for 46,000 for summer school so now we cut it down to two weeks instead of three weeks and we are using tax credit funds and as an enrichment so we can tap into the club the undesignated tax credit funds that we have to pay for some enrichment it seems to me to be a little bit of a kind of a gamble that they're giving you estimates and then by the way don't spend it all it never has been in the past this is the very first time I have ever seen uh federal grants decrease especially is that not 90 days prior to it has to be used prior to the end of the year yes that's to me that seems a little I yes there was plenty of conversation of what if we were running summer school in July and I already spent all that money well okay so there's my next question then what and then we have an IOU that we have to pay back $40,000 no they will require us to move that money into another fund to only pay what we were wanted oh for the record I don't like that at all so now we're going to be a year behind basically with those funds or you got to estimate we're only going to get half I mean how do you do it next year so they the grants for next year are already open okay and we have the budget to the penny with what's in the grant right so if right now if the grant is what 77,000 with Title One yes so we we have to budget to that 77,000 and then we will get an increase from any Title One funds that were left over from this year roll over so we'll get that increase and then we'll probably find out in April that we get to to cut it by $60,000 and if you remember every year we've been trying to be better at spending our money so that we don't have that much carry forward in the last couple of years so I we've charged our directors to spend the money on what we said we needed because if we have too much carry forward then it looks like we don't need it right so this year we did great at spending what we said we needed and yet we were still cut so so before they give us the final amount we are required to earmark every dollar yes we can do that well we done that and that's they don't they have to be in an approved State before we can start to spend yeah and the only way they approve it is if we have it down to the penny on what we're going to spend our money on so well now we know that's what we got to do for next year so and we have to have all that done by July 1 how hard is that well it's not hard to do yeah it's not hard then it's hard to to prioritize right we're gonna have to going to be cautious in what we spend so that we're not in this situation in April so next year you're going to designate it for have wiggle room just in case we don't get it on well I mean right now I mean we use title one for summer school that's the biggest expenditure that we use title one for and we've run title school or we've run title School we've Run summer school in June so a giant lump sum of the funding that we say we're getting from title one is just sitting there waiting to be spent until it gets to that point so it's a good thing we spend it in June and July so we have that opportunity in June rather than July yes make sure the check even goes through so yes well we contemplated do we do we have jump start in July so that we use next year's Fundy right but we felt that we needed um we had been talking to our parents about offering summer school about at least if we can do two weeks of enrichment versus nothing at all and saara um they charge for summer school so their title probably less than ours in terms of what schools qualify in the district to be Title One schools so they charge but they charge I can't remember we saw the fire was like 150 dollars a course in the summer for the same three weeks and the same days that we offer orig with our original plan so we talked we discussed that also do we get to the point where we have to start charging a couple years ago we did charge for the enrichment portion because we used title funds for the kids who were academically at risk who needed it so we kind of tossed up be tough too had a conversation about that so we decided worst case scenario will be able to use tax credit funds for the en so reality is you can't count on that money period you just can't they're gonna pull the rad out from underneath you got to pretend you're count and then on the flip side of that so on the flip side of that we're getting more money within idea which is a special ed Grant so we're losing money for Title One kids because of the poverty level but we're getting more special needs kids where we need to get more fund so that was $18,000 extra that we had to budget for so we had to put that out to the penny and then I think preschool got $100 extra that we had to budget for so we added it to materials but everywhere else was cut yeah I'll talk to you later when I used to sell the FED govern because at the end of the fiscal year it was use it or lose it and so that's when most of my sales in October that's I'm saying right or wrong that's how it work all right thank you um Mrs so Mrs Leber yes Mrs amaras yes Mr MCG yes Mrs Ellen yes Mr a yes and now a discussion item are you're up again yeah I mean there's no way to clear out a crowd than to talk about school Finance right so this is the annual School District budget or School District spending report that's presented by the auditor General's office um you would have had this last meeting but the day that it came out was the actual day of the meeting so it was to get this on there and Mr Ferguson will have this posted on our District's website tomorrow so that it will be there for everybody um are you able to rotate that so this is showing how the district spends its money uh within classroom spending 64.4% of our every 64.4% of our budget went to the classroom and 35.6% went to non classro spending um as you go to the next page um it just kind of gives you a historical trend on where we've at as far as um classroom spending goes um last year we were at 56.8 this year we're at 54.4 um in 2009 we as high as 62% and in 2015 as low as 53% on the next page it's a more of a bar graph showing you the increases and decreases in each um area um you can see that instruction which is Teachers themselves went down 0.1% student support went up 2.4 and instructional support down 1.4 and then within the non-classroom spending the only thing that went up with food service and transportation Transportation will most likely continue to go up as long as we keep you know buying diesel vehicles diesel is $4 or more a gallon um the next page it's just a Dollar by Dollar breakdown of the spending per pupil area so um nothing really standing out as far as this page the next page is comparing state state and peer averages to the to the district um you can see that on under Administration spending per student is high here at the district um students per administrative position you can see that below the pier and the state average uh plant operations we are very low um square foot per per student so we have 205 Square fet per student um our within Food Service we're comparable with everybody else between the states and our and our peers and about 147 meals per student under transportation um we spend about $586 per mile which is comparable to the state and the our peer average and spending per Rider is higher than our state care Greg can you talk about um the administrative piece and why it's high for who they consider because it's it's the director so the administrative pieces would include um all of our directors it would include our our preschool director it includes special need special education director Transportation director uh Mr Miss quis and Mr blon M Rico myself so our entire administrative team is who was considered underneath the administration T does that it's also it's also going to include um folks like May Ali who is an administrative assistant um Mrs Curtis who's an administrative assistant to Mr lean and miss quas and it's also going to include you know HR as well since that's also a director level position so when you when people say we are administratively heavy we're not exactly administratively heavy I mean if we were our students per administrative position would be much higher right plus we're a smaller school we still need to we still need to have the same things we still need to have the same people in place as a t us thank you you're very welcome uh average teacher salary um our average teacher salary is $ 56,216 from classroom site fund which is the money um compared to the state average it's below the state average by just over $900 a year 20% and is taking into consideration 301 that is not taking into consideration 301 okay that is straight salary okay well that's not a fair comparison well so if you look it so what they are saying is that at our 56021 the the state average is the 626,000 but if you add the 301 money ours looks better that but they get 301 money too it's it all depends depends on how I know it depends on how it's reported and everything else so so if it is a straight shot straight into teacher salary you know how we do 20% to their Bas and then 80% into performance well if they flip that if it's 80% into their base then that teacher salary gets inflated does that make sense gota doesn't help any recruiting brochure sure it makes recruiting a little more makes your elevator pitch a little longer sure right yeah that's what I was looking for yes so here at Continental the average years of teaching experience is 12.4 years we have 14% of our teachers that are teaching within their first three years and 86% of our teachers are in their fourth year of teaching of L we are averaging just under 16 students per teacher so there's part of our elevator pitch that is that that does look good that's great um if you go to the next page it gives you the average teacher sub salary compared to the the state average there you go so that brown bar at the bottom is what was paid out in 301 monies all righty and this is from 2017 to 2023 in Greg 301 money is to [Music] continue far as we know it is in perpetuity it's it got passed by the legislature so that's remember the discussions that we've had in the past about the aggregate spending limit well because of the way that they approved 301 301 was now included in the aggregate expenditure limit before it wasn't so yes I may if I may add to that it's in perpetuity if the state trust fund to maintain it's based off of the sales tax so it's based off a lot of fees though State trust System state I mean among many others but that that system has to function collecting you know appropriate income to make it happen yes the state land trust that's the reality it's not some pie in the sky there's always give a pot of money I'd love to say that there will but the reality is is that or they'll find something else to do with it's the unfortunate reality um in the last couple pieces of this is just um some student achievement and um district and peer group and Statewide passing percentages within Ela science and math and that is the auditor General's District spending report beautiful well I guess that will take us to the next exciting episode of the second reing of the districtwide family engagement the a I'm sorry even more good stuff all right so our district a is has finally concluded um I I just want to remind the board that um when you are making your motion your motion needs to read like it says of in the rationale in the quotes that is a requirement from ARS as a ARS okay so once you do make your motion that is what the motion needs to be um we had a very good audit um so good that that you are publicly accepting the audit say I move to publicly accept all audits question so we had a very very good audit we had a total of nine audit findings nine yeah it was nice that you all didn't call me to come sit in on the review well the review didn't take very long couple years ago they called us that that's that's that's a call every year they only ask for one or two members um with that I will let you do your thing with the with your motion and second and open it up to discussion after that I move to accept all Audits and compliance questionnaires by roll call vot second get a second um M Ric M Rico yes um did anything stick out with you that on the audit that you think we might need to like pay attention to no just the fact that I really want to commend our team because as you know in our past audits we really worked hard to um keep track of um doing better at cash on hand receipts receiv receiving um giving receipts to kids depositing daily and that was something that they commented on that it's where that the school um doesn't receive the finding on on checks not being deposited with himself right and so we have corrected so that's where we have refined and corrected our on processes and and also separating um Christina you know separation of Duties we're now with Miss Alonso having help from Mrs Curtis has really helped um in separating duties and in um office management Eva in the office and Joel with all of our registrations and um uh Christy stole in working with our student data has been amazing so I really think that the team was um has worked really hard and consciously made some um some changes that have helped us so the Auditors were I think they were surprised um that especially for them this was their first audit of us right so so they're going to be a little bit more niic deeper things and to be quite honest I mean I think the biggest issue that we had on this audit was within student attendance where information that we were reporting to the state as far as H partial and half day absences was a simple fix as much as checking a check box within our student information system and you told him we had a new IT guy take a yeah you but that that's it's you know something like that that we were able to fix right on you know right away I mean it was still a lot of finding because they found it um we had another issue with the reporting EST State data where we had reported you know within our information system we had reported that these kids had withdrawn but as it uploaded to the state it showed that they were still here so I mean this wasn't in US issue this was a a software issue you but that also is resolved there were zero findings in transportation which is huge Mr yes and there were zero findings zero findings within payroll there were zero findings within service um so sounds like Well Done yes yeah everybody did a great job of of going through you know learning from past Audits and and correcting what we can correct and cross training so it's been good because when that time didn't know I so I know I remember that being a big discussion couple years ago cross training and having to separate duties when you only have three people it's like okay who who's going to do this because we only have you know so many people who can count money so yeah so good job team well so we violated the discussion no we just haven't voted yet okay Mrs yes mrsas yes Mr MCG yes Mrs Allen yes Mr Al and just to confirm that the governing board is accepting the fiscal year 2023 Financial audit and I do confirm as a yes publicly accepted publicly accepted and now the second reading of the districtwide family community engagement HS so as mentioned at our last meeting we um reviewed with our parent advisory the district white family community engagement policy we um cleaned up the document and um Everybody agreed we had a good discussion at parent advisory and in terms of things that we do and what we can do better and what was stated it was good conversation and that um really trying to see where are we getting our biggest bank bar buck and what can we as parents and as a staff do in order to ensure that students are reading at grade level and are increasing their comprehension we spoke at length about the title one District parent teacher student compact that teachers get every year and um we do have Miss Hansen here so she can um answer any questions if you'd like but we discussed that if there were one or two things and we kind of just narrowed it down to one thing if there's one goal that we want parents to do with their kids is read with your students ask comprehension questions if we could challenge our Middle School parents to read the chapter books that kids are reading in middle school so that they can have those meaningful conversations with them in terms of what they're reading so we're going to work at our next meeting on Thursday at looking at the title one parent Compact and either Bolding eliminating but we figure Ness is more and what can we have our parents commit to doing um to help our students um achieve academically in that realm and in title one with Federal programs they have if you'll see they all the districtwide family community engagement policy components so these are things that normal Title One schools and all schools in general are supposed to include right to include fames um what we're also looking at is how do we bring in families that aren't participating that usually it's the same parents that show up um all the time so how do we need to be better at tracking what parents are showing up at making those personal invites um for parents who aren't to make sure that they do feel welcome and that they are involved um with what's going on through leader and me we do have to do another survey so that'll also help us in parent advisory and as a school look at additional things that we may need to do a little bit differently but I thought it was great conversation um that we had in parent advisory and great feedback so we are presenting this to you for approval which will also be on our website once it's approved motion are we approving it an approval next month no so it should it's appr action discussion yes so we have the first read last month and I wanted to so it's approval please I move to approve the districtwide family community engagement policy second I would like to thank you for your help and your assistance I mean a lot of that stuff it's hard it takes a lot of time and you know I I've been through stuff like that not this one but it's tough thank you guys so thank you Mrs Le yes mrsas yes Mr MCG yes Mrs alen yes Mr and I just want to add that in the attachment is the parent teacher student compact that we'll be looking at just for your reference so you'll know next month but the policy is all that's being approved right now and on to the 301 plan for next year this is an thought you was going to be long I so before you you have the 301 plan for next year committee has worked on along with Mrs quas um it stayed pretty similar except for we did add leader and me as a uh committee correct Mrs S yes what were what were the other changes [Music] there was something with politics Mr L I believe I had to do with our can you come to the podium please with1 comme to discuss changes yes so for us well the first thing was we discussed which you hadn't mentioned in reference to um in reference to us having leader in me because we have to have many components with that and people that are um it's the actual committee as we started to learn Midway through our year and we had teachers who were helping us this year but we discussed as very that would be important to add that into in addition to our and thentics everything else pretty much stayed the St so for athletics we tried last year or this year rather to reduce some of the teachers workload a little bit and so it used to be that they had to do two sports supervision throughout the school year plus two track meets in fourth quarter and so what happened this year is we reduced that to one sports supervision and we um reduced it to one track me um as as more schools are coming in and so what we've done for the sports supervision for next year we've noticed once we've hit fourth quarter now we're short teachers so we're a short supervision and that can be felt and seen if you go to the baseball games as it's kind of myself run around trying to do it some days we do have people getting their one in and so we found that that wasn't enough and especially um good news for you I think I talked about this earlier this school year but we're adding an additional sport next year boys volleyball is coming to the Southern Valley league and so it's just more important now we'll have before all the sports are outside now we'll have an inside sport fourth quarter as well because that's what was taking place four sporting teams going active in fourth quarter and so we're going back to the two because we just didn't have um enough manpower to finish out through the fourth quarter with that we are able to keep it at one triack and so we were we're able to keep it there and so that's kind of the the main changes and the reasoning behind it and the committee has vetted it through this the committee worked on it vetted it to the teachers so they've already seen it as well okay thank you Mr discussed Itor I moveed to approve the 301 plan for second I I have a quick comment before we vote um given that the 301 committee is comprised of teachers and FedEd by the rest of the teachers this is a lot of work to receive that that bonus if I was a teacher I think I would just count it out um they already do so much so I think that really it really says a lot that they they find contributing to the school that important that they're risking so much of your salary for it so Kudos and I think in rural schools because you are limited and we still have all these functions and you don't have a lot of District Personnel to be at all of these events um it really does help us because we really couldn't do it without teachers um and the extra duties that they're doing to help us ensure safety and I mean we can do the family nights that title one requires without the teachers committed to helping us put them together go to ATT track me you'll see it's chaos it's organized chaos but then all right Mrs Le yes mrsas yes Mr mg yes Mrs Alan yes Mr okay I'm yes all right Fire Security Electronics uh motion to approve the money that we got from no it's so this is that sfb project that I was telling you about okay um so this is just looking for the approval to issue a purchase order in the amount of $ 82,83 87 this is that state fund yes this is an SFP project I'll move to approve the purchase of the fire security electronics and Communications I'll second it is this the one that got shorted out St it's it's had issues with multiple things Miss Mrs Le yes Mrs amaras yes Mr M yes Mrs M Alan yes M okay now we get to talk about insurance so Greg has a nice story about this which mayor should have a happy ending few years back well hang on let's go to protocol it's discussion it is discuss okay sorry nice trve so a few years back we had within our insurance they were coming back to the 15 %c increase and we were able to talk them back down to a 10% and even at that and you know it's still a big increase but we were running a loss ratio on our insurance at like 170% um the following year we are able to reduce that loss ratio down to 142% but they still hit us with a 15% increase and there was no talking about of it so through the hard work of Mrs Rico Mrs Alonzo and myself we had rearranged our plan design we had you know changed some things up within the plan itself and we were currently running at an 82% loss ratio which is a phenomenal turn around so with that we were expecting an insurance increase within that five to 7% range they came back and said no it's the smallest rate that we're get rate increase that we're giving across the board is 88.7% which was an additional $44,000 a year on our healthare insurance so I asked them if they would reconsider and because of all the work we had done and everything else that we've had to go through this year they said no you can take it or leave it so I've instru I instructed our gallager who is doing helps us out with our benefits to go out for bid I wasn't accepting 88.7% and that to make sure that as bate and maritane also got a copy of the invitation it so that they knew that we were serious um yesterday I was informed that as bit maritan they did put in a bit for the exact same amount that they gave us for our our renewal this morning I get a phone call and maritain is wanting to know what type of an increase we're looking at to stay and I told them that we were expecting less than a 5% increase so they've asked us if we would stay if they gave us a 5% increase and a 5% cap on an increase for the following year so so while we still have a bid out we will most likely be signing this tomorrow yeah that's that's nice yeah so according to the folks over at Gallagher who again the ones that help us out with our insurance ASB and maritane have never come back when a when a when a district says that they're leaving that they're going out for bid but then I asked her did anybody ever send asbit maritan an invitation to it she said no so I wanted to make sure they knew that I wasn't messing around like no I'm serious we're leaving good job so sounds as much as I hate seeing an increase in healthare it's not a $44,000 increase what is the 5% so since I just found out today at 4:30 I don't know I I couldn't tell you what they are for the different plans that's got to be in the 20s right yeah but I don't have an exact figure that I can give you okay so yeah that was our good news of the day our good news of the so with that we've got our discussion on the m&o so we're going to follow protocol so this is the the override that we've talked about 14 to 15% so we can motion and vote on the 14 and 15 discuss it so let's just say we motion to approve 15 right and if that then we redo it and go do the same rig morall to follow protocol for the 14 you see I practiced this I didn't write it down I think the whole protocol ridiculous but I move to approve a resolution to move forward with the renewal of a with a new 15% and an over that right I'll second so now it's discussion time so Greg do you want to give us a little English about dollar amounts um I can do that but I've also got in the back Mr James Gil from Gus rosenfelt and I probably said your name wrong again for the hund time it doesn't matter I know every time we do this I mispronounce your last name you got Jam yes I wrote it down um so he will be the attorney working with us on our override so he is also here aable answer questions and talk more about the override as well um just to give you some background though if we go out for a 15% override that estimated amount of that override is $620,000 for the first year what that does for taxes is it goes from a 12 cents per $100 of net assessed valuation on secondary tax purposes to 133 C so the difference in taxes is a penny per $100 in net assessed valuation on the secondary tax so on an average house of whatever it is what is that I think the average home the secondary net is 220 they said 200,000 Mr said 200,000 200,000 the assess rate is not the same as your value right it's the secondary the secondary valuation um I don't have the secondary num FR so it's it's it's basically all we're doing is we're adding a penny to the tax rate 12 point what to what I'm sorry it'll go from 12 cents per 100 to 13 cents and this will go into effect the same year that bogus property tax thing doesn't didn't that come off it goes off so the election would be in November and then we wouldn't see the correction from the property tax until a whole year after yeah this would this this override would take place July 1 with our July 25 budget and I just wanted to add that in um like I mentioned that I would with parent advisory and have them get fill for what they were thinking in terms of speaking to uh neighbors and relatives and people in in our boundary so of the parent advisory members um along with the chair and the co-chairs who have said that they would be chairing this committee um they were in agreement of doing the 15% there were um two who said 14% with be what they would recommend uh the staff only um of all the staff that responded to everybody saying 15% two said 14% so that's in terms of pulling the staff and our parent advisory and um so that was information I had so and what have you seen when justs try to um increase right this esecially just 1% one penny um are they having success rates don't know Mr President members of the board Jim R your election counsel good question I we don't keep data like that I mean that's more of the function of the bankers your financial advisor um they typically keep um statistics on that um I can tell you it's not very common to increase your override just because most districts are already at the maximum anyway 15% I mean 15% is by far the most common in the old days we used to have a 10% and a 5% but now everyone's pretty much at 15% me the vast majority of districts so I would say every few years one of and I work on you know at least 20 of these override elections a year Statewide plus another 20 Bond elections um and I would say every two to three years we have a district in this situation where they're thinking about increasing and I have seen just sort of anecdotally a difference in the success rate I mean generally you're at you know 2/3 to 3 quarter success anyway um and I don't think it really changes much um if you're if you're increasing especially 1% the difference really just I I didn't hear it mentioned tonight so I'll mention it um on your ballot um the ballot language is different for the 15% versus the 14% on the ballot for the 15% we've got to say budget increase so that's sort of the penalty for for increasing it even though it's just a penny it's still an increase and so we can't say this is not a property tax increase ever because in fact it is um if if you go with the 14% then you can use the more favorable continuation language which is what most districts get to use because they are just continuing their their 15% right exactly but you know you might wonder if not now then when you know so but once you get to the 15% then in four or five years when you do it again you can say continuation so you know at some point you you may need to do that and so maybe this is the right time for that but in general overrides are successful uh we probably I I think last year we were at about a probably 75 to 80% success rate Statewide for overrides and Bonds were similar which was unusually high I think voters generally understand the need for funding uh local school districts uh for both open Capital and for um maintenance and operation thank you but I don't know if you know when we did that last time we lost by one 2016 was 2016 yeah two yeah and yeah certainly I mean districts districts lose every cycle we see it um and it always hurts I mean a lot of districts have taken the approach of going out a year early so that's what okay so go out in year four so if you fail um you've got another year um before it really hits that's a pretty common strategy if I could just mention on the resolution it may be a little confusing we do have we do have some wording in there that indicates it could possibly be an all male ballot election we don't think it will be um we think it will be a pulling Place election working with the county but we have to include we feel we have to include the all mail ballot language give ourselves flexibility if anything changes at the county at the legislature we don't have to race back to you to get the authority to do it as an all mail ballot but we fully expect in a general election year it's going to be a PO Place election like it is every general election year thank you thank you no I'm just saying we'll get more people voting yeah that's the thought so the thought is is when we The Campaign Committee is I mean Steve talked about diesel cost I mean everything is more expensive go to Safeway right we all know Walmart whatever and the talk of the funds that we're losing we couldn't give the teachers raises this year because we were were short handful of students you know in a small school like this how much the difference between a 14 and a 15 is $37,000 I mean that's a lot of coin for us I mean the thing is the Green Valley population has a higher turnout for voting and they don't care about us some of them do but most of them don't but if we're giving ourselves a year wiggle room I do 15 we're really going to have to um make sure they understand that that tax hike they had this year is I know so we got some press don't understand but nobody's whining about how many calls do we get about the they're whing artificial tax to us but they're I had five six calls right after it happen right after the paper helped us we got out in front of it and this actually I think that is probably a good thing that happened because we say more we fix that because you're gonna your taxes are going down yeah so give us a penny kind of no and I think when people look at education on the ballot yeah education Fire Department police you know when they look at something they don't understand like giving legislators a raise you know they don't like that um but when it's lot of people because when we do our education and you know thank you for anybody that's helping with the campaign you only get to five to 10% of people are going to pay attention right dream about well to to our campaign and we are going to have multiple issues on the ballot we would have the override issue and we've got the reelection of three board members so then we're going to have multiple issues on the ballot anyway and also in speaking with our admin team it was um we have a lot of our admin team members our parents here and have their kids at our school so that also opens up the opportunity for them to speak as parents whenever we meet to have these conversations or these meetings at the large Park I know um last time um Mr Dayan organized at the large Park him and Mr Ferguson were there and their parents so um I think that having the commitment of our teachers that also live in monetta Hinman are going to be essential which is the conversation um we had at our staff meeting with them and I think people are really feeling that like Mr a was stating with the loss of funds and not being able to give teachers a raise that the feeling is we have to at least try got to do something I no I think especially with that that year buffer we gave ourselves and what are you going to use that extra 1% for well who knows I it could be for raises you know ask so what are we um $37,000 if they keep cutting our federal funding it's going to have to go towards materials and supplies and summer school and you know wherever they cut our budget I think it's so we can keep the math specialist the art teacher we don't have an art teacher but the The Specialist and then all of a sudden you want to have one science teacher and instead of two Etc you know do you want us to start cutting teachers it keeps the staff that we have in place and it doesn't sound like $37,000 is a lot of money for TD isn't a big deal right that's they sneeze that but for us you know missing 10 15 kids we couldn't give raises that was $150,000 and we did discuss um prior to like the need for a gifted teacher but again you know it when we're having these types of budget cuts all around it's very hard to talk about additional staff when we weren't able to give our teachers raises um and insurance rates are going up and federal funds are being cut and we're using taxit that would be the one verbage that we need to really um tag that the federal funding is being cut because I mean if we say that that's just going to keep keep us even then yeah I mean it's going to just keep us even the 1% increase so we can sit on the committee but we can't really actively participate in the the override committee well Ty and typically what happens is a PowerPoint is put together with the basic facts of exactly what with along with the committee on what we're going to present to different parents like when I presented at different compies that homeowners um my patient wherever we go to educate the community so that'll be our outre but Outreach but everybody will have the same power so that we Del correct me if wrong I think you're about to say the same thing once you guys say yes all we can give the public are facts right and that's it we can't give opinion we can't try to sway them we can't use any District resources you know you as board members us as staff it's facts and that's it yeah well um the only thing I would add on to that is that the the board does have the opportunity in fact you're required to submit Pro statement as a board and I don't think they're being asked to approve that tonight right no they're okay so that'll be on a on a subsequent board agenda you'll have an up to 200 board Pro statement that you as a board will agree on you know in a public meeting and you'll get the first pro statement in the voter information uh ahead of anyone else um unlike on a bond election where you may not submit a pro statement as a Bo on an override you have to so it's a little strange thing and a new thing now is it has to be notorized correct well you yours doesn't but individuals who submit Pro or con statements have to get a notorized okay so the board statement does not does not have to be notorized right um but we'll do it with a regular we'll give you like a onepage resolution you'll put the the board's Pro as exhibit a and then that'll satisfy the county that it was an action of board but uh but you as board members don't lose your ability to act on your own behalf not on the district's behalf to advocate for the election if you choose to um but the typical typical warning is um you have to be aware of Statute 15511 and you're not using District resources to persuade or promote the election so and a district resources are as broad as you can imagine it's it's your it's your computers laptop cell phones District staff time letterhead postage anything that's all off limits to you just as it is to any staff member Administration or anyone with access to those resources those resources may not be used promote the outcome persuaded on the election so just be cogntive into that if that if the district does do something outside like kind of talking points or frequently ask questions out side of the voter information pamphlet that that all draft if you do something extra I would like the opportunity to review it just so I can you know I'm pretty neutral with these things so I I usually find something that can be um where I see some minor overstepping if you will um we try to stay away from you know this is necessary this is critical you know we just try to tell the story but without trying to you know persuade folks to to support us we feel like you have the facts on your side so if we stick to the ta that's usually persuasive in and of itself okay so I could be so for example if I'm in a meeting with say 15 people I could just say on a personal note you're going to see this coming up and just give kind of the clip notes view that's okay sure so in a meeting just with the public yeah not yeah yeah I mean a general disclaimer I think is always helpful that you're speaking on your own behalf and not on behalf of the district not in your position as board president but as just a member of the public here's what I think um so that's that's perfectly fine you don't lose your your ability to talk to people about the election just because of your positions you know but it is important that if you are going to be talking and giving your opinion that you say something like my own personal opinion not the opinion of the board is this right makes perfect sense and then what do we do when it doesn't pass or if it doesn't pass means next year next year we go back we try to 15 we have the same discussion okay and again it seems like a lot of work for $37,000 for us it's a lot of money Mrs Le yes M maras yes Mr MCG yes Mrs alen yes Mr now luckily this is just discussion the short version of the policy yes so as you see the policies they're just for first read and you um you have them already and you'll notice that a lot of the verbiage I think with the whole asba controversy of policies and them being uploaded and school districts submitting their policies you'll see a lot of the language is changed to the district Sha of May versus shell giving giving the districts more autonomy to making decisions in terms of policy and having it so they're pretty straightforward there weren't any that um I was alarmed with but if you review them and decide that you want to have a study session a short stud study study session to review any other policies prior to the next board meeting let me know and we can do that okay but they're all pretty straightforward there wasn't anything aing well okay now we have the events we got another meeting before 8th grade kindergarten graduation all that fun stuff yes and I will um make sure that you receive calendar invites from Nai on those promotions for preschool Kinder 8th grade if you haven't already done so can I well I actually sent the calendar inite so you guys have access to all the school events you just have to ass I don't know you saw you saw it right so you click add to my calendar and then you have access to all of the school events I can I can help you see I know but I don't use that I'm going to send you another email address if you can do that it's easier so we don't have to manually put it other calendar is April 16th we have school that day noing ail it's just the 19th right it says the 16th here but it's the it's it's here twice tce the good thing there's no kids here I think since it's on the agenda we should have I would think so I right roll call inor it is it is April 19th spring call Ang school why did that change from Good Friday to to we typically follow um sa FAL calendar but we've always had Good Friday so did you ask know so what happens is we've tracked attendance and they have also and noticing the attendance is the same whether we give Good Friday or not and because we were just coming off of spring break we didn't want to have another day right after spring break and really um that break in April because of testing comes at a good time so that's yeah the reasoning for not having Good Friday but next year we have is it on next year no next year is the same thing it's in it's in April as well following the Ser calendar if anything there's um attendance is worse on Monday after [Music] Easter and there's our Earth Day project April 22nd you saw I don't know if you saw in the newspaper the Green Valley News the Birch family um Susan Birch that's spearheading the Green Team and they have come to us to ask us about having a Green Team and we had started our recycling efforts years ago so it's a good way to kind of rejuvenate and continue our recy by Officer Marcel yes and and there we go Marcel Fox his ranger outfit Ranger duties thank you and he's also working hard in our science department and with our nature trail and with thir so thank you so with that with any discussion we'll start at the end Miss yes no discuss just I I have a couple things um because I wasn't here last month um I just wanted to give some kudos for the third grade musical my daughter who has graduated was there and even she was like this is way better than anything we ever did um very well very appropriate songs picked out ni short was war um next Mr Lane I am very sorry to see you go that was a surprise to me today um I've been telling my husband after pretty much every meeting for the last year that you were gonna get poached and tonight I get to go home until him it finally happen very sorry to see you go because I went to college I'm sorry see what education gets us um I as a parent of a rambunctious boy who rode the bus I knew the moment you started your job um I got a call that my son had been writing long bus for like the last year um you followed up on our registration forms it just turned into something actually organized so thank you very much that says a lot thank you Sten okay with that let's sign of paperwork and go home you want me to mail these or do you want me to just give I'll take [Music] them I Mr you just have to all these yeah can you sign me oh coup so one of my ear one of my iPad [Music] attorne thank you sir all right we got all this too not thinkl so great yes because go ipely did that I figured you were still you know they don't yeah you have them don't know yeah I'll be home in like minutes I don't know you I'm signing pap [Music] go see your doctor and will Su we gota go well we're having Mr get together we are thank you thank you for coming and being here for us

welcome uh first order of business is an approval of the agenda so could I get a motion to approve the agenda please I motion we approve the agenda second please second all those in favor I I all those against motion passes next agenda item is a call to the audience um we're looking for uh uh anything that anybody submitted has anybody submitted anything nope okay so moving on to the next agenda items is the discussion on policies um and then later on we'll talk about preparing the presentation and other stuff but the last time we were here we worked on jicf which we did not finish and then we're supposed to continue working on jci uh including uh sections on hate speech as well as previous section of uh School definitions review the draft uh reorder some of the definitions and complete revision on items starting on page four and develop a synopsis of our work to compare and refine page to page one uh we also um are added the agenda item about preparing a presentation for the G for the governing board meeting so that's where we are at right now hey this is Katie I just have a quick question since I heard the run down there I I'm trying to recall but I thought that we still had um the search and seizure policy like outstanding is that one of the ones you listed um what do you know the letters for that no I'm driving right now I'm sorry I'll be there at 5:15 so I can look it up when I get there but I just know it was on the list originally and we had pushed it out so oh yeah so we had that as jld DB restraint and seclusion is that what you're referring to no no it's um it's a specific it's jih student interrogations searches and arrests yes yes that we haven't covered that and that's been on the list right yeah that's on the list of policies to be discussed okay okay all right but last time didn't last time didn't we do jic and we didn't leave off or we didn't finish yeah you said jicf right yeah we were just going to continue working on jicf um obviously when we're finished with that we can move on to other things we just didn't get beyond that we were focused on the jicf and all the little components within it J jic K is the one that we were stuck on but we haven't oh did I write down the wrong things so it's jic K not jicf yeah jicf is secret society we haven't started I apologize I was like wait a second did I miss a whole meeting thank you okay so jic K got it all right that's where we're at okay so where do we want to start I made a little the list of things we said in the where is it it disappeared well we have purple text at the bottom of page three on jic indicating that's where we were going to start yep I got so our first thing was to complete discuss for the next meeting I don't know if we did these in include hate speech review nope that one will be probably after this review draft two attempt for harassment and come to consensus I think that was the easiest one and then reorder the definition and then we start on page four so harassment and that's there it is oh and that's reading the yeah verbiage that I created that's in the so we're reviewing draft two uh on page two there's a comment connected to harassment that Allan made and you're reading that comment oh got it to make sure yeah so this is the verbiage that I put together using the current policy um the law as well as the um ay safe information go so under harassment where it's got the the green card that definition it just keeps throwing me off where it says harass is Def as should be to harass is defined as look at the comment this is what we're talking about replacing all those things oh replacing this with this so This there was the whole conversation harass and harassment being two different things but this is basic cover if you feel that one okay this is the comment off to the right there right that's so make sure the only ones that I thought were missing but I don't know if that's and this might be a Katie question but I don't know if it's because those are wrapped up in the um stocking definition is the continuing to follow them with no purpose and then surveilling them because and what I think those sound like in terms of what we see at school is they'll go to wherever they're at on the playground and then they'll show up outside their special um and then the surveils we have kids will like they'll take videos of the kid on their iPad to later post somewhere else but I don't know if those are elements of stocking or if they are in fact separate so if they're elements of stocking we're good I'm good with I'll go ahead and pull up okay trying to so you're saying the person sorry uh Adriana just so I understood but you're saying the kid would take pictures of somebody on their iPad like without them knowing or something while following them so both things will happen so the first one that's a bullet in here which I think is the the following kids will like find their way to that kid's first class and be outside the door and then they'll like follow them to their special or follow them to lunch they'll go to the football fields to go play football they'll show up there and so they'll truly like follow them throughout the school and that one I think is connected to the one that just continues to follow another person in or about a public place for no legitimate purpose after being asked to toist and then the second thing that'll happen at school is they will take videos of them on their iPad or sometimes they'll take videos like on their phone um or candid shots of them that you know the other students not aware of and then they'll use those for their like burn accounts on Instagram H okay yeah so yeah I would say the weird the first thing you described I feel like does fall under the statute okay go ahead let me I've got the statute in front of me let me I'll read the the the relevant parts and then we can go from there um so it talks about so stalking a person commits stalking if the person intentionally or knowingly engage in a course of conduct and then that causes fear anxiety whatever but then it then defines um course of conduct to include the following so it means directly or indirectly in person or through one or more third persons or by any other means do any of the following maintain a visual or physical proximity to a specific person or direct verbal written or other threats written whether expressed or implied to a specific person on two or more occasions over a period of time um use any electronic digital or global positioning system device to surveil a specific person or specific person's internet or Wireless activity continuously for 12 hours or more oh wow yeah it's fun time a communicator cause to be communicated on one or on more than one occasion words images or Language by or through the use of electronic mail or an electronic communication that is directed at a specific person without authorization and without legitimate purpose um does not include constitutionally protected activity or other activity authorized by well so that's where I was kind of gonna say right when you're just take like you can't really stop people from taking pictures of people in public places or taking video of people in public places obviously the issue comes in with what they're what they're doing and so you know the bird thing is you know like would that be part of stalking that sounds more like it's part of harassment you're going to see stalking be like it has to be very directly targeted towards the person you know emailing calling messaging tracking them like to where they feel like they have no privacy whatsoever the the difference is between like privacy versus annoyance right yeah which is harassment okay so then from what I gather I think that the stocking will cover that whole like following them to and fro in the school but that maybe we do need to add whatever is the yellow definition surveil or cause another person to surveil a person for no legitimate purpose that's part of the stalking definition as well oh I didn't hear it yeah the surveilling thing is one thing right that's but what you're saying is surveilling when you follow somebody that's surveilling oh do they just have them separate for no reason on here yeah for no like purpose but like it sounds like we're good yeah so how can I guess I'm trying to understand stalking in a school context I mean because I always understood stalking as like oftentimes when people are when when those situations are usually usually go along with person has some sort of uh uh petition or something or whatever they have from the from the police saying you have to be x amount of feet away from me you can't be in my presence but in a school setting wouldn't they'd be in the same building oftentimes in the same pod in the same class how yeah that was another question so how could that how could how could you enforce that I guess well okay so I think I wonder if you have two parts that question so the first part is what what we see as I get the harass part Stalking Part that I can't wrap my mind around you know I think for this purpose it's just the fact that stalking encompasses all those things that's why we're using the term stalking but like I'll give you example of a kid and then something similar to what you're talking about like a order protection so um a student became very fixated on another student he would go to her class classes and wait for her Outsider classes he would follow her he would show her pictures that he had taken of her in the class and said like I'm gonna post these he truly like stalking is stalking like would find he found a way to get into her personal information and like show her her address that he had attained like obtained so that would be what we what I would have amounted to stalking and and there was other very similar situations that have occurred as well I think what our school does in terms of like kind of like a microcosm is we do do safety plans and stay away plans right so those are basically your order of protections school-wise and even though they don't have like a legal they don't meet a legal threshold that is in practice identify like what locations each kid will be in in the morning identify their transition period so even though they're in the same hallway they transition to and fro so that is how I best see all of this happening in the scho and I want to remind us is that stalking is one of a set of items that are listed here as examples of thing that fall under harassment for the purposes of disciplinary action by the school so it's not like we have to Define stock we have to say oh you were stalking them because our job is to just say you were harassing them by doing these behaviors yeah so yeah I mean I could wrap my mind around the harassment part and that's the conversation I I just I'm trying to imagine myself having a conversation with a parent and saying your child is stalking somebody when they can't and the parent would be like what are you talking about they have to be next to each other you know what I mean but we have are actually pretty yeah I was gonna say we have definitely had parents who have been very insistent on I do not want that child near my child right right or if there's an or and there sometimes we've had legal orders of protect of protection where we have had to guarantee like a 500 foot or a th000 foot radius that one child cannot be and then be near another child how do you where's coming from in terms of like I don't understand like you want kid to stop stalking somebody like the offenders no I app well I think for the purpose of this conversation what I had originally asked is covered we're good if everybody's still okay with and the parts of the definition talking that I kind of skimmed over because I was trying to get to Adriana's question were that through this Behavior there's a that that the um the person who's being stalked um feels a threat of physical or um or emotional distress um that there's a sense of fear um that they may be harmed or that their damage may be destroyed like we talked about some of this stuff under the broader definition of perhaps in any way yeah um I'm just trying to think about it from an application standpoint like I can tell you today I had two students come to me saying essentially very similar things that there are Boys in their class that are going and uh bullying they use the word bullying um and I think I do remember them saying harassment a couple of times too that they're they're scared to come to school and we had conversations about safety plans and things like that but I I just I to me that I I would probably focus on that aspect of it and just from a an application standpoint I'm not I'm not sure how I could use stalking in a effective way I don't disagree with it I think think yeah yeah two to three okay uh I think what Alan was saying is exactly right like in Practical like when you're having these conversations when we were having the conversation with a family we didn't say your child is in trouble for stalking this student we' put it under threats bullying and intimidation and like for harassing the other students so when you are having those like conversations with the families you would focus on the harassment part because we don't have a here's your violation for stalking because it is like more of a legal definition I think it's just it's included in this purpose so that we all have like a common criteria that's my follow-up question if it is not something that has an applicable use why would we include but I do think it I do think it has an applicable use I I get that it's hard to prove if it's one seventh grader and another seventh grader and they're in the same class and they have to be in the same space but there are there have been students that they're not in the same class and they go out of their way to go be in be where another student is be and that and it really does rise to that threshold where it could potentially be meet this definition is talking I think it's applicable to the description of behaviors and for the like narrowing what the consequences it's just not super applicable to like I will use this code of violation to provide punishment yeah that's where my mind is they're separate really to help describe the like what elements of harassment you're seeing so the other thing I was saying was or that I was going to add was that yellow part is I just put that there so that we're not making up our own definition of stocking so that it's somewhat based on the statute so that we're not just like making stuff up right um just because everything else is based on statute so I did add that yellow part if you guys don't like it you I think it I think it's in all the stuff that you put like it's covered for sure yeah and I'm good with that comment replacing from harassment to threats and intimidation if everybody else is now where was that at sorry so we're looking at the my comment where I rewrote all of the definition of har by blending all that stuff we just didn't get to that last last time so word it says photo graphs and Graphics like it's just like there its own bullet point yeah I think that's a little is that it's hard to tell like what are you is it unwelcome photographs and Graphics or taking photographs they'll complete consent to have they post it on their own and then they will like make them look like or text around oh okay right and remember these are examples of things they have to meet the threshold of the definition where is that the person has to be seriously alarmed annoyed humiliated or mentally distressed based on it so it's okay it's not just taking like K is saying We Can't Stop people from taking pictures but what done with that picture could then rise to harassment okay got it [Music] sorry just and this will replace everything up to the purple it will replay um yep yeah everything from harassment up to threat all the yellow all the from harassment all through the yellow stuff in that section because all that stuff was copied and paste from different sources anyway I like the formatting of the comment just by itself so right there that's my there we go I sold I format well my co my Kudos right there the font it'll be easier once I get into the real documents I okay okay okay um yeah it seems seems fine I I'm just trying to I'm still I I'm not against it I think it's okay I just I I the stalking thing is just weird to me but but I'm not against it what if we put it at the bottom of the bulleted list it's not that it's not that big of a deal I just like for me in my head if if it's if it's something that is not doesn't have applicable use then it just feels like excess to me but I can understand what you're saying I've just never you've not experienced it yeah I've never which it's it's entirely possible that it's happened so I'm not unfortunately I was gonna say you you probably just called it in and next week at our next meeting be like let me knock on some I mean I've seen I've seen like bullying behaviors and I have seen what like there was a there were two girls that one was I guess stalking the other I mean yeah I'm not suggesting it happens often by any stretch in the imagination I'm just trying to figure out in my head I'm trying to figure out in my head is that bullying harassing or stalking you guys are unlocking memories I don't it wasn't bad it was weird but in sixth grade I would sit my lunch box by the door after lunch and go play and then this maybe it was sixth or seventh grade it was the same year that I Know What You Did Last Summer came out and every time I would come back and I would open my lunch box there was a note in there that said I Know What You Did Last Summer um for like weeks okay hopefully it wasn't one of your parents playing some sick no no this was outside my classroom oh okay yeah and then I like did a whole steak out and it was a boy that was in the grade higher than me and then I caught him red-handed and I was like please stop putting these notes in my lunch box now is that stalking though I would call that bullying or harassment I don't know it was stressing me out I wasn't s har an umbrella yeah Under the Umbrella okay yeah so I'm seting it out it's weird because under the law they're separate got but for these policies not so much did you just delete the old stuff no I noticed I I noticed that you copied and paste I was delet okay so you just said does lead us to the next thing we finished the other onesing so now we have to reorder the definitions and I can what you been saying just more why you thought we should re well I so I think it I think it should go U what are all our terms well I don't know where cyber bullying lives because we haven't defined it but I think I think it should go in the order of harassment threat and intimidation and then the two bullying definitions because it's kind of like a bigger umbrella slightly smaller umbrella and then a more specific term in terms of bullying so it just kind of makes more of a logical flow as you're reading through this plus built into the definitions of bullying and cyber bulying like it ref references back to these other terms that you haven't defined yet in the order that they're in so it kind of like throws off the so in in in terms of formatting is there a way that that can be other than the mind of Alan Hirsch is there a way that that could be indicated firm formatting was yeah it just move the definition sorry mean that to be like derogatory or anything I'm just saying you're thinking that we need to determin that this is the level of agression or the level of sity does it trap us in parents being like well you didn't call it bullying first you harass why JP harass it or it's just like this is a flow for the like fluidity of is it a framework is it a step by step that process what is it what is it that we're doing here I think it it's a it's a logical logic readability because the terms start referencing each other's definitions to me it's just about the document not about I something either meets the threshold of a definition or or it doesn't because my my assumption is eventually this would be turned into like a regulation or an exhibit of some kind that would follow that same format because that would be step two right well I would argue that shouldn't we be doing that with all of our discipline like is this really this like am I overreacting by calling it this when it's really actually this less severe thing like I think that that think should be happening anyway sure so but again it was just my thought in terms of the way that the definitions are well do we want to just order them for readability sake and then when we get to the regulation see if we just need to adjust it and then how do people feel about that funnel repeat the funnel please harassment bullying cyber bullying is that was that a harassment threats and intimidation bullying and then we didn't make a cyber bullying but get that would make total sense to put it after buling what do you think so like mean I could see bullying having been at the top or like being something at the top just because that's something that kids at least the term itself is something that's I guess more familiar and um I mean I also like it's just kind of the kids are always taught like in class at school they te like don't be a bully he's here's how you deal with bullying but are the kids ever taught like harassment well intimation that's a good point because I often feel like we jump to the term bullying when in fact what we're talking about is not bullying right and it's because that's the vocabulary that's out there a lot right because our society has focused on that word in fact I my would be that when this was written by um asba that originally that they put bulling first because it's it was a big topic term as opposed to like part of a rer scope of thinking I would think threats and intimidation would be what an incident that would start out and then it would move into harassment or an Andor buing but except harassment doesn't need to be a threat or intimidate well I guess technically it's an intimidation I'm just thinking in terms of in terms of like like how you would how I would code it on an incident it would start out I would assume it would start off with like a a threat or some sort of form of intimidation and then it would escalate up to either harassment or bullying that's that's how I Envision in my mind yeah so that so that's um something that we're going to have to talk when we get to like your AP meetings or when the not Behavior Support what's the other one Behavior support support um talking about how we want to code things in Synergy because what I Envision from the conversation we're having right now is that rather than it's saying threats har it says threats intimidation bullying we would want to have it first say harassment and then the secondary violations would be what what it is like harassment nonsexual sexual harassment threats and intimidation and then bullying um so again harassment would be your umbrella instead of having them all just combined and then delineating it for parents so you see bullying as a sub of uh threats and intimidation well no it's a sub of harassment so the harassment would be what you would put in and then there's that little drop down menu right next to it and the drop down next to it would have those four things harassment nonsexual harassment sexual threats and intimidation keeping those together like we said and then bullying got if you shared it with a parent you'd say you know here on the do you use the staircase or is that just us uh I've used the staircase on that staircase and above the door this says harassment when we think about exactly what they did it was bullying and they're on this step and that's why they got this punish that that's what it would look like when you were in your meeting with the parent or something so so I mean technically I would say bullying cyber bullying threat and intimidation those are all harassment but harassment not all harassment is bullying oration that's what that's how I'm perceiving it as well and that's how in that example I just gave that's how I feel like we would need to that's what the and that's part of the yeah putting me not your KN but what you said yeah no I get yeah that makes sense all herbs are weeds but not all weeds are herbs you go I like that so I think we're now all on board about reordering these based on that conversation y so we've got harassment done with consensus reorder the definitions um complete the revision on items starting on page four so now you can go to the purple line I'm also going to reorder the title of the policy to reflect that that makes sense okay so now we're post purple end of Page Three start of page four yes sir um I forgot m in Adam's Calendar and so he hasn't had an opportunity to talk these through with me so I'm wondering can we just start with prohibition and discipline and like give us you know we do like a five minute powow and then come together would you all be okay with that yeah just be uh and and those of you that came in just be aware we have a hard stop at 6:30 yes for sure okay cool so wa right now we're going to zero in on prohibitions and discipline right I'll stop doing that I was gonna start reing just I had Hill to print out hard copies for me because it's easier for my brain to yes we're reading for rition and discipline CL for so okay excuse me okay R you first okay um so first off prohibitions and discipline um where it says um students are prohibited does it have to be Focus solely on students because you would think like all individuals associated with or because like you know because we I thought we had this conversation about another policy about how there were things that were specific policies towards staff and didn't we talk about ver all all the policies under under J are student about student Behavior there's a whole different section of policies on St Behavior okay okay so students are prohibited from bullying and then um because the way this reads that like from bullying harassment like shouldn't be harassing or intimidating um because if you're saying you're prohibited from harass harassment that almost sounds like you're prohibited from being harassed um what paragraph is this in I'm sorry prohibitions and dis yeah the bottom of page three oh I was looking at the bottom of page what three oh I was on okay oh it's right there um and then and then so it doesn't specify like okay they're prohibited from bullying harassing intimidating who so other students students and staff anybody associated with the district because I mean I know plenty of teachers get harass you know I the weird part about this and this is where like legal Le is kind of dumb is um like bullying harassment intimidation like for example harassment like the statute is called harassment right so like harassing I understand like the what is it like present partisan po or whatever but I think they're just saying like that's the offense right in threats or intimidation is the offense and I don't think it it matters about this this would leave it up to like anybody like they can't do those things against anybody at these places that's the way I'm reading it but if that's not how like non lawyer people are going to read it I certainly think we could reward it to make it easier to read and understand certainly right yeah because I know one thing for me was coming into it like you know we want the students the parents to be able to like understand show me your policy well this doesn't make any sense so you could put like bullying harassing or intimidating other individuals there on school ground school property school buses BL I leave all that okay that's weird color what did you say to your answer was it a yes or no he feels like you're guessing okay great so does this make more sense man okay so he and I were just trying to figure out um and I just highlighted it sounds like through the use of electronic technology in that same paragraph down and they list all the El we're not talking about personal devices I don't know that's because personal devices or so I I I I I I'm glad you asked that question because I allowed me to think about that so the use of electronic technology does not specify who electronic technology and but electronic communication through our Network forms or main list is kind of a weird one that's interesting yeah um okay so then that Sol that what I was asking and then I I wasn't sure though networks ands when we say networks do we mean our servers connected to our internet then I wonder if we should puton platforms seesaw get St yeah you could like add that those our platforms we use or applications like seesaw and Dojo what are those applications our software you what was the what was the answer about the personal devices I was just thinking about how you had to peruse the Yellow Pages or the white pages or whatever it was to find people's addresses my my answer your question James my comment related to that was where it says and through the use of electronic technology it doesn't specify District's technology or personal devices it just as that's General electronic technology so that would include personal Dev specific things to school it's basically our Network systems right yes because I I mean oftentimes I'll I'll get kids and parents that will say you can't go and look at my child's cell phone and I guess that's why I'm asking Suson but our policy is that we don't go through phones without parent support but you can confiscate this that's but you definitely you definitely don't want to go through it it's much harder to search a phone just don't search phones than it is toar there's something more tangible up there so when parents say that they gotta okay and that's true it's all about where what kind of reasonable expectations to privacy you have obviously in any case you're going to have more of an expectation to privacy in your personal phone than you necessarily are when it comes to Safety in any situation in what's in your bag or on your person right because it's all about like what's immediately going to be a threat so unless your phone's hooked up to like a bomb device I don't [Laughter] know and then does it match enough in the second paragraph where it says intimidation results in substantial physical mental and emotional negative effects on of the victim because I'm like do we want to just put the what we put for harassment causes alarm annoyance humiliation mentally distresses think me use the same wording what are you talking about I think it should be consistent yes I think we should be consistent and we already agree to that other verbiage let's use it spend a lot of time agreeing on that verbiage use it as much as possible okay your mic's not on Adrian [Music] sorry I'm making these past tense a lovely job okay I'm just making [Music] good okay so we're good and I just had the one comment there at the end just a question should it be intentionally vague or should we site specific like no matter what if it broke they broke the law they broke the law so just making it specific would probably be more confusing almost because then it's said but you didn't say you'd report that no well I mean and then the question is what law I mean we want to be spe like what what law or laws are right now being specific about in this policy that're you know I know my example to Adam was like if they were like flashing a knife or something and being like I could use this it's like then you can't bring knif to school so you broke a law but you're right I don't know exactly what those laws would be other than which one oh I um I didn't catch this one before but I don't I don't like it I'm just gonna be honest I don't know if and I put it in here further down like I don't know how open our board is to like calling police when we're not required to suspect it says will be reported so yeah I don't know suspected violations it's also like very like I don't want to be calling police about suspected violations either we want to say like substantiated isn't that technically what all calls to the police are or suspected violations because people are innocent until proven guilty sure otherwise we wouldn't be spending our entire life talking about alleged crimes sure there's a certain level of evidence you're going to have from your ability to like Miss abadaka said the school has less um of a burden or threshold they have to meet in order to do some of the things to find out information that would in like implic inculpate a person and then would be able to provide that to police who otherwise normally would not be able to get that information because they're not the school don't have the lower level of like threshold so that's the problem that I see there also like again interpretations of things depending on like you know there's all that everything's open just like everything right and I I get clients that ask me all the time so you're saying like somebody can just make this up on me and call and then I can be arrested and this is what happens and I'm like yeah unfortunately and now you're in jail until I can figure out how to get this to go away right so like I don't yeah I don't know I think maybe it's just something to be aware of that I don't know that our board's going to be on board with like you know I think Amy was already a big Pusher in the past of not um handcuffing or arresting any students in our district on campus or during school hours um I know for a fact Sophia is probably going to be like from just public information right is going to be against that I I just from knowing my board I don't know that they're going to be down for this this sentence but I'm just putting that out there well I I guess and my question with all of this has been like exactly when does any of this actually violate the law like I don't even know so I'm not even sure if I were in their POS their positions like how I would ever Define that we yeah yeah we don't really well let me speak for myself because I'm not sure but my best understanding of the training we've been given it's not necessarily that we are like correlating it to laws that have been broken but there are certain things that are tool that we need to report right so um like act like an active threat to the school an active like that is simple not simple but that um if there's a whole statute on mandatory reporting and lists out all the offenses that you're required larger than two inches um uh marijuana like uh on campus for any and all serious offenses which are like burglar in the first degree kidnapping aggravated assault armed robbery murder yeah everything is in there that all the Ser child sex conduct sex sexual exploitation of a minor aggravated Ling so we don't have a like we call because of the particular law they really we just really are given kind of like a list of things that we need to know but this right here is what I'm saying encompasses all kinds of things outside of that scope which I'm not sure I'm down no I I'm I I totally get where you're coming from and so I'm so so would it be kind of like well because my first thing is like does why is this even here to begin with right yeah because like you're not it's not harassment is not under the mandatory reporting statute right which then brings me to and this question is where in our policy does that mandatory reporting statute live yeah I'll because right now okay with taking this out here but at the same time I we we we need to make sure because it has to live somewhere I mean it's the law like correct yeah I agree so I'm just curious where it for you thank you I appreciate it so then why don't I strike it okay and then we come back to it if we have to but I'm Gonna Leave it and that way we'll because I believe that and then just to go back to it like I believe that that policy does have like a it's like a shall in these situations and a May and all others or whatever so I'm G to add to your com alternating Tuesdays during the winter I mean we could just delete suspected okay let's see well I it just I mean my issue with it is that it's just vague well my and my issue and not only vague like I don't understand how it connects to bullying harassment and intimidation sure that that's you know I think the only I'm trying to think of like except for stalking which by the way could be a classified felony I gonna just in case you were wondering and that's part of the definition of stalking as well well that's what I was gonna say was like I do feel like when the student was we did have to notify the police actually to be honest parents notified and so they were brought in but that was been the only time that police had been brought on when it was like I think this kid is stalking this other student but all right are we ready to move on yeah sorry oh sorry no no the last thing is um kids have done threats of uh violence to a certain kid that was going to happen on campus and so we've called the police then because it was like substantial enough where parent like parents have called for that too right that's the only time I can think about police being involved in a harassment thing defining assault as harassment now that's all I know just saying which is whatever all right okay so give us a couple minutes and turn this D there it is why would I not be looking in chapter 15 153 Okay so search for that Statute in here interrogation searches contct I think this is where we run into our issues because it might not exist in the student policies oh that okay is what I'm thinking I'm getting at here but let me find because I when I keep searching for this statute within our policies it pulls up a bunch of Staff policies and only one student policy which kind of makes sense because it's something that's required of Staff but it seems like students should be on notice of right yep it's in staff conduct just the gbb reporting suspected crimes or incidents okay so maybe it and then right here it says all such reports shall be documented and communicated reporting conduct that is considered to be bullying harassment or intimidation shall be addressed according to policy jic um staff members are to report any suspected crime against a person or property that is a serious offense involves a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument so yeah this is in the staff policy but I knew we talked about those terms somewhere else in the student was it in the student conduct one it may have been I don't know because then it talks about the reporting requirements for those but let me look up dangerous instrument yes student conduct okay here we go it's under student conduct law enforcement shall be notified by superintendent regarding any suspected crime against a person or property that is a serious offense involves a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument or that could POS a threat of death or Serious injury to employee students or other schools on property which one what is that under that is in jic so like I think it's a very first one we looked one of the first ones we looked at maybe okay is okay from reports of instant ination to paragraph mean where you wrote can we stop here yeah1 yeah that's fine or at least I'm okay with that I guess what are you asking and we're chunking and chewing here oh that makes sense got it I have aat question I just feel like it kind of go this is what we do this happens to another kid this is what we'll do so kind of we do one and together here what so as a as a statement of policy I I find it interesting that our policy is hey student who's being bullied you now have a proactive step that you need to take our policy it's on you to report the fact that you're being bullied because that's how this a student who is experiencing bullying bullying right is to report the situation to the principle like it seems like a very weird policy statement I that's kind of related to my comment because I my question is like what about students that don't say something when they see something I feel like that should be the focus because we often tell kids when they're in situations like that that the person that you are just as responsible for the bullying by not saying something about what's going on because bullies live in darkness they prefer to be in darkness and if you as an individual don't say stop or don't report it they're going to continue doing so maybe something along the lines of like instead of a student who is blah blah blah something that incidents of bullying should be reported or can be [Music] reported um to to the principal or any School employee and then and then transition you know and then transition that into that yeah so so so something else just kind of kind of pivot a little bit here because it you know talks about um report it but then a notification like I was trying to understand like wait so when the student reports it is that something they have to put in writing or they just say something but then the employee has to notify the school but then there has to come a report I don't know sorry there's definitely a flow issue here yeah so uh the first part that you guys brought up before we got to the like how we do it do we just need to to separate it where it's like almost like a reminder of student rights for the bullied student where it's like a student who's experiencing bullying harassment intimidation um has the right to advocate for themselves and notify Administration for assistance and then the next one would be um another student or a student who believes another student is experiencing bulling harassment and intimidation maybe not is to report because you're right that is pretty like but we'll have will need to tell somebody I feel like they need to I mean you you would put the same burden on an employee that's fair and oftentimes the last person to report bullying is the victim correct it's usually their friends or someone else that takes that next step to do it so so I'm in a very different spot than this conversation related to this because I think that we should shift to a policy that expects this superintendent to create systems in which people can report bullying instead of specifying which people have to do what like it just seems weird yeah that's fair that we should do what how that we should I I would ra I I'm feeling like I right now as I'm reading this I feel like I would much rather see a policy that says the superintendant shall ensure um that there the systems are in place that allow individuals in the school system to be able to report bullying and or whatever that it's the focus is the policy is driving action that needs to be done administratively instead of dictating the nuan details of like I mean I want to encour I want to encourage and and I I would I would love to enable every child who's being who's being victimized by bullying to step up and to be able to advocate for themselves but I don't think you can policy drive that and that's what this does agreed yeah so yes on board with that wait is there not I I and I'm just asking the question is there not something in place because every school has buing programs I'm not I'm not questioning that at all I'm just talking we're rewriting the policy oh so you're saying that's in place you just want the policy I just want the policy I want the policy put the burden of those systems being in place on the superintendent instead of the policy itself micromanaging the Nuance details of who has to do what and when how and where got it because those practices might change over time in you know based on best practice and whatever that yeah I yeah I'm definitely not suggesting that there aren't systems in place yeah I'm I'm uncomfortable with that number one paragraph the way it's laid out so then so I apologize I was the one who asked us to stop um because I was trying to think about what you said if you go three paragraphs down from where I say we can stop here it does start talking about I didn't read it th thoroughly but the St the superintendent shall establish procedures just about information um but the policies in no instant reporting so it's almost like are we thinking I'm making big jumps just kind of like let's delete what we have here and let's just focus on this I don't know quite yet that I'm there but maybe okay but I also think that what what you've now what would now be paragraph the seventh paragraph or the third paragraph or can we stop here which I'm really enunciating for anybody who might be looking at these um out there in YouTube land um that that paragraph about the superintendent it's about procedures for disseminating information about all of this it's not establishing procedures to for the reporting itself and then it says he establish paragraph nine as I started numbering them it does start talking about these established procedures to protect their health and safety um and procedures for contacting emergency Personnel so there is Parts where we're kind of like this is your boss or this is your job Mr Man but I but I think I mean I I think that that's part of the organizational infrastructure of the district the governing board sets policy and then they hire a superintendent whose job is to administratively make that policy a living breathing thing within the district right and then the superintendent hires people around him and Beyond you know with the intention that those people help make all that happen so I found something I was Googling around earlier um and it's basically just like a sample bullying sample policy for bullying prevention and I was like oh this is pretty good because it's like to the point and um but it opens up with like you know the school district believes that all students have a right to Safe And a healthy school environment um district schools Community have an obligation to promote mutual respect tolerance and acceptance maybe I could put the link in and then you guys can look at it but you know school district will not tolerate behavior that infringes on the safety shall not intimidate harass bully another student uh yada yada yada District expects students and staff to immediately report incidents of bullying um and then it um and it talks about how you know what the teachers should do from there anyways it just seems like it's like okay cool like it's nice and like I like that it it specifies especially up at top that you know they have a right to be to the safe healthy school environment because I think that's important for the kids to understand that um yeah if you want to throw in the link let me do that it almost makes me it reminds me of the part that we haven't gotten to fixing yet but that first few paragraphs that kind of like sets the stage for all of this so that might just be like a nice thing to just like use as our Baseline for that part for sure and okay so I just put it yeah okay then you can read the link you I put it there between what do I say James we're in recess we're gonna take a short recess please listen to our hold music play the Jeopardy song we did however discover that we only have seven members currently so four is a forum oh okay but has it always it's always been seven we've been saying eight change your name it's [Music] did you link it yes so it should be there in the comments I just want to point out I sent my notes to Hilda with the jicf and not the J i c k and nobody said that hurts my feelings because that means nobody read it um so it's there's four people here it's 6:14 I'm just have a lot of concerns about what what we're doing um just because we're not going to get any of this other stuff done today and when is the yeah we had that conversation Council again I was G to bring that up when we came back together about how we want to approach the next so Community Council is on the 25th right we don't have any other meetings scheduled before then correct right before Community Council are people available to work on is it just G or is there another outstanding policy that we haven't gone over that's like a big one think after this back session I would say we should do it because it's already 6:15 and since we know four people all right so we're back in session um and due to the time constraints here at 6:15 and having to end at 6:30 uh I'd like to start the conversation about the next agenda item which is uh prepare presentation for the governing board meeting um and uh some of the conversation that we had about this uh is been like how we present it how we go about it do it and I the the question question is asked uh that do we do we Circle back and go and finalize things that we've already done do we bring things as a whole package um because I know a lot of that stuff has to be vetted by the lawyer um how how do we want to approach that real Qui we've done student conduct correct we've done student dress we've done secret societies and Gam activities no no that's the skipped one okay um we easy one we we are currently trying to finish easy the bullying harassment intimidation we're currently trying to finish that we have not done J but we have done student discipline we have not done JK da correct tell me what that one is we removal of students from school sponsored activities we have not we've done expulsion of students JK JK I don't have it listed so let me tell you the ones that I can tell you we've got ji edits done jic edits done j i a j i a r a um we're working on j i CF and jcfr and then we've done JK yeah and we never got to restraint and seclusion on its own no I thought we did no we did we did we didn't get to do exposion and then the searches okay so from what we haven't gone over I feel like this is just my opinion jicf and J KDA to me feel less important than jih and JK in terms of like trying to address them in terms of like their scope of what they go over um I'm I guess my question is is can you tell me I'm so sorry sorry the student interrogation searches and arrest and expulsion of students to me is more important than secret societies gang activities and removal of students from school sponsored activities I agree um and so I'm wondering I didn't look yet at um expulsion of students that's JK let me just see how long that is as you do that I want to just clarify we're not even though we definitely need to get stuff to the board yeah yeah in this presentation it really is going to be a matter of like this was the charge given and these are key things that we're trying to inuse our policy with things should take back so it's not necessarily the intention isn't to to present our work that's my understanding but I'm confirming that with every we're talking about the community council or to the board meeting because I I thought we okay okay yeah it says here prepare presentation for in board meeting but are we preparing presentation so we pushed the board meeting presentation to when again May 7 7th is that right so we have a meeting on April 23rd do we have another we don't have that we we had scheduled April 30th if needed okay so I guess I'm just trying to map out when we could finish some of this stuff like we still haven't fin we still need to finish this one right yep well and and I'm going to say that while we may have done a lot of we may have finished a lot of thinking on all of them we're not in a place to present to the well because there's so much clean up in terms of formatting and like that stuff needs to be done still on a lot of so there's a lot of that kind of work that still needs to get done as well certainly which doesn't have to happen here at the table but it we do need to figure out who's doing it be way easier if it didn't to be well that's what I was thinking okay so I that's like a that's like a task of one or two people with because I think I think for the community council like I don't think it's necessary to present I get that I'm trying to map out what are we doing on the what are we doing on the 23rd and what are we doing if we have to meet on the 30th is the intention to have our work be done by the time the board meeting comes around is that that was the expectation if we if you come to the board and say time only permitted us to get to these policies and that's what you come to the board because right like again this is my personal opinion but like not like sacrifice quality over quantity right so like if you can meaningfully discuss these things but you didn't have time to meaningly discuss others fair enough I'd rather have that be told to me than like half-assing the last two and not really and like trying to rush through it or not having any meaningful discussion about it that's yeah and then saying hey maybe you need to try to have this committee again next school year to finish because this is obviously a bigger Endeavor than what the time could allow which is and just what I figured would happen but I just didn't want to like scare anyone I mean well so I mean just to add to that I know that sometimes arranging these extra meetings you have people that that are usually that have that mapped out in their calendar and then when we throw something else in we immediately so that's why I'm saying if we can't anticipate and agree Now That We're Not Gonna if you if you guys can anticipate and agree now that you're not going to get this all done and be okay with that conclusion then you can feel lot better about whatever the hell is happening on April 23rd yeah and just be like we're going to get to where we get and hopefully that means at least finishing the one we're in the middle of so would I hear us what I like in putting this all together and trying to make NE next steps my Wonder is do we want to say on the 23rd we're going to get through as many of these as possible and sorry we didn't say this but I've been thinking about it what if we have what if like one of us does the homework of like doing a first draft I like how she looks at you well no cuz it's like it's like what you said it's like I actually would I can totally volunteer to do it um but I'm thinking like if somebody comes with a draft of what we want to present to community council I think it be faster for us to critique and wonder about it than us sitting here like typing it out and then I'm wondering if we divvy up cleanup so we have a people some people go and so I I I kind of like where you're going with this I don't think on the 23rd I don't it's to me it's not about getting as much done as we can I think it's let's finish the one we're in the middle of yeah and be okay with the ones we haven't gotten to we can figure out if we need to prioritize but we are where we are then have a discussion about who logistically who's right I like the idea of somebody kind of laying out like what the presentation might sound like to par to community council because right if we're not sharing the the work then we have a little bit of time the original thought behind April 30th was to if we need to come back after hearing feedback from Community Council and make any adjustments to our work like we got you all got feedback that was like whoa we never even thought about that being an issue and now this was brought up 10 times at the community council we need to talk about it so that 30th meeting could be split up as like half of it's a followup to what was shared with us at Community Council half of it is either clean up of what we've done or explore getting into I'm going to suggest that we need to start getting cleanup done following this meeting yeah prior to those two meetings Because by the 30 by the meeting on the 30th we need to be able be in agreement like yes this is what the original policy was and this is what we're recommending it be replaced by so that we can start because that stuff's otherwise we'll never get this stuff out to the attorney and it needs to go through the attorney before it goes to the board correct okay so um so even if on May 7th of the board meeting our presentation is here's what we've been working on here's where we're at and we expect to have these policies ready for you for a first read on like even that's as far as much as we're able to present it to the board at least it's an update on the work that we've been doing and then here's the stuff that this committee was not able to get to and therefore we recommend that next school year you reestablish this this committee to continue this work um also I would recommend including this is my opinion but recommend including looking at any staff policies that connect to that correspond and connect to these to make sure that there's align appropriate alignment between the staff policies and the student policies okay but that's just me we can talk about that another time so we're going to next meeting we will finish with just the policy that we're on and I'm sorry I never remember the numbers but the threats bullying intimidation policy that will be done as best to our ability and then another portion of the meeting will be just on kind of reviewing the first draft of presentation for Community Council yes then we'll have Community Council and then the next meeting will ideally be followup to what we heard from families and Community Council and then a review of cleaned up policies that were already prepared and ready and then on the off chance that we can start something maybe we can start maybe we can and maybe we can't what and then they'll need to be like a May 7th we we we need a meeting between April 30th and May 7th so that way we can finalize what we're actually presenting to the board well probably yeah so do we want to task out some of these things like who's going to clean up the policies who's going to come up with the presentation to community council yes and I feel like at least the cleanup I know this would be a huge task for like one person but I don't I I don't think we should be like I'll handle jic you handle J we're clean up we're the two of us three of us because you need to have as common a voice as possible or you start losing so I think there's really only two actual jobs one is presentation Drafting and then the other one is well you could split up the presentation like the actual presentation itself for Community Council and then the actual present like if there's a PowerPoint one person could do the community council and one person board somebody could start working on a board presentation that's true that's true yeah yeah I agree and do we know has anyone touch base with Daniel uh I talked to him today when he said he wasn't coming okay um is he still interested in helping at all or um he hasn't expressed any he I mean I think the main reason he wasn't able to come to this one is because it wasn't a scheduled meeting that was on the calendar oh okay I just haven't seen him in a few meeting so I wasn't sure is the only thing because he wasn't at the last one and I don't know if he was was he the one before I think he's only missed this one and the last one yeah he was was the one before that okay so I guess maybe also then including because I know she had a dentist appointment Megan had a dentist appointment so trying to include them and seeing if they have any time I'm happy to help making a presentation for Community Council okay are there some like main points can we can we tag team like if like the whole we're running out of time so yeah like if I emailed her an idea of the that would be okay as long as it's just two people communicating yeah yeah we're not working on the policies actually we're just gonna be well even if as long as it's just two of you communicating not more than two so I'm happy to like throw out some ideas and what I can do is I can go look at previous presentations that we've done like for like discipline in particular and see what were things that we thought needed to be included and I can email them to you but I imagine it'll be like why did we do this here were our int here was like we were trying to remove this is not the right way to say but remove the prison language and Infuse practices I think that's kind of how I see the slides can I nominate Allan for the cleanup policies we've currently finish finished and I I will support I can be your number two but yes you can you can nominate Alan not that we're voting on that but yes I would take on the lead on that and then the last one is the presentation to the governing board am I crazy to think like let's wait and see what she has because I feel like won't they be similar like why reinvent the wheel yeah okay at least tomorrow at least the next meeting the only thing to think about is I think the board presentation at the same we'll have the printed out stuff they'll be the other members will be looking at the old versus new as opposed to people at Community Council right so whatever part of the conversation that might change but I don't think the whole presentation's going to have to change yeah but like philosophically what our approaches like yeah yeah that that I hope that doesn't yeah well I think like Community Council is more like hey here's what we're doing and then to the board it's here's what we did yeah right like here it is I think so to that makes okay so here's what I have for the meeting notes we worked on jik up to reporting incidents of bullying harassment intimidation we did not finish it um we have uh two things currently cleanup policies that we've currently finished uh which is going to be Allan and aen by Adriana second thing is reviewing the presentation to the community council which is going to be done by Nicole aided by Adriana as well and uh to be determined for reviewing the presentation to the governing board for now is that sound about right to everybody yes okay so the meeting schedule is item number six that is H when's the next one 23d oh there it is 23rd 23rd all right uh can I get a motion to please so what weren't we going to add one before the 7th so we could prep for the governing board meeting but we can discuss that the 23rd we have to oh that's fair yeah I I move that we adjourn second second all those in favor I motion passes meeting adjourned 6:30

e first year of like an administrative job [Music] you even always [Music] in you e we do [Music] good evening I like to call the brief board business meeting for Tuesday April 9th 2024 to order and we will do the roll call Miss Mrs Wilson please she there oh she's there miss Lorry wood here miss Ronda Paige here Miss Sheila ug jetti here Mr Chad Thompson here miss Jill Humphrey here Madame President all board members are present you have a quorum thank you Mrs Wilson we will move to 3.01 appointment of Brian Lockwood as the principal of Greenfield Elementary School for the 2024 2025 school year do I hear a motion uh I move that we uh proceed to uh the vote for the appointment of Brian Lockwood as the principal of Greenfield Elementary School for the 2425 school year thank you Mr Thompson second second oh thank you very much Mrs humph it's been moved and seconded before we do that Dr mord thank you madam president Gover board members it is our pleasure to bring to you tonight Mr Brian Lockwood he comes to us from ruselt school district by way of J Colmes by way of Apache Junction uh his middle name is fun and we are very very fortunate to have him you're going to do some great things um Greenfield he his goal was to uh work more years at Greenfield L than Mr Rhymer hold him to it but we're very thankful for uh to have him here tonight thank you all those in favor of the appointment of Brian Lockwood for the principal of Greenfield Elementary please signify by saying I I I so on a 5- z vote Mr Lockwood would you like to say [Applause] something you okay all right well first of all um thank you so much for this tremendous opportunity I'm so grateful uh to be officially coming back home uh like like once stated I I went to school here at Islands Elementary and then graduated from msk high school and so to be full circle and coming back home to Gilbert and and not only doing that but doing it as a principal is uh a true dream come true I do want to take a second to thank some people in the audience my family's here um and so right over here is my beautiful wife Megan and my two kids Jackson and Hudson they are Gilbert kids as well um and they go to settlers Point Elementary School so I'm very grateful F to have them here um they've been a amazing support system and through it all with me through all the trials and tribulations through through this process and so I'm very grateful that they're here to spend this special moment with me my parents are also here at Barbara and Jim um and and they have made uh an incredible impact and they they continue to straighten my arrow when it comes to the direction I need to go in life to do great things so I'm very thankful and grateful to to have them here uh to support me to my new Greenfield family I this is a really awkward thing to to sit right now and look at you uh super excited get oh I can pick it up oh my gosh I just made it 10 times awkward I'm so excited that you're here uh I already got some green field swag that you were able to bring I I hope to wear green well um and aside from just serving for a long period of time I'm excited to bring uh fun and amazing atmosphere to Greenfield to work with each and every one of you to get to know each and every one of you and truly commit myself to this process um I I'm beyond grateful for this opportunity and I'll make you proud so thank you uh thank you to everybody here and I appreciate it and let's let's do this and go Gators thank you thank you um we'll we'll take about a 5 minute break for you to talk to people and and we'll back here at a little after 610 or so e okay um we were we'll be back to our brief board business meeting um we'll move to 4.01 um call for a public hearing pursuant to ars5 905 uh I'll take a motion to call for the public hearing just on the safe site I move that we call for the public hearing pursuant to ars1 15- 905 thank you Mrs wood is there a second second thank you Mr Thompson so it's been moved in second in that we called for a public hearing um all those in favor please signify by saying I I opposed so on a 5 Z vote Dr McCord thank you madam president Gover any board members um this instructional time model plan for online students for Global Academy essentially turns it from a school to a program very similar almost exactly to what Canyon Valley school is and so uh in order for this to happen we have to have your approval as a governing board go through the hearing process and and then we will turn that information to the state and they will officially change it to a program okay so we moved to 4.02 instructional time model plan for online students Global Academy do you have anything more to say about that okay uh request to speak and this is just for this topic is there anybody that that wishes to address this okay and moving on to 4.04 ajour in a public hearing we'll now be adjourned and go back to our work study um call to order J if I can just say real quickly that we this is our second public hearing correct so we've already had one and before that we had a work study that presented all of this and we went through it in depth so that we if it seems like we're going through this it's because we've looked at this is all the exact same stuff that we've talked about now and Dr mcord that's it then once we do this we don't have we that is it and um to piggy back off what Miss Woods said there is that presentation is attached to this agenda item so if anybody online wants to look around in the audience they can do that thank you okay we'll go work study calling call it back to order we'll move to 6.01 um District spending report fiscal year 2023 Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board member it's that time of year where the auditor general um has a spending report that is uh issued for each Public School in or Public District in the state of Arizona and each year we report that to the public as well as you so that's what we're doing this evening and Miss Betts and Miss matet will be doing that now good evening Madame President governing board members Dr McCord I am happy to hand over the Reigns for this presentation to Miss Jackie Matan and as I've said numerous times I'm here for the color commentary and I will try to be colorful thank you Miss bets I'll be driving too you just have to tell me when to go okay uh so thank you uh we are here to present the FY 201023 District spending report as presented by the auditor general tonight's report will include the um FY 23 GPS spending Local District spending comparison State spending by operational area Statewide versus National spending and then finally average teacher salary based on annual financial report rather than the spending reports this graph is or this pie chart is from the um AER from the FY 23 Acer uh this is usually pretty indicative of how the district spending report will will come up so on this Pi the Auditors have presented a 57% instruction spend they use a little bit of a different criteria for this particular pie but then you'll see on the next slide our instruction ruction is 58.9% and our peer average is 57.2 so we are above our peer average uh we will be comparing our district to other local or neighboring districts but the peer average are districts our size so for example Peoria Paradise Valley Tucson Deer Valley but we'll be comparing um some of our spend to our neighboring districts so this chart has the 5-year GPS fending history from fy20 FY 2019 to FY 2023 you can see that uh instruction has um the percentage has decreased uh it has um just slightly in FY 23 dollars instruction uh only 1,000 functions so we're this is only teachers and Par of Professionals in the classroom dollars uh dollars classroom is instruction Plus support so that would be um attendance um social workers counselors health aids and then also 2200 function which is instructional coaches and Librarians um Administration is district office and schools so that went up slightly Transportation up a little bit food service down slightly and operations up primarily uh the increase in some of these is is um due to compensation increases and we wanted to show we hadn't done this last year but we wanted to show even though the percentage is down slightly the spend is up considerably so you can see a 28.2 million increase in spend and instruction year-over-year between 22 and 23 uh again compensation increases in related benefits is a large portion of that and same again with the dollars in the classroom um overall including instruction and students support a $37.4 million increase so Jackie has been saying over the last so few weeks boy I just hate those pie charts because it doesn't really tell the right story so um this was a really good in indication though that we we received a fair amount of new money in 2023 and we did put a large portion of that money into our classrooms so so this is a graphical representation of the 5year um spending history for Gilbert and then just a reminder we had been including Food Service regularly over the last couple of years uh so you can see that in 2022 with the 4.4% in food service that was directly related to the universal free uh breakfast and lunch and so now we're back down in 2023 to that 3 .5% which you can see is pretty flat and pretty comparable to years prior to 2022 so because we're on normal operating now in the Food Service fund so I just wanted to share that this slide shows a comparison of our local or neighboring districts so you can see the dollars in the classroom is 58.9 for Gilbert um this is a celebration for us not that it's competition but maybe a little bit a competition uh so dollars in the classroom also um the highest among our neighboring districts administration of course is 8.5 the smaller districts will have a higher percentage in administration and then note that Higley outpaced Us in dollars to instruction however within our East Valley School Districts we had the um highest dollars to the classroom on a percentage basis and again a graphical representation of that information dollars instruction classroom and administration also included um we wanted to include the ADM just to show you uh comparison and then also the override amount we had added that this year at the bottom each district has a 15% override this is the Arizona State spending by operational area so classroom spending is 69.1 instruction 53.4% Statewide again as a reminder Gilbert is 58.9% classroom spending is 69.1 Statewide Gilbert is 73.3 and the non-instruction spend is 26.7 for Gilbert non-instruction spend uh for Statewide is 30.9 so this was a this was a a fun comparison also shared on the state uh State spending report was the FY 2021 that's the latest that they had the Statewide versus national average spend uh we found this to be quite interesting also instruction uh compared to our national to the national average we're down about $3,000 overall for operational down $4,300 per student with thought this was interesting as well because even with the opportunity to request additional resources in overrides and then all of our comparative districts in the East Valley all have that 15% override even with those 15% override dollars we are still uh significantly lower than the national average not the lowest but the national average in per per pupil spending can you say that again so even with the so in all of our comparative districts that we share in the East Valley all of them have a 15% override and so even with considering that our um our Statewide average is still significantly Less in per pupil spending than the national average kind of a comment about the fact that the override dollar are not necessarily extra dollars but something that we need to be able to continue our uh programming our educational programming in our schools thank you well I think what this says is that other states invest more in their education system and are able to pay teachers better and able to provide more resources for their students um that means that we're doing pretty well with what we have but if we had more we could do better that's my personal opinion and finally uh the FY 2023 average teacher salary so we did uh pull this data from the FY 23 annual Financial reports for Gilbert and for our neighboring districts so you can see the comparison between FY 23 and fy22 and then you can see where Gilbert and Chandler made some specific not ations in our uh reporting um and so it's hard to know really whether we're comparable to Higley or ma Queen Creek or Scott sale there's um no additional comments um but we felt for purposes of the average salary we should include all of the monies that go to our teachers and so we began adding the stiens to that average salary back in 2020 was that the first year we did it 21 maybe1 21 yeah okay so oh question time good so according to to this chart on page 13 of the presentation work average teacher salary in Gilbert is considerably higher than surrounding school districts um which is good makes us attractive to uh to people wanting to uh go on go into or continue in the teaching profession um especially with combining that with getting contracts out early like we've done last year and this year and I know later in our meeting we'll be discussing the compensation package for 2425 do you know and I I know one of the things that were uh being presented with is a a 2% pay increase is that correct so in an effort not to sound like um well I'll just sound like it uh if we're already the highest of the surrounding districts [Music] um and knowing that there is vote coming soon for the override Could That Could That 2% be used other places besides compensation since we're already the highest in in our area yes I mean of course right that that would be my answer for that just because I think it's important that as soon as you don't compensate your employees um you get left behind and then playing catchup is extremely hard and so at 2% I think it's a a good raise is it phenomenal no but it's what we can afford and so I believe it's important that when you have those available funds you continue to compensate your staff because there are times there's no guarantee that an override is going to pass we've already been through it once as a school district we've been through uh the rigors of not having and freezing people in their spots so uh I think it's important it's my philosophy that if we have the available funds we give it to the employees as much as we can okay yeah I would also say uh Mr tomson just that when we say average teacher salary we don't know how long I I would love to see an average length of Service attached to that salary because it may be that one of the reasons are um number is higher is that our teachers have more experience so um it's really hard to take these numbers you know there's a there's a lot of context in what that number represents and so I think you have to take it with a grain of Sal that that maybe um our number is higher because we have more experienced teachers um and it and maybe some of these others um maybe they're using their resources elsewhere I think everyone of the school district that I am aware of always tries to compensate their employees as well as possible because it is a um teaching is a challenging profession there's a lot of work to teaching it's it looks easy when teachers are in front of a classroom and things are going well but that is there's a lot underneath making that work and making sure those students are learning and it's not just the teacher it's everyone behind that teacher like the instructional coach the principal the coordinators with the curriculum and so forth that that really make that system work and so um when we look at these numbers I always take them with a grain of salt that this say where the highest but does that teacher have more experience what what gives us that higher number and we haven't been in this position very no it's always been just the opposite I don't I don't think I think last year was the first year if I'm remember we were always kind of in the middle behind especially behind Chandler so it's really nice that we're finally um catching up not not just catching up but you know superseding it and and I and I and I think it's deceptive a little bit Yeah in terms of what gets reported to the auditor general and how it gets reported if you'll notice Higley Mesa Queen Creek Scottdale they didn't talk about what they've included in that and I guarantee you there are things that aren't included in their average teacher salary that um we have included and so again this goes back to a discussion back to 2020 2021 where we believe our number is real I guess the best way to put it and that's what the average teacher would end up getting compensated for on a yearly basis and like I said sometimes they don't include those for whatever reason but there is no standard from the state that says You must include this this this this and this and I wish they would do that just so then we're having these reports we actually know Apples to Apples but that's not the case right now well I think from a recruitment standpoint the fact that we are including the sitiens it kind of gives the teacher an indication of what they could actually earn because there are also lots of opportunities to earn extra salary based upon what they're willing to participate in and doing in a school District so that was part of our reasoning as well and then finally anecdotally which goes a little bit to what you were sharing U Mrs humph so uh Mesa as an example has a teacher experience index which is that measure of how many years of experience your population has at your school district so their Tei is 1.05 and Gilbert's is 1.012 so it gives you an indicator that on an average basis that we're a little bit our teachers are more experience than say a Mesa I just got this in some good information otm is back there feeding me stuff oh good 33% of our teachers have 10 to 19 years of experience 21% of our teachers have 20 to 29 years of experience so over half of our teachers have 10 or more yeah which is nice I just had a quick comment um just to piggy back off what everybody's saying when I saw that number immediately I thought we have more experienced teachers that have been here longer they stay in our district and probably some that are a little bit more educated with a lot of master's degrees right um I do have a question do we ever bring out I think when we're talking about this starting salary the comparison to other districts is really important to talk about um because that's I think where the new teachers look at what is the starting salary SM so I don't know what the starting salary is but I do know from numerous discussions with Mr McIntosh that we are still kind of in the middle on starting salary um so but again we're always trying to figure out a way to to be more competitive at the beginning level too it is a topic of discussion every single year and you know blessm because they um they're always fighting for that beginning salary because they know that's an attractive thing and um and we have to be careful with that um just because we don't want to Leap Frog a whole group of people that we hired so we have to give those raises and increments and be very cautious about how much we front end load a salary because then you're going to throw the whole system off and so um we do put money on the base every single year just to make sure that we're keeping Pace with everything else we're doing I I would say when I first joined the board in 2012 we were not um paying competitive salaries we were lower and when did we do the salary study about 20 4 years ago 2019 2019 that was the first time that we really became competitive um so it it because we did lose our override for a few you know we had one year where we're at State funding only it has taken us a long time to catch up from 20 I think that was 2015 that we didn't have any state funding and it took till 2019 to actually get people um competitive with the districts around them so it does take a lot of work so and to your comment um as well Mrs Paige note that between 22 and 23 we actually purposely added over $4,500 to the base of everyone to include the starting salary to bring up the starting salary to that level so that was a a significant bump in our beginning uh teacher salary that just occurred um between 22 and 23 I appreciate that and I do know that if we were to pull this out with starting salary every District reports differently they might put their stiens in as the start as a base salary so just as the average teacher salary there's different issues and and to compare we have different models and rubrics the same goes with the starting salary and the other thing that isn't reported here is our our benefit package absolutely I wanted to just say one thing I what was impressive to me was the change from 22 to 23 that was exciting to see that the average teacher salary had increased and again I know there's depends on our average changes because it depends on which teachers leave and how many new teachers we have so but to see that I know that we did put a lot of real dollars to each salary and that's what we've been trying to do because we know that to have great teachers great staff in front of our students is the most important thing that we can do to have great results with our students have our students have the best education possible so to me that's why that's always been important okay thank you very much thank you guys thank you thank you 6.02 academic programs growth and development do McCord thank you madam president govering board members if I could have Mr Ryan with his team up here they'll be they'll be up here for a while just so you know they have the next two presentations I don't know if they thought that was funny or not Christa laughed but I think that was a nervous laugh Madam president governing board thank you so much for having us here this evening I'm going to start by passing around a fresh copy of what you have in front of you there were a couple statistics we updated and making sure you have the latest and greatest information we'll pass that around so you have it in front I am really up here just to introduce Christa and Robert uh Christa Cox Dr Cox our um director of secondary um uh our director of of secondary teaching and learning curriculum instruction and assessment we're combining a lot I know well we're combining teaching and learning all together she's a director of curriculum instruction and assessment along with our elementary director of curriculum instruction and assessment Robert burer and um tonight we're excited to share with you progress with relation to academic programs that you all have supported and initial implementation uh really a think tank that's out across our school district starting with you all and leading through our administrators teachers and everyone that's part of the organization uh a lot of great work is going on and we're just here to share with you some of the exciting steps we're taking in Positive Directions so Dr Cox okay as we get started um a couple couple things we wanted to highlight was first starters um we can't tell you how much we appreciate having an art teacher at every campus that's made a significant impact as we've rolled out mtss um which we've looked at teaming structures to do some systematic things with training our teachers and having the opportunity to have a specials time or a common prep time every single day is significant um it's also giving us a more well-rounded education to our elementary students additionally we are in year two of our accelerated program at Highland Park Meridian pad Del re Courts Hill and bista lakes and we'll share some more data on that um at an upcoming slide I also wanted to give a shout out to Patterson so Patterson is getting um they're getting ready for their accreditation visits for their IB Program um I actually was on a call with a vendor today as we look to establish a curriculum for Spanish that they'll be offering one day a week as part of the um IB program so that's continuing to grow as well so with some of our K8 opportunities uh we will hit on a few of the different programs a few times throughout but we did want to share that our Gilbert Elementary has the Dual language emersion program and what we have found uh is that that program is very successful it has great numbers but the feedback we have gotten over the years from our families is that when they go on to Junior High they want somewhere to go and and uh right now uh we believe that we're not capturing all those students because we have not had a dual language immersion program that focuses on the same type of program they've had into the junior high so next year we will be moving with forward with having that at um our Gams Middle School at uh Gilbert High School uh the team is very very excited about that they're already recruiting putting together promotional uh materials for that and then in addition to that uh our IB program we are focusing um on the early year program and the middle Year's program to really strengthen that as a K12 entity so even though this slide focuses on the K8 opportunities uh really a goal of ours when we look through our district Improvement and next steps is looking at those opportunities that exist maybe in one of the areas and figuring out ways to support that so our families that really appreciate those opportunities get them longer and um more thoroughly so that they are kind of a K12 entity so those were just a couple of the K8 opportunities and then uh with the high school opportunities this is a not a comprehensive list but a list of several of the programs that we felt uh were deserving of some um highlighting and in the next several slides I'm going to provide some data that just kind of goes into a few of those a little bit more in depth from this list would you like us to save questions until the end or you are always welcome to ask questions throughout yes thank you um in regard to the k38 opportuni is the Dual Language Academy is there any are there any plans to expand uh the is it well let me rephrase this is this dual Language Academy is that what some people would refer to as um like a language immersion program yes so right now at Gilbert Elementary it is a dual language immersion program and what we're looking at doing at the junior high is um extending that in so they would not be exposed to uh Second Language all day it would happen they would still get it in their language class and then within their social studies class as well so we are currently recruiting and hiring uh four teachers that we feel would meet that uh those credentials um and the nice part at Gilbert High School is that the Gams supports that and they uh provide a couple of different languages which also then pipelines into the IB program at the high school level so these students we wanted to think Mr Ryan actually worked with cabinet was very strategic on where we wanted to place that program and we felt that with the IB program and the different languages that they support through IB that it would give multiple opportunities the higher up that they get through Junior High and high school does a does an elementary school have to have an i B program to to implement a language immersion program no no not at all and is there any are there any plans to expand the language immersion program to other Elementary campuses and also um other language other language offerings um I just want to make sure there's a distinction too that IB is not dual language we're offering some Spanish we're Gilbert Elementary spends half their day in Spanish um so IB is basically going to give them just enough the basics to speak it um it'll be almost like a specials type class 40 minutes a week sort of thing whereas uh Gilbert Elementary they're speaking reading and writing in it half the day so then just focusing on language immersion then right are there any plans to expand language immersion programs to other Elementary campuses and other language offerings besides [Music] establish go ahead we are continuously evaluating what the community expectation and needs and desire is and so I think we're always looking from the campus level and at the district level what are the needs in the community uh I don't think that we ever go out and say absolutely not to anything nor do we push something that we say people need to accept it's what what is the community looking for what do students need and make decisions from there in terms of anything immediate no there isn't anything immediate other than um the longitudinal piece of this particular program so if there was a group of parents at a particular Elementary School that wanted an immersion program at their Elementary School what would that what would that process take to get that I would love to be part of the of the dialogue I I would love to sit down with a principle the community um I'd love to be able to take back recommendations and and have discussion about what the future could look like okay thank you and to expand on that a little bit into the secondary world I wanted to allow the answer for the elementary specific but the second part of your question um we have expanded uh World Language opportunities now to all of our Junior highs uh the state does allow for high school credit at the Junior High in World languages we've brought a couple of those classes to get board uh approval historically and at this point uh we provide most of our um languages at the junior highs maybe not all of them but each Junior High kind of has taken on a different language kind of fits to what Mr Ryan was saying they if there's an interest and if the students are rallying behind a certain class uh Gilbert High with the IB program they have to have so many Pathways to different languages so they are uh promoting more of that which again fits nicely into the Gams program which is where we saw the opportunity for the connection to go K12 thank you you're welcome all right so a few of the programs that we really wanted to hit on at the secondary that we have been tracking and monitoring over the last few years uh the first one we want to talk a little bit about is Gams which is our Gilbert accelerated Middle School uh really excited to share these numbers we had an impact check meeting with their leadership team just last week and we're very excited to add in just their updated numbers now that they just finished their class registration so in 20 223 there was a total of 32 students this current year they have uh grown that to 60 students and you can see the breakdown by grade level and right now currently the projected number um is sitting at 120 but they're still taking applications and they predict that they could be up to uh around 150 students for next year so when they were sharing this with us um the conversations are now growing uh how do we continue to grow that and support that uh and meet the needs that they have to sustain that I think it's a great thing that our families and our communities are hearing more about um and uh they're really eager to get their foot in the door there so they've done a really really nice job with the the growth over there and then in addition at uh Gilbert High School we know we have our IB Program they've worked really hard wanted to kind of just go through the statistics there of enrollment so in the 2223 school year and this is worded a little differently cuz we're going to talk seats um the students have to take numerous classes there's different Pathways so to speak depending on the type of IB diploma that they want to earn and the types of tests they want to take so in all of the different IB classes on campus in that 2223 uh school year there were 358 uh seats filled and seven students were able to complete uh the the complete program which with it being newer uh we know that that number it starts small and then we just continue to grow that this current year that number of uh seats filled are is at 464 uh nine students are going into testing season that are eligible and we are very hopeful that they will all earn that IB diploma and then as of uh last week the course uh selection during registration is showing that there are 557 seats that are going to be filled and I was talking with Miss contrell the assistant principal over there just today on the phone and she was sharing with me that uh they are continuing to promote into IB and they actually predict that that number will be much higher by the time that the school year starts um and with that they are able to look at the number of students that are meeting the criteria going into their seven their senior year and we're currently looking at 17 eligible students that have registered for all the classes they need so when I talk about that number potentially even going up that counseling team and um admin team are looking through which students could meet the criteria and going and sharing with them just because it is a newer diploma at Gilbert High to make sure those students are really aware how close they are to being able to to earn that diploma and then the last one that I want to spend a little bit of time on is our AP Capstone diploma so probably fiveish years ago um Highland High became our first AP Capstone school there is an application process that goes through that you have to have teachers that are trained a specific way there's it's just a lot of work and students have to complete um a minimum of four AP classes successfully with a three or higher on their exams in addition to taking an AP seminar and an AP research class successfully with a three or higher to earn that diploma uh it is one of the most prestigious uh awards that a high school student can earn through college board and all of those classes are equivalent to um college credit over the years all of our other high schools have successfully applied and earned that designation to be able to provide the AP Capstone diploma with the exception of Gilbert High because they're an IB School so when we started uh having these conversations uh between cabinet and the governing board of having these different opportunities for our students this again as Mr Ryan said it we wouldn't be where we are today without the support that our community our governing board have provided but these are things that um we are giving our students they're walking out more prepared uh not just for college but for postsecondary and so in 2223 we had a total of 86 students in the district and 17 um earned the actual diploma but there were 86 students within the program and that can be students from their sophomore year to their senior year and then uh this current school year you can see a significant growth just with us adding on more schools earning uh the right to offer this to 423 students and currently uh as of last week there are 44 eligible students depending on how they score on their AP exams in May to earn that AP Capstone diploma and then what we're I'm extremely thrilled there's so many exciting parts tonight like this is just like all the fun stuff that uh we get to celebrate so uh next year when we ran those numbers last week there are 824 you'll see that we've just about doubled the number of students that are in this AP Capstone program and this is not student these are students that have actually made it to that final AP seminar and research class that are required for that and uh if all goes according to plan next year there could possibly be 220 students eligible for that diploma they will be on track to earn that diploma if they successfully complete so um with that we're going to dive in a little bit more to AP as you saw in the last couple of slides we shared a lot of programs that we're excited to share but we uh Mr berer and I wanted to make sure and Mr Ryan that some of the data that we're going to share in the next few slides uh is comprehensive of the majority of our campuses um if we wanted to give data on all the programs we really would be here all night long so uh with talking about the AP Capstone diploma that is a perfect segue into AP enrollment so you'll see on that slide that we have listed out the Last 5 Years these are actual students that are enrolled in AP classes the actual student count so you'll notice that in 2019 2020 uh that's seems to be a baseline uh because of Co and we want to make sure that we have come back from maybe some of those terms we hear learning loss and even students maybe being a little bit more intimidated to take on some more rigorous Pathways uh what I get excited to share tonight is that not only have we caught up to those numbers but very quickly surpassed those numbers so a lot of the work that our district uh leadership our school administrators our counselors our teachers uh there is a very United Vision of providing additional more rigorous opportunities to all students and a lot of what we do from kindergarten on if it be the accelerated programs the IB program a lot of those lead into an AP program very nicely so this isn't just the work of these teachers right here these schools right here it's all of that K12 uh work that we have done so you'll notice the the number of exams is up to 6,000 I'm sorry the number of enrollment is up to 6,16 as a district for this school year um right now uh we were looking at course requests and we are already um looking to gain uh close to a th more just in next year's predicted numbers with that we wanted to break it down just to show what does that mean on each campus so this next slide shows it in percent of their entire enrollment so you can see again wanted to include the longitudinal data but you can see that per campus uh like currently right now at the top Campo has 38% 38.4% of their entire population on that campus is going through um an AP class so it just kind of shows the growth per campus there for you how many a AP classes could a student take in a a a semester they could fill their schedule with them so if they go all day yep yes are there students who do yeah oh absolutely it becomes very competitive some of these students um I don't know how they do it they are very bright and they are very successful as well we have seen um and the piece that I'm going to talk to to just kind of expand on that um is not in here but I will share that the number of AP exams given has increased by almost 16% just within uh one fiscal year and we are on on uh track to have that same 16 % growth again now we won't be able to maybe sustain that year after year as much as I competitively would love to uh but it just is our our data right now supporting um our advanced placement is something to be proud of um in addition to that not only have our number of students taking AP and successfully passing their exams uh there was some um conversation about like well how are they performing if we're getting more students in there and our number uh of successful completed exams is actually increased as well so we are capturing more students and we are showing higher success than we have historically are AP classes only offered to Upper classmen no they are offered freshman through senior year some of the uh there are less offerings and opportunities as a freshman because of the prerequisits and um as you move into sophomore year through senior year it just there's several you could take depending on what what classes you've already previously taken and are you finding in these statistics are there any is a student more likely to take AP classes their sophomore year their junior year their senior year is there a I mean this like for example Camp over 23 24 38.4% of of the student body mhm is enrolled in at least one AP class I'm I'm guessing that's what we're looking at here right um if I if I may quickly um one of the leverage points we have is the PSAT examination which is given to all sophomores it's one of the initiatives we've put in place um some years back PSAT exams then give us what's called AP potential and we're able to identify students who through that examination show potential of being successful in an AP course course and each of the campuses counselor's Administration Dr Cox and her team have brought um kind of a new level of attention to those results and how to utilize the results so individual invitations have been going out those come back in the junior year um some of the results that will receive sophomore year then utilized to invite students their sophomore year so then they enroll their junior year so I think percentage wise you'll see more Junior and Senior year but it's because some of the the pieces we have in place later not tonight but at a different time we're going to talk about the importance of some of the things we can do with eighth graders to start to identify potential success identifying them sooner and having them on a pathway younger but right now your Juniors and seniors are are make up a big percentage of this group thank you and there is a lot of work like I will share that with the AP Capstone diploma the first course is a seminar class that uh um you can provide sophomore year English and our governing board you all approved that in the course description book I believe this past year um so we're capturing more students uh it shows that students that um try an AP class if it be their freshman or sophore year and it's more of the skills that go into that they are more confident going into future classes so that is part of our district Improvement right now to try to get students in earlier um because then they have more opportunity to do more and once students show success in one class it's like it's just contagious um and that's what we're seeing right now with the trends so you you'd mention that you're seeing you're seeing more students enrolled in AP classes and also more students passing AP exams how does that work as a percentage basis are we seeing a a a 50% increase in enrollment but only a a 20% increase in students passing exams or are we seeing a comparable number of students entering the program also passing the exam because I mean it it'd be easy to say it is easy to say more students are enrolled and more students are passing but as a percentage are they staying are those are those are those additional students is is is a a similar percentage of of additional students entering or going into AP classes is a similar percentage passing those exams yes okay yes it is very comparable uh which is exciting um and that is credit to our AP teachers all of these teachers have to go through additional uh training and one thing that I think was very strategic and I really appreciate that Mr Ryan uh has led in our district is we have brought that training here with our AP summer Institute and so whereas before um some of our schools maybe they struggled with not having enough funds to send a teacher or they had to have like a rotation because they couldn't afford this was a lot of out ofate um training we now have it and we host it here so there was a lot of work that went into that and we are noticing more teachers going through so campuses are able to be more uh strategic um even if they're not teaching the AP Class A lot of our honors teachers have that AP training so they're getting more exposure to um AP skill uh and instruction if that makes sense um even outside of the AP classes which I think is phenomenal and I think is all of those pieces contribute to why our data is uh reflected so positively at this time are we doing a great Outreach to underrepresented students yes so the AP potential that Mr Ryan just mentioned actually provides detailed reports on your subgroups and um I know that that's a passion of Mr Ryan and my myself and uh we're working with our counselors and our assistant principes we just uh spent time with all of our campuses last week where every one of them shared where they're at with their site impact checks which is their school um Improvement goals and every single one of our secondary schools uh hit on exactly that question where they're talking about their subgroups and how do we target more students into not just with ap but additionally all the other programs that we're talking uh this evening to you all about great appreciate that absolutely and I just was going to mention I think in AP courses there's a huge Motivation by the students to pass these courses with a three or above because it's college credit and they get to CLP out of that and so they're really motivated to get those high scores out of those classes thank you so moving on we wanted to share um as we have pulled more students into AP uh We've also uh done a really nice job of maintaining our honors numbers as well so we didn't want our honors sometimes students uh historically have been nervous to take an AP class so they will tend to stay in the honors um or even uh general education classes and so as we have pulled that we wanted to monitor some of our other programs as well so with the honors counts you'll you'll see that even as we push students into these other programs and we challenge them to take more rigorous classes that our honors numbers are equally um sustaining as well and this is including um uh the same conversation that I had shared with on the last slide so this is the overall percent on the campus so if you uh look at this number in conjunction with the last number and add that together our campuses are doing a really nice job with exposing our students um I don't want to say half some of the campuses are doing a probably at about 50% uh but they're doing a really great job of hitting those accelerated and honors needs do you want to okay and and we uh also wanted to highlight CTE as again those are programs that are offered on all of our campuses and are equally as important and so um you can take a look at this this is the overall enrollment on each campus as well uh provided the longit tunal data uh we have spent a lot of time this year uh really focusing on individual CTE programs Mr daily has uh been working with our counselors and our administrators and has put together um uh Council of different representatives from each of the schools this is going to show overall percentages but our CTE programs are always changing they always it's what the students are interested in we want to make sure that they're getting those uh credentials for their industrial certification so that they are prepared and can kind of exit high school with that game plan of what's next so we have sustained around 40% the last few years but I know this year in our district Improvement plan plan uh we just like this last few years we've targeted AP this is kind of a goal right now uh within our district Improvement plan that we are intentionally targeting so yes we are very proud that uh given maybe a little bit of enrollment loss at our high schools and um postco and uh Trends changing in the Career and Technical world that we are still sustaining the exact uh numbers of enrolled students in these programs um but we are going to be targeting this moving forward to grow those programs even further and be more intentional so there's a lot of great work going on behind the scenes with our CTE programs all right and then going to turn it over to Elementary okay with our district uh continuous Improvement plan we've been tasked with getting each student in the most rigorous academic setting that they're they're capable of being in um and part of the AP numbers we've been charged uh from Mr Ryan early in his tenure um is we got to accelerate students we've got to get AP numbers cannot just be um High School decisions uh we've got to get some students on the track earlier um and get them ready to handle a higher AP load so one of the ways that we've traditionally done that in the elementary schools is via our gifted and honors um courses so what I've got above or what I've got in front of you is our gifted numbers for fourth through sixth grade students um we change there is a dip between the 2122 school year in the 2223 this is when we switched in 2122 students that scored at the coat at the 95th percentile and above were considered gifted after the 2122 school year we transitioned to be um aligned with the state of Arizona's funding which is 97th percentile so what you see in the 21 22 22 23 is those students started grandfathering out we didn't say hey you're not gifted anymore even though we upped to 97th percentile so in all fairness that number should have dropped um super uh proud of what we've done with uh Lisa Creer and Sarah arhart we actually did in February February A Gifted testing Blitz and what that was is we went and we met with um different stakeholders to help students identify who would be a great candidate um for gifted testing um what we saw out of that we also additionally went to all of our Title One schools where we know we knew that there was underidentification of gifted students and we went ahead and offered the blanket testing for all third fourth and fifth grade students and we encouraged those students in the classroom teachers to administer the practice exam of the coat so that we could remove the barrier of assessment literacy it is unlike any assessment that they've ever taken before so they took the practice exam and I'm super proud of our um testing Blitz we were able to identify 383 new gifted students on our ident on our elementary campuses through our February blitz so um Additionally the state ad pays for all second grade students to uh get a blanket coat test and so that is scheduled for May so I'm anticipating that our number should grow and continue to grow that's awesome okay additionally so one three the three big things we're doing in elementary right now to get students AP ready is our traditional programming uh accelerated and gifted so here we are in the second year of our elementary accelerated program so what we've got are these are student Counts from year 1 to year two and despite having um a decline in enrollment for our elementary campuses you'll see that most of these stayed right about consistent uh we're very excited next year to add Finley Farms Augusta Ranch and settler Point into our uh accelerated quadr we're also going to change what that looks like is what we've noticed through implementation during 2 years we've decided to move to a truly accelerated model rather than just saying hey you're a fir first grader from now on you're learning second grade math and you don't get exposed to those critical foundational skills so we've created a model where you actually take uh eight years of curriculum particularly in math and put it into seven for instance kindergarten rather than just skipping kindergarten math we will do three quarters of kindergarten math their last quarter will be first grade math so it's truly accelerated and we've come up with a Continuum that by the fourth grade you'll be a grade level ahead in math and we feel like that sets our students up for better success uh because you're not skipping the foundational skills and creating gaps in learning um so super excited to bring that next year a so going back for a second to the GI the gifted um so when did we start testing third fourth and third third through sixth graders blanket testing third fourth and fifth grade students at the title one was only in February of this year okay and then in in May will that will include second graders so what we do and so here's just procedure for the last few years is all second graders get blanket tested it's 80 they pay for it and GPS we test all second graders uh not that many were identified at our title campuses in second grade so we decided to blanket test third fourth and fifth as well with those different procedures of having them take the pre the practice test prior to and hopes that we know there's gifted Learners at those schools we just needed to take the assessment literacy part out of it so I I guess one I don't know if it's a concern or just something that maybe he's on my radar um it seems like we're trying to identify it doesn't seem like we're trying to we're trying to identify students that would fit into accelerated programs honors programs AP classes at a younger and younger age um that's what that's that's what I'm getting from this report is there any concern that we are placing additional stress on on on students especially our younger elementary students and maybe their families by trying to um test for and uh identify uh candidates for Accelerated honors and AP programs so everything's choice so families ultimately have a decision whether or not they want to engage with the accelerated curriculum or not ultimately have the choice if they want to enter into a gifted program or not um we always want it to be the family decision we want to be able to offer options to the families who want to make that choice and feel like it's in their child's best interest I think we feel very passionately about it's our job to tell them what they're capable of after identifying abilities that maybe they don't even realize that they have and so uh for us it's identification it's um invitation it's information it's knowledge Maybe this year isn't the year that they want to take that leap maybe they never do maybe next year is the year I also want to be very clear while tonight we're highlighting specific pieces this is through every one of our levels of education so right now if you're a self-contained special education student receiving services and we believe that there's an opportunity for you to be mainstreamed in certain classes and have exposure to typical peers and academically um engage with some some dialogue that maybe you haven't been used to we're also engaging with those families to have that discussion as well so we talk about the seven levels of Ed education from self-contained through AP we want every child and every family to understand where their maximum ability level can get them because they're all walking into a world where they're going to be competing against uh the rest of the world and and uh so we we're passionate about the fact that you need to be aware you need to know what's out there for you it's your choice ultimately what you want to take advantage of and where you want to make those decisions to push yourself so um but we are identifying students and and the numbers that Mr Berard just spoke of with 300 and some odd students who are who were not previously identified who are today we feel like those families now have a choice to make that's pretty exciting for them well I wouldn't I wouldn't confuse accelerated with like excessive homework I think it's just giving students an opportunity to have more of a challenge while they're at school and it doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to be weighed down with a lot of homework they're just going to be doing something different at school that if we can show that they're capable of that or they try that and they are successful and you know um there's always that saying um hard work beats Talent if talent doesn't work hard so students who really want to apply themselves and and work at learning those things I think I think they can do it um and so I think it's important to give them that opportunity uh because it sets them up for Success whatever path they take after high school so I I appreciate that my um I I I'm a a big believer and there's a a time and place for everything and I just would urge you to be uh conscientious of of trying to uh perhaps urging or encouraging students to uh to accelerate faster than maybe they trying to trying to say this in a delicate way um just urge you to uh be considerate to and I'm not implying that you're not um but lot of disclaimers here I know um to making sure that all of our students at the appropriate age levels have opportunities to do the normal things that kids do at those appropriate age levels and the last thing that I think we want to be doing is um is placing any stress additional stress on students or parents to try to perform at a level that is maybe above what they're they're mentally and socially ready for so that's that's the only thing that I would be um uh cognizant cautious of that's yeah I think simplistically putting this in a very simplistic way a lot of times before parents would say their kids are bored that was the word you'd hear so often they're bored this kind of takes care of getting rid of the board word in my opinion right I know I can speak personally so my both of my kids are involved in the accelerated program over at Highland Park has been phenomenal my son came into kindergarten reading you know what I mean so he didn't need a apple a for a full week and I'm not saying anything disrespectful you know what I mean but um he was ready with two educator parents you know what I mean he was ready to kind of take off and I think it's important to note that our accelerated schools they are there's a track for Accelerated but we have talks with those campuses on a very frequent basis that hey you know if this is too much for you we can put you in the conventional classroom no disrespect at all that's something we're very sensitive to and again with the gifted testing it's one of those things like hey you qualified it's totally creating opportunities they don't have to take that thank you y and I also think that they're I appreciate that you're being very cognizant of the needs of what families want in our district there are a lot of families who want these accelerated program for their children yeah and no mistake our conventional course work is very very challenging as well and so it's not something where I want anybody to believe on level or conventional isn't something that prepares you either these are simply different options that people are seeking um our general education track is very very strong and students go on to have a ton of success doing that so um by by no means is this something we believe all students should choose or all families should choose but we want to give options you get to mic thanks guys you can take them on a walk well and our our last our last slide uh really through the questions that you all asked kind of uh summarizes this slide so uh really through District Improvement and listening to the survey needs of our families and I love the comment um about the board student because initially what went right into my head so a lot of this work came from um wanting to meet the needs of our students and uh there are different Pathways and I even love the example of a a special education student um identifying a student who could be twice exceptional uh just because they're in special education does not by any means mean that they are not capable of being challenged and so it really is looking at all Learners and uh it's a lot of work but our team has worked really hard to uh shift our mindset that it is our job to create multiple Pathways and to best educate and guide our families and what is best for them I know at our our Junior High uh a lot of that pressure seems to start to surface around Junior High and uh students can choose to be in some advanced classes and not in others and uh we encourage our students at the secondary level to try with no penalty or risk so if in a that first 4 and a/2 weeks it's too much they're coming home stressed we are able to transition them right into a different class that's appropriate for them uh and our counselors are absolutely phenomenal and do a really great job of uh monitoring our students um and trying to keep an eye on that if that's helps and uh through here you'll see that um we're going to just continue to try to identify this potential in all of our students and all of our subgroups um at all levels there is some work that we found that as we moved forward in this direction from a K12 uh lens needed to be done if that be updating our course descript I book if something in there uh went against this vision of what we're trying to do well we had to start there uh we're doing a lot of work currently with our Master schedulers uh what we would find historically is you would create a master schedule in the spring maybe you had staff uh resign or last minute uh changes or maybe your enrollment numbers were up and to change that master schedule uh weeks before can be difficult it's a very uh difficult task and so uh we're working with our master schedulers um from elementary all the way up through high school to help guide them and support them and and provide training support additional eyes looking at their number to create the best possible master schedule so that doesn't get in the way we don't want these opportunities to not exist because we maybe logistically don't know how to figure that out so um a lot of us are very passionate we get in a room and we are just constantly trying to find ways to make these opportunities uh a possibility and then from there allow our families uh to make those decisions and what's best for their students students when you get to the high school level we do have our CCRI which is our College and Career Readiness Index this is 20% of the school letter grade and uh I've talked about this a few times prior but um half of this is exposing students to college opportunities and preparing them for college and the other half is preparing them for career which is that CTE uh pathway and um so with that in mind uh that was uh part of the reason why we chose to focus on some of the data points this evening for you uh because when it comes to accountability the state really does outline a lot of that at the high school level and I've appreciated the leadership team um we've I've really noticed a shift just in this last couple of years where we are working together um with a K12 Vision so the goals that we are setting no longer just belong to one level it is not when I uh mentioned that the CCRI is 20% of the high school letter grade it's not just the responsibility of our high schools what are we doing to improve our Pathways at the junior high and Elementary to set our students up for Success when they do get there knowing that that's uh such a significant part of the accountability measure that our schools are held to um so we're going to continue to do work there and um again a lot of this uh is driven through our district Improvement plan and uh we're looking forward to having another meeting in June and we will be revising uh but I do believe that the goal we have that is continuously finding more more rigorous opportunities for all students so um that could be getting a a sped student to move from resource into a caught setting that's the purpose of this entire conversation and so um I do believe that that goal will remain because it's really at the heart of what we're trying to do for all of our students every day so thank you all for your time this evening um are there any final questions on the presentation this one thank you I just wanted to extend my my gratitude for all the work that you guys do I really appreciate it do we have overlap between students who choose accelerated uh classrooms and the gifted classrooms okay yes we absolutely do okay and so they just go out to gifted Services we still have the the same model of math in fourth and fifth grade and then adding language arts in sixth grade for gifted Services yes okay all right thank you that's it for questions thank you very much this is very very very well done comprehensive and very well done um let's take a two-minute break and then then we'll give you a go on to the next part okay we'll be back rest sounds good all right hope it all works out in the end okay come on now tented yeah this way they got to be corner to corner uh yeah it's 6 o' I would like to if my son has baseball practice from 5 5 to 7 and so if my wife can manage transportation to him from that I'd love to go no I Jill was saying it was like uh like Orchestra student of the year what's your title I just let you keep going up like I don't even know what mytle what [Music] department I knew exactly what he was trying to say you can I didn't know what I was trying to say so I'm glad there was one of us I don't know that I've ever said your title before well even even when we sit like in conversation right I mean when would I ever say your any we're going to self- introduce this then no I would like for you to no I'm done I've given up the role of introduction can you run to the gas station real quick that's nice oh now we got the whole that's right the experts have come to the table at this point okay well that was an amazing report so thank you it's this is the kind of stuff I love to hear I'm like I'm not smarter than a fifth grader every time I go I'm like oh my gosh I need to go back to school because these kids know so much yes oh sorry e look at that I didn't okay we reconvene our brief board business me meeting um our work study brief board business meeting we will move to 6.03 K12 math curriculum adoption Dr McCord thank you Madame President govering board member tonight um is kind of the culminating activity for the K12 math adoption as you guys have been made aware there has been um a lot of work done done in this area over the past several months and very proud of what our team has done and uh what the folks out of the schools have done in order to Pilot get feedback and so I'll turn this over to them and questions along the way go ahead Madame President Dr McCord governing board thank you so much uh we have asked the experts to join us up at the table for fear of embarrassing myself one more time I'm going to go ahead and ask these find folks introduce themselves I'm Len bomb I'm the secondary math coordinator Christa Cox the director of secondary curriculum instruction and assessment Robert berer Elementary curriculum director of element sorry Elementary director of curriculum instruction assessment this is why I have an expert so I keep Robert close always makes me feel good about myself and I am Crystal Udall the elementary math coordinator so I'm going to kick us off real quick and then I'm going to get out of the way and I can't word it any better than this Gilbert Public Schools is committed to a student- centered environment that provides students every opportunity to grow and be successful teachers employ an instructional framework grounded in high levels of rigor and relevance to implement purposeful standards based instruction that is responsive to each student's needs this is kind of the framework and the forethought of our process is we embarked on this journey I remember a little less than a year ago being in a cabinet meeting and having a discussion and Dr Newman saying are you sure that we need to move forward with a math adoption or more like Jared I'm sorry but we do need to and uh year one stepping into this role and so fortunate to have Dr Cox and Robert and Crystal and Len leading the way and I'm I'm just excited for them to share with you tonight the results of the work they've been doing over the last handful of months so all right to start us off we just want to review a little bit of what the timeline has been because there has been uh a lot of work over a long period of time so in August we were um had initially put together and formed the committee and started uh receiving the quotes and samples uh from vendors from September to October there were a lot of committee meetings with the whole committee the initial review of the materials that took place with the committee uh the committee was uh which I'll talk about this in just a moment but it was made up of teachers parents administrators District level uh all the different stakeholder um groups were represented in that and in that uh fall time frame they were able to do a first cut that was when we welcomed in our vendors to do presentations and uh allow uh the vendors to talk our committee through and answer any questions that they may have at that time November and December was when we had come to the board to make a recommendation of which vendors we would like to move forward with and discussed the professional development plan um and ironed out all of the logistics for our piloting campuses in January we began our pilot um at all of the different schools K12 in addition to the 60-day public review that began uh January 3rd moving into February we uh were able to collect a lot of feedback actually January February and March there was a lot of feedback from students parents the committee um from the public review and the pilot then moving into March we were able to meet with our committee again uh do a lot of disaggregation and Analysis of the feedback uh Tred to quantify that uh take in uh numerical data as well as anecdotal D data and um really allow all of that feedback to write the story um which is going to be presented for you this evening and then uh now here we are in April ready to finalize our implementation plan uh and get the ball rolling moving forward so we're very excited to uh share uh what the committee has um narrowed everything down to and the recommendations that we would like to make this evening Dr Cox I just have two questions um about how how many vendors did you have coming in for presentations so initially we had um how many vendors for secondary uh well different amounts for different each level's going to be different each level is going to be different um for the algebra 1 geometry Algebra 2 we actually had three vendors come in I know it for the lower levels I think you had two two vendors two vendors for the so different amounts okay and then my second question is is um because we're starting this piloting midy year instead of the beginning of the year are they starting in the middle of the book where where are we starting with the books so uh we actually follow the standards and so um the last few adoptions we've actually done the pilot in the spring and the feedback that we have gotten from our uh teachers and administrators is that there's pros and cons to doing it at the beginning of the year and uh in the spring but it has seem to be favored in the spring because it's not the first like week or two of school and uh allows them to kind of start fresh at the after winter break um with that being said where the standards were where the units that we chose um both Miss bomb and Miss Udall um were able to outline and work with the vendors that we were moving forward with to identify which units of the curriculum resource would match the standards so that the teacher would still be teaching the same standards but with the different resource okay thank you you're very welcome welcome so we're going to go ahead and talk about high school so with the high school group the uh committee that looked just through that High School lens was made up of 25 different members that were representative of campus and District staff teachers instructional coaches administrators and parents and we're going to go through some of the pieces a little quicker um but there is uh a lot of information that's going to follow up in the following slides and so what we will do is we will focus on high school first and then we'll have a moment for questions if there are any then and then we'll focus on our K8 on the tail end of the presentation so the different vendors that we did pilot for Algebra 1 geometry Algebra 2 and our Intermediate Algebra we went forward with into a which is by huon Mifflin and hardcourt for our college algebra and pre-calculus courses the vendor was National Geographic learning with sage for our calculus 3 and differential equations we went with savz learning company they each have their own textbook in those areas and then for our AP classes in Calculus AB and BC and statistics we went forward with Bedford Freeman and worth Publishers with the high school having so many different math opportunities obviously uh that's the nature um there are not uh curricular resources out there that cover all of the different courses that I just covered for you um so those were the recommended vendors after all the work that we brought forward last time and these were the vendors that were set up for both public review and pilot um within the classrooms and that leads us into the high school pilot um the the dates for January 3rd through March 4th for the high school level 55 teachers participated from all of our um School schols and we did pilot in special ed education classrooms honors classrooms and co- talk classrooms so all levels um the teachers who were piloting in the third quarter which is the January through March are continuing to use those resources um for the selected resources um the criteria evaluated you see as the column on the right of this slide and this is the same criteria that we used for the K12 adoption so as we're talking about pilot data we were asking teachers and in our case students and parents about these types of of questions okay we're going to move into the algebra 1 geometry and Algebra 2 resource and look at the feedback that was provided by our pilot and we're going to start with our pilot teacher feedback so the first Criterion is re regarding the content pedagogy activities and quality of materials for teachers and across the board the feedback back was positive on this these are scores out of five possible points and the overall Criterion score is a 3.8 so from this the curriculum was found to have a variety of resources teachers can access to design and Implement effective and engaging instructional experiences for students to learn and practice standards and skills we also wanted to bring forward to you today some of the specific feedback from teachers and I I'm not going to read the quote themselves but these are quotes from Pilot teachers who who actually experienced um this resource and they talk about being able to use the resource to meet students where they are having an ample opportunity of of tasks that they can select from they liked the digital plus the workbook components and they found it to be high high level and engaging for student interests Criterion 2 for pilot teachers talked specifically about the learning task for students and opportunities to demonstrate progression of Standards based skills the overall Criterion score was a 3.68 on this one and the the curriculum was found to provide multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning Progressive standards and skills as they move through the learning tasks and lessons similarly we have quotes from the piloting teachers and this is from all of those course levels and this the feedback here was very positive and it talked about being able to Ability based group using the data provided it's getting students to work together and it was multiple ways of students to demonstrate their learning so students were found to have ample opportunities to work together and demonstrate that learning the third Criterion was about the variet of Assessments and student monitoring and this has an overall Criterion score of 3.35 it does have ample assessment opportunities both formative and and summative that allow both students and teachers to monitor their own learning the pilot teacher quotes talk about the access to digital and paper assessments which was a positive there were many teachers that referenc the formative turn and talks getting students to communicate about mathematics and multiple opportunities for checking understanding through the [Applause] lessons if we shift from Pilot teachers to Pilot student feedback at the conclusion or toward the end of the pilot period we did send out a student survey it was a brief student survey um but this this slide indicates that we had over 1 1800 student responses from Pilot yes so we are very grateful to our vendors to allow us to Pilot with that many students and this is for all of the High School courses you can see that all of our high schools are represented um and Desert Ridge Junior High is also represented because their Algebra 1 teacher piloted that resource um all the courses are represented from our special education courses to our on level to our honors courses and that does include our Co talk courses as well so we did get feedback from everyone which we are grateful for we're going to take a look at the results of the pilot student survey and this of the over 1,800 responses indicates 70.6% of the students scored the resource as far as learning tasks and assignments that help them improve math skills as a three four or five I also wanted to include some quotes from students and it talks about how this Resort helps them improve has good and helpful assignments you are able to check your answers it referenced vocabulary as using understandable words so it was a lot of positive feedback from students about the resource what kind of negative feedback did you get was it valid from the students yes um a lot of the student concerns had to do with the the digital platform okay they are not used to a digital platform in our secondary math classrooms and so it was a challenge initially concerned about that absolutely and that can be fixed yes oh yes yeah can't they can't you offer paper pencil for them to work for assessments yes um but even in just logging into the digital platform there was some issues initially that have been solved our our technology team has been amazing and the the hmh team has also been super supportive in any of those challenges so we have overcome those and then and I believe that students feel much more positive now as long as they're fixable like you can you can deal with the negative okay so I just had a maybe a question so I guess when I was listening to that did you find students had a hard time doing math computations on a digital platform rather than with paper and pencil and I'm just going to jump in not necessarily when we looked at that uh feedback um what we found was that it truly was uh more of an issue with the access to the digital resource and we set up a way for the students and the teachers to reach out to our Tech Team if they were running into glitches and truly when lene gives them uh kind of a shout out our pilot would not have been successful without our our technology team and what we found was we left that open as they were troubleshooting some of that in the beginning that we maybe didn't foresee when we started hindsights 2020 but as we got weeks into the pilot we left that uh help desk so to speak open for them and toward the end there was no feedback or requests or comments coming in for any need for that access and so um the nice part of a pilot is that now that we've learned through that we've put together FAQs guides for teachers so that when we go to do it the next time around um and I do think it's important also uh to put emphasis on the fact that um in almost 30 years uh based on people's historical knowledge our mathematics have not ever seen a digital resource and so it really was more of that usage as opposed to being able to um do the math if that makes sense thank thank you the second part of the pilot student survey asked if they felt like the resource along with instruction from their teacher helped them improve their math communication skills and on this slide it is 71.9% that scored that as a three four or five from the students their feedback here talked about all of the opportunities made them better at doing their practices how the resource forced them to communicate math skills um or allowed them to communicate didn't express ideas with peers depending on who you ask um and then it just resoundingly was yeah we're talking all of the time about mathematics Now using this resource so after the pilot was completed we then asked the parents of students that were piloting very simple questions as well and so this slide indicates the responses that we got from parents we had 158 responses there were responses from all seven campuses and all 10 courses from the parents um here you can see the percentage of the responding parents that had an opinion that agreed with the statement the learning tasks assignments in the new resource along with the instruction from their teacher help my child improve their mathematics skills directly tied to the Criterion we ask the students themselves or it helped their students improve their math communication skills and then finally whether they thought their child had a positive experience with the new resource so we wanted to have some data from parents and I will say that we needed that data from parents because if we move forward to the public review um we asked the community to come in and we asked the community to come in and we asked the community to come in and we did have at the high school level at the completion for all of our courses only 14 respond to the public review six of those were for the hmh into a which is what we're currently discussing um there were three teachers that responded and three students that responded to the public review so the fact that we were able to push out the parent survey to all piloting students parents um I we're going to get good feedback from that which was the goal of all of this data is to help us move forward and Implement using that information so before we move to the upper level courses because you saw earlier there are quite a few are there any questions about this resource I've got a couple if I didn't have your explanation of kind of what's going on beneath these numbers if I just had this document to look at I would be very concerned um based on these numbers I mean if if I was looking for a restaurant to go to I would not go to any of these restaurants because 3.8 three I mean they're in the three the overalls are in the threes the student reviews are three low threes you've got uh you know almost 30% or right at 30% um of students in both of the uh in both of the uh survey survey feedback charts showing that they didn't improve their math skills um so there's they don't have page numbers on them but there's this one right here the student pilot pilot student survey feedback there's two charts one is along with instruction from my teacher help me improve my mathematic skills 30% of students said no or or no or almost no I imagine it was a no almost no satisfactory almost yes yes kind of scale um and then same with the next you know the new resource gives me the opportunity to practice and improve my math communication skills um almost just under 30% also said you know no and so what gaps have you identifi ified that will besides technology because I realized technology using the screens is a big piece of this but what gaps have you identified well let me back up it's not just the students but it's also the teachers that are are grading these things I mean there wasn't I mean in in in all of these um Algebra 1 algebra intermediate um um geometry I mean none of them got a five I think only one showed barely over a four that was the opportunities to demonstrate I hate to interrupt but I was going to ask you said a scale of five but the chart shows a scale of 1 to four so I just wanted to um clarify it's got to be five because under this next under this next one there's a 4.8 4.08 okay so it's at least a 4.08 scale um so I guess what gaps have you identified and do you realistically think that you can fix those gaps within this curriculum or will we have to will we have to adopt additional um tools to help fix some of these gaps can can I say something about that just yeah you know I I understand exactly what you're saying but when you look at this too that this is the first time any that he's been exposed to it both the students and the teachers and so when you know the teachers have got a learning G learning curve also so you know I look at it from a different point of view because of that um I think I think that they've got to learn this and you know it takes it doesn't happen when you you know you don't get a book and then you're the expert on math teaching even though they have experience there there's a there's a gap there so I think that these are really positive under those if you look at it from that point of view but I think if you also look at it from a point of view of this is probably I mean it's something new this is probably the most excited teachers are going to be about about about this and so if this is the most excited period if this is kind of the honeymoon period of this of this math adoption I don't look is it concerning at all that we're getting such low scores I at it as being exciting though I think it's more realistic about you know I I mean I'm I'm making an educated guess here I believe that given it you know once it's adopted and given the the training and the usage of it that's going that would change CU I look at this as being really positive looking at it from that point of view so but you know I understand what you're saying yeah and I just to kind of jump in and follow up there um it it is a very valid point and that's why we have kind of three sets of data we do have the students which students are students you could kind of look at that both ways uh but also um we have the pilot the public review and then the whole group committee and uh that is absolutely correct that this group of piloting teachers had not they've not been a part of the vendor presentation they've not been a part of any of that pre-work that went into it and so um truly to go into a pilot which if teachers are watching I am so appreciative that that many teachers was willing to do it because it is a lot of work and it is very minimal training going into the pilot they know it's coming but you're not ever really fully prepared for it and it takes time so one of the things that we um identified just from doing um the last couple of years of um adoptions is the need to focus more on our implementation plan what we have found too is we have a lot of um teachers that are more apprehensive and nervous about what that implementation plan look like then they are about the new resource and so when we looked at the feedback the written statements and when teachers would reach out we were out in classrooms every single week the the nervousness and maybe where they would score a little lower was their apprehension there and so I think it's our job to make sure that we are prepared to support them as we Roll It Forward um going back to the whole committee who has seen everything they've seen all the other resources that came forward they've been through vendor presentations um and I don't want to steal uh Miss bomb's th but um when we brought all of that in and discussed a lot more of that those anecdotal conversations of really to your point what are the teachers what why are those gaps there um they uh unanimously agreed that they want to move forward with this uh uh vendor vendor and I will also share that my email has been blowing up all day because the Math teachers are like should we show up should we be there what can we do they are so excited for this um but that doesn't take away it's something new uh what are we going to do and so one of the things that you'll hear me talk a little bit uh later about is that and I think we did talk about it previously is uh Mr Ryan put together uh a task force for an implementation team and rather than waiting till even right now we have been doing that since I want to say November maybe even earlier and it is all um anyone who is a leader at the district level and site level how do we support and move forward together where historically in Gilbert it was kind of left on the coordinators that it was like come up with an implementation plan and not I I mean I was a part of that I feel horrible that that was our thinking um but we have really stepped back and looked through all of those pieces and so are I feel very confident tonight saying that our Math teachers are very excited do want to move forward they see the value in this uh but they want to make sure that there's going to be support and that they understand that um it may take them some time as they adjust to some of these pieces and so even Dr mcord has been uh very vocal that this is going to be a 2-year implementation plan moving into these things and not something that we just expect teachers that first week to do and so that's kind of what happens to a pilot teacher is they just start and they get what they get and that's what we have to do when we're in a pilot but by no means is that what we would do moving forward with that yeah and I I I'm I don't want to give the impression that I'm saying we should scrap the whole thing because of these numbers I just want to um I just and I appreciate you answering my question it sounds like thing areas that we've identified that need to be addressed are the digital platform and then uh the implementation yes and we can get those scores up the other piece of this that is concerning to me are these parent the parent survey feedback so we've got two of these categories here more than 50% of parents do not agree that this that this program this new resource provided their children with opportunities to practice and improve their math and their child has had a positive experience with the new with the new resource and that's I mean if if parents aren't on board we're going to have a hard time no matter how the teachers implement it if parents aren't on board students are going to struggle and so what are what are we hearing from parents as to why they thought this the these programs failed and these categories so I'll uh answer just briefly and then uh Miss bomb if you have anything to add I will say that our parents historically have shared feedback and when they're in the room with us that it's there's a nervousness at home how do I help my student with math what how do I um support with this and so when we've already established there's a digital platform now for the first time we're looking at um and maybe the shift in resources and uh even um the type of instruction that will go along with this type of a resource I will say that the parents have voed that they how can they be a part of that implementation plan as well so we have been talking about what can we do to bring our parents into that plan and if that be and I know again miss bom is already working on it but um if that be FAQs we've talked about creating uh screencastify which are like recorded tutorials on how to access because we think that gets in the way for our parents as well and they have personally voiced that to us so um we need to bring our parents in to the implementation plan as a stakeholder in this so that they don't feel that a new resource divides them even further but there are amazing um I guess I would refer to them as like professional development and tutorial videos within the resource that are also there for students and parents as well that they may not have known about I didn't know about them until about halfway through the pilot and when the vendor was sharing some with us I got really excited and we right away were like how do we get this into the hands of parents and so again just a little bit more of like next steps but I can see where with any resource that would have come forward um maybe where some of that would have been and then I know you read through all the comments is there anything you want to add no that I'm missing but I would say that because the the teachers are just getting used to the material and learning about it and utilizing it for the first time that is going to come across a little bit and so students are going to feel that and then that could be what was portrayed to their parents um I know that I've had teachers who commented who didn't score super high on their resource but I I want to share these because I think this is really telling and it's really about where we need to go um one teacher's comment was I believe all the components are there for Effective engaging learning it really is about the teacher feeling comfortable which we're talking about implementation with how the components are presented with more student collaboration and another teacher said it's okay right now but I I'm sure my opinion will change and grow as I use it more and more and so that's really what what we need is we need this implementation to help teachers and grow through using the platform and the resource and then I'm sure that these comments would turn around okay I also think that we as Educators and I don't mean just Gilbert but in in general throughout the the country especially in math that's the one area that we haven't done our due diligence with in terms of we make these changes which are difficult enough for the teachers but the parents then it becomes a fear for them because it's different than the way they learned and so I think you know when you're saying when when and they want to help but I mean I think I I barely made it through geometry I wouldn't be able to help anybody um you can do all the tutorials you want but you know the I was tutored in it too but anyway um I think that you know the fact that you have that available and and you're willing and getting it out there to the parents is huge huge well I think I do think asking students about math is kind of like asking them which of these vegetables did you like and over here is some cotton candy they're going to want the cotton candy but um I think we have to better at teaching math I think a lot of people have had some experiences in math that make them nervous that they won't get it or they'll look stupid in front of somebody else and we have to change that and I think what I saw about this curriculum is that it's really a a component of talking about math demonstrating math showing how math can be used on a daily basis um and some of the units in the high school you know showing how math is used in different professions so I thought there was a lot of really wide use of helping people to feel more comfortable with math and I again I think it's getting used to it and maybe this is the first time you've tried something but as you do it more and more you're going to like it better um so I think that I'm very happy with the feedback back that we've given and nothing nothing is is perfect but when I looked at this curriculum um which I came over a couple times to to Dole in the hallway and see if I could figure it out and I'll just say I had a really bad math teacher so um I didn't go as far in math as I would have liked to um but I really thought that what we have to offer our students with all of the different versions that we're adopting tonight um are very well written very easy to understand and that with practice and guidance they will be able to understand those Concepts and move forward and I think that's the most important part this is unrelated to what we've been talking about what aspects of the curriculum are are taught through a digital through the digital platform are they are the are the tests administered through the digital platform is it just homework is it just um additional help what what what's offered through the through the digital platform there there is an a a digital textbook so students will have access to the textbook regardless of where they are so when you say what do they have access to if there are problems assigned from the textbook that would be something that they're looking at digitally but not answering digitally there are digital formative assessments for quick feed feedback for teachers um checking understanding um there are online assessments but they are also able to be given on paper paper and pencil so there's an opportunity for Choice there for teachers and students um so as far as what can be done digitally all of it um does it have to be no and are there are there security measures in place to to ensure that the student that the student is that's logged in is the student that's supposed to be logged in and the answers that they're giving are those students answers yes but I will say uh that's kind of the equivalent of the old school like I copied my friend's homework at home and brought it in um when it comes to the actual tests that are there there's a way to secure the browser and obviously we would recommend that that those type of um assessments happen during the school day with the teacher actively proctoring and that's when would be open and available to students got it perfect thank you um and the one last thing um with the digital resource that is was like unanimously positively received is there is a tool in there that allows for intervention to fill a skill Gap so as the teacher continues to move forward with the standard we uh know that there are students that have those gaps for whatever reasons and uh there's a diagnostic tool in there that evaluates where the student is at what level what skills are they missing and then it can can assign them little uh mini lessons so to speak so that they are slowly building those skills in addition to what the teacher is using this the resource for in class okay great thank you can I just add one thing real quick um I think we need to remember as we're finishing out this presentation that change is hard and this is a 9we snapshot of K through 12 right and when Dr Cox mentions that she has Math teachers texting her and calling her can we come to the meeting tonight they will be our driving force and our primary cheerleaders through this math adoption we got one right back here yay stand up two of them back here we need to listen to them they are the ones that are going to be implementing this and teaching this and if they are excited about it then we have to remember this is just a 9we snapshot and change is hard and I think that some of these posit these comments are in the right direction if this was 3 years down the road and we're still getting these scores might be time for you know some more conversations but I'm happy with what is going on right now so just remember that as thank you yeah um I what I like about all of this and even that you brought these things up is the thing that I like about having a pilot and getting feedback I'm not afraid of feedback that is not perfect because then that gives us opportunity to prepare and be ready to roll it out better so that it's a great experience a better experience as we roll it out to everybody so to me this I kind of liked how you were saying and I think you guys answer the questions of so what does this inform us of how we're how we're going to go forward with it that's kind of what I look at it as especially since everything was more positive than not and all the other feedback was as well and who knows what what would they score their current programs right now you know saying if you asked with their current I mean I you might we might be worried about that actually what with the students or the teachers you know what would they they and the pilot teachers that filled these out are teachers that are like we're going to get it right like they do want it they're just encourage them to be very honest which I appreciate because then you can address the concerns and be ready to implement it in a better way so that it's the most successful for the most teachers and students and parents I think that was that's what I to home from this was let's involve them as much as we can so Lori along those same lines I think we learn more from the negative than we do from the positive so that we know we can make the the if everything was perfect then you know we wouldn't learn anything we just thank you thank you thank you yeah okay all right then we will transition to the upper level High School courses and we're going to start by looking at the National Geographic learning learning Sage um resource that we piloted for college algebra um it was piloted by one teacher on one campus and the pilot teacher score was 13 out of 15 on the review um and the average public review score for this resource was 22.5 out of 24 and I absolutely loved this parent comment about hopefully my kids will get to use this um so this was a selection that when we talked with the adoption Comm it was unanimous that it should go forward and we should continue to use this piloted resource we also had another resource from the same vendor for pre-calculus for this one there were four pilot teachers only three responded to the survey for pilot teachers and the average score for the pilot teachers was an8 out of 15 so a little bit more um disagreement with this resource the public review you can see it was reviewed for Times by community members and it its average score was a 21.25 out of the 24 however when our adoption committee sat together and discussed positives and negatives of this resource um it was not a agreement as a committee um and so what I asked the committee at that point was if this is not something that we can all get on board with or the majority of us can even get on board with um would this be an appropriate pause and so for this resource we are not going to ask the board to approve it we are asking that we are allowed in the future to again look for a pre-calculus resource um and hopefully at that same time an AP pre-calculus resource will be available which is not right now currently and so we did not um vote on this as an adoption committee to go forward sure why AP C would just come out just it's a new class oh yes the AP offering of preal was offered for the first time this year and so vendors have not had an opportunity to create uh an appropriate resource for that class another reason that if the committee felt uh so conflicted that if we know that there's a different vendor that will potentially have something in the future we would rather pause and wait and not make a decision now that then we regret down the road so they were they um comparing it to what they're doing right what they're utilizing right now correct and were they more positive about what they're using right now than this they were they felt that they would rather continue with what they're using um but did and we said we would say it tonight but they did want to once more vendors come out with a new AP uh pre-calculus book um that the board would support us and maybe doing a separate adoption process for that at that time okay from another vendor and this is from the SAS Learning Company we had calculus 3 and differential equations there were two pilot teachers but they were teaching the same class one it was a distance learning class so there was a teacher of record and then another teacher on another campus um helping students on that campus with the same course um so only one pilot teacher responded to the survey and the score there was a 12 out of 15 and the public review score was a 20 out of 24 so after discussing with the adoption committee this was also unanimous selection to move forward why would a pilot teacher not respond I think it's because it was the distance learning teacher and so they weren't they didn't think of themselves as the teacher of record okay well and I was going to say there might be a lesser number that understand calculus 3 and differential equations than maybe the elementary level Child's [Laughter] Play do on our sleep from the publisher of Bedford Freeman and worth um we had our AP um books our AP Calculus for ab and BC it will be the same resource we did have four teachers um pilot and four teachers respond to the survey and the average score for our pilot teachers was 11.75 out of 15 and the public review which was one teacher was a score of 24 out of 24 so we did um vote as an adoption committee I will say that this was not a unanimous selection there was was one dissenting commit Committee Member but we did move forward as a whole with recommending this one to be used what did you say the number was for the pilot teachers the four pilot teachers 11.75 out of 15 thank you the same publisher is of our AP Statistics textbook there were two pilot teachers and they both um responded to the survey there was no public review on the statistics book and I would just share with you that one of the pilot teachers um said this book has to pass and we need teachers to use every piece of it because it's gold so that is a pretty glowing recommendation so as a whole committee this was also unanimously um approved to move forward so it was just the National Geographic pre-calculus s okay hi are there any questions with any of those at this time okay so moving into uh High School implementation plan for our high school as I had shared and this is true K12 uh our leadership team at the district level has already been uh doing a book study and in addition putting together uh what our implementation plan is going to be over the next couple of years for all of the different stakeholders involved and this spring uh pending uh tonight's board approval we do already have um dates uh set up um and allocated on administrator calendars because we want to move forward as quickly as possible with making sure our math leadership um evaluators instructional coaches receive that training so that they have ample time to be able to support the teachers and uh part of that um spring plan is to also start getting teachers in for training as well on a rotating schedule uh our math coordinator is also going to be working to revise our GPS learning maps in unit overview so that teachers don't see this as kind of a separate to maybe some of the documents that we already use for plc's and and whatnot so uh those learning guides are going to help which our pilot teachers did not have as kind of a step-by-step pacing guide day byday when to do the activities when to do the assessments and so um those the hope is to have all of those uh ready to go at the start of the year so in hand inand with the training they would be receiving these documents so even a first year teacher could at least go from the document and not get into the system and not know where to start um we are consistently working from now into forever uh on teacher communication and support and uh part of that um with the surveys that we received uh honestly what you had had to say about learning from that and growing from it we don't want that to stop in the past once we collected feedback and surveys from our pilot teachers we kind of just went off of that we are creating surveys that will go out as the teachers move forward if that be based on the training that they receive we want your feedback what what else do you need and then when we do start next year having those if it's once a quarter um Regular surveys to collect the feedback ongoing because we learned so much from the feedback that we received just during the pilot we want to keep that going in hopes that that kind of dies down over the 2-year span to get to a more positive Place similar to what we described earlier with the technology team uh they had a process in place they were probably inundated with help desk tickets and um getting our teachers and our students uh the accessibility and by the end of the pilot there was nothing coming in we want to do the same with our survey feedback for our teachers and feel that that's uh a learning that um we recognize uh we haven't maybe uh had a strength of that historically and then in addition I know I kind of already hit on it just cuz the questions lend themselves so uh but I think it's important to just kind of reiterate uh we recognize that the student and parent uh stakeholder groups absolutely have to be a part of the implementation plan and so we have already started working on what that looks like and what they're going to need uh to feel supported so with that that kind of wraps up where we're at for high school and we're going to transition into our K8 adoption Okay so we're going to take over um K8 I hope the The Upfront is a little more brief because we assessed the different vendors using the same criteria so she's kind of laid the groundwork but I would like to take a pause and I can't thank uh Miss Udall and Miss bomb enough for the hard work they have lived this every single day you know almost you know their entire day since this whole thing started in August they have ensured that every ey was dotted and T was crossed so again couldn't do this without the diligence of both of you um so K8 um we're going to go forward with the adoption committee members so we had 37 members at the elementary level as a part of our adoption committee and 15 at the junior high for the elementary all campuses were represented save for Neely they are all traditional and use the math and focus curriculum and Patterson is part of the IB used the illustrative so except for those two campuses we had representation from all elementary campuses we had teachers from all different grade levels instructional coaches administrators and a parent Junior High ditto except for the ne and Patterson we started the pilot in January 3rd with the I ready curriculum from curriculum Associates and I'm going to hand it off to Crystal to go over what that was [Music] like good evening governing board Dr McCord I am excited Beyond excited excited to be talking with you about this this has been seven years in the making this position and I'm super excited to be supporting this pilot and um sharing with you the feedback from it in the um show me to handle that sure I got you just kidding there's a switch on the side that's humbling I had one [Laughter] job battery battery I'm glad it wasn't me and didn't work for you too go ahead sure you have your copy in front of you and I'll go ahead and be speaking to it in the elementary um section we had 51 teachers pilot the curriculum 21 of those were our adoption committee members so many of our pilot teachers served on the adoption committee as well there are about two to three from each participating campus and you can see every grade level was represented K through six as well as special education classrooms accelerated classrooms dual language classrooms and I want to give a shout out to our coaches who absolutely supported all along the way from the day one of the pilot training through the uh pilot trainings that continued after the first initial training in um November and so we are excited to um have 51 teachers to report on we had in the junior high 30 teachers participate eight of which were on the adoption committee members also supported by their instructional coaches seventh and eighth grade were represented there is special education classrooms honor classrooms an elll classroom and kotart classrooms all of our ka8 classrooms piloted during quarter 3 and are continu continuing that pilot through this fourth quarter again a shout out to our GPS Tech Team for this huge sport there is no way we can do this without them no way it's just Len and I no it took a a village and we appreciate this Village here in GPS especially the tech team so the pilot criteria we saw before and it was the same that the high school criteria was used elementary teachers attended four required trainings post um pilot day one training and Junior High received two more trainings that they could attend as well um at the end of the pilot session we asked our resident experts which were our iy pilot teachers for their feedback on the curriculum and the implementation so here we are with Criterion number one out of five possible points the overall Criterion was a 4.7 you can see that second and third grade gave it a perfect score across the board it was found to have a variety of resources that teachers can access to design their and Implement effective and engaging instructional experiences for students to learn and practice standards and skills we'll note here that K1 gave some very um good feedback that it took a lot of time and preparation because those lessons were engaging with Hands-On materials so therefore that the students had very conceptual understanding so it took some time so that is something that continue throughout their feedback each time that we did review so we have noted that and are looking to how can we improve that for the next round for K1 teachers next you'll see here are some comments from Pilot teachers please know it was hard to decide what to show because I would love to have given all 51 teachers feedback on this teachers found that the curriculum provides rich and engaging learning experiences it layered effects of instruction there was the my path online platform to meet students where they are and it's highly engaging and highly tutorial there is K access for all teachers which they enjoyed being able to go to the level of need to help support students in whe whether it was intervening or enriching um for criteria number two also a fivepoint scale the overall Criterion was a 4.7 you'll notice here there's a small dip in the seventh grade score upon reflection and surveying what the data said it was isolated to one campus however that feedback has been taken into consideration and has made us aware of how to move forward with very specific support and for which campus that was needed so that campus will have further support um post adoption if we are able to adopt tonight um it does the curriculum does provide multiple opportunities for students to demonstrate learning progress of standards and skills as they move through their lessons and their learning tasks here for the feedback for criteria number two you'll notice that there are multiple learning opportunities through different modalities much discussion is happening more often with peers to connect on ideas they're making connections to previous learning and building upon that and student thinking is huge and key to the program students take accountability for their learning through self-reflections comprehension checks Etc and teachers are excited engagement up is up and they are encouraged by this about what students are able to do with mathematics through this program and criteria number three regarding assessments the over the overall Criterion score is a 4.7 you'll notice kindergarten sixth grade gave it a perfect score along the way um again there's another dip in the seventh grade this this relates back to the same Criterion that I mentioned earlier isolated School uh same circumstances and we'll be able to Target that need for them overall resoundingly teachers found that I provides a variety of Assessments and opportunities for both formative and summative assessments it allows teachers and students to monitor their very own progress so miss Udall what what was the in the seventh grade that one school can you identify or tell us what word I'm going to refer to Len since that's a junior high if you don't mind yeah absolutely um that piloting team um shared a lot of positives in their um pilot review but the concerns were not with the resource itself in for instance they were happy with the variety of resources but they were challenged with access and implementation of them and that's again that's not the resource that's their comfort level and that implmentation idea um were happy with the rich and rigorous tasks available but challenged with how to allow students access to them so they have some specific needs on their campus that we are definitely going to Target and make sure that as we roll out to that campus next year that we address those needs thank you here you'll see that teachers have commented that they love the immediate feedback that they are able to get from assessing students the many multiple opportunities to assess throughout the lessons and tasks that does allow for testing preparation for those Summit of tests that come at the end of the year and the multiple formats to give it paper pencil um online small quick checks very few numbers or larger ones and that can be adapted as well um so overall there's very ample opportunity for many of the assessments and for teachers to turn this into data that is quickly being able to be used and identified for interventions and enrichments within the classroom just what the students need in the time they need it out of all the scores and the teacher feedbacks the score 4 five was given 91% of the time which is indic indicative of the positive results that we have just reviewed for you now we'll move on from the pilot teacher to the public review the same criteria here was also mentioned for the high school so it mirrored exactly we had a total of 31 parent community members um submit feedback um there were 90% of those were teachers and three were community members so these are the six categories and here you'll see that these resources resoundingly on a fourpoint scale were very strong 90% plus of these feedback were agree or strongly agree with these materials the dip for the of interest of colle in college preparation that's maybe a K1 teacher who's not quite understanding how they align to that College and Career however I can attest that they all all the standards do align to the college preparation that we need and it is formidable along the [Laughter] way of the public review comments you'll notice there are teacher comments these are not pilot teachers these are teachers who just either walked up and looked at Hands-On materials or the online materials and gave this feedback here they saw that the there were opportunities for math discussions and math discourse built-in interventions math rigor how resources are tailored for students needs there's a Common Language and vocabulary build through the grade level and between grade levels students can be assessed in different ways there's cultural and stem connections there's coaching cycle opportunities for our instructional coaches and there's many scaffolded supports whether online or in hand for students to receive intervention so the I classroom Mathematics Curriculum has overwhelmingly received positive feedback from Pilot teachers and from our public review when presenting this to our adoption committee which was made up of almost all of our campuses again they voted unanimously to move forward with the I ready curriculum with for adoption at [Applause] K8 all right we have a little difference in what we want to do in implementation so we're going to let you go 78 so you'll notice this slide is the same slide from the high school uh the only thing I'm going to add uh is that for our Junior High through High School uh the teachers teach math full-time so for them we are moving forward with uh having these we would like to having these resources in their hands in their classroom because this is their full-time job this is the only thing that they're teaching in the classroom and that is the whole committee um had asked and would like to move forward with just being able to uh move forward with it as a full at the elementary level it is a little different because our elementary teachers teach multiple things throughout the day and Mr berer will go into that a little further so sorry question if the junior high and high school are going to move forward with these materials when would that what would that look like because we have to vote and still have to purchase yes so um right now our timeline uh which is why we were so eager to come tonight uh we would be on track to have everything um and begin the trainings the spring uh that plan would go into potentially summer with SEI and then and the beginning of the school year our orientation schedule we have already tentatively gotten excited and have uh tentatively carved out um as much time possible during those welcome back days normally Math teachers um attend different trainings and we're going to try at the start of this year to for the first time ever have an entire focus on the math implementation for our secondary math teachers okay thank you so every secondary math teacher is going to have these in our heads yes so this is first is secondary second year is Elementary is that what I'm guessing yeah okay so what we're looking at is again acknowledging that just the logistics are different in elementary is math instruction is a part of each teacher's day not the whole day and we do get a different response you know some teachers are very much like hey I teach second grade because I don't want to teach fractions and third and Beyond so I've tasked Crystal from the very be sorry Miss UD doll from the very beginning of saying more than the book has to change at the elementary school level is we need to build confident math instructors to put them in front of every student so we've come up with What's called the pilot plus one Elementary implementation plan what that would look like is let's say I'm at a school and I'm having a second grade team pilot I ready what we would do is bring on the rest of the second grade team because now they've got a Guiding Light that can kind of lead them through the the process and what everything looks like and then we would move to the third grade team adopting as well because we want to ensure that for students they're not switching back and forth to different curriculums throughout their their Elementary School career I am super excited that if we move forward with this direction the first curriculum change after this is adopted K8 would be the same curriculum their first change would be in ninth grade um so what we're proposing is different waves so what we would do is pilot plus one at each school and sixth grade we added sixth grade in as well because we want to start Paving the path to 7th and eth for I ready would start with a May training May and July and they would be implementing first day of school next year there are three touch points for trainings that curriculum Associates recommends so they would be getting those trainings during the first semester um we also want to tap into the instructional um strategies and such that the coaches have been learning throughout the year I think this is a small enough Continuum at each campus that we can use our Co we can leverage the coaches to lead um these trainings and kind of have uh coaching Cycles at each of these grade levels next year then during fall closer like November December we would then start training for the next wave to start at most campuses this is second third and fourth grade and then we would with the last group we would bring a board as usually K1 at most campuses we would train them in spring for full implementation during the 25 26 school year so it's kind of split up into thirds but I feel like again leveraging our coaches and cuz they were amazing and showed up at darn near every single one of our trainings that we held after hours so they're ready to help with these teams and then we can also build capacity and mindset for this I think by the time we get to our last wave um they're going to be chomping at the bit and the lift will be much lighter so you're you're describing a staggered start basically correct but again we tried to prioritize a staggered strategic start in that it's less Interruption for the kids by switching back and forth between different curriculums sorry and then the rest of the arrows will kind of look the same as Junior High and high school so the first wave will be those who are piloting now we'll bring in the rest of their team okay bring in the rest of their team they'll move forward the rest of this year and into next year and then fall and then spring correct of next year right okay y well that really means we only have one year of implementation so I would like to think of next year as kind of like year zero in elementary you know is we're building capacity in all of our teachers so that we're you know ready to hit the ground running 25 26 not that we're not doing math next year but the real goal is full Implement full deep implementation 2526 okay okay and the only other thing uh I would add to that is um the implementation team that our uh fearless leader over here has put together um is the plan is to continue with that right now uh all of our teaching and learning departments are working together so that it is not just the responsibility of CIA and our math coordinators to do this implementation so we are bringing in and working together with our professional growth and development department our special education department all of our departments our technology department so that everybody is aware what this plan is how they play a role in helping to support that all of our instructional coaches districtwide are a part of this plan um I'm sure I'm probably missing someone but just to kind of make the point that when we say a 2-year plan um there are parts of that that that two-year plan is the PD is over two years um whereas the materials like for secondary yes we want them in their hands but we're not wanting to set them up for failure so over the couple of years we're chunking some of those PD type pieces to make sure that they receive the training uh based on where they're at and what their needs are so that concludes our presentation tonight we'd like to turn it over for any questions for the K8 or the entire presentation that you may have okay questions do the curriculum providers provide onsite training for the teachers that are going to be implementing this like you had said that there I I miss bomb I think it was something you had said where you said once or or maybe it was you uh Dr Cox where you said you didn't even know that these that something was offered until it we were 6 months in are there are the curriculum providers themselves going to be sending in trainers as part of this purchase tonight that we're approving I can speak K8 yes is they're going to be doing the heavy lift with a lot of the onboarding and then it's going to be you know campus um District level support I'm super excited that curriculum Associates training two I I had referenced three touch points the second one is actually a campus walk with principal and instructional coach is they're going to go through the classrooms and say hey here's where we're meeting the mark and here's where we could maybe do um add some extra support for this campus and I think it's important that we're building the capacity of the instructional coach and the principal at the same time while answering very specific questions to that particular campus um so that's the kind of personalized approach that we're looking at for [Music] K8 you want to give the example of this year after a handful of weeks and yes so for the majority of our teachers that are asking for that additional training it it is for the hmh into AG which is our Algebra 1 albra 2 and geometry um we learned through the pilot all along and got feedback and what our team needed a few weeks into the training or into the pilot period was our teachers needed a Insight visit from that provider and they made that happen they came out and they were on every campus they met with the teachers that were piloting and provided that additional feedback that is in the PD plan that we have talked with with that vendor because of what we've learned we know that next year when we're implementing with the entire campuses that that follow-up visit in person is going to be um essential and do you do you get the impression that the support will be there year two three four as we continue to as we completely implement this we we are not talking about a one-year implementation we're talking about two and three years and how we can continue to support teachers to implement the new resource because it will take take them time thank you again we're absolutely committed to not doing a oneand done it's important and again more than the book had to change with this process um if Crystal was doing this solo like maybe we had done in the years past um this is destined to fail um so we've already built capacity with District level administrators we've already started with our site admin and instructional coaches so what is the process if we um have teachers retire and hire new teachers secondary Level Elementary level what is the process to help them get on boarded and understand this curriculum and use it sure so working toward getting ahead of the game a little bit um there is a team of we call them our professional development leadership team that's already meeting on Wednesday afternoons um creating a master plan and schedule uh with relation to instructional coaches instructional Specialists involvement of site leadership as well as District leadership and what the induction process will look like we'll refer to as T minus 3s so some of our newer teachers uh rather than looking at specific groups individually so I'll give the example of Pathways versus a first year traditional teacher versus a TR we really bring all the groups together and just talking about what do we expect instruction to look like in Gilbert Public Schools how do we leverage all of the talent we have around the schools and have a plan in place so every year we're not starting over but rather we're just bringing people into what our our system is our our system of excellence and instruction uh pointed toward the outcomes that we expect in our students and so that team is already meeting on Wednesday afternoons and creating that entire plan for what it will look like as we onboard anybody new okay great and then um I know there's all kinds of resources but if we have someone who's struggling with a certain certain Concept in in a class what how do we address that what I love most personally about the I ready curriculum is we've got a it's an online component called my path and that's developed to at provide intervention for skills in which students are struggling um and provide enrichment opportunities for students that need to be challenged um this does not take the place of a solid confident teacher in the front of the classroom rather it's an additional tool cuz we look at math a lot of times practice doesn't make perfect it makes it permanent um so it's important in these online components that they're getting immediate feedback so they don't practice the wrong way and then they have to unlearn the next day um so we've already had multiple conversations sped has our special education department has been brought into these conversations um and they're part of our implementation team as well they might be the teachers that are most excited about this procedure okay good thank you okay any any I just wanted to make a comment um I just wanted to talk a little bit about uh the fact that the board was actually invited to pre meetings for this and in full disclosure only two at a time due to open meeting laws just want to get that out there um so I appreciate that and some of the things that I think I wanted to drive home from my meetings yesterday with the three of you miss bom Miss Mr bercher Miss Udall is there's consistency across the school district that is going to make this amazing like every school will have the same curriculum this is a program that's very data driven that we can follow the data as we're going throughout the years um and one of the things I was most impressed with was getting our hands on these books and the consumables and just seeing how well they are put together what is going to be offered to our students personally that they can um actually get their hands on on um the last thing that I was the most impressed about was the safety net that you have created um one of the things that wasn't mentioned tonight is actually even principles are being brought in on meetings for this math adoption curriculum roll out so I feel like you guys as a team have spent so much time and I'm so appreciative of that that you've set this roll out to be successful you've set this District up to be successful and I do appreciate that um Gilbert Public Schools is definitely in a need of a math upgrade and I see another math teacher has arrived and she's shaking her head in agreement we are way past due for this adoption so I'm really excited to be able to vote on this tonight and I just want to again thank you so much for all the hard work and the hard lifting and the way that you are going to roll this out in our schools our our teachers and our students deserve it anything else thank you you I just want to applaud you for the thoroughness of all of this it's excellent thank you okay uh we will now adjourn the work study and reconvene our brief board business meeting do I hear a motion to reconvene so moved thank you Mrs Paige SEC second second thank you Mrs humph it's been moved and seconded that we Rec we can reconvene our brief board business meeting all those in favor please signify by saying I I so on a -0 vote um we will move to the consent agenda items uh do I hear a motion I move that we uh approve the consent agenda items as uh as presented thank you Mr Thompson second second thank you Mrs Paige and I think there was one small change yes there yeah item um uh 9.12 um on board docs it was uploaded for staff travel twice but um Miss Wilson sent you guys that correction today so we will upload that tomorrow morning after this is approved just want to make sure you guys know that so those but those um field trips are approved tonight correct correct okay thank you okay do I hear um all those in favor of the consent agenda items as presented I'll please signify by saying I I I okay and a 5 vote and we will move to action items 10.01 K12 math curriculum adoption motion please I move that we adopt the uh recommended K12 math curriculum as presented tonight thank you Mrs humre second second thank you Mrs wood it's been moved and seconded that we approve the ke12 math curriculum adoption any comments or questions thank I just had one thing um I we don't currently have the cost the full cost for this correct correct so tonight 7 million and the vendors are getting back to us um with their final uh invoice I guess the best way to put it and that will be guaranteed to come what we budgeted okay and will you come back and show us we will bring that back yeah so as far as I'm concerned tonight we're approving the curriculum the textbooks but then I would like to have I would like to know the final cost sure we'll bring that back probably by the 23rd of April okay that sounds great thank you but this opportunity will give us the the ability to move forward yeah so that we can get things rolling for next year I understand thank you okay all those in favor please signify by saying I I opposed and a 5- vote we will proceed with the curriculum of adoption and now we'll move to 10.

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state championship for Varsity uh JV does not have anything going on in the season uh we were both JB members of the Cyber tiger so how was I guess your experience since you had I guess more experience playing with them than I did JV went very well the season was very well uh very good um two um the JB members which one you'll be seeing today Eli McCollum otherwise known as exploded yes we'll be playing today and JB Captain uh Aiden otherwise known as Gabby was also a very good Captain he treated us very nicely yeah um I didn't get to play that much with JB but yeah what from like what I had experience with playing with him it was always just I guess a fun time any yeah but yeah uh we did finish the season all in all we lost one game throughout the entire season which yeah it it kind of everyone has are off days it happens yeah sadly we didn't go undefeated we were close though next year we year next year if we're JB but hopefully we're going to be watch next year yeah sadly our entire team seniors yeah so sadly they will be going um let's I guess get um a role of everyone who is will be playing I guess the seniors who we be playing first off let's introduce our vary team yeah let's uh Caleb who is the captain that's not the captain that's not wait that is Eli otherwise known as exploded yep um he will either be playing tank or DPS we're not 100% sure yet of who we be playing of who he will like guess like the role he will be playing this round uh right this is Chris he is a senior he will be playing support that's NOA he will most likely be playing DPS uh his gamertag is sandman um but he he might play tank I've seen him play tank for I guess the past like month he's just been experimenting with it now we have Mack his gamertag is MJB he's a senior he will either be playing tank or DPS most likely tank because I he's been playing tank for most the uh spring split now we have Leon his gamertag is um L lme he's a senior he will be playing tank or DPS here we have the captain Caleb his gamertag is CMD he's a senior and he will be playing support most likely but he has uh played a few games as DPS what's up Brothers now we're uh can we get a room view of the Cyber Tigers here's what the room oh we could see Leon throwing his hands in the air for nothing but he just don't care yep never say that again respectfully I'm corny I guess while we wait for the first match to begin do you have a favorite nonprofit that could use an awesome fundraising idea auction is an online and inperson auctioning platform that can help your nonprofit host a great Charity Auction find out more auction.io that's auction.io hey Dominic do you know what they call a small a short psychic that broke out of prison no and I don't think I want to know well you're going to know it's called a small medium at large I don't get it I don't get it what do you mean you don't get it I don't get the joke I don't get so short small a psychic is also called medium and he just broke out of prison that you call that being at large oh small Med at large it's not funny when you make me explain the joke it wasn't funny to be well I bet someone at home laughed at it maybe please laugh to make me feel better I might cry don't you'll see me cry right here on camera don't she won't I probably will you won't right I hate it when you're right yep oh we had oh no was hugging the camera oh yeah do you want to tell him about today's Maps no okay um we'll wait until we get there so you've I I assume you seen I guess like you know bits and pieces of the varsity team play what's your I guess like your opinion on I guess their Dynamic yeah I guess their Dynamic and I guess like how they play and they all that good stuff they all work together very well I mean it is a very Swift very fast gameplay that they like when they play it's very go go go they all know what they're doing they don't really need many verbal cues when they play because they all trust each other kind of cuz I've seen on like some maps if they're like uh group like for example payload and they're going to be at a choke point they're all sitting like and like I guess cover they all know their spots per and then they'll like sit in cover and then Caleb as the captain he will countdown from three and then on that three if they have like all or they ready to do like an old comp they'll push and one C says go and most like nine times out of 10 they get the point indeed yeah yes no but they are a very fast-paced team they like go fast which is very different from how JB played we kind we're very tactical they're also tactical but like they are but we were slow we play I guess like we talk it through Recon kind of yeah yeah they all have the I guess skills to kind of play offset each other like gorilla Warfare can't reach my water what I can't reach my water oh but yeah cry about it I ain't going to cry about it I need my catine go real quick well he's leaving look it's just me Y Man anymore this Show's going to be disaster okay we will be sharting very shortly we're getting some final oh wait what things set what we have Eli subbing in no he's subbing in for Chris yeah so do you think they're G to put Eli on support probably which is not gonna go yeah I was about to say this I I've seen him play support one time bronze W I didn't like it you should have played with you played support I did I played like one game with him and I hated it I played three he was not good oh I I bet I was crying by the end of it she was the team support yes I was their main support player along with ker otherwise known as fish yeah we like ker ker was good ker is better than I am don't let anybody else tell you otherwise yeah so what I guess since our season over which um your opinion like for next year like you know going into like what's like what's like mostly your mindset um just do better than I did last year good okay if you heard him that was our head coach Joo and we will be starting the game starting on a pole I like this map wait until they're more in the game let's see playing So currently we have a full team view um oh no Eli is on the tank let's see who is on the other support Caleb is support yeah Caleb support obviously Eli on the tank I think Noah no no Chris is on support C's on support Chris is not on support wait no is it it's probably Noah then no Noah's on Bastion why is Leighton oh leighton's on Bap okay oh I've I've seen Leon play B he's oh Chris is spectating got it cool okay that was very so we have a a pretty like good mix between brawl and dive we got Mac diving in on the Tracer looking to get a Pick Off on the Moira getting good all charge I with this new patch this is one of our first games playing I guess being shown uh playing on the new patch uh with all with everyone getting passive heel now getting a recall for more HP pushing with the team picking off the Sombra now back to Eli he has all of his abilities back just waiting for them to push in we got Noah up top kind of just like waiting they are pushing on the right side which is I guess oh Boop oh Eli getting the javelin nice Javelin from Eli comboing well with and getting his ult charged o Terra surge is a very good ult especially I in a comp like this it can work well with bash's artillery and tracer's pulse bomb with it bringing everyone in and then him slimming out more damage Eli oh nope failing to absorb the damage ball from Moira getting nice chip damage on the team the enemy activating Lucio Al Noah does have o himself going into it oh placing all the bombs getting three getting a 3K yep 3K and then Mac getting the zarya and then Noah picking off the Lucio for a team kill good punches in Mac does have his ult now pulse bomb which he might try to ult comp with Eli sitting very patiently waiting y for his next victim see who's again pushing he's pushing on the back line taking the Moira Moira does face at the right time though getting the S wait does he get the soldier going in La Moira getting good chippies oh the Z does SD yep that another TK another TK to finish off the the round round yep not not the the round round but the round it's complicated whenever we have to play control which uh how control works in a nutshell is it's best two out of three first you capture the point and then you got to do that twice in order to win the round just waiting for the game to start re it seems like everyone is just on who they were playing last time seeing how oh nope Caleb is on the Zen now I don't think I've actually ever seen kayb play Zen I usually say Leon play Zen yeah I don't know if Zen got nerfed but I know like last time we streamed he was one of the best if not the best character in the game at the moment which was good because ker was also really good Zen we got Mac just sitting on the point Noah getting the imort field picking off the orisa Eli getting the reaper going in let's see Eli does manage to pick off the soldier getting good chippies get getting the B in the air Noah killing the B good aim nice Rocket Jump he is a fan of his little his little trick shot Rocket jumps see especially CU like you can out there's pretty much no penalty now due to the self heal mhm and like before it was just yours taking like a slight time out of your healer day which I remember when I like played Bastion for a little bit you were very annoyed when very very angry yeah when you just had the like Heal My sl because I'd always beg for heals let's see Mac on the brink of death they do win that team fight though which is really good Eli getting ult having teror surge again he I don't he didn't use teror surge the last time he did not he held on to it which is always a safe option especially when you're that close but I mean if it's like there's 1% left and like they're like rushing like I typically they like you know pop it so like I just like bring them in stall for like you know that like extra like half a second I guess Eli pushing in yep let's see now R oh he does start popping ter search unfortunately finds nobody to hit with it Caleb having Transcendence which essentially is just a big RI radius of where you get almost infinite heals ma ultimately killing the Arisa yep let's see if they can find let's see if the enemy team will make a final push the reaper does get on point so does the Moira we're in overtime now just waiting to see if we do get the final cap and that is round one completed making the score 0 for the Cyber Tigers let's see who gets the play of the game who you think it's going to be Noah without it out of my mind probably and look at that you were correct a psychic yep it was right here too where he just nukes himself and gets the entire team pretty much yep and then he also got the Lucio right after that and I believe we're now putting Chris back in uh instead of Eli let's check into our players inside the room or not we can just stare yeah uh but also thank you to our sponsor Adams Wells internet Telecom TV or local service provider provided with G Speed Internet TV telephone services for business and residential customers in Adams and Wells County um so yeah big gulps no no no I'm not going to I'm not going to flex on stre again no just make it bad Dominic no did you hear about the golfer who lost his entire left side no he's it's okay he's all right now not laughing come on you know you want to I don't come on I don't pity me please no this person this person right here I'm funny she's not I am no somebody agrees with me at home I hope not well I hope you enjoy getting your hopes and dreams is crushed because someone does oh Noah is mewing now oh well that's not cut to that I'm a trans Setter no yes I am no yep no yep when I started do Jacob started doing it and now Noah was doing it maybe he did it that because of you he definitely did Caleb on CI maybe maybe perhaps no maybe up oh wait L's on Soldier maybe still trying to decide y ultimately choosing cury and we got Leighton on the soldier Mack on the ash Chris on bat oh wait we got Noah on tank he's playing roadhog wait no wait who did he go back to he went on the malga man we got Chris on B who is your favorite tank character Reinhardt without a doubt without a doubt I love Ryan um he's just fun to play I like going in you like big hammers I like big I like him H I like big hammer yeah I like going in to the battlefield and hitting people with my big hammer and throwing fireworks at people and then uh football charging people off the map and uh pinning people to the wall and we're starting we are starting but also like playing Ram he is fun and orisa and sigma I like playing tank yeah you got Noah no hooking orisa into trap getting a a little bit of the hog combo one oh they have a life Weaver do they I think they did how do you think the orisa just travel at light speeds I didn't see it uh Missing the hook do get the kill on the Arisa though got Mack getting some nice Snipes in oh hitting his Dynamite yeah pitting the Moa very low HP though Max seems like he's always on the brink of death yep it's poor healers neglect him jumping up excuse me getting caught by the Tracer unluckily is that a tracer looks like a tracer do they have a Bastion or am I my twe I don't know about to see oh it's him versus uh what they have they had Anissa yep oh nice head shots from Mac let's see getting the kill on the soldier no really trying to hit those hooks Noah popping off oh no sorry leton popping out wow the top of the head look exactly the same yep she we she waet no yep yep I you can't do it they're not on our team it's no yeah but like it's to make you mad but uh Leon is also doing really well in terms of damaging the entire uh enemy team from up there mhm oh High Ground always Works no having Pig pin activated oh just obliterating their map Hog's probably one of my least favorite tanks it's one of the only ones I can play he's easy to play but he's not fun in my opinion personally I can only play junker Queen and Road Hog don't have junker Queen unlocked wow Loser yeah so what happens when you're not veteran player well I had to reset my account so and I also lost all my skins that's depressing that's actually really depressing yeah so I have no drip when I play the game skins mean wins hence we don't win exactly exactly unlike the varsity T yeah they have skins but because of random rules that don't make sense we are not allowed to have skins whenever we play yeah that's depressing but they have them trust yeah trust trust do not go Bann with don't go Bann pushing in Mac not Mac Lon having ult again that visor which provides him with Aimbot legal Aimbot yes he's not cheating we swear promise promise it seems that Caleb also has his old and so does Chris oh just jumping the reaper as soon as he just tried to spawn in yeah it happened yeah that's why I don't like playing Reaper I feel like it only happens to me obviously not yeah oh window being popped oh three triple o comp uh ksun Rush B window and Soldier yep just if you absolutely everyone in their if you get in l l of site you might as well just put the keyboard down now in order for the enemy team to somebody swe yeah in order for the enemy team to I guess progress with this round so they don't lose they have to get to where they got in the at the same amount of time or I don't think has be in about the same time they did has to be faster or the same exact amount of time it could be longer depending on how long over time is yes they put up a b of a fight Noah picking [Music] Reinhardt okay so just kind of waiting for them to get out to push the payload which is the I guess thing that they're Al trying to defend to where they don't have to get to certain objective because if you do get to the objective um time will be gained on their part Mac for some reason picking torbjorn never seen Mac play torb I di are I don't see anybody play torb quite fun he is kind of fun but it's just I don't know how this is going to work out's he's a character that just heavily depends what map you are yeah cuz like with maps like iish andal uh if you get in that one window it's just free head shots yeah is true that is very true got noan the Ryan getting in the corner getting jumped by a May and an Arisa but he has his teammates to back him up swinging the hammer Lon sneaking round back throwing the fire strikes the only project tell that Reinhardt has good job Chris for making sure everyone's healed properly and evenly same the Caleb got Noah blocking all the fire that he can no protecting the turret very well yep which that's like the big thing about Tor B just how much of a nuisance his T can be mhm positioning and whatnot yeah him trying to go up on the sneaking up Moira Noah has shatter ready which pretty much what that does is just STS the entire team but it can be countered by orisa her four toi was just so if she just gets right in front of him and he us a shatter the um enemy team should be good can also be canceled by an Anna yep he slept anything that just stuns Reinhardt so counter pinning um sweeping yeah there is that shatter did I think he picked yeah he didn't pick off anyone with it he did he got a few squishies in the back but he too focus on Arisa Leon popping all popping all trying to go in the back let's see let's seeing off orisa getting youris off using Soldier is also the only character in the game that does have a Sprint which makes him very viable and I guess useful character bra Nimble yeah harder to hit because he is one of the few ones that have a movement ability I guess that has the movement like Sprint CU most characters they do have a semi movement ability but but doesn't have like the andever they both have that they don't have the Vitality of um just sprinting yeah not to mention sprinting can be used at any time there's no cool down on it uh oh May does take effect oh no was getting put in the corner I thought the UR was going to try to throw him off uhhuh that's person what I would have done but Well you aren't playing I am not playing that is true sadly I won't be playing same next year though Mac switching to Tracer back on the Tracer let's see how well this works did he ever Pop tbolt I think he did yeah he did yeah and Caleb switching to brigita another very good um support more tanky support character yeah it's just mini Ry mini R yeah L it but with health yep and being able to healh m in the recall to get back to full HP there Lucio did pop sound barrier which is puts the Cyber tigers in a very sticky situation what sticky that's funny let's see they're more pop coal Essence which is just a big beam that heals the motor team and does damage to our team we're overtime but we do manage to pick off the win in round two making the score 2 against W bash yep you who do you think is going to play the game um I think it's gonna be uh I was gonna say Lon but I couldn't think it was the name time did you though I did I was gonna say Lon or Mac but I couldn't decide before Oh was right here it's after he got frozen yeah I guess because they didn't try to go for any of the DPSS they thought Noah was just the absolute biggest threat he is though he he was a pretty big thre as Ryan but they did kind of just like leave everyone else just to do whatever just like just to sit there and chill oh wait oh Aiden's uh in the captain of JV is now subbing in for Chris get some Gabby gameplay I don't think his camera's on it isn't gasp what a problem Oh wait there it is that's the back of his head though yep doing popping my wrist very nice I thought I heard it but I just saw your elbow coming at me like this I was very confused drink my crazy no yes I don't want this to spill in my jersey or the mic yeah that yeah I won't do that again yeah I didn't think about that cuz you did make me spill one time during lunch that was one time yes and I don't want to be a second on expensive stuff yeah I don't want to pay for that yeah I guess what we're reading uh very special thanks to the Wells County foundation for a special grant that allows to purchase this computer that this stream is currently running on without their support we would not be able to ride this quality programming that the two viewers are now currently enjoying the two viewers Yep they're very special two viewers you're loved very much yep you are our favorite two viewers because you're our only two viewers y but that does not neglect the fact that you're our favorites yep you will always be our favorites for being here right now Mac possibly being on support paused something has happened I sneeze but I can't do it I can't are oh wait oh then switch the map oh quick technical difficulties someone forgot to change the map are you going to do another one of your dad jokes may I I've been thinking of one but I don't know which one I'm gonna do oh okay I know don't worry at least the first one was like clever but like it was like Hey the second one was good too it wasn't good it was better I like that one it was worse shut up um Mac back on Tracer we're getting Aiden on the reaper wait no is he playing Reaper where's Aiden's camera I can't find it I can't it's not on our screen oh Aiden picking Reaper yep okay that's who I thought we got L on the Ryan Aiden is very very good at Reaper I mean he's Jacob was better I personally like Jacob's Reaper more than Aiden Jacob was very good but Aiden was the next best thing we had no other Reaper and mine sucked too much I'm not a very good player at this game that's why we're on JV exactly J JV break I'm so confused I think you broke Jo or or already broken hang on wait I know how to fix panss it's not what I me oh what do you mean oh that no that's just how it is either I broke it or was really like that yeah it it was any Mac having a One V one with another Tracer almost getting hit off the cliff that would have been very bad that would have been very bad would have been very unfortunate oh him going behind getting some nice chippies on the soldier getting shot he can he does recall out of the Nano I actually never knew you could do that as Tracer yeah you can yeah I don't play Tracer so D it coming in get oh uh Caleb getting the Tracer with her Nano and then with his Nano and then Aiden dying to their Hest Nano they have a very similar comp uh both teams do this game there's only kind of like one comp you can really go on this map only certain characters work yeah it's just a very weird map personally this game mode is one of the worst I hate so much yeah I only like I like rarely have see it's like push it's either really fun or like really unfun to play and to describe push for you push is a game mod where there's a in the center and whoever gets the robot to push the barricade furthest or to the complete other side of the map wins yep good good explanation thank you yep I live with parents another pin W pins from Leighton he is very good at pitting this round yeah his pens are normally on point as far as what I've heard and seen top tier Glazer D1 we got Aiden Aiden was can he get can he get pick off on the Tracer where'd she go because she no because he cannot find her there she is yep can you any other pixel oh uh Chris Chris play no who's playing Brig Noah's playing Brig what interesting oh I I yep he's now Nano but he's also anti Aiden dying to the Tracer double post bomb another excuse me will we get another shatter where we get on baby Diva nope that would have been very mean that would have been very very mean Final Destination in sight ooh Bastion alting missing everyone though thankfully blon positioning himself to you shatter oh did he misses luckily a does pick up The Kill right before Lucio did use sound barrier that could have been very bad blon being anti by the Anna killing the Bastion let's see one final push let's see can the Lucio get on point can they keep the Lucio off of them they do manage to get off the point making the score 3 0 for the Cyber I think I think it's going to be late back NE correct what okay we got to see this a deserved play from a support blazing I know you guys can't see but she just hit me did not no proof too rightfully deserved um stand do we want to uh get some postgame interviews do the varsity team want to do that or what's the word yeah I think some interviews would be nice d w it is up to them I would like to do some interviews yeah interviews would be cool I like doing interviews they're fun they are fun very fun especially when you're the interview E I should say yeah is it full team oh yeah got kaleb's face glitch right there that's very scary I don't like the way that looks looks like my sleep proc is even at night think I think we're getting some interviewers maybe perhap down who what where we want sometimes how I don't know maybe not maybe I'm crazy they're all going the other way oh oh okay yeah we're done uh no interviews they're going to the cafe oh we're going to the cafeteria we're going to the cafeteria okay where is Aiden um thank you for joining us this evening we'll be back tomorrow at 5:00 pm for round two of the Super Smash Bros uh for Super Smash Bros Championship where BL and cyber Tigers face against Ben Davis University High School special thanks again to auction at WS County Foundation Indiana Esports Network and the Army and National Guards for supporting our program thank you and have a nice [Music] evening [Music]

all right all right hello everyone good evening I would like to call this meeting of the Berlin Boon Regional school committee to order just a reminder that this meeting is being recorded your image and or voice may be broadcast please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance flag the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands One Nation God indivisible andice all so this is uh GNA be really difficult but the very first thing I'd like to do tonight is um I'd like us to have a moment of silence in honor of Rachel janeski who is the young woman that our district lost this past month um I didn't know her but I know there was an outpouring of love and support from this community um and it's just it doesn't matter it's awful to hear about the loss of a young life with so much potential so let us just take one moment and let us all think about Rachel and her family thank you all right next up we have public comments so uh is there anyone here that would like to make a public comment okay so you can just stand up yeah sure just state your name um and introduce yourself who you are and um then feel free to go ahead I'm Jennifer mapy they working cafeteria here at Tanto I'm also a parent and student here at Tanto um and we're just um hoping that if witson stays um because we're not sure where things are at the moment um that we all stay District employees it's the most important thing to all of us many of us have years of longevity here and have put lots of years in energy and effort into working here and um we just want to make sure that that doesn't get lost in the transition of things thank you so much for standing up thank you all right do anyone else want to speak I had a question sure I saw I just noticed tonight when I check the agenda that that one of the things being covered is a vote for our school choice so I don't know if I could just you know say 30 seconds worth sure did you want us just introduce yourself for everybody sure you guys okay if I sit sure yeah of course just say your name and then you can go ahead all right Jason Carol hi Jason probably half the people in the room know me um and know my kids story um so um I only have one little one who's now fully grown and she did all of her going through this school system um Berlin Memorial and people so um I'm a proud parent of a kid who who is in this district and I chose multiple times to have her in this District through school Cho school choice so um she we never lived in um Berlin or Boon I lived on the Town Line uh for a while and watch the bus circle in my neighborhood but not be allowed to put it on the USS so that was like you know that little negative was the only about the only negative I've had um through and it's nothing that anybody can do to change that so um we've been happy sending our kid to brother Memorial Tonto for the last two years um so I just wanted to make clear to the people who were voting that there are many people like me I'm one of at least five um parents with a kid in the seventh grade in Clinton that s Aid here at least at the beginning of this school year there were at least five that I know of that come in from Clinton and um at least three of them including my daughter are on highest honors every every semester every quarter and um as Carol and Lisa know I chose at the beginning of this year to keep my kid here instead of sending them to amza um because I you know I really like Carol and mixa and everything that this school system has to offer so my hope is that um other parents like me and my kid have the option going forward to send versus CL you know public school so I'm very appreciative and hope that you guys consider that as an option going forward if not this coming year after that thank you thank you so much did anyone else have comment they would like to make okay we will move on to Communications does anyone have any Communications they wanted to share adjusted yes April 2nd I attended the master plan implementation Committee in boyon um as you passed it on to me and then the select appointed me um the plan is to meet quarterly and um they gave us the the plan to review and to come back um so I was thinking of something in the sub commmittee um St success could do and then if there's any concern certainly you know we're concerned about more housing and room in the schools um will report more it was more of an informational that's great yeah I think that's a great spot for that to sit thanks so much anyone else Communications okay um all right next up is consent agenda is there a motion to approve the consent agenda so move lau and Julie all in favor I'm I as well any opposed that motion passes all right first up uh my report so uh it's been a pretty busy month um but I don't really have anything uh to report tonight um the only thing is that just a reminder that we have town meeting in both towns I believe it is the night before our next school committee meeting so we will not meet again before that it is is it May 7 in both towns May 6 Monday May 6 it's the Monday yep thanks Janelle so it's Monday May 6th so I would urge anyone listening to go I know the the committee we usually go to our towns um we see I might stop in Berlin and try to make an appearance in both Town um but it's going to be really important especially in Berlin for the Berlin residents to go and vote in favor of the school budget because I believe the school budget differs from the town budget in Berlin in Boon we came to an agreement so the budget matches with the fincom recommend recommended in oilon so it's going to be really important for parents to go and support the schools and the budget um all right and that was it for me okay Emerson do you want to give a quick update okay great thanks so it's finally the fourth quarter which we all know which is the busiest but also the most exciting time for students I would say um this week is our last Spirit Week in pep rally for the high schoolers which really marks the beginning of all of the of the Year activities that are going to come um our spring Sports officially began yesterday the girls lacrosse and the Varsity Softball had amazing games and won against both middle sex and Clinton um the record for both the boys varsity baseball and the girls lacrosse is one in one and the Varsity Softball is two and0 which is quite strong um track is having their first track meet right now actually I think which sadium men are coming from to talk to you all later um for clubs everyone's planning with of our year is going to look like whether that's submitting the final draft of the yearbook which we're doing tomorrow um or the final touches for prom and scheduling The Last Cafe for cause on the prom tickets have been getting sold at lunches which will be sing very fast which is May 17th at the Cho in and I feel like all the classes are trying to sneak in a little last fundraiser to raise all the money for next year the class of 2024 just had the volleyball tournament and the class of 2026 had a Chipotle fundraiser over the weekend um and lastly I would say all the seniors are getting in their last college acceptances and weighing their options see where they'll end up next year and for Middle School the sixth and seventh grade just finished their Ela Tass today and the eighth grade is doing that tomorrow and the next day yeah we're excited to see what the last quarter for everybody thank you thanks so much erson okay um so next we have Nancy who is not here tonight so I believe there is someone from Woodson that's going to present the um the bid that we are voting on tonight so why don't we do that now it's the food so it's the wit bid that um we going to be voting on so car you want to yeah y I have with me right now Alissa Charles the district manager for witson and she's going to answer any questions that that you might have I have I have some information myself you have a a paper um that was submitted regarding There's a summary of proposal on it from the business office that includes other information in the report but I think you'll find information that's valuable in terms of making a decision tonight for a vote but do you want to come up you want move over come sit here so we had a chance to talk today with Rob who could not be with us this even we had an emergency but we're happy to answer any questions you might have and if it's okay with you um if there are any questions I'm gonna just um put um our Christine certon who I spoke with you all before from our business office on the line um in case there's any questions that I so I wasn't um going to present anything tonight um I believe that you all received the bid materials and if you have any questions I'm here to answer questions I was curious um they said um that you were going to that prophets were posted and I I was or you were trying to post profets I'm curious like is that just from State funds for Massachusetts and that's our profits plus like doubles and cart items or I just didn't understand that sure so the way the revenue works is after expenses anything additional stays with the school district so um we have a certain guarantee and then beyond that anything additional that's earned stays in the Food Service revolving account those funds have to be used for the Food Service program but they stay with the school district does that answer your question so then it's the state fund you want to talk about that we can talk about that sure yep so this school year um for the past few years the state has been giving supply chain assistance to every school district more or less in the state and so this year there was an additional $3,000 um that was deposited to the Food Service program in February and that again it goes into the Food Service fund it's belongs to the school district and it's used for any expenses related to the program the other piece I know that we have our folks here from this from the cafeteria Services who ask a question about keeping our our staff tax yeah and um our current our bid does propose that you all stay employees of the school district um and that's you know for the term of the Contra where can we see that in the bid because I was looking through some of the proposals in there uh I know the letter that we received through email says that but then one of the flyers or the proposals it was a whole section on welcoming the bbrsd employees into our family and the way you know as an idea or a gesture that sounds nice but the way it read is it read like an onboarding system to be an employee um Christine do you know exactly where in the um I was trying to grab it but Tech issues oh I apologize oh I apologize um so the H committee is wondering where in the bid it states that the employees will remain School District employees that I I did I remember reading it was the RFP I know that is it in the bid and it will it be in the contract you'll that for the hourly um team members are is associated with the so pretty much everything is going to stay the same as it is right now in terms of op operational structure yeah well what would change um the team M would at Team MERS our manager would a li manager um so there's no operational changes what's SSA again SFA the school Food Authority the program but what would anything else change um nothing just as everything's outlined in the big we've kept it you know very consistent with how things have been the past few months that we've been here um the the elementary schools haven't seen the dramatic change that the high school has seen that be changing so yeah so as you know we work you know more and more with the district as Rob becomes able to um you know work more and more with each school then absolutely you'll start to see those changes implemented at each school just takes a little bit of time which is why we're glad we'll be able to hopefully continue this partnership with with the school district so that way we can continue to make those changes because we do find it does take a little bit of time um to kind of get everything in place the way that we'd like to see it and is there going to be like a formal feedback process from kids yeah so we do have um wson annually does surveys twice a year so we do have Rob our food service director is working to get that survey ready will open the day we return from February break andil bre yes April break I'm not ping us back so the day we return from April break and that's open to parents to students um anyone who's interested in filling up that survey can complete it with the school that they're at and any comments that they have and we kind of review all of that feedback and we do it in October and then again in April Rob did put together a survey in February I think early on in in in the transition but we only got 13 respondents back to that so it really wasn't enough to get what it went in newsletters newsletters yeah so it was was early on so vacation I don't I thought it was right was the beginning of February but so with that then they'll do another one now which will which will really guide us I think it's important to note that even though we have not had like a first read of this there a lot of material to digest that if we don't vote tonight we're going to lose the opportunity to bid and Woodson they were the only ones um who did um submit a bid to us so that's important to know it it doesn't have to do with whitson's time frame so much as desie time frame um and desie they Chang their time frame I thought we had a 60-day window from the date of that letter which I think was the was it the 18th that's 60 days this bid is good for 60 days or something like that so the bid from witson stays good however desie needs the executed contract by their deadline how what's the deadline um May 3d days right so we have a possible meeting on the 23rd we could if we need more time to look at it do that yeah if if you have a me and I was going to talk about that in my report mik I didn't know what everyone wanted to do that is is that over oh no that's the that's our as needed meeting that's the as needed I wanted to talk about that with everyone when I get to my report so that's a consideration the original date was in April right April 12th to to send the draft decision back to desie they've just moved their their date so we're trying to monitor it's not them it's it's meeting desie deadlines to make sure we get this in at the in the right time frame so that's I just want you to be aware of that too so but I think that's why Al will help answer questions that LE need to make informed decision can I ask a question on the bidding process up to I know you said there was only one company submitted a what was the process up to that I have a followup question along Julie's question there so how many separate people did you interview to become the district food service director outside of the witson bit we to my know we didn't do any interviews for an individual person at this time no so you didn't even advertise for it I think she did did you advertise for it I thought she yeah that was back in well Nancy would have been Nancy should be here to answer these questions where is Nancy she on leave she's on leave oh I wasn't aware did that communication go to the committee bement was it bement she's on bement leave right now so she'll be back by the 23rd I can't answer that at this time yeah okay she nany's on bement leave right now she's on leave right now is it bement leave or is she just leave leave okay because she I know she's spearheaded this whole situation have a lot of the answers a little bit the way the process works so generally I know Nancy you know um enacted it on behalf of the district generally and what Nancy did was the procedure where she uses um the Desi template for the RFP which is required for service providers it was posted publicly so that any interested bids were able to come there was a tour um of the Food Service facility which I believe was required um required attendance for or in order to place a bit you had to come to the tour which is pretty standard um witson came as did one other company and it was all sort of set out in the schedule in the RFP with the time frame for the first meeting one bids were due Etc and we have a copy of the RFP here if anyone would like to take a look and then um of the two companies wison and the one other who were present on the bid tour woodens was the only one that submitted a bid and then we didn't interview for because I remember last time we talked about this in December the committee wanted you to interview as well as do rfps I could be mistaken but I'm almost positive we put that in our motion when we voted on it I believe she did post it but I think it was posted for it was posted before we hired witson she posted it like back in right that was posted in the fall I don't know a job description was posted to hire outside at this time for next year yeah we might need to check the minutes because I there might have been included in the motion that we voted on that we wanted to see that what meeting was sure was December meeting I could I know we discussed it I don't know if it actually went in the vote or not but I know we discussed it and you said you would okay I don't recall that but I'd have to go back and all right so do you want to wait until April ail 23rd to vote I mean I think if we do a meeting on April 23rd it'll be a zoom meeting just G to go ahead and say that right now I I have some other questions too that I don't know if you guys can answer or if Nancy would be better to answer them when she comes back um you have in that letter here you have the increased lunch meals that were served from January to March and it shows pretty decent increases there yeah yeah I'm curious if that is because of witson or is that because year to year with the state's free launch program inflation families maybe trying to save on groceries just sending them through I don't see the September to October numbers which might help answer that question i' said f well that's my well that's my next question I don't know I can speak that unfortunately Rob our food service director had an emergency and could be here tonight I know he you know we were just sort of looking at since we've been here so since Woods Woodson has been here that's sort of what we're looking at that's understandable I'm just curious is that because of Woodson or is it because of the economy sorry again oh yes and so yeah Christine we're looking at a supplemental document that Rob created Christine was explaining that um projected increases that are indicated as well are comparing similar with since districts that have Benchmark against similar districts that have um a comparable size and scope all right so Carol if you can find that information for the next meeting um and then I guess it would be nice you said you sent surveys out it sounds like a lot of people may not have seen that y but I'm just curious Julie you say the food is 100% better but are the kids taking it 100% better or I hear conflicting reports from people that we talk to there's a lot of extra food prep there's a lot of extra food waste what is the food waste situation with this versus a different program that we might have had before um those are concerns that I have yeah I can't answer the food was I can quality is is is I mean I I hear you I tend to believe that probably relates I I tend to believe you on that but I'm curious about that waste we don't have that information here so we don't know I don't know if they know where they can tell us from I could say that in general you know a big part of witson after and philosophies is you know we try to introduce a lot of new foods so things that maybe are like plant-based or meatless you know um sort of The Greener initiatives as well as just sort of things that are a little bit different introduce students to new foods and so sometimes when we try one of those new items we don't know exactly how many to make so the first go around there could be a little extra we also um but you know like the subsequent times that meal is served we sort of are able to correct for it similarly um in general we like to make sure that the first student and the last student have the same choices so we never like to see that the last student to come through the line at the last lunch only has the choice of cheeseburger or salad and not all the other array of options and that's very important to with since um as a whole we believe that every student should have the same choices and so sometimes it does end up with a little extra waste especially on days where maybe pasta is the main entree and it was going to be you know it was really popular last time and it usually is and so we cut back on some other things but maybe for whatever reason it was too much and so there's a little bit of extra or we didn't realize that the special the day was going to be so popular and we ended up with a little bit extra you know extra cheeseburgers or pizza that day so it's sort of a learning curve for us as we come in and see what are the students tastes what do they like um what do we need to create what do we need to you know push up the numbers on and what we need to come back so it's definitely a learning process um you know that being said we do have a lot of green initiative as well um we work with a lot of school districts on composting um plastic recycling and things like that as well to try carbon will you be doing that here next year absolutely yeah and we can do you know any of the programs outlined in the uh bid which include like our the next TR program which is like a a thin plastic recycling as well as composting or things that we can certainly work with our team and with the school committee and school districts on um on implementing absolutely does food waste ever get donated to people who have no food um usually know it's a little bit of a liability for the school district because the school district owns the food so it's sort of what's going to happen between when it's sort of picked up and where it gets where it's going um we can do a bit of a food safety issue um that's the same for restaurants yeah you can't you can't yeah there's laws against yeah you can only donate I think for food pantries will only take they don't want the muffin TOS yeah it is and as Christine mentioned there's a lot of regulations for health regulations and also um some of the food we use is USDA Commodities which have their own regulations because they're subed by the subsidized yep yep yep yep that's unfortunate we all hate to see it we really do wases the wor so as you as you go on and get more familiar with the kids that cuts down is that what you're saying yes that's definitely the hope the Hope was that it happened like we're in April now so has that happened here so again right it's every time we introduce a new item we don't know how it's going to go but we like to continue to introduce new things right um you know to keep the kids palets fresh to give them new options so like from the start of this program in January to now is that cut down at all I don't know yeah I don't have that I don't know how how would we measure the food waste we'd have to we're not that I think that's that's not something like you're not going to be able to answer that you're not in the cafeteria the only people that might be able to answer that is people serving the food but they'd have to be paying attention to what gets thrown away so I mean what you could do Carol is well if you're paying attention to what's thrown away so I mean we have a panel of EXT so why don't we so can you guys not all right Tammy Tammy are you able to answer Mike's question yes do do you I want to put you on the out she also sees what stays in the K I have okay so do you want to speak could you speak so more or less since we started doing this the food fluctuates it depends on if it's something new to the kids we tried an appetizer for an example and I never thought it was going to go like it did we ran out it was crazy um but that day we had a lot of burgers left that they eat every day and a lot of chicken petties that they eat every day so the next time you prepare for sampler and you don't make as many of the other things but unfortunately we do have food waste um but like I said it we off likes to try the same thing twice even if it doesn't sell um because second time it's new the first time so the second time they have you know they have a better idea of what the be serve um so it does fluctuate by and we're getting better on our numbers we're not throwing we as much chicken patties and burgers as we were in the beginning okay so that's good so that seems like yeah it's trending in the right direction but yeah you started in January it hasn't even been four months yet it's been three months and we had a break there and I can say that you know um just I can only speak to Tanto personally um and Renee and Rich and I are at lunches you know at almost every day and we you know talk to the students the students um definitely are feeling like they're compared to the beginning of the year so I can say from the beginning of the year till now the kids absolutely feel as though they're the portions they really enjoy the meals um and you know I don't want to but you all seem to be in a good place right now better than the beginning so like so I make sure I we talk to them and the students all of the time um at so that communication is constantly happening we are constantly asking the kids what do you think of this what do you think of that what do you are are you feeling full you what do you wish you had more and I have noticed that kids are absolutely eating more fruits and vegetables with 100% they're eating like the cut up cucumbers one day like big fresh strawberries those were like I mean those are all incidental reports but it's like every day we are seeing this every day so we do I what we run out of in Sal more than trying to get grasp ons really are wanting Sal because they're big and they have protein to them and which was really nice I think in the beginning it was a big shift for everybody and that was you know difficult for the kids too there were certain things that they didn't like and they missed the old but I think it's kind of been a good combination and the fact that they've all been here these are this is their this is their state like their teachers Chang but you guys have been their safe people and so that made they were worried about that too and the fact that they keep seeing you has been really huge and making them feel feel good okay so do you guys want to vote on this now or do you want to wait until a April 23rd and have a meeting then to do a vote on this has Nancy reviewed like who reviewed this she did review it in preparation of the meeting tonight I did have questions for the school committee at this time out as a body I'm I'm hearing a couple of things I heard mention of the survey a survey going out again I was unclear about the I didn't quite catch the last part of that other than witson survey going out in April is there another survey that you want to miss the last part mention February survey yeah so I missed the last part Michael what you said about the survey I it was what Jess had mentioned about you know I was curious just how parents how kids are are liking it how the staff are liking it is there food waste not food waste is it more or less to prepare just you know overall how is it going and then we have the numbers for this year um but I'd be curious to see if that's because of witson or is it maybe just a trend this year because of the economy um that's a September to December you asking participation so the survey is is a school committee comfortable with a survey that will go out in April from witson or did you want us to create another one in addition to I no just one nobody's gonna answer two yeah just do one so wens is doing one that's great now when is that going up but my the information I'm asking for car doesn't need to come from survey at least not all of it it doesn't need to come from survey it's just dat yeah so the Ser is April 22nd and I believe it's open for two full weeks yeah so that's not gonna help us for We're not gonna get that information for our April 23rd vote so yeah I mean Carol Mike you're making some good points it would be great to have this data before we vote on this this um I'm also curious why nobody was interviewed for the in-house program that be discussed yeah I was just trying to look back but I'll have to look back on that again Mike I will tell you that and this is just the way it is we would have to go out if if with some's income in we would post for a director but to your point about whether it were supposed to go out simultaneously I'd have to go back and look if that was done I'm una aware I don't know if we dictated a time when it was supposed to go out but just in the normal course of business so that you can get it done I guess would be the timeline the the posting for a a director yeah I believe we talked about you know this was a stop Gap measure for this year because of the issues that we had in November and December we were curious number one about the employees staying employees uh and then two about whether this is the route to go based on what improvements have been made measure those improvements by the users what's their experience with it financially what's the experience with it are we doing better are we doing worse um you know all those questions that we would think would just be normal questions to evaluate such a big decision like this just aren't here how long is is this bid for one year or for three years for one year for one year okay and then renew for three or up I it might be the best option we just don't have the information we're just doing this because you say oh yeah they're cool we like them go for it please vote for it we don't have any data that says that it's better well we talk to people in the community we talk to our kids you talk to the 13 and 14 year olds is it actually better yeah they're gonna tell you yes okay they're gonna say well then that would be one that would be one that would be one set of data that we could we could have so do you think it's a matter to teenagers what their Bears think and food so Julie L H do you Jess do you guys feel that we have enough information to vote tonight or do you want to wait Julie I feel like we have enough information okay La what are you thinking I mean I I love the real food I just don't I feel like I'm making a decision based on what I think and not I don't really know what yeah Mike as much as I hate I really don't Ian I got a shirt and C your cup I say yeah this is gonna be the only time tonight is there a way is there a way that we could shorten the window of that like have it go out tomorrow and close by Friday yeah so the the survey yeah it's unfortunately not because it's for does it for all school districts so it's really beas simultaneously companywide for every District that we're in I do have one final question as well the 8,000 guaranteed Surplus can you explain how that works because you say you know so guaranteed surplus of eight grand you give some numbers about what you project is going to happen uh and then you say you project by the end of the year we're going to be in a $30,000 Surplus so where does that 22,000 go to should we not have a higher than 8,000 Benchmark how does that all work and Christine I'll let you speak to this did you hear the question yeah so um the question was about um the $8,000 guarantee versus the projections for the full year I believe the $8,000 was what was stipulated in the RFP right so $8,000 was kind of what was stipulated by so it says here it says witson submitted their bid with a guarantee of a surplus of 8,000 next year oh okay you're looking at Nancy's notes uh I don't know who they came from we email yeah it's Nancy yeah Nancy onp yeah so that so that's for um this current school year and that $330,000 no that's for that's for next year it says witson submitted their bid with a guarantee of a surplus of 8,000 in fiscal year 25 that's next year right yeah and then where are you seeing the 30,000 uh yeah so then it says uh well she says she reviewed the p for the last few months um she goes on to say uh projecting uh $ 31,300 uh profit from March to the end of the school year right so the so the first line that you were reading the bid with the guarantee of a surplus for 8,000 is for fy2 correct um that second paragraph that Nancy included is a prediction for the end of this school year and that 301,000 includes that supply chain fund um that I mentioned earlier that which was around right around $30,000 in change so those won't be here next year we don't know that's determined by the state government okay it wasn't very clear from this so I wish you was see to answer these if you don't mind because I um just could we allow if they have anything else to add or to say because this I think would impact them would you would that be appropriate just to sure because I think they have in they have information y sure did you guys have anything you wanted to add or say well I know one of the reason why our number is kids love the hamburgers and chicken patties and cheeseburgers and fries they can get every single day so and our numbers have been up since the kids have done pretty much oh yeah our that went way up when that St but different kinds sweet potato the main L is sandwich and I get Fri no I'll have a cheeseburg so the variety options are better I'm sure does that Mak more work for you the best Cho sometimes every day they would be forced to take something they are taking fruit too but the H has been great they do love all the fruits and vegetables that they can get and salads we do salads as a meal but we also do side salads within the hotle not every day they love the seesar salad you can't put enough health no but I think numbers I mean they are up a little bit more but I think they've been up since the kids have get pre lunch I mean our numbers have gone up since then pre lunch was last year right yeah so so and these these the comparisons from last last last last a lot more running there's that's one of my concerns is just that we don't have time for break some days which is not legal probably or great yeah what do you mean we're just scrambling to get everything done so that can be a lot of components Taco you something that has a lot of components so do you need another person umor all right all right let's get back on track so uh Carol wants to share one thing and then all right uh just how do you feel do you want to wait till April 23rd to vote or do you want to vote now I mean I'm have to make the decision before May 3rd we don't have to make a vote tonight I mean I think I'm a little uneasy because Nancy's here I mean she did review it and I guess she approved it from her end was that conclusion of her review Nancy she was comfortable pre presenting to you know what what what you have in front of you tonight as far as making the recommendation I did just go back to the December 3rd meeting um there was an approval of this is the minutes approval of Woodson's Food Service management company a vote the motion was made by Mrs Hart and seconded by Mrs Lee Mr totman made amended motion seconded by Mrs Lee to ensure Uh current staff remained sorry employed with the same pay and benefits and that the school committee will be consulted before making a decision for next year six six to4 amended motion passes so that was a discussion there was nothing about going out again for an individual so it wasn't in the motion Carol but I distinctly remember Nancy sitting here and saying yes they would advertise for the position and compare what would be the best interest of the school I also feel there was some discussion around like the the food distributor was you know then that would add that other element to the quality of the food that we get which much more that's we had before definitely was part of the conversation yeah also some of it at the at the end of the day some of it has to be the school's decision and it so desie we need to approve this bid right it's a desie rule that the school committee approves the bid you know when you have an outside company but it's not necessarily our decision to decide if the district keeps it the director of Food Services in-house or out of house that I think is a Carol Nancy or Carol you know we did in all due respect for the committee did agree to have a consult consultation with the school you did yes we said we would talk about it so we're talking about it so I mean I kind of feel like it would be it includes employees who are paid by the district through a budget that this committee approves so as far as I'm concerned it is our decision Well yeah if we decide that if the cost is different so Lisa sorry I haven't asked you how how what are you thinking about this do you want to wait to get more information to vote or are you feeling do you feel one way or the other do you like witson I do like witson I think it's a vast Improvement I think the kids are getting healthier food I've heard good things from the parents about that they're happy about that okay the contract is for a year right and then the option to renew so I almost feel like we can gather all that information over the coming year because this is just you know and have just a better data set to actually evaluate it from so actually comfortable with voting tonight although I do respect that you have some good questions I agree we can gather that date over the year but can we will they because they were supposed to have something for us before we made the next decision and they don't what if we did this what if we voted tonight and we made a motion but that we only approve this bid if the district keeps the staff well that's already in there no that that was for last year that's not for this bid I mean I guess B right Sheely I mean again I I guess it's not black white enough for me did you all the staff will stay on as um employees if we were to take them on that could be considered a material change which would force you to go back out to bid right changing okay all right that's my biggest concern is you know um go if they're saying they need more help no we do but we don't have somewhere to put somebody that's the thing is there's not enough space to have another person necessarily well is this T we [Music] don't and we could certainly work with Rob to figure out where a person could fit in maybe it's someone just sort of helped for a few hours during the day when other people are taking their breaks that would free up time we could certainly work with Rob to figure that out and you know again it's as the School District staff that's your decision and this does include just the current staff so that is something that we might have to adjust for if there is somebody added um not in the sense that we have you know go back up to bit but just that you know we make our conceptions based off of the the labor model that's presented to us in the labor schedule so if we're adding other people in that's just something we have to keep in mind what if you added a witson person to do to do the dishes or to do whatever so I think would we have to change the bid for that yes because we incl all the labor got for anyone gotcha gotcha so at this point this is kind of the bid at hand I I would prefer that I mean I think that in line with everything we're doing here that we keep that you'd like to have if you hire something you'd like to keep it in absolutely okay okay that should be consisted I don't think I have any problems with the bid as it stands right now it's just not having the information that I thought we would have to make this decision is kind of annoying so I have two things number one is um one of the reasons we're really adamant about keeping the good people that work for us is that they have pensions and you know they they they their time served and to go over to another company they would lose all that so it's I think that's what's really important to the committee is there a lot of them are parents or they or they were parents or they're people in the community and so it's important to I think that's just so important in in a community school um my concern with when we vote is if we come back a year from now we going to get another say in this to make sure that we can Advocate um one way or the other do you know I mean like right now we're involved and I'm just worried I'm really worried about this piece right here I just think that it's important one of the reasons that people stay in these schools is because of the community because of the feeling of home and we obviously can't provide what witson can provide so it's wonderful that you can come in but I feel like it has to be a mix of the two or it should be just I I would if the school through Lor what I would suggest is that Wiens comes back again and we put together a plan with the school committee of what you would want to happen in a more formal way to Mike's Point whether that I mean if that discussion happened I have to tell you it's not anything in the minutes I don't recall that comment it isn't that it didn't happen or was said for example things that were said but I think we have to formalize what we we do going forward and these kinds of discussions are great to have but in the end planning for this in in a more formal manner is going to help keep every everybody on track and keep clear um and have all of this clean if we if we do that for next year a formal evaluation process surveys and so on I I I and I question that too as far as if we if we postpone this vote until the 23rd I think we just talking about if we're going to have the I mean Megan had just talked about not having meeting I I did want to bring that up in my report but we have it on the 23rd I just want to make clear what information would matter to you to make a change in your decision so I can try to put that together I I can't guarantee I will be able to put that together by the 23rd I would do my best but I'm not here next week all right so you know let's let's vote let's vote now and if you wanna if you want to vote against it then you vote against it and we'll see if it passes because I feel like very mixed feelings I think the motion could include that when the the contract comes up for Renewal that we have surve data to review that we have staff Give opinions on their experience and whether they support that renewal parents and kids feedback parents and kid yeah yeah teachers feedback you know is this have they seen an improvement in their classroom behavior issues because of the better food I agree so maybe we put a Julie but anything like that the motion that's a good idea but teachers would know better than you or I would yeah so this year you the principles can work where have witson or whoever is in charge of that can work to try to gather that data for cafeteria staff pany over there and um all right all right let's vote so it will so so it the contract begins July 1 and ends June 30th so I think within the motion we'd probably want that data before our last school committe meeting in June I will I will add that the renal the renewals have a due date every year with desie that's usually around the end of April so it thisel it'll be this time so will not data in February of 2025 February 25 for our February meeting so that we can vote in March or our March meeting so we can vote in April all right all right so um could I where where am I okay could I have a motion to approve the awarding of the Food Service Company bid to witzens with the stipulation that the school district and witson must provide specific data to the school committee by March of 2025 such as feedback from parents and students and teachers and and the committee will be involved in the decision next year and staff and the committee will be involved in the decision for the next bit you get all that I don't think it would be a bad idea also for if Rob or whoever is I'm imagining Rob will still be here as the Director in this area to come in and give regular reports to the school committee before March I think he should should come to at least some of the meetings in the fall and the June move the motion second all right lar second any more discussion just before we do vote just general nod of the head in the back here in favor or absolutely against all right glad you guys came and had your voices heard I think that's important I appreciate that thank you for listening all right any more discussion all in favor all right I'm and I as well that motion passes all right thank you so much to take thank you guys feel free to all right and up next is going to be we're gonna bang through these principal reports and then we'll talk about school choice everyone's gonna bring school choice oh students all right you guys want to go on now we just broke go home sure you all right so I'm sorry what are your names Ben Ben and STI okay so we have Ben and stie here next we'll do that next so they can that's perfect timing um and they're going to talk about their senior field trip overnight to Great Wolf lods that we will be voting on are you ready yep all right take it away yeah we so I know you guys got these in the form that we initially sent but I updated them a little bit more in depth so you pass one on it's just a little bit more in depth with like the price distribute getting the price distributed to between our class fund and then to students um and then also like chaperon are listed and so information on our do you guys want to present or do you want us to just ask you questions um questions yeah I don't want to put you on the spot yeah I mean um our field trip is going to be um May 29th to May 30th so it's a Wednesday and a Thursday um students will arrive at greatwolf lodge at 4M and then they will be dismissed the next morning at 10: a.m.

those those cars to deliver the driving aspect of the program so it's only a right now it's we looking at a temporary situation to sell them the car all I need to do is be able to sell them the cars now and then we'll purchase purchase them back in September when we're ready to offer the uh program ourselves when we can get it straightened out properly this would be at no risk to us seem I've been working with the insurance company as well because some of the problems were based on some of the insurance issues of and registry issues so it's been a very complicated situation that we had to get resolved and this is the way to resolve it there's no risk to us the insurance company they'll be reg they'll be insured under the driving schools Insurance they'll be registered under the driving school so they'll in essence own those cars and so all the liability and all that belongs to the driving school not glts so keeps it simple for us and and all we're trying to do is help about a 100 kids get their licensee respect I'm sorry it's just last minute and a problem last decision last minute I going to go off subject but we meet one month and then we have emergencies this is one understand what you're just well if you don't vote for it then the kids will not be able to take the they will miss out for you know it be six weeks before they can start taking their driving so we'll have you know 100 kids sitting there not being able to take their driving lessons for another month and lot of those kids were trying to get them their license so they can go to work because some of them were going to go on Co-op one of the stumbling blocks for them is not having a driver's license so they can't get a job so we're just trying to help a lot of kids get a job and yeah it's last minute but to no fault of our own it's last minute it's not only last minute should have stated in the beginning before I start the agenda is there any way we can put this off until next month yeah you can put it off till next month but like I said 100 kids will not be able to take their driving Le get their driving lessons for another six weeks so you're putting six kids you're saying no to something it's a simple decision in my mind well I'm just saying it's a pretty simple decision either you want to sell the cars to him or you don't want to sell the cars to him that's all I'm asking can you want to vote to sell the cars to them so I can offer the kids their driving it's not a like I can it's not a two-page dissertation it's just do you want to sell the cars or you don't want to sell car it's that simple whether I stay in the beginning or not I didn't actually you know think about it in the beginning that this was going to be I got to remember this is in the agenda but it's in the agenda super superintendent's request said do we want to sell the car or don't we want to sell the car do I have a motion I'm sorry yeah I mean ordinarily I I you know listen to me I'm first time on the board but ordinarily I would have a problem with last minute stuff um but I see the need for this I I think it's a benign situation um um and I am going to make a motion to allow it to allow the cars to be sold or however I'm going to make that motion second well I I'd like to Ste discussion um well as a business owner that I am I want to know obviously it's going to be sold back to us but I want to know between now and then who's going to do the main is they going to give us the the the vehicles is it just our students who are going to be using the vehicle they going to be using the vehicle for every single person that comes in what is they going to be you know they going to give us you know like I'm I'm assuming we we're selling the vehicle with probably you know um conditioned because we have the the the school to probably prep it are they going to give us back to us prepped like those are those are more more concern I don't have a problem being sold I just think it's the stuff in between you know between now and September those vehicles are going to be used the condition of the vehicles we're not going to be able to guarantee what kind of condition they're going to be used because these are students and anything can happen to the vehicle and the in the meantime I'm sure there there's insurance on it they're going to be able to cover but the mean of that vehicle what's going to be for us once we get this vehicles that we don't know the condition they're going to be turning it back to us yeah so um they'll own the vehicles the intent is for them to use them for our students but we can't I can't say to them that you might get one or two students that aren't our students that are going to be in the car I don't know that that's not part of the agreement typically it's for that to S give the opportuni for our kids to get their license really uh you know they're going to be using them for so many months so they're going to be driving student could get in an accident people getting you know I can't guarantee they're not going to get in an accident can't guarantee any of that all I can guarantee is they own the cars they ensure the cars uh under that under the plan and part of the agreement will in the contract say that they will be selling them back to back to us uh at the end of uh the end of the summer so that we can run our own program at that point well and and yet that would be a great thing my question again would be the condition that we're selling it to them what kind of condition they're going to get it to us and what kind of what are you know what are we selling it for and what are they going to sell it back to us for I think that will make we could put that in the contract if there's damage to the vehicles they're liable to repair any vehicle so if there's any body damage or any any uh uh issues with the car other than the condition we get sold it to them they would be liable to uh pay for any of that we can put that in our contract start that being a contract yeah so we'll put a contract together that that that and and and the you know you want proof of of the oil changes and the maintenance that be done cuz again it can be 5,000 m 3,000 M it could be 20,000 Mi we really don't know electric vehicles huh they're electric vehicles so they will be okay so the that's that's a yeah what's the price why are we're selling it to them why are we selling it to them what's the price we're selling them for we're we're selling them to them well we haven't agreed on a permanent price yet so the suggestion she made to me today which I'm not saying that we're agreeing to that because I want to talk to our attorney first before I make it but she had suggested we sell them for $22,000 and they sell them back to us for $2,000 I don't know that that's what we want to do all I'm looking for right now is can we sell the vehicles and then we'll determine what's the right price should we sell them at full price or should we not sell them at full price price so that that still has to be determined what the exact price is going to be is that the full price of one car one car y that's what it costs right now $2,000 well that's what she was suggesting we do that doesn't mean we're going to do that we'll do in the we missing information so do we know how much the the cars cost each one oh I know how much the car cost yeah car cost about $224,000 okay okay and and see that's information that we need we need all that information in advance in order to make the right um approach to to you know to that's my that's what I am I mean how much are we giving I mean what is this whole situation looks like in terms of all the all the different um things that goes into it anybody else I'm sorry yes um how did we end up with them are they like State Vehicles we bought no we bought them to start a to start a driving school oh okay so it's been an a difficult challenge because of state regulations we had an original partnership that we were looking to do what we wanted to do got tied up in all kinds of legal issues with the insurance company and the registry and all that that's all and so yeah I know the register challenging yeah um could we just do a lease agreement or is that keeps us ownership we already that's first was what we wanted to do okay it's not allowable so this is in L of a lease that's why it was like okay so she's suggesting well you sell them to us for 2,000 just so they can use them and they sell them back to us because we can't do leas so what we're trying to do is a it's not it's a short-term use of the cars basically for $2,000 yeah and then we're going to get them back for $2,000 so it's not like they're permanently going to own them they're only going to own them because that's the way the contracts can to be written it's not like we're selling you know if she can't I'm sure she can't do it if we sell them to them for $24,000 a vehicle there's no way she's going to be able to do that for a 6mon period it's not cost effective for her you know she's trying to do it she's trying to help us is what she's trying to do so what's the easiest way to help us so do I think that's 2,000 is the right thing to do I don't know yet because I just talked to her today that's all I know all I'm trying to do is move it along so we can try to get it done so kids can get their driving hours in that's all I'm trying to move along I will and we only have tonight's meeting we don't have another meeting till May so I'm trying to resolve this in a way that I can provide the services what you're looking at is that I'm going to make responsible decisions in the best interest of the kids moving forward with regards to those vehicles I can't give you any more than that right now um so if you're uncomfortable with that then you know you can say no we don't want to sell them and then we'll just put it on hold and a lot of the kids won't get their out set on well it it sounds like a glorified rent payment basically sorry have we uh consulted with the school attorney to see if this is even allowed yes I think we checked on the uh that it's well the insurance company told us to do this our insurance companies told us this is the way to do it to handle it she's pretty good with the laws but we didn't check what the we check have I checked with the law on whether it's legal or not I haven't checked whether it's legal I'm assuming it's probably legal if our insurance cuz she's very responsible DH insurance I have a lot of trust in her and this is her recommendation is the way as we do it you know that's why I say we still have to talk to the attorney so we haven't talked to the school attorney at all about this no we haven't talked to the attorney about it we talked to our insurance company and guess what nine out of 10 times insur our attorneys you know who he's going to send me to he's going to send me to the insurance company he does it all the time on a lot of stuff on something like this this I'm not saying we don't do the attorney I'm just saying we will but I'm telling you I TR I have a lot of trust in Sheila DH when she tells me something that she knows what she's doing not saying that we don't go to the attorney I'm just saying from my experience and the work that I've done with her the last you know 30 all the years I've known her she's very competent and very know she knows the laws sometimes better than the attorneys know the law on some issues thank good well I guess I would just like to see a formal contract or or I know I know it's time sensitive um but I mean and I said it was benign and I I I in my heart I feel as though it is but I I think to keep everybody honest I think it needs some kind of um contract you know that you look you're going to sell them for 2,000 you're going to get them back on the same condition um going to get I mean and if anything happens they're they it's their insurance and I think that because it's time sensitive I think maybe it should be to give Mr Lavoy the permission to like do that and that you know I don't know yeah well I do have a little information about how insurance work and how sales work and how the state would allow you to sell the vehicle that is under for $2,000 that is worth $24,000 we that person is going still going to pay 12 12 $24,000 based off taxes when we buy it back we will also have to pay those taxes even though they sell it to us for $2,000 we will be we will be paying the taxes Bas on the value of the vehicle not on the actual $2,000 and another thing that I have um a concern is that if they do have an accident and they pay them they're going to pay them $224,000 we're not getting the $24,000 they are so the only way that that would work for us is that if any it's it's all how it's going to be written on the contract to protect us because if they do have a liability if they have an accident because the vehicles are $224,000 they'll get the chunk of money and we're getting the same car now with an exiting Report with with you know not Worthing no no valueing $24,000 and the condition I think is I would it would all depend on how we protect our assets our investment um obviously they're not going to just hold our students on it they're going to be every single person who comes in that is going to go on the the nice vehicles that we own even though we don't own it um and if we're going to make that in investment then we should make some of the profit so I mean again it's all how we word it if we're going to make some money out of the out of all the other students are going to go in our cars then I'm I'm probably I'm probably in it but when I'm looking at the best interest of the student of the school I think they we want the student to be able to have the opportunity but if if it's going to cost us and we it can might end up turning into a problem for us um I I think we it again it is all going to be based on that contract and that contract obviously I know you're going to be looking after the best for this for the for the um for the school for the students but at the same time we need to consider the investment that was put into this vehicle and it's going to be a problem six months so they're going to be using those cars for six months there's a lot of tie wearing and our wear and wear and te they go going to go on those Vehicles so as long as that is considered I think we need to to think about that when we when we decide to vote on this particular request so if you want to withdraw the motion that's fine and we'll just I'll meet with the attorney and get the contract written and bring back to you will that make you feel more comfortable I can do that that's not a problem just so hold up some of the kids before the kids can start that's all they might be able to start some of them because they have a couple cars so it'll just all kids won't be able to uh um be able to get their uh driving done um the problem for the kids is they signed up with Berkeley and so they have to do the driving with Berkeley so they don't have other options so that'll hold up their opportunity until we can get this straightened out anything else I'm looking at this as releasing on the car for 6 months the start date and final date I would like how the contract is written yeah won't be at Le problem with them as far as their insurance I have no problem with the cars are under warranty if something breaks down it's not warranty I'm just worried about the liability and an accident yeah okay yeah so I'll get yeah I have no problem I'll get the uh I'll get the uh we'll get the contract I'll get the recommendations from Sheila dor who made the recommendations to start start with all about the liability on their part on our part you know get a clear picture for you on you know where we sit on the on the whole thing and if it's still time senstive maybe you can contact the committee by phone and uh yeah I can do that well I can't do that we can't do that legally but we'll just we'll have to wait till May that's all okay y thank you there's another while update on purchase I think we still have a motion on the floor that was made yeah there was a motion there was a that's why I said you want to withdraw your motion unless we move forward with the motion or somebody makes a motion to withdraw it I know motion sorry I don't remember who made it I think did you make the motion Amar or did Bill no I think you did Mar and then Bill second Mr I'm in any case I want to withdraw my motion I have a motion okay okay no motion can we can we put a motion to table this matter to revisit to revisit this matter so we could just table the matter we don't need a motion because it's just informational just we're going back to information okay thank you okay we good uh purchase of the hanger any else yes so at this time we're uh for the Elton Hangar it's going through the process of each Community voting so purchasing of the um Elks has been approved at uh to purchase to purchase and to get the bond to approve the bond Andover has it's gone through Andover and it is all done that that Community is all set North Andover is going to be bringing it right now as of right now it's a town meeting which is the middle of May Lawrence has it coming up in their next city council meeting which is next week and methun has it coming up in their City counc council meeting which I think is next week as well so both those things are coming up for a vote in those meetings and then if those are all positive votes um we're just still trying to find a loot find a find a new home for the outs we think we might have a a good lead on a lot that uh National Grid owns so they're look they're putting it through their process see if they can sell it to the Els and if that goes through then uh we just uh they will bring it to a vote to their uh their uh membership for whether to sell to us or not so we're in a good trajectory right now question what if uh one of the cities of towns doesn't want this then what's our next step so Mike is looking into if we only need three out of four communities like we do on our budget or do they all have to vote Yes so I ask Mike to look into thatne know that yet so I'm not sure we have to have all four or I suspect we have to have all four but he's just going to double check on that questions okay moving along day tier uh tuition rates for our daycare uh program uh to approve 2024 2025 daycare tuition rate I believe this is an increase right I want to table this fin want to be table I want to table because uh I haven't had a chance to meet with Brandy on this look at the percentages so I I this okay a motion to table this matter have a second second any discussion miss dler Mr Jones yes Mr Mahia yes Mr Mercedes yes Mr tbox yes Miss Farris yes Mr Hayden yes reports of the committee old business uh policy oh BGC policy revisions and reviews uh motion to approve the section this is on the uh school committee policies y uh you have the revisions I can read it you want me to read it typically they just we don't read it we don't need to read it okay just I need a motion to approve it this is the uh this is basically saying any policies that are outdated or being implemented uh the superintendent is supposed to call the attention of the committee to all parties all policies that are out of date and appear to need a revision that will be notified am I right Mr that's correct can I have a motion uh discussion please so what is why are we approving this I mean it says updated 2022 yeah so we we've been going through the whole schools all the policies and so this is just one of the policies so for the last two years now every meeting we try to have one policy that we go to we're trying to update our policy book and so this is one of the policies that's in the book that um we have MS uh Ms mask masc masc um they keep they update our policies when there needs to be a change we have a contract with them and so if there's needs to be a change I would form you but this is the language in policy now so just re reaffirming that you're okay with this policy you don't want to make a change for the school Charter is that not for the charter school policies Comm policies Comm policies okay thank you y just to add I'm sorry are you all set yes I'm all set thank you please to just to add to that we have been we have been doing this for even more than two years uh so and if there's any changes they will come in Bridge so we know that that's something that's been changed yeah so that you know that's how we've been doing it anybody else all set y anybody else motion motion to approve second discussion any further discussion Mr tbox yes M Baris yes M TLA yes Mr Jones yes Mr Mahia yes M Mr mes yes Mr hayam yes table matters jump to uh resignations Personnel considerations um we have four here and three that were voted on in the beginning of the meeting to add to this um superintendent you want me to do it you want me to read them sure okay uh can we do two at a time they all have to be voted on you all right curriculum developer for robotics apprenticeship please I'm sorry we have a list of the on that were added they were sent to your packet so the package come with the ones that we're going to approve so when when there's an ad dat addition now we have a new what Su usually does she send us a new list so now we can read the titles from this list to what we have on the positions do we have that if they were added we you have a list that say there were a job description no like post like this was it's not on them I gave you this she asked them in and she put them in red and it show the that were added that we didn't we beginning of the meeting we'll give one with read in it but C Sue wasn't here I just right it wasn't in red that's why I had it voted on yeah that's why you had it voted on and I did it in left-handed writing it's on the sheets here because Sue wasn't here to do it that that's why I had these sheets that's the same sheet you have they don't have the sheet this sheet has the add okay can we but typically it's in red but because Sue wasn't here she's on vacation I just handw wrote them in I did hand I did have those I didn't want to pass them out cuz they said the same thing you said but I didn't know that they were written supposedly in red but printed in Black yeah but there's still one missing in that's not on there that's the internal three the internal uh you see how this okay let me just Cooper education reading specialist tempor this the only one that's not on we have four post those on the new sheet on with the little information on the original sheet the original there's two on this new sheet all right so we're taking out the third one well we should we really need to vote on this one but it's the director to interim director of commissions and counseling for probably the next four to six weeks or it could be the end of the year to vote on this if this is a temporary position well we do because it's an interim position it's an interim position uh just because we need help in the guidance Department brender right now is doing the principal's job assistant superintendent's job and this job the uh her old job she's doing three jobs right now so we're trying to get an inum in to cover the guidance position so all right I'll tell you what let's do the ones that are in here now and then we'll discuss these one at a time yeah that's fine all right yes uh ccum D for robotics Apprenticeship Training for adults $50 an hour for up to 60 hours Grant funded April to September 2024 new position see attached the second one is math curriculum selection up to eight teachers to review options for selecting algebra and geometry curriculum up to 10 hours each for a maximum of 80 hours this work is to guide the selections of a math curriculum for algebra and geometry courses new positions any discussion can I get a motion motion to approve um just to just to be sure this is to approve both of them yes to approve both positions I stated second any discussion please show Miss Farris yes Miss tler yes Mr Jones yes Mr Mahia yes Mr Mercedes yes Mr tbox yes Mr Hayden yes the second two to run the books employer engagement manager 80 to 85,000 effective May 6th 2024 it's a new position City attached clean energy employment success manager uh 80,000 85,000 effective May 6th 2024 new position see attached you have any discussion can I get a motion and a motion will be for both of them please motion to approve both positions as stated second any discussion we have to roll call it yeah oh Mr Mia yes Mr Mercedes yes Mr toox yes M Ferris M TLA yes okay Mr Jones yes Mr Hayden yes any other three the superintendent suggest we wait until the next meeting to do this the right way because I'm getting kind of dizzy and it's get thank you um shall we hold on to these you want just post them in the I'll read I'll put them in the next okay y so we can discard these and we'll wait for it in new pack yep future agenda of items seeing none I guess we're ready for executive session yes can I get a motion to go into executive session motion to enter executive session any discussion Jo Mr Jones yes Mr Mia yes Mr Mercedes yes Mr tbox yes haris yes M dla yes Mr hayam yes uh did everybody sign these uh warrants thank you we going into executive session yep it's getting past Oscar's bedtime it's getting past your bedtime I can do the for e um I'd like to bring attention to appointments new instructor uh Mr Eric Rogers HVAC instructor effective March 11th 2024 we don't need to vote on that right so it's just informational just informational good about time we got somebody I'm sorry I missed that that's yours any motion to Jour second any other questions or has everybody had enough what do you go for today Mr Mia do we want to please Mr Mahia yes Mr Mercedes yes Mr toox yes M Farris miss dla Mr Jones yes Mr hayum

e you know e test e i' like to call a meeting to Otter please uh we'll start with the pledge of the flag the moment of science would you stay standing please um I'd like to recognize Mrs foron who was an English teacher here back in the 70s and 80s she passed away on April 4th her husband was also a fizzed teacher um our condolences to her family and the Reggie family thank you can we do the roll call please sh Miss FIS here miss dler uh pres Mr Jones here Mr M present Mr Mercedes pres Mr tbox here Mr Hayden here um at this time I'd like to recognize uh Mr Mahir I believe he has a few words to say before we start the meeting Mr Mah yeah I just wanted to uh congratulate the National Honor Society students and to the uh folks that were facilitating the event it went very well and uh I just wanted to congratulate them and the uh superintendent and the assistant superintendent for um their efforts on this thank you thank you it was a a great presentation they did up to this um I'd like to have a recommendation to approve the minutes from last uh last meeting March 88 March 12th and April 1st as presented so moved second any discussion please mik I'm requesting to get those approv separately please you want because we know everybody was here on all those meetings thank you noted can we accept the meetings of March 8th please motion so move any discussion on that March 12th meetting of March 12th please motion motion to approve second discussion meeting of April 1st motion please motion to approve thank you and before we go any further um in your packet there was we forgot to roll call please I'm sorry need to roll call for is thank you for March 8th Mr Maha yes Mr Mercedes yes Mr tbox yes Mr Baris yes m dler i Mr Jones yes Mr haem yes for March 12th Mr Jones yes Mr Mahia yes Mr Mercedes yes Mr tbox yes Miss Baris yes Miss dler yes Mr haam yes April 1st Miss tler yes Mr Jones yes Mr Mahia yes Mr Mercedes yes Mr toox yes Miss Barris yes Mr haum yes all right just to uh continue um in your packets that were sent to your homes there were three um post for positions that were loose inside the binder I think everybody got one but it was neglected to put on to the uh agenda I'd like the vote to have it put onto the agenda please can I have a motion make a motion put on the agenda second any uh discussion Mr tarox yes M Baris yes M dler yes Mr Jones yes Mr Mahia yes Mr Mercedes yes Mr hayam yes Mr Deo Finance report please cash Cas balance report I'm sorry cash balance report as of February 29th 2024 beginning balance was 594 28718 we had deposits for February of 9,899 6729 that's a pretty big number um we had a delay in the Chapter 70 funds uh that came in um in early February they were supposed to be received in January uary and then we also received Chapter 70 at the end of February on February 29th so we had two chapter 70s for the month plus assessments so that's why you see that uh large number for deposits less the three payrolls in February as shown um uh the two warrants leaves us with the book balance on February 29th 20244 million 77879 in our mmdt account we had 6,174 37757 uh interest was 26,26995 back once we receive Chapter 70 leaves us with the balance of 6,200 64257 and a total operating cash balance of 10,832 42136 thank you we need to uh vote on accepting that cash balance report can I have a motion please motion to accept second discussion see none V please Mr Mercedes yes Mr tbox yes Miss Ferris yes Miss tler yes Mr Jones yes Mr Mia yes Mr Hayden yes Consolidated cash Reconciliation Report is a handout formal revolving fund report also a handout budget report going out of audit here next I have this donations donations from Mr Christopher Charles donated a two uh 2019 Honda Odyssey valued at 2175 Mr Dan Holland second chance cause conquered Mass donated a 2012 Mazda valued at 3250 uh 2007 Toyota yarus valued to 2240 and a 2007 Honda Civic valued at 2975 thank you for your generous donation letter is in there to him do that before the communications um budget transfers uh M Matel update the district committee on the transfers y so it's just a vote to accept the budget transfers as presented um just to let you know I applied the overage that we had from last year's um Ed to net School spending um so I applied that to all the balances that were negative and then I did further transfers just to clean up the rest of the budget because we are in the last quarter now so um we're really keeping track of what's going to this point any questions can I have uh a motion to accept please I put the motion second any any uh discussion we have a vote on that Mr Mahia yes Mr Mercedes yes Mr toox yes M Barris yes Mr SLI yes Mr Jones yes Mr Hayden yes uh we have a communication report um on one of our Brads from who's in UMass uh there is a piece on it from a magazine that's in there I'd just like to uh take a moment take the pleasure to thank the teacher that she had thanked here uh one of Jee Marie's Match Day guests was her High School history teacher at Great allowance tech school Victor Martinez Jean Marie shares that it was was if it wasn't for Mr Martinez she wouldn't have thought she can go to college mus less medical school with Miss Martinez encouragement she became a certified nursing assistant and graduate from the colonal Honors College at UMass Amherst with degrees in microbiology and public health it was there that she discovered the bcmd program uh shout out to Mr Martinez indeed um if he was here I'm sure he would say uh Jee Marie owes it all to her hard work and dedication thank you Mr Martinez I look participation I don't see any unless Miss Rogers has something to say uh student Opportunity Act Joshua wette um he started this at the last meeting um I think he's got a little bit more to say to it please Joshua so last meeting Josh gave us just a overview because of it was just a special meeting so in order to everybody to understand what the student Opportunity Act uh which is basically a grant from Department of Ed that is included in our Chapter 70 funds he's going to kind of outline the specifics of it a little bit more tonight thank you so much for having me again tonight um so I'm going to doing an in-depth but brief presentation on the student Opportunity Act plan that you all voted to approve last week um before I start I do want to let you know that um the Department of Education has approved the plan without requirements for revisions So the plan is approved it's been uploaded to desie um and we're good to go moving forward with the plan so just as a reminder uh the student Opportunity Act plan is for fiscal year 25 26 and 27 the goal of the student Opportunity Act from the Department of Education is to ensure that every student in the Commonwealth regardless of their zip code has access to highquality public education inclusive of your most marginalized student this requires districts to focus on addressing disparities and learning experiences and outcomes for student groups that are the most least well served this requires districts like ours to implement evidence-based practices from um a list of approved Desi supports that we can choose from and it requires districts to allocate financial resources and funding across all funding sources to address disparities and achievement for our historically underserved or marginalized students we reached two databased conclusions as part of the student Opportunity Act data analysis focal areas were selected to best address the disparities in student outcomes in relation to two key areas out of school suspension rate for students with disabilities and multilingual Learners and math and Ela mcast achievement for students with disabilities and multilingual Learners we have two goals over fiscal year 25 26 and 27 the first is to decrease the percentage of students with disabilities and multilingual Learners receiving out of school suspension with sustainable practices driven by the mtss framework um you'll actually hear a little bit about that um tonight once Miss Gillis speaks on behalf of the safe office and shares what we've already started doing to help decrease that number our second goal is to increase the percentage of students with disabilities and multilingual Learners meeting or exceeding on the math and Ela mcast driven by high quality instructional materials um now you'll notice that we site mcast the the the department of Elementary and secondary education requires us to use desim metrics when we're looking at our data over the last five years to identify gaps in learning so we're not as a district just committing to decreasing to increasing the percentage of students with disabilities and multilingual Learners meeting or exceeding on math and Elam cast but we're also committed to them a attaining Proficiency in those subject areas before they graduate so I'm going to do a brief overview of the um data for out of school suspension as well as the um mcast assessment over the last three years so that you can understand where we reach how we reach these conclusions so for students with disabilities our out of school suspension data is as follows so in 2022 we had 8.1% of our students with disabilities receiving outof School suspensions that's 10 or more consecutive days in 2023 we had 8.1% of students with disabilities so that number remains stagnant the aggregate for our district was 5.4% in 2022 in 4 and a half% in 2023 while the percentage of all students being suspended for 10 or more days decreased the percentage of students with disabilities being suspended for 10 or more days remained stagnant there was no change for our multilingual Learners another um group of students that are at least well served across the state and across the country our out of school suspension rate for multilingual Learners in 22 2022 was 0% in 2023 it was 7% a similar Trend um can be seen here for our multilingual Learners the percentage of all students receiving out of school suspensions went from 5.4% in 2022 to 45% in 2023 while the percentage of our all of our students decreased the percentage of multilingual Learners receiving out of school suspensions increased so we're going to be looking at addressing these disparities um in the rate of suspension for students with disabilities and multilingual Learners specifically through um our mtss process as well as the expansion of different services that we offer our students so we're going to be looking at developing a more focused and holistic approach to implementing multi-tiered systems of support to ensure that all students progress academically as well as socially emotionally and behaviorally the sub areas that we're going to Target under this priority are to further develop the district mtss team inclusive of all relevant stakeholders expanding access to our school adjustment counselors for students in crisis expanding the adoption of restorative practices across the district and furthering the tiered supports for Behavior inclusive of of the expansion of restorative practices at this time I'm going to review the mcast data that supports our second priority as part of the student Opportunity Act plan and then I will open it up for any questions that you may have this visual right here is all students meeting or exceeding Ela mcast from 2019 to 2023 as I go through the mcast slides you're going to note that the year 2020 has not applicable in it that was the co year where mcast did not happen so we went in 2019 37% of all of our students were meeting or exceeding on the Elam cast in 20120 there was no score in 2021 it went to 52% in 2022 it went to 53% and in 2023 it went back down to 51% you'll notice that we actually increased the percentage of our students meeting or exceeding on Elam cast in relation to the aggregate now we're going to look at students with disabilities who are meeting or exceeding on Elam cast I've included the aggregate number below as well as the students with disabilities above in this presentation so that you can quickly compare it in 2019 10% of our students with disabilities met or exceeded the Elam cast um I do want to clarify one thing meeting or exceeding is not the only way that you pass mcast our students can pass by partially meeting but at greater Lawrence Tech and at other schools across the state our goal is not for our students to partially meet we want our students to meet and exceed at the same rate as their peers especially our least serve students so in 2019 the percentage of students with disabilities meeting or exceeding on the ELA M cast was 10% in 2020 it was not measured in 2021 it was 25% in 2022 it was 15% and in 2023 it was 177% if you quickly glance between our students with disabilities in all of our students you can see the stark contrast between achievement between those students who are least well served in the aggregate of our student population our multilingual Learners in a similar scenario meeting or exceeding on the Elam cast in 2019 2% of our multilingual Learners met or exceeded the Elam cast which is in extreme contrast from all students meeting or exceeding at a rate of 37% in 2020 that year was not measured in 2021 0% of multilingual Learners met or exceeded on the Elam cast while the aggregate Rose to 52% from 37 2 years prior in 2022 10% of our multi ual Learners met or exceeded an increase however still in stark contrast between all students who met or exceeded at a rate of 53% in 2023 our multilingual Learners meeting or exceeding on the Elam cast dropped to 3% again another really deep contrast between all of our students meeting or exceeding at a rate of 51% at this time I'm going to go through the math mcast data um which was another data point that we utilized to triangulate what our next steps were in terms of addressing the disparities between special populations of students and all students for math mcast all students meeting or exceeding math mcast in 2019 it was 34% in 2021 it went down to 29% it remained stagnant at 29% in 2022 and it's slightly decreased in you'll notice that the percentage of students meeting or exceeding on the math mcast is much lower than on the ELA mcast that is because um a couple of years ago the state increased the bar for meeting or exceeding on the math mcast while leaving the ELA mcast bar the same this year for our students who took mcast in 10th Grade just about two weeks ago they raised that bar to be equivalent to the math bar um so looking at this data we know we need to make a change to address these dispar ities as if they raise the bar on Elam cast it's likely to affect our accountability moving forward for all students the average was 28% across the five years in math mcast meeting or exceeding um that is slightly below the state average um the state average does have students um meeting or exceeding on math mcast at a rate that is lower than the ELA mcast um for many reasons but one of which is that they had changed the uh passing score for students with disabilities meeting or exceeding on the math mcast we had 9% in 2019 we remain stagnant in 2021 we slightly increased to 11% in 2022 and in 2023 we decreased to 5% you can quickly compare how students with disabilities did on the math mcast when compared to the aggregate um we're roughly um 20 percentage points lower across the board for multilingual Learners meeting are exceeding on the math mcast in 2019 our multilingual Learners met or exceeded on the math mcast at a rate of 6% in 2021 it decreased to 0% in 2022 it increased to 3% and in 2023 it decreased to 0% so we kind of went up and down and up and back down again um which is again a trend that's worth addressing through the student Opportunity Act plan because it is not the same Trend amongst all of our students yes our aggregate number stayed steady and then decreased slightly but it did not go from 6% to 0% so we're going to be addressing the disparities in achievement in math and Ela um through the the further expansion and adoption to high quality instructional materials by all students as part of tier one instruction in math and English including targeted tiered supports across Ela and math to increase student achievement we're going to be expanding access to high quality instructional materials in math and Ela to ensure grade level engaging affirming and meaningful instruction for all students we're expanding access to high quality instructional materials and English language development to again ensure grade level engaging affirming and meaningful instruction for all students and we're looking to expand the tiers of intervention in ela and math as well inclusive of in school and out of school opportunities for students to re to receive targeted support based on individual student data over fiscal year 2025 2026 and 2027 we're allocating over $2 million in Financial Resources across all funding categories to work toward eliminating disparities in out of school suspension rates and math and Ela achievement um that concludes my presentation but I'd like to provide you with an opportunity to ask questions if you have any um thank you here uh so you said this plan was approved today by the department of event okay uh what are we doing if you could go back to the so we went from0 to 3 to Z is is there a reason why I mean was there any changes within 20121 to 2023 that could have impacted that uh Co okay um so in 2021 was the year right after Co that was zero in in 2023 our 10th graders would have been our 10th graders who missed eighth grade so they missed a substantial amount of foundational math and Ela skills in eth grade and they were home and you're saying the same from 2022 to 2023 so 2022 to 2023 these are all students that have gaps in their education due to covid so you're looking at 10 plus years to see that decrease okay thank you you're welcome so what program did we have in in effect prior to the this um we've we've we've massaged U mcast we've we've done um several programs where we have targeted the multilingual learner and the disability the disability population we've we've had several programs in place have we looked at the accountability of those programs to see see what worked what didn't work and how when you say um when you say the um high quality instructional materials what are you talking about that I'm sorry because that I would see is like different so desie um has released guidance on high quality instructional materials um they did that several years ago but since then they've recently um put the use adoption and use of high quality instructional materials in District guidance as well as different rubrics for district stakeholders so teachers and administrators um the high quality instructional materials desie is now committing funding for um because they're asking all districts to adopt and um use highquality instructional materials widespread so high quality instructional materials are materials that are vetted by the Department of Education by teachers and it ensures that you're aligned to grade level standard and competency both vertically and horizontally um so high quality instructional materials for greater Lawrence technical school um this is the first year that we have adopted high quality instructional materials in map um we recently applied for and also received a grant from the Department of Education for $144,000 to further our adoption of M um high quality instructional materials across core subject areas prior to this um two years ago we made a change in our schedule so we're in year two of our schedule right now to include tiered supports to ensure that all students can access the general education curriculum regardless of whether or not they're a multilingual learner or a student with disability so the 10th graders that would have taken mcast in 2023 would not have had they would not have had Wind Block um they would not have had some of the targeted interventions and supports that we've started to provide during the school day um so with that said we are in year two of the changes that we've started to make in terms of the schedule to allow for our students um to receive targeted support so it does make sense that this data has not increased yet um desie is also recommending and really requiring districts to adopt the high quality instructional materials because it removes the question of whether or not the materials that are being put in front of students are aligned to grade level are bias free it allows students to see themselves within the curriculum and it also gives students the opportunity to engage with materials with the embedded supports um so it takes the guess work out of developing and designing curriculum while we know that we have many many teachers who are fantastic curriculum developers and they could do it in their sleep the Department of Education says but that's not high quality instructional materials not meaning that what our teachers don't produce is high quality but as defined by desie it's almost impossible for one human being to vertically and horizontally align a curriculum and this is done throughout the school day yes so we're talking about our core content materials so the Core Curriculum that you would use in math and Ela we're talking about the core materials that you would use in English language development and you would build on those materials for your tier 2 interventions and supports using those core materials to help students progress both academically behaviorally and social emotionally so this happens during the day um we do have after school mcast tutoring still um and next year uh I'm going to be looking at acceleration acmy for targeted groups of students to help increase their achievement yes yeah I want to um would you when at what point of the school year does a student do we realize those students that were having an issue whether in ESL or or you know uh get evaluated so they' be able to work on because again from my own experience with my child you know unfortunately wasn't wasn't noticed wasn't approached on a on aali manner by the time that they wanted to address it was almost coming to the end of school year where obviously there was a problem from the from day one what are we doing to evaluate the student and what point of the year are we able to evaluate the students is it in the first semester so that by the second semester the student is already getting the help they need to by the time by the end of the year the student will be expected to be where most most of the student will be um a level would me so last year um was our first year implementing our star Universal screener so all freshman students before they even walk in the building receive a universal screener in math and Ela um the universal screener puts together together amazing data actually um that can provide teachers with instructional reports to help them group students to best serve them on a tiered basis um to allow for tiered instructional practices within the classroom um so that's one thing that we do and that assessment happens before students walk in the door so they take it at accepted students day then they take the assessment again in September they take the assessment in January and then they take it again in April so we have three progress monitoring um dates that we use to measure students progress and how they're achieving related to math and Ela that assessment also directly aligns to the math and Elam mcast um and the data that we triangulated within um that Universal screener actually aligned really really well with this data even though it's not data that we'd like to see um it does align so we provide our students with that Universal screener and then teachers are able to respond to that individual data in real time in their classes another thing that we've embedded that we started last year is our intervention block um you may remember it I've been here before to talk about it but our intervention block allows for students to receive tier 2 and tier three interventions during the school day removing that barrier for possibly Transportation or things like that so our students who are multilingual Learners that's when they go with their multilingual um learner teacher to work on the four domains of speak um of language reading writing speaking and listening um they are not with that teacher for all four win days so they have the opportunity to put themselves in their math wi block likewise their math instructor can lock them into their math wi block for targeted intervention and support during the school day so if I'm a student and I take a math exam on a Tuesday and I know that I didn't do well and I say oh I need to go see Mr so and so for support I can book myself in that teacher's class right after I take the test and I can go see them the next day in the same regard the teacher can also do that so if a teacher is looking at their assessment data and saying oh my students have gaps related to this grade level standard they can pull all 18 students that have that Gap and provide ring and further support um same thing for any subject area so we they can do that in ela they can do that in Math Science History ELD um their special educator special Educators as well provide targeted instruction um specially designed instruction directly line to students goals in their IEP um myself and the director of special education last year had designed a support for those students to have as well called an individualized instructional plan where their um their special education liaison would actually work with them to develop a plan based on their goals to ensure that their meeting are exceeding their benchmarks that they're supposed to be um so those are a couple of different ways that we've worked to reduce this disparity um but famous saying um from an educational leader that we work with very closely here is that you can't intervention your way out of a tier one problem um so we could not build in enough interventions to support this problem which is why Des is saying you need high quality instructional materials you have to use vetted and fully aligned materials and that can feel really difficult for teachers right because and I want to recognize and acknowledge that because for anyone that's been teaching for 20 plus years they may not have ever used high quality instructional materials because this is new research this is new guidance from the state um it doesn't mean that what they were creating was bad it just means that when we have barriers the barriers in our design adopting high quality instructional materials removes the barrier of the design because the design is done for you so then I can focus on my pedagogy and how I deliver my instruction to all of the students in my room excellent and my last question um I know that you had mentioned that was the uh the plan was already approved when does the in-house suspension become active um next year school so um Miss Gillis is here from the safe office so I'm not I can't answer that question so I will bring it to miss Gillis um like we had talked about last time we do a number of different things with our students including the pass program and things like that so I will defer that to miss Gillis when she comes up to present her data as ex thank you thank you maybe this is this is um maybe this is out of your realm but I don't think so because you're doing a fabulous job here so maybe I can get an answer how does this this is an an intensive approach to deal with the disparities with these two populations you have this intensity versus regular grp rating of curriculum of students in in everyday classes are these students I know that the the grading scale is 40 to 100 is is that with this group as well as well as mainstream students So currently all students um are graded on a 40 to 100 point scale as um dictated by the current grading policy um with that said the grading policy does not have an impact on whether we know that students can meet or exceed grade level standard um we're putting numbers to things that are actually about whether they can attain competency so when we're looking at high quality instructional materials in students accessing grade level curriculum we're looking at are they not meeting are they partially meeting are they meeting or are they exceeding the same way that the mcast assessments measure progress as well so we're looking at it through the language of the standard so I might have 20 different standards that I teach in one year in my 10th grade English class um and I'm looking at all of the students in my room and saying are they not meeting are they partially meeting are they meeting are they exceeding and then I'm revisiting my instruction with database decision- making to ensure that I am giving the students the targeted support that they need within my classroom okay but if you're starting off at a at at 40% then you only need 20% to pass is there a motivational uh indicator there or or is it a student just going to say I'm just going to you know get the basics and leave it at that I mean that to be honest I mean the mcast scores generally aren't aren't great and I know that they have been improving years ago they were improving and I know Co hit but I I my feeling is I don't I I don't think that Co should be a crutch anymore and I think that I don't I don't want to see us do a disservice to the students when they leave here um and I don't want to see an entitled Society so so that everybody helps helps helps and the student can't decipher and use their own resources to gain access to a a problem so I think I understand what you're saying now so whether a students going to be graded on a 40 to 100 point scale or not the teacher and the student are working together to figure out is the student not meeting that standard are they meeting it or are they exceeding it so regardless of the number let's remove the number from the conversation for a second okay y the point of our kids coming to this building every day is for us to know whether or not they can meet or exceed the standard that the state has set to say okay you can go out into the world and you are able to compute at grade level you are able to read write speak listen you are able to read the 1400 Lexile text that's presented to you in automotive technology because you've been provided with different supports so when we're talking about the grade scale in high quality instructional materials the grade scale is not is not really a factor because the curriculum itself Prov provides instructors with assessments that tell them are they not meeting are they partially meeting that standard are they meeting or are they exceeding because really if I'm a student and I get a 47 and I get my essay handed back to me and it has a 47 on it but I don't have any feedback on it that's aligned to the grade level standard that that essay is aligned to let's say it's W3 which is a writing standard in ela if I'm not getting the feedback related to that standard I'm just getting a number then I don't know what I need to do to improve so the goal of this is not whether or not they get the 40 or the 50 or the 60 it's can they meet the demands of a grade level standard and by doing so are they able to excel in their career or are they able to excel um in further education as they move on after our school um so really we're we want to make sure that we're looking at the standard less than the number oh I totally understand that I mean I I totally and I'm in agreement with that I mean you know number is a number I and I'm not sure I mean I I really do think that teachers in this building though I'm kind of removed but teachers in this building really do care and really do take that go that extra mile with their students so I mean I don't think that they're looking at as a number but more what are they learning so in that respect I I totally agree so the other the other piece that high quality instructional material seeks to address is grade level engaging affirming and meaningful instruction when I'm if I I designed my own curriculum as a teacher so I know that if you're designing your own curriculum it's not bias free it may be engaging to me as the instructor but isn't engaging to the kids that are in front of me um we've done a lot of work on Universal Design for Learning here in the last few years ensuring that we're bringing our kids into that conversation so that their choice and their voices is heard and embedded into curriculum practices however engaging affirming meaningful instruction is exhausting right it's a lot of work to fully align to grade level and be bias free and being engaging and be affirming and have meaningful instructional practices so by adop op ing the high quality instructional materials we not only get at that piece where our students can now see themselves more frequently within the curriculum and they have the embedded supports that they need to be successful and they are learning at grade level but it also allows me as the instructor to focus on my practices when I work one-on-one with a student or in a small group with a student um so I would say yes we are addressing that as well through this um but our main goal more than anything is that our students leave this building meeting or exceeding on every standard that they're assessed on did you I got it nice job um um great presentation thank you um actually you answered many of my questions while you were doing your presentation I do have a um I would like you to please um just um give me Clarity on this student with disability out of out of school suspension yes versus um the multi- learner out of school suspension because the this the it shows that 2022 for students with disability this is 8.1 but then for U multi learner is zero mhm so what's the I just wanted to understand the different uh on numbers sure so when we're looking at the data for students with disabilities we're looking at one group of students so as a student I can be a student with a disability or I can be a multilingual learner or I can be dually identified and be both so right now the data that we're looking at is two different groups so students with disabilities and multilingual Learners so our students with disabilities out of school suspension rate was different for multilingual Learners because they're two different groups of students and that 8.1% is 88.1% of our special education population not of our aggregate so when we look at the 8.1% the 8.1% is out of the 200 or so students with disabilities that we have that's why such a contrast this percent coming from MH so um the zero is coming from what so 0% of multilingual Learners were suspended in 2022 how many students do we have that are M uh right now about about 160 we had less than that in 2022 and that data comes directly from desie the Department of Education so this is right this is sourced right from the Department of Elementary and secondary education okay um okay so I do have a followup question on Julia's uh question to you can you go back to that okay this one no one more is the uh the 3% 0% 3% oh the mcast data yes because you your answer was that on 2019 I mean the 2021 0% was because the covid-19 but then we have a 0% in 2023 so what was that about are we looking at math um I'll tell you in a minute for in a second right here 0% and then 3% one more that one this one yeah that one so in 2021 you said it was because of Co so in 2020 they did not test because of I understand but when he asked you the question about 2021 Z 20 2022 3% and then 2023 Z M you said that the zero on 2021 was because of Co so my question is why we why do we have zero on 2023 because there's no Co there right no I understand that um So my answer about covid was not about it being a year that covid was existing and being running rampant I'm talking about the Gap in education that students that were testing in those years had so in 2021 those students missed their eighth grade math mcast year that's a critical year for them to uh receive instruction related to those skills and then they move into their freshman year of high school and they have a year-long gap in 2023 the group of um that group of students Miss sixth grade another foundational year in mathematics so regardless they're Miss they have a gap in their education they may have been attending school remotely but I don't know how many of you have kids and we're able to watch them all day right but our students they come from homes where their parents are working to two or three jobs they may not have had supervision while they were home learning um so that is that is where I would make the correlation because they're missing the foundational skills however those years we have also had not in introduced the high quality instructional materials that are supposed to help bridge those gaps so this is that first year okay thank you um thank you yes yeah just following up on that so we're talking about Bridging the Gap that we have from Co so what are we doing for students that are coming in from 8th grade to uh to now freshman uh what have we done in the past so that we could bridge that Gap because we keep talking about Co and the impact of Co but what are we doing to bridge that Gap from students that are coming from middle school to their first year of high school so we've done a few things so one of the things I already spoke about was the way block that we've introduced to provide intervention and further targeted support the other thing we've done is this year we adopted highquality instructional materials this is year one um of that adoption so our n9th grade and 10th grade math instructors are using highquality instructional materials and have been all year another thing that we have done is we've added an additional math class um for students to take to help bridge that Gap so identified students have been placed in that additional math class to receive um instruction related to the basic foundational skills that they may have be they they may be missing thank you you're welcome I think one I think it's Josh was talking about covid and when you think about the students we're getting today are students that are performing much lower coming to our school much lower than in the past because of covid so we're receiving students from Lawrence and our community sending to us students are way below grade level in their performance so that's a bigger challenge for us to get them to grade level and then start teaching and working with a curriculum that's at grade level so that in itself is a major challenge so um one of the things we've done we've done several things but we also have particularly in the last 3 or 4 weeks starting to look more closely at some of the challeng es we've had and uh what are some of the things we can do to overcome some of those there's several things we're looking at and changes we're making for the upcoming school year that I think will have a big impact one of the things that our kids are really um struggling with is reading and literacy they are coming to us way below reading and literacy and when you think about reading and literacy across all content area everything from Ela history math Lo literacy scores tend to impact math as well because a lot of your math content requires the ability to read and think and communicate so um those are challenges that are coming to us the other so some of the things just in talking a little bit about some of the things we're doing n number one and important critical thing we've done last year and this year is uh We've hired someone to oversee data we have a director of data now who's also you utilizing all kinds of data that support instruction day-to-day instruction for the teachers but also data and looking at uh uh data from uh the assessment such as the star data that we get at the beginning of the school year all our students took the star data to see where they uh where their gaps are in math Ela and uh to take a look and see where are some of the challenges we have uh in the coursework that we have to offer so uh um some of the big things that are going to change next year we are the ninth and 10th grade students are going to have twice as much math as they had this year this year they had math just on the academic week one period a day next year they're going to have math on the academic week and on the shop week so they will get twice as much math next year as they had this year and the same thing with Ela so we'll be doubling them up both in the ninth grade and in the 10th grade they were both grade level students we'll be getting a lot more math the other thing that we've uh looked at we've looked at our uh a high percentage of our classes our inclusion classes where we have co- teing going on so we've done a deep assessment and we've hired a a consultant to work with us and improving the quality of co- teing so we have a major initiative where we will be looking at how do we uh improve the work of co- teers both working together uh and in planning and delivering instruction and understanding the G the needs of each of the students whether uh particularly in our uh El students and our special Edge students we also have gotten a lot more El students over the last few our po El population has grown substantially over the last three years so that's more work for us to identify and figure out where those gaps are and those problems are so that's uh a lot more for us to do we're also changing our uh schedule we're improving our schedule so that students can have better opportunities to ensure that they get the um support programs that they need uh both for Math and Science and also literacy we're hiring another thing we're doing we're hiring a reading specialist uh that will be working with students who are struggling uh with readings right from the 9th through 10th grade in particular and also doing a literacy program ac across all content areas to improve literacy across our content area so that's another decision we've made um some of the other thing if you look at um uh we we doing more time on learning next year we're doing less professional development days we're doing this year we had 14 we're going back to seven so that there's more time on learning for students uh and there's less half days than we've had in the last three years I think that's going to make a difference uh we're ensuring that uh all students have uh in the shop areas have related Theory both on the academic and the shop week so they get twice as much related Theory which in related Theory content in itself has more math more Ela more reading in it so that will help support those weaknesses as well um and we're looking at how do we uh do uh more inclusion of academics into the shop so it can better support their academic skills and knowledge we're identifying uh as we uh redo a lot of our shop curriculum one of the uh areas in which we're improve our curriculum is when uh teachers develop a shop project the project has to also assess the academic skills that are embedded in that shop pro project so it's not if there's math and there's reading and writing within the development of a project we no longer just do the project we also assess the skills of math in order to get that project done so that reinforces the math skills and a lot of this we are just starting this year and next year to embed a lot of these new Chang changes in in uh in order to try to improve uh uh the success of our students within in our program so uh and then of course the uh the grading policy we started the new grading policy this year we already started to uh assess you know is that working what are some of the challenges that we've had this year we are going to be making we're revisiting it and there will be some changes within the new grading policy that we will bring to you because you approv the policy so some of those changes will be coming to you that we believe will help improve the the motivation of students so I think the new policy from what we're learning I think in some of what we're hearing from teachers that some students have lost motivation and I think part of that du to the new uh grading policy which we've learned from so what do we do to change that and how do we motivate our kids at a higher level so we're looking at that as well um that's another thing that we're doing so we're you know we're we're making substantial changes next year we we spent uh I spent almost two hours today looking at next year's schedule with Isabelle uh Brenda our assistant superintendent our data person uh and our uh Vice principles and um we are uh looking at a schedule next year uh that we believe uh will uh uh improve the amount of work that were uh opportunities for kids to be more SU successful in the the scheduling itself has a large impact on on the amount of time the students spend uh in the classroom as well as into the shop I think this schedule that I think will be going to the full has gone to the full administrative team ones where we've made some tweaks today it's going back to the uh administrative team to reassess and look at it a second time to ensure that all administrators have some feedback on the schedule because I value what the vice principls have to say all people that all staff members who have a vested uh uh investment in this in the knowledge of what kids are able to do within the classroom day in and day out uh what they have to say about the schedule and how it impacts learning in the classroom is critically important to me because I want to hear from our administrative team to help lead lead uh moving forward I want to make sure that we utilize the mind of all our administrative team and I think that's going to and even that I think you're going to see a a uh improved um opportunities for all all staff members to participate in the thinking and the uh thought processes that go into learning moving forward so these are a lot of the things where we're making changes so we're not you know just ignoring the fact that we're seeing data that we're not happy with but the other important thing to remember too is we're looking at some things we've never looked at before the student Opportunity Act that Josh worked on Josh did this uh student Opportunity Act plan he did a lot of research and work on this substantial amount of work I think he did an outstanding job very impressive in a short amount of time because we had a short window in which to uh get this in not only did we get it in but we had no findings on it which is unusual so the quality of the work that Josh did that went into the Department of Education was very exceptional and will be very useful as we move forward so I think you'll see a lot of improvement and as things get better we will continue to bring you up to speed so when we saw this uh report we weren't thrilled or happy with it but I told Jos it's important for the school committee to understand where we are today so that they can see the progress as we move forward so I think that was important I want you to we want to be very transparent of and as bad as you might think it looks it really isn't as bad as you might think because there's so many changes that haveen happened and we're not that far off from where we've had good performance we've slipped a little bit but I think we can get back to where we were because I don't think just so many different changes have happened over the last three years so I look forward to many successes moving forward um because we do have a great staff that's really working hard else yeah Josh I won't have too many questions but you worked hard tonight um things I'm just not familiar with so a Wind Block is that like a study period during the day where they can go and get caught up on extra so it does it serves a few different purposes so yes some for some students they might be in a room getting caught up on their work um they might be doing homework so that they don't have to bring it home at 10:00 at night when they get out of their job um for other students there are targeted interventions and supports that they receive so some students have a say in what they do with all four days in their Wim block other students do not some of our students receive their grid c special education services as part of it other students receive their targeted multilingual um sorry their English language development as part of it as well so the answer is yes but no um it it actually does many many different things we also have behavioral and social emotional supports built into windlock as well um so we're not just looking at academics as well because we have to teach the whole child the whole child has to be taught in order for them to learn and develop so if we have students which we do have students who have um substance misuse issues we have a wind block for that um we have a couple of our our social workers partner with other staff members that run a block like that so that's one example um of one thing we do that's not academic but targets behavior and social emotional um but every academic teacher in this building has a Wind Block every single day okay um high quality instructional material is is that a program when you say that I think of like a book that's is it a program that they consistently have to follow so it's fully developed instructional materials um no one could ever take one prepackaged high quality instructional material for grade nine let's say I'm just using a grade and open it up and say all right I'm ready to teach right it is inclusive of fully aligned assessment measures with lessons that are backward designed to ensure that we start with the end in mind and we can get students to that end point however we are also a vocational technical school so we have to remember our kids have half the time on learning in math and Ela they have half of it so instead of 180 days they have 90 so then we have to figure out what do I need to prioritize as part of this 180-day package that's going to give me the most Bang from my buck for the kids that are in front of me and that's where the data comes in that's where they look at the data we look at the mcast item analysis we look at the universal screener and figure out where are my kids what are the skills they have the biggest gaps in and what do I need to prioritize first as part of this curriculum um so the answer is yes it is inclusive of all of the things you would need to deliver your lessons and your assessment measures but in a school like ours we can't just take it and say okay I'm ready for the next 180 days it doesn't work that way um and you would actually be doing a disservice to kids if you did that too because these are not modified so teachers still have to develop the modifications for their students as outlined in their IEPs they still have to provide the supports to multilingual Learners some of the curriculums that we've looked at for ELA do have those supports embedded but every single student in front of our teachers is different so we could never say yeah this is just a program that we're going to throw the kids on and be done with it right we know nothing can replace the interactions that our kids have when they learn from a teacher um that really cares so yes it's a program but no it's not okay I guess I guess the last thing we know that you know Co really really killed education and all but mcast came out to to define the line of how well students are doing from what fourth grade eighth grade and sophomore and what we noticed is you know this is more from being uh in a career area on an Advisory board that we would notice that the teachers here have to make up for the sins from kids that are coming in with a sixth seventh and eighth grade reading or math level and it's like here is where it stops you know if they don't do well and the others they keep moving them on but you guys are the ones that have to like get them over with the hurdle and that's a big job for you guys it really is so I appreciate you recognizing that um I think it's really important to recognize that we don't get the kids from Lawrence methu and Andover North Andover and wave a wand and say oh suddenly these students are going to struggle with reading or these students are going to struggle with math however it is our job to make sure that we put the supports in place so that they can meet or exceed at grade level um and that's what we're trying to do right now um so we're taking a look as John said at all of the different things that we do at the school and we want to make sure that we're making the most um high level database decisions that we can to impact all of our kids and that's really what it's all about is supporting all students in meeting or exceeding that standard um so we do have changes coming they weren't my changes to share um so thank you John for sharing them and you know I think that I am confident that we are able to move this needle forward in the right direction over the next 5 years change won't happen in a year it won't even happen in two years but it does take about 5 years of consistent practice in order to see that change um I'm a graduate of the school I feel very deeply connected and strongly support the need that we need to increase um how we support our kids we do because it is our job to make sure that they leave this school with the skills they need to be successful in their trade or in college um and with I think we have the right team in place right now that we'll be able to get this work done it's just a matter of time and funding okay thank you last note so in spite of everything you've heard tonight the one really super positive thing that I want you to take away is that we have more kids on Co-op this year than in the history of the school between 250 and 275 students are out working right now and we've had very very few students come back they're finding a lot of success out there and so that data Point has been exceptional this year which is a real positive point I think so at least the kids really are learning academically not at the level that we all want them to get to but they have grown and have gotten a lot better due to the great instruction they've had but we still have a lot of work to do based on the data but what they've learned has helped them be successful out in the workforce so I think that's important thing to note anyone else I'm sorry go ahead I'll be quick um these are commendations I just want to commend Josh he did a fabulous job and and to stay up there this long and to to continue even looking at me I don't know if he was afraid or what but he is he's terrific so accomodations to him and to Mr Lavoy for answering my questions that I didn't really want to come right out and say so he did and and I am interested in the data um because that's the only way really that you know we can all say all we want but as you know the you know you have to see it right so I am I am happy with both thank you I definitely would have been afraid as a 14-year-old in your office but that was my brother so twis thank you very much I appreciate your time um always available for questions you can always email me give me a call at 104 so thank you Mr L uh I want to thank you for all your time this was a lot of work I know the superintendent worked with you on this as a committee we' like to thank you for all your hard work and everybody else who is connected to it on a personal note uh Joshua I've seor grow as a teacher a student first a teacher now a young administrator from The Vocational end of the house and you're probably expecting this we expect a lot more from you thank you for coming to us thank you all right next is an easy one too superintendent and Miss Gillis I want to introduce Christa Gillis she's our assistant principal I want to say discipline because it's old school but it's safe now um I think her and Mr Lavoy going to help clear out some of the questions we have as far as uh discipline you want to say hi good evening everybody um thank you for inviting me and I have to say I'm not as great as Josh so I don't know if anyone is so um it's it's wonderful to work beside Josh now um every day he's been a great addition to our team so um what Miss Faris said about Josh is is very true so um and Mr ha him um so my name is Christa Gillis I am the principal of the safe office um this year we have um and I know you got your big presentation in front of you um so uh this year we have changed our name we were the discipline office um and as a school we came together um to try to do a change discipline office was somewhat negative um you have to go to the discipline office for this and really discipline is a very small part of what our office does um if you are ever in our office off during the day as Miss Ferris knows we have everybody coming in for everything right we have teachers coming in we have admin coming in we have parents coming in students coming in for uh like a variety of different things um discipline definitely is one of them but is is very small part of what we do every day um so we have changed the name to Safe which stands for student and family engagement um and we are hoping that that name um gives a little bit more welcoming to students and families when they walk through the door that they're not headed to the the discipline office so um thank you for inviting me to go over some data points for a discipline I know there are some questions that Josh had told me about um in school suspension out school suspension and what we are doing to help decrease those um rates um so in the safe office we are taking really an holistic approach to discipline while holding students accountable for their actions um and helping with behavior modific ations um based on reflection mediation relationship building restorative practices um and we are doing alternatives to school suspension with research-based um Alternatives so in our office we um as myself is assistant principal we have an administrative Dean um and in this year we have a Freshman Academy team leader who is in charge of all of freshman so they do uh discipline for the whole freshman class which has been a huge um asset to our uh Department uh we also have three parently aison and one Administrative Assistant they're the ones who create those relationships with our families and our students um they help us with translation they help us with home visits they help us with getting parents in they help us with Community Resources to help our um our parents and our students because not only are we here for our students but we're also here for our family Ames and our families rely on us as a school to help them in their students education um also part of our office is we have six security staff throughout the building um one sits at the front desk which is new this year and then we have five throughout the building that help create relationships with our students so that they feel safe if you walk around and ask students if they feel safe in our building they do and it's a big part of it is because of our security staff um and also knew this year we have an adjustment counselor who is new in our offices here it's been another great asset to our uh department where she has been able to work with students who have been identified as having behavior problems in class um as well as Crisis Intervention um triage for kids when they're having a bad day um or when kids are coming off of a suspension she's able to meet with them um and create a plan for them to be successful um so just a little uh overview of the laws in disciplines so there are many laws in discipline um Mass general laws um and what really falls under the discipline is we have 37h 37h and a half and 37h and 3/4 um so there's really three parts of 37h mgl um the 37h is we are allowed to um permanently expel um students if we choose that are in possession of a dangerous weapon a controlled substance or assault on a staff member okay um in addition to that they added 37h and a half which includes um if a student has a felony charge against them we as a school can decide if there are a safety risk to the school Community um we are allowed to keep them out until they've been fully charged or until that charge has been dropped okay um those two if those fall under um if a student is in possession of a dangerous weapon a controlled substance assault on a staff member or a felony charge they are uh go before the principal uh for a an expulsion hearing at that time the principle listens to um their testimony talk to the teachers and then the principal decides if they are a threat to our school Community um if they are they will keep them out for an extended period of time if not we will bring them back back into school um usually have them on a contract get them the services that they need to be successful okay um 37h and 34s is any violation within the student handbook so it is up to us as a school um what we want to do with those students whether it's a suspension a detention a mediation um that that is the discretion of the school um last year November of 2022 the governor um in state came out with the act addressing behaviors to care for mental health which covers uh 37h and3 quarter violations they said before you suspend you must try a bunch of different things before you finally suspend okay and those would include mediation conflict resolution restorative justice practices and alternatives to suspension so we were given that in October of um sorry November of last year um and so as a school and a department we've worked to come up with those things schoolwide um working together with the guidance Department with our teachers as well as directly in our office so over the last 10 years here are is our suspension data which you see in front of you or up on the screen here um we have as you can see our suspension data has gone down um you will also see that there is no in school suspension so we have um gotten rid of in school suspension um and the reason being is that um when they are receiving in school suspension they are still considered it's still considered a suspension uh we have done a partnership with the NorthShore YMCA for the last four years which is called the Pass Program positive alternatives to school suspension so it is an alternative to having kids outside of school um outside of school suspension or in school suspension ention and what they do is they come um it is a it's working through a grant um and we are we got it in the ground level so we are one of 10 schools that is in it um there are people banging down the doors to try to get into it um but we got in on the ground level and it it the cost is $10,000 for us for the year and what it covers is every time a student is suspended um or they've been caught with a marijuana or a a variety of different things we sign them up for the past program and what they do is transportation comes to the school it picks up the student it brings them to the program at the program they get counseling they get tutoring they get group work they get therapy um and they get resources so they are there for 3 to four days and those days actually count as a day of school because they getting tutored by licensed teachers it is counting as a day of school so it is not impacting our suspension there removed from the school because part of whatever it is that they may have done um removing them from a school from the school environment it is a good thing at sometimes right um so while they're there though they're not home um they're they're getting the instruction that they need um thankfully with Chromebooks they have their their Chromebooks right they have Google Classroom so when they're there they can sit down with their tutor and get work done um and then they're also getting the counseling and the help that they need they are also meeting with uh individual counselors that then reach out to the parents to get them the community resources that they may need um in order to be successful um the next slide is our discipline incidents which result in suspension this is just for this year and this is very similar to most years but the N our number one suspension rate is because of drugs either possession of drugs or use of drugs while in school um so this P this as of um octo sorry April 5th we've had 36 suspensions um due to drugs one assault on a staff member eight for fighting five for threat either verbal threat uh physical threat um two for weapons and one for a felony charge um three years ago I believe three years ago um we installed Vape detectors in our bathrooms okay um if you don't know vaping and vaping of marijuana is becoming an epidemic within our own with our in our communities all the kids are doing it they think it's legal they buy on the streets they it's much easier to get than alcohol or anything else um and they are bringing it to school and they are smoking while in school um so The Vape detectors will identify if a student is vaping in the bathroom so it's like a smoke detector okay um when students are vaping in the bathroom the detector goes off we security staff in uh this safe office gets a um text on our phone and we're able to go to the cameras to figure out who is in the bathroom at that time um so it is very high a lot of schools don't have Vape detectors if we didn't have Vape detectors this um probably our suspension rate would be much less okay um so we are able to get the kids and it's not a a a gcha right because we are a vocational school we really take that um kids that are under the influence at a very different level than maybe a comprehensive High School right we don't want kids going back to the automotive shop and putting your brakes on your car right I I don't want my car going up on the lift when a kid has been smoking in the bathroom THC and then I'm driving home and my brakes don't work right I don't want someone cutting my hair after you know while they're high or not going to have any hair left um so also metal fabrication they're the most dangerous shop in the school we don't want them operating machinery while they're under the influence so again this number seems high it's alarming yes it is but the what we have in place is to try to keep our kids safe so we are catching more kids um than maybe your other typical schools um what we are doing in the safe office to address the the new act that was enacted in October is um we have a mediation program which we've had for several years um it is a peer mediation program they are now trained by the resolution center which is a um Center out of wuber and they come to our Stu our school and they um train our peer mediators okay so we have students that are nominated by their teachers to be peer mediators they come in they do a two-day training over the summer um and they are trained as well as our two advisors are trained how to do mediation um this is a skill that is great for them and for our students it has um it's you'll see in our next slide that it's been a very successful program um our other program that we are using again what I called is the Pass Program um it is through the noro YMCA and it's been a great asset for for our kids um our P mediation program is 99% effective practice meaning that we a lot of teachers or students come and say that they are having issues with another student and before they get into a fight they ask if they can have a mediation so we run mediations um you know in 99% effective right so if a kid's having an issue they come to us we mediate it out and typically it does not end in a fight we also require any student that has gotten to a fight to do a mediation before they return to school so what we used to do is if two students got to a fight we would automatically suspend them send them home um for 5 days now what we have done because of this act is we um assess the situation figure out what's going on um we'll send them home for the day and then we try to get them back the next day if possible to do mediation majority of the time the fights are between two friends right that has gone a little bit too far and they regret it and they they want to make amends okay they want to be in school our kids want to be in school they want to be here they don't want to be home all right they want to stay in the school and they're willing to do whatever it takes to stay in our school um so our peer peer mediation program has been um a great success last year we did 31 mediations as of um April 5th we have done 36 mediations this year okay with hope for it to increase throughout the year um our P our pass data okay is the days that we've sent our students to pass um 2122 we started halfway through the year um we sent 33 kids last year 79 days sorry so it's not necessarily the kids but these are the days that they've spent there so it has saved us 79 days of suspension essentially and this year so far we've had 56 days at pass uh we are doing things outside of our office we're doing things schoolwide to help address the ACT um for barriers to to care for mental health um a lot of things what Josh said um we're embedding seal in all areas of our school school um our teachers are embracing it and embedding it within within their classrooms they're doing restorative practices in their classrooms uh we have our mtss implementation which is tier one two and three supports for all students we have the bar uh model which we use for grades nine and grade 10 where we come together as um group of teachers that have common students and we talk about students we talk about students that are doing well we also talk about students that might not be doing well um so Mr Mercedes when you were asking um before like what is being done right now right instead of waiting till the end of the year for a student to be identified a lot of these kids are getting caught early because teachers are coming together and say I have a you know I have a question about Johnny or Johnny's doing this in my class how's he acting in your class and we're able to catch them at an earlier time and get them the resources or help that they may need or identified for testing for um special ed or 504 or whatever so we were able to do that and it's been um a great success for both grade nine and 10 um we do uh our Health and Wellness Plan in curriculum in in JY uh we have uh social workers within the safe office within the special special ed office and within the guidance that all work together to create um supports for our students uh we have wind block which Josh talked about what I need we have wind enrichments which we call them which is groups that come together and address drug addiction they address um empowering students they do mediation we do LBGTQ groups um we do you know um groups talking about dating and and you know positive relationships um so it is it's been great to be able to do that and it's really helped um our behavior of our students uh we also have a partnership with cartwheel care which is um been great for our students that need um counseling we all know we've heard counseling can take six seven eight months you're on a weit list if you need a counselor for mental health this is a program that's online we're able to make a referral for a student in they're online with that with that um therapist within a week or two um so it's been a great partnership for them and it's getting us our students and families actually um counseling if needed um we also like I said as we added um a new position into our office our Freshman Academy team leader who essentially is our freshman Dean and she works directly with the Freshman the key is that we need to get freshmen when they walk through the door they need to understand the expectations of our school they need to know um you know that we hold them to high expectations but we're also have a supportive environment for them and what we expect from them as a freshman is really going to help them with grades 10 11 and 12 um so I'm here for answer any questions that you might have yes Mr chox first of all I think fact that you have such a great our people as staff supporting the needs of the population is huge yes it's been very great the ratio thing yes kids are going to the YMCA in Beverly wherever they go are they repeat offenders do they realize they've been there for 4 days they like going so they go back again what how does that all play out uh typically we do not have repeat offenders there are a few repeat offenders uh which are are definitely high-risk students that need that need the help but they do enjoy going it is um a very welcoming and place for them but they're not redoing it just so they can go right um you know we we we know those kids um and we might say you know what you're not going this time or um we're going to find something else that's going to be better for you it might not be working uh but they're not doing it just to go yeah anyone else um those um students that have been sent home how is how is the parent following through with supporting the student who has been sent home for drug use or marijuana use in in in in the facility how are we also making them accountable for to follow up with the student because obviously you know there's only so much we can do to hear so what's the communication between the school and the parent so for every suspension we have we have a parent meeting we have a hearing with the with the uh with the parent we give them resources we bring in their um a social worker to the meeting we bring their uh guidance counselor in and we offer them help if they need it um majority of the time the parents are embarrassed upset scared and ask us for help they ask us what are you going to do to help us how can we help you and what can I do to help you um so we try to get as much resources for the parents um and we do hope you know we we can't control once they leave leave our front door right but our hope is that the parents are helping support their students to be the best version of themselves and how many how many days are the the kids being sent home for when they are found found with with drugs in school so typically what happens if a student is caught with drugs we send them home that day um depending on what time it is right and depending on the the the time of the day we try to get them in the Pass Program the next day so they're really only home for one day okay and then they're in the pass program for three to four days and then we try to get a hearing with the principal the next day and then they're back in school uh and how many how many students have been sent home for over five days 10 days this school year over 10 days I don't think we've had many kids over 10 days I'm not sure of the number but there's not many that have that have made the 10 days we try to get them back as quickly as we can but we have to do follow certain protocol and are we looking to um uh in the 20 20 24 25 uh school year we're looking to be able to do back to um in in inhouse suspension or is that going to continue with with the yeah at this time I don't think we're looking to add in school suspension um it is an added uh we would need to staff in the school suspension room um and we don't have that staff right now um I think the the past program is in instead of our in school suspension um and they have much better resources than we do here at the school um to be able to support the student any else yeah you said it's 10,000 for that program yes is that does it Define how many kids we it's if we send one are 100 Kids yep so it's $110,000 um it is they're working with a grant but um it's been very fruitful for our students all right does the student come here and get on a bus and get brought there yep so they they they come here and they get picked up here they're brought to the program and then at the end of the day they actually brought straight home they it's oh straight home yep straight home y so we're able to check in we check them with the student every morning before they leave yep okay so if they happen to be suspended on their their career time they lose out on that because you're saying you know they do their academic stuff there but if it's career time that's a loss for them so they're not able to do the Hands-On but teachers do send them work related work um or whatever it is and then when they come back they're expected to make that up yep all right and if they're on Sports no sports for those no when you are suspended um it's considered the good citizen rule so when you are suspended you are not allowed to participate in any after school activities okay um and is we weapons on here what do you consider a weapon so being a vocational school a weapon really could be considered a tool that leaves the shop so any tool that leaves the the shop lines right like if I am working um in auto body and I'm using a razor blade right and I leave shop with that razor blade that now is considered a weapon um so typically because we are a vocational school students are have access to weapons all day long right um so we really try to instill on them and their teachers that they have to make sure that all those stay in the shop do some of them leave yes um have we found students with knives on them not that they're using them but do we find them on there yes um a lot of our students are afraid when they walk home um so we are finding those at times but we've never taken a weapon away from somebody while they were using it okay if that if that makes sense yeah it does it's more of like on their person yep okay could they check in and check out a weapon if you're saying some are scared to walk home yep so we do we do tell students if you know a lot of times a lot of our kids work after school right and they have box cutters and their pants and they wear the same pants they come to school and they're like oh no I forgot I have you know a knife on my box cutter at me we do tell them to come right to the office and turn it in we'll keep it for them all right and what about if they have a small group of tools that they need to bring and they take the bus are they allowed so we do tell them they shouldn't be taking the bus with tools that they should be getting dropped off okay um and then they go directly down to their shop so we'll bring them right down to their shop to bring their tools okay yep thank you m can I just ask wait till you uh recognize by the chair before you ask you a question please M thank you for your patience sure thank you um Miss skill thank you for coming um actually great timing because I happen to have a a few um pents that have called me because concerns uh about safety um and it's very related to what you said and actually you you said something that um even make me more understand of what these um concerns are you said that the students wants to be here but the students that wants to be here are the students that are creating the the situations the the ones that are fighting the ones that are um using the vapors so what about the students that are not they want to be here but they want to be safe another thing you mentioned and I I get to the questions um you mentioned also um these students are going um to a mediation program for one day and then they're back um is that what um that's where my so you know again the students that are here that don't know about this program they don't know what's going on they see the students going uh having fights leaving and then here again next day so we are talking about um inhouse suspension not inhouse but in school suspension versus um um home versus a place that you we're sending it because we're getting a grant um so again these are concerns very legitimate and we not addressing them as I mean I didn't hear you addressing them at all you're addressing only the people the the students that are having this situations and they need the help right so what are we doing um for the students that are here like I need to get back to some pattern that have called me and say say you know I want to make sure that the school is safe for my kids on top of that the kids are also concerned because they what I just explained they see the students that are in a fight right they went home because they don't know they went to a mediation and they're back the next day so we need to you know we need to do something about that so I want to know what are we doing besides sending a student that's causing problem to a place for mediation and they're back here next day okay um so if I am hearing you correctly so the concern is that students are seeing right the optic right is there's two people that get in fights they're being sent home they come back they have a mediation on their back in class right that the students the students that are here the students that are here that are seeing this the ones that are not causing problems correct they don't know anything about that Med ation that we sending the student or anything like that the pents don't know that the pents of the students that created the problem it seems that they are getting back you you said the pents are they want us to help because they don't even know what to do yes but what about the rest communication with the other panties schoolwide Y what we doing with that yep we can't share discipline with uh other not I understand that okay we still need to um make sure that all students are safe that they feel safe and again what I'm pointing out is there are students that are here that they don't feel safe okay so you what I'm getting to okay um I have not heard from the students that students do not feel safe um other other students that has not been brought to me um we do ask students we have um School climate survey that we we ask um any concerns that we have we we try to give as much information as we can there is so much information that we could share as you know um and we really are the you know the state has told us that we can't even in school suspension is considered a suspension um in that we can't do that unless we do this this and this first okay you still didn't answer my question I mean we should be able to do something so the the the school Community knows that everything is safe that we are again I mean I understand about the no this no um there information that are not we're not supposed to be providing that's fine there's always a general email a message saying you know something happened in the school it happens sometimes there incidents that looked are small but they are big um and they be they can become big so if the community the school Comm parents students um staff if they know that you know something happened and we took care of it you know so that people feel feel okay I'm in the same school that that goes a long way okay we're not doing that you you didn't say we're doing that okay so I'm sorry I was I was guess I was misunderstanding what you were saying so what you would like is for us when there's an incident in school is that you would like us to let the community know in what we have done yeah I mean no not what's going on in the discipline set but something happens be aware you were taking care of it everything is it's fine you know what I mean yep General we need to do that that's one um and you know I know you have you throughout everything that you said we have measure not that like and a mediation in one day because and this is my this is the way I'm taking it we have a mediation program and we send in these kids that are causing problems because bathing is a problem and you know having a a um how you call it you say that in the bathroom the detectiv where you know yeah it's advising some people but when you go there you don't even know who the kids are because you don't get there on time so it's not doing much we are we we're so when we have a reasonable suspicion of a student we we allowed to search them um so we are doing that and that's when how we are the kids are coming next next day they want to be here I'm having a problem with that the kids that want to be here but they are causing problems and they are violating the rules yeah they're teenagers you know what I mean um I know but it doesn't matter we are an extension of they here for not just for education but we they here to learn even to leave to leave life because unfortunately this is what they learned um including Behavior so if our behavior is that okay we'll send you to a program and next day everything is fine then I mean I I wouldn't want my kid to be here so for if they're caught with um doing drugs it's not just a one day okay it is there out for but you don't have I'm sorry I'm G to cut you off again there's no data that says how many days Mr Merced ask you and you couldn't you didn't tell us how many days um a person is a student is out for certain uh Behavior oh okay so I thought he asked how many 10 plus we've had out so we did but yeah okay so we haven't had many 10 plus out but the average if a student is caught uh smoking marijuana the average day they are out is is between 5 to 6 days between their cuz they have a day of suspension they have 3 to four days at pass and then they have their day of hearing and then it's decided if they come back they are counting us if they are in school right no the days that they're are pass are counted as in school the days that they are not in pass are counted as days out say that again sure so the days that they attend pass it counts as a day of school but the days that they are not at pass it counts as a as a day of suspension is that answer no that's good okay thank you I would like you to come back with some data to show us you know numbers of you know the students uh suspended for and how many days they they more data because I don't think we have enough so you want more specific data of how many days they are out okay so most what I'll tell you is they're usually out two days of suspension and then it's 3 to four days of pass that's going to be across the board there are some outliers uh for sure um but the majority of the students are up for two days the majority of the student okay um okay thank thank you no but I will got plent time I'll bring more questions later thank you excuse me one second I think Mr want to add to that question this is an answering session between boy and Christ would you want to say to this sure so what I want to say is that in terms of do students feel do students feel safe here at glts I think a lot of things that are considered in this particular question I think how we try to ensure that students feel safe when they come to school is first of all we have six security staff we have apparently aison administrative an adjustment counselor Freshman Academy team team leaders but it's not the fact that we have six security people out there but we have people not only those me those security people are not out there just walking around they're building relationships with the kids and when you build relationships with kids you hear a lot and kids tell you stuff that helps to keep the environment safer the more there so they're really good with kids they're not there to get on the kid and or if they kid see a student doing something that they shouldn't be doing first question isn't trying to punish them it's like why are you doing this can I help you it's always in a positive manner so we can build those relationships so I think that's very important and the whole safe office Concept in uh what we're trying to do and we call it the safe office so PE kids know that that's where I go if I don't feel safe and we want kids to go there if they don't feel safe or something they heard something and didn't so what's important but also when you think about building relationship is building relationships with teachers building relationships in the shop so the key place as some of you have been in shops right teachers build uh students build unbelievable relationships with shop teachers it's like sometimes it's like their father or their mother that they're building because they it's the best thing from being away from home and they build these really good relationship so it help helps them make them feel safer it makes them know they can go to somebody when they don't feel safe or they see something that's going within the school I think that's a real big difference with glts than it is in a lot of schools and when you think about our culture and the way we work kids and how we really show kids that they matter to us and so that's that's an important thing to think about consider the other thing that's so important that also makes us such a safe place I think for kids is we have an amazing guidance Department we have guidance counselors that are well trained and understanding and working with kids that they can adult to but then we also have uh four to six I think we have four uh adjustment counselors and social workers in guidance that are there for all kids who are struggling emotionally and mentally which is so important because when kids who are struggling emotionally and mentally have somewhere and somebody to talk to that they care about and it matters the people we work with we stop a possible problem from happening if a student's frustrated with another student or struggling having that person that guidance counselor there makes a huge difference in terms of keeping the building and the and the facility safe and kids feeling safe so I'm not saying that every student feels safe because something can happen in a school and I don't feel safe today based on something I've experienced or something that I saw but genuinely speaking I think that What Makes Us unique is that there's it's a really caring environment it's a community of people who care about what they do every day and they really do try to connect with kids I walk through the building every day and I'm always amazed at how well behaved the kids are and how they how adults treat the kids and how kids treat the adults so it makes me feel like wow I'm just seems like pretty safe place for the most part not to say that there it's perfect but in terms of an environment we live in a culture with so many and we live in a community where you know there's some challenges that kids deal with when they go home but they come to school and they find this to be a pretty safe place compared to home that's you know that's kind of the the the input that I want to say in terms of who we are and and we have all these services that we provide to kids and you know when you talk about the mediation program that is such a plus because it's kids talking to kids it's not on your phone it's face to face and that's a big challenge phones are a big Challenge and cause a lot of problems in a school we've s we've tried to make that safer by not allow trying to limit the amount of time students are on the phone and that's another factor that keeps our school a little safer the more we can take phones out of the hands of students I think the safer building we're going to have to be honest with you because that's where you a lot of it starts with the phone so anyways those are just a few things that I want to point out and I that are making us a good so I just want to add to that um to Mr Lavoy is that we have seen a lot less fights and a lot less um negative interactions with students because of our form policy uh which has been great and I forgot to add that so thank you for reminding me about that um but as well as our students are our number one assets they're the ones who come to us and Report things um we wouldn't know half of what we know if the students didn't let us know so they feel safe enough to come to their allies the security staff to myself to the parently aons to their teachers to say hey something's not right and we need to do it do something about it um and we do we address it um right away um and we you know we do our best to keep our kids safe so that they feel safe because a lot of them go home and they're not safe we want them to come here and wor not worry about what's going on out there um and just worry about what they need to get done for the day and not um always be looking over their shoulder I and thank you Mr way for um making more clarifications um and what I see is that we so we still have a communication issue I mean so if we have all those programs in place and we know that the the school is safe safer for the kids that are here and you just mentioned you know the the relationship you you see them on the hallways that's great I mean I seen them myself too I'm not not here often but I'm sure you see it all every day so that's great but we need to let everybody know again we have those programs we have the mediation we have this but people do not know so when you don't know something you don't know you know how do you know to feel safe you um agree and you agree that we don't um we know not always we send the information right we not always communicate so we need to do that um we have all those things let's put it on a letter and say something happened today parents and as teachers everybody something happened today and we took care of it we had these programs and just we want you to know that everything is fine simple same thing as if something happened and we had to lock down the school y you had to send those Comm communication but this is not different because one little fight today can be become something really bad tomorrow so we want to take every single situation that we have it doesn't matter if it looks small we want to address it to everybody and say hey everybody we are okay this happened today and we don't have to say what it is and we don't have to say exactly in details what we are doing but we can say this happened today and we are taking these measures highlight a bullet yeah it it just give everybody that safety comfort that they need everybody everybody I mean I'm talking the whole Community yeah I think you're absolutely right that we can communicate in some situations better and there are times when a incident happens in the school that everybody knows about and so we could probably communicate that this happened in our school this is how we handled it and this is where we see some this is where our expect ations will be moving forward to try to prevent that from happening again so we put it out to the parents because we know the parents all know about it we put it out to the kids all that so better communication you're talking about I think you're absolutely right I think that's something we can work on it's communication is always a challenge because you're in the moment of something you're not always thinking you know that you're going to who do we have to think about that might be feeling unsafe because of what happened in the school always yeah so I think you're right other things is the data the data like you just mentioned the phones but we don't know how we doing with the phone yeah you know what I mean like to know that um and people knowing that it it's just you say oh we're doing better we're doing better but better just numbers yeah and it it just tell us how we have been progressing and what else we're going to do because you know some things are not working well how are we going to change things quick and fast you know what I mean so I would like to see datas of the things that we're doing the programs that we have the phone how they working when people are not you know add the the um all these things we have some numbers we don't have data yeah so from your suggestion I think we'll put in our newsletter and I I do I do that as a motion because I will do a motion for that so from your from your suggestion I think one of the things we'll look at is in our newsletter a Communications Cor that we can talk about different issues that we think are concerning to parents and concerning to kids as as that communication is it's it's like happening quickly right absolutely so I think uh I hear you and I think we do we could do better in Communications sometime and I know it because sometimes I think oh why didn't I communicate that or you get so busy and you forget some of the important things like communication that's so critical so we will look to do a better job at that and knowing that it's important to the committee that'll be one of the things topics we look at as we move forward in our school how do we communicate what people need to know better I would definitely take that serious yes what he said I want and I I also want to see data uh of all the different programs we have and how we're doing how we progressing on those programs all right um absolutely and I put that as a motion if I need to yes of course I second any further discussion we're not done by any means any discussion on this motion first more discussion on the motion Mr toox yes M Ferris yes M tler yes Mr Jones yes Mr Mahia yes Mr Mercedes yes Mr hay yes next pleas thank you for patience yeah I think um I'll I'll I'll piggy back off of um Miss dla there um I think I mean building relationships is one of the things that in my 36 years here I've prided myself on so I mean that is that's like an age-old winning strategy and and I'm glad to see that it's continuing I mean I it it would be awful if it didn't but so I'm glad to see it is I guess I have to I I know you already have it in place so you don't have to sell me on anything but I guess my only concern is that in-house suspension void that I feel as though sending kids from here to a program paying okay the $110,000 is not so much but you're paying to transport them I'm assuming no that's back and forth all included the 10,000 includes everything yeah okay um I just I I feel as though who knows your kids better somebody outside the building or somebody inside the building and with all the money that is being spent on a million things um I do believe that investing in a kid's welfare health and and behavior is should be right up there and so that's how I feel about that and I think again there's nothing wrong with the word discipline I mean I'm all set with the you know the word watering down with watering is for flowers not for adults and not for education I think that you know it has to be some semblance of structure and I'm not here so I don't know but I don't have data in front of me other than this which I got to be honest I did my homework before I came here and these numbers don't drive with off of the doe or what do you call desie doesn't report they report like the 10 plus I got these off of desie but it doesn't make it I mean it's not a it's not a big thing to me numbers is not a big thing to me I want to see Trends I want to see improvements um and and the Optics of you know the safe room I don't know what that does for me as a student I think showing that they're safe is better than a title but that's that's just me so you know what I mean I'm okay with the nice presentation thank you um and to just to respond to the um knowing our kids better a thousand agree 1,000% right um and we did look into creating like our own pass program right um and it would cost like close to $200,000 really to be able to have all the resources that they have and when they come back um we get like a a report um and we follow up and we have our social workers work directly with them based on what was told to us and we we work back and forth with them sorry go ahead are they in with other students from other areas yes yeah y I don't I don't see I don't know the program and I don't know the data on the program again I'm just going to say who knows your kids better yeah we do yeah okay so um and this in-house suspension worked with a million caveats but it worked with the right person in charge the right resources and they were doing their work in there albe it not not career area stuff but um yes and and I know that mental health component is very important and I agree it that's something that we didn't really focus on back then but it needs to be focused on yep um so yeah I mean that's just my my my view yeah and we can I mean I can work with John and Brenda and we can you know revisit revisit it and see um based on you know people's comments and and going through the data for sure but I think in the community the Optics of things is just as important as the reality of things and um you know what I mean and and I think uh backing it up with sound data is is important and whether it works or it doesn't I mean I think people want to see you know whether what the problem is with it yep okay thank you thank you superintendent wants to answer just uh just said I was going to say that we can uh bring together uh Chris can bring together her team to revisit in-house suspensions and take a look at some possible strategies along those lines we're happy to look at that and revisit that because we haven't looked at in a while so yeah absolutely we'll look at that sure yep no problem with that yeah the other thing I want do want to say is that you know one of the when we take do admissions today U we can't count discipline anymore it used to be one of the factors that we could count for scoring but no longer can we so we don't you know we take in kids uh regardless of what the discipline issue is we're not looking at that anymore when we take in so we're probably I think considering that we still work with those kids pretty well you know so I think we're having some more challenges than we've had in the past because we're not you know it's not it's not a factor in terms of being accepted to the school which I'm not saying it should or shouldn't be it hasn't been a real detriment to us in terms of our I think uh culture in the building I think it's been been still been very good but it has had an impact on some of that so and that's why you know our new position in the in the uh office having someone work directly with fresh has been huge uh because they're able to create those Rel like Amry said um the relationships you know that's the number one thing she taught me when I came and worked with her is about building relationships because if you have strong relationships with the kids they're going to want to trust you and they're not going to want to disappoint you um you know when they when kids screw up and they come in and they're like I'm Sorry Miss Gillis I didn't mean to um it's because they don't want to disappoint you as a person um and that has been you know for the last you know when Amry was here for 30 years that was her her number one thing and it it shows true today too with building the relationships with kids they don't want they don't want to get disappointed and getting them as freshmen which uh Miss Keys has been able to do an unbelievable job this year building the relationships with kids and letting them know what our expectation is to be a Reggie is much different than you might go to another school right our expectations are very high because we know they can reach it um and do we have incidents happen in school absolutely uh we work with 1,00 teenagers um and you know they're going to screw up their job is to make mistakes and our job is to teach them um you know how to learn from those those mistakes um and and they're learning they're definitely learning part of it she still the floor oh no I'm okay and I I I also see you know you added the adjustment Council which we did have at at one point but it was taken away I mean honestly I mean it's it's great that you have you know the resources and I know you work hard to get the grants and stuff so it's it's great that you have that at your disposal I just would like to see more concrete like data that supports the efforts and the money and the time put into it okay yeah we can I wasn't sure to be honest when I got called to what exactly it is that you looking for so I um just put some data together but now now that I know exactly what it is that you want we can pull that very specific data um and get it and share it with you at a later date yeah at a later date uh I was unclear with uh after the 21 to 22 school year uh the in housee suspension was removed yes correct what's the reason behind it uh it was resources um it was we um had an in-house room um we had Co and then after that it was um base in in Personnel really okay and so you said the past program is running under a grant do you know when the grant ends I don't know that's through the YMCA um it looks like it's going to be staying for a while um it we haven't you know so I think it's going to continue for a while yeah okay thank you um obviously for 800 students uh 53 student to be suspend is actually not a lot of people however it's still kids outside the school um I really believe that definitely looking into in how suspension will really as far as because I also have parents who are who have addressed me with that as well and I think this is a pretty good number so I don't think we need again I'm not a teacher never work in school um I don't know what we require to have somebody covered 53 people within a school year um who's being sent home for six or CL most days then again we don't have the data to find out on these 36 people were there they the same three times you know same student were same three times which is really not going to be 36 times so it's you know be really more you know 10 students 12 versus 12 students or 18 students or whatever amount of student like we don't know this data so but but again I as far as um looking into inhouse suspension um I personally if if I had my my my kid here I would want it to be in school myself okay so thank you uh just a point of clarification it's the number that's here is the number of days so now that leads to my NE yeah 56 days of suspension so do we have a number of how many students were suspended CU this is giving us the number of days yeah I can get that for you the ex 36 is not 36 incidents so that was 36 incidents okay incidents yeah y so that's by Incident That's discipline incidents and then that is days uh days out yeah but I can get you the number the ACT actual exact number of students thank you I'm sorry um and and then again going back to I know you had mentioned that and I just want to cuz kind of got a little confused when Miss Ferris asked you about um the when the kids were sent to that particular program they come here then they go to the program then they I think the question was do they count as absence and I I think you said yes when they're not okay just wanted to kind if you can of just re re-elaborate a little bit about that so we can understand better because I kind of got confused when it was said well they count the day they were sent home they counted like they're here but those days after that they were count absent so typical a student gets caught smoking marijuana in school okay say it's 10:00 in the morning right uh we call their parents have them pick them up that is a day of suspension we're sending them home for the day okay so that's day one of suspension then the goal is to get them to go to pass for three to four days depending so we send them for so say this happens on a Monday so we're going to send them to pass Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and then our hope is that on Friday they would have their hearing Friday would count as a day of suspension okay so that's two days Monday would be a day of suspension and Friday would be a day of suspension Tuesday Wednesday Thursday at pass counts as a day of school that doesn't count as a day of suspension because they are getting the services that they need in order for it to be considered a day of school does that make sense okay Mr Jones yeah could uh could they qualify into two columns say they hi and they get into a fight yeah they could they could but I um I think it's first incident so um I don't know if you've had actually any double incidents like that okay but it could happen if they don't want to go to the to the Y if they don't want to go to the Pass Program um we they have the option not to go um we do try I've only had one student say they don't want to go um so we try to get them back to school as as you know as quickly as we can and getting them resources within the school um but I've only had one uh person say they can't go or didn't want to go yep okay thank you y um can we make this as a formal motion to um request the superintendent and the safe to uh to reconsider the the discipline policy on in-house suspensions we already said committee yeah we can definitely Rec consider it but we'll after we do a committee will make a recommendation and let the committee know what the what the outcome of that was okay and you want to make your own motion yeah so so what would the committee be composed of teachers or who's yeah so it could be it would probably be teachers and would be teachers administrators and maybe even some students okay so can you update us the next meeting then on proba be the next meeting we have vacation next week okay well maybe I don't know wait no our next meeting in May May so it's possible we can have it ready for May depends on the uh the time frame in which we can get people together to uh if we're going to have a crosssection of stakeholders then uh it might take us a little more time but we will get some information back yet okay thank you we'll at least let you know where we're up an update in the next uh to committee meeting that the committee has been formed the committee has met and they're looking at this this and this so we can give you at least an update may not be final the uh recommendations but we'll come out they'll come out with some recommendations to the committee you want to make a motion to I'm going to continue with my motion yeah on getting an update yeah meeting uh to receive an update from the superintendent on the um in-house suspension policy progression progression yeah the progress the progress on just an update yeah just an update nothing final I'll second that any other discussion please Mr Mercedes yes Mr toox yes M Faris yes M disler yes Mr Jones yes Mr Mahia yes Mr hayam yes any other questions from Miss Gillis can I just add one you certainly can don't be afraid to throw something at me because I can't see you from there so I just wanted to add from the admissions perspective because I know do have some new committee members who were not part of voting on the um last two admissions policies so about two years ago desie changed the regulations so that we can no longer um include suspension unless it falls under those um those categories that Miss Gillis referenced on her slide so out of about, 1500 um applicants last year we probably um subtracted points for discipline for less than five students so unless it's 37h which is your weapons drugs um assault on a staff member um or a felony charge or if it's a handbook violation 37h and 3/4 it has to be at least 10 days of suspension so before you can take any points off so that is a significant change um so I just wanted to mention that and as the the laws the regulations were changing and we changed our policy I was concerned about the impact so I think that's why we have added the additional staff the adjustment counselor and the freshman team leader because I think that's really um needed when there's such a big change um for discipline because you can have somebody who has you know multiple pages of discipline and that you can't count and can't take um any points off so I think that is an important thing to think about in this conversation further SK thank you very much thank you for having me and I'll behind that the what get a high talk cheer for behind that I know right Josh and I thank you both very much I know you have young families at home for spending so much time answering our questions yes thank you very much and um I'll be back with the the data that you guys are requesting so thank you thank you thanks Christa at this time do I uh need a motion does anybody have a motion to take a break to stretch their legs we have quite a bit more to cover and we've been here for a while does anybody want to take a break motion to Rees us for five minutes thank you can I have a vote please no vote all those favor all those in favor hi those motions clear please stop me if you don't understand you guys missed bedtime [Music] sure so I can uh Sher can you uh leave a note for Su Mrs Ferris doesn't have the school email it's a special and she also needs her name tag [Music] spell e session uh reported a superintendent uh superintendent o District commit to adopt a form of appr authorize the district to issue the bonds for the AL Club purchase qualified bonds General there's a statement in the back would you like me to read it or would you like to read it so uh read it and then you can ask someone to put it in the form of motion okay R launch Regional Vocational School District vote of the school committee to permit the issuance of State qualified bonds voted that the appropriate officials of the district are authorized to file an application with the commonweal of Massachusetts and Municipal Finance oversight board to qualify under chapter 44A of the general laws any and all bonds or notes of the district authorized as of the date of adoption of this vote and in the connection therewith to provide such information and execute such documents as the municipal Finance oversight Board of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts may require so we just need a uh someone to move them the statement as a motion that I'm made uh discussion on the motion please no I just want to discuss it yeah yeah yeah do that after you get yeah thought he was making a motion okay no it was just a discussion um so making motion [Music] yeah you want to discuss oh you want me to tell you about it so okay my question is is uh in order for the district to purchase outside of 57 River Road we needed that bill to pass the legislature correct well there's some debate that we no longer need that bill for this um for the purchase of the El okay so but we still have to the bond okay so the legislative bills is still going through the leg legislature so what is the purpose if we have it moving forward in any any uh purchase of any property or land we may need to okay so it's according to the bond oh that's according to the bond uh attorney that purchases we can move forward on it and get without the legislative bill being passed and then uh but we still need to legislative bill because of the language in our Charter okay so and from when it passed back in 1960 according to the act of 1960 it's going to change that act allowing us to purchase property so this is just for the bond this is not to finalize a purch this just the purpose of the bond okay thank you yep thank question can I get a motion I have a question so I know I wasn't in the meeting this was in a meeting on uh March 8th that you guys discussed this so this is just a formal motion for us on this meeting to say yes we are approving to move forward with the bond Bond yeah to uh but this is for one time thing the issue for the uh for us to move forward and get an issuance of the bond you voted to go ahead and pursue the bond but the bond attorney says we have to have this exact language or legally to go at in order to uh apply to put in an application for the bond this is the exact language that's required according to the bond attorney so you've already said yes to the bond but you haven't said yes in this form of a uh of a the way the vote needs to be asked this is specifically for the El this specifically for the Elks yes yes so this is the language that's needed that this was approved few weeks ago and now but it wasn't approved through this language but the approve was to hire that Bor attorney right that was one of the we did we did do that also so now that Bor attorney is saying this is what you need that's the language we have to use that one of the things so what is the language that we need when we hire him we didn't have to have special language to hire him okay no okay we it feels like we're doing things for L but yeah okay thank you for answering my question can I get a motion on this please motion to approve second discussion Mr Jones yes Mr Mahia yes Mr Mercedes yes Mr toox yes Miss Barris yes M dla yes Mr hayam yes uh report of the superintendent superintendent lvo will update the district committee on Crest uh there is a letter in there so chest is requesting from the it's District committee uh District school it's school districts to approve them uh going uh expanding their uh capital reserve fund by 2 mli $2 million plus um it um we pay when we we utilize CR for one of the collaboratives that's a collaborative we utilize for different services for our students such as if we they need to go in for a 45 day observation so there's certain uh Services they provide us rarely do we use them but we're in that collaborative so we have a vote as to whether we're going to allow them to increase their capital reserve fund so I just need to uh as a member of the of their uh committee their executive board uh I bring it back to our district and our school district has vote yay or nay to allowing them to move forward with capital funds based on their request correct me I'm R Mr superintendent this doesn't come out of our working budget no it doesn't come out of our bud just not come out of our budget we pay based on our use so they charge us a fee anytime we use them they're TR they need they need to increase their they want to increase their Capital allow to expand their Capital assets funds so they can say they can put more money in their cap uh savings eies I'm sorry they need to have approval M well we're one of them and then there's and over town we're one of many there's about 14 different cities and different school districts that belong to it to that collab we're only born of about 14 so I just I had a question because when I read it I I was wondering what that was yeah they comprehensive other schools yeah we yeah they near you guys they are in my in my company yeah absolutely they agree way M feris did you have your hand up make a motion to approve second

e hey everybody come on back come on back come on back all right all right so we will be moving forward uh to our next agenda item which is reviewing the resolution supporting advancement of the nror sustainable energy utility uh this is the second reading of this resolution and it has been uh amended since we looked at it last um and um so we have the opportunity to make amendments uh further amendments perhaps uh or vote on it today um did we want to go over the Amendments that were added um or or the ways that has changed since we looked at it last yes commissioner mki I have a question for clarification uh referring particularly for to the comments made by um environmental commission chair uh Rita Mitchell and that is uh while we have seen a resolution I'm not aware that we have been provided the language that apparently 20 or so an Iber for Public Power members have seen and therefore if unless I'm wrong um I looked uh online during public comments I could not find anything in our agenda I could not find anything on legistar I could not find anything in the public domain uh so my position is I'm not willing to vote on a resolution in favor of a resolution uh that calls for a ballot initiative where the language has already been drafted we haven't had a chance to look at so correct me if I'm wrong no that sounds correct um but perhaps Council Briggs has some more information on that um I don't necessarily have information on um the fact that that was not included on the on the B on the um agenda tonight um it I mean I you're correct that um energy commission has not been provided that language has been drafted um I think it was shared as um as a courtesy with um A2 Public Power um I think you could perhaps be correct in assuming as that this is maybe it would have been useful to have it on the agenda tonight as well um I suspect that that might be able to be something that could be pulled up however I think the desire around and I would certainly defer to council member Rina on this as well is to it's not appropriate in in my opinion for the energy commission to be in to specific language of the ballot um that is this has been carefully crafted by um the attorney's office to achieve very specific goals to make sure that the sustainable energy utility um is um the the city is granted permission by um you know or Not by the uh by the people to set up a a very specific um type of utility sustainable energy utility and so the language of that is not necessarily appropriate for to be Wordsmith by um by commissions it's something that's uh needs to um be developed in a different Manner and I think that was probably one of the considerations from speaking generally and broadly to the goals of setting up the sustainable energy utility rather to than to the the verbiage around a specific the specific ballot language um I am happy what I wanted what I was raising my hands handout and I'm happy to make those comments right now or or um wait on them is to speak a little bit to some of the public comment that we heard and some of the critique there um because I think that that was really important one I'd like to thank everybody for calling in this evening um I think there was a lot of thoughtful comment and I appreciate um um people taking the time to do that I think there has been some confusion around kind of what is what are our goals of bringing um a what are we trying to accomplish from this ballot um and that is as I mentioned already it's it's to set up a sustainable energy utility and so it is crafted around that um if we set up um in the future a m um a full um transition to full municipalization that will need to go to the voters and we will need to be granted that power specifically by the voters to do that and so um the the points that folks brought up around this um some of the language not allowing for municipalization full municipalization that is that's correct um that is um that is um it would not be appropriate for us to go to the voters at this point and ask for those permissions um when that's not what we're intending to set set up that does not mean that this is a poison pill that it sort of hinders us from transition in to an me rather this is um it is step one it allows you know should should the voters um allow for this it would essentially you know create that um proof of concept for us um to be able to to be able to move forward and gain experience in this and it is very much um to accomplish our sustainability goals and so um some of those you know there is overlap at the municipalization but there are differences as well and I think that's important to know what we're voting on tonight which is I guess for the callers in there is no language in front of the energy commission right now um it is rather um support for um going to the voters and asking um us to set up the sustainable energy utility so council member room D may be able to correct or fill in what I missed yeah go ahead thanks yeah I I was going to say similarly I mean I think so the the resolution as I read it is u i mean it's not an endorsement of specific language it's an endorsement of of the concept and and moving forward with that concept which is um uh I I can absolutely understand why why folks are interested in the language itself particularly after all of the calls we received but I think the um the endorsement of of moving forward with the sustainable energy utility I feel like we at this at this group this particular body have had a lot of conversations about what a sustainable energy utility is um and and the the concept of what that means for the city in terms of moving it Forward um I would concur with with council member BRS that um this is language that's highly legal and Technical it's going in the city Charter um and so there we've had not just one but a number of attorneys who have worked on this language who have tweaked it and changed it um it was shared with I think A2 P2 out of the spirit of uh continuing collaboration um I I'll be honest I'm a little surprised by some of the comments tonight about this being a poison pill or hostile to an meu um because I reread you know I've read through the language uh I I reread it after I saw the talking points that were sent out um and I just don't see that there um we've always talked about these as two parallel paths we've talked about uh the sustainable energy utility being something shortterm or or or near term that we can accomplish quickly that we can get set up um that should be 100% renewable um that is the the goal of the sustainable energy utility in my mind I would absolutely not support stripping that out um but but I also want to to mention like the directly from I wanted to read briefly from the conclusions and recommendations of the the technical report we received which said that the city should authorize a phase 2 feasibility study to characterize more precisely the costs and risks for this approach of an meu because launch of an meu is not assured and would likely take many years if it were pursued the city ought concurrently to consider implementation of an seu to heighten Assurance of meeting its 2030 goals if subsequent studies supported launch of an meu when the time came the seu assets and programs could be transferred over if not the seu could continue a pace in short we see development of an SE as consistent with and advantageous to the longer term development of an meu I would say that nothing in this has changed um and so to hear that characterized differently tonight was surprising to me largely because I think the city is moving forward with those exact recommendations we're talking about moving forward with a phase two feasibility study to continue moving this forward uh if at some point in the future the city does vote to uh to establish an meu there is nothing precluding us at that time from making sure that that language allows for the seu to be wrapped up into an meu um but we also would want to make sure that if that language fails that the seu can continue on its own um and so uh you know I I appreciate all of the engagement on this it is an issue that draws a lot of passion from the community um but I would say we're actually in my reading of this and in in my recommendation we're moving directly forward with with the recommendations that were provided to us from the technical report um and so uh anyway I just wanted to kind of provide my my view on some of this as as I've heard this conversation play out um but also um you know I think commissioner uh Mery I think you know it is probably we probably should have the language shared out to the commissioner so that you guys can do it as well um but I do want to acknowledge that this my reading of this resolution is not an endorsement of that specific language but rather the endorsement of the concept of moving forward with establishing an seu um and so thank you for those enlightening comments um I did want to share my take on this as well um I see the passion um around um you know getting out of a relationship with DTE and I um that that makes a lot of sense I fully support that um in my role here as a chair and as a citizen um but there are two elements to uh the language well I know that not we're not uh this is actually not before the commission so maybe I shouldn't comment um but I did want to share my thoughts um so there two there are two elements that I wanted to share um I think to just Echo what council member Rina has said I think the opt-in um portion of the language actually allows for scaling um of a very new scheme that is extremely Innovative and um you know isn't isn't really uh an off-the-shelf product or or even system that that the city could go out and purchase um the idea is that um you know that that was create you know developed in the consultant report is that this would be scaling scheme um with many different options and as we go to market and try to understand what those options are we kind of build it Brick by Brick so that actually fits the E Equity um cost and renewable energy requirements of um the a20 plan um yeah so I'll stop there but I think that that um that constraint is something that's that's super important and I want to say from a technical perspective um that's what the seu does um it's it's an OP system right now um Okay so so hearing commissioner mery's um uh kind of question about how to move forward um can I hear some more thoughts about um do we feel comfortable reviewing the the resolution and perhaps voting on it today or is there um you know a lack of comfort given um the fact that we don't have the the ballot language before us um wanted to get some feedback from from um Commissioners uh yeah commissioner we're back you're on mute I'm worried about okay thanks trying to do this on my phone which is a little different for me uh yeah given what we just heard it seems if the goal here is a com you know to comment and to think and perhaps vote on a concept um the seu is a concept I think we've all talked about um and is a entity that could be accomplished quickly relative to an meu and would uh achieve quite a bit for the city in terms of emission reductions and uh the ability to explore what it's like to get greater penetration relatively quickly of renewable energy into our community um and so in that concept that I mean that all makes sense I think you're right uh as you just said if the opt-in makes perfect sense for an seu um all renewable uh as council member Rina said makes perfect sense for an seu that's we don't want anything besides renewable energy um I don't want battery energy you know from coal it just doesn't make sense um and uh fee based makes sense as well as some of our phone commenters made so if this is uh just uh getting our sense of whether a we would um support an seu development of an seu or not um and B uh accept the fact that we haven't seen any language I mean I can understand uh that that is kind of moot um although um you sure would have been nice to see it um I would support moving forward with an seu for sure Al yeah and I'm gonna look at Erica's little square to see if she starts shaking her head know ferociously but I don't think there's anything privileged about this language I mean it's been shared out with um and so I mean I I'm happy to read it right now it's it's a really short section um but it would uh amend the charter by adding section 15.1 or 15.10 to read as follows creation and operation of a sustainable energy utility section 15.10 the city of an arbor shall establish construct own and operate within its boundaries and opt in publicly owned sustainable energy utility to supply generate transmit distribute and store electricity heat cooling light and power all from renewable sources and provide energy related Services the seu will be fee based so if I could keep talking I I really appreciate what you just did I'm not accusing you of cutting me off or anything like that I'm just uh really appreciate what you just did sounds fine to me but my one question would be and it's I bet anything you know a lot more than we do uh you and council member Briggs uh is this going to be something that is going to run a f is DTE G to try and deep fix it in other words has it been determined that we can indeed Implement an I'm gonna skip to council member Briggs do you have a a response yeah sorry to be jum than you um yeah I think the whole purpose of this we believe the city believes that we have the the power to do this without going to the voters however we want to be 100% certain um should a legal challenge arise um that we have gone to the voters and gotten permission um that is necessary so this is um this is an extra step likely an unnecessary step but um that's why it's you know it's framed as it is um to address some of those potential um legal criticisms that could you know I guess to just to essent you know essentially make sure that we we are granted permission explicitly by the people to do this so that's um that is the purpose of the ballot initiative okay uh commissioner Hans uh thank you so uh I guess to start I just wanted to go on record on my frustration on not receiving the um altered wording of the charter uh proposed altered wording um I understand that uh we are not in a place uh to write or alter legal phrasing um but we are here to advise and recommend to city council um it's quite hard to do so without uh the appropriate wording uh and then to have every caller from uh and our Public Power to already have that I understand that it was given as a c courtesy it does seem unusual to me that the courtesy was not given to the energy commission um I I do agree with commissioner overc's statement that the general um impact on our uh resolution today um does not change but I would very much like to uh voice my support going forward to receive all available information um whether or not we are able to alter that information just that we have it available to us in the future thank you thank you for that Insight by sh har thank you um yeah it's it's just to say that um I'm generally I would say I'm in favor of moving um forward on the resolution as as as currently written um and particularly with the the resolved Clauses as as currently written basically what it says to me is that we are encouraging the city council to put the sustainable energy utility to a vote of the people in November 2024 um recommending that it um that any vote related to that come with educational materials about what the sustainable energy utility and what service it provides for those interested in Rolling um as well as um supporting staff to put together a request for proposals to determine offerings related to Virtual power U purchase agreement and and to support the continued monitoring and Technical and economic feasibility of a virtual power reduction agreement in Michigan and a feasible exploring ways to integrate that tool of City's Energy Future um from that perspective I think that you know nothing about the the language of the charter Amendment um sort of affects how I consider supporting encouraging the city council to move forward with putting the seu to a vote and and I think that there's um a very strong case um that's already been made and and and referenced in a number of ways for doing so um so I'd be in favor of of supporting this uh this is written um currently uh certainly the energy commission could provide feedback to the the language is written um as well um not although fully understanding that that's really G obviously gone through legal um it sounds like as well so um nonetheless I'm it's supportive of moving forward okay commissioner 11 yes uh sorry about the video issues not sure what's going on there but um I I would be okay with going forward with a vote on this I I agree it's unfortunate that we didn't get this ballot um this language ahead of time um I do have to to assume that there's going to be more though that the voters are going to see anyway they're not just going to get that bare language they're going to get some sort of explanation on top of that I would assume maybe uh one of the Commissioners could uh speak to that but I mean every ballot initiative I've ever seen has a long explanation that goes with it um that honestly is probably going to be just as important if not more important um to understand what that's going to and this this whole confusion with um A2 P2 does kind of bring up the concern that I sort of alluded to last time too which is just we need to be really careful with how we do this and not mislead people into what seu is and what it's not as well as the future possibility of an meu and you know I I do think this complicates things if we ultimately do want to go to an muu but I understand the reasoning especially being an attorney as to why uh we want to do this we have a stronger legal case um there DT could still very well come along and say we want to fight this because you can pretty much file a law you know I'm just about anything you know how frivolous it is might determine how long it takes to get rid of it but and I do agree with this will give us you know one less argument that they can make but just to get back to my initial point I I it's unfortunate we didn't get this language but I'm okay with what our what we're voting on it's not specifically about the language anyway it's just about a general proposal so I'm okay with that thanks commissioner L I wanted to follow up and ask you what you meant by um I thought I heard you say um this kind of SE proposed in Amendment to the Charter confuses perhaps the the um the transfer to an meu what did you mean by that or the transfer transition I just seen in the minds of Voters that okay sure was pretty confused about this and we supposedly were in communication with them they didn't fully understand what the ballot um was really going to do they thought it was going to hamstrung a bunch of things when it's really not going to that that's not actually what I originally thought of last meeting I just thought like you know more generally if we give this to the voters now and then later give them um let's say this does pass and then later on we have another ballot initiative um I guess I'm not fully fleshing it out but I just there there could be different ways it could confuse people I guess is what I'm saying we just have to be careful the voters yeah yeah thanks for that point I think um yeah that's super valid um great and and thanks for for clarifying there um council member Rina thanks uh sorry I know I'm talking a lot I do I wanted to touch one more time on kind of the language not being provided and I know I I think that that was likely you know probably an oversight we we should have made sure it was provided I also want to express though that I think this is also um we are in this situation rather as a matter of the timing of language being completed rather than its necessity to this uh resolution um this resolution was introduced to this body before there was language um if the language was not complete for us to share to A2 P2 and they had not called in today this would have been on the agenda for second reading um tonight and and I guess I add that in that like I don't believe there was any malicious intent here in that Prov in the language um I think it was likely an oversight because this resolution was moving forward without respect to what the language was um and it just so happened that the language got completed it's absolutely additional information that we can provide to this body but um I will also note that it hasn't been it's not on a council agenda yet or anything like that um it is just I know that the language has been completed because I've had the opportunity to review it um but it it um yeah it is certainly I think in in defense of whomever was putting together this agenda um I think it was likely simply that this was not attached to to the the specific language to begin with um and so I I understand given the public comments that we had tonight that it would have been helpful to have it um but but just wanted to add that additional context thank you for that commissioner brtz thank you and um everything that's been said so far very much resonates with me so I'll just add some things that I think might be new um uh so the resolution that we are considering voting on today I think actually um it's again it's separate from the charter language but it also um specifically does not have the faults that I think folks had pointed out during the public comic period um it refers to the 100% removable electricity goal it does not I think make that like restriction or mandate um uh to commissioner Levan's Point um it specifically has a resolve clause about uh any vote related to the sustainable energy utility would come with educational materials about it and kind of services that would be provided um so I think it actually helps clarify and mitigate some of the confusion and concerns that have been raised about the charter Amendment uh separately through this resol resolution and so for those reasons I think it is still beneficial to move forward with the resolution at this point understanding the context that is separate from the charter language and that it was essentially an oversight that it wasn't shared with this body or the broad Republic beforehand um yeah that's it thank you thank you commissioner mki you I very much appreciate all of the comments from uh my fellow uh Commissioners and Council Liaisons uh I uh accept the explanations and uh as I stated in our last meeting I'm on the record supporting the formation of an seu I will vote for the resolution um I will repeat my concerns but except the explanation that it was an oversight um this is maybe just something that we need to be um aware of going forward uh I think you know full transparency is really important and there was at least the impression that had during the comments that there was a lack of transparency but obviously that was something that was not intended um I just want to point out that uh there were a few changes to the resolution uh compared to what we had discussed or had presented to us last time um I had suggested some of those and reviewed the language and I just want to point out that in the last resolve Clause it also uh opens the option of looking into virtual power reduction agreements which I think are very important I think we all know that um an electron saved is better than electron that has to be generated even if it has to be generated um through a renewable source because typically those have embodied energies uh energy in them so even if you're doing you're generating more power you still with solar or wind or whatever you still have to make those solar panels or build the wind turbines or whatever the case may be so I think that's an important uh addition and I just want to um speak to one other point I don't expect it to be addressed tonight but I've written some emails I've sent a text it hasn't been yet addressed um there is in the report Pathways to 100% renewable energy um um several references to non-recoverable costs and the statement is made in the report that those are costs that will be incurred to this City that will ultimately be be paid by taxpayers and depending on which of the three options um one is DTE plus one is DTE plus plus plus an seu another is DTE plus plus an seu plus Community solar um those costs will be roughly $10 million between uh today and 2029 they will be another 10 to 15 million in 2030 and because the report only covers up through 2030 um it doesn't State anything about what the costs are going to be after that um but um they were they are likely to be in that range declining over time as we get to um more and more Renewable Power um from whatever the source is so we will not have to be buying um Rex essentially and what I want to register here is that um all of us and all of elected officials as well as the city is fully transparent with um everyone here in the city as to what those costs actually are likely to be they will change over time um with the the new RPS they'll likely be lower but if we miss some of our targets for example we know that we've approved a number of new hotel and housing units that are going to be natural gas connected that are going to be coming on board that may offset um some of those other of benefits that we see I I want us to be very transparent with uh uh taxpayers and residents about what those costs are and how they might be uh recovered so uh thank thank you very much for the opportunity to comment that's my last comment on this top thank you commissioner mki commissioner col Garcia I also want to thank everyone who submitted comments and also to our um council members um for um informing us of the process as well as reading to us um the actual the ballot language I really appreciate that um I think it uh it would be very beneficial to take this situation that has occurred uh during the meeting during that the public input in particular as a um an opportunity to learn from for production of the educational materials it's really basically mine from the comments and the concerns of of all the folks who called in and um utilize that so if if if these folks who are very very informed about this process are asking these questions then then maybe other folks might be having Sim other questions and that's just my very simple comment for tonight okay um I've heard from most folks I don't uh want to call people out but um I want to give a little bit of an opportunity for someone um who hasn't shared a question or comment yet um we're going to move to taking a motion to open the vote in a minute um and of course I'll ask for any more comments then but um just give me a little bit of a moment okay so I hear um yeah General support of moving forward um so do I have a motion to open the vote to approve the resolution as posted s Mo thank you commissioner brick wtz and a second commissioner mki a second thank you so much um is there any further discussion tonight um some really really fruitful topics have been raised we heard from great commenters anybody else with um final comments before we we take a vote all right thank you so all is in favor of appro approving the resolution as posted please raise your hand and say I I I you're changing your Ming I vote for it as well too okay okay and um all is opposed please raise your hand and say no okay and any exensions tonight all right um so there's a unanimous vote um in support of the res resolution and therefore it is approved so we'll be sending that over um to Council in support of um putting the um see you to the vote of people thank you all for participating in that tonight um all right where are we at um let's see I wanted to consider tabling some items um let's see um I would I would like to L POS a motion to table uh the discussion of the building electrification options tonight um is there any SEC any second on that is that a second that yeah okay all right thank you um all right so we're g to um just just vote to um to table that item tonight so all those in favor of of tbling that item tonight I'll please raise your hand and say I I and and anyone oppose to tbling that item tonight I I have a suggestion and that is so that the conversation when we do take it up is hopefully more focused that uh people um provide comments to the city administrator's uh memo um and those are distributed hopefully to the rest they can be maybe sent to to Joe and they can be sent to everyone for everyone's consideration we had some uh I think uh important comments from uh Ken Garber uh I'm sure there's other ideas that Commissioners have and that may um speed the and and make the discussion of the the uh the memo uh quicker in in the next meeting when whenever we consider it yeah I like that thanks all right so we are going to move to uh commission business we have oh yes commissioner BR sorry to hold this up but I did want to also flag Just for future discussion on the um City administrator's incentive proposal memo um there was a section on the second page that got cut off I don't think it's absolutely crucial but I just wanted to flag it in case um anybody wanted to add in the missing information there um it's the second page um the first paragraph under financial support for defined developments the second sentence starts these costs and then has some PR the parent that whole information and then just doesn't finish so I think there's supposed to be another sentence or two there that not crucial but just that out over here I can work on fixing that sorry about that all right commissioner Mery yeah real quickly uh last Monday city council passed four resolutions which um touch um to varying degrees on this topic and I think it might be helpful if those were also provided to the commission so that we consider the city administration's memo uh in relation to the res resolutions that were passed by Council great okay so we're going to move to commission business uh we have two items of business tonight um number one is an update on the empty positions I know that was um something that we discussed last month um let's see are any of the council members willing to give an update on the vacancies um currently or you can pass yeah go ahead uh actually council member Briggs and I had a conversation with the mayor after uh admin our admin committee tonight um and so I believe we are aiming to meet here either this weekend or in the next week to discuss the vacancies okay thanks yeah and um just let it be known that they will have three vacancies in May um including myself so I'll be leaving the Commission in May unfortunately my life is just um taking a bit of a turn and um I don't have the bandwidth um I hope to get a PhD one day and that is right now in Conflict so um yeah like my I'd like my objection to that to be noted thank you I appreciate you all right so that's our update on empty positions um so we um had an agenda item to discuss um chair and vice chair elections um Joe did we have anybody um write in about interest or we were just look asking for a generation of interest um someone to take the chair position and um also someone to run for vice chair um did you hear from anybody yeah I have well that's a weird way of phrasing that no I have not um but uh yeah I was somewhat what we're thinking is just kind of you know as as in last time it took us several what two or three months to actually have an election wanted to just kind of get this started if we're in a different situation where we have folks who are um you know interested in saying like yes I would like to run for chair yes I would like to run for vice chair we can work on that here if not um just wanted to start seating that um so we can have a vote at the upcoming meeting as chair McKenna mentioned um they are stepping down and their term runs through the end of May uh so the next meeting in May is the only is the last one that chair mcin will be here so if we you know do not vote uh by that time we will be chairless essentially in in June there's ways to work around that and such but so just wanted to start getting this out there wanted to again if we have people who are ready we can we can do um discussions and voting this time or we can do discussions and voting next time um I just wanted to start people's thoughts on that yeah thanks council member Briggs I just wanted to want say disappointed but we'll be losing you um thanks for your service um but I wondered um commissioner harp I think you're um serving as um Vice chair right now I wondered about your interest in in transitioning to to chair if you had interest in that um i' certainly supported and um commissioner Smith I think if my memory is serving me correctly that you maybe suggested that you might be um have maybe your arm could be twisted to to serve as Vice chair last time and I was curious um if that if you would have um interest in doing it in which case we feel like we might be well positioned to be able to move forward so I just wanted to to raise those as as possibilities any responses to these call outs yeah I'll I'll just say that I'm I'm I'm um I'm I'm still sort of considering and weighing um what my bandwidth is going to support uh for the next year okay um any more yes Mr col Garcia this can also be a call out um I have a question for commissioner burkowitz who in um previous meeting had um comment if I remember correctly commented that uh you would be interested in possibly considering a role as an officer the energy commission just a question I I would consider it uh I I I I still have many things going on in my life that uhud makes me think uh being as deeply dedicated to this body as I would like to if I were to step into a leadership role but um sorry that's my dog she's very passionate about energy commission issues as well um anyway I would consider it um but I would love for other FKS to step up and so I can continue supporting or behind the scenes and the work and things that Alina yeah I would just Echo that I think all of the names that have been mentioned are would be wonderful um I I think that um it doesn't seem like we're going to probably come to a consensus tonight and so the the other thing that maybe we can do is um you know if if Joe if you're willing to kind of just put out a reminder to folks and let folks express interest behind the scenes which can sometimes maybe be a little bit more uh or less intimidating than uh than doing it here um and just if folks are are interested are willing to learn more about it I'm sure that uh that Claire or Erica or I would all be happy to chat with you as well about what it might entail um and meanwhile don't be surprised if you get a call from Erica i' continuing to twist your arm to step up into the leadership The Show Must Go On yes Joe yeah I'll just say I'll I'll send out an email this week or something just one you all have my contact information everything like that but I'll also include like my calendar and stuff like that so um yeah more than welcome to talk to anyone like I said I know this is a awkward position to just be like hey do you want to do it um so you know no that's kind of a weird Forum so happy to talk to anyone um like I said you'll have my calendar availability and all that you're welcome to schedule meeting talk more about it um happy to go into you know roughly here's what the chair does here's what a time commitment looks like here's you know and if that's um you know if that's concerning or anything like that happy to look at different Alternatives or different ways to kind of um try to figure out something that that that works for folks so just throwing out there definitely happy to talk to anyone anytime offline in any way so and I want to give Joe do respect in props because he is really the the grease of this entire machine um you know just yeah being so responsive and helpful and kind and um just so great to work with so anybody who would be stepping into leadership position and this commission would be very well supported by him so you're not doing it all alone um okay yeah so let's move on um and just know that we're going to have a vote next month and it's final all right all right so next agenda item uh we're going to take report from staff so Joe would you please take the floor maybe if I can find my stuff um no all good um yeah so just just a couple updates um some are you know some that we had questions about before just kind of talked about before um one I did want to note that uh we do now have a public facing performance metric dashboard um it's live on both the a20 website as well as on the city administrator's website uh this dashboard shows metrics on CommunityWide greenhouse gas emissions specific a20 strategies as well as engagement um it primarily shows data and how it relates to the Target set in the a20 plan um do just want to note that because a dashboard is inherently less accessible than other forms of Outreach specifically it comes to certain things like screen readers or other you know ability to access um program updates and qualitative information will still be shared on the OSI website in newsletters and in other forms so everyone is able to continue to access um this information regardless of um just regardless of any um inaccessibility concerns um and the dashboard we continue to be updated we'll be adding more information as we have data and capacity available for it um an update on uh some of the work we've been doing on City facilities in regard to solar um the through contracts we've been working with homeand solar and Parks and Recreation to install solar arrays at various city parks um since uh kicked off in mid 2020 23 over 350 kilowatts of solar rays have been installed at various park locations including Cobblestone Farm Burr Park Leslie Park and here on hills golf courses and burns Senior Center uh solar installation types include roof mounts ground mounts and carport arrays um in addition over 500 kilow of behind the meter solar installations are currently planned uh at other Park sites and City facilities including the water resource recovery facility the municipal airport and Veterans Memorial Park um and in regard to benchmarking just uh for the 2024 benchmarking cycle buildings greater than 20,000 square feet must Benchmark and Report energy and water data to the city covered buildings have received postcard notifications of this upcoming deadline to do so um the city has increased our capacity for benchmarking support uh We've hired an energy coordinator focused on this and uh the contract with the an arbor County 2030 district for additional support um in regard to some of the I know we've talked about some of the data reporting we're currently working to resolve some technical challenges with data reported for previous years um with the this additional capacity we're working to resolve some of these um technical challenges and effort to ensure as it's publicly accessible data making sure that only accurate data is shared publicly and we'll post that data with the report once those um issues are resolved so that is all I have for now fantastic all right so so we will take now a working group update um it's okay if there's I don't know if you you all have met um and I know we were going to kind of highlight you in the um discussion about the administrator's memo so um commissioner burit I sh har do you have any anything to add here I think we can probably just wait until uh the city administrators incentive m Open is back on the agenda for discussion I've got some things to share from the one grou meeting that happened the month or two bu but um less less perent how we table that discussion great thanks yeah we'll do that next month okay um environmental commission commissioner mki and you're muted there thank you the commission received a presentation from um Jen lton and and Jerry Hancock who by the way is retiring and after really uh I think doing a providing a lot of great service to the the city they presented uh proposed uh changes to public uh what is it called public Street storm waterer management guidelines um we were also presented with a resolution in support of those guidelines but somewhat similar today we were not presented with the changes to the guidelines so uh while we received a presentation uh the vote on the resolution um has been post to our next meeting um the other thing we did uh is that uh as she did to us Missy presented the uh summary of the 100% renewable energy options uh report um and um in addition to that uh there was a presentation by Greg Woodring president of a22 um on the background and the rationale for a phase 2 um meu uh analysis um if I can just make one comment on that I wanted to actually make State this earlier um I Heard um I did not attend the uh Town Hall where the seu and uh the meu were presented in discussed um but what I heard afterwards is in a discussion there was some comments this is mostly Decor uh mostly directed at two Council aison um that the million Phase 2 study um most likely would not U be able to assess the value of um the basically permanent uh franchise that DTE has under the foot act and uh I am not an expert in this but I spent my entire life uh working in business and it seems to me that is something that could indeed be valued uh we with the analysis the uh assets of the meu would be um estimated um we know that DTE earns a fixed rate of return I think it's eight and a half% on those assets um DTE knows what the rate stream is roughly and um there's lots of people that do valuations of businesses based on what their revenues are and what their costs are and so on and so forth so um it seems to me that um that should be if if indeed there is a two there should be a robust discussion on the valuation uh to DTE um or their loss if you will to DTE in in what it would mean if they were to lose uh the ability to provide um electricity to the city of an arbor so I just wanted to put that out there um because I know that it's in the uh the mayor's proposed or not the Mayors the city administrators proposed budget and um before an amount um is finalized and the scope of that is finalized that really should be um assessed so um that's all thank you thanks commissioner mki that's very insightful um thanks for sharing that uh Council updates from Council Members yes go ahead yeah thanks um as commissioner mki um noted uh at our last council meeting on April 1st the um Council passed four a series of four resolutions um that were based um largely in terms of moving for the recommendations that were in the economic development report um that was provided to us and they were divided into sort of four different resolutions based on themes one of which was sustainability and so um definitely important for for um the commission to see this a lot of it um well there were some some some items that Council move forward a lot of it is about getting information back to um back to the city council basically requesting information the city council can then um use to make future decisions um from so um that'll also be important for this commission um to be seeing that information and to be getting in for community at large for us to be able to be moving forward um those recommendations a lot of them um a lot of the themes are you know how are based around the concept of you know how do we incentivize since we can't require um electrification and um anything out for our our current building code and you know how can we make the development process easier um for those who are building in a way um much more aligned with with our with our City's sustainability goals so um those resolutions will be shared here later and we can kind of think about them as as a package um of of items that we'd love some feedback on great yeah go ahead um thanks uh so I know we've already talked about a lot of things that we might have updated at at this point um I there is some language that that's been been circulated around U moving forward seu as we all now uh intimately know um it is my hope that that will be coming in the relative F relatively uh soon for for Council to consider I'd like us to move forward with this um I also just wanted to add um I had the opportunity last week uh to meet with the acting Secretary of Hud uh who was visiting an arbor um she specifically was in Ann Arbor to to uh that well there were a number of reasons she was kind of touring around different sites uh in the washingon County area but one of the reasons she specifically came to an arbor was uh to visit our Creekside court community uh and one of the the important pieces of Creekside court is that uh there are solar panels on the roofs at at Creekside and um the a bunch of the sustainability work that is happening uh in partnership with uh our Housing Commission is being possible by Hud um and their continued partnership and so to see the acting secretary here in an arbor to actually see that to be able to hear a presentation from Jennifer Hall and and to understand kind of the importance of that continued partnership not just around housing affordability but also around making sure that those affordable um housing developments here in in Arbor are sustainable and and quality places for people to live I think is really important and heartening to see um and then because this is the energy Commission just also wanted to bring up I know that it's an item that um that several council members reached out to DTE about um with respect to the ongoing infrastructure challenges we have um there was a Transformer outage again um kind of just um west of Packard uh a few weeks ago uh this Transformer goes out almost every month um it it blows up people the same people lose power um and so there are a number the the council members from ward 3 and W four are in conversations with DTE about um why this continues to happen and why would they come out and fix it they're not upgrading it and making sure that they're not back out again in a month um but it's something to be on I think this body's radar and and our radar that um if folks continue to see patterns where the same infrastructure is failing over and over and over again please let council members know we are in communication with DTE about those problems um and we need to continue holding them accountable for for failures with reliability so um I just wanted to let folks know that that is something that's on our radar and we're we're pressuring them on fixing that permanently hey fantastic updates thank you all right we're going to move to our last opportunity for public comment tonight uh folks can call in and speak up for up to three minutes if you're watching on CTN please call 8788 99 or 877 853 5247 and the meeting ID is 956 8718 7876 this information is also displayed on the meeting agenda and the video feed City staff will select callers that have raised their hand and they will call out the last three digits of your phone number to electronically raise your hand to indicate your desire to speak plus star n on your phone and you'll hear a message that the host is allowing you to speak and when speaking please move to a area so that we may hear you clearly and again state your name and address before beginning your comments Joe is there anyone on the line yep uh we got caller ending in 228 hello can you hear me yes we can fantastic my name is Greg wooding i'm the president of Van Arbor for Public Power I wanted to call in again to correct the record on a few things but first I'd like to apologize for not having sent you all the uh language for the resolution prior to uh the meeting we had assumed that you would have already received it uh and so we certainly would have tried to correct that on our end as well if we could have um this language absolutely does create an imped to the creation of a municipal energy utility well we understand that the intent here is to create an seu the language that is in this resolution explicitly forbids without future city Charter amendments the creation of the transition of an seu into a municipal energy utility I would refer the commission and council members to the July 2021 energy commission meeting where lawyer Chris bisoc former mayor of Trevor City and board members of Trevor City Power and Light presented on the legal road map for municipalization the necessary vote to the people for the creation of a municipal energy utility a acquisition of the bonds the rest of it is up in the air about whether there is a legal necessity for it however the creation of the city Charter amendment to establish electric utility is certainly a helpful step as the city has identified however there does not need to be more than one electric utility for the city of an arbor and that is what the seu language is creating there is no reason to mandate that it is opt in Feebas or from 100% renewable energy in this language it simply creates an additional vote an additional ability for DTE to stop this Movement we well I understand that the idea that there may be some concerns about not including some of this language I point out that there is much about the utility that is also not established in this such as how it'll be governed or how rates will be based or how it'll be uh how people will access it that will come later in an ordinance and things like an opin or Feebas or anything like that could be passed by ordinance after this P ballot amendment is voted on by the people of an arbor an AR for Public Power is always supported in seu as a pathway towards full full municipalization this does not create an seu that is a pathway to full mization and I do not believe an aror for Public Power will support this language as it stands thank you thank you um no other callers at this time yeah yep okay so um great we're going to move to our next agenda item which is um items for our next agenda um so I already have our discussion of the um resolution directing the city administrator on uh carot and six incentives for electrification and um increasing emissions reductions um and our our chair Vice chair vote um are there any other topics that folks wanted to float it's commissioner rski uh I'd like to propose two things uh we heard that the OSI has a new uh dashboard related to grh housee gases and energy uh we know that we get an annual report on the greenhouse gas inventory uh typically that's occurred in August I would hope we can accelerate that process and I would hope that we can review the dashboard at the same time because the two sort of go hand inand so I think there's an opportunity to uh combine those two topics um and the other thing that I'd like to continue to point out is we have yet to review the green rental housing program um we know that it was in front of uh the the city attorneys in uh uh sometime in January um it's now April uh there 50% of the units in an arbor are rental units um if the same kind of delays are built into the introduction of this where we like we had with uh the home energy disclosure where uh there was six months after it was passed before it went into effect and another six months before there were in penalties that's another year that we would lose on anything related to upgrades to rental housing stock and we just cannot afford to have another year of delay on this it was scheduled in the a20 plan as going into effect in 2022 so I would urge us to try to get that on the agenda as soon as possible and to get it to council thank you okay noted any other agenda items all right fantastic all right so we'll move to adjournment uh it's currently 8:05 pm and as chair I declare this meeting adjourned thanks everyone for a great discussion and we'll see you next month thanks good night thanks e

and the kids will come back get on the bus at 2:00 a.m. and come back to Lakeside it's an amazing trip and Dr W volunteered to chaperon it's amazing they say how do I sign up to be a chaperon here question um I assume since they're going to Anaheim this is Disneyland or nots Berry Farm Disneyland they're actually going to do Disneyland and not are on two different days and then one day they're they'll on the first day that we're traveling we'll leave here Sunday morning and then arrive at the beach we'll have uh dinner there probably Pizza just to give kids a chance to hang out on on the beach and then go to the hotel room and then the next day they'll get up and I believe next day is nutberry and then this the third day will be Anheim the California Adventure okay how many graduates are do we have this year uh 156 somewhere around there so approximately a third are going on the trip and we opened it up at the beginning of the year to you know it took us a while to fill those spots too um I guess the concern that comes to mind is that because you're going to Anaheim and going to Disneyland which I believe the entrance is like $135 a person something like that I'm concerned that it it's expensive and if we're going to not Berry Farm or someplace else another day it's an expensive trip and I guess I'm wondering if we went someplace that was closer less expensive that more of the seniors could participate I have a feeling a lot of them can't because they can't afford it and we talked about that and we would have to even it would be looking at another expense of another bus that you're going to bring in and then I mean it's it would it would increase the amount but I think we agree we would have more kids that would sign up for it if it wasn't as expensive yeah well I guess it's just too bad that more of the kids can't do it because they can't afford it um but anyway it's just my thought on it wa the so the senior class actually voted on all of the senior class voted and then gave their input on if they would want to go um the winning Choice even whether or not they would go or not go was to go to California so anything in state it I don't even remember the results of it but it was pretty low down there so whether or not the kids were planning on going or not the choice they see in their minds yeah let's go to California for a senior trip and I think in their mind that's what they would want to do whether or not they plan on participating due to the cost or their work schedule there's a lot of different variables there yeah and they're going to miss two days of school is that right so the seniors they do their finals that week before and then all of their grades were their their classwork basically is finished on the 10th and so we have to have that for our side so we can start finalizing graduation preparations so yeah they'll they're missing two school days but they're but they're after the curriculum curriculum's basically done at that point okay any other questions anybody when when I graduated from the snow Fleet we went to Big Surf I'm really dating myself there anyway so we have a motion to accept this out of state travel for the senior class trip a motion from Margaret second by Chuck all in favor say I I I I thank you that looks unanimous also okay item a 3 point uh three we've decided to hold until next month that would be the IGA with the city government item 3.4 recommendation approve the intergovernmental agreement which is an IGA with for dual enrollment uh Dr Wright you want to talk about that with NPC yes sir these next three items are annual requirements uh the the dual enrollment provides additional coursework for or opportunities for our our high school students and to get college credit and High School Credit the next one would be the cad or navit agreement that we assign annually and then we have a a Talon agreement uh with NPC which provides additional cours work for students that are interested in some upper division courses and so 3.4 is an IG that we do annually and it is something that uh we're asking the board to approve to provide these dual enrollment opportunities for our students the high school students um on well I guess taking them one at a time on 3.4 are there any significant changes to the agreement than what there was last year like cost to the students or I don't I think the only difference I think the only difference is positive that our teachers that are teaching those would actually get a stien where they weren't year before but now are oh so there are no negative impact on the student but only positive I thinking both ways advantages or disadvantages but just Advantage is not a disadvantage we're not losing any courses that the students are getting dual enrollment because teachers left or because of certification issues I think we may be Lauren yeah so we as far as our own dual enrollment teachers on staff we're we had two teachers that were doing English 101 and 10 two and one is retiring and one chose to go somewhere else and so those two options for the English 101 and 102 on campus are gone they still have on the next section with the 3.6 the Talon option so we're going to be relying on MPC resources for that okay well that's unfortunate but and and also with um David Peterson resigning um a retiring excuse me he we had a um there was a lot of students they had option to do dual enrollment with his graphic design classes as well and David's not returning right not at this point we're still trying to talk them into it thank you Lauren is there any other questions no now can we have a motion to accept item 3.4 the IGA with u Northland Pioneer College I have a motion I'll second that all in FA any other discussion on that and all in favor say I I that sounds unanimous also okay item 3.5 which has been explained to us but we have to vote on that independently this is the uh cted inter inter governmental agreement IG that's why that's why they use the initials are there any new programs they're adding or any that they're deleting or this is a program with navit well yeah but I mean it's their courses that our kids are going to and are they adding any new programs or deleting any Mr web that I guess Megan's probably the keeper of that information or Mr web last year they started up the um I can't remember the title is law enforcement the one that was taught in in Snowflake that would prep um students to go into the the police forcey or even into dispatching so that one we're with that one and I believe there might be another computer class that they're going to offer that's new oh so and all the others are continuing with those prog programs too for the Nava classes so the uh police option was successful and going to continue and yes made it hard for those that aren't located in you know in the snowflake area so but I do believe most of the students that were participating in that one were were from there is no FL workk into those oh okay MH all right thank you um we have a motion for to accept item 3.5 then I have a motion from Chuck second from margar all in favor say I I I I I that sounds unanimous okay item 3.6 six a recommendation to approve the IGA with for Talon which has been been explained already this is basically upper division classes so um any questions or comments in regarding to that Chuck just same question or any changes any changes changes in courses offered either adding or deleting the only change of which I'm aware Mr wer we still have to work out before each district was given an allocation of the number of seats per course and the we had a recent communication that suggested it was kind of come first come first serve so we're going we're asking the board to approve the IG and then we're going to go back and that's not a system that we want to participate in nor do I believe the surrounding schools want to participate in we need to be able to count on so many seats to organize that that's the only change of which I'm aware Mr web are there others it's actually the IGA that's that we're looking at is the same IG as before what they're asking us to do as far as come for serve for those courses that's just being pushed out there by the dean of the different departments and so it's not included within the IG so that's why it's a conflict and it hasn't been done that way previously and like Dr is saying it's going to hurt some districts and you know especially this year where we're relying on some of those courses and it's just a gamble with the student and on all the other campuses across the mount they're going to be ready there as soon as it goes live they're going to try and click submit and they can get in they can't get in depend on so I would I would Mr Waldo if it's permissible Mr Merl what I would suggest the board sign it the same agreement we had last year if you would approve it then we would wait to sign it until we work that element out that would be my request well and the other change is that our students are not going to be taking the English well that they were taking English through NPC but now they're going to be doing it through the Talon program correct well that dual enroll I think is the they were our teachers they still have access to it we just won't be teaching it they still have access to on the dual enrollment this is on the talent side a whole different program that's what I'm saying it's yes sir you're right [Music] okay cles taking because this is the online program correct no this is a program that's broadcast to surrounding school districts and we would have somewhere between eight or 10 students per class there the topics Mr Webb can you let us know so before we were teaching 101 and 102 on campus last two years we would probably have 15 to 20 we we had the most students I think out of the area taking the Talon classes that's it's the MPC instructor that broadcast to our Talon room we had probably 15 to 20 students doing um their broadcast and so which course it's English 101 and English 102 and and a lot of those students that take those classes are the navit students because it doesn't the we want those kids to train and work towards their associates degree and they're not able to take the classes that are there weren't scheduled times to be able to take them on on campus even just some of the 12th grade classes was a conflict between doing the navit program and the Talon or correct the regular English yes correct did I answer your question Jennifer it did so is any of these are strict online that we're doing today these are just the other ones that are kind of the dual enrollment right correct okay all right so we need a motion to accept item 3.6 a motion from Chuck I'll second that motion myself uh any further com question on that if not we'll um vote by a saying a all in favor say I I I sounds unanimous no need for an a sorry a i it's all the same right okay item 3.7 is a general District upate update Dr right will turn time to you we are U I feel like I'm in some kind of a podcast I got two phones in my hands on microphone in my face so we're in the middle of State Testing uh at all grades well 3 through 11 and uh we're also preparing for our the class of 2024 we are going through the preparations and the and have that we'll have that ironed out we've uh completed all the consolidation efforts and I just want to reinforce that despite having a uh a number of teaching positions eliminated our classroom sizes are still very manageable and the greatest number of folks that uh we did not we didn't refill the position were folks that had retired I think that number was 12 that are retiring you can see our average experience on that report was 16.9 that's a high number I think we're anticipating somewhere between five and seven retirees next year um and then we would hope that natural attrition will track with our average daily enrollment going forward so I don't anticipating being I do not anticipate being in the same situation next year that we are this year our hope is to make to bring our spending in alignment with our funding which I'm confident we have and then we've created as you recall for this upcoming budget part of the carryover will be used as a contingency fund so I'm confident we're not going to suffer uh ongoing layoffs every year I think we're going to be in a much better position I know we are uh going forward and so while it's painful this year we'll be in a much better position next year year um and and even with I said even with the adjustments I'm confident that our numbers are not anywhere near that approach is um something that's not doable I mean we've had surrounding schools have as many as as U 40 kids in a kindergarten class we're talking about 24 so it is um we're in a pretty good position now would we rather have 20 kinderg garters in a class absolutely and would we rather have our primary grades at 20 sure we do not have the budget capacity to add more teachers than we have right now we're just being open and honest as where we're at and so the only thing would change that is if we had an influx of students which we do not anticipate on the other hand we do not anticipate an outflow significantly less than we have now we think we're going to land on an average daily membership next year at around 1,600 students somewhere in that neighborhood 1590 to, 1600 and I think we'll budget accordingly our graduation is May 17th last day of school is the 16th and our back is the 12th that Monday the 6th May 6th Awards awards assembly and backl same night Mr Webb's going to provide some clarification so the balette is on the six and the award ceremony where we do the scholarships and all the presentations with Awards is on the 8th okay thank you in the Auditorium thank you Mr web and uh if if there are no questions from the board that would conclude my report any questions from anyone all right next item is a call to the public this is a time when anybody in the audience can address the board we open that time up now um you've been there enough tonight just kidding so if there's somebody here to call to the public um we need to announce that our next board meeting will be May 14th um in this location at 5:00 pm we are going to ask at this time for an exe a vote to go into executive session executive session to to uh review and a performance evaluation for Dr Wright so can I have a motion to go into executive session so motion have a second from Margaret in favor of uh going to Executive assession please say I I I thank you that it be unanimous and we'll we'll dismiss ourselves to this room right back here when executive session is through we will adjourn and come back out here to adjourn the meeting what did you say next

10 point so thank you Math teachers y 10.02 compensation package for school year uh 2425 um do I hear a motion I move that we uh adopt the compensation package recommended for the school year 2024 2025 thank you Mrs Humphrey second I'll second it um Dr McCord thank you madam president govering board members um we will be asking for a 2% pay increase for all employee base uh employees base pay to include all hourly staff all teachers all administrators and other exempt professionals upon voter approval of 15% uh budget override continuation scheduled for November 5th 2024 the following stiens will be awarded and paid out in equal installments from January 1 2025 through the end of the school year a all hourly staff employees will see receive a 600 pro-rated based on 600 pro-rated $600 appropriated stien based on uh full-time equivalency and all teachers administrators and other exempt professionals $800 pro rated based on full-time equivalency uh we have Miss Betts and Miss Matten in here to explain the math to you good evening um I'll make this really quick um but it was important that we show you how we plan on balancing the budget considering these uh pay increase recommendations okay so I'm going to zip through the uh table of contents and get right into the student counts so we've deliberated over the last couple of months and we decided that we probably do need to assume a 1,200 student uh loss going into the 25 uh the 2425 school year so you can see that we this budget is based upon students uh then we also have always and historically used the governor's budget the governor has proposed a budget that statutory so it does include the 2% increase to the base level amount she has also made a recommendation regarding 2% to the distt conditional assistance um and all that is still subject to legislative approval so um but that's what this indicates and our teacher experience index did drop a very very small amount from 1.012 uh down to 1.01 22 from 1.01 26 so those are the figures that are in this um these calculations and you can see when you're looking at fiscal year 20125 projection in comparison to the revised number one of 2024 with that 1,200 student loss we are projecting a decrease in our budget capacity of about $2.8 million so it's important to know that's a decrease in your budget capacity so now we have to balance the budget so what do we know about how our spend is going to look next year so first of all you all have already approved the that we will not have a medical insurance premium increase we do not have to budget for that increase we are being conservative and are presuming some inflationary increases primarily in fuel and in utilities and then we don't know what's going to happen with the minimum wage at this point in time but we have historically budgeted about a half a million to the minimum wage to make sure that we have an A budgeted line item in the event that the 2% to the hourly rates will not be enough to meet the minimum wage so that's about a million dollar total um however we do anticipate budgetary savings if we do not have 1,200 students then we do not need all of the Personnel associated with educating those students so um we anticipate that we will very conservatively be able to save about $4 million so that goes into the calculation so now now uh the recommended pay increases calculating those all staff to receive a 2% pay increase and then as Dr mcord had just shared the two stiens 600 and 800 per rated by FTE the total recommended pay increase cost is just under 7.6 million now okay so Bonnie Jackie how you going to balance his budget man7 and5 million you do so ongoing available budget we've already seen a $2.8 million decline in our budget capacity projected ongoing savings $4 million total non-discretionary increases um another increase in cost of 1 million and there's the pay increase recommendation of 7.6 million roughly our total budgetary deficit is $ 7.36 million so pay increases funded by other funds as you know we have Enterprises Community Schools as well as nutrition services that fund their own increases and then uh the classroom site fund contribution this has helped us greatly with the change in statute that now allows all of our um student support Personnel psychologists slps otps are now eligible for classroom site fund so we're able to have classroom site uh contribute about $4.7 million into balancing that that um budget so for a total of 5.1 four and then note to the side the one time um I put budget balance carry forward on the top but it could be a district additional assistance transfer we are monitoring those but uh we believe that a two even if it was just a draw down of M fund balance $2.2 million with a very conservative estimate is a uh reasonable achievable um option and uh if you remember from our last I'm sure you all remember this too right from our last monthly report we were estimating about a $13.7 million carryover in m&o so we could easily sustain a $2.2 million draw down for at least the next three years okay so the budget is balanced based upon this proposal um underst budget capacity again this is just based upon the governor's budget note that we did put that an ongoing transfer we have a a fair amount of budget balance carry forward and unri capital as well giving us some decision making we will make a solid recommendation to all of you when we propose the budget in early June but that would give us even with that transfer about $ 44.6 million still in unrestricted capital and so now those are all that's all the numbers and that's the balancing there's always as you know risks and opportunities the a is still looming for 2025 we're okay for 202 4 but it has not been eliminated permanently uh there there could be a loss of more students than 1200 but we could also not lose 1,200 and actually gain some back uh legislature again legislative session is still in session and so we don't anticipate that the 2% to the base level amount will be reduced but they could do some other things with the formula um that could require us to reduce more um so the legislature could also surprise us and give us a little bit more resources than we are expecting so all in the way of saying that we believe that this is a very conservative budget anyway and we're able to balance it and we have opportunities within our existing budget just due to the work that we've all done over the last three years conservatively spending trying to save dollars as much as we can um so that so that we are uh in a position where we can still provide pay increases to all of our staff and that's all I have hey questions and discussion I felt a little bit like that was speed dating no I I thought that was a very good presentation it made sense and it sounds like with anticipating because I think I was under the impression that we were anticipating moving forward in 800 student loss but you went well beyond that and so I think that was I think that was I think we're being very prudent and uh preparing for kind of preparing for the worst and it sounds like even if the worst happens we're still we've still got money in our budget balance carry forward we've still got money in the the uh M and so I think it's terrific thank you okay great I appreciate all the hard work I mean it you're right it was a very clear presentation and um you know I hope that people will appreciate that we're working hard to make sure that our employees have the the pay that they deserve for their hard work I just want to say if you remember in this room at some point in time you'd hear us say we're not just preparing for today we're preparing for 5 years from now and the work that Bonnie and Jackie have done put us in a position be able to give and draw down fund balance that that we have available and not put our district in a precarious position and be able to sustain anything that we give you tonight we're saying that we can sustain it for the next 3 years and that's very important when you look at budgets and you look at how the legislature uh you know either helps us or doesn't help us and the decisions that they make but the final decisions come down to us in terms of how we operate and how transparent we are with our funds and again that credit goes to both of you so thank you for that okay yeah just kind of adding on to what you said Dr mord we have the chance to prioritize what we do get and I think we've made it the last several years a priority to to pay as best we can all of our employees so that people want to be here and that they know they're valued and again that we have the best possible in front of our kids and and consistency and again that they know that we value them so and I think you'll find in surrounding districts I don't know if they've come out with it yet or not but everybody's looking at a 2% uh or right around there so I think we're very competitive going back to the previous presentation I uh uh obviously would really like that we would be able to give more than 2% but we have to live within the means that we have but I do I do want to say that that the um not increasing the the medical insurance is making that 2% a real 2% raise which is nice cuz a lot of times it's a 2% raise and then you get you know you get a increase in the in the in the benefit package so thank you you know I I know what what you do and you probably passed geometry so sorry hopefully Al any anything else okay so we will call for the vote all those in favor of um adopting the compensation package as presented tonight please signify by saying I I and opposed and there's no opposed so on a 0 vote it it is been approved approved hopefully and we will move to the injour adjournment of the brief board business meeting um do I hear a motion I move that we adjourn meeting thank you Mr Thompson second second thank you Mrs Paige all those in favor please signify by saying I I thank you good night

and then they will have to report right back to the school that morning um for graduation practice so so student go there sleep over have do spend their time every watch and then come back right away um we are not providing um busing so um students will have to provide their own transportation we're send we're sending out permissions lists and on the permissions lifp is going to be stated that you will provide your own transportation to and from the event um and parents will have to sign off on that if they're not signed off on then um they do not attend a field trip um so yeah and we have three teacher chaperons lined up so far and then we also have a parent um it was kind of cloudy on how many you were going to need for an overnight so we have three teachers confirmed and then we can get more parents that are quy or more teachers if necessary all right great does anyone have any questions sounds like fun I just have one you pick that all great spot well gonna be super fun the weather will be nice yeah I mean it's all contained it's actually if you think about it's kind of a brilliant idea because it's all contained in the building go ahead sorry we have a lot of people lot of students wanting a like outdoor to like a beach trip um and that kind of is hard to plan for May you don't really know what the weather's going to look like um so we thought that this was kind of a big compromise we also wanted to do an overnight so it's kind of like everything that we really wanted yeah go ahead car I I do want to say to all of you so you know when I was hearing about this I was feeling a little parenty like but I did come to their meeting when they they've been planning this out and listen to everything and they're very responsible I respect you all and I know that you're going to make good choices you are kind of leading the way in something like this um for a senior trip that's an indoor overnight kind of experience other I know other districts do that but you're kind of I think the first at least to do this so so so I just ask you and nobody will leave the way with with all good things happening and and being responsible and respectful as you go there and representing Us in the district how many how many graduating members in the class or members in or maybe about 80 I think it's 807 80 36 yeah so why only not even half the classes gone uh people think they're too cool for it honestly do you think more people will sign up as uh gets closer to the date we already planned out and like we asked if they had they had like two weeks to sign up to go or not um and I think the main thing was that we came up with this idea we had a good amount of people saying that they would want to go and when we asked if people had other ideas especially people who didn't want to go on this trip they didn't really have any ideas that were like like some people were saying I trip to Florida or something like that there's definitely plenty of opportunity to sign up and uh I gave people opportunity like there was a form people said no on the form I gave them the opportunity to come talk to me and I changed a bunch of people's decisions got some stories behind that yeah there's definitely plenty of opportunity for people who want to go thank you his probably not all students go on the senior trip right no I've heard in past years I know last year there was a good amount of kids that didn't go I know I have some friends who graduated last year who didn't go on the senior trip and it's unfortunate I mean we want everyone to go but we also know that we can't please everyone um we haven't been able to the last two years to yeah senior trips usually overnight are senior trips usually overnight no this is this this is a TR laser event right and not in this district there other districts do do yeah so I don't know I'm in favor of you guys going but less than half the class is participating you're asking for school committee approval because it's an overnight trip you're doing private transportation we have specific policies around private transportations do you know what they are can't drive with people can't car for y need permission Insurance all that I don't know I just less than half the class that sucks so and and I um I I think it's it is it is a hurdle that and it's something that the students and I been talking about over the past couple years is how to engage you know students in general how to get them more involved with one another and it that is a difficult hurdle and it's one that it's challenging you know how because the Dynamics of how we socialize growing up is very different the Dynamics that the socializing it's also the timing to be quite honest with you it isn't overnight trip and at this point it's the it's the week before graduation and people are like you know my job is ramping up you know they they're working they they can't take that much time off you know those so so that it might be a factor in that people are working so it's a little bit more complicated than we all might think you know and and it's a challenge and you and you never as you have found out you will never please all the people all the time I also think that if we tried to plan something new now then it wouldn't probably be as good it probably less you have put a lot of thought in and work into putting together this triu and I think too sometimes it takes you the first year maybe the numbers aren't going to be 90% you know but you know the students know there's a senior trip and it's an overnight and it starts to grow I think so $1600 of the total cost is coming from the class funds yes the people that aren't going there they're cool with that that their parents help fund raise for that they're cool with that yeah the students are aware that a portion of it's going to be paid through class funds and then each student who's attending will be getting $75 and that was detailed when we had the sign up because we've had issues recently with fundraising and parents and not being happy with the way the money was being spent so I just want to make sure everybody's know going in sorry yeah no it's all right I feel like um the participation in fundraisers from our class is um extremely disappointing that not a lot of people are wanting to certainly people aren't volunteering to help in the fundraisers like maybe their parents are going to the carwash but there's there's never people who are trying to come up to us and volunteer during thing that's that's unheard of in our class yeah we hosted a talent show last year that we ended up getting around a littleit over $1 thousand dollar from but that was basically run by me and the other officers we had like maybe two students that are close friends that helped with like the lighting and that was it so we Tred our best I also um this would be after the school year concludes after graduation stuff like that but I've also brought to members who aren't attending the trip that um they can plan they're free to plan something like a beach trip I know a lot of them do that and if you plan a beach trip in late June early July where the weather's nicer and you can kind of pick your day um I encourage them to do that I encourage them to let the students know and be like this can be the trip for you guys if you guys want to do this or this can be like the final end of the thing after graduation to see each other one more time um so I'm trying to please both sides of it guess I just I want to say I I love the idea because I think of senior year as like it's like you have one foot in each world you know what I mean and I think you're really celebrating the fun and I love the idea of it being an overnight we keep talking about how we want the kids off their cell phones engaging with each other this is two days I just I think it's a wonderful idea and I I love how happy it is and I love your presentation your energy and your enthusiasm helps to really sell it too thank you okay um ready to vote okay could I please have a motion to approve the senior field trip which is an overnight to Great Wolf Lodge still sorry Julie was that you J oh sorry j any discussion all in favor I ionize while that motion passes thank you guys they have report would you like question would you like go report but I'm not GNA do that did a nice job I do want to um thank you for allowing me to share some of the amazing things that are going on at BS um I'm gonna highlight a few things and I'm open up for questions number one casses going on in all three schools but I'll talk about um Ela so we had third grade last week we had we had fifth grade the last two days and we have fourth grade the next two days we're hoping to finish all that before a vacation fingers crossed um we'll get through the sessions but we do have some makeups for kids that have been out uh Nature's Classroom fundraising is continuing on I want to give you a heads up that next year I'm going to come to you in September to get that approved so we can start at the beginning of the year because is quite substantial we have some amazing parents the students and the two fifth grade teachers have really spearheaded this with the parents and the students to fundraise we're not where we're want to be but we're plugging along and then I want to talk about an enrichment piece because it kind of ties into the climate survey which you also have the report on as well um we have some amazing staff that are trying to bring on that oring piece but it's not after school at this time that's coming I keep saying that but it will be coming um we're uh teachers are working on math during their lunch recess time kids are coming in and I just want to say a brand started out in fourth and fifth grade and now it's gone down to second and third grade um Joey floro I say that right say that wrong um and Mrs Lo a great teacher have been kind experiencing that for second and third grade which we're hoping to Branch upon that and that ties into our climate survey because I just wanted to talk about um one of the areas that we know at the we need to work on um and it was 74.4% about us providing um interest for students so there was a couple um places on there but this this an area we need to improve upon so that was on uh let's see VES provides quality activities that meet my students interest and talents such as sports clubs and music and we only hit 74.4% that's low so we want to work on that so now I'm going to open up to any questions about app yeah your school choice recommendations oh yes ask thank you so you have that as well um currently we have two spots one is filled this was filled before my time when that child came in last year there was another spot opened up so we still have that spot because the child that was in the other spot moved so I don't think that spot went away we didn't close it we just didn't fill it so if you're looking at um my report the second grade we have three classrooms total of 47 that is the one grade where we have a little space and I say little because I'm still very um concerned about that apartment building at the end of we do not have the NOS for that so there is one already there that's existing is what I consider existing and we have space to bring someone else in there the one child that's already there has a sibling coming into k um I thought about this long and hard and talked about it with Carol to me if you have a sibling there already and you have a child coming in we have to look at that any questions about that the rest of the grades I would not open them up and I'm very hesitant about kindergarten don't know our kindergarten numbers a prediction right now is the kindergarten if you open the one for the kindergarten Caroline I talked about this is it guaranteed to go to that sibling because what if you open it up and it's a lottery and like 10 people applying and The Sibling doesn't get it there not preference goes oh all right that's what I thought read that right yes and it goes to staff and it's also a teacher correct that's so it's two things yep all right that's I'm I'm fine with that does anyone have anything to all right sorry Cindy did you have anything else okay we want to monitor those numbers I I being I was a kindergarten teacher prior and we want to keep those numbers well you really do this year 21 in there that's that's to me is High um it's an unknown right now we have 40 um families that have expressed interest and through the you know they started sending in their registration paperwork around this time looking at last year again I wasn't here so I do some researching we were at 4045 at the same time we ended up at 63 so we really have to look at that but I do think the sibling should be allowed inow spot what when are the apartment supposed to be opening they're they're Fring right now the model is open now they're list June this'll be be open next year Cindy can I ask you one question you explain that the one new and one existing but I apologize I'm a little slow for the for the the grade two yes can you just explain that one more time so prior to this year two spots were opened up so there was a child in that spot now MH and there's one that moved so that's still there gotcha I don't think it closes I'm not sure about that oh I yes I what you're saying now yeah there was a kid and then they yeah I remember thank you because that grade is smaller yep okay anyone have any questions for Cindy oh sorry should we wait on the school choice until we have a yeah discussion on the vote all right the um the climate survey yeah the one you pointed out I noticed that too there's another one in here um student feel safe from verbal abuse teasing and exclusion at school almost 20% disagree with that that seems like a big number especially I know there's been some issues at that school last year there there was a potential hate issue um that seems like a big number for elementary school I agree there are some areas in that climate survey we have to work on um I did did bring it to my team of teachers who've been breaking down each question and say how can we grow with that I brought it to my school council and got a lot of feedback from the the parents that are on that as well there's areas we have to move and to me every single one of these question should be in the 90s that's what my goal is hire in the 90s and there's some we need to work on there I guess that's related to the one way that students don't feel that there's a feels that students who demonstrate inappropriate or disruptive behavior are not held accountable about 20% also feel that yep and so we talked about that too some of that is from previous year and some of that is when a student gets in trouble is confidential if there's a consequence with that student I so somebody comes to me and says I'll use John John did this I can't and there's a consequen I cannot tell that parent what that consequen was I can say it's been taken care of but I don't want into details a lot of parents want those details I understand you can't go into details um it doesn't sound like this question is a question about details I mean if there's a kid with disruptive behavior it's pretty well known and if they're being held accountable you would expect that disruptive behavior to calm down I not necessarily that's a typical Campbell move I I want to be honest I I there are some behavioral concerns but it's not destructive Behavior at this point there there's there's kids um that act out occasionally but they're not destroying property or anything like that um so with these behavior issues I know um parts of the budget that either did get included or didn't get included were would they have helped address that like kind a recess AIDS right is this disruptive behavior of Rec recess Aid there was a point4 of adjustment coun adjustment Council area so these made it in or these got cut remember these got cut yeah so these things got cut they would have helped solve disruptive behavior issues which 20% of the community feels are an issue and we're not going to happen okay all right anything else um I saw one of the item was that um that parents didn't know what was going on in school or communication and I just from my perspective like mag first sorry my child first through fifth grade um different teachers would use and then some don't and so you go from a year where you getting posts and pictures like oh they did this experiment which helps ask like not just how was your day like oh you did this at school today and then the next year you get like one email for a month or two um so I wonder if there was any thought to all using that app or some Collective Agreement on how to communicate with parents that was right our school council as well because I asked um for a little bit what they thought about that and they said that the the newsletter the the information that goes out is good where the inconsistency is is with the teachers that is something we started talking about with the teachers a little hesitant making them all use the same thing but as long as they communicate regularly is what we're going to be working on and since this came out I have asked them to share them with me if I wasn't receiving them and there are going out again inconsistently but we're going to work on that because I think it should be if not weekly by we for them just let more we can let parents know thees know more I mean that the open house not wasn't called openal earning yeah was really nice because you could see and the kids could show off and so it's nice to feel you know what's going on six hours in the we got a lot of good [Music] feedback okay anything else I'm just wondering is there any way to tell from the survey data if the people who said disagree and strongly disagree for you know kind of consistently for a bunch of the questions if they come from the same respondent like which out without identifying who they were like I'm just wondering is there like a small disgruntled group I'm G to be honest when I first started getting the results um there was one always in the strongly in every category there's a strongly disagree I can't I didn't collect emails I collected you know grades what grades they were at we did get a little uh some parents reached out said they wanted a narrative and I didn't include that in this one going for try that the other thing that was brought up which when we redo this we'll that a little bit more is if they have more than one child in the school doing that now they could have submitted more but doing it separately like one child might they might agree with something and the other one they might not so we wanted to have that VAR ask for so we plan to do this again next year with the feed back to to see if we can grow always room to [Music] grow question sorry um in the DMS report they mentioned how many was going to go to Nature's Classroom the participation level do you have that um I do not have that yet we're pretty high um I don't have the exact number yet but I can get that okay John question started testing today we were able to do all three grades all at once so it goes a little faster for us first day went very well no crumbs first in the Flames there were other schools children I didn't have another it happened in I forget it's in first FL that's earthquake solar eclipse earthquake solar school choice no thank you um given the signs of our building and the signs our classes are growing to now we just can't as much as I have enjoyed that in the past um and then in terms of the survey um we had some similar scores we had some different scores one of the ones surprised me was uh it's I have information I need to support my students learning at home 78.2% agers agree now part of the problem was it was one of the only questions where you could say neither and there was like 10% that was just should um but it was interesting because they people say they're not sure they had the information but then they feel like they can support their kid at home with the information they just told me they don't have so we got to poke more at that one um we also had around those Behavior things that Cindy not talked about those Behavior numbers um we kind of have the same feeling when something happens to your kid you want to see action um and sometimes that's just not possible what's nice I think in Berlin because the school's so small is that parents find out you know they they hear about it other kids will come home oh John got in trouble today um but it's still an area of of concern I it's it's one of those things where you're you're always kind of looking to further establish trust um because and you know I've had this experience you know Mr C I'm not happy with what you're telling me but I'll do what you said and uh that's that's always a blessing um so yeah we there a couple of things that we want to further look at um communication I thought was interesting as well people expressed some discomfort with that which surprised me because my teachers already do send me there it's because you don't update the subject line on your emails John I know thank you Mr Thomas for embarrassing me again yes occasionally I will copy my emails and forget this occasionally lately really bad but it does go out you're winning there I'm winning there uh but that's still something I think part of that is one of the nice things about Sur business you can go back to teachers you say this is what parents are saying whether it's you know their perception or it's you've got a problem there's something we have to do to better clear our communication style I send stuff all the time correct label or not but I'm always amazed at you know what about this what about that it's been in three emails I think people open emails and like they'll read them but I don't think they retain them right that's me questions concerns mean comments about my emails I like your emails thank you Mr okay uh Lisa so to to Highlights um so this has been a difficult month um and I think that I can say that our I'm very incredibly um proud of our crisis response team um for showing as I wrote in report Swift compassionate and effective coordination of all kinds of resources to thank the community both Cindy and John um allowed their staff to come over and support our staff and students and as well as a an additional staff member we had Clinton high schools send over one of their adjustment counselors and then shrew very high said that they could support us um with two adjustment counselors as needed um this is something that rocks the foundation of any um School community and continues to and that ongoing support and ongoing understanding of what's needed for students is continually being assessed and looked at we did receive a lot of support from the Riverside Trauma Center who continues to be a touch point for all of us we've all mentioned mcast those are continuing at Hanto we are we finished sixth and seventh grade um we are moving on to 8th grade ELA we Carol and I had a um a nice um event we both escorted one of our students sh in to um the wer County Superintendent scholar um award then and that was really spectacular to see so many young people doing such a wide range of amazing things and really to see um one of our students excelling it was a very proud moment for both of us but I think for himself and for his family as well um I Emerson did a wonderful jump kind of highlighting our Athletics and you know kind of upcoming events I will identify that probably one of the happiest um moments in March was the performance of disenchanted that had happened that was a wonderful reflection of student creativity and the commitment of Mr Hagar and Mr glant to put that production forward and really involve so many wonderful young people hopefully this it's it's a growing program and it really is a wonderful asset to our community um the student showcase we were talking about this and I have received a lot of just feedback you know in um informal feedback that particularly at the middle school level families seem to enjoy this venue this opportunity to experience what's happening in classrooms much better than the previous open house so that led to a conversation that we just had today that the Middle School really they felt this format so we're going to really it is wonderful opportunity to say so what have we been doing what do we you know what have we tried what's going to work better so perhaps using a student showcase format where you're partnering with your child to come into to do it that model for our open house as well as a later you know a work showcase so using that information because I think families appreciated the time to spend spend in the school um as far as our school choice I when I first put out the report I was doing the current enrollment with grades 6 through 12 as they were seeing um and I do apologize about that so I did put in um for fy2 the new requested numbers so it and I so I went into power school and pulled the numbers for the current fifth grade which would equal 75 um for our incoming sixth graders so right now I just so you know that it is when you're at this time of year you're concurrently working with this year's numbers and next year's numbers so you're constantly kind of flipping in between this what is we're living in and what we will be living in and so what we will be living in is that we we will have 75 students in sixth grade so if we wanted to open up five spots that would bring us to a total of 80 that we've seen the trend and so in my report you'll see a number which is the for the total there will be a total number and then a number in parentheses that is highlighted I don't know if it comes through the report but the the parentheses highlighted number is the total number with the existing plus the school choice number added to it so that that's what those two numbers reflect so I would say that there would be five spots for sixth grade but no um no school choice for seven eight or nine and then for 10th grade we could have four spots 11th grade five spots 12th grade we have the space and so I put in five for 12th grade it's it's it really isn't something I recommend I although there's space having someone school choice in as a senior right is something that you want to pause um because they're not in for the Long Haul so I would I would pause on that number um but I wanted to present we would have space for that so this is what we would have space for so my proposal would be we have space for five in next year sixth grade for in next year's 10th grade 11 five and next year's 11th grade we have space in 12th grade but I I actually in good faith can't recommend school choice numbers for for 12th grade if it doesn't it it doesn't feel comfortable for me would that possibly be like kids coming from a bad situation it could be there's so many I think the variations that you see school choice at on grade 12 I think there's a lot of variation that you would see the reasons why um a student and we're really not um we're not allowed to do background you know you know so that is why I would pause because there's such a wide variety whereas the natural kind of um enrollment would be at sixth grade and then either at nth at eth or nth grade so that's when school choice numbers tend to be for students who are making a really conscientious effort to this is where we want to be for the Long Haul that's what I've seen in the past just had a clarifying question so the sixth grade numbers I thought for some reason the number was much higher on a projected report maybe in the budget report yes so so it was so I the actual these are the actual numbers so I am giving all in my report because those those were from the budget report so in in this report all my all these numbers are coming from our power school of currently enrolled students so these are the actual numbers so the projected sixth grade for tono would be 75 in the budget report you would have seen the 96 which I think was just a I think Tak from it's taken from this like I think it was just like it was doubled I think it was that line was taken and all those numbers no I think the budget includes out of district and no she's talking about fy2 fy2 District it's just the it's the enrollment projection slide and all right so these numbers are what we're looking at from school choice all right so you guys want to talk about school choice go ahead yeah wait I'm just so confused though still I get that point okay however in the enrollment history what we have in our budget report these dates back to FY 17 right all the way up through fy4 our fy4 numbers are not those those are significantly lower so for instance if we take I'm I'm on that so so it's um okay so may me just give you an example good that would be easiest so if you guys don't have the thing in front you you won't know what I'm talking about but okay so you look at fy4 yeah right look at the current grade seven 83 kids yes right now we look at this chart that would be projected eighth grade kids so it's 7 so 71 correct me if I'm wrong 71 is the brown Boon kids 14 are the existing school choice kids from other towns five or zero in that case is requested new so you're right 83 to 85 85 current seventh graders so that number so it is so yes that's 95 so so that's 95 am ICT so it's it is I see okay all right anyone else Mike did you have some questions lot questions started yeah this is the time for school choice and no will vote with all due respect to the parent who's here who is school choice in the district I just don't agree with these kinds of numbers for school choice if you look at any one of these uh 11th grade currently 14 school choice proposed an additional five more that's 19 school choice kids to 61 burlin Boon school choice kids that's a third of the class oh I would prefer to have I I would I know you want more kids no no no I actually I I if if it was me I would say zero all the way okay good I agree with you but I was asked like if I had to open it up so this is only space this is not a request no but it's giv US money okay we'll get that's sorry that so I'm in I'm um in between a rock and a hard place like if me I would say no for a lot of stabilization reasons for and notc just because of an unsure of how our staffing is gonna happen I'm just what we what we're voting on right now is based my understanding is based on these numbers in this page yeah we're voting on what we open up we don't know how many we'll actually get but I agree with you so so your I thought my understanding though Mike sorry to interrupt was that these numbers should be yes and and I'm I'm saying like so because I also know the hard place between this is The Rock and then the hard place is that the budget the money yeah money because if you don't open up any then the school choice revenue is the same it's not growing and we're using it up exactly so for that reason I am saying this is where I would be comfortable opening up spaces so that's your max basically Max ma if we have to that is my Max where I would be so we're not jumping up to 90 kids the class so my my opinion on school choice in this case I'm just going to use these numbers if we were to approve this number of five additional spots that's 19 students who are school choice students versus 61 students in that class who are Berlin boil and residents that's a third third of the class what class you talking about 11th grade on this page grade 11 6114 57580 that's a third of the class who com in in 11th grade were not with these kids from kindergarten on from sixth grade on it's a third of the class that Berlin and Boon taxpayers are paying for I mean like it or not they're paying for it in some way I know the argument is well the money's already there the teacher already there we have the space we can we can accept it but every time you accept that we also have in any class and any subject when we see these mcast reports come in we have anywhere from 20 to 60% of the kids who are struggling right however you want to call it they're struggling who could use that extra attention every school choice student that we bring in just the dirty facts of the way it works it takes attention from the teachers away from the kids who are struggling who the taxpayers are paying for if we were getting 19 $20,000 per if we were getting $20,000 per school choice that can help the budget we get five and it's going to be five forever whatever the number is now is it still five it's five yeah it's five the from State yeah right so I mean you look here you've got roughly a third of each of these graduating classes and and when it comes to seniors I absolutely agree with Lisa I mean you know if we were If This Were A a four profit Enterprise or a college and we can go out and recruit kids and we can get kids who are going to be in AP classes and are going to be on Sports and are going to help us build those programs that's a different story but we don't know what we're going to get we might get those we might not get those we might get kids who come in and they need additional Services additional services that are going to far strip $5,000 so that's my philosophy on school choice and it's not personal and all due respect to the parent that's here I already here what's that mine's already here good you're good all right that's just my personal opinion on it for the taxpayers of the Town we're already asking them for a lot for the kids that are here that's just $5,000 is gonna make it move I want to piggy back on what you said I've always been a pretty big supporter of school choice because I know it's what allows us to have more programs um more classes you know we have smaller classes my concern right now and and I'm feeling like maybe it's a school choice freeze for now we're in the only state in the Union that has a law that anybody that comes to the state gets housing if you are considered homeless you are you know allowed to come to the schools and I I'm not going to not here to debate that my concern is you have students that are coming in that probably don't speak the language of our country at some point are those school choice positions going to be opened up to students who may not speak the may not be in this area may be from another town but are now being busted in and now we have this huge expense of trying to educate them and that's going to pull from the education of our students that are here I just feel like we're in a very tentative time right now and to not look at the elephant that's in the room that might be very very costly um and I'm not talking you know I'm talking if you just look at it from the amount of money that we're going to get what are we spending like $188,000 a student average for people's expense someone who you know can speak the language Let just average it's just a so you're already at a deficit of 13,000 now you get someone in who you know might speak let's say you get 10 kids in and they speak six different languages how do you we we are supposed to educate our children to the best of our ability and my concern is that we'd be pulling from what our students have right now the very little money that we have that we're getting by with we've already talked about things that we've cut that are going to affect the schools as far as just all different things we cut did we no we just didn't increase it wanted to increase it but the things that would have helped so we cut it from The Proposal yeah so that's and that's my concern my concern is we're sitting in a really we're we're in unprecedented times and so I'm feeling like it's it's a time where we need to hesitate and not always do what we've done and really just consider the cost and the impact of that um before we make a decision I think also like the apartments in Su Street I mean that's a lot of units that could move in with teenagers and and I did look up they're they're available June 1st so that's as well in advance of state to yeah there's Studio one bedroom two bedroom and I agree with you like I think when I you know not to overgeneralize but like I think about who's moving into Apartments it's probably people that got divorced they might have older children you know they're right here the school is closed close they're commuting they're professionals they're they're expensive you know they're they're very expensive yeah you're you could have a huge influx of children um both for BBS and um Tanto so I mean if I'm not opposed to to approving zero school choice across the board except for maybe the one kindergarten spot being in real estate yes you're never going to know the students until the lease is signed so even if they say they're going to cap it at however many children yeah until they move in you don't know because you're not allowed to ask yep so yep it's a crap Sho there yeah no I I agree uh Lisa what do you think I think you make a great Point yeah and I think we should be concerned about that what about Julie I I I I this is a hard conversation to have because we were here last year we did the same thing and I brought up why don't we do exit interviews on the kids that leave and so we have no understanding of why kids are leaving again wondering about what we should do for school choice numbers without any understanding about why our kids are leaving but yet we can look at the enrollment history and the numbers are alarming from 6 to 12 but yet we don't have any data to support why that happen we have been asking for that since Jeff was here y we have been asking so I think that needs to be an initiative if possible by the district and again I don't know if that it probably should come from Monto and maybe one of the assistant principls you know maybe the Middle School assistant principal should that should be something that that person owns and you know if there's children that are exiting in middle school or in high school I think a lot it's usually like between eth and nth right yeah and like Mike's Point about you know even Lisa's Point know 11th and 12th grade you generally probably don't get kids coming in right school choice I mean it's be yeah but if we could you know talk about those two kids were here talking about that they have half their class going on this senior trip but if you can build a community in sixth seventh 8th grade that's where you have to build it jul I with you I'm with you on that so by not saying no to all these school choice numbers in six seven eight I think that's a mistake but how do you build a local how do you build local only only saying okay Julie you had half not even half class going on this trip rightone for eight she already says None for seven or eight right none for S I do that's my point that's my point I could see seventh because you have 95 I I think that number is g to change I just want to put that out there that we do lose kids in seventh grade and we're going to lose some because of the private schools now having a middle school option from 7 to 12 correct there's going to be a good handful of the sixth graders that off to St John's correct um and then again we lose them eth to nth as those ninth graders either go on to you know larger high schools you know for for more Sports and academic opportunities um but I think yeah really collecting that data rather than I I have a lot of informal data you know what I mean but um and I do have those conversations already so I would be comfortable with making something you know a standard kind of data you know template for that um you know I think that would be important to also hear from the parents right you know I think that's a really important piece right exactly yeah no I'm with you you have to build that Community 678 but the class that was just here tonight not even half of them are going on the senior trip you're not going to improve that by school choice you're GNA improve that by like you what you want more opportunities more clubs more classes we don't know why they're leaving there might be nothing we can do about it there might be something we can do about it until we know what it is we can't make a decision we can we can we can we can we can't well well I have four kids in the district that are 10th sixth seventh and eth I know all their friends are leaving okay why lot of those numbers why are they leaving it's Sports so let's just become Sports opportunity there we don't have a lot of Club offerings here after school we don't have clubs after school they run during lunches because we can't run them after school because Sports starts after school there's a host of reasons people are leaving so how does school choice fix that I don't necessarily know that school choice necessarily fixed that but it creates a bigger number it's a better opportunity for kids because then you have more kids participating in the drama so if we approve the number that you want to approve whatever that number is I I don't know I don't don't tell a number don't say no no I don't even have a number if we approved a number yeah you're telling me this time next year those clubs and sports and classes will exist and we'll be on our way to Improvement no everybody that's a bigger conversation I think Sports needs to be pushed back I think the clubs need to start from go from 25 I think that's a different conversation it is a different conversation school choice you're 100% right but this if we continue to just say it's okay we're gonna just let these kids go no it's not okay we've been asking for this data on exit interviews for three years well we just I I don't know I think I think 90 is a good number in that Middle School obviously you're over in some of those classes but to not have 90 in middle school when you know these kids are going to be leaving 90 thr Boon kids would be awesome 40 Berlin kids 50 out of town kids is not awesome and it's not fair to the taxpayers what percentage did you just say I don't know I just made up random numbers 4 that's not we we don't have we don't have that data that but yeah they have it there you want 90 all right so you want 90 kids in every grade so you have 13% of the com eth grade or school Choice that's a pretty that's I mean that's that's a pretty low number I think it's high I 14 out of 71 13% I'm curious for like AP classes and stuff is there a minimum to hold class um we have to get school committee approval is five like under five like under five right okay um so do you guys want to vote on school choice now I'm curious like is there for when kids enroll other schools is there any sort of like like deadlines for those schools that we know so at that point we know better numbers of who's leaving I I haven't I mean there are deadlines but I don't I mean I haven't gotten anything off that would be part of an exit for school choice you oh you mean if kids are going to private school private school usually opens their enrollment in January and usually they need their numbers by March um that working in also in the private school you know system at different places it it doesn't then necessarily mean that they're cutting off in March but people start that application piece in January and that's why we really wanted to make sure we start having those nights you know we pushed up our nights for high school right to you know the kind of the informal session those those pieces um to get um that information out there what Tanto can offer we pushed that up a bit um and um yeah I mean I I think I think the I think something also to realize and and I don't I don't know what those Trends look like over the years but something to think about as I have a junior in high school myself right these these numbers of high school you know this projection of the senior class and our junior class here not feeling maybe as settled as a community really goes back to what we went through with Co so many of our students you know my daughter I live in West Bo and she goes to St Bernard High because there was no school yeah right in public schools right I mean so there's a lot of kids right now in our high schools that are that are either school choice or transient or have gone somewhere else and then just kind of stayed there right so I think it's going to be really good data over the next couple years to to to take and then really I do think this Middle School piece having those senses of community seeing what we can offer for them in middle school so they want to stay as a group not leave their friends not leave their Community for high school is extremely important um and I would just ask and very comfortable doing you know those exit interviews with the families but just really making sure that we're getting the data that you want right so thinking about some of those specific questions that you would like me to ask um you know I have some in mind but I think that's important because we talk a lot about data and then we come to meetings say well oh could we have that as well which I you know so just taking some time to kind of think about what that is because this will be the time right it's April right we're going to know within a month or so you know by by June if kids are not returning and I already know certainly some boys are heading St John's for seventh grade for various reasons so and I know maass Academy I there there's always you know three to five that go to Mass Academy and that is the school associated with WPI and that's a very small very pointed particular group of students who do that and and then they've been wanting to do that there's no I don't Le it's very yes it's very elite so I mean at this point we don't know what data we don't know we need right so we need to just my first question is why why did you leave Toano if it's for a trade nothing we can do is it for sports maybe we can do something maybe we can't is it for math science business we can probably do something for that we can culture climate portra portra a graduate internship program I mean we probably need more internships with actual companies but those types of things Julie is the program that's going to build the the Homegrown the organic growth in our own students if we don't have those programs right now there's other reasons why people would want a school choice to Tanto what are those I don't know but they're not you want to build Sports we don't have the sports I want to build the arts program okay you want to build the sports and arts we don't have those right now so logic would say a kid's not school choicing to tato to take art or Sports because we don't have them well no we do we do but we often times the numbers prohibit I understand we have sports I walk by a trophy quesos right yeah yeah yeah I know we have art but the point like you're trying to build a program you have to build it from within you can't build it by trying to convince people to come here and then don't give them what they are looking for you also have no idea for school choice who you're going to get so you can't a lot of school choice kids that are high performing I'm sure I'm sure same thing as uh the um people from the town you have no idea who's going to come up and play sports or who's going to do drama or who's gonna do nothing or who's gonna need services or who you have no idea um so if we are going to vote Lisa my understanding was these are requests but you're saying that's something different no I you're what you just say you would request zero these are these are requests because I think my understanding is this is what I was asked to do so I looked at the numbers and these are um these are the Avail what I view as being the available space in the grade levels that I identify yeah you were asked to give the available space but this isn't necessarily what you think is right what you want that's what I said she doesn't that's right yeah exactly can I just ask what let me just ask this why why would we do 5 and 12 and none in8 um because I think that 95 885 and 89 um are for 78 and N I think those are good numbers that we can we can manage I think 95 is that a lot of kids but I mean and I I question well 12 would really I mean at at 12th grade I put five in there I mean we could have five but are we really gonna get I don't see any point for any in 12 one right yeah but I would just shift the numbers up to your middle level but no I like that doesn't but she's saying that's too much there's no space no how how is there how is this this is my question because we're not how space for 95 because you like you it's it's like like a little Rubik's cube of you know we're shifting like we're shifting resources for those kids know at the at the 85 you know it's for the teachers in the classes for the teachers classes still have you still have doesn't matter we still have 20 20 2020 22 22 22 22 I think 80 is your your ideal yeah 80 is an ideal number for 80 class between 80 and 85 for this building for this building Julie we are not a big CH I understand well in this building we've already talked about space issues in this building I mean you know you know what I'm saying I mean you can't even have the whole senior class and even park the cars here that's a can I I just can I make one comment to it's something I want to earlier and very positive needs to be said you noted that the middle school there was so much um with the parents that showed up and that gives me hope because that shows a cultural shift here that shows that the parents and I think that the reason maybe the high school didn't is because when when we used to get here in sixth grade it used to be like okay thank you you know like the kids are on their own now and that was that was just the way it was but now it's like okay your kids would please come in we want you to see what we're doing we want you to know and I think that's really important that the community is involved and I'm hoping that that's going to shift as time goes on to the upper grades and maybe it'll be a different model I don't know but that to me says that you guys have done a lot of work and the teachers have done a lot of work to get the parents and the students interested in coming in and showing off their work and so I just want to applaud you for that because that's huge I mean it's I just wonderful thank you all right we're going to vote on school choice I just have one more thing go ahead last thing I just you guys have two minutes we're not going to be hour it's not happening Megan can I can I say something Megan you've been rushing this whole meeting we meet once a month on the whole freaking School District stop rushing us through the information that we need you talk to these guys one-on-one every day you know what's going on the other five of us don't stop rushing us we'll take the time that we need um I'm curious with the numb so I mean you know we're concerned about the soul stream construction right um you know we don't think 12th graders maybe not live with greaters I mean do we think because that there's that such are you would your preference be zero across the board I think my preference I I'm I'm worried about the build I really am worried about the building I'm worried about like I don't know what that's going to do so I we could say we we're voting and then we have 80 for the um sixth grade and then all of a sudden you know we get 12 to 15 kids from the apartments I mean that is worrisome but then I hear all the budget talk so as so you have to understand from my point of view where I'm where I'm sitting I I here the budget stuff and then I I live in the building and I live with the kids so there's these two and they they there's kind of opposing views in terms of school choice because school choice monies have funded things and then to say no school choice but we're still getting the income from the current scho choice right but if we have hypoth not be adding right that income do we have any data from the barlin apartments that affected Tanto enrollment we know we have students living there right we we know the students who are living there numbers wise was very suris right that's what I mean so we think about like oh my God these apartments are going to bring in 40 kids you don't know right but there their studies right when that was presented on the burlo I remember they got up and they had charts upon charts upon charts that said how many kids are be coming into the school district I don't understand the numbers on all that but you say it was accurate it ended up being we were very afraid when those went because it's huge got to be double theze bedrooms I many most of the bedrooms in Trailways Trail whatever it is are there one that AP in the Boon one in the Boon onein is more of a mix well that's there's two there's two and three bedroom apartments that are big right in Boon there's a couple of apartment complexes so there's a highend behind Clinton savings I don't think I I haven't seen anybody coming from from there but the the new ones that are just opening up that is next or like right on off of 140 those are there's one two and three bedrooms and there are yes I mean to Lisa's point about the budget I mean 10 kids that's 50 Grand the budget's 20 some OD [Music] million I think the tough thing is to as far as the numbers you know these are the projected numbers based on what we have now we and we don't know like like I said I I know that that 95 is not necessarily the same 95 students that are here now right because I do know probably at least five that are not going to be returning right um but again you don't know how many are be coming in is that seven for like right the rising right seventh graders right yeah right Lisa did you have a question yes so I just want to build a little bit on what Lori brought up I'm usually in favor of school choice like I I think it's a great thing in general but to Lorie's point we are in unprecedented times and we do have an influx of migrants and many more are coming right and they have a right to shelter and these are people from all over the world speaking many different languages and like if we look at if we accept four kids in 10th Grade and they all speak a different language we're require them to translate all of the materials for them right and be able to present to them and educate them in their language and that's for every class for three years right and I'm just wondering how disrupt would that be and how much would that cost that's and that's my concern I I love school choice I love I love the um what it gives to the school as far as numbers and and the money and I just just people from different backgrounds I think it's wonderful but this year that's my concern is I don't want to take from the education of the kids that are currently here right taxpayer school choice well whoever everybody's a taxpayer you in the state um I don't want to take from any of them where we don't know there's a lot of um we just don't know what's going to happen and and I feel like it's it's a risk and especially I mean even if you take that piece out and you just go with this enormous like I we were just looking at the listings there are there's one bedroom two bedroom three bedrooms at the end of school and I don't know that the other apartments had three bedrooms that's a that's completely different um I just feel like I've always always support it I feel like you Lisa it's a wonderful program it's just I feel I'm not a gambler and I feel like it's odds we're gonna not do it this is the year to not do it yeah I'm curious I mean if we vote now a certain way is can you or if you desire to suggest a placement like I don't know come August is that because I know one last you advocated for an additional slot after after num and like that yeah you know but can you open up school in it has to be for the following year it can't be like if in December you say oh we no I I mean I it is if school committee votes for it yep and that's and that has always been my understanding that this is a a school committee decision so so when when the this to me reflects the available space it really is a school committee decision in terms of what you want to see I I can give my input I can reflect on it um I think school choice is great at six eight and nine I think those are pivotal years those are are really great years to get students in the other years are are very tricky because um you know why you want to you want to understand the why and we can't so this this request is a reflection of opportunity that is available but it really is what school committee's desire is are there any um current siblings that you know are offline that would advocate for not that I don't I'm not aware of any siblings everybody who's in is already in with their siblings there maybe a couple of middle scho again school choice siblings right so there there's a couple of current school choice here at Tanto in the high school that I think they're hoping for the Middle School sibling um to come in and then I know that we feeled calls in the office as far as do what do you have and you know not always the grade levels match up right so there's a lot of those calls that come in with siblings mat can we allow no school choice except for siblings it's a lottery so speaking speaking of sibling Cindy does have one sibling request but you also have one open you also have one opening one open spot second because we know that specific sibling oh no she said that was from uh we already that was a one that we approved before the child is in school full right so it's not full there's an empty spot there instead proving a new one we can just use that one or or transfer it or switch it or the existing yeah if it's existing it so that's that was your question is it existing the kid left you mean but it's the different it's a different grade you mean transfer the one from second grade into all right yeah because you don't no one needs the spot in second grade is that true Cindy do you well we have applications for that um with stat members in the district staff members is my understanding so this is non-teacher staff members because the teachers my understanding they have a right to r as teacher so te so so am I so teachers can school choice in if they to do so but it doesn't need to be approved as a school choice it's part of the one of their benefits is through their contract we looked at the policy yeah I thought the no I thought that was a CO thing that came out of Co no no all right we were going to change it we never did it's teachers it's not staff and it's it's only open right that's what we're talking about teachers yeah but it's only spots that we approve so we have to decide on school choice then we open up the lottery teachers children and siblings get first preference in the lottery but we have to approve the spots first based on the space in the buildings okay so which is what we're deciding now so so both so one at be es so Cindy said that there's another staff member that wants the second grade spot as well gotta so that could be the existing one instead of the existing one and then she wants to add one in kindergarten for another staff member sibling all right you guys want to vote on yes school choice because that seems pretty simple is it is a staff member or a sibling it's a sibling who's also a staff member she said it's a teacher so there's a there's already a child in there in a certain grade that has a sibling coming in kindergarten and I a staff member with a second grade child and a kindergarten child um that being said if we keep the second grade like it is one knew the existing one or just the existing one and brings that child in I'm hesitant with K I did put du to The Sibling bring one in I think we need to see those numbers more I don't want those numbers to spike up um just it's an unknown yeah we want to keep those numbers low especially SC keep them low now and if we know different in June we can revisit so you want one you're supporting you're recommending one in K and one in two no she just said she doesn't she's not so sure zero in K and one in the sibling in K so the sibling of the already existing so that's one in K one in K and so then and then the one in second grade one and two one in second one in second second and onek all right so so that that's how you have your it in your report is what you're recommending um but if you're looking at it it would be one existing in second grade so there's one already there open if that's open we don't need that spot if it's still open there's even if we can get that staff memb Channel we can't what's going to hold that up is thek spot right now I'm suggesting just that one because onek okay all right so yeah so we have to vote on adding one spot in okay and The Sibling is not related to staff no staff members yeah there's all right so there's possible two students uh kids of staff that want to go into K second and K second yeah yeah second we're talking just K you just said zero for second for right now the onek the one existing second if that's still open keep it open yeah um and then one in K right now and I like the idea of waiting till August to see the number Chang these numbers that we're looking at on your sheet to zero for two because there is an existing we don't need to vote on an existing right in 1K that sibling in K is that the staff member or is that just sibling that is the staff member that already has chat okay I think I think you have to vote again we haven't voted yet on the no I bet you have to even though there's an existing spot because somebody left you have to kind of revote in that that spot even though it's already there it's kind of a we're not sure that it exists after the child leaves so rather than have to worry about it somebody raise a question later if you just when you vote on these acknowledge that existing school choice slot still ex not new so so it would be could I have a motion to approve school choice at Boyston elementary school as follows one spot in kindergarten and one spot in second grade right uh no it would be uh is it two spots in second grade it's one spot it's one or zero it's one or zero spot in grade and one in K it's one or zero it's unknown the one in Kinder one in second would be for only for the existing spot that has already been voted to remain open yes it's not two in in second no it's one in second and one in I yes I just said that you said two my motion was one no it was two Lisa one Nicole one in kindergarten the motion was one one in kindergarten two in second you said no Lori said two I said one in one the motion on the table is one in one one in second and one and K okay that's the motion on the table that's Cindy's needed so moved second any more discussion on that all in favor I I all right I'm an i as well all right so do we have to approve adding none in Berlin for the record I'm opposed oh I'm sorry I thought you said I no all right so one opposed do we have to vote in Berlin on zero just do all right could I have a motion to approve no school choice spots for Berlin Memorial School soov second any discussion on that all in favor I hi right any opposed all right I'm an i as well that motion passes all right so it sounds like Tanto I'm gonna put a motion out there and then we can talk about it all right so could I please have a motion to approve zero school choice spots at Tanto so mov right Lisa second all right lari discussion I don't like it yeah ad [Music] it we know we know we know we lose kids from 8 to n massively we know if we can build a middle school culture our kids I firmly believe will stay in District not all of them we're not going to keep the kids that want to do the trades you know we're not we we're not going to keep those Stellar Stellar athletes maybe that want to go to St John's and play for be youy right um but we we we we we can we can do better to keep these kids we have to build let's do that I think we and I appreciate having a vice principal there that that's driving and helping at that Middle School level or and I've been saying this for a long time that if we can lock in that Middle School we're going to be a good John do you have rumors of any sixth grader or current for Cindy not going to not a rumor I had a request for a reference the siblings already in private school so brother brother wants to go and a lot of those private schools again it's that seventh grade opening you know um you have a lot of private schools that are like you know a prek to K to eight and then you have a lot of the midd high private schools that now start at 7 or 12 and that is also something to Just note as a difference in the last 10 or so years Notre Dame St John's that's new that they opened those seventh and eighth grade programs um holy name as well which is now St Paul's that's new that's s grade so that's new in recent years so what I I with the numbers I I opposed to zero not for budgetary purposes at all um although that helps but I would move I would just shift the numbers around that are here do 1 and 12 three and 11 the 10th grade is so small and you don't know unless you're like in it with your kids you know and their friends and you it's a it's small can be detrimental that's a small 76 kids is small graduating class of 65 is small um and then at that Middle School level I understand your point you know you like to keep it at um but I mean we we have we have seven we have currently 89 residential kids in 7th grade I think wanting to wanting to keep it at 80 is I don't think sth grade 95 already eight at 85 89 y I would go to 90 every all that seventh eth nth I mean 9 kind of looking at the sixth grade like but sure not five as room to for the apartments yeah I don't I don't know if I agree with that at it's already one of the biggest classes in the upcoming nth grade those numbers also I think do will shift right because that's current without any as St John St Marks and that numberers we could vote that if that number is low can't we vote it again in like sep you know what I mean I don't so when do you so I know by now St John's has said to the middle school and the the high school they do they let you know or is it at the mercy of the family the parents they're not yeah they're proba not going to want to let any so that's why we don't have like I I can ask the guidance counselors all I want but they will if the parents don't say anything I don't know who's leaving I I have no way of knowing who's leaving right so to guess yeah that usually happen over the summer then is that like they didn't enroll for fall classes or something everybody still in roles everybody still in roles even if they go to aset because they be a last minute change so everybody who everybody who's a resident still en roles for a class in case something Falls you know what if what if a parent loses their and they're like oh I can't afford the tuition you know I mean there's there are reasons for right until we get the exit data until we get dat no no that's true we won't know we won't know why they leave but we can certainly en history we can certainly look at the enrollment history what happened from fy7 up now we can see how many leave we can't see why they the numbers of St yes yes why are they leaving is it because we don't have X or is it because they're just we don't do trades I mean I don't know well you know you know you know the vote there's a motion on the table let's vote on all right anyone else any more discussion so just historically speaking it's around 10 10 to 13ish but 10 except 23 yeah we're with is the same we're going to vote and then if it it fails then we'll make it another motion all right so the motion on the table is zero ready to vote all in favor I I I'm an i opposed no okay so that was two opposed four in favor that motion passes sorry can can we have it on the agenda for like June if there's any recomend like recommendation from Le like if there's sibling or in that or once we get a better idea of who more data but we already voted on it so yeah we have more data yeah if there's if there's some changes absolutely Jess I'm not to that all right Janelle okay right I am um sure so um I I submitted a report in collaboration with Sally and John um and as we were finalizing our budget needs for FY 25 putting our proposals together um des's annual local special education determination was released we were extremely disappointed to receive a needs intervention rating for 2023 um leading up to 2023 the district always received a meets requirements which is the top tier rating um so this definitely came as a a bit of a surprise and as an admin team we took some time to um dive into that rating and the data um to better understand it there's there are a couple pieces that still working on and desie frankly has been a little bit slow in in rolling out some of that information so there are a few details that um I'm not entirely um at full speed with just yet but we're getting there um so the rating is among um eight interconnected ways that desie supervises school districts and there's a graphic that I included in the report to show you that so that graphic represents um this annual rating that we received and interestingly it also includes that TFM rating that we had received um and that I spoke about earlier this school year when we did our tiered Focus monitoring earlier this school year for special education and for civil rights um the district was found to be in compliance with all criteria reviewed so there were no um there weren't issues there and that TFM included an extensive um look at our procedures our policies our and as well as our student records and have included interviews so it was a more holistic look at our um practices and procedures and um but going back to this rating that we're talking about today um this report indicates that despite all of that proper implementation of special education requirements and civil rights the outcomes for students for special education students is not what we would like it to see in some areas the data points that are included in that 2023 rating are from 21 22 and 23 and I don't believe that they are necessarily news to us as a school Community um some of the issues or most of the issues actually identified were corrected before the rating report even came out um as required we're engaged in des's technical assistance root cause analysis and Improvement planning and and the details of that Improvement planning that are already underway are also described in the report any questions opening up for questions for the tier Focus monitoring who was the body that did that that's also desie that's also desie yes so and that's the part of they take a look at districts in so many different ways which is why I included that little puzzle piece graphic to show that they it's not just a oneandone look and review at school district districts they have many different ways to come um in and take a look I have another question for for indicator three the item one that you talked about what are the standards they're talking about is that MC that indicator three does refer to mcals and that's the graph of data that's on page that is also on page three coincidentally um and there's there are four areas that indicator 3 is broken down into um and so ultimately indicator three is a comparison um of proficiency rates for students with and without disabilities and the issue is in the Gap um for achievement in those students what what is the approved or acceptable it is that's a great question I'm not sure that I I would have to get back to you on that what the acceptable Gap Gap is it's a good question done by percentage right so um yeah yeah no I'll keep an eye out for that detail I would imagine it would greatly vary upon the students that have the IPS and what their accommodations are you know I don't I actually I doubt that to be honest I I really do think this is a really a comparison you have this many students with IEPs without IEPs that are taking the test uh I don't believe that that's differentiated by disability or level of me real life yes yes but I don't believe it's taken account to in this rating or in this data feel free um in the elementary um kind of interventions that you mentioned you mentioned the origin Gillingham program um I'm curious when that was implemented like what year so maybe we don't see that effect those effects yet and then if that program is evidence based because I know there's a lot of you know old school reading versus yeah um Orton Gillingham definitely follows the science of reading it's it's up to speed on all of the modern um you know philosophies in Reading instruction it's definitely up to par the district started training um Educators in Orton Gillingham I don't know maybe five or so years ago um but we have definitely increased um our focus on that and we have been able to train additional Educators especially in the last couple of years um at Tanto there is an Orton Gillingham certified educator and there's one at Alan Boon who's in process of earning her certification hopefully by the end of the school year it's an incredibly intensive process um and there is one in Berlin as well that is um certified and in addition to that we have Educators who have received train in those methodologies but perhaps haven't received full certification as you mentioned your report the 10 half days that we approved in our calendar I would imagine help absolutely that y absolutely more you implemented acral District [Music] um I also have questions I know Lisa has questions but no Jess are you all then go ahead Jess okay um it was awesome to see that you mentioned the quest block is going to be moving not only from the middle school but now into Toronto so have the teachers will have that period of time to do those interventions without them missing out in subjects um and then also the Stag program and the bite program but it has social emotional learning components and adjustment counsel and a par professional to help kids coming from absentees into you know back into the school um and actually just due to a grant that we just received we now have a coach from Des that's working with individuals that have that and giving them additional suggestions and those kinds of things so they've just died and go for it I have to figure not Julie did you I was just wondering do you have any idea if this is a trend that is being seen in other school districts in the state um you know I don't have a sense of that to be honest with you I think that you know the rating comes out each year to be honest they change the criteria for the the rating each year I my understanding is it was changed quite a bit this year um and I think that there's so many different VAR variables and it's so data driven um that I do believe that the size of a a school district can contribute to perhaps the rating um you know there was one area that was you know not a strength for us but it really came down to we only had a data set of one student um and unfortunately it was not it wasn't even about the student it was about like the meeting date um so I know that the district size sort of worked against us in that one way but I don't have a I don't have a sense of that did you say the goal po change or the the criteria change this year yes my understanding is that it actually changes each year um and my understanding is you know that shifts a little bit I mean I don't think it's over here and then over here it's it's sort of swaying a little bit in the same area it's all about Federal indicators um and the um my understanding is there were more substantial changes to it this year than perhaps in previous years and schools aren't told those changes beforehand so they can work on it um I don't I don't believe so I believe that they're announced I mean to be honest this 2023 rating didn't come out until just a handful of weeks ago so it it feels like it's that information is coming out much later and I don't know that this is it's it's so data driven I don't know if this is necessarily something like a test that we can study for and really rip up on well there's there's things you are supposed to be doing to fix this so you can't just start working on those before the evaluation like they're going to change the yeah actually some of these pieces that were corrected before the rating even came out right so you have now so that's my question do you know how the rating or how the evaluation criteria is going to change so you can start to address that but you're saying no not necessarily no I mean we know what those Federal indicators are we know what that whole set is I mean those are well known which ones they're going to choose to include in the rating each year can change a little bit so what I mean are you H how does the school fall so far I mean this is the the lowest rating no it is not there's a rating there's a rating low so one rating below so we were high there's a rating below that and then we're here and there's one lower yep and we were um half of one percentage point away from the the the rating above you know it theate the score is the score again we're very disappointed by it um but in looking at it statistically you know we the the very high rate of that so last year we asked for a lot of money from the towns in the budget for special ed we asked for a lot this year again not necessarily getting everything we asked for this is a tough blow to the taxpayers that we're asking money for but it was 23 right so our budget this year didn't Mary doesn't care about that Mary's going to see this and say you know you asked for all this money and yet you're rating fil that's so how do we how do we address I mean our response is why that's why we needed it because we saw this happening and and better you know we hear from the teachers all the time when we're talking about MCAT scores we heard from him uh was it January February the state wants these kids to fail they set the test up for them to fail and then theyve now failed the school because the kids did fail how is that how does that relate so we're expected to have all students particip ipating um in mcast and you can see actually that we meet that standard right that we have 100% of students participating um and you know we have students with a a range of needs and we are providing their services through special education the majority of our students are receiving their instruction um in the general education setting which was a strength in the report that they're included this is a very inclusive School Community our students spend most of the day in you know regular classrooms in the least restrictive environment I think it goes back to the point about professional development um having more time with our teachers so that our teachers are increasingly equipped to meet the needs of all students it's it is particularly complex it certainly doesn't boil down to um a simple fix or a simple answer it seems like such a high or or or large fall in the rating I agree it was pretty it was a tough um it was a quite a as you might imagine and you know I I think it's important too to remember that um of many of these issues the district was able to address before this rating even came out and some of those issues don't necessarily come from with inside a special education right these are this is about how factors are impacting students with special education not necessarily special education practices and procedures so it it's not just one concentrated area it's so the state doesn't think that we're impacting them well enough that that according to that rating that's correct but those issues have been addressed previously before this report and interventions have been put in place so like indicator 13 two out of 40 students there was technical compliance errors that were then fixed could you respecting Hippa and any of that like could you allude to what those those technical errors were like just so we yeah I can yep so for indicat 13 rate so the data set was 40 students um and as you just said there were technical compliance errors for two students one was related to so in I so in special education we WR a document um an IEP an individual education program what drives that plan that program are annual measurable goals that are meant to be updated each year and at a certain age um those schols are meant to be connected to the students postsecondary vision and so this was that the error that was related to that that there was a there was a technical error that one of those goals didn't get updated fully um it doesn't right we we had the meeting we we we still you know did right by the student we still did many things right but when it came to checking 10 or so boxes there was one of those boxes that we couldn't check and that's the reason why so there's one the second one is evidence that if appropriate a representative of any participating agency was invited to the IEP meeting so some students work with additional outside agencies especially as they're approaching um leaving high school so they might be getting services from the Department of Mental Health or Department of Developmental Services they might be working with MRC to get job related skills um and we had a student that was younger than expected to be working with an agency like that we missed inviting that outside person um in the you know the expected amount of time it was a staff misunderstanding we retrained the staff we corrected that error we made sure that that person's input was available for the team and that the student was not negatively impacted it was very much a technical um error and then there's also a pro a problem resolution system PRS that anyone can submit concerns or complaints to that's correct and so there was five five different there were different areas that came out of that and those areas have all been corrected as well um and again some of those areas are um very external um to special education but that do impact all students of course including special education um and it so happened that there was a connection between those two areas and those um between those two groups in in those areas and so I see the the bullying policy needs to be reviewed again in 2024 November of 2024 it needs to be updated again yes please yeah I just missed that one I'm curious like are there other policies that need to be like grasp or like that need to be reviewed at a certain schedule um I believe that there are yes I'm not necessarily prepared to to speak to those at this point but I I do believe yes that there are the masc lets us know that when we when policies need to be updated do they yeah that's how we know what our policies are they they like they just gave Mone date say they have a whole date on in terms of like which are as far as they I don't know like every two years like they I mean because they wouldn't know when we voted on this in November 22 so I don't know they usually let us know when when something when a policy needs to be updated that's within the policy within their in their like yeah they send out bulletins all the time as far as it relates to this I'm not exactly sure what what to answer you but yeah they they send of updates we just didn't we just update it last year November 22 november22 I know yeah that you missed it 23 but we missed it for we missed it so it was 22 right it was done in 2018 and then done again in 2022 so so you missed it for 20 for 20 and I mean 2020 see how it might have happened I'm curious like is is there maybe we need to create a calendar for policies like one we need like Just for future committees like this is poliy need to be reviewed by this point we have you have a calendar okay and so your agendas are B 2020 I wasn't here so I don't know what they were doing then but yeah now there's also that page we were on it yesterday F does anyone have any more questions thank you I just have this committee poliy um actually I think laor and I work at yesterday yes did anyone do you want to speak to it or do you just want questions on um sure I mean I'm just happy to say that um Lisa mayor was on the wellness committee with that with me as well we had a great opportunity through frham State University to take a course that basically taught us how to assess our current policy and how to write a policy that would include all the necessary Federal mandates and so we put it together we also had it reviewed by coaches that work for firmingham state that are also associated with desie and they were all very happy with it so um yes there was a question that I am looking into I've gotten some answers back but I'll follow finish up on that before the thank you anyone have questions on the wellness policy Sally was nice enough to come into our policy subcommittee meeting yesterday and um we went over it and I Lea you weren't there but I I was so impressed by this whole document it was really easy to read to read and it was actually enjoyable to read like oh um but very professional um and comprehensive so nicely done well it was a really great update compared to what we had but it was really what we learned from that from the class so and there were a lot of tools from the government that made it easy for us to you know know what to add and everything and we put her own little you know flare on it but yeah I I feel really happy about it thank you foring to desie didn't you also share with desie yes yes they had a couple of peopleas random question on wellness policy Lisa I noticed walking in on the door there's a u was it a Chipotle fundraiser going on is that what it was oh Saturday oh yeah yeah so there's a part in the wellness policy about any fundraisers involving food has to be certain types of food so we scho during the school day and up to 30 minutes after the day end all right but was the sign up during the school day uh I don't know it's on the front door well it's a fundraiser for and so this is opportunities that a lot of restaurants provide a a lot of local restaurants so they partner with student groups and a certain percentage of the meal goes back to the school so if a family decides to go there for dinner a certain percentage of that you so it's very common yeah the phrasing says parent teacher Association so I assume that would be refering to like what the PTO did from Boon recently send the Flyers home Andy Frozen cookies yeah but the so the wellness policy here says the committee recognizes the value of fundraisers for school sanctioned student groups and clubs so PTO I believe falls under School sanctioned it's they're completely separate uh organizations right but they're fundraising on behalf of the schools so it goes through the fundraising policy page five the phrase says parent teacher associations are asked to research new fundraising opportunities to replace programs promoting unhealthy Foods so would that really affect like Nature's Classroom or yeah that's what I'm asking like are there existing things that the kids are doing for various fundraisers that this is going to impact so that was one of the things we talked about at the policy meeting yesterday was actually going through this and because this does reference other topics that are covered in policies like there's a harassment piece in here we have harassment policies so we just need to make sure that all the policies line up with what this is so wait this policy is going to give what the PTO and other outside separate entities can I don't know it says I'm confused on that that was that was a concern I have as well I think it's just on school ground right this is during the school day and up to 30 minutes dur so like if the PTO wants to send home flyers and they're selling cookie dough they can still do that well we I think I think that part needs to be we talked about needs to specified so this document needs to be specified with that language because I maybe one of the EDS it got cut out or something yeah I mean the general idea is that we don't want to be promoting unhealthy Foods through the schools no I to I totally agree with you yeah you sell pop darts every day roll up every day well well that's the question I didn't have this question before I walked through the door and I saw it on the uh the door so that's why I had the question but you know if the booster sells something during a game for instance at night this doesn't apply to it because it'ser in the day it's after but there are rules about signs being up well the marketing yeah the marketing yeah the marketing is on like things like the ice cream case or something like those kinds of things and that's another policy there's a separate um corporate advertising and in policy I forget the name of it but it covers what type of advertising community school so we just need to make sure this lines up with that and any other policies out there yep yeah I mean just you know having a kid in Nature's Classroom like it's it's all food based basically like you know a night at papaginos or you know um spaghetti dinner which was after school hours but well we verified that it's after school hours right this was not dinners are after school hours those cagino yeah all that stuff that's all after school but this is saying that the PTO couldn't send home magazine yeah no I yeah I agree I know where it it would be the parents decision to purchase that or not I I just it's hard to raise funds as we know and so I I 100% on board healthy food but I think it's gonna handcuff some efforts don't they do a meat raffle too at Santo that's are these directives from desie it's more f okay yeah just because I'm looking at like the the last on page five the last bullet says in school Publications and media like advertisements in school Publications School radio stations and school television computers School sponsored internet sites and announcements on the Public Announcement system so like I'm thinking when we do like our weekly end of the week Roundup if there's an advertisement for something is that does that follow underneath that I think it's just we just want Clarity on it yeah so that language is added publication right so advertising like a Chipotle night or um wouldn't that b a smart snacks I think Chipotle would does chipot would you're go that one of the first things I thought of that I oh John just crammed a bunch of crispy creams Dallas the booster club does like every fall like um bread braids and cookie dough and different things like that so would they not beow owed to advertise their fundraiser like on the door and in the weekly Roundup yeah I think they wouldn't be I I think so we've had problems with and to be clear this is not like you and Sally didn't come this is federal this is you guys are putting everything in alignment that's what I wanted to get out there yes yes that's exactly it but it just encourages us to find better options yeah or I just am curious about this because it it says it's for the marketing of foods so that's a marketing of a fundraiser it isn't marketing a food item so none of these like the Chipotle or the I mean that's that's that's a pretty great area Lis that's like the difference between the school didn't send out a sexuality survey they only encouraged the student to send it I mean that's a great Coca-Cola or something like that right right right but you can purchase it at any one of those locations right right did you guys like run this by the PTO and all that before you are putting it in front of us or did you have the PTO or uh bef or the groups that actually do the fundraising are they aware of this they may not draft we haven't put it into into place but it's a federal directive they just I I agree I agree and I'm trust me I'm all I don't like the cookie dough fundraisers I don't I don't buy that stuff we talked about it a couple of us in the PTO group are aware it for Tanto I think that you guys if this committee would be able to at least Loop in well that's the thing after this is all approved then we need to communicate okay after it's approved yeah all right when it's all in place then you know we'll do more Communications I just like to say I have personally cookie one even though I love our goal for this this put the policy into place and then moving forward it's about communicating and and monitoring the policy okay but so but it's not school it's parents I mean I don't know like it's School sanction groups fundraiser for Nature's Classroom so I mean then that that severely limits how many fundraisers yeah understand some of these things are you know and don't get me wrong when we were talking about some of the fundraisers we have here already we're we're kind of sad you know oh the kids won't be able to do this or that we get it you know but these are the things that were you know Federal mandated but I am also happy to reach out to those coaches and just get further clarification if you might can look into it some more I well I just I'm curious to the phrasing because it says our ask to research new fundraising opportunities so is this I guess how How firm I mean this is like suggest or is it 100% if you don't meet smart snack which prohibited totally familiar with yeah you can Google there's links in the policy yeah is that there's sections on here about the school meal programs so is wion's proposal including all this I believe so but I I don't yeah I just you know so right so that's just interesting like you look at the snacks that we're able to sell to them and they you know so you know I don't know if we've had communication it's just it is interesting and we also make revenue on that right so that's just just fair amount right so tell me that the amount of rollups you're right there's pop tops Bo CHS pop are a smart snack that's what I'm curious like I don't I don't know the answer because because this rule was already in place I mean this was already a federal rule that we were supposed to be following yeah I guess just in the application of out of school not 30 minutes after school from Midnight to 30 minutes after school does it really apply guess is my question no it doesn't it says in there it does not sold during fundrais it's exemp but then does that apply like then we can't send a flyer home with kids that if your parents decide to make that decision I don't think sending well I guess it's the that's what I want to go back to okay all right so if you want to do that that would be good and then we'll you'll bring that back to us next time thanks Sally anything else on that my only question is the discussion around like 20 minutes of recess for the whole day was like because I think it's currently 30 at the schol Le like I'm just curious what the conversation was and why it was only 20 minutes because that seems really I think minimum it's just a legal minimum yeah and and then we just checked around and said what are we actually yeah I do no I just had a clarifying question it sounds like so if if when the policy gets approved then it goes into effect and then anything I get from newsletter advertisement which I'm approving for like PTO and so on that involves food it feels like we need to have a some lead time to educate the different organization that we won't be able to comfortable it might be worth before we actually vote on this is only a first read so it might be worth sending it to them that's what I think in their because we also have to go through this for actual policies that do exist now are they in line like to Jess's point about recess like is this giving an Avenue to cut recess out yeah more recess not less when when it's a simple change to 30 minutes and to your point it doesn't have to be this isn't time sensitive right in terms that we have to vote on it in the next this month or next month even if we look at it in June or we identify those different areas in the meantime talk with can still do that sh W as well I don't know if their bid would change based on this I don't know they've got to be in compliance with Federal Regulations well I know before they were here when Michael anado was on this Wellness committee and at the time we were in compliance so imag we are Jess you might want to email the recess question and the other one you asked to Sally so that she could and maybe look into that or change it I think May 20 minutes is a minimum but maybe for our district we can hold higher standard that would be great all right so that's good and then we'll get an update next time all right between now and next time I will sharing yeah okay and then I'll if you want to send me questions I'll than the recess time and then the the P and if this is approved it doesn't mean that everybody's going to follow it exactly and part of the wellness commit hold on what if it's approved then yes everybody is gonna follow it that's the appr part but part of our the wellness committee's Charter is to monitor compliance with it and and that assumes that you know that not everybody's going to be following everything exactly and just to get feedback on that and to yeah to educate people and to report back and just to to make this healthier food thing and healthier lifestyle thing more of part of the conversation you know more of a consideration okay if we approve it they gotta follow I think she's saying at first it's gonna learning curve and well that's why you said it around now before we approve it yeah but I think it's great that you'll be doing oversight as well because you understand it like you guys have worked so well you put together so you'll be able to disseminate and say listen that you may have done this before but this is what we're encouraging for good reason yeah that beautiful 14 page document two little concerns out of that whole document so thank you for all that time yes thank you so up until the policy approves the cookie D do you have any format I justify it by saying I'm helping the children that's why I like it you know there's uh you know there's one thing in here that's uh going to be an issue in the elementary schools food as a reward or punishment I think when the state senator was here we walked in on a popcorn party so that's that might need to be a looked at well was that for a says it says schools will not use food or beverage as rewards for academic classroom or for sports performance but is that what that party was for uh yeah it was for a reading I think we should just all drap ourselves in Gray and TR through the well listen they're gonna monitor this and you're gonna fail they're gonna monitor this and you're gonna fail fail you John wait Watchers is watching you I mean it's a good idea but the unintended consequences of this need to be looked at but there's not like failure and it's not like a punitive thing it's just more like monitoring and what are we doing so your recess is okay though I saw that rewarding with extra res just not push-ups or running pushups you do ice cream socials for honorable anymore is that a thing still what's that ice cream socials for making the honorable do you do that anymore all theun gone seriously Dre gray and drab like John says I mean we have they had like a celebration with the um ice cream and pizza for um the integrated sports right I mean there's a celebration like it's 30 minut after school but they're during during lunch time so everybody can particip yeah I don't know if you'll be able to do that anymore this so This ex has it's supposed to be it's coming the CDC or the USDA no that's a it's a reward that's a reward it's a reward doesn't matter what the food is it's a reward but if it's during lunch it's a reward if the kids got from the cafeteria went to the room this is schols It's policy jul they love it I'm yeah I'm for healthy this but the new service I guess is you know just to what I'm also saying is the new service right that's following these these mandates we still are selling ice cream every day we still have you know what I'm saying there's still chips available like that is still somehow working in their configuration right for the meals well we have snacks too additional right that's not their meal additional pieces it's it's like snacks so once they're finished with their meal and they're C up they can buy a snack luckily otherwise they're going to make us crazy because bunch is a half well we'll have to find out about that that yeah just there I mean I think it already must be allowed so kind just to understand that like why it's allowed I mean they're they're getting the the backing of you know the government funding right for those right abely stand this might be another when Nancy comes back this might be another question to ask her during this whole process with witson did they go overhand this could wouldn't Rob I mean would know them too unfortunate I do remember with the snack line because I was working the snack line for a while while we were short staffed and during the changeover I do remember the ordering became different because we had to adhere to stricter guidelines so while we still have ice cream like like some of how we were ordering right we had to fit in this mold so like we have a lot of more baked chips for example right we have like the gummies maybe went out or the fruit RS there's some changes there that probably meet these guidelines I do think that that shift has happened yeah so this is and kids haven't been dramatically like yeah you know compromised because it I think they're still hope better so what you're saying is this is based on federal guidelines Federal programs federal laws we don't necessarily need a policy to have been to know that we're supposed to follow this or we need a wellness policy I mean we need a wellness policy to educate people and and make sure we're we're doing it but we don't need a policy to say follow the law that's what a law is you gotta kind of follow it right I don't know they took us class one yeah I mean those things do exist yeah yeah so you don't need this if this policy didn't exist we would still have to follow federal guidelines for serving food in schools so there's a lot of federal stuff that's out there that schools are supposed to follow even if we don't have a policy for it all right so it brings it all together yeah it brings it it's a centralized document it helps us make sure we're doing what we're supposed to okay thank youbody W so confident they didn't bring a spread like last time there anything else no great thank you for that long work on C Jess would you like to give the update for Student Success in technology sube have you met we have not met okay so I mean the only thing would be to review the master plan in the future all right the budget sub committee has also not met so there's been no update since the budget was voted um Lori do you want to give an update on the superintendent evaluation sub committee yes so we we haven't met because we're going to be meeting a lot come May um but in May I think the six may be our meeting um and then the week the week after that is when you will be getting your um your individual we do a self- evaluation for the um school committee and then shortly thereafter we'll be doing the superintendent so more information will be available at the next meeting but just that they're coming up those those color Mike did you have an update for the policy yeah uh there's a handful of policies that we got from MC the around the use of technology that are new policies there's a handful that are also just changes to existing ones that we haven't sent to you yet but the new ones I think you do have them for first read uh Paul weighed in on them uh so his changes are in them there are a couple things that you know there's a placeholders because they're a brand new policy they don't have all the bbrsd language in there so that will get in there uh cross references to actual policies might need to be updated but you have the handful of those we did talk about the wellness policy with Sally so we covered that already uh the only other thing we updated was uh related to the surveys that were sent out a few months ago masc does have a policy on that so we looked at that that is uh a policy based on a federal ruling or or law again we had some changes that we discussed on that not not necessarily changes but clarifications that we might want to do we're going to send those to Kim before they come to you so that she has a chance to weigh in on it before you guys look at it I mean you can look at it if you want but before we bring it forward to the committee is that I uh I yeah yeah that's it okay thank you uh Carol do you want to give your report yeah sure couple things um in my report I did have um information here about the student nurses I just wanted to make you aware of this I was excited we have an ongoing relationship for years with qcc um they asked if they could bring in student nurses to work with us and we do have them coming as April they do a rotation so there'll be extra pairs of hands in um we asked all three nurses who wanted them so they'll be working in Boon and Tanto and we're excited they're all cored soared fingerprinted um but I think for the remainder of the year it would be great to have those those students helping out in in the in the nurse's office I'd love to keep them all year i' come bring them so any I just want you to be aware of that U Berlin lease agreement uh as I you had a chance to vote on the one lease agreement the draft um Chris Kristen Rubin and um Spencer Holland from mer o Connell they their our attorney Heather White we all got together in February to review the changes after we went we voted they went to Berlin they looked at they had some changes the lawyers was fascinating fought it out on all about real estate issues it was really interesting because the it's just about the language you know that's used so they cleaned it up they work together on it anyway what you see in front of you is what we hope to be the final product I think the big piece of this um that I wanted to point out in the lease agreement that we we came to agreement on and I think that it's a good decision um and Kristen and I felt felt very comfortable with this basically the town will follow what our policy is so what so that they don't have to keep redoing a lease every time if we change policies Through The Years so for example the facilities use whatever our policy says is what they will follow what they will ensure anybody who wants to use the building follows and what they will follow as well um it's for example Town meetings and so on so that's on page two um de of release premise and that's a really big change I want us to have a chance to vote on it do select board for and we'll be voting on it on April 22nd and we're hoping that we finally have our lease in place to to meet the regional district um Regional agreement um and then I know that Boon is anxiously awaiting this so that they can use similar language probably have less of TR so does anyone have any questions on the lease Julie you you're good with the use part for basketball and whatnot yeah I I read it I read it as um that the town I this done that when it's Town sponsored events then we lesser should be responsible right so if any Town sponsored events basically it says on page two the Lester shall comply with all building news policies and so whatever policy we have in place right it's our policy it's a school committee policy yeah okay because they don't really have the policies in place they'd rather just follow what they what we want them to do well didn't we didn't we kind of go around that when we had the um covid with the Board of Health remember we lifted The Mask mandate and they still have the mask mandate in Berlin and I remember the gentleman from the Board of Health said no we want the school make decisions for the school building I like I like that it gives us the the control and the oversight that we need to have of I agree of what happens in the school even though Town owns the building they're still giving us a lot of latitude that makes sense to me yeah because posi you have to pay for no I thought they Chang that but for this year right yeah yeah and I thought that policy was they were going to look at so again I you I think that's I thinkc I can't remember yeah uh yeah we we we've sorted it out for now and then we were waiting for the lease to come yeah so then you guys can take a pass so they're saying decide what you want policy I think that's good because it's ever changing and it's on the school commit shoulders so they'll have to look at that policy after we approve this lease right so then that there's a vote on that tonight just the lease on the lease yeah we'll vot right we can vote right now yeah that's why I want to see does anyone have any other questions on it all right could I have a motion to approve the Berlin lease as written so moved L Jess any more discussion I all in favor hi thank you and thanks to Kristen rubben um and our Le attorneys Spencer Holland and U Heather White who really did a great job with this and everybody worked really well together sorting this out I'm happy it's finally done check um any any we just had a vote were there any any opposed no all right sorry no just want to finalize the vote all right I was an i as well so that motion passes did you get that Nicole all right thank you and then just a question I wanted to put out to everybody in the preparation for the town meetings we we talked about this earlier in the meeting um I didn't know if you want to do anything or if we just on April 23rd we do have that meeting time available to talk in preparation of the town meeting to to to sort things out to to know who's going where what what are the potential questions were going to be asked who's going to speak just basic prep things or leave that to the budget subcommittee to meet on that I just wanted to bring it forward to all of you because I don't want to go in if there's anything that needs to be brought up we probably should meet as the full committee but um okay so speaking of that I was maybe this the time to ask you what the situation I guess I don't know the situation last meeting we had the budget Forum we had Mary brought new numbers to us that we weren't where it changed so when Nancy comes back from her leave will she be able to give us an update before the town meeting of have any numbers changed uh what is the actual numbers that we need to make sure we're doing what do we need to say maybe we should have a meeting with her to figure it out well that's that's why I'm wondering if we should have to discuss all that do we need to reach out to link to to do another effort our budget is different Carol and I are meetings link on Thursday to see anyone that's from that wants to come and welcome it's Thursday at 7 right Carol yeah so I just want to throw whatever you so why don't we do you guys want to plan for um so Nancy will be back for to leave by then she can give us the updated numbers in the state all right you guys want to plan for attentative Zoom meeting on April 23rd okay all right so we'll do that we'll plan for a zoom meeting all right Carol did you have anything else to say yes all right we've got two votes so the first one is the approval of the PF Bingo fundraiser and the service of alcoholic beverages so I'll speak to that and then I'm going to abstain from voting on that um who is speaking to the Nature's Classroom is that you Jess or is that Cindy I can do that oh what I just donations that we received okay all right so you guys all right so why don't we do that one first so let's um did anyone have any questions about the donations that that's the stuff you've received thus far correct Cindy yes from your fundraisers th far Okay so we've have some donations we need to approve tonight does anyone have any questions about those donations there'll be more coming and in in May 7th is the last meeting before the trip okay so I just I just all right yeah yeah no it'll be on agenda for May 72 y yeah because I know Keith um from Keith's music house they're doing a fundraiser there so we'll make sure we get that on the agenda it's both schools it's both schools all right all right so could I have a motion to approve or to accept the donations to pay for the bbrsd Nature's Classroom field trip so moved okay l no Julie didn't obain no I all right you can I need a second all right Lisa all right any discussion on those there's a lot of documentation on these donations I like it did you hear that good job that it's about time nice to hear that hey you don't want to run into that situation where the parent wanted to take the money back last time all right all in favor I uh any opposed I abstain Jess is going to abstain I'm an i as well that motion passes all right so for the Bingo fundraiser um and the service of alcoholic beverages did anyone have any questions on that there was a blur this is exactly what the group did last year um so they have post a bingo night and then they're going to purchase alcohol from a distributor and sell it to make a little bit more money um the event is outside of the school in the event of rain alcohol will still be kept outside the school sold and kept outside the school um there's police detail was there any other questions on that how did it go it went well it went well we raised an extra thousand from the alcohol yeah yep yep any issues that arose think there's there's limits on the DRS you can't yeah limits on the DRS so you can charge a lot for alcoholic beverages now I know we should increase the prices yep were there any issues that are real with p no issues at all everyone behaved yeah it was fun it was a fun little event all right um so could I have motion to approve the bef Bingo fundraiser and service of alcoholic beverages so L second Lisa any discussion okay all in favor any or any opposed I'm going to abstain so that motion passes all right I think that's it we're going to have a zoom meeting on the 23rd with that said could I please have a motion to adjourn the meeting soor any all in favor all right I'm I well thank you thank you

good afternoon welcome to the committee on education today is Wednesday April 10th 3:00 and we are in room 229 this Zoom meeting and YouTube live stream event will include the 3:00 p.m.

all right all right welcome to the 2024 prom fashion show hosted by the National Honor Society of Kate May County Technical High School this is the 15th annual fashion show we would like to thank you for supporting our fundraiser and making this prom fashion show of reality with your support we will be able to accomplish more charitable endeavors at this time that we ask that you silence all cell phones and observe your closest exits in case of an emergency also restrooms are located to the right when you exit the Mac gym without further Ado let's begin our 2024 prom fashion show we embrace the groove and funkiness of the 70s with our fashion showcase which is fit for Disco Kings and Queens our first couple Riley Wilder and Tommy [Applause] Cher Riley Walks Like She's entering Studio 54 as she flaunts a sparkling show stoer red sequin and crusted ball gown it is adorned with a satin lining that has been intricately detailed with sparkles along the dress is a plunging illusion neckline that is perfect for a night full of danc this dress is designed by Cinderella from Groovy Girls Riley's hair and makeup was done by Cynthia Garcia [Applause] BOS Tommy is wearing a navy blue perelis suit accompanied by a white shirt and a dazzling red tie all brought together with a brown leather dress shoes he looks slick in this suit and they are both ready for the dance floor [Applause] our next couple is Jennifer De La Cruz and Ryan [Music] [Applause] [Music] coffee Jennifer comes in a stunning iridescent Navy gown it is ple with its pleated glitter f fabric that gives texture to the V front bodice and slit accented skirt this gown shimmers like a disco ball giving it an enchanting and Timeless effect this dress was designed by lefem from Groovy Girls Jennifer's hair was done by Cynthia Garcia BOS Ryan is walking in the Pronto wo Ivory Shaw lapel dinner jacket paired with Vera Wang's slim black tuxedo pants black fitted shirt and matching bow tie to complete his look Ryan has on Joseph abod tuxedo shoes he's sure to have an electric night in this classic suit this tuxedo is provided by The Men's Warehouse our next couple is Carly Payne and Matthew [Applause] [Music] hurt pulling up in her Classic Ford Mustang Cari is Dawning a glamorous gold gown coupled with a corset bodice to give a flamboyant appearance this dress is radiantly decorated with sequins from top to bottom as well as slits to complement the dynamic gown this dress was designed by Knox from Groovy Girls Carly's hair and makeup was done by Belle Pearson [Music] Matthew is wearing a Calvin Klein black suit with this look we paired it with a white shirt and a long gold tie and a black dress shoe Matthew looks absolutely retro in this look and this couple will look dashing walking down the [Music] runway [Music] [Applause] [Music] our next couple is Angel sneen and Tyler [Applause] [Music] Mahan Angel is wearing a shimmering pale pink glitter dress the dress displays a spaghetti strap is encrusted with sparkles and a v back that highlights its Elegance in this ball gown silhouette Angel is ready to rock the boat this dress was designed by Nicole's collection from Groovy Girls Angel's hair and makeup was done by Lindsay Dev Tyler is wearing a men's apt nine navy blue jacket and black pants this suit is paired with a pink tie and black shoes Tyler looks dashing and the couple is ready to party The Night [Music] Away all right our next couple is Ali Jonathan and Lucas wolock all [Applause] right Ali is looking Chic with a hand Beed full sequin mint gown this dress is coupled with crisscross adjustable straps and a plunging back emulating a vivacious image she looks radiant and ready to [Applause] Jive this dress is designed by Alice Paris from Groovy Girls Lucas is dressed in a Calvin Klein black suit and a fancy mint bow tie with the suit is a white shirt and black leather shoes to bring this look together Lucas Looks So Sophisticated in this outfit this couple is ready for Studio 54 let's give them a round of applause [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] again our next couple is Jamie U and Ben [Applause] Lynch Jamie is strutting down the runway sporting a cool midnight navy dress this showstopping dress with a tulle skirt completes this vibrant look a long flowy bottom adds a subtle touch to this glittering ball gown this dress is designed by lefem from Groovy Girls Jamie's beautiful hair and makeup was done by Shayla [Music] Batista Ben is wearing a sharp black perelis suit accompanied with a white shirt and a black tie his black shoes brighten up the look for the big night Ben and Jamie will be owning that dance [Music] floor looking good you guys [Music] [Applause] [Music] our next couple Malia Moore and Zach [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Steelman [Music] [Applause] Malia is displaying this Soulful red mermaid dress the fit and flare silhouette showcases her gorgeous shape looking expensive and ready for a night full of Charlie's angelesque [Music] activities Zach is wearing a ver Wang midnight threepiece tuxie dough this tux is popular for the black Notch lapel this look is paired with a navy paisley long tie to bring it all together Zach is wearing a Joseph Abode matte black shoes Zach looks Dapper in this [Music] Ensemble they are ready for the dance floor this tedo was provided by Men's [Music] [Applause] Warehouse wor up next we have Evelyn Woodruff and Billy [Music] Rutherford Evelyn is showcasing a flashy purple corset top dress her dress exudes a sweet yet alluring vibe that incorporates a touch of sophistication the dress features purple sequence and has a high side slit which gives a funky Vibe this dress is designed by Knox from grovy girls Evelyn's hair and makeup was done by Cassidy Elliott Billy is wearing a black pre- whisk suit with a white shirt and a plum tie to finish off the look Billy has Dexter black shoes doesn't he look just funky on the runway they're going to have the time of their lives dancing the night [Music] away I've been our next couple is Lily palaski and Aiden rello in a I know everything can change [Music] Lily takes the runway by storm in her magnificent charcoal gray wrap dress featuring a slit skirt and a plunging neckline this dress embodies a romantic and Lively style this off the hook silhouette and pattern of glitter and gleam sparkles in the light this dress was designed by Cinderella from Groovy Girls Lily's hair and makeup was done by Cassidy [Music] Elliot Aiden is string his stuff in a gray Joseph Abode threepiece tuxedo this look is paired together with a white fitted shirt and a black tie to finish the look it was paired with black Joseph abod shoes he's looking very handsome styled in this suit on stage this suit was provided by Men's [Music] Warehouse our next couple dyra Perez ban and Lucas [Applause] wock W daa is dripping with a peel and opland strutting with a cream lace ball gown with a flower design overlay engulfing the entire gown with a core set inspired bodice and a sheer fabric to reveal the beautiful dress this dress features layers of Sparkle perfect for dancing down the newly opened Main Street of USA this beautiful dress is designed by omara from Groovy Girls D's hair and makeup was done by Cassidy Elliot Lucas is dressed in a Calvin Klein black suit and a fancy green tie with the tuck is a white shirt and a black leather shoe to bring this look together Lucas Looks So Sophisticated in this outfit these two are ready to strut their stuffff [Applause] the sparkles on that dress [Applause] [Music] woo our next couple is Lisa sharifi and Matthew [Music] HZ Lisa is showcasing a hypnotic Navy dress that turns heads everywhere this beautiful full sequin dress embodies her life life of the party style the plunging v neck flows effortlessly into the V back and creates a stunning visual this dress is designed by lefem from Groovy Girls Lisa's beautiful hair and makeup was done by Cynthia Garcia [Music] [Applause] BOS Matthew is wearing a per Ellis dark blue suit with a long blue tie with this look we paired with a white shirt and black dress shoes Matthew looks absolutely retro with this look these two are hip and ready for the dance [Music] [Applause] [Music] scene our next couple is Shaye Maldonado and Ryan [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] coffee Shaye is adorned in a gorgeous black gown defined by a corseted embroidered Fuller top that Cascades down the top of the slit Shaylee is ready to Boogie the night away with [Applause] Ryan this dress is designed by fava from Groovy Girls Shay's beautiful hair and makeup was done by Cynthia Garcia [Music] BOS Ryan is walking in the newest release jacket from when Men's Warehouse the dinner jacket is a Pronto wo Ivory paired with Vera Wang's slim tuxedo pants black fitted shirt and a matching bow tie to complete his look Ryan has on Joseph Abode tuxedo shoes Ryan is sure to have an amazing night with this classic suit provided by men's [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Warehouse up next we have Katrina peas and Ben [Applause] Lynch [Applause] [Music] just like Farah faucet Katrina is wearing a glamorous red corsetted gown with sequin bodice with a long risque side slit this dress is a sheath and has a style to leave everyone in awe this dress was designed by Young from Groovy Girls Katrina's hair and makeup was done by Devin mathys Ben is wearing a sharp black Perry Ellis suit accompanied with a white shirt and a red bow tie his black shoes brighten up the look for the big night what a groovy outfit to match a groovy dress The Tuxedo is provided by Men's Warehouse [Applause] [Music] [Applause] our last couple is Laura schweer and Zach [Applause] [Music] Steelman Laura is wearing a retro hot pink G down with a comfortable fabric to dance to Abba Diana Ross and Ellen John it has a rousing bodice to finish the dress off this dress is strapless and has a high thigh slit and a side train to leave everyone speechless this dress is designed by LA deine from Groovy Girls Laura's hair and makeup was done by Belle Pearson Zach is wearing a ver Wang midnight tuxedo this three-piece tuxedo is popular for the double toned and black Notch lapel this look is paired with a navy paisley long tie and to bring it together Zach is wearing a Joseph Abode matte black shoe tuxedo provided by Men's Warehouse they are ready for that dance floor all right let's give a big round of applause for our first [Music] models we hope you enjoyed the first half of the show we will now start intermission so please feel free to purchase any food or last minute raffle tickets during this time we have plenty of raffle baskets right outside in the hall and in 20 minutes our second act will be begin see you all there this look is paired with a mint bow tie to bring it all together Zach is wearing the Joseph Abode matte black shoes this couple looks timeless [Music] our next couple is Riley Wilder and Ben [Applause] [Music] Lynch right rocks a killer black dress that screams hotness this Black Beauty has a plunging V back with spaghetti straps Riley is ready to strut her stuff and blow everyone away this dress is designed by Knox from Groovy Girls Riley's hair and makeup done by Cynthia Garcia BOS escorted by Ben who is wearing an all black Calvin Klein suit accompanied with a black tie and black Docker dress shoes then looks showstopping in this suit and the couple looks fashionable fun and hip looking hip [Applause] guys up next we have Ali Jonah Saint and Cher whoa okay the mic is back I'm back Ali Jonah Saint and Tommy cherra all right Ally is moving her way onto the stage with a lavender laced gown the corset top of the dress displays a lacy pattern that flows into a rose garden to capture everyone's attention the stone throughout the dress shine as she moves which are perfect for Boogie Nights this dress is designed by Knox from Groovy Girls Tommy has on a sharp navy perelis suit accompanied by a groovy lavender tie all tied together with black dress shoes Tommy and Ally you are ready for everything the disco club has has to [Applause] [Music] offer our next couple Lily palasi and Tyler Mahan Lily appears in a showstopping royal blue gown the dress has a radical A-line cut with an edgy side slit yet still has an Elegance with its rhinestones and embroidery the satin skirt shines in the light she is ready to Electric Slide her way into our hearts this dress is designed by Annabelle from Groovy Girls Lily's hair and makeup was done by Cassidy Elliott Tyler is wearing an at9 light gray suit suit to go along with the suit Tyler has a royal blue tie styled with a white shirt and black leather shoes Tyler looks like a disco King in this tux the duo are ready to groove all night long up next we have Angel sneen and Aiden rello Angel is ready to hit the dance floor in her gorgeous black lace dress beautiful corset top and open back bringing out her for risque side with just a dash of Sparkle and Lace for some [Music] flare this dress was designed by Annabelle from Groovy Girls Angels beautiful hair and makeup was done by Lindsay [Applause] [Music] Devo aen is strutting his stuff in a light gray Joseph Abode threepiece tuxedo the look is paired together with a white fitted shirt and a black tie to finish it was paired with black Joseph a boat shoes Aiden looks like a stud styled in this suit on stage this couple look is off the hook all right look at those dance [Music] moves this tuxedo was provided by Men's Warehouse up next back on the runway we have Jamie U and Billy [Music] [Applause] Rutherford Jamie is wearing a ravishing Blue Ball g that loves some on screen attention the lovely lace is complimented by the v-neck and v-neck and mischievous slit the dress is also practical with pockets on the side this dress truly is meant to party on the Boogie Night Floor dance floor this dress was designed by lefem from Groovy Girls Jamie's hair and makeup was done by Shayla Bautista Billy is wearing a black preswick suit with a royal blue tie and to finish off the look Billy has a Dexter black shoe Billy looks classic in this suit and this couple is ready for the disco [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] scene I know way and alone you thinking our next couple is Malia Moore and Matthew [Music] hurt Leah is ready to get her groove on approaching the stage in an iconic lilac gown the beautiful pattern and fitted ches accentuates her figure making her Stand Out sequined from head to toe this gown will have everyone hypnotized Matthew is showing off a dark gray Perry Ellis suit with a white shirt and a purple blue purple tie paired with black shoes Matthew looks like a true Casanova in this suit I don't know about you all but I think this couple is ready to boogie [Music] down we used to no other way to say I need you every day and [Music] now introducing our next couple we have Carly Payne and Tommy [Applause] [Music] cherra [Music] Carly struts her stuff in a Black Sheath dress this jersey knit dress has a cutout stomach and is complimented by a high side slit for a bit of drama the dress also includes a on shoulder look this dress was designed by a tree designs from Groovy Girls Carly's hair and makeup was done by Brielle Pearson Tommy is wearing a navy perelis suit accompanied with an elegant Black Tie white shirt tied together with a pair of brown leather dress shoes doesn't Tommy look dashing and this couple is ready to dance the night [Applause] away [Music] our next couple Evelyn Woodruff and Aiden Rella are back on the [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] runway [Music] [Applause] Evelyn is wearing a stunning two-piece pink sequin dress it has a v-neck and spaghetti straps with a cropped top she looks like the life of the party this this dress was designed by lefem from groupy girls Evelyn's hair and makeup was styled by Cassity Elliot escorting Evelyn is Aiden strutting his stuff in a light gray Joseph Abode Three Peaks tuxedo the look is paired together with a white fitted shirt a pink bow tie for pop of color and to finish the look he is wearing black Joseph Abode shoes he looks smoking styled in this suit on stage this couple looks far [Music] out this tuxedo is provided by Men's [Music] Warehouse up next we have have Lisa Shari and Ryan [Applause] coffee you [Music] are together let's get high boogieing down Lisa walks with a black sparkling [Music] gown this radiant dress features an a-line silhouette that flows gracefully with black appliques and purple lining this beautiful dress was designed by teas prom from Groovy Girls Lisa's hair and makeup was done by Cynthia Garcia [Music] BOS Ryan is walking in the newest release jacket from Men's Warehouse the dinner jacket is a Pronto wo Ivory paired with Vera Wang slim tuxedo black fitted shirt and a matching bow tie to complete his look Ryan has on a G of Abode tuxedo shoe and he is sure to have an amazing night in this suit this couple will be driving to the music all night [Music] [Applause] [Music] long up next we have Shaye Maldonado and Lucas wolock [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Shaye is coming in hot with this teered skirt dress it leaves a mark with its vibrant Barbie pink color that dones a corset top and sparkles that are scattered exquisitly onto the Gown Shaye demonstrates a thigh high slit bringing an iconic element to this beautiful gown this dress is ready to wear at Studio 54 this dress was designed by Annabelle from Groovy Girls Shay's hair was styled by Cynthia Garcia BOS her escort Lucas is dressed in a Calvin Klein black suit with a white shirt and fancy pink tie he is wearing a black leather shoe to bring this look together doesn't look doesn't l look like the man this Duo is ready to rock the night away let's see a taste of those dance moves all [Music] right our next couple Di is Ban and Billy [Music] Rutherford [Music] [Applause] you you're going to fall find [Music] another when you go to daa conveys a beautiful blue gown the corset top bodice is packed with layers of Sparkles and a floral design that flows seamlessly into the side slit as she walks she gives off the essence of a dancing queen this dress is designed by Annabelle from Groovy Girls D hair and makeup was done by Cassidy [Music] Elliot Billy is wearing a navy blue preswick jacket with black pants and a royal blue tie to finish off the look Billy has Dexter black shoes doesn't he look just funky on the runway this couple looks off the hook as they get ready to party [Music] our next couple is Katrina peas and Tyler [Applause] [Music] Mahan [Music] [Applause] [Music] Katrina is walting in a stunning lavender gown this deep neckline is masterfully made with abstract sequins and embroidery with volum volum with volume and Feathers it has spaghetti straps that tie in a crisscross pattern in the back Katrina looks gorgeous in this [Music] gown this dress was designed by Knox from Groovy Girls Katrina's hair and makeup was done by Devin [Music] [Applause] mathys dancing down the runway is Tyler wearing an apt n navy blue suit this suit is paired with a white shirt and a purple tie and black apine shoes doesn't he look d crashing this Duo looks radical moving down the [Music] [Applause] [Music] runway and now last but not least our final couple liser and Ryan [Applause] [Music] coffee [Applause] [Music] Laura is dancing down the runway in a vibrant orange dress this decorated dress is masterfully made with hand beating that flows from top to bottom disco Glam is the only way to describe Laura in this dress this dress was designed by Alice Paris from Groovy Girls Laura's hair and makeup was styled by Belle Pearson Ryan is walking in the newest release jacket from when Men's Warehouse the dinner jacket is a Pronto wo Ivory paired with Vera Wang slim tuxedo black fitted shirt and matching bow tie to complete his look Ryan has on a Joseph AB Bo tuxedo shoe he is sure to have an amazing night in this classic suit Laura and Ryan are ready to hit the dance floor and party all night long we would now like to give one last round of applause to our models as they take one last walk down the [Music] [Applause] [Music] runway [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] chance [Applause] sh you think [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'm [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] w [Music] [Applause] [Music] all [Applause] right I he toes I he toes Door sing [Applause] again sing it's [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Ryan lost me now I know is that you're killing me so [Music] slow you all the light disappearing all the time don't [Music] [Applause] [Music] know all right one more time we would like one more round of applause for our models as they take one final walk down this [Music] [Applause] Runway can you look me in the [Applause] face tell me we okay you're not call me you're not call me you're calling someone else I know is that killing me so slow I you I disappearing all the time [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] don't you and I disappearing all the time don't know we [Music] W Mrs Tac and our models would like to express their sincere appreciation to everyone who played a part in the success of our prom fashion show our gracious benefactors are Groovy Girls of SE City and Men's Warehouse of maze's Landing Groovy Girls has generously supplied us with the gowns while Men's Warehouse has provided us with tuxedos for tonight Mrs Tac and the National Honor Society would also like to thank Miss Craig our MC Mr Jones the communication Arts technology teacher and all of his students the Kate May Tech it Department Mrs Holland and our cosmet our cosmetology teacher and her students for styling the hair and makeup for models also the Kate May Tech buildings and ground staff for setup we have come to the end of our 2024 prom fashion show at this time the prizes will be raffled off in this very room we hope you had an awesome time and extend our gratitude to everyone who made the event possible so please have a safe trip home and stay [Applause] groovy

e start to make a positive impact on this on the school achievement what truly sets Nicholas apart is his wavering determination to overcome challenges and his ability to inspire others to reach the full potential Nicholas know that your hard work dedication and passion have not gone unnoticed you have made a lasting impact on the school and we're immensely proud to have you as a superintendent student of the month congratulations on this well deserved honor and may your future be filled with continued success please join me and congratulating Nicholas Edward Williams on being named our superintendent student of the month for the fifth grade [Applause] Char awesome today's a special day as we gathered here to celebrate the incredible achievements of exceptional students fills me with great joy and a pride to stand before you members of the board administrators colleagues proud our parents families friends and students to honor our superintendent student of the month inah aary School sixth grader uh sixth grader level Helena [Music] Sandoval congratulating our student well recoga dedication hard work and passion have not gone a notic you have inspired your teachers classmates and all those around you by consistently demonstrating immense potential and remarkable Talent as we look deeper into what makes the truly exceptional we discover someone with a heart that radiates kindness compassion and empathy elenia can often be found extending a helping hand to others seeking help when someone Concepts I mean when some concepts are unclear performing all classroom task with Excellence respect and always ready to uh to lend lening ear these qualities Mak her not only a stellar student but an extraordinary human being as well in addition to her compassionate nature she possesses an avid thirst for knowledge and unwavering curiosity but about lessons throughout the academic Journey she has shown exceptional perseverance in the face of adversity she has displayed strength and determination in spite of all the learning barriers reminding us all of the Power of resilience and persistence she became a shining example with her being a consistent a student that that setbacks are are mere Stepping Stones on the path to success as we reflect on the impact as she made in our class we are reminded of the saying the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams she embodies this principle lessly dreaming big and working tirelessly to turn those dreams into reality her commitment to Excellence makes all believe that no goal is too ambitious and no dream is beyond reach congratulations once again to lus and doal our student of the month we are immensely proud of you and we cannot wait to witness um the many amazing things you will continue to achieve thank you there you go wait good job uh good evening everyone uh neaters parents co teachers visitors uh tonight uh I stand before you with very immense PR andjoy to recognize our Seven Grade uh student of the other more I'll thenation the ofs has and forgettable Mark in my heart but still have more time okay and mine as it's not often that we encounter a young mind so profoundly passionate about that lexity of that's okay the Elegance of equations and then the beauty of maem the student whose name sounds with Brilliance in our classrooms has have only demonstrated exceptional aptitude but has also exemplified qualities of respect okay responsibility and Readiness that are truly commendable or commendable is unw respect toward his classmates and teachers poster environment of collaboration Mutual support and enriching The Learning Experience of all what sh said is uh said him aart is his remarkable work ethic and passion for mathematics every day he approaches each problem with tenacity every question with cuity and every concept with Hunger for understanding that is both inspired and infect us his dedication to mastering the subject is nothing short of Exemplar and his commitment to exence serve as a bacon of inspiration for as moreover he say of responsibility is evident in every task he undertakes whether it's compelling assign completing assignments with meticulous pression or taking on leadership rules within group projects He approaches each responsibility with sense of purpose and dedication that is truly admirable so I want to express my deest gratitude to this exceptional student with his uning dedication his boundless passion and his exemplary character so Al's parents congratulations okay thank you for support for Alin for trusting us with the privilege of being part of alin's academic Journey again congratulations [Music] you [Music] Dro Dr members of the board dear teachers parents students good even it is my dis honor and privilege to be here with this evening to present the student of the month award for the eth grade student but before announcing the name let me take a moment a very short moment to share to everyone why we chose this to this student Exel an academic and her behavior in and out the classroom is impressive she demonstrated excellent achievement by maintaining an a gra in her subjects her work ethic is also something that we teachers admire and appreciate she maintains positive attitude towards learning and willingly takes on feedback to improve her learning St of the month award is given to Madison [Applause] this certificate is awarded to Madison colen you are being selected by your teachers for your outstanding academic achievement based on excellence and growth in your classroom you have modeled great behavior that follows the a school district regat expectations of being responsible respectful and ready to learn thank you for serving as an exceptional student Learner in AO UniFi School District signed by Dr shos principal and Dr s superintendent [Applause] [Music] group youall want to join we will one two three one two [Music] three all the rest of ready two guys want to come up here thought I was K [Music] two onell you we 10 gon not said leave your not unall player one two three one two three thank you thank you up here one two three one two [Music] three Mr President that concludes our Awards and recognition of parents so grandparents cousins aunts teachers uh friends family you're welcome to stay uh but if you want to go home and do homework or have dinner but I know the board would love for you to see the whole Mee if you want to so we like for you stay you guys want to go go and thank you thank it's almost like they didn't want to hear the second reading of all they' learned fast conratulations [Music] and now we just Okay so we've already done consent agenda next item is the 2425 support staff hourly rate schedule we yes the beginning yeah it was right before call to visitors comments yeah it was C okay I thought that was an adoption of the agenda not the actual no you are correct you are correct now e is approval of consent agenda items C is adoption of agenda so we've done the approval of cons agenda item c and e yeah we adopted the pledge we did them the separate votes yeah we did the Pledge then we did approval the consent agenda you adopt the agenda and then it goes to a bus Pro you ad looking at the schedule here it's adopting the agenda Pledge of Allegiance approval of consent agenda and then public comments that's yes okay so now yes the 2425 support staff hourly rate schedule Mr Hopkins members of the board advisers from True professionals with the administration have provis the classified already rate scheduled for the 2425 school year revised hourly rate schedule when approved will be used to issue 2425 classified work agreements recommend the approval of the attached to classified support staff R schedu we also have our professionals consultant C from Gober Unified School District Mr Tyler Moore here um as well okay and may I have a motion on that I'll make the motion I'll second any discussion that's f uh president Hopkin M of the board um so I worked uh to revise this schedule um there's there's two sheets if you go to the first sheet the 23 24 um this is kind of where where you were a lot of these these rates were outdated um you can see the the 1280 is well below the minimum wage right now in the state of Arizona um and so um the salary schedule needed some updating um and then in alignment with Dr f and some of the the changes that we've done on the certified schedule in terms of increases if you go to the 25 2425 schedule um we've um brought up the ranges the rates um and created more of a range um this honors individuals who have more experience and then also creates a base rate for some of these positions um the reason we got got up to $15 is because we anticipate the minimum um uh minimum U hourly rate to go to about 1485 come December 31st so rather than coming back forth to the board to bring another change uh which being proactive in the sense um and getting up to 15 to to make sure that we're good for the whole entire fiscal year as you know the minimum wages is adjusted on a calendar year right schools operate on a fiscal year so um anytime we can be par Ive and and not have much change throughout F school year it's very efficient um the finance staff and and the payroll um so that's some of the reasons why 15 is recommended uh as as one of your lowest hourly rates um and you'll notice a few title changes I think Dro can elaborate on some of those those are in alignment with some of the organizational chart changes and then just creating operational efficiencies as you review this annually is best practice to look at your um work chart annually and evaluate where needs are um and so Dr has done that and I reflected those changes in the schedule here so that I would be happy answer question yes I had a question regarding the 2324 for administrative secretary the range is 17 to 29 then it changed from 19 to 24 I don't know how the range how get cut why did it go down to a level five instead of a level six the the levels per se were not as much um of a factor in terms of like they weren't really utilized as they were as they should have it um you can see on the on the schedule um you have level four 1280 to 19 and then you go level 5 128 to 17 the levels weren't even being utilized as they should and so the the updated schedule is a complete basically tear down and and restart of your classified salary schedule okay and no employees were reduced um by moving to this new schedule so some of these ranges were were well above where employees were were positioned within the schedule so no employees were reduced okay by moving to this okay so what what decid when an employee goes from the low wage to the high one to GE of service GE of service um it could be um or in terms of levels or just even with I would think he's actually within the range like what would deter the range would be um like right annual increases at the board approves um whether it be percentage based or dollar base um you would have that range move um at the same rate I don't that that hasn't been happening um I know the board has approved not why I was here but in the past has approved increases but the salary schedule has stayed the same so having a salary schedule now that moves with the increases um that would be an instance in where You' have somebody at various points within the range right somebody started this year at the bottom of the range but maybe somebody who has been on board for multiple years has been seeing those increases they'd be higher in the range than that employee that started say this year that makes sense but years of experience would be another way employees can get placed higher in the range that's why you have a range um to honor some of those people who have potentially more years of experience within that job I'm completely confused what you so an employee let's say as the security monitor he starts off right now at what 15 $15 an hour this is again proposed schedule $15 okay so so when does he get to 18 so this would be only on on increases from the board on an annual basis um but there would be no there's no like um Merit pay for years of experience this it's almost impossible to be on that schedule because of the way the state budget Works you're funded on a per pupil basis they don't provide funding for years of experience unfortunate um so 95% of school districts have gone to ranges because um compensation is is uh evaluated annually now based on the state budget and enrollment and so um the range gives you that flexibility to now look at it every year so they would never be a chance to go to 18 unless the board approves a competition increase for that individual so by individual wouldn't be everybody well that I think it's a later agenda item the rate increase so what what we're looking at now is just the salary schedule yeah and I think that's something we could do either way we could do it individually or we could do it correct for what this what this agenda item is is just setting a a baseline salary schedule for your classified hour staff and again like I showed earlier the other one was updated um this does take in consideration that the next agenda item of increas okay are there any further questions about this okay okay we've had the motion you do yeah just real quick you know I mean I touched on it I was trying to go back and forth I apologize I wasn't here Monday so the levels 1 2 3 4 56 what was the difference between level one level two level three four five they W they wasn't being they weren't even being used I couldn't find any any research that supported that those levels had uh Merit in terms of like pay sounds like it was more used as categories rather than levels because level with the new schedule you can see now there's at least some you can see the salary increasing as the levels incre right and that reflection of the job Duty right you see the job duties as as they get you know more you require more experience or like skill you can see at the he would now kind of resembl that now one thing um remember when I brought this position up a little while back about it just for me it seems like our campus security seems a little low on the scale because that's kind of a safety aspect High responsibility position I mean personally I feel I should be a little higher bump on that that's that is something we could add to a future agenda yeah yeah I mean I'm not trying to take anything away from nobody I think everybody deserves a decent wage um I just when we have campus security on there I think 18 Max for me person that seems a little low there any other questions or comments on this item the same am huh I'm not saying saying all these but what school can afford but I'm not saying that custodians aren't worth what they're making at all or I'm not saying that at all I think um I would I would put uh campus safety a little higher wage personally and again I think that would be a a different board agenda item that's um that's fine so certainly the wants to looking this this is a proposal that um I utilize several you know my experience of other districts I'm where this placed um and again I um if that campus security Mar is certified or has other requirements duties that outside of my kind of norms that's certainly something I think the board can bring back and say this should really be placed at level three or a different level right um again I use uh so of my resources to kind of um put these in some categories and so but again every school is different right that that responsibility for campus security for my district or you know America count District versus your District may be a lot different so you would maybe look at changing that because of those responsib a lot greater else yes okay anything further on this issue if not we've had a motion in a second so we need a vote all those in favor say I I I anybody say no approved I deserve okay next item on the agenda is the approval of the intergovernmental agreement with Sono AUM Community College Mr President members of the board the administration of a USD andam Community College have collaboratively developed an intergovernmental agreement a to facilitate the provision of dual enrollment courses for high school students within our district the proposed partnership aims to establish a dual enrollment program enabling eligible high school students to enroll and courses offered by tocc thereby earning both high school and college credit simultaneously this collaborative Endeavor lays the grounder for potential expansion including the prospect of engaging adjunct faculty members from a USD to to instruct dual enrollment courses within our district promising to further the breadth and depth of educational offerings available to our students recommend the approval of the attached IG between a USD and to okay I'll make the motion I'll second you know all I want to say is I'm thrilled that we're getting opportunity for Autumn history culture language and craft classes may we have a V all those in favor I I all those opposed approved 5 to zero excellent uh next item is the approval of sped policies and procedures Mr President honorable members of the board the special education department in consultation with our special education department consult consed and as a result of a review a law of special education policies and procedures by the State Department of Education would like to submit for board approval of the attached USD special education policies and procedures the attached special education policies handook will help the SP Department ensure that proper steps are taken to ensure compliance with both state and federal guidelines recommend the approval of the attached a USD special education policies and proced okay I I have a motion on that I'll make the motion I'll second it there's no discussion no all in favor say I all opposed approved by to zero next item is the approval of changes for medical benefits for the Alo Unified School District staff yes Mr President and honorable members of the board the Administration has reached out to different health insurance brokers to compare health insurance providers with 2425 Academic Year attach your quotes from various Brokers and insurance carriers the administration is recommended stain with GBS switching from Blue Cross to United for medical benefits dental and vision benefits will stay the same to Delta Dental of Arizona changes go to effect July 1st 20124 recommend the approval of moving from Blue Cross Blue Shield to United Health for medical insurance for the 24 excuse me 25 school year Ginger from our finance office is here to answer any questions that may come up she was here Monday as well you know that this is a critical critical uh item uh she provided a lot of in depth information about this so she's available there are any questions on what you have okay and may I have a motion on that I'll make the motion I'll second any questions or discussion okay then all those in favor say I I all opposed approved I deser next item is a second reading of the yo Unified School District's governing board policy reviews 775 through 786 yes Mr Pres members of the board um Arizona School Board Association policy division has sent policy advisory 763 to 786 to schools for review and approval in the interest of time Administration is requesting advisories 763 to 774 were approved at the March meeting and 775 to 786 to be read approved at the April meeting governing boards May review and adopt these policy advisories consistent with the policy adoption process policy bgb first meeing The Proposal shall be presented for review second meeting if before shall be presented for discussion and action um I went through the policies uh advisories in depth on uh on Monday um I can go through uh just the highlighted parts that have that are underlined again I did that on Monday in addition to additional items that weren't underlined just to give a a more in- depth uh discussion of each uh policy advisory you let me know how you want to do it or if if you're fine with are you are you you okay with just reading this or do you have to go through everything you guys what you guys I don't think if we just I I would say just what's right there on the just what's right here just read this and okay yeah consider good since we went over at Monday okay policy number 775 policy DBC support staff leads and absences removal reference only number 776 policy Iha basic instructional program policy number 777 policy Ika graduation requirements number 778 policy IMA teaching methods regulation IM a-r teaching methods number 779 policy jfab admission of students Foster Care number 780 policy JH student Abes and excuses number 781 regulation jhd exclusions and exemptions from School attendance number 782 regulation JH student interrogation cires and arrests number 783 policy JJ student fundraising activities uh policy number 784 exhibit J k- student discipline number 785 exhibit kb- parental involvement in education number 786 policy KC public concerns complaints about instructional resources recommend the approval of policy advisor 775 and 786 second okay may I have a motion I'll make motion to approve I'll second no discussion okay all in favor say I I all opposed approve I deserve uh next item in personnel certified contracts adjustment of the 2425 contract for Anna ABA Mr President honorable members of the board Anna AA is now certified and eligible for a contract adjustment for the 24 25 school year recommend the approval of the adjustment to an AAS contract for 2425 okay may I have a motion make the motion I'll second it any discussion or question what grade is she teaching uh Mr Hopkins Miss Olsson she is teaching first grade okay oh okay she's a great teacher okay all in favor say I I I all opposed approved Z okay next item is the issuance of classified work agreements for the 2425 academic Mr President honorable members of the board the administration is requesting board approval for the issuance of work agreements to the following support staff you have for facilities custodian and bus driver office staff cafeteria staff paos teachers AIDS recommend the issuance of classified work agreements to the above individuals for the 2425 school okay I have a motion I'll make the motion a second question discussion president I will note that this does reflect a dollar increase for next year okay all classified staff um Again part of the budget that we're building for next year we we certified now classified yeah yes um and then we'll bring forth in May or June the department budgets and so I'll kind of show you guys a full budget for next year including you know what how your budget's built from salaries and benefits all the way down through supplies um and also contingencies in there so okay and if I understood you correctly you also said that this puts us ahead of what the jump in minimum wage will be come December right now the current minimum wage is 1435 um projecting it's going to be increased about 50 cents to 1485 um but solar increase would make um your minimum mostly your Paras so that $15 an hour and so I you wouldn't have to make any changes for next fiscal year okay yeah Mr President Mr Mor to elaborate a little more each one of our staff will be at least at 1585 so we'll be well above but even when the minimum wage does increase at 15 I will be well ahead of that okay any further discussion all in favor say I I all opposed approved 5 to zero next item is the classified resignation of teachers Aid Alejandra F Mr President honorable members of the board Alejandra F has submitted her two we resignation as to the administration effective April 4 2024 recommend the approval of the res of as okay have a motion on that the motion I'll second any discussion okay all in favor say I I all opposed it's approved by z uh next item is the possible new agenda items for the next meeting does anybody on the board have an agenda item I do have a request um I'd like some information on uh I know we have a lot of District vehicles um what is a policy on uh take-home vehicles for employees and personal use okay anything else if not then we'll ask for a motion to adj I'll make the motion I'll second the motion all in favor of say I I I oppos noj at 643 pardon I wish my Bo for this

e hope our others you want me to text good evening everyone we'd like to uh thank you very much for coming we'd like to call this meeting order at 6 o' and if you can all please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance oh we got we got to do the agenda first oh oh sorry oh yeah I'm still noing it's okay I move to adopt the agenda as presented I'll second all in favor I all right now motion carries three to zero can everybody stand and please join me in the Pres Pledge of Allegiance Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the repic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy Justice for All all right I'd like a motion to um sorry here we go okay we need to approval for the minutes for our last board meeting which was May March 20th 2024 so I move to approve the meeting from the March 20th 2024 board meeting as presented I'll second okay we have a first and a second all in favor I I and I'm going going to abstain since I was not here okay all right motion carries motion carries 3 three Z four Z three Z1 three1 three Z one abtin right we'll get there we're getting there we got it all right okay superintendent report thank you Mr President a lot of things happened it's that time of year where there's lots of celebrations going on so uh we're we're recognizing staff members and students uh uh we going to go through a few of these at the Middle School uh eighth grade student Victoria till plac second out of 781 entries for the 2024 character counts essay contest and Devonte Watson an eighth grader was named to the boys flag football all-star teams the CHS choir received a rating of excellent at uh the State Choir uh Festival uh we had uh Dr dsus and uh um HR had a very successful job fair we ran it had approximately 30 candidates show up and and were're able to hire about eight people out of it four teachers and four uh staff member or support staff uh if you were not aware uh Dr Peterson who has his office down by um the McDonald's and and U Dunkin Donuts and CTA worked together to have a Spring Festival uh last week and uh it was outstanding event it was a little chilly out there the rain came and the wind came for a while but uh they kind of tracked it and over a thousand community members came out to it um and had a chance to experience it a lot of the kids really enjoy enjoyed some of the games that were that were there and so that was very successful uh activity Harmon's got a similar Tye of community event happening on the 17th from 4:30 to 6:30 I believe that's a Wednesday um and they're working with panal County Sheriff's Office and some other local vendors and business similar to what CTA did uh just as a way to go ahead and do community events uh and let everybody see what's uh taking place uh Christen Claypool did a a presentation for virtual patients team based learning on a webinar recently um LG Solutions the governor and uh the head of Arizona Commerce commit uh Commerce uh committee was at at the CPAC for meeting with LG uh Representatives uh it was kind of uh really uh introduction and uh the typical put shovel in the ground and thrown some dirt even though the building is going up out there they still took that opportunity to do that um and there was uh multiple um LG dignitaries from from the company that were that were there uh they were very impressed with our facility and they're looking to rent it for some other events that are coming up here in the in the near future um our road runners uh enjoyed um an Opa opportunity to Opera over at Ranch uh with a student assembly um across the district District we have uh um Battle of the books that's taking place they also had in the 20 24 character counts essay contest uh a first place winner in Adeline Martinez and a third place winner in Tatiana janz um so just exciting things happening there uh we awarded a number of awards for the Colmes Education Foundation For Teacher grants and one of those went to kelc Saints at Simington and with her money she was able to go ahead and create the science science state science fair projects and we had a number of students that went down there and were very very successful um with uh with that uh uh event we're hoping to expand that across the district in in the future um but it was a it was a great start FCCLA State leadership conference took place and students came back with uh one gold three Silvers and one bronze the yearbook uh placed eight at the Nationals that was in Kansas City last week with their yearbook don't change evolve um and so you just see there's lots of positive things that are happening across the district um and it's that time of year where we get to celebrate and we will continue to celebrate our our staff and our students you want me to just go into the next portion of it yep okay uh as you know this time of year we also celebrate uh or throughout the year we celebrate uh individuals uh based on uh a special day or special week or special month uh that are on the calendar so we have a number of them we want to recognize the first group I'd like to call up are I'll have them come up and then I'll read a little something but our assistant principls Mike Griffith Carl [Applause] Hill and April kajin ski the week of April 1st through the 5th is National assistant principal week in this country and again these are uh some behind the scenes in front of the scenes individuals that help make a difference for our kids um they put in a tireless number of hours in terms of the job they do sometimes not always seen but they're at all the events whether sporting events whether they Fine Arts events uh they're building the schedules uh they're working on registration and so it's a lot of work that's behind the scenes that you don't always see and uh so it's a chance for us to say thank you for all they do and I know there's any number of students in the um in the audience that that know and appreciate uh what they've done for them in addition we just found out so we'll make the big announcement here and then put some other stuff out Mr Griffin was just named by the AIA as the 4A athletic director of the Year this week so thank you guys we also have uh National School PA Professionals Day on o on April 3D so I would ask the following individuals uh to please come up uh Caitlyn Dean from [Applause] elworth Erica Beano from [Applause] Harmon Allison Jensen from Ranch Jenny Ortiz from comes Middle [Applause] School elizette Sanchez from [Applause] Simington and Kim Tod from the high [Applause] school and again these these individuals work one-on-one with so many students and I I was down at Ellsworth today and uh as I was driving up uh all the little kids were out on the preschool playground and they have a little track and the kids were riding their bikes around the little track and there was an aid that was taking a kid that couldn't wasn't big enough to ride the bike and she was pedaling for him so that he got to go around the track just like all the other kids I wanted to go around track and I tell that story because that's the type of thing that these people do the way they work with individuals one-on-one and and those kids in many case special needs kids and the the love and compassion they give on a daily basis to these kids to make sure that they have the same opportunities as every other child in our district and they have an opportunity to shine that's what they do and you don't always see it because they're in the classroom and they're just behind the scenes but they make a positive difference in the lives of our students and we thank them so much much for what they do every single day thank [Applause] you we also have uh National Librarians day we're extending this to uh both our uh Librarians as well as uh individuals that uh are not Librarians but run our Librarians so if I could that National Day is coming up on April 16th so you have time to go out and get them something um Laura real from uh Ellsworth Sandra Ganon from [Music] [Applause] Harmon Wendy black feather from Ranch Kelly Edens from the Middle [Applause] School Cheryl Tapia from [Applause] CTA Teresa wit from uh Simon and an Matson from the high [Applause] school again another group of individuals that's in the place every single day that's a safe haven for lots of kids a chance for kids to learn about lots of different things a chance for them to EXP explore areas of interest to chance for them to work on assignments that they need help with uh and when you look at uh a a library um there's many of us that that was the place that we couldn't wait to go to and these ladies do an amazing job with our libraries it's it's difficult because the schools have had to cut back on Librarians and so we have uh Library AIDS but they still do the same thing which is create an environment for our kids to grow and an extension of the classroom and for that we're very very appreciative of everything you so thank you so very [Applause] much uh the week of April 22nd through the 26 is our Afterschool professionals I am not sure if they're here because I know they work they're taking care of things right now but I'll announce and see if they are Isabella Marshall G jeie Murphy and Roxanna Ramos and again they run our they run our before and after school programs and so right now they're probably running our after school programs parents still waiting for parents to pick up their children um they provide that opportunity for kids before and after school uh in many cases it's it's a it's a help for our parents but it also helps our kids in a thousand different ways um and so we again are appreciative of all the little things and a lot of times people don't realize just how many different people make a difference for your children in our system so we thank them so very much now on April 23rd we also have bus driver appreciation day so if we could have Karen [Applause] glesby John [Applause] mondak Brooklyn Heights kit [Applause] Ellie aala and David [Applause] kelter every everybody sees the yellow buses on the road every single day but if you stop and think about just how many buses hit the road in this country every single day and to understand how many kids are moved around and they're always moved around safely the number number of accidents is minuscule when you look at the number of kids that are moved and that's because we have highly trained professionals that are driving these buses they care about their kids they care about getting their kid your kids to school and then home and it happens every single day you may see the yellow buses but you don't know all they go through to make sure that the experience that your child has on their bus is is an extra special um event and so we want to thank them for what they do every single day because if they aren't there your kids don't get to school and they they don't have the experience experience and so they're the first individuals that meet your kids every single day with a smile on their face and ask and and welcomeing them to their day and so for that we thank you for everything you [Applause] do and then on the 24th is Administrative Professionals Day so if you're not aware these are the individuals that run the whole District um you see them all the time but they're the ones that are keeping the rest of us on our toes so if we could have uh Evans from the high school Angelique Flores from the Middle [Applause] School Janet Harvey from [Applause] Simington Martha MOA Harmon Debbie Merton's [Applause] Ranch ch Ryder Ellsworth shaa scrogum CTA darcene Kisha in Food [Applause] Service Sabrina Stanley special [Applause] education Priscilla almanza Community Ed Danielle keter uh HR and the receptionist of the district [Applause] office Nancy Shelly district [Applause] office in many ways these are the face of our school and our district office and they're the ones that come in contact with many of you who call for different issues uh they are uh The Voice you hear and the smile you see uh every single time you go into that office and so for that we thank them they you run the the ship they understand how the office is done how the school is run and I know our administrators could not do it without them uh because they're the ones that are there to take care of so many different issues uh again just another group of people that you may not always notice but are always there to make sure your children have a positive experience in our system so we just want to thank them for everything they do thank you so very [Applause] much next group we'd like to call up is the members of the CHS boys basketball team and then I'll I'll uh say a couple words uh let's see we have Logan tuckfield Jamon Amador Jay Luhan Jonathan [Applause] Bas Cameron Duos Solomon Brown Daniel Washington Justin [Applause] Ford Jackson [Applause] Jones Skyler Lawrence manager Glenn dimes manager Daisy Martinez assistant coach Dan Ziggler assistant coach Garen Brown and assistant Co or head coach Hosea Graham [Applause] i'mna so we wanted to recognize these young men and these coaches for The Amazing season they had it was a a season that was very difficult as we know all know very trying yet they were able to come through they made the state playoffs Logan was uh Arizona Republic all Arizona boys honorable mention Sports 360 AZ boys basketball uh all academic first team uh and they persevered you know in a season that's unlike any other and I think you forget that they're still young man and to see what they did and the way they did it with the class and the grace that they exhibited was nothing short of amazing at the same time I wanted them up here as we recognize their head coach and this is not a recognition for wins and losses this is a recognition for a man who really exhibited what education's all about for a man who took these young men and enveloped them and made sure that they were guided through one of the tougher periods of their life a man that exemplified what it means to be an educator and what you hope you have in your life every single day we have those people that make an impact in our life coach Graham made an impact on so many people's lives in so many different ways in a very quiet and unassuming way and so although we recognize these boys too and the other coaches we want to take a special moment to give what we do to as a as appreciation the blue Apple to say thank you coach Graham thank you for your leadership thank you for everything you've done you made a world of difference in our lives and we appreciate it [Applause] tremendously congratulations because of our principal and our ad and our school district the amazing support that we had created a foundation of strength and courage and the prayer that the prayers that this community offered up for us fli us up every day and we are so grateful and thankful I have been blessed to be able to coach and ment gu there and we thank you so much for the thank [Applause] you yeah so Mr Anderson uh come up for maintenance Transportation as we recognize them for blue apples too Erica unfortunately is not feeling good today with Transportation supervisor so she asked me to pitch so Karen come on up she had some very nice words to say about Karen she said Karen is a special needs bus driver classroom trainer including the White Fleet training for all coaches drivers go to her for direction and with any safety concerns she is reliable trustworthy and a key member of the transportation staff we're very proud that you're part of our team and we have a special [Applause] and the person in the maintenance department I'd like to recognize is Shawn Morehead Sean Sean Sean is loved throughout this District he is he is exceptional um he is the type of individual that only a lot of us can Inspire to be he's he's always Pleasant to be around he always has a can do attitude he's always here to help you out and look out for the best interest of this district and the kids and Sean I'm very blessed that you get to work with me and I get to work with you buddy so thank you very [Applause] much and now we're ready for student of the month okay we're now ready for student of the month Mr President members of the board Dr Wyman colleagues and guests that are here this evening as I say every month this is a great opportunity for me best part of my day could I have Liliana Felix come up from the com Center for success Lana has demonstrated a dedication to finishing her classes asking for help when needed and a focus on graduation she goes above and beyond helping others congratulations Liliana on a job well done we are all very proud of [Applause] you could I have Angel sza come up from comes High [Applause] School how about meline Toba from comes Middle [Applause] School this is meline meline is a wonderful student at comes middle school and she was nominated by several of her teachers Mrs cie said that I have meline in my Ela class and my CSS class meline demonstrates trustworthiness by remaining accountable arriving to class on time every day and having respectful open communication when she needs help on a challenging subject in addition she's always willing to help other other students while I'm assisting someone else meline has always shown trustworthiness since she's been in my classroom and again that's from Miss cie congratulations good [Applause] job could I have Jackie scrogum come up from Coles Traditional Academy your smile there's that smile Jackie has shown trustworthiness in technology by bringing a hardworking mentality to class we can trust that she puts a 100% effort into any task she's given and she has a great attitude and the other students look to her as a leader that's the kind of good friend that we all want congratulations Jackie [Applause] could I have K John Stevenson come up from [Applause] Ellsworth smile all right there it is kjn is a responsible and trustworthy student he's honest reliable and helpful kjn follows our rise code daily and models the expectations he's not only trusted by his peers but the staff alike he enjoys assisting his classmates whenever needed and is always willing to help congratulations kjn good job could I have Isabelle Jordan come up from [Applause] Harmon how about Mr miles Rogers from Ranch where's miles [Applause] at miles are you ready this is Jenny Curtis with Miles Mr miles my new buddy he was nominated as a student of the month because miles is always honest he's kind and does does the right thing even when no one is watching miles follows the rules and helps his friends follow the rules too he takes care of things in the classroom and remembers to always clean up if miles finds something that does not belong to him he will give it to the teacher without even being asked he's a great example to his peers and we're all very proud of Miles congratulations [Applause] miles that was Miles how about Elsie Hollowell from [Applause] Simington well that that concludes our students of the month we're going to take a couple moments of a break and if if anybody wants pictures you can do that and then we'll continue with the board meeting thank you it got War oh yeah yeah I think they'll get it e so next we have any reports from governing board members nope all right all right next um public comments no public comment all right so next we have our consent consent agenda any questions or comments on the qu consent engent I'll take a a motion on a whole or individually I have nothing no no questions is that better I just gotta all right okay I move that we approve the consent agenda as presented second okay I have a first and a second all in favor I all right all uh motion carries 550 I can't type and think at the same time all right that brings us to um 8.

[Music] for [Music] a [Music] a [Music] hey everyone welcome back to the show Welcome to round two of the ihen postseason today our third seed cyber tiger team will play against the 11 seed which is Ben Davis University High School this is the second of three rounds uh before the state finals on April 27th and we have to win all of them in order to compete in the championship so winning tonight will pit us against Oregon Davis in the semifinal who last week defeated Southwood also last night our Varsity OverWatch team defeated Wabash High School to secure their spot at the state championship on April 27th at Ball State so congrats to them and also something different if you haven't seen postseason play before is that we are now competing in a best of three format so there are no ties as we've had during the regular season now this should Sur left in well as I feel like a lot of our strategy comes from picking players definitely instead of the having the El of surprise so we do have strategic mind and we do have good counter picks for whatever character may come our way absolutely absolutely all righty so as for the structure of the match we'll be doing a 4v4 crew battle so players from opposing teams will take turns fighting 1 V one matches with the winner of a match carrying their remaining stops which is our which is their lives to face the next member of the opposing team uh coaches must disclose with one another in private The Fighter for their first player on each team in every in every set so after a player has lost the game they will be eliminated from that Set uh after a player has won a game they must continue playing the same fighter until they lose within that set any stocks a player has lost must be relinquished at the beginning of the game so they have to kill themselves mhm uh they must do so by jumping off the edge of the map so once a team has no remaining players or stocks left on their team the opposing team is considered the winner let's hope that that's us in today's events I mean yeah yeah uh our starting map for tonight is town and city of course the loser the first match gets to counterpick the stage in the second match it's whatever they desire exactly so they could have a stage that uh represents their abilities in a great way I me you all right so I'm very excited to see and currently we are sitting in the match wing for our opponents to join the ingame room and they have not joined yet so we're going to be waiting for a little bit all righty as far as a counterpicking Maps I'm very comfortable with very simple flat I would have to pick uh Final Destination o I would not do that I like I like more the platform say so either Battlefield or small Battlefield or smashville I like them I don't like town and city as much cuz one the platforms move and becomes Final Destination in the middle of moving and second off the the stage is very spread out you got to make your combos um you got to make them long enough to get them all the way to the other side of the stage so I mean yeah all right all righty so yeah they're still in there they're waiting in the ring still waiting for our opponents um if you do remember we actually played against this team on week 12 so we have been preparing since for for this match we've been preparing since for this match so I'm very excited for it um I I know there's going to be a lot of good things today and I'm just so excited to get into it oh yeah so excited to get into it um the map behind us is Pokemon Stadium 2 but don't be fooled that's not the one that we're playing currently um it's not the one we're playing it's from Pokemon but the town and city map is actually from it's from Animal Crossing so town and City specifically is from Animal Crossing City city Folk which was released on the Wii I didn't play it that much but I did play it enough to have a house I got a house I got a house I've been living 18 years of life life and I still don't have a house I was apparently pretty good at amimo Crossing I got a house that quickly oh boy it is a video game I mean oh yeah you don't just get off a train in a new house and in a new city and just be like yo we got a house for you waiting right here oh boy is uh Tom Nook in that game he is actually is he in all the games Yes actually yeah yeah yeah some games he's more prominent raccoon I thought he was a Tanuki he is a Tanuki Tanuki raccoon they look so similar well actually no they don't look that similar especially with Nintendo standards I mean yeah with the cartoonish you know art style it's definitely like yeah you can tell the difference yeah you can what was the last time you saw a raccoon in a Nintendo game no no uh our helper behind the behind the camera is saying Mario but that's actually the Tanuki suit yeah Tanuki Mario there's they love tanukis and not raccoons he has a flying squirrel outfit that's pretty cool so he doesn't have a sugar glider outfit well I don't know if it's a flying squirrel or sugar glider outfit I could think of one I could think of one of them but it's not an I don't think it's a Nintendo game like s Hooper I don't think he's Nintendo though I don't think so yeah I've never played one of those games cuz I'm not that big of a fan of stealth games is that I've never even I mean he's got Sly in the name so you probably got to be Sly so I'd assume it's a sneaking around game you know Prett Sound Logic I guess personally yeah I feel like I have good enough logic oh and they just joined the room so we're very excited to see them I'm really excited to see I just said that but we're really excited to see yeah really excited to see what what what's going on all righty you you'd have to zoom in I can't super I guess a raccoon appears in Super Mario BRS 3 as apparently so apparently so maybe maybe that was the raccoon outfit and maybe they change it I don't know all righty all righty well they're in the thing but they're they're in there oh sorry there's someone making some weird jokes behind us a real big mouse over there making weird jokes about us real big one real big one all right so they're currently they're currently making noise um messaging in the chat there what is taking the school so long they're in the they're in the lobby they're in the lobby we're just waiting for them to pick out just waiting for them to pick out I guess oh wait they're in the match they are in the match can we switch over to the battle screen all right so it appears it appears we've got a king DDD versus a Pikachu got Pikachu versus a king DDD that should be pretty awesome so there they are and it appears to be Eli that's going first now this Pikachu actually caused us a lot of problem you know firsthand I do yeah he took like six stalks last round so I'm really excited to see if his strategy has changed he's got the dash attacks and the Aerials both of which I recognize yeah busting out the neutral aay trying to keep this King DDD on his toe his toes so I don't know if King DDD was was necessarily the best option because he's very slow both on the ground and in the air and he doesn't have super armor to keep him on but he is oh gets a good hit in that's that's Eli style right there what he lacks in speed he makes up for in damage which is really good was really good he's also quite a random player he'll go for some of the weirdest cheeky shots for no reason oh he missed the Pikachu with his Gordo and the pq2 responds with a down air and a neutral special one of the most annoying moves of King DDD is he's able to shoot out what's called a gordo which is the spike ball that oh that down be struck him down wow oh he almost got the one of Pikachu's strongest attacks being lightning bolt it's been in every single smash game really yeah even all the way on Smash 64 that down be has been there oh yeah I remember using that one for Pikachu's for oh break the targets wow Eli gets the first KO on the Pikachu doing really well drive Eli all right dash attack shielding trying to be defensive here this Pikachu is very quick Eli needs to be aware of all of his surroundings at the moment the platforms are gone so Pikachu doesn't have as much room to work with oh he tries to hit him with the hammer a Dodge would you say King DDD really you know you know thrives in platform environments I would say yes I would say yes cuz you don't have as much room to dodge the uh side bees and stuff all his gordos so that's pretty much what I would say in terms of King DDD I don't name him but as from looking at Eli's gameplay um I feel like he would do better on a stage without platforms that being said he did just use the platform to give his Gordo a bit more momentum so I don't know maybe he's maybe King DDD is good at town and or or Eli is just good to altering his surroundings I think Eli is definitely good well encountering his surroundings and there we go he gets another KO so what you've probably noticed by the stage is that it's evening time now the thing about town and city that makes it special is the fact that the lighting changes depending on the time of day you play if we were to play earlier in the day it would be more of a daytime theme oh I didn't know but since we're playing at a time like 4 that's actually when it changes it changes at 4 and it turn to night time at 7 I think that's from me playing I guess um I wasn't aware yeah so if we had started at 7 it would be more of a nighttime themes which is pretty cool because you because at tournaments you like this one you could see when the match took place it's really cool cool I wish they had like a digital clock over there oh and a side V good job knocking the Pikachu knocking the Pikachu out it's really good to get that Pikachu out the way he was a pain to deal with he was a monster last time too except for the fact I think we kind of didn't plan our things properly with our people I guess so I guess so uh oh boy yeah well thank thank the heavens um the Pikachu is gone so I'm really excited to see who they send out next um maybe they'll send out aess maybe they'll send out Mr gaming W heck maybe they'll send out a custom Sans Me Maybe I don't I don't really know who knows maybe one of them change the main just to mess with us a bit they're like they won't they won't suspect that we pick a nest person if a person puts a a me fighter into play they have to like name all the moves right I think so I'm not sure I mean I mean Travis used to oh oh that's surprising forget what I was going to say about Travis this is surprising apolla now I can actually see where this is going cuz palutena has a down be and her down be can actually reflect King did's Gordo so this probably might be a bit of a pain actually to get this poena down not only that but we don't know what this poena is going to do worst of all is that we haven't changed our Mains at all no we haven't no which is all right I mean if you need to take more time to develop your character it's fine it's fine so oh yeah there it is that counter 42% off of a single forward smash counter this does help that King ddd's forward smash is insane so all that damage up wow 70 damage already this palutena is doing some work I I think I feel like Eli should do more grabs cuz a grab cannot be countered oh oh and and and a neutral be neutral special cannot be countered which is good you went right in you got to suck them in make sure you you suck in the palena so that it can't counter so it can't counter so they can't counter it's hard to counter when you're side when you're inside of King ddd's esophagus I don't know if you knew that but it's pretty hard it's pretty hard all right sending out a gordo to no avail and counter to more Avail than the that counter though oh that counter is going to be annoying but he does get the up smash good job good job Eli I see what you I'm picking up what you're putting down I'm buying what you're selling oh ooh puts the Gordo in his mouth and throws it out wow the hit box on his forward smash is so large it hits the ground and it's half the ground next to you is just gone just shakes it's just a danger zone you can't go right in there you can't go right into the danger zone with that move I'm sorry as cool as the song is you can't do that all right a forward smash sending him over oh and a counter Oh I thought that would have been it that was a full charge counter dude well no no there it is oh but an up smash okay that's all right okay so luckily our team did get to see how that palutena played so hopefully they bring out a character that can probably match that poen somebody they know somebody they know really so I have Sam Jaden and no I would assume Jaden cuz out of all the characters he is the one that uses a character with the least amount of projectiles so let's see down here what he right down there right down there what he picks yes this little thing this little box yeah that one yes right down right there right down there so get they disconnected the controller so that might either be Sam or no probably Noah then that's probably Noah I see Noah moving in the in the thing yeah he is in the face cam looks like we're going with Noah it does so um probably snake then probably snake um kind of worried about it because of the fact that snake also uses a lot of projectiles too like his neutral b side v um I'm very I'm very I'm kind of excited to see how this goes not to mention Noah's run and Tackle move like when he does his Dash attack she could counter that too so what's going to happen when he fully commits to a dash attack and counters really excited to see how how snake deals with this how he deals how does he deal how does he deal how does he deal what's the deal with snake so paena is gonna have to take the jump and there we go so our stocks currently are 9 to8 for some reason there's always something a little bit awkward about watching somebody kill themselves on purpose you're right actually it just feels off it feels off cuz you never want to see that especially in Smash Bros and competitive scene you barely see people do that palena in the first like 20 seconds of the game is is already at 76% good job to Noah he's that is crazy he's reading this paena he he was saying how he wanted to get better at his reading oh she she countered the grenade and sent it off but he was right there with a side B while her hit box was still lagging going oh was that a side B uh that that was the it was the rocket launcher straight into the ground what is that oh the forward smash okay that's forward smash yeah when he just yeah yeah so good job to Noah he saw right through that poeno jig all right oh he barely didn't hit her when she countered so that's good job for Noah oh he tried to grab he's grabbing through the counter Noah is figuring out see a forward throw a neutral layer if that had if that had grabbed properly that would have worked she didn't jump higher enough so her neutral layer didn't really connect with Noah which is really good cuz that neutral are can combo into all sorts of Aerials it's kind of brutal it's brutal have you seen Sam play paut Ana it's not a pretty picture actually I didn't know he played well it's like my art class it's not a pretty picture my my projects in art class they're not pretty pictures speaking of art class we happen to be in an art classroom right now so shout outs to miss bamer for letting us use her art room I see you we're here thank you for letting us use this room it's a really good room I like it here it smells ni smells speaking of I like it I like that fact that Noah took both of those stocks without losing any of his didn't lose a single St that's awesome now our stocks are down from 9 to six wow that was so fast you know a great way to get fast internet though by using Adams Wells the sponsor of today's video so thank you to to our sponsor Adams Wells internet Telecom TV your local let me say that again your local service provider with gig speeed internet TV and telephone service for business and residential customers in Adams and Wells County so thank you Adams Wells for the internet and thank you Adams Wells for sponsoring this stream that was really smooth I I'm happy with that props to you that was Adams Wells prop Adams Wells because because I said it so smooth and because of Adams Wells their picture was so smooth that was such a smooth picture thanks to Adam's well so thank you all right so I that deserves oh they sent out an Isabel they got inspired by Jaden wow they're changing their Mains that is surprising oo okay so two of them have already two of them have already brought out different characters and that's half of their team what's with well the other half is currently the uh one of them all right well I don't know anyways so here's the Isabelle and she Pockets his bombs and I guess that's a really good option actually cuz pocket really works on a lot of stuff the only problem is she can only pocket one item at a time just she needs to let go of whatever bomb she has before she can take up one of snake's other bombs it looks like she Pockets a bomb and as soon as she releases the bomb it like explodes immediately onto her I don't yeah I I which I didn't think happen I don't really I don't really understand that you know okay so he sends the land mine up trying to go from a different angle ledge guarding seems a little bit different from normal usually he gets up closer to the edge yeah he's sending his grenades off but she has that pocket ability so she could use that maybe throw it against the stage to get extra boost but she probably won't need it CU Isabelle's recovery is like really really good it's it's insane honestly oh oh side bees one from Isabel well her pocketed be all righty sending out the down bees Noah losing his first stock that is not good he even went into that store hopefully they didn't mind him crashing through their windows I know as a shop owner I wouldn't like that so she sends out the sideb trying to fish him up she's being really efficient okay here's Noah keeping the whole entire stage covered with bombs as much as he possibly can that is snakes biggest yeah she's trying to find a clearing where there aren't explosives but snakes like the master of explosives it's hard to get in he's just pressuring her I have no idea how he just knows so many different flipping um different flipping things to do with snakes flipping bombs I mean yeah I I have no clue okay a neutral be a down be what how many B buttons does this guy have actually I asked him today in first period he apparently doesn't switch out his b buttons he only has one b B buttton really he's doing all this with one B button on his on his hand huh wow his b button must love him he's showing a lot of um oh wow he's showing a lot of skill that's what he's showing I mean yeah and uptil sending Isabel to the stratosphere he's doing good this WOW Noah you're really doing good and he's got the lead currently it's two stocks to one so let's see if Noah can can take can finish this off let's see that's something about Isabelle is um her fishing rod is stupid overpowered I mean yeah it it goes so far and it goes through Shields and if she doesn't up throw at a certain percent it can just automatically kill you well bounces off Shields and just stays there well yeah it bounces off and no one lost a stock so that's unfortunate for him but it does mean he's at zero it does mean he's at zero so he probably won't wow so much for being at zero 56 to 66 is really getting tight who's going to win the Challenger is Isabel or the bomber man Noah I have no clue oh a side be now Isabel is pretty light so he'll only need to get only a few more hits in all the bombs are exploding sending Isabel straight up to 117 this is so crazy taking out a grenade to Noah stopping the side be but the rocket almost hits it misses but the grenade hits oh she tried to pocket his leg that's not good that's not how a back throw but Isabelle's back throw is not that strong so Noah didn't really need to fear Spike off the stage oh down a down special a neutral special oh man there's so ready oh my gosh he rolls forward a up oh oh oh oh I'm speechless I am too I don't know what to say this intense oh oh Dash attack last he's got it he's got it oh oh grenade okay he's not going to pressure the ledge at all yeah he's trying to keep his distance he's just trying to make sure he stays alive which is good that's one thing you constantly want to do in Smash Bros you have a better time fighting if you're alive I mean yeah all right oh side B but she Shields it oh throws the grenade that she Pockets tries to get the up ohb and it wins he wins Noah good job buddy wow that was fun to watch high fives all around high five to you Noah high five to snake down there ah he's gone you just hit the Box you just hit it I cannot believe you so now they're going to send out their last competitor so that means we have seven stocks compared to their three that's really good right now that's really good it's very good all righty um yeah I feel like I feel like Noah's really doing well um and if you want your body to look really well we have cyber Tigers merch heck yeah check out the store uh check the link in the description to get some sweet merch you get a customized and we don't have J we don't just have jerseys we have hoodies and long sleeve Shir lyard we do we have lanyards and even a flag if you want and a mouse pad yeah and a mouse pad and a Terry he's not on the store you're going to have to go to the store to see what else is there but for now we've got a Terry he's right there he's right there so he's so ominous and vicious sorry okay he's so ominous I can feel it in the air all right so no one's going to have to jump off the ledge twice unun but I mean I'm scared I'm ready for him to I'm excited to see how this Terry plays as someone who plays Terry on and off I'm really excited to see some Buster wolves May a power guys there for feeling lucky oh yeah all right he's going with a lot of down tilts well that's fine down tilts a pretty good combo St I wonder if this guy has seen riddles he used the third hit of his jab which I don't usually do but then again at ledge was a pretty smart option there we go jab jab power dunk that's a better one oh power dunk almost into the grenade oh and again with the triple one don't know why you didn't do power dunk jab jab power dunk is probably one of his best moves actually one of his best combos actually power dunk power dunk power dunk oh and there it is another Power dunk like you've ever gotten Dunked On In Real Life imagine if the person's hand was on fire now that's power now you're playing with power that would certainly hurt oh yeah Nintendo hasn't use that slogan forever he kicked the grenade out of the air that's crazy Terry is just so ominous Terry is kind of oh he's got his go meter and with special and with never mind but whenever Terry gets over 100% he's allowed to do special go moves and those go moves there are two of them power geyser and Buster wolf power geyser and Buster wolf and those both require very specific inputs to do or if you're like me you can just Mash on the control stick and just magically get it that's genuinely what he does he gets going and he goes hey hey hey it works he oh speaking of working he's got go again and Noah just send him up to 100% wow what happened to this Terry he got 127 the first stock what's going on I don't I think he's I think no's learned him he has he's reading him he's reading him he's done he wanted to do he's trying to stay away cuz Terry just wants to get up close oh and he jumps into the landmine wow there he goes I'm ready to watch snake freaking freestock him now me too let's get some popcorn up to 29% all right uh back B yeah so that's something special about Terry oh the way he is the way he is facing changes his side special wait really yeah he can either do a back or a forward special oh mhm I didn't realize yeah his forward is burning knuckle and his back is crack shoot but that was not a crack shoot that's right that's still like how many stocks among all three of those people I have no clue it must have been upwards of six is like no that would have been three no no seven or eight a um cuz he faced a total of three people right yeah but yeah but he didn't win against all three of those people oh well so who will be who will have the honors of taking out Terry's last off or maybe Terry will come back and just beat everyone up I imagine probably putting salmon salmon one of my favorite fishes but we but on off the topic no it's it's fishes it's fishes if you're considering other species of fish no it is no no it isn't I'm telling you it changes sure changes if it's different species it's fishes it is Sam but make sure to make sure to vote in the comments which is right should I have said fish or fishes you want tream team Tristan tream Tristan o tream Tristan that's cool I like that oh maybe there should be a Tristan anyways trist or Tess there we go almost almost missed him all right so let's start the match with Terry jumping off the ledge I kind of wish he'd power dunk off the ledge that's pretty cool going out and blaz Jordan is always trying to fit some sort of stylish way to kill himself I like that he he likes like when he has to remove his own stocks he always finds a creative way to just end it I've wanted to foot stool them it doesn't do any damage but the but it makes them feel things it's funny though oh wow up air and a rising tackle we shouldn't have counted this Terry out he's glow key doing work wa a power up too Sam's all the way up to 60 watching this is making me so glad that I'm not in right now oh my gosh I would do terrible against this Terry I mean yeah this ter is doing some work oh my gosh there again how is he doing so well he almost he almost landed on top of that cannon ball but he fell he almost landed on it but he missed that's what I meant all right Downer into up smash wow there it is don't know why I grabbed my ears and that means we win the first match we took down all four of them since they don't have any more stocks remaining we're the winners but we're not the Champions yet that's one point it's a best of three games so we need to win one more game and there's no ties we either win or we lose so of three sets we have won the first one so they're going to get to counter pick a stage um I hope they counterpick to Pokemon Stadium 2 or smashville those are those are two of my favorites I like those I would rather PS2 PS2 because it matches our background it does match our background come on buddy come on um Ben Davis University High School my bad Ben Davis University High School BDU switch it to this area so our background makes sense yeah I mean I mean yeah [Music] yeah I'm sorry I'm sorry okay so they're currently selecting their players so let's see uh there's a why don't we switch over to the Esports room why don't we see what our players are up to now that they've now that they've won the first match let's see how they are doing oh oh oh there they are there's Eli front and left actually oh did they change oh they're starting the match I like Eli's pants by El all right they sent out a Mewtwo wow what a character it is small Battlefield now that's a map I like all right he's sending out of side b as Eli usually does I mean yeah now we now we witness the Eli send out his third side being in a ro what the heck doesn't he get old of those all right holding that forward smash Mewtwo didn't even do anything to punish he just did a normal get up but at least he got back onto the stage only to be hit off again all right the side going I kind of struggle against MW me too uh they're such an odd character for me he has a reflector similar to paena although in Smash Bros melee it used to not hurt anybody which is kind of weird like really yeah if Mario shot a fireball at Mewtwo in and he reflected it the fireball wouldn't hurt Mario it's weird weird but in this game they buffed it it's okay well I don't know if they did that in wi U oh oh oh tennis tennis oh oh gets hit I wish I could I wish I could see that damage that that Gordo awesome that Gordo was gaining speed like crazy wow we tennis be like oh boy going back oh back back throw and a gordo off the ledge oh he's getting up oh and he turn around but just he knew to turn around just barely missed just didn't do it fast enough and the Mewtwo spot dodged oh and an up smash I don't know how that works he just opens a galaxy with his hand I don't really know how he does that all right a dash attack sending Mewtwo off to the left so congratulations that's really good for that's really good that's really good for Eli hasn't lost his stock yeah y he's trying to jab his shield all right side be up til up til down smash oh oh and another star those Stars will get you even if you're not under King DDD when he flattens the stage itself the Stars expand from Out Underneath Him and covered like a really wide range well compared to everything else oh the Mewtwo wasn't fast enough with air Dodge and King DDD three stock the meww that is so good D D D D D D three STS he didn't lose oh my gosh oh my gosh this is so crazy I cannot believe this it's a conspiracy is a no it's not a conspiracy or is it I think it is okay well I'll just go with you you're the smarter of us too I think I don't know about that you're definitely the senior here yeah doesn't mean much you're about to graduate doesn't mean much my brother graduated sorry bro sorry bro I love you but wow sorry bro all right sorry bro anyways they sent out the tune link he's like young Link but with very blonde hair there's no way you just said that and then you're just going to move on like nothing happened yeah I make mistakes it's not a mistake I mean it was funny anyways so neutral be sucks up the bomb wow I'm surprised it didn't explode in his mouth I'm pretty sure if I tried to do that it would have exploded in my mouth I think so yeah all right a dash attack gets interrupted by neutral Ling neutral neutral air sending out the neutral all the specials actually really getting this King DDD on the ropes really excited to see what happens all righty send him off to that side young Link no Toon Link currently T Link toun Link currently has more damage let's see if it lasts sucks cuz there's three links in this game and they're all named they're all named link yeah it's the same no it's they're reincarnations of each other well wouldn't that mean Sheik is also no just Princess Zelda yeah but she only appears in one specific game and hyru warriors oh she appears in that too yeah I haven't I haven't se I haven't played all the Zelda games so I don't know if she's appeared in any of the other ones um I just know about her in a enough time cuz I've beaten that one I me you all right so the upy neutral air all right grab the grab fails he's moved too far away back here forward smash oh oh that's all right wow a side special neutral special this match up definely feels a little B more solid a little bit more balanced than the last one oh shielding the Forward Air that's really good oh boy a Forward Air a neutral air to cover his surroundings up smash oh yeah covers such a wide area it's so good not when you're going against him not when you're going against him well of course all right oh a spot Dodge right there young uh toun link saw through that I've noticed that Eli doesn't do any techs techking is where you press the Dodge button right as you go to land back on the stage I know he keeps thumping yeah and does it makes it so you get up faster and he's just not doing it I wonder if this tomb link knows about jabl loock setups I don't know I don't know either we'll see he hasn't done it yet so we'll see if he does well I don't think this T link even has to worry up smash about that shielding oh but didn't Shield the bomb oh oh is Eli going to recover he does yep he does that's really good it's really good King DD the jums the kingd kicked him no the T kicked him oh oh and he missed oh and a down smash to compensate the bomb was about to go off and that would have made that would that would have brought him back to Consciousness all right forward smash that's good and another forward smash to no avail side special down smash shielding for up smash for tilt he's just for tilt oh he's just doing all the stuff with his hammer I don't get it side special all right oh boy oh Dash attack out of nowhere for no reason for tilt side special down air side special all right well okay I think this is this is over no it isn't over yet it's never over now it's over so there is a point when it's over and that appears to be the time when it's over oh boy that's all right though Eli did a good job clearing out the first person three stock and taking two more stocks on top of that yeah yeah totally oh boy should we do more I think we should all right do you have a favorite nonprofit that could use an awesome fundraising idea auction it is an online and in-person auction platform that can help your nonprofit host a great Charity Auction find out more at auction.io that's auction.io no spaces no spaces no spaces it's like agar.io auction.io I wonder if they have a game called that like there's deepio nario oio auido oo auido all righty all right so sending the ton link off the ledge with his down air that's pretty cool that he did that cuz he did that last time all right King kru Taps his stomach and the Pikachu is probably rolling around he's just like oh man here comes the king K Ru maybe I'll three stock him this time I feel like they might bring out the Pikachu unless the Pikachu was the Mewtwo which I doubt but it would make sense cuz they're both Pokemon characters and they're all so light mhm very floaty oh oh but then again I don't think Mewtwo's play style matches Pikachu's cuz it's very cuz he's very slow well his moves are very slow compared to Pikachu yeah because he just jumps around his jumps around a lot and I just don't see that changing up their play style that much for a different character so maybe they haven't come yet all right oh oh oh neutral special sing them up to the top of the blast zone oh but the but the bomb hits the blunder bus and that's oh a down here oh he wanted to get at least one stock off that's all right imagine if he missed I mean if the side price ends up with helping your team I mean they did he did take off a stock I mean am might be worth it honest mhm well they're going onto their third player and so we don't have to deal with the T link anymore that's that's good that's good that's good actually now last time they did all also have a young Link on their team so I wonder if they're going to bring that guy out wait Did they really yeah they had a young Link so I wonder or maybe they just grew up and got out Adult Link I don't know yeah oh I didn't see who it was who is it Sora Sora they also had a SORA last time but I don't remember the Sora going against the king K rule I think he went against snake last time all right so King K rule jumps off the ledge once still feels weird yeah it does right he Pats his belly and sord jumps in the air neutral special to start us off and he's going to use his aerial attacks cuz Sora is very floaty and he has a lot of Aerials that can be used to his uh benefit yeah all right so a side B Sora getting a load of that super armor as he hits him sora's uh Del lightning attack is basically just Pikachu's but like times three I guess so but it I don't think it brings you down nearly as much as it does Pikachu cuz if if you hit with oh oh hit him with the Cannonball on the side that was nasty so nasty nasty slam gross all right get up rolling up so he didn't so he didn't get hit by the Light get him down oh up smash oh that's surprising if only he did if only he did like a down smash I feel like that would have been much easier sometimes it's safer to go for the up smash CU it has a bigger hit box it's more likely to be able to hit him I guess so cuz at least he did hit him yeah if he were unlucky he would oh I feel like he should have turned his blunder bus around that would have that would have probably been the stock wait could can you do that in air he can oh I feel like he can all right jabbing him all the way over to the left side covering the skies in cannon balls and by that I mean only one oh and a back air there we go he hits him Sam is the first one to take a stock this match which is really good all right sending out the Thunder doesn't he doesn't get affected because of his super armor which is pretty nice oh and his crown is over there oh s picked up the crown what's he going to do what's he going to do with the crown put it on his oh he countered the crown and dashed attack but the dashed attack didn't hit all right sending out his special attacks again what's he going to do is he yeah he's using his freeze I remember him using his specials that much last round last time we face him oh he jumped right into the cannon wow an uptilt a neutral special but Sora had his own side special to deal with that and an up air to deal with King k r General cuz he just took the second stock King rolls down to one stock and Sora still has two he also has one of the best uh Sora has one of the best recoveries in the game because after he can use his upbe he can use his side be as well to get back to the ledge which is really cool wait that doesn't it doesn't completely cancel all those other moves yeah his side B though can his side be puts him into a free fall though you can't do your upbe after your side be but you can do your side be after your upbe that's strange cuz with most other characters it's it just puts it just puts you in free fall I don't know oh and shot him off to the side good job King K rule he did that I'm thinking s might be able to catch this one up yeah me too if he can figure out what what um all right is oh the he countered the fireball I'm surprised his stomach isn't burning from that like seriously you ever just try to deflect fire with your chest no didn't think so I don't think I've ever tried that didn't think so that would be kind of weird all right knocking him over there oh and a down smash from the Sora gets dodged by the king K rule that's all right down smash into four smash oh angled downward slip counter twice oh in a row he's pulling some Little Mac tactics over here oh yes let me counter over and over again see if it works trying to give King K roll the slip that's all right o sending out the fire okay sorus projectiles against King K seems to be working at least Sam's King K oh oh There He Go yeah there it is up in that's what you were talking about that it is he he must have heard from Beyond the winds mhm oh speaking of being hard can Gabriel just punched sore in the ear so he won't be hearing that much anymore and I think they're on their last player while we are on our second so this is really good all we have to do is defeat this last player and then we go to the semi-finals I'm liking how this is you know turning out that explains why BDU was 11th seed and we were third yeah all right semi-finals isn't that what I said like right now is the quarterfinals so we might be going into the semifinals or did I say semis or does does that matter does it matter I don't know we're going to see who they bring out though I'm really excited to see who they bring out oh boy I'm really excited to see who they bring out um might bring out their Diddy Kong or their Pikachu I hope it's not the Pikachu or their young Link please not the Pikachu did they were they the ones who had a joker last time yes they were they did have a joker so they oh they're changing the song what are they choosing oh boy one wi Angel oh my gosh oh you can never just get one Wing you have to have like multiple Wings you know especially when I go to food stores I always get like the eight pack wings I don't like them spicy though and I like them boneless those are the type of wings I like but whatever floats your boat that's what's the difference between those and chicken nuggets nothing there's no difference that I know of oh it's the Diddy Kong again wearing his pink hat you know you're stylish when your hat is the same color is pepto bismol you know you're stylish I got to say pink pretty good color bring good color I mean it's it's not as good as blue or oh of course not blue awes or purple but it's all right all right he jumps down down he goes all right is Diddy Kon gonna taunt which one oh he's going to clap his hands and King Kroll is going to Pat his stomach good for you all right so this Diddy Kong is being really quick putting all the pressure on after the down throws he does that a lot actually after he hits you with a banana he usually always goes for a down throw and after that he usually follows up with Aerials all right so an up smash back here I'm following it up with more Aerials a dash attack into a oh yep knocking him into the air I don't know like does Diddy Kong like thrive in the air it it's looking like he is cuz King K rule is already at 81 it does help that it's King K rule it it does because he has a large he has more room to work with you know all right oh he missed and the super armor worked oh a dashed attack wow that's really I wasn't really expecting that me neither I wasn't expecting the dash attack to kill but it did King K Ru is just full of surprises all right sending out his crown and his and his Cannon which didn't work but his side be did and his neutral be that time it worked SBE didn't oh man he's just full of surprises I hate about King K rule is he's able to just projectile projectile projectile over and over again and it just works and it just works and a back gear and that just works what is going on a back air sends him to the other side of the stage pink back air no back throw neutral special oh the pink isn't doing anything no it will I know some people out there don't believe in the power of pink I do believe in the power of pink but King K ru's power just seems to be better he slips on the banana peel and gets right back up how's he doing this oh my gosh all right singing out his side B neutral special for tilt oh man I have no I have no clue how he's doing this well oh wow all right down throw into oh an up smash but he holds it too long he holds it too long could have been the end okay a back air trying to cover his surroundings recovery is op back air neutral special he's going to try sucking yeah nope not going to get it oh he missed oh he rolls up he rolls all right up special come on Sam you got this the Banana's right oh punches him right in the toe that's all right punches him right in the toe that's unfortunate but we do have two more people to take this Diddy Kong's last stock who will get the honor of taking the Diddy Kong's last stock I guess the power of pink really was there unless our team brings out the power of pink themselves who do we have that even has like Isabelle has pink King K rule had speaking of Isabelle well we're about to oh hero oh oh oh are they going to play Hero are they going to play Hero is the Blue Jay he is no flip away you guys are not going to there's no way this is happening you're not going to believe this hero one of the one of the most random characters in the game if you don't know about hero trust me you're in for a treat so what you're going to see J doing a lot is opening up Hero's command menu which is basically a menu of attacks that he can do now this can range from a fiery attack to exploding himself on impact I mean there's literally a move called kamakazi which is exploding himself on impact I mean it's it's weird all right and there he goes the he's got a kaboom in the works oh and he hits him with Kaboom he's got a snooze that puts him to sleep kamakazi at the top yeah that was at the top all right assist wasting a lot of his Mana he's only got 100 Mana to work with that's all right this is Jaden he knows how to he knows how to recover he can get his Mana back by either hitting Diddy Kong with his sword or waiting or waiting oh he got a whack wack has a chance to insta kill and an increases depending on your damage and your opponent's damage wait so if you if you have more damage yourself it has more of a chance to Yes actually I didn't know that uh oh a hatchet man but it missed that's just a very powerful slow move it doesn't have super armor despite how it looks it looks like it should it looks like bot's down be but it but it actually doesn't have super armor and it does more than Bas oh there's the snooze but he air Dodges in a lot of Jaden's um magic attacks can also be reflected so if the sty Kong knows how to reflect stuff maybe that'll help oh CRA did Kong reflect anything I don't think so and another hatchet man to no avail he's only got 11 MP I want to see him use his kamakazi he's got a heal he's got three stocks he's probably well kamakazi only takes one MP to do because you probably won't be alive to use the rest of it I mean yes oh yeah that's another way to gain mp whenever your character dies you get 100 mp as soon as you respawn oh so that's like a quick fire away oh a magic burst that actually gets powerful depending on how much magic Jaden has since he doesn't have very much it was very small it didn't get very big didn't deal any damage I wonder if he'll use a Hocus Pocus now Hocus Pocus oh he's got the oh oh oh the self go the self-destruct that's what I like to see that's what I like to see congratulations to Jaden good job Jaden that was good job that's awesome um did we ever shout out this other sponsor uh I don't think so okay so if you're really liking the stream then special shout out to Wells County foundation so very special thanks to them because they gave us a special grant that allowed us to purchase the computer that this stream is cly running on wow that's crazy I wish I I wish they sponsored me I could use a streaming computer I would love a streaming computer without their support we wouldn't be able to provide you the um oh my gosh my bad we wouldn't be able to provide you the quality program quality you are now enjoying so thanks for joining us this evening uh this concludes this week of streams but join us again wait we have an interview we do mhm then let's do that who were we who who will our interview be they're going to walk into the magical world of Pokémon Stadium 2 to talk to us it appears to be Jaden it's Jaden the kamakazi masteri the kamakazi the kamakazi master in the I assume flesh good good good have a mic yeah you might also need a chair get him a mic real quick um hello hello hello it's me Jaden so pretty good game uh what do you think about what do you think about the future uh the future is looking bright we've got um I believe most likely Oregon Davis next round and if we beat them thank you if we beat them it will be on to State all state which will be very very interesting to see it's very I'd love to see that very exciting in my in my opinion I think we've got a good chance of at least going to state I'm very excited I would like to see I do also have um I also wonder who do you think was the MVP this round who do you think did the best who do you think did the best um with his seven stocks I would say Noah that's a good that's a good one Noah that's good Noah has been MVP if you saw the OverWatch stream last night he was also MVP there Noah's just a beast of everything he does he's a monster at everything he's just so good congratulations Noah was crazy not only um n no aside from that other thing how do you think the match went overall tonight overall went pretty well I have been anticipating this for like months now I was relatively worri cuz last time it was a very close fight down to the wire down to the wire yeah if you remember that match with peach yeah between me and the peach yeah yeah one stock to one stock was it yeah one stock to one stock it was very close so I'm grateful that we got the dub today mhm um shout outs to Eli he was not there for the last match against BDU he might have made the difference there he took out the Pikachu that was a huge problem in the first match with oh yeah that's really good that's really good that the Pikachu got taken out and Pikachu player if you're watching this you did good buddy that was good I'm proud of you it was still fun to watch uh do you have anything to say to our future opponents actually in terms of if they'll ever watch this stream a future opponents you're probably not watching but if you are we're going to bring the heat we're going to put on a show we're going to do great good luck that kamakazi was for you Simon ah yes Simon if you're watching this we miss you buddy um but on the topic of the stream it's about time to close it up so thanks again for joining us um this evening and that concludes this week of streams but join us again Wednesday April 17th at 5:00 p.m.

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