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e e e either the state seal or accommodation in uh recognition of their Proficiency in English in Reading Writing listening and speaking as well as a secondary language that they may speak at home or have learned through our schools um fra Bliss is here who has been very instrumental in the past two years and helping to plan and execute the testing but as well as teach these kids and get them to the point because most of our German students are definitely taking that on from roughly eighth grade freshman year on so um this year um we have students 18 which is similar to last year I think it's the exact same number we also have 10 more students who are retesting again and that's primarily because in our German students have gone through and got an accommodation which is the lower level which because whether it's not being spoken at home or just not of as much time and experience they have retested multiple times to try to get to the state seal we do have some kids that do that so we give them multiple opportunities to get to that point um once they get get that seal or accommodation they can calculate into college credit um given two years of credit for uh college level and or additional hours depending on the school's individual policies but we had students who tested um over 40 and they tested in German Spanish polish Mandarin and Hindi this year so it's cool to see that grow as well and show the diversity of who we are as a district so we will be doing a picture and putting that on our social media um later on this week but I'm just here tonight to congratulate these 18 students and our commendations are Robert Anderson Emma Larson Joselyn pela Kai ribbons Matthew soloff AR thear Ben Jenna Brandis and those are our accommodations in both German and Spanish our seal um winners are AA baharas Andrea Guzman Lucia Lopez maganus Nicole sandborn Adriana cifuentes Victoria zalinski Jazelle navaras irini kav visus rahem Khan Kyrie arer and Melissa Montero sigura and that is in Spanish German and polish so year two making some gains and excited to see what other language we can come in and we are actively looking at that in finding uh you know there's various programs we can use for that testing and every day every year there's new companies coming up that might be able to offer additional opportunities for example anything from Ukrainian to various dialects of some of those Southeast Asian languages as well so congratulations to those students and we look forward to honoring them [Applause] graduation thanks Patrick so we're gonna move on to uh public comments so read them off in the order we got them if you could Lim me your comments a little little bit tonight U we normally ask three minutes there's a quite a few so keep it around there would be great uh first up uh Mike new man hello I wrote I wrote uh to everyone the letter so I'm going to I no one responded back to me so I'm just going to read it again because um I'm troubled I didn't hear anything back but anyway I wrote it to you and it was open letter to everyone so I want to start out with why in the long run I didn't support the school and the money because in the beginning I I I thought what I was told made some sense okay at the last board meeting that was the last board meeting and I tried to warn uh everybody the board here that you sell that property for $3 million you know just going to put a bad taste to people's mouth and it did mine as well I trying to put that out there um so selling the property $30 million loss gives a really bad taste to taxpayers thus raising more opposition than $195 million referendum we're in a economy that taxpayers are frankly tired of and right now you know they want to see more services but they want to see what we can do with what we have I too did not like the fact that we lost $3 million $3 million however I learned uh or excuse me when I learned about the plan to amend House Bill 4254 that's when I became very concerned about the lack of transparency uh this action was labeled actually unusual by some of the state representatives I talk to um maybe I better preface this too as I'm writing this from um as the township supervisor of Plato So I and the taxpayers understand there's a need for something we all do um but we still need to file the existing laws and the limits the taxpayers have tired of not having full transparency in government and I know I am I've always I always still say all taxing bodies in Plato need to sit down and talk to each other this means at least the four is preserved District 31 Plato Township um Library possibly but we just sat down and talk because because what people see is the whole picture every taxing body here is looking at our levies for the township our levies for the school our levies for the Forest Reserve and it's like okay fine we can do this this is what we need to do but no one's looking at it from the taxpayer's point of view because they see the whole pie is coming out of their pocket and that's what we need to start with we need to start with looking at everybody and we need to open communication up without the open communication we're going to be in that back in the same spot that we're at now because this really turned into to what how many million dollars were thrown out the window in this whole process okay uh there's opposition sit down with your opposition I strongly recommend we use the independent uh eyes to look at the needs of the community and our students okay I get it the students need something that said it's imperative that District 301 sit with interested parties and not keep all oppos all options in house that we thought I thought was done in the past transparency is the only way I kind of talked about that before um trying to hurry here for you a little bit the students in the community are all counting on the board to do the right decision so when you I hope you vote for an independent but I hope you bring in other community and opposition in selecting an independent set of eyes because yeah you know when I look at the school that has the least Lily Lake they're performing the best so it's not about the building it's about how we can serve the students because if you serve the students well you bring up the taxpayers uh uh value of their property as well so we all want District 301 to succeed but how are we going to do this and I think now we can take this opportunity to sit down go through it again and do it the right way okay it's all I got to say please we need to all talk together right next up is Bonnie Bret Schneider I'm Bonnie Brer I've lived in Burlington my whole life I have many generations of family here so my family and friends have multiple Generations that have attended 301 schools we have been supporters of the district vocally V volunteering our time as taxpayers and even as staff as I used to work at ly Lake as a pair of professional in 301 we devel positive relationships with our classmates teachers Administration administrators and community members that have lasted years beyond graduation a few years ago there was a class reunion for those Central alumni that graduated at any time in the 80s that also included teachers and administration it was so popular that even those who graduated in the 70s and the 90s came to it it was not held in a fancy Country Club Central graduates chose to have it hosted at that farm again the idea that so many former students wanted to get together because of time spent there is priceless in the 90s the athletic boosters were very active in our school we needed bleachers and they were not in our budget uh Rockford Hanah donated their old bleachers to us many booster volunteers drove on a cold wet freezing Sunday and disassembled the bleachers loaded them in their trucks and delived them and constructed them on the Rocket Field football field they also built a concession stand and a Crows Nest and the men did the plumbing the building and the electrical talents that they all donated they didn't have degrees but they didn't have the shiny new but the community was thrilled to death to have it and the team was proud to play there on their field markwick who spent years of giving his time and talents as a football and basketball announcer to enhance the athletic programs because of the positive experiences he had as a student when Central Middle School was the high school the gym caught on fire and the community came to the rescue the all volunteer Burlington Fire Department the ladies fire auxiliary with food and drinks the local farmers with their semi tankers to bring enough water to the school so that the Burlington school didn't burn down all the way as a district you used to offer a much needed rental space for a local daycare preschool both in the Plato Center and Burlington schools which I used to work at maybe in the future you could offer courses for students to learn about careers in education with real world experiences by offering an in-house daycare and preschool setting that also supports our community families and our District staff your District community members have much to offer to our 301 students the building a better District group has given our community back its voice to demand that we are not shut out of the process of educating our students and not just to use for our tax dollars there are many in this group that have expertise and experience in so many areas they are professional transparent honest and open to ideas and wants everyone to participate they understand and care that many of the community members are aging in place I'm fixed incomes and have been greatly affected by inflation before ever bringing back a referendum for facilities I believe you should work together with Community to have a public master plan for 301 goals for educating programming offer an independent enrollment forecast and an in independent facilities analysis I appreciate your time tonight and I want to thank everybody with the building for a better District we believe in Youk thank you thanks buddy next up Micheline Welch hello my name is Micheline Welch I have two children in the district and before I make my comments I do want to say that my children love school here and they're thriving they've had a wonderful experience here so far over the past several months myself Andy dogen and Chuck Barb have had the incredible incredible opportunity to speak to many people across our district as building a better District living on the east side of town um you can get the very wrong impression that most of our population living in Providence and Tall Oaks and Highland Woods um what we've learned is those subdivisions actually don't represent a majority of the taxpayers in the district and the roots here as you just heard run really deep throughout this process two themes became pretty clear there's a significant lack of trust between the broader community and the district and a significant presence of fear of speaking out publicly those sentiments were normally followed by a personal anecdote about where that feeling came from and I want to say that those examples span different decades administrators and Boards disenfranchisement is not quite a big enough word for what we saw heard and felt while interacting with the larger Community even though that wasn't Our intention my greatest concern at this moment if I were in your shoes would be how to repair the trust between myself and my community what steps could I take to show them that I hear them and that their trust in me matters I'd be looking to take proactive steps toward them rather than waiting for them to come to me I can say the following with confidence of the hundreds of people that we interacted with over the past five months not a single person has said they simply refuse to pay any more taxes regardless of the needs of the district we actually found people were overwhelmingly ready to support the district with a reasonable plan based on solid data including a family who actually paid out of their pocket to put the Burlington um the Rockets logo on the Burlington water tower a great start to moving forward in a show of good faith would be to commission an independent enrollment forecast and analysis on the facilities from a demography firm 303 is done at 304 and 308 those findings would put to rest the vast disagreement we have in our community over how fast we're expected to grow when we're expected to grow and what grades we're going to see that growth in convening a new and broader steering committee to work with those findings and develop a new plan would also be another great step barington 220 is doing this right now and they really have a good plan our community has a wealth of experience Talent creativity and passion and I'm sure with the right foundational data and their help a great plan to address all of our needs can be developed but first we have to understand those needs and we have to agree on them building a better district has always acknowledged we're not an elected body and we don't hold any power in this District as it relates to making decisions all we can do is try and educate the community and ask them to show up stay engaged get involved and participate Dr mongan and members of the board I leave you with this what you do next will tell the community what you believe of us if you hear us if you sincerely want to include us in your process and hear our voice what you do next could set our entire Community up on a different path of partnership cooperation of finding common ground but you you do next will make all the difference the next move is clearly yours and we're all counting on you and have faith in you that you'll make the right one in good faith thank you thanks M next up uh don Texa hi my name is Don tza sorry I have a cold so I'm a little muffled here um we have lived in this community and district for 2 7 years I'm here to ask that before any other plans are made or put in front of the community that a proper due diligence is performed going forward in the form of bids prepared bid out for two Services one being independent enrollment forecast companies and two being facility facility uh structure um to determine facility study to determine exactly what current buildings structures can be utilized for future growth if it is determined necessary from the growth forecast company's report what we don't want to have happen is these three things one any kind of a referendum that will end in the result of a $22 million ask as it was in 2016 That was supposed to sustain us for 20 years growth which only lasted 5 years and the district's answered when this was questioned during the current referendum we haven't been able to pinpoint the methodology that was utilized to determine the calculation for the 2016 Fieldhouse and classroom additions we suspect that it may have been based on square footage rather than student enrollment growth unfortunately we reached that capacity sooner than anticipated this was a pretty costly assumption two that land is not purchased without prior land due diligence performed to buy land for $6 million and only to be determin to be determined five to six laters years later that is not billable because it or buildable is because because it was on a flood plane doesn't sound like due diligence was performed and lastly what we don't want to have happen is $195 million plan for a district that is that its estimated assessed value is maxed at 95 million how is this a good plan to me this is negligent planning without a budget and without proper due diligence when explaining this to my young adult child that went through the school district I said to her that this would would be like Dad and I going to build a new home and the bank and the mor mortgage company said that the most that we can get for a loan is $500,000 and yet we contract an architect and a builder to design a $3 million home does that sound like a good plan so I am asking the district to do our proper due diligence step one and moving forward with the plan with the community and the rest of the district thank you for your [Applause] time thanks Don next up Michelle Shuda good evening um I'm here tonight as a community member a 2016 referendum supporter a former substitute teacher a parent of graduated students from the district and a taxpayer who wants to help this District prepare for the future I would like to see the district hire a firm to perform an independent enrollment forecast and facilities analysis a master growth plan based on proper forecasting is the first step secondly we have the responsibility to provide an appropriate learning environment for our students the challenge is to accomplish this in a financially responsible way there existed a shock Factor when discovering that our District's debt ceiling was $96 million and making a $195 million referendum more than twice the debt our taxing body can afford this is not a financially responsible solution to our District's needs looking at our elementary schools from the outside one can see the portable classrooms as they drive by and we realize that we have a facilities issue before building we should look within our own existing walls and ask questions about the strength of our current Educational Foundation so let's dig a little deeper and T the soil are the lowest paid teachers in the county given adequate programming to support in their classroom as support in their classrooms can teachers be anonymously surveyed so they can respond openly about needed improvements without fear of Retribution are we retaining good teachers or is District 301 becoming a stepping stone District new hires get a few years of experience and make lateral moves to other districts for thousands of dollars more why do we have so much administrative turnover in our schools what is the current status of the Career and Technical education programming at the high school classes and elective courses are cut for budgetary reasons and yet the district is promoting a new high school to house them doesn't it seem more reasonable to build an elementary school on land closer to Elgen to eliminate uh alleviate some excessive busing I ask the these questions because our community should be confident that when we build our next house or in this case a school it is built on a strong educationally sound Foundation a foundation where the community the Educators and the leadership are working collaboratively on a fiscally responsible solution to our facilities issue then we can all say that we are Central thank you thanks Michelle next up Kelly Cameron I'm Kelly Cameron um a member of the community a mom of two they both are at Central um been in the district since 2012 I believe as a parent inside the d301 district boundaries I am invested in the responsible growth and development of our district as a taxpayer I would also like to say for the record I'm not antix that's not me at all um as a taxpayer I was concerned about the district's current plans for a new high school and the request for 195 million to fund it without an independent outside enrollment forecast and Facilities analysis I call upon the board to stop any further development plans until these reports are Commission and completed by a reputable demog demography firm and those findings shared with us this will ensure that any decisions made will be based on comprehensive data rather than assumptions or incomplete and inaccurate data it will give us eyes to see so to speak what we can expect for enrollment growth getting these reports done is a win-win for everyone for about $50,000 we will see that a new high school is needed or we will see that a new High School is not the most appropriate solution for our enrollment challenges either way we will have solved the arguments over what is needed and what is not and come move and move forward accordingly I also call upon the board to assemble a new steering committee to create a development plan that identifies what the community wants to see and prioritize now and in the future aside from space for enrollment growth it should be made up of a wide number of people people from different townships Villages and walks of life with open meetings minutes available to the public and regular check-ins and surveys for feedback from the broader Community this will help us build consensus for a new plan long before it ever makes it to a resolution to be placed on a ballot and will ensure strong support at the ballot at The Ballot Box I'd also like to say that um although there seemed to be some controversy I have been moved by the amount of community engagement with this and what it comes down to is the love and the support of the children uh personally I had to put aside you know we're all different people I had to put certain things aside and be like you know what this person is about the kids so I don't care what their political affiliation is or I don't care where they go to church or they don't or what kind of flag they fly whatever all that was put aside and I believe that we can work together to achieve we've engag the Mind empowered the Learner in School District 301 and there are a lot of parents grandparents people in the community who are interested and who are invested and it's not because we're jerks it's not because we're anti-tax um I was married to an accountant no longer but that's okay but here's the thing he wanted to see the numbers and to this day that is how he is and it's not wrong to want to see the numbers in regards to building a school like I Echo someone else building a house and um I went over my time so I just want to say we are with you we are for you we are for these kids in this school district and um thanks for being here and thanks for listening to us thanks Kelly next up uh Gan Meyer Jean Meyer resident um I just just have a few unrelated points to share but the first one was just that I agree that District 301 needs to commission an independent enrollment forecast and a facilities analysis um the second point was I was wondering about the farm that was going to um have the new building on it uh what's going to happen hopefully that's going to continue some sort of a farm lease and get some rent from that um the third Point we've been told that that you can drive a bus through the high school cafeteria and if that's true if so we need to get some cafeteria tables and um fill up that space to the maximum amount of students and make them quit eating at 10:30 if there's actually room like we used to have in school uh a lot of kids in a space um not so much space between the tables um anyway point four uh residents that I have talked to to feel that attending or speaking at Schoolboard meetings serves no purpose um whether they're heard or not no change is going to happen there's no chance to debate or discuss anything um so um how can we change this um we heard people saying that we we need to um build trust with the residents of this community we need to feel that that it matters what we say that we have a chance to debate um so and I know at least uh some school boards where they have an additional three minutes at the end of the meeting so if we sit through the meeting and we hear something we want to question or we want to debate we'd at least be given time to speak after that but um anyway how can we make this more user friendly for the community and then the transparency issue I um I brought that up at the last board meeting so I'm being redundant but the fact that District 301 needed to pass a bill in our state legisl let me repeat that we had to pass a bill in our state legislature if we were to get the $195 million referendum because we were well over what the state um allowed us to get we heard those numbers earlier but we need to hear that I have not missed a Schoolboard meeting now in 16 months you can't get rid of me I haven't missed one you guys need to discuss these things we need to know there's not anything going on behind our back and and again what the kids are being taught Engage The Mind empower the learner I like that from the last speaker um we need to engage them in academics and not in social engineering and the parents and the residents who don't have have kids who care about the Next Generation need to trust that it's about academics and not social engineering so um the the other thing about transparency it sure seemed that the purchase of that new proper property it seemed to be well on its way to completion even before it was discussed at the first board meeting we went from some engineer talking about how he thought the property that was sold at a loss was um actually could be used like we wanted to use it but it would take a year probably to get things cleared up and suddenly we were buying a new property and selling this and it seemed there was no way to change course so more transparency more time for discussion and thank you guys for always being friendly and welcoming all right Chuck baram good evening everybody uh I have a third grader and first grader that go to hbt and Mrs Lewis you're doing a great job there so thank you we love this District district 301 is our home my kids play cdbl they play cdgs my wife Jennifer and I are very involved in PTO so we have roots in this District but I want to talk about three words trust transparency and insanity trust let me give you the definition of that firm belief and the reliability truth ability or strength of someone or something to put forth the truth you have to do a better job of that with the community as a board you're elected we look to you for guidance if we can't feel that we're getting truth from you you know what's going to happen it's going to happen all over again and that's the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result you pushed that Ballot Box in March you did it in the rears in 2023 and the word on the street is you're going to do it again in November that's Insanity $1 million have been flushed down the toilet of taxpayer money that doesn't include the fiber optics that have been run out to roris and that's not even in my 11 million you have to do a better job transparency it's been talked about State House Bill 4254 knowing that we've got a limit of here but nobody's talked about it on the board to your community about what you had to do to go get the extra $99 million to subsidize the 195 million to me that's bad transparency is key truth transparency and Insanity don't do the same thing over and over again how much more are you going to spend up until November 5th hopefully the only thing we really agree on right now is doing the independent enrollment forecast that is the only path forward districts around us have done it because they've listened to their community building a better District should be thanked by the community because they shined a light on things that weren't happening and things that were happening that's what needs to happen building a better district is not here to make it a red or blue thing it's a green thing and I'm not talking about environmental and windmills I'm talking about taxpayer dollars spend them wisely we've elected you to do that but don't do the insane thing and put that $195 million referendum back on the ballot in November it will fail don't waste our money but I appreciate each and every one of you because I know your road is tough but listen to us we're here we've got Roots thank [Applause] you thanks Chuck next up Connie Collins I'm not going to talk about the ref at all at all period what I'd like to speak to you tonight about is curriculum transparency parental rights we should all be aware that the leadership in Washington and our own State have a very Progressive agenda and continue to push this agenda on parents and children by any means possible through legislation executive order and I'm grateful that this district is one of the more conservative districts and believe that most of the people in the district care more about protecting and educating our children than they do promoting this Progressive ideology but there's only so much you can do this means that parents need to be actively involved in what happens to their children while they are in school and subjected to all the rules and ideology imposed on teachers and administrators parents are ultimately responsible for their children they're the ones who chose to bring their children into the world or into their family they will be the parents of these children long after they leave the classroom parents need to have need to have the right to know what their children are being taught and what is happening to their children while they're in school being under the influence of the teachers and administrators there they need to be able to ensure that their children stay true to their family's core values and when to step in to balance what is being taught if it differs from their values the parents and not the school or the state have the ultimate authority over their children I'm not suggesting that they do not work with teachers and administrators to achieve what is in the best interest of the child but the parents are the ultimate Protectors of their own children every day I see or hear of an organization trying to take away right and give more power to those who want to take the role of the parent out of their children's lives this is wrong children belong to the parents not to the state this is America not communist China or Russia parents must do everything in their power to stop this growing Trend right now there's a bill in the Illinois legislature HP 4876 trying to do just that they're trying to criminalize parents if they don't follow the progressive ideology and indemnify anyone who pushes their child into a situation where the parents don't agree in the fall 2021 my daughter and I met with the curriculum director of hbt after finding a lesson directly taken from Howard Zin if you don't know who Howard Zin is he's an activist who hates America he hates our founding fathers he hates the way their country was founded he just he hates America and the curriculum director assur us that this was not approved curriculum and that the district was working on getting all the curriculum entered into a website so parents could see what the base curriculum was that was being taught to their child it's now almost the end of the school year 2024 this information is still not available to parents we are the parents the grandparents the caregivers and the Guardians of the children in your care and not going away we will not turn our children Lock Stock and Barrel over to the state they're ours and we have ultimate authority over the people they will become thank [Applause] you thanks Connie and last is Tim Mets evening everybody my name is Tim Mets I'm a locco I've got my son William here um just graduated about a year and a half ago um I'm showing interest in farming the open space that you purchased this last March and also I'm part of the FFA program Alumni Association and we do the um awarding of the scholarships for the children um that are showing interest in some capacity of Agriculture that line of Agriculture is very broad um you need lawyers you need um people that grow the food obviously cook everything it's just a wide variety and I emphasize that on All My Children who are going to college at SIU two of them already graduated out of there um I don't want to get too long here but where I'm at with the Alumni Association we brought that in about 15 years ago which was the 4in pro uh it's a program with Agriculture and they're trying to run it through the school and our program that we brought in was a four-year course and the classes were a lot longer back then or shorter I think you short you did something and now we can only have two classes or two years uh with the FFA program and now because of that the the program that we running with the the land that we have these scholarships going on the children aren't really seeing the whole perspective because it's only like two years that they're able to get into because of the way the classes are and I think that the School Board needs to look at that and go back to the way it was about 2 three four years ago um that's about all I have to say I don't want to talk about the referendum I think you guys heard enough about it and um just you know be wise about what you guys do on voting so thank you [Applause] thanks we're going to move on to action items we need m and second to discuss and improve the consent agenda um included in your board packet you have your Revenue expenditure reports um revenues are currently at 4926 compared to 4539 a year ago um expenditures are trending higher um 65.

hello welcome everyone to our school board meeting this is a lovely large crowd we're happy to have you all here uh it is 6:30 so we're going to go ahead and get started with the Pledge of Allegiance if you are able to stand with us please do flag the United States of America to it stands Nation indivisible and justice for all thank you very much our uh cooworker Mr Grimes is not able to join us today but we have six remaining members so we do have a quorum I'll call the meeting to order Dr Roberts all right thank you Mrs won we do like to start off each of our meetings by revisiting and affirming our vision mission and core values as a corporation we look to be the choice to learn work and play our mission is to develop expert Learners by partnering with our community to invest in people and our six core beliefs include we all can rise to the challenge of high expectations learning is most effective when we have Choice flexibility and see relevance we Thrive when our physical social and psychological needs are met our community and School District are stronger when we partner with one another we flourish because of the diversity and variability in our community and our democracy and Democratic institutions are strengthened by civic-minded citizens thank you Dr Roberts all right we'll move into some really fun stuff we have a big crowd here this evening and these first four or five topics I think is probably why most people are in the room tonight so we're going to start off with recognition with our state finalist gymnastics team from Columbus North I would like to welcome principal Mr Clark up to the podium first of all thank you very much for taking the time to recognize looks like a full house lots of recognitions and a fun night I think this is one of my funnest nights school board meetings of the of the year we get to see all these things happening I would like to W uh invite coach Arthur and Coach fresh hour if you want come up to the stand and yeah go ahead and bring the gymnast up I'm not going to be here long I'm glad the gymnastics season is over there are just now they've just now quit doing flips in the hallway so I'm glad that's over just kidding um remarkable young ladies remarkable team to continue the excellent tradition that we have here with Columbus North High School gymnastics with that said I'm going to turn the microphone over um I would excuse U Mr Lewis our athletic director he tonight is at the Northeast softball game which is taking place right now so he couldn't be here this evening but I'll turn the mic over to coach Arthur and Coach fresh and let him talk to you a little about the success they've had this year thank you Mr Clark thank you everybody for being here um Dr Roberts congratulations on your pending retirement you when you uh finish up you need to find a good hobby like gardening or gymnastics coaching something like that so maybe I can help out um just a few shoutouts I've Got U uh the school board and and uh uh David Clark Dr Roberts for re allowing us to be here to recognize uh our accomplishment uh the Columbus North Athletic Department Brian Lewis Bev Addis was wonderful Jason Perry uh the chers chance Newkirk and Kate Cockerham all kept us put together and and kept us informed this is kind of my first time on the administrative level of things so it was kind of new and then uh of course coach fresh hour was also uh tried to keep me in line she didn't always do it but she got tried um special shout out to the parents they were fantastic incredible and their families and then uh uh we got some good media coverage from the Republic Ted Schultz and James Pence and Sam and Fran Sim maker Sam's kind of my surrogate mom I'd go over there after a meet she'd have a sandwich waiting for me and maybe a little snack but uh then the uh uh last but not least the two coaches um that were by my side the entire time Sandy fresh hour who Sandy i' I think we've logged up about 85 years together coaching uh uh gymnastics and I'm not I'm not embellishing actually and then we are fortunate enough to get uh Claire Thompson to join us this year Claire was a former Columbus North gymnast and all-around state champion so U uh and as far as the core values he met uh had we all can rise to the challenge of high expectations I think our girls really did that this year um you know we started off um really with a fairly low score but what a little over 101 almost 102 um and brought that up to almost a 108 and that's um uh that's a significant improvement over the season we went uh 9- one in our win loss dual meet season we were first in the Connorsville Invitational 15 schools represented eight teams uh we were runner up at conference Indiana and um sectional runner up and both of those were behind Bloomington North who also has a very good program and um we we appreciate the fact that they are a strong team because that helps us um you know I was thinking about the old Avis ad we're number two um uh but we try harder and that probably unless you're uh a child of the 60s 7s and 80s you probably don't even know what I'm talking about on that the uh fortunately we uh really Rose the occasion at the regional gymnastics meet and we were on top at the regional and uh walked away with a championship there and then uh uh we were kind of under dogs at the state but we ended up with a fourth place Podium finish at the state meet um and my hats go off to the girls we started kind of slow on our first event and those girls they could have just uh packed it up and decided to go home but they dug down dug deep and finished very very strong on the last three events we were U eighth place after the first rotation and ended up in fourth place at the finals so that was uh a very wonderful thing and I just my hats go off to the girls the compe that competed for us uh the team real quick um uh we got two seniors Lany Acton and and neetle Warz and uh Laney can you Laney was a uh event specialist at the state meet she did both beam and floor for us uh neply joined us as a senior she's a little nut but she was our little floor darling um and did a great job and she kept the uh she's got a heck of an attitude and kept us very kept things positive for us so we appreciate her joining us Junior uh Reese uler Reese can't be here today she's got a cheerleading competition coming up down in Orlando and I think she's really um uh would like to be a uh Collegiate cherleader so she's uh had to get ready go to that she actually had a practice tonight so and then Arwin other Junior Arwin tin who is also an event specialist at the state meet Arwin raise your hand say hello and uh and Arn's done a great job for us the past three years and looking forward to seen more from her I'm going to really push her harder and all around again this year so um she is a very um very clean gymnast we got sophomores Jaden Greenley uh Jaden raise your hand there we go Jaden was a JV all-arounder for us Ellie mcer was all around through most of the years Ellie raise your hand let them know who you are she was an event specialist for us at the state meet on on vault and bars and she so she uh was one of those kids that dug deep and helped us get into that fourth place finish all around Hannah Perry Hannah was a great uh fantastic gymnast for us did all around um we had to basically get her in a headlock to even come out for our program last year and she got bit by the bug and uh has just gone on and done some great things I think she was ninth all around if I'm not mistaken is that right yeah she did great for us then we also have um um eeve Richards eie Richards was a JB all-arounder and also a vault specialist for us um throughout the season the one thing about unfortunate thing about our season is we compete up to six kids in Varsity at the beginning of the Season we have to pair that down to four at the end of the season so uh it makes it tough for the coaches but we like it when it's tough because that means everybody's digging hard and working hard if it's too easy of a decision then that's uh not so good then we also have a a little rockar em Emerson Chambers uh she uh uh did all around for us during the season and she is a three event State specialist at the state meet um Vault bars and floor correct yep um and she's also killing it on in track we had one other um freshman with this Hannah grow who's our manager she could not be here she's at a softball game probably the one that Brian's at but uh so anyway that's our team thank you for being here fresh do you have anything to add all right boy that was easy all right I think I I hopefully I haven't left anybody out but congratulations girls you guys did a fantastic job congratulations [Applause] [Laughter] I know I just notic that good evening at this time I would ask for Mr John Stettler with sio and Mrs Mindy Summers Central English teacher to please come [Music] forward stay up here good evening I'm John Satler president CEO of of siho and I am privileged this evening to recognize Mindy Summers as the 2024 Edna V folder outstanding teacher the folder award is designed to recognize the impact teachers have both inside and outside the classroom this award is named for local teaching icon Edna fuler who invested more than 46 years of her life educating students in Bartholomew County the folder award celebrates dedication to the teaching profession ability to motivate students Andor staff to reach their full potential Innovation and teaching style and curriculum the ability to form strong bonds and relationships with students parents and peers and contributions to the community outside of the classroom the folder award is sponsored by sio the IU Columbus Center for teaching and learning the Community Education Coalition and the Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce like all previous folder winners Mindy is a dedicated and talented educator who goes above and beyond her nominator cite that she possessed is the true essence of a teacher passionately dedicated to the profession making a difference in the lives of her students and squarely committed to committing to making all those around her a better version of themselves Mindy meets her students where they are designing a safe rigorous learning environment with attainable expectations helping students become expert Learners by encouraging them to track evidence of their academic growth over time ladies and Gentlemen please join me in congratulating the 2024 Ed fold your outstanding teacher Mindy Summers [Applause] we just add a note uh quickly as we get ready to do our teachers of the year just a couple of years ago manyy was our teacher of the year for our entire Corporation and recognized at the state level and recently she's been on a little bit of a celebration tour she was recognized in front of her staff at Central Middle School as well as at a chamber luncheon where we also uh recognized her for her Great accomplishments so congratulations again Mindy sumers so I would like to say that I'm going to Echo what Mr Clark said this time of year in our board meetings are my favorite ones to date because these next few we are celebrating amazing students and Educators that do so much for us um so we are going to we're going to recognize the 20232 24 Teacher of the Year winners in a bit we're getting ready to show a video in a minute but I want to say all winners before you leave or as you leave if you'll go outside we have the bcsc banner Mr Bernett would like to take pictures of everyone I'm including the students um before they leave today what I can say that um this year we the community doesn't surprise me yet it's amazing the support that we have in our community we had 570 nominations for Teacher of the Year in our school corporation and that is every year I say this is the record today so at this point this is the record today 570 nominations before I call them up and announce them Mr Bernett create a video so we can help celebrate [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you Mr Bernett for the video and just to let you know these teachers that have been selected exemplify the great teaching that goes in on each and every day for our students they come to work dedicated and there is no greater impact on student learning than the quality of the teacher and they all embrace the love the care the support and the knowledge to help prepare our students for the next steps in their education so is an honor and I can tell you I do get excited when I finally see the winners I love seeing all the nominations but when the winners I'm like oh they oh they're great they're great they're great so this whole list it's exceptional teachers that helped make bcsc the choice so at this time I'm going to call them up individually their teachers we going to line up teachers we're going to line up and around here until we acknowledge everyone I'm going to name this the school the teacher and this uh the subject that they teach so let's get this started Clifty Creek Elementary Suzanne Dean fifth grade we CSA foda DEA kapor fifth grade instruction that's very good okay CSA Lincoln Steven Shipley sixth grade [Applause] Mount Healthy Elementary Emily Harris fourth grade Parkside Elementary Scott Rayburn fifth [Applause] grade Richards Elementary Aaron Lucas life skills Rock Creek Elementary Casey Ellsbury kindergarten Schmidt Elementary Kathy Denniston fifth [Applause] grade Smith Elementary Cindy lson fifth grade Southside Elementary Caroline arbu [Applause] kindergarten Taylorville Elementary Jenny me second grade Central Middle School Sarah WRA science Northside Middle School Crystal Stewart English language arts Columbus East High School Derek Chastain science Columbus North High School Brett White math CSA new Tech High School JY moral pupil services C4 Derek grz welding prek Early Childhood ebony OK Ash early [Applause] childhood and the administration building Gail Kors Elementary curriculum specialist [Applause] so looking at these individuals the the examples again the ones who come before our students each and every day to serve there's probably some familiar faces and probably not any surprises here because they do a remarkable job so on behalf of bcsc teachers thank you for the amazing work you do and continue to show up each day and provide our students with an excellent education thank you one round of applause let's go shake hands [Applause] look congratulations conratulations good [Music] job congratulations [Applause] congratulations to work congratulations [Laughter] okay we are going to move to our top 10 recognition we have a couple of videos to play for our top 10 um we will start with Columbus East and then students what we're going to do is after we run the video for East we will bring up the 10 East students and just come through and and shake hands and then the same thing with our North students after we do the north video we'll bring our North students up as well so we'll start with Columbus [Music] East my name is Kiren Scott and my parents are Nicole and Michael I plan to go to Indiana University and get a degree in either computer science or law my favorite bcsc teacher is probably Mrs hling but I have to say something about Mr Ward and Mrs Thompson because they've been great with C4 and I think my favorite bcsc memory is probably memories I made at marching band especially performing in the bands of America finals hi my name is Malia hubard daughter of Heather hubard After High School I plan to attend Indiana University Columbus to study business and minor in Finance and Accounting my favorite bcsc teacher is Mr Shipley because he really like cared to help students find their true passion and my favorite BCS memory is all of the knowledge that I've Acquired and all of the people that I've got to meet along the way hello my name is Jamie Porter my parents are James and Karen Porter I plan on attending Indiana University Bloomington to study business management my favorite teacher is Mr walls and my favorite High School memory was running cross country with my friends my name is Carly Ai and my parents are Paul and Joe Ai and I plan to attend Ball State University in the fall to study Elementary educ ation and my favorite bcsc teacher is Miss vanderberg and my favorite bcsc memory is helping run the C4 preschool at J hi my name is Caitlyn stter my parents are John and Julia stter in the fall I'll be attending Purdue University to study nursing um my favorite bcsc teacher is Mrs Stein wle the C4 biomed teacher and my favorite bcsc memory is cheering at the East North football games I'm Ben Bland my parents are Mike and Christy um I'm attending try University and playing college hockey and my favorite bcsc teacher is Mrs hamling and my favorite bcsc memory is the physics projects in that class hi my name is janelli bobos and I'm the daughter of Mara bobos my plans after graduation is to attend produce College of Agriculture for their animal Sciences major with a concentration in preet to begin my journey towards veterinary school my favorite bcsc teacher is Miss buckler due to her work ethic and love for education and my favorite C CSC memory is the day of my senior project alaloa I enjoyed interacting with people's pets and seeing everyone United for a great cause I'm Riley posie daughter of Mike and Jerry posy after graduation I'll be attending the University of South Florida to major in biomedical Sciences on a pre- anesthesiologist assistant track my favorite teacher is Mr lenot and my favorite bcsc memory was cheering at the Rivalry East North games my name is Aaron Walters my parents are Brian and Kim Walters After High School I plan to go to Indiana State University to pursue a career in criminology and psychology my favorite bcsc teacher is probably got to be Mr Chastain and my favorite bcsc memory is definitely playing and attending the Northeast soccer games they were just such a blast and the r was really fun my name is Greta hammerlin um I'm the daughter of Rodney and April hemline in the fall I plan to attend Purdue University to study chemical engineering and hopefully ride on their Western Equestrian Team um my favorite bcsc teacher is Mrs hling along with all the science department um my favorite bcsc memory is going to all the sporting events with my [Music] [Applause] [Music] friends congratulations Columbus e top 10 we can have you now congratulations congratulations congratulations good job good job kid [Music] conat okay we'll now move on to our Columbus North top [Music] 10 hi my name is a singeri my parents are asuk and mikica singeri After High School I plan on going to Y University to major in ethics politics and economics and my favorite bcsc teacher is Mr Spock and my favorite bcsu memory is going to debate competitions my name is Caitlyn white my parents are BR and Allison white next year I plan to attend either the University of Indianapolis or Ball State to study nursing um my favorite bcsc teacher is Mrs Stein wle and my favorite memory is going to and participating in northw St schs hi my name is Kean Harris my parents are taught in Christen Harris I plan on studying computer science at Purdue University my favorite teacher is Dr hackner my favorite BCS memory is robots competition at East my name is kingan burrick my parents are Joel and Rebecca bank I plan on going to Purdue University Indianapolis for engineering um my favorite bcsc teacher is Mr Burton and my favorite bcsc memory is performing at American Pie hi my name is Kenzie Pendleton my parents are Tyler and alici Pendleton this fall I plan to attend bham Young University to study exercise science and athletic training one of my favorite bcsu teachers is Mr Spencer and one of my favorite bcsc memories is winning state for cross country I'm alexer cognata my parents are Angela cognata and Jimmy cognata I plan on attending a 4-year University at an undecided location to study either business or chemical engineering my favorite bcsc teacher would probably be Mr hagner here at North he's the physics teacher here and he taught me AP Physics one last year and I'm learning AP Physics C mechanics with him right now he's one of the smartest guys I've ever met he's really nice and he's really good at what he does and you can tell he really loves teaching and and physics my favorite memory at or my favorite bcsc memory here would probably have to be just uh 10th grade English as a whole I met a lot of my friends in that class who I'm really close with today and there were a lot of people in there like I remember at least like six of my really close friends now are in that class and we had her name was Miss RH at the time it's now Mrs princess cuz she got married but it was just fun we always wore up to some fun Shenanigans in there and just had a whole blast my name is Frankie poak my parents are Frank and Nicole poak and I next year I will be attending either Duke University or the University of Chicago to study history my favorite teacher is Mr Russell my favorite bcsc memory was when Mr Russell took us into an underground basement area in the school to simulate a cold war bunker and kind of show us different pieces of propaganda from the cold war and during the Communist scare as well hi my name is Austin Clark my parents are Allison Clark and Brian Clark I plan on attending Butler University to study accounting and my favorite bcsc teacher is Mrs Patt from Southside and my favorite bcsc memory is um participating in my sophomore year musical nice work of you can get it hi my name is McKenzie Meyer my parents are Aaron and Chris Meyer and After High School I plan on attending Indiana University to study biochemistry one of my favorite bcsc teachers is Mrs Stein wle and my favorite bcsc memory is winning cross country State hi my name is Alex osor my parents are Cathy and Andy oser next year I'll be going to Purdue a major in plant science my favorite bcsc teacher is Mrs McCarver and my favorite bcsc memory is going to San Francisco for journalism [Music] congratulations to our top 10 from Columbus North if I could have you come forward please conratulations con for [Laughter] congrat conat juniori students as you leave I believe Mr Bernett is looking to get pictures right outside so if you could just gather out out in the hallway area thank you clear them all on crating we did hey while people are while people are funneling out I just want to point out a couple of statistics that I keep track of every year when we do this Purdue one by the way Purdue one a lot of science people there six six to four Purdue versus IU first year we haven't done that and the boys were representing yes the boys are representing this year last year we only had two out of 20 we had eight out of eight out of 20 so yeah y nice work School Schoolboard member reports that was my Schoolboard member report okay Mr Nan better um the council for Youth Development met on April 10th and I'd like to highlight one thing um the the Youth Empowerment Summit which will be this Friday at columus Learning Center um Chad Russell who we was mentioned by at least one of the students there uh Columbus North social studies teacher will be the keynote speaker and the students will rotate through a series of Workshops the topics and presenters were planned by the student leaders and the summit it has slots for 100 participants 160 students applied so I think that's a sign of success they are currently taking applications for student student leaders called youth ambassadors for next year and um it's a really I think a powerful process the school counselors and others work with Cyd to identify students with leadership potential who don't see thems as functioning in leadership roles so they build leadership potential for our community's future nothing out of my committees I believe cicc's next meeting is in May yeah okay thank you um I'll just give a quick update on our superintendent search process uh we did hold our public hearing uh just prior to this meeting at 5:00 regarding the contract there were actually no um members of the public in in attendance um so it was it was fairly short and then uh our um next meeting on April 29th is where we will vote on that topic Mr Stenner uh Mr Grimes uh couldn't be here this evening but asked me to uh mention a couple of things on his behalf uh the foundation one of the biggest fundraisers they do every year is called the good better best 5K it'll be Saturday April 27th it'll be held at Southside Elementary uh people are signing up already and if you're interested in that 5K Mr Grimes tells me that the website is Indiana timing.com so you can search it by location or date April 27th um fund rais funds raised at that event go to support the uh Grimes Wallace out of the boox recognition for teachers uh awarded every year at 8:15 that morning this year's winners of the Grimes wall wall out of the box award will be recognized at the walk uh this year's winners Mr Grimes tells me so I'm pretty sure this is not a secret um Kaa Hill from Rock Creek and Christa Bartos from Smith uh it's the first time in the history of out of the-box awards that two have been awarded uh I also have two uh committees reports districting and Facilities committee has done a ton of work um much thanks to Dr Bosman for coordinating that work in the last month um both uh architect selection and then construction management U selection activities have occurred over the last four weeks five weeks and Mr Boseman will be covering those later in the meeting uh I will leave my portion of it to uh be a time to thank all of the U board members teachers School staff parents even students that were involved in the processes uh I'm sure that their attention and um efforts at making good decisions will lead us to a good direction moving forward so we thank all those who contributed to the success of the selection processes the business Advisory Group met on a Friday morning uh Mr Edwards and Mr hack gave us a presentation uh the C4 career fair career week had recently wrapped up there were videos on the YouTube page uh some amazing things went on that week Monday's Focus was on careers in public safety Tuesday there was a focus on careers in health care Wednesday all day was a focus on manufacturing Thursday on transportation and Friday Building Trades uh participating this year were more than 50 employers and Community Partners generously sharing their time to support students there were engaging activities uh fun and a lot of learning about potential careers uh so every time uh the business Advisory Group thought the presentation was coming to a close either Mr Edwards or Mr hack would remember another aspect of the work that they had forgotten to highlight uh I think they could have gone on all day uh so i' I'd recommend uh going to the YouTube site checking out those videos C4 is doing some amazing work and we appreciate Mr hack and all the members of the business Advisory Group who help direct that thank you nothing new from the Health Trust and uh Redevelopment uh committee met earlier today uh they were talking a little bit about a new uh process to design build operate transfer that the state has has um for public buildings um and then they also talked a little bit I had to leave early uh but they were going to talk about the downtown entrance Plaza they're going to renovate that area and make it more welcoming more U I guess modern um for the times so that uh will be a project that they're going to have ongoing in the future um but there's limited to talk about with that right now so thank you thank you okay we're on to Cabinet reports uh Dr Phillips and Dr bosan good evening I do my best thinking in the morning and the first thought I had this morning was that the board meeting is here tonight and we never took care of those blinds that were needed up there and about this time I was thinking what time do that sun usually come through and it is apparently at 7:13 p.m.

to order um first on our agenda Mr Smith would you please introduce um our friend from the sharing Place Madame President Dr Smith members of the board and once again we'd like to welcome SCH Schumacher from Luther and Child and Family Services you also oversee the sharing place which is hosted here and in our building and he's going to present uh a quick overview of some of the services that they have been providing now the Shar in place thank you thank you Adam chair your board your Dr Smith and um yeah e for e e e thank you Mr Schumacher and um I think I speak for the board when I and the administration when I say we don't want to do it without you either um you feed our families and um we know that nutrition is crucial cral for our children and and our kiddos so thank you for everything you do Bo do you have some comments yes I Echo uh what what president muston said Mr Schumacher thank you so much for the work that your organization does within our community feeding those individuals that are really in need and that's an extension really of the work that we do in the school district as well as within our foundation as the daughter of someone who benefits from similar services in Ohio know how vital this can be for um particularly for our elderly um who maybe are homebound or maybe not accustomed to shopping for groceries as my father is um for himself so I we very much appreciate it I do have a question for you Roger Smith um Mr Smith when we turn this back into a school um what are our plans and I know we plan we intend to keep the sharing place here what are our plans to um um either I I I don't know what our plans are in terms of like facilitating um the academic work that we're doing here as well as the the work that um to to support the sharing place would appreciate that U we're going to continue to support the sharing place here and as that program evolves and develop uh we may see some more of those opportunities as we engage uh this building uh with more students Roger go ahead and share with the board that the plans for all the na profit Partners we have in this building attentions is for them to stay is that correct correct uh Chamber of Commerce is currently here uh along with communities in school uh we plan to continue to host them uh our clinic will remain here as well for uh districtwide employees so we don't want to move that and uh the PD in uh this particular room will remain as well not only for student news but also other public uh events and staff development go ahead Jess Jessica thank you so much for the presentation it's so exciting to see the impact that um the sharing place has on the Lawrence Community I think just two questions that I have I don't know for whom but uh the one is how do families find out about the sharing Place how is that communicated in the schools to ensure that families are aware of this service goad that is one way we also share what' you say Sean I would also remind Miss dun that uh sharing places has grown Roger Smith and spin over the years uh you were in a much smaller location and you've expanded to probably five times the size of his previous location Roger oh yes and so it's it's now institutionalized in our community people know about it but our entire student services division all of our family lisons um know exactly where to send people when there's Fe food insecurities s is being modest he not only serves Lawrence Township but he serves people all across the city people come from all over and they know uh the hospitality that uh this organization uh has for serving people people and feeding them they do a phenomenal job so can I also add that it's on um it's on our parents Square also so I know that I get um updates updates for it and it also add you know for signing up to volunteer so I thank you it comes through my parents square right then I had um just two other questions the other question was do you have a breakdown of the demographics in terms of bil language I'm just curious with the growing um population of our community welcoming our Haitian Creole families um in the need potentially for supports there I know the Haitian Creole Society has a very large presence on the east side and so I was just thinking if there was a way maybe to connect with potential volunteers or um translators because I know that language barrier sometimes can be an issue I'm happy to help connect the dots for you all yes thank you very much and then the final the idea about an apprenticeship is truly a really smart idea I'm wondering and I was trying to do a quick Google search on the Indiana Pathways and I didn't see that there was one for nonprofits I'm just curious if that's something that um potentially could be looked at at the next you're sitting right next to the individual who's over secondary education we'll take a look at it Miss dun Mr schoe marker thank you for that announcement you've got the High School principles in the room so they're they're here and they can hear you and we're always looking for opportunity I see Miss means here from Lawrence Advance Academy so it's nice that we have potential opportunities for young people to do some internships in the future so we know you're a good partner thank you thank you nonprofits are a business right so could be part of the business program or we could we could find way um thank you Amy had a question Amy I just had one last question Mr Schumacher I'm sorry thank you again uh just uh for the public record uh what is your greatest need would you say right now is it volunteers is it donations Okay so and and just for anyone who might be watching the live stream um who didn't maybe be able they weren't able to benefit because you you weren't at the microphone he's looking for volunteers and once people who know how to lift 25 pounds or above just in case an impressive operations fin through my mocker and I would invite anyone if you want to help or just come by and visit uh it will truly impress you what we're doing here in Lawrence Township I know this city well I know all the school corporations I I'm I'm going to go on the record and say no one has a food pantry of the scale and size that we have here in Lawrence Township because of our partnership with the Lutheran Church and with sharing places so we are very privileged here and honored to have you Sven thank you sir thank you thank you Mr shiman we are lucky here and we're lucky we have Mr Roger Smith here to talk to us about our Blue Ribbon update Madame President Dr Smith members of the board um yes we dedicated some uh baseball stadiums uh the weather didn't quite uh cooperate with us this one here at LC we had some snow and rain uh LC pool uh indoors we continue to uh pour concrete uh in the the pool itself and actually this week we're going to do a water test so they'll start feeling it as of today and do some pressure tests LC pool again uh the other areas continue on uh the old pool is being demoed you see there is being filled in and they'll continue to demo demo and fill in uh over the next month l in front steel is complete and now the exterior and the roof uh is going on uh Ln again ribbon cutting uh same situation there but little warmer but we had rain uh Ln Auditorium entrance uh the new face is going up inside multi-purpose room the the walls and ceiling been painted new lights in place and uh the flooring will start April the 22nd those are midle School auditorium continues on moving very well uh the main gym and the locker room and the corridor areas there all under renovation so that'll progress through uh the midsummer uh fuli Valley the hallways and three more classrooms uh again underway with renovation um schinn talked about the bridge over Quai that's the bridge hopefully we'll be done with that and reopen door five at the end of the month uh tennis courts on the south end are continuing as the weather permits Transportation second floor is really moving forward quickly uh we're dropping ceiling in and next will be flooring so we're looking at uh um maybe a midsummer move uh into that facility the new LCC uh you'll see out there this week hopefully some heavy equipment coming in uh for the EXC excavation to start and just a little Clips uh this is from the south end of LCC looking over Sunnyside um thank you for that sorry um I had a quick question will the filled in pool at Lawrence Central also be turned into a multi-purpose room similar to Lawrence North correct okay thank you any other questions then at this time we will ask Mr notor to give us a big curriculum update thank you Madame President Dr Smith and members of the board we do have a big curriculum update this evening with a series of presentations s that really are the culminating work of program review processes that have taken place and I'm pleased to report to you that we have had nearly 200 participants in the various committees this year and thank you to each of you for your support and your work on the committees as well and we've asked several of our administrative and teacher leaders to be in the audience this evening just so that we can thank them for the extra time and facilitating the various processes this evening so if you are here this evening because as you served on a committee or facilitated a committee participated please rise and we thank you for your leadership and your commitment to our students and so feel free I know that you may want to stay for the entire meeting but after your program review is complete feel free to to slide out um we'll begin this evening with Mr Harsha who leads our curricular advisory committee for for our High School courses and this is a council that brings recommendations to you twice a year you approve the first round in the fall this is the second round of recommendations for the 2425 school year Mr Hara e Rec e e St for our e e is this fabulous I do have a question um in our agriculture pathway are there any units on forestry yeah Forestry I'm I'm wondering because we have um our new property adjacent to Lawrence Central and wondering if that would be helpful in our agriculture classes okay and we also offer our introduction to agriculture at our middle schools where that topic would be covered as well great thank you yeah I do have a a couple of questions okay um first off thank you so much Mr Hera for all of the work that you and the Committees have have put into this as somebody who sat in on the social studies curriculum I know how intensive and how professional that review was so thank you so much for that um I also want to note that I am so grateful to represent a district that is um embracing uh particularly the AP uh history course um where some states are not and um that really serves a need within our community and I'm very proud that that is what we are doing here in this District um Dr Smith I'm wondering if you and I could have a quick back and forth Dr Smith you okay okay here's my here's my question for you remember Miss Lawrence I'm getting no Dr go ahead are are we as a board of education allowed to to approve any curriculum that is not approved at the state level by our legislators repeat that question you ask can we prove curriculum is not is not approved by the state of Indiana do we have the power to approve anything yeah you do you you can approve curriculum at this level uh the state does have approved curriculum okay and we have to stay within those categories but you can approve Comm uh curriculum that is unique to your school Community absolutely great okay and are we allowed to as a board of education do anything that falls outside of what the recommendations of the state would require I think that's the same question that you just answer yes you can and there are school districts that have very unique specific curriculum to their Community okay now what you have to keep in mind is they're going to put kids on a pathway to meet graduation requirements okay so we have to keep that in mind great okay thank you very much Dr um just one other follow-up question um is I'm trying to think of how to phrase this the Board of Education cannot get sideways of any of the academic recommendations that that we can't just create curriculum on our own it has to has to adhere to State Standards we do need to make sure that we follow state standards and and like this team is bringing to you there are categories and certain things that have to fit so if we went out and cre a curriculum it would have to fit with our state categories and we also have to keep in mind we got to make sure that those graduation those requirements that we have will meet graduation requirements yes okay so we do have to follow that okay and there are unique programs that are out there in some school corporations just like agriculture I love the fact we're bringing agriculture to Lawrence Township because there are some communities that have been doing act for years because of the communities in which they serve it is a wonderful we're all going to eat right we're all going to eat it is a huge huge opportunity for our kids especially here in the Midwest the agriculture industry so we're bringing something that could benefit our kids long term okay and it's not all about just farming okay act means other things also certainly we talked about composting the last question I have for you Dr Smith is I know that the state level there is review of curriculum I wonder if you could just give but help me remember exactly what that is and how that differs from this let let me get to my team my experts because once we approve our curriculum what do we do with that Mr notor and I just want to be clear there's a difference between the courses that we're talking about right now and curricular resources so the courses that we're talking about for our high schools every course is state approved we have to have a state identification number and you can see all the numbers that are listed here so these are all state approv approved curricular resources there are some content areas that have been legislated recently that require particular resources to be used for instance early literacy there are other um content areas where you go through a localized process to determine what the most appropriate curricular resource is so it's a combination of the two thank you very much um I have a question regarding the slide up there to um on 7114 soiless production does that is that um like Hydroponics growing plants and water um something you you do see in more City areas um and then for the greenhouse that's exciting to do we have Greenhouse space in our district to to utilize that or is that something that will possibly be added later on go ahead Roger we do have currently at two elementaries uh green houses and uh we've had over time some alternative type of uh energy produc uh production and uh either hyp is that hydron hyic hydroponic Hydroponics uh inie Creek for example they do some so in their stems areas so growing that we do have some space if we need to at uh uh Middle School is a little tight uh but at the high school there's also space so I would just add in our conversations with a few other school districts and even at Purdue um they ensured us that uh while some districts do have green houses it is not a requirement to have a solid agriculture program sure solid horiculture program there are lots of works oh sure no I think it's great though um and my second question question was I think the slid it's slide six the one before about the uh personal financial responsibility course which um department does that fall under it's not business is it it is business oh it is is business and so right now we've got some folks and leaders from our business department who are developing um the curriculum and again her uh approval could be offered to our current graders as soon as this summer okay um no that's great and th those courses would they they be taught then at McKenzie or at the um each High School okay thank you and this particular course is also available to eth graders so you may see it at our middle schools as well okay and you had mentioned eltech right yes okay thank you I would just note that um you were talking to um our our foundation leader the other yesterday and uh found out that BizTown does not have enough funding to bring the schools in anymore this the sixth graders I believe and um I think that's such a shame fifth and sixth graders that's such a shame because that is a very early um chance for our children to understand personal and business finance so I don't know board maybe when we meet with our legislators we could uh maybe convince them that that's a an area that could be funded anyway thank you yes I just wanted to say in looking at the recommendations it appears that you all have done beyond your due diligence and thinking about uh the fall of 2024 when we're or 2028 when we are shifting to the new um graduation requirement so just kudos to your team for being on top of um the changes that we know although they're not going to be coming about in for another four years obviously the district has done a tremendous job of getting ready for the pathways that were instilled this year so just kudos to the team because I know in looking at the requirements it looks like we are going to be very well positioned thank you very very much if there are no more questions we're going to go ahead and move on to um social studies adoption uh suggestion this is specific to our secondary grades 7 through 12 and so Mr Harsha as our director of secondary LED this process as well me Eng some shared experiences lastly had were instuctional bra so as a supplement you can see there stre school for dual language unfortunately did not rob schools you know there are a lot of SCH in terms ofle sub there so just a couple of quick questions first again amazing amazing job on such robust wonderful materials I am wondering when um a teacher has so many great opportunities to have such robust materials in curricula is there a pacing guide that is provided so that they are knowing when indeed to be using the supplemental resources as opposed to when to use the Core curriculum and are they given time and compensation over the summer then to plan for that yes okay okay perfect thank you and then um I have a question for our fam famous Finance Guru looking at you Mr miles uh and that is we know that and this is in relation to all of the different curricular resources that we're going to be um purchasing we know that the state has graciously offered to cover textbook cost but again uh president Mustin thinking about how we Advocate with our state legislators um could you give us kind of a ballpark figure of I mean these are a lot of robust wonderful materials that come at a cost and so approximately how much will they be funded by text book reimbursement versus how much will we have to be responsible for as a district uh yes thank you uh Madam board member we are uh last year we were able to get funding uh from the state directly um last year just as a as a look back we were short of the amount needed to fully cover it so you may recall that's probably what prompted the question uh we the balance thereof we funded through our debt service and some Bond funding this year we will be much closer if not fully funded from what comes from the State um to very close we don't know exactly what that amount is going to be just yet from the state so until we know that it's it's hard to give an exact answer but we do anticipate the cost this year to be much less than last year okay that's great but also want to make sure that we're reaching out to our state uh Representatives absolutely the to make sure that they know that we appreciate that and parents appreciate that but it comes some from somewhere absolutely thank you that and that we have heard anecdotally that that is uh on the agenda of the legislature this year so as they look at that that is going to be it's something they've heard from not just Lawrence Township but many many districts across the state I had a comment um as as a Committee Member on this I wanted to thank you for the um invite to all for the curricular resource vendor fair um as a non- educator but apparent it was very um insightful to see all of the different curriculum that's out there and how it's interactive and children can see themselves in the material um so just being able to see that um from mylands was really helpful so thank you for including that as part of the committee work I have a question and it's from a bral lens I'm looking at the uh US History ethnic studies and uh one of the tools that you're using is upfront magazine and it sounds great high school students Guide to the world if I could take something off my parental plate it would be having these conversations does a parent have access to sign up for these magazines okay so I have to get the license okay thank you not right I would pay but I'm not paying for a license look over your childone of yeah none of free any further questions about the social studies curriculum thank you very much Mr harshaw um and then um Mr notor we will move on to the up update for enl dual language and World Language adoption yes madame president Dr Smith and members of the board uh this was the year to evaluate our language programming and our language curriculum and the facilitator of that process was Mrs Georgina Mayorga Schneider our assistant director of language programs and she brings to you the committee's recommendations this evening for e r e s still for okay e sh e e do you have questions I do well I have a comment SL no I do have a question and a comment first thank you for allowing allowing me to sit in and ask questions I know I had a lot of questions and I thank you for taking the time to answer them or email me responses so I just want to personally say thank you it was very helpful for me and just having that knowledge so thank you but I do want to ask uh on the slide I want to say maybe three or four con uh concerning the parental engagement conversa I think that's what how how was the parental in engagement were there a lot of parents that showed up was what did that look like how did can you just lean into to to that a little bit more that was good that is awesome and you said that this is this will continue until May you had said okay all right thank you that's that's a very creative way to engage our um non-english or non-english native speakers um I'm wondering if that's something that we might think about more broadly as a district for other things in order to vet C curriculum or or challenges I think it's a great opportunity to engage uh families who are invested in this district and want and want their kids as everyone in the district wants all of our kids to succeed I would like to Echo my fellow board members kudos to you on leading a wonderful task force I also congratulations on the presentation at title con um about convera so I love that we are sharing that not just here at the de but also able to share that around the state because it is certainly a wonderful and creative way um to meet the needs of our families I um I do have one question um just because people may not be familiar with the comp the certification of multi- um lingual proficiency can you just explain the fact that we are starting to think about that from sixth to 8th grade is well ahead of a lot of other places so can you explain um for those that might know not know what the comp is and approximately how many uh Lawrence Township students achieve that see it is a wonderful wonderful opportunity and one that I'm so glad that we're thinking about how we're preparing students as young as middle schooler so thank you again for your leadership I'm also very grateful for that um certification because we have to keep in order for them to get that certification and to pass those we have to keep our students connected with their native language all along the way which is um such a benefit to them moving forward so thank you I know we go to graduation and we see so many beautiful Shaws from so many countries and so many languages that it's it just warms my heart so thank you for the work now I want to make sure I understand these resources will be Pilots for next year this is not something we're committing to the curricular resources so the there were pilots for this year but what we've shared with you this evening we would be asking for board approval for adoption okay thank you thank you thank you for that clarification any other questions thank you so so much for the work and I um very much appreciated sitting in on some of the meetings thank you so this is really exciting to a musician we'll be moving to um curriculum updates for the Performing Arts yes adoption Madame President Dr Smith the members of the board this year was also the year to review our Performing Arts programming as well as Elementary art that also will be in in this presentation and Mrs Natalie Schneider and Mr Harsha uh both supported our district uh Regional specialist for the Performing Arts in facilitating this process and Mrs Schneider's here to share recommendations this evening e e e stand up up e e e C e Lord would you like to ask questions about elementary before we move to secondary or would you rather don't we do that uh thank you so much for the presentation so as the mom of a kindergarten at Forest Glenn one of the greatest joys in my life is to listen to her little voice singing and she sings both in English and in Spanish now um so I'm wondering what support do we offer our immersion and our dual language programs is is it just covered under this curriculum or is there kind of supplemental materials that those students have access to yes thank yes both yes covered in this material and additional supplement as well thank you my question is uh I know our children all have their own devices are in the within this curriculum is it interactive can the children go to this program and have some interactive experiences on their own both in music and in the Arts yes so if you know the student is has a special interest they can delve into it a little bit more uh I don't usually do this and I hate to take the time because uh we have an announcement by the Indiana Fever tonight but um I I will just tell you a little story um we used to get the Scholastic Magazine the little Arts magazine for very young children and you know that that week I had read with with my young daughter who was about three years old at the time I had read a little article about the artwork of Georgia O'Keefe um it included her clouds some of the lovely pictures and stories about Georgia o'keef and for a young child and we happened to be at the Chicago Art Institute a couple days later and we turned a corner and at the top of the stairway was Georgia O'Keefe's clouds and my three-year-old said Georgia o'keef and everyone around me thought it was such a wonderful parent had had nothing to do with me and everything to do with the resources so thank you for giving those resources to our kiddos uh I guess that that was my question whether they were interactive and they are great thank you right Mr Hara okay see on the next slides other set Miss done I do have a quick question for um both both of you this is first of all outstanding work with the Fine Arts there are so many different areas that you have to adopt and vet material so it's super exciting to see um the robust materials how with uh art How are schools they given a budget for the consumable items or how does that work because we know that the curricula is just one support but things like paint clay all the other things that go into that um how is that divvied up between the schools yes each of our schools has an instructional Supply budget based on their student population and that's where they would purchase those type of consumable materials so is that at the discretion of the principal or is it shared that x amount should be given to Fine Arts because I know sometimes that's it's not always a huge pot of money and so sometimes Le in my experiences the Fine Arts or it's not always a priority so I guess my question is how is it made a priority to ensure that that those are used specifically for Fine Arts as well it's a collaborative effort between our principal and the teachers okay excellent thank you and then in terms of instruments um I know that our district works with pages and families can also um purchase their own musical instrument what type of support is given for families that might not have the financial means to be able to rent an instrument so does Paige give a discount for our free and reduced students or is it just based on if we believe that there's a need I I would add to that Mr Harsha that um a few years ago the district made significant investment in performing arts instruments as part of the last program review so in the tune of millions um of dollars of of investment into instruments that are district owned now so that we're able to support families who truly have that need and pages is not an option oh thank you that is wonderful that is great news thank you Miss dun and Bor um Mr miles we going to be bringing back some more recommendations soon go ahead that's a great question and absolutely we will we uh typically do that on an annual basis yeah to Mr not's point and to review uh with recommendations from our department chairs and leads as far as instruments that we need to be replacing or or updating for the district y I do have one other one other item it it's not even I just want to make the point it's not even those families that maybe can't afford it but it's also for those families who maybe don't want to buy a cello because they're not sure their sixth grader is going to really like the cello um so I I just wanted to to reiterate that um it's not a barrier for kids to try things and be exposed to instruments that may come with a relatively Hefty price tag like a cello or a bass or or a tuba as Miss Norman can attest so I just wanted to make that point that there should never be a barrier to our students and so any family who wants to have a child explore and experiment with very or what could be costly uh instruments that is something that we offer within this district and it's for a very very nominal fee I don't think there are Harps though I'm sorry there are Harps are there Harps we do that oh god well the record I I was I was on that board that approved it so have hearts right Dr gag line we also P for the that needs to it we worked that out we worked that out we worked that questions from the right side of the disc no I guess I have one other question with all this wonderful curricula which is very exciting and I'm really excited about it this is supplemental to the instrumental and the vocal teaching that goes on as well correct that this curricula that we're um supporting um right now this is supplemental to instrumental practice and and vocal practice in the district as well as this as well as supplemental as to your point to the art supplies and the actual experience of creating art so great very exciting thank you so so much um okay Mr not this is big big big night it is and uh we have finished our curricular review process so any members of the audience feel free to uh leave at this time but we do appreciate your leadership and support thank Smith and Mr clevinger thank you all of you so our next topic matter mam president is our dual language program expansion uh review and recommendations regarding dual language so uh Madame President Dr Smith and members of the board I am pleased to bring to you some data to begin with um and this data uh really Chronicles our growth in our multilingual Learners so our English Learners over the period of the last six years and you can see the astronomical growth that we've experienced over the last several years on the next slide you can see what that's looked like just this sem semester uh just this semester we've had a net gain of 161 language Learners um new to our district 175 Spanish speakers 59 Haitian Creole speakers and 15 that speak other languages and so we are growing very rapidly and so with that growth we've got to look at the the research what's the research say about the best way to most quickly increase student achievement for our language Learners and this is just a a review of the research that we use to ground our programming and that Top Line um that's getting the highest results is two-way dual language programming and so that really is the foundation of the recommendations that I'm bringing you this evening uh first is just a review um and and just for clarity's sake a review of of each of our elementary schools in their dual language programming and so we'll begin with Forest glinton Skyles test and we are recommending no changes uh to the programming in those schools schools uh those schools um will continue to be schools of Spanish Immersion um they represent demographics of less language Learners and more English speakers so schools of Spanish Immersion um is the the proper title for their programming Forest Glenn will remain the magnet school a as it is now with no changes um Sky's test has fewer Spanish speakers in their natural boundaries so we do need to continue to rec to recruit Spanish speakers to attend sky has so that's just a review of those two schools and then their school demographics that support that and so we're really looking at that line uh for this presentation of English language Learners uh 30% at Sky's test now that we've added Spanish speakers to to that school for Sunnyside well we're also recommending no changes to Sunnyside that programming is going quite well um that you approved a couple of years ago um the school bound or the school demographics are a little bit different and so this is a school of dual language SLS Spanish Immersion because we do have a significant um really the majority of students that are naturally boundaried to Sunnyside our Spanish speakers and then we do have some English speakers that come into and choose Sunnyside for the Spanish Immersion program so not recommending any changes there as well and this is their demographics and you can see the 54% in the um English language learner column for Sunnyside Elementary where we are recommending uh consideration of changes would be at Harrison Hill and Indian Creek uh these are our two neighborhood schools that have a very very fast growing eel population um which then means we've got to grow our dual language programming because the research tells us that's the best program model for students to um gain academically so we're recommending that we transition from our one way uh dual language program that's currently there and just as a reminder our one-way programming all Spanish speakers 100% Spanish speakers to two-way dual language and that's the top research-based recommendation and so these would be classrooms made up of 50% Spanish speakers 50% English speakers or we could have a model uh particularly at these two schools where we would have a third a third a third a third Spanish speakers a third Haitian Creole and a third English just depending on what the student need was and so this would likely require additional sections of two-way to be added to reflect that growing demographic the recommendation is to begin this transition with first grade next school year and then matriculate each grade thereafter just like we've done with Sky's test and Sunnyside we are recommending an 820 model as the goal um a goal to work toward we may not be able to start there but we know that that's the the ideal model and certainly the model that we want to work toward 80% Spanish instruction in core classes uh 20% English we do need to follow the model of providing reading intervention in English to students in second and third grade particularly with the new legislation that that we're bound to there is a potential at each of these schools of keeping monolingual sections based on family requests um if there are families who do not want a bilingual experience and there's enough to make a section that could be a consideration as well and so just a quick review of the demographics for Harrison Hill if you go over to that English learner column and you can see as you look down through the years the rapid growth that Harrison Hill has had um and they're up around 360 now um at at this point this is October 1st our ADM demographic uh numbers and so 47% % we're we're higher than that now at Harrison Hill Indian Creek you can see the the same story of growth at Indian Creek and and they are up over 300 now um as of April the 4th we also are looking at that same uh or a similar model um in Mary Castle so Mary Castle currently has a one-way dual language model and so we would recommend transitioning our current one-way dual language to to a bilingual High ability program in first grade so um this is really combining two programs at Mary Castle Mary Castle currently has self-contained High ability and they currently have one-way dual language and one of the really great things that we're discovering is we have a large number of language Learners who are qualifying for high ability programming um we also suspect that uh many parents have had a difficult time choosing um in the past between a high ability option and a Spanish Immersion option and so this would be an opportunity to bring those two programs together and so what what would that look like um at least a third of the class would need to be English Learners so either Spanish speaking or haian Creole speaking 2third or less would be native English speakers and so that exact percentage would depend on what choices uh families make that Ang the language allocation model would be the same as the rest of the District so that we are consistent across the district with an 8020 model as the goal for core instruction um this program would be unique though that while it would be a bilingual program the focus of the program would continue to support the academic andal needs of our gifted children by teachers who are trained in gifted education and so um we want to make it clear to our community that we would not be minimizing that the needs that gifted children presan um and then we would have another option for families who wanted a monolingual self-contained gifted education that would occur at Crestview Elementary and so you can see the the demographics for Mary Castle they're a little less um and some are naturally boundaried and some come in from um other schools around the district and then if we're going to do that on the west side of our district we need to look at an East Side option uh for our amilies who live on the east side of the district and that would be housed at oaklandon elementary they currently do not have um any bilingual programming um they do have a growing uh population of El's at oaklandon but they do have and have had for many years the self-contained gifted education High ability program and so we would look at a similar first grade um next year and then matriculate up the years after if there's a family who did not want a um or if they did want a monolingual opportunity that would be at Amy beverland on the east side of the district and just to note that there is significant room facility wise to grow at uh enrollment at oaklandon and you can see their demographics and the growth that we're beginning to see in our Els at oaklandon this also could impact our Early Learning Center so we're not recommending program changes at this time for ELC Brook Park or ELC Winding Ridge however we are recommending an addition um at ELC Mary Castle so beginning two-way preschool and kindergarten that then would serve um the north side of our district and so we have several Spanish speakers who are naturally boundar and again we would keep to that commitment of working towards a goal of 8020 in terms of language allocation for consistency across the district our secondary schools um we would need and we do need currently to add additional sections of dual language at both middle schools as our students are aging up um from our elementary programs and so we are looking at that for uh next year at both fa Creek Valley and at Belzer um it's important to note that we have open access at both of our middle schools for newly enrolling students so for newcomers for students who are just arriving to the country uh a dual language placement is a very appropriate placement in in both of our Middle School um the Dual language program uh just as a reminder will matriculate from Belzer to Lawrence Central in 2526 so this next school year is a planning year for Lauren Central and then as you've already heard in other program reports this evening we are um recommending expansion of access to emersion classes at Lawrence North to increase those dual credit opportunities for for our students be happy to entertain questions and discussion I do it's a it's a question that I had submitted earlier and so thank you Dr Smith but I do want to ask it just for the public um it was on slide number 13 and it pertains to um the boundaries or the the uh question is will there be busing provided to families currently in the boundary for Mary Castle but opt to attend Crest View for the monolingual gifted program and and the answer is yes that we've have busing for high ability programming on the west side and the east side so as long as they stay in those uh School choices then there will be Transportation thank you for that and then the second what thank you um the secondary question is um and I don't know or no I'll just ask it is it possible to briefly give a summation of sb1 I I will do my best to give a brief brief summary of Senate bill one Bill one is the science of reading bill um last year the legisl legislature approved um and mandated certain curriculum to be used a certain approach to be used in teaching early literacy this year they put some accountability pieces into it and really the bottom line for Senate bill one is that if students don't pass I read three as a second grader a third grader and they get two tries as a third grader and they don't qualify for a good cause exemption which means there a student who has served through special education services or have had more than two years of service as an English language or less than two years as an English language learner then they would have to be retained and so our um and this is a a significant shift um in the state of Indiana and so for us that line that I had in there about needing to provide intervention support in English particularly in second and third grade gets to Bill one I heard that part I was like that was that was a beautiful summation because that is a long bill um but that also pick you backs off to my next Point um that I had also asked earlier so what we are doing now with our with our dual language program is to basically maximize student achievement in accordance with sb1 absolutely and and move our programming to match the research that says two-way dual language is the best outcomes in terms of English development okay thank you and then one more question um sb1 um are there waivers or some way that I'll just use this as an example uh I have a student that third grade regressed in the immersion program quickly progressed and caught up but would she have been well no I just answered my own question no she would not have been retained because she was able to pass but for student would that be a concern thank I think I just answered my own question while answering the question and we would want to know that before third grade so we would not want to put a third grader in in that kind of decisionmaking and I know in the past it hasn't had as high of stakes as it does now we'd want to be having that conversation in first and second grade but so long as she passed her testing first and second which she did although she regressed and progressed it would not have affected retention if she passed in second grade it would not okay just want okay thank you MH you're welcome I had just two quick questions thank you for this work um to piggy back off Mrs Pucket um the waivers if I'm understanding the bill correctly is for students on an IEP yes is that correct and then it's called a good cause exemption yes okay good cause exemption and also for English Learners if they have had less than two years of services so students that say have been with us kindergarten they would not be eligible for a good cause exemption okay for um repeating that for me I appreciate that and then um the slide is already up regarding the Dual um the Dual language slh High ability program we which is fantastic um it really fits into our Equity work um my one question clarifying question is if a English learning student is districted to Crest View but they qualify for high ability then they would be able to attend Mary Castle is that correct per cor okay that's correct so they would go through the cap process but they would it wouldn't even have to be the cap process it would be the high ability selection process so uh students that qualify on the west side of the district can choose between crestw and Mary Castle students that are on the east side of the district Amy beerland and oaklandon yes and they would have busing right and they would have busing as long as they stay East and West thank you sir yes thank you Miss Pucket acting like her kids are going to go there but yeah I'm I'm leaned in for that whole busing question too because you know we're two for two in the high ability ability program we got Mavis coming up through Forest Glenn so the only question that I have is what year does this begin is it next the the recommendation is to begin in first grade with 2425 pending your approval that's a Mavis Lawrence School year I should note thank you very much Mr notor I just um excellent work this is super exciting two-way emersion is the Taj Mahal of obviously language programming so it's very very exciting to see this expansion uh the one question I did have is pertaining to communication with families and how this will be communicated um to them so once uh you approve on on April I think it's April 29th then Mrs Schneider has letters that are ready to go out to our families um for the high ability programming and so those letters would go out if you approve on the 29th they'll go out the morning of the 30th for Harrison Hill and indigan Creek those would be personal phone calls that each school would make to their incoming first graders and a personal conversation that a design the principal or a design would have from Harrison Hill or Indian Creek so that it be personal um about the transition and the options at those two neighborhood schools you're welcome this is very exciting someone who had two children go through dual immersion this is exceptionally exciting um but so much so for our English language Learners so much so for them um I I do want to address dual language can be in the form of 9010 or 8020 90% Spanish 10% English 80% Spanish 20% English and moving all moving toward a 5050 model as they move up through the and um it's my understanding that in their academic studies they will have pretty much a 9010 um experience but they're not totally 9010 because their specials will remain in English correct but other than that their academics really are 910 which is the it's the crown on the top of the Taj Mahal right right and so um that's my understanding that's great and um just talk to me a little bit about the security for our teaching staff um as we transition into this so I think one of the the most important messages to our teaching staff is that there's room for everyone um we certainly um and and it's every year a focus to hire bilingual Educators um that can really meet our student and Family's needs um but as you as you just alluded to as students age up it becomes a 50-50 model and we certainly have room for our English speakers in a 5050 model so there's room for everyone is the the message to our teachers that's crucial I I want to make sure that if we approve this every teacher has job security um all right um the other the other question I have is um feeding from from our elc's into these programs are we looking at moving some prek and kindergarten classes into a dual model as we move forward because that is a huge Advantage yes and that and that's one of the recommendations before you is for ELC Mary Castle um and they would be our first ELC that would be a two-way program for both preschool and kindergarten and then based on what we learn from ELC Mary Castle then we would be making that transition for ELC Brook Park and Winding Ridge as well so will our parents from both sides of the district understand that they could be bust to Mary castle for ELC if they want the Dual language experience is that a possibility if our if um if parents want let's say I have a preschooler this year that will be a kindergartener next year and I get this information and I say well I want my child to be part of the Dual language experience in kindergarten but I live next to oaklandon can they be busted to Mary Castle they wouldn't be able to cross the East West boundary but they could go to ELC Winding Ridge where we have dual immersion there okay okay so there'll be the district so okay that wasn't clear to me excellent okay okay excellent um um Sky's test we want to increase the population of Spanish a native Spanish speakers will our um in boundary students be protected and will always have room for them as well absolutely that they're given priority okay um this is the second time tonight I've done this I apologize but it's really important had a child that could recite books at the age of two but could not read English we read together could not read English spent spent kindergarten in Spanish and Spanish is um so strong in the phonetics right so phonetically strong that all of a sudden the light bulb run off and she started reading in Spanish and English at the same time so it's really beneficial to I think it will be very beneficial for both English language Learners and for English-speaking children uh for their reading I think that's that's terrific thank you that was the experience that I kind of touched on that okay I have a really quick question I'm listen I would have asked it earlier but it just hit me as we were talking um eser funds we've used eser funds for reading for reading interventions correct correct okay well that's ending right and so I'm seeing where we're providing reading intervention in English to students who need it in second and third grade with this bill moving forward and the need for this probably being greater um what would that look like as far as funding with those Sesser funds going out and the need getting HED we still do have access to eser funds through the beginning of next school year and possibly through contracted Services the entire school year next year okay um but we also have been able to in in cooperation with Mr miles to identify other funding sources to to support remediation and intervention so we do have another um plan uh when those funds are finished okay I'm just asking on my end so that I know what I need to talk about when I'm sending down with some of the state reps that we love we need more money are grateful yes we need more money we need more money so thank you but miss Pucket you have to understand the lane that that comes with that's not at the state level that's Federal you're right that's at the federal level so we have some connections with our federal legislators okay uh Mr Carson and that's a nice fly District Six uh though they got elections up there those are the folks that we have to have conversation with you are correct but I do want to remind the board is that we don't live off of federal funding because we know that that's one-time funding you're right so our commitment to things is very limited we use that money for um learning loss but we also know that that money was going to go away and things that we wanted to keep we're going to build that into our budget and live off of what we have so we've got a plan to make that adjustment okay but we would love to have another round of Esser funding as many districts across the country would have right but we would have to talk to our federal government for that not our state legislators okay because they may agree with us they would probably agree okay but they don't control that pot of money okay and I would also thank you Mr notor and thank you to M Georgina Schneider for all of the hard work you you did to arrange these discussions and to recruit um administrators teachers and parents in this in this discussion um um this is this is state-of-the-art work and um this is what makes us the District of destination right thank you as a point of clarification Madame President and board uh these recommendations will be brought back to you at our next meeting on April 29th as you mean we can't vote right now uh if you'd like to vote right now uh Madame President as as board president you can change the agenda at any time with a simple consent from no we're we're unless you change your mind no okay well well we'll let this settle and I'm sure the board members may have additional questions in the next couple of weeks so we'll continue at a pace um but it's very exciting um and um the last thing Dr gag line our last order of business is uh the bid results of the requests for RFP for virtual desktop for e any questions board I'm glad you're the expert okay thank you Dr gagl gag Steve gag we'll move to our action items do you have a proposal for us so moved second properly moved in seconded any discussion any further discussion all in favor I I opposed the eyes have it and now we go to the um Miss Carla Johnson you have a recommendation recommendation to approve the Personnel report yes good evening Madam president Dr Smith and members of the board approval is sought for the Personnel report are there any questions do we have a motion second second properly moved in seconded any questions about the Personnel report all in favor of approving the Personnel report I I any oppos the eyes have it we have made it to administrator and comments and I would which um board member is so excited for their board comment this evening no one want to pull oh goad I'll just I'll just go real briefly um thank you to the district um for allowing us and sending us to the National School Board Association conference in New Orleans it was a great experience the breakout sessions are always great but sometimes there's also great value in meeting with other board members and superintendents across the country to see collectively what we're all working towards for kids um highlight was Ruby Bridges speaking um I mean she got to the heart and the root of everything we do with children and um thank you to Dr Smith for driving in the super crowded streets of New Orleans I oh he was amazing I know yes great a great job and then my last point tonight good luck to all of our students on the ey learn exams coming up thank you to our staff for getting them ready um my daughter Ellie came home today and said mom we have to go to bed early tonight and I have to eat a good breakfast so thank you for the reminders I'll go ahead and jump in I was going to say we had a wonderful time at the eclipse the fort Ben total eclipse festival at Community Park a time was had it was beautiful it was breathtaking as I'm sure you all saw the eclipse um and so Kudos and awesomeness to um yeah um Fort B at at Community Park I also want to mention to Tomorrow there's a state of okay then then then I'm just going to put an ellipsis on that and let you finish that sir I am done first thank you for holding the meeting just a couple of minutes because FC Pride soccer practice waits for no person um and as many parents would appreciate we were split between that and drum lessons for the six-year-old who has so much energy she absolutely needs to have those drum lessons so thank you for holding the meeting and apologies for being just a couple minutes late I I just had one reflection that it's been really like I've been thinking about it ever since the eclipse um because and and Mr Young is no longer in the audience um but it reminded me we had several um people from our community and we all went over to Amy beverland and I have this really wonderful picture of about 20 kids laying on the hill at Amy beverland all looking up with their eclipse glasses and it was such a a reminder to me of how ingrained we are in one another's lives um for a once-in-a-lifetime moment all of those kids are going to remember one another having been there which is a really incredible reminder of the power of community and the connection we have with with one another so that was my key takeaway from the eclipse um and it was really breatht it was pretty cool to see all the lights come on um around our school district um so that was that was my reflection thank you done GNA keep it short and sweet just want to say again thank you to all the hard work U Mr notor I know that you have led this work and have done a tremendous job so just want to reiterate um the thanks to you and your entire team because cricket adoption is is it's not a joke and I know there's a lot of time people are spending time after hours and so to have the high quality resources that we do I know you know Mr Smith you do a phenomenal job with our um buildings and Facilities um and with that we need to have high quality wonderful resources and then obviously Miss Johnson the people to make sure that the magic happens but thank you for your continued work because it is um it's exciting times thank you very much I'll go ahead and Echo all that's been said by our board members and and and I do want to say regarding the eclipse uh our district is committed to equity and to safety for all of our children and the fact that our district provided those special viewing glasses to each and every student is remarkable and thank you for thinking so far ahead and for keeping our our youngsters safe and making sure they could experience the magic of that special day because as Miss Lawrence said they will remember it forever to you madam president and members of the board just a slight reminder as we traditionally have the state of the city's address uh within our school corporation here at the LCC has been used as a luncheon but the city has made a change tomorrow even evening at 5:30 exactly the mayor will give her state of the city's address at Lawrence Central High School so our high school will be the host in the auditorium for this important event it starts promptly at 5:30 little birdie tells me that the Lauren Central girl state championship girls basketball team is going to be recognized by the mayor so please be there early to get your seat and we'll certainly support our mayor as she will give her first address to the city at 5:30 at lawren Central High School so that's all I have tonight and I will uh before we adjourn I want to remind everyone that our next meeting is a regular business meeting on April 29th Monday April 29th we will be meeting in the PD room just to the other side of this room as this room will be used for uh early um voting um we will be meeting at 6:30 because we have several students to recognize so we we will be meeting at 6:30 with our business meeting starting at or after 7 o'clock and with that do we have a motion to adjourn so moved second we're adjourned boom boom you had a lot to say today a lot of good questions lot of good question T had a ch right well I thought you said she didn't have a she has a her watch oh so she so I was Tex was her watch without do let's do together we do divide the district that just because it's in July no I don't think so either I think that's so that's what I would really like to that's great so I

[Music] tell us uh tell us about your son what uh what you're looking forward to here today um just like to get the runners to positive with Titan my dog tell us uh tell us about Spencer a little bit uh he was like the marathon dog that the I don't know the guy's name but he put him on the side of the street for runners to pet what are you most looking forward to here today to see all the runners m

[Music] early on here pre pre-show for the marathon and uh we have a a couple of fans young fans here already lined up on the marathon route and uh you are all set up here we got a gron sign we got a Celtics Jersey so uh tell us about that what's what's the story with gron today uh gr's a Grand Marshall and I really love him and he's my favorite player so I made a sign for him and hoping to see him okay sounds good and uh other than grank what else what else you out here for today uh the runners okay anything else you want to share with us um let's go grank

[Music] okay Josh Abrams here with a couple of our Boston marathon volunteers Paul Lisa I understand uh you're involved with uh setting up water bottles for the elite Runners can you tell us a little bit about what's involved there sure it's it's really interesting because each Elite Runner has their own bottle and we set them up for table the runners know exactly where their bottle is and which side of the road it's on and so after we set up it's just making sure that the right Runner takes the right bottle and it's it's a real fun stop to do we have to get here really early but then it's waiting till the runners get here sure sure now we're steer at uh Mile Three approximately right 5K it's a 5k okay 5K so uh So Lisa uh what happens next right the runners come through here they get their water bottles what happens after that well it's interesting so the elite Runners have a stop every 5K so if you go down the marathon route there's going to be 10K um 15K so every 5K um there is a stop um so the runners know exactly as Paul said where the bottles are so now Paul how long have you been doing this I've been volunteering for 28 years I think this is my 28th year at the elite stop it's I started at a regular water stop um and I forget how many years it's been here but it's a lot okay so clearly you have a lot of experience with the marathon what is the craziest thing you've ever seen happen here nothing that's really outstanding just at the the elite stop itself um historically that this goes way back I remember one of the wheelchair um Racers getting a flat tire and and this was actually before I was a volunteer helping them change a tire okay and Lisa you said right we're got a beautiful day here today uh what's the difference I guess what how how does the weather play a factor with the elite Runners with being able to grab their water bottles like is there any issue there yeah um no I mean it is a beautiful day it it makes it easy for them in the sense that um it it's easier it's not run it's not raining it's not you know um so the weather weather does definitely make a factor in it with the um the rain and everything I actually ran Boston 2018 and the weather was atrocious it rained it I had snow on my car when I got up in the morning so it was just yeah so the the weather can definitely contribute to um to the the their race I guess you could say yeah now that's interesting perspective I didn't realize you would actually run the marathon before so I'm I must think that that informs how you perform your job here today as a volunteer yeah no it definitely does it definitely does um I've been volunteering for 21 years uh not so much here um like Paul I'm not sure how many years I've been doing it here but um it does definitely make a difference it also inspires you there's so many stories out there and it just inspires you and to be part of the elite Runners and see them it's amazing because they're the ones that are running to win the race so it's just amazing absolutely so thank you for your time uh Paul really quick before I we wrap things up here uh anything I left out any any anecdotes or anything you can share with us it it's just a really fun spot to be able to be part of again as Lisa said have the elite runners go by know that you're supporting the people who are potentially going to be winning um and and seeing them come through here as a group it it happens real fast here um they're not strung out at this point so it's it's a real quick run through okay sounds great Paul Lisa thank you for so much for your time here thank you for volunteering for the Boston Marathon

67% compared to 57.4 a year ago um since our last board meeting we received two months worth of impact fees so we have februaries at 21,8 24 cents for three home starts and March came in for $842 for one home start um the bills payable for both Northern and Central are typical for there's a typ that says March but it's for the month of April um and then in included in your in the bills pay report there some construction bills and student questions for Fulk yes Hil yes yep papis yes vot yes aif yes Gman yes motion is carried motion second required to discuss and approve the aces team overnight trip to the state competition at Eastern Illinois University was held April 10th to 11th 2024 second our uh Aces team last week took a trip down to what is the Harvard of Illinois schools Eastern Illinois um so I've been told performed uh perform not their best performance but had a lot of per uh a lot of Great Performances the second page of that kind of shows some results on where some of those kids finished uh in terms of um English math chemistry engineering Graphics Computer Sciences things of that nature so grateful to have that opportunity for those kids and they enjoyed that that experience all right pil yes Nolan yes papis yes vot yes a yes F yes Forman yes motion is carried next motion and second are needed to discuss and approve the skills USA overnight trip to the state competition in peor Illinois April 25th to the 27th 2024 not this coming weekend by next weekend we will have a group of student so moved so mov jump gun I apologize um excited just got a chance to get up here first time caller long time listen um and uh in two weeks they'll be heading down to uh Poria competing uh business uh video and now we're adding a portion of our robotics this year kind of expanding that we got a few kids and a sponsor going down to U compete there so looking forward to that opportunity for this group of individuals as well Nolan yes papis yes vote Yes aif Yes ful yes pil yes Gman yes motion is carried thanks Ted next Motion in second to discuss and approve the Mid Valley special education Cooperative articles of joint agreement so moved second so in your board packet I have listed for you the changes that were made within the Cooperative articles of joint agreement uh if you recall this has undergoing throughout the course of this year uh some shifts it hasn't been touched since the Inception of Mid Valley so they went back kind of teasing that was on Stone uh so we've gone back and made quite a few changes a lot of the new language is actually current practice so there still this practice that goes on in terms of how classrooms run for our special education programs in some cases we run special classes inside our district for Mid Valley so midley teachers come on site we hold those programs it's um hope that we can bring our students that have special needs to our districts they can be in their home District if possible so we have a lot of programs that actually run within our districts and so you'll see that some of the language that's here is just how do we manage a classroom that's inside of our district versus the expectations of a classroom that's outside of our district obviously there's discipline issues that are can arise staff issues that arise working cooperation very closely with mid with Mid Valley for those types of programming um so this is basically that we had you this Advance P if have specific questions with the new languages versus with the old languages so you can see the changes that are put forth in agreement but it really was just an update of all the bylaws that we had any questions just sorry go ahead anybody have any issues with the language I mean you're five the five of you as far as superintend go no no generally agreed upon we all work collaboratively together our legal teams have seen it so to us it's in good shap so I just wanted to explain to the public so they knew I don't know if everybody knows mid valy is special ed programs um some of this language you guys can read through it it's online in the packet but I think we're are one of the highest districts or the the district with the most enrollment we have the number of most enrollment so it's like why do we need more space if we're giving them classrooms but again to your point of keeping students in their home District it's beneficial if we can spare a classroom or two or three or however many it is to do have these programs here so just a little more information if you knew it any other questions comments All right papus yes vote Yes a yes ful yes hemp yes no yes Forman yes motion is carried next the motion second are requir to discuss and approve the Consolidated District plan for the 2024 to 2025 school year move I have angle here who is our grand director he is the person be charg doing consolid District plan it takes obviously many many players that give feedback here so he's going to walk you through the changes from the Consolidated District plan for next SCH year yeah good evening everybody so uh in your board packet is the Consolidated District plan for fy2 uh just like Dr mgan had just mentioned with hers you see a red line on some of the changes I do want to just highlight some of the things you'll see some strikethroughs for example sr3 funding ends this year we at the conclusion of summer school we will have expended all of sr3 funding so it's not going to be included in the fy2 plan um some major changes that you would see some redlined in some of the um additions of the things we were able to acquire a full-time translator Administrative Assistant role this uh spring here at district office and she will help uh with the parently aison piece and helping translate our documents into the languages of need and so that was a great addition we feel to uh our district uh I have highlighted some of the things that we're doing we are looking at a strategic plan uh internally right now at the cabinet level working through goals and trying to get some of that stuff to present to the board and have plans in place to work with uh all stakeholders teachers and community members to try to as we funnel that um information down you'll see some uh this plan annually uh includes some of the resources and things that we have for our students and so you'll see if there's a new resource that comes alive like uh purchasing uh inter reading in the Spanish version which aligns with our gened Spanish curriculum at the elementary level so now they're getting it the resources touch and connect better so um uh little elements like that um I've highlighted a few oh and one of the other ones that we're looking at and uh as Dr Mangan said this is not although I'm presenting this to you this is in collaboration with all the different departments across the district so working with curriculum working with special education myself and grants and and looking up what some of the funding is is really looking at some of the things that we had preo and and trying to get back to strengthen some of those alliances with um you know with Kane County or with ECC and and looking at things that we've had in the past for Early Child hood and for our different programs and and go through things like that so those are the major changes that we have inside the district plan do you guys have any questions for me uh looking through it or as you read through it anything I can answer y you're welcome V yes aif yes F yes Hil yes Nolan yes CIS yes Gorman yes motion is carried next up are information items first we have a facilities update good evening this is the best time of the evening for everybody I'm sure this is the most exciting part I always I always start it with a little humor just saying um and then they left yeah I can wait um so yeah so um kind of to start the the list um we have a few projects that we're uh ongoing right now uh the first ones are generator projects so getting generators at the um other three elementary schools Lily Lake is 95% complete um the transportation buildings and ground Office Buildings 95% complete so working on gas connections for those then we'll get those up and running so then we won't have a sit situation at L Lake weake we had on Friday um and then hbt and Prairie View the generators themselves the units have been set um those will be a little more complicated for the pipe rums and stuff while we're in session we may do some mechanical room work but most of that work will be done in the summer all those will be up and running by the start of next school school year um the second project is the the big one on the dock it is the high school edition um The Roof is uh half the steel is done on the roof as of today um probably the next week the rest of the steel will be up we'll get all the window enclosure sealed up so in the next two weeks that'll be fully enclosed and and um ready for the next phase of of roofing for concrete and the rest of those things so we're excited to get that fully enclosed so weather won't be such an impact um we've lost in the neighborhood of we're sitting at about three or four weeks right now of of weather related losses I rain cold all that stuff um based on schedule I that's not going to affect our our opening any of our opening plans so things are still on schedule we had some leeway on the end of the schedule so that shouldn't be an issue um The Plato Road Improvement project is still is out there um that's been awarded that project will probably start some earth work towards the end of school but that'll be a major summer project there's going to be a lot of impact to traffic and and all that so that'll probably be a major um summer project then the last thing is we're working on our list of of other summer improvements and summer planning um so um we meet weekly with Dr mongan and um Dana to go over that to to work through our budgets and kind of get those things set up so we're currently working on those so in the next coming month or so we'll have some more updates on um other plans and other improvements for our our summer docket any questions sorry you missed that d i could repeat it clear room yeah that's what everybody else said all right thank you all right next up for the next steps discussion for enrollment challenges so I I for the sake of having conversation I put together a presentation for the board um to look at the next steps I wanted to walk through first uh kind of where we're sitting in terms of the district uh so we'll talk a little about the survey that we presented that we have given out to community members we'll also take a look at some of the projected growth uh specifically from the city of Elgen it does not cover the other areas of our only city of algian that put together the analysis for me so that you can see that you see where we're heading and then we'll break into some conversation from the board's perspective sh so theal survey that we did with community members was uh responded by 787 community members um with that I broke down by percent uh how the ranking came out from the survey if you recall the survey asked and gave them the four options that we had put forth uh 47.6% of the respondents responded they still believed that a new high school was the best choice 14.6% said the new elementary school 12 class of pkms the a parking cafeteria spaces we've already put the 20 class up so that was section c option C that we had in the original plan 9.7% new middle school and Elementary School and auditorium parking cafeteria space that was in the plan since we've already done the construction of 20 classed 5.8% D which was mobile to Central High School and to Central High School and to I'm sorry CMS then 12 class addition plus adding those additional lockers that are needed at cor middle school and a class trials and adding the auditorium parking cior space as you know we already are in the current process of constructing 20 class at the high school 19.1% was other comments the comments really were not other in terms of different choices or options it was really just comments uh with approximately 14 plus% of the 19% requesting independent enrollment study and then 3.2% was left blank I had with the city of El kind of exactly where a bit p in terms how many in our current subdivision so we can see how manys are still out for sell as you know Dana reports monthly what's coming in for impact fees what's coming in in terms of the number of houses sold um interesting enough this year we're actually hiring were last year years ago but even the interest rates the our housing rates are coming in when they're coming in um so the remaining Lots at Highland Woods currently we have 106 Lots left to be sold um the built and permit city of Al could Now give me how many permitted were actually still out there to be built um they can only combine the two they just know when a permit comes through so it was hard to get a measure of are their houses still not built um so total homes coming out of Holly Woods was 723 right now 106 plus whatever is permitted 12 Oaks has remaining lots of 688 remaining lots to be sold build in permit there was 265 and units four and five have been completed um so uh right now you can see there's quite a few coming out here but I'm call it 68 we don't know how many permits are sitting out there P Stony Creek we have remaining Lots five currently building in permits 107 we aren't sure how many per have been built but right now we call it remaining lots of neighborhood 183 building a permit issued there was 203 again I don't many those are actually being constructed and then these are the ones that they have approved when I ask develop approval obvious we don't know when these are going to break we have no idea said don't have still out there still options you can see there is infrastructure that surrounds this to pipe into part of the challenge if you have no infrastructure would take longer coming up right up against another subdivision so West Point Garden South phase three there's a total lots of 74 Lots open at this time trendy Chase has a total lots of 214 68 of those are Town Homes 146 for single family home and 9.3 is uh targeted for commercial property where is that Trinity chase you can see Stone a total lots of that's 14 years here fing Creek South uh this one is expanded way over District 300 so it's going to take a while to come this way they' started 30073 120 7 733 multi family apartments and 846 single family homes and then Bella has a total L of4 are all so total for the city of Alin currently we still have 362 open Lots that are buildable inside the subdivisions I don't have the clarification I'm building a permitted so I'm just going to go with the 362 approved construction has not begin which we have no idea when it's going to begin but if you take you know the total future expansion 277 homes are possible for for the district if you equate that to a point8 or so it's around 21 students to the district if they were all to sell at Point so I think for the board discussion tonight a couple things we want to talk about is the master facility planning Dan I know if you can come up and talk a little bit about what we currently do in terms of Master facility it's been part of our process for quite a while yes so in 2015 we commissioned our architect Larsson and Darby to put together a districtwide facility um Capital Improvement plan which I kind of joke about I call it my Bible so this is kind of our living document that we've kind of all of our um infrastructure planning all of our um building envelopes HVAC systems all that stuffs was documented and and went through at that time and we kind of use this to kind of gauge when we do those improvements how we do them at one point in time along with budgets at that time um we also um have to have a 10-year Health Life Safety plan we just commission that with our architect in 2021 so kind of in my facility and I've been doing this for a few years these two documents are like roughly five years apart so essentially every five years between ourselves and our architect we're taking a look at our facilities we're going through them making sure that all the infrastructure everything's in place to make sure the teachers can do what they do and the kids can learn so between these two documents that's what we've used in the district I've used this in previous districts these are kind of our our Bibles like I said of kind of how we plan and kind of facilitate kind of taking care of our facilities these these do address enrollment in the perspective of square footage which we know is not the best way to do it but from a general standpoint that's how we utilize these documents that's something we could talk about with our architect and look at that further to kind of count classrooms and really get down to the nuts and bolts about how many kids we can have in our classrooms so that's probably something we would look at doing in our next phase we're just about at that point to redo our uh facility master plan so we would look at doing that in this districtwide Capital facility plan and probably expand that piece to look at kind of those classroom spaces and kind of that that student population and that's done in house with our architect with our architect with with our architect our AR our architect they'll they'll survey they'll interview we'll talk to staff they'll talk to our staff we'll walk the buildings we look at every square inch of every single building when we do put these things things together so we're part of that conversation but our Architects are the Professionals in that realm and they're the ones that kind of spearhead that that conversation the other issue the enrollment demographic studies so that one if you look at the districts that have done that and the one that the babd put together is those are all districts that have a declining enrollment inre so it's not a matter of what should we do and how do we adjust things but how do we manage fill schools with students and have the space that we need that being said in my mind the enrollment demographic study that I would have expended for would asked the board for would have been at the time when we would ask dists part of our challenges where is the heat where are kids sitting where do we know our biggest population we know is an Elgen but how do we move those kids around in terms of District boundaries we know District boundaries have shifted in our district multiple times it's not an easy thing for families because you always are shifting from school to school and we also know that the past when we opened Perino's middle school and Central Middle School was a 68 Center pkms was a 68 center part of the challenge was we had a depleting enrollment based on District boundaries going to Central Middle School and when it happened over that time was teachers unfortunately were forced to not comfortable they where they going to be the next year we had to decrease or move theming Middle School sometimes we had to do a reduction in force because we positions for them because as students declining just like you see St Charles of Geneva right now as the student numbers decline your need for FTE reduces and shifting kids around happens so that's partly why the district shifted to a six s building and an eighth grade Center it kept continuity for our sta kep continuity for our students it was the middle school we didn't want to do a full District boundary consistently the challenge was elementary partly prayview is landlocked uh so prayview is not growing at the same rate as country TRS in hary Thomas and partly Harvey Thomas is really growing because we took some students out of prayview to shift them to hbt they literally almost drive past their school to go to Har Thomas because we had to do that due to the the demographics and the heat map of where our students are sitting which is over there on the Eastern you know that Elgen Corridor um and so those are the things we have to that's where I see an enrollment demographic is really really important um I feel like city of elig has given us a pretty good indication um I think that it'd be hard to do that at this time so you know you have to decide as a board do you want to complete this now which you absolutely can um or in the future which you absolutely can or it might likely be both because once we put a facility up we're still going to have to do some kind of a study to figure out the rotation how we manage the longest we can based on the our student population is really coming out of and how do we make sure for our elementary schools where they're located as well as whatever we do at Middle School where they're located to make sure that we aren't shifting uh District boundaries consistently trying to stay consistent as consistent as we can the longest period of time with those District boundaries so families aren't forced to shift their kids mle times so that's the challenge I think it's important to recognized to the exception of waterf moving from uh hbt PV my kids are it has been the same boundaries so again the fourth out that was in place I think is is huge and that we had certainly a lot of kids and my kids friends left with fifth grade and went to you know went to a different school um and so the grand scheme of things I think that's remarkable that such a small percentage of our kids were required to leave bed on Space right which is obviously pushing the conversation forward at this point I mean as far as an enrollment or demographic study I mean I don't necessarily have an issue if you do that challenge to be B know some of the things we' heard we' got emails and things like that so there's concern about the idea of um you know a referendum anything and we're going over our limit I we need to come back to this slide after we talk about these options because I if we are not talking about the idea of building a new school in this moment and we're banding this the seven of us decide whatever we decide if we're not going to go to for a referendum I don't know if this needs to be done at this if every decides we want to do it anyway just to see I think that's reasonable I think we need to talk about these other options and then we need to come back to this slide to see where people are feeling here because if these options are all over the99 million or 95 96 whatever are you know percentage 10 at a minimum right so some of these options are already over that cap which would require us to then go back and get another bill to ask for a cap raise even if it's just a middle school and if that's something that we decide is not feasible for us then I don't know if this is necessary so I think we need to talk more about what some other viable options are and then I think we come back to this and discuss that yeah I don't understand what the forecast would do you you're giving them numbers the numbers you just shared and they're making a nice pretty report that you could probably do also what else are they doing for us I think in the facility what St Charles did they did the piece of D was speak about we've never looked at it from an operational standpoint generally speaking it's by square footage and I know that's a question that we got and it is difficult because operational capacity is way different than sare footage you know you think about let's just take middle school for example we may say that you get nine of your students but that's not really true because when you look at a middle school that have elective courses and the larger the population goes the more elective courses you have to run or the more teachers you have to have two teachers teaching one in elected courses because if you're up at 900 students they all have to rotate through there we take two FTE two fulltime teachers to be able to run all those electives which takes up another classroom same thing for physical education same thing for art for music any of those elective courses expand into that classroom space the other piece with um enrollment and capacity is the size of the classroom smaller classrooms we have some smaller classrooms you can totally run a special education self-contained special CL no problem but you could not put a general classroom of 25 kids in a special education smaller square footage classroom and so that is out of the space in terms of what you can use for the general population so you have to look at the size of the classrooms so how many classrooms you have how many kids can you actually function if look at the Union contract and our class sizes um to make sure that you're staying under class size try to stay with those are only guidelines and we do a great job of that but you still have to stay within those guidelines and so all of those are we Tred to look at we look at that so capacity way different we never really looked at the capacity project footage and so that that is definitely a piece that you could look at and and also the registrations I me we're seeing those oh yeah a faster Pace than right when I looked at enrollment from last year September to now we're up over 5% what we report to at the board is basically end of last year to this month you end of each month we're at 2.77 now so we're still at about that 3% growth rate um even given you know all of the changes that we have relevant to you know the economy we've consistently stayed at that rate um and so it's just in terms of where you seeing population come from we're not seeing that close and slow down we still have houses to sell if you're in Highland Woods the concern about Highland Woods is if they keep getting I don't to eventually have to Mo that are currently not in Highland Woods some sub are feeding Woods they're going to have to move um not sure where I'm move them to yet but they're going to have to be moved because that capacity that building cannot withstand all of the growth that's currently available and happening at C TR hbt ands couple times a week we get new students still every week we're getting students consistently at both of those buildings once in a while a little B more land and of course lake is and once in a while they get new kids but it's really happening at Harve Thom of course at middle school middle school and the high school get some new students as well but a lot of our growth is coming just from that areas where we've done District boundary shifts that aren working right now so we're gonna have to figure out how do weage that boundar shift and that look like and to Jeff's point I mean just understanding you know well outside my scope of knowledge here to be clear uh but you know do they get data on their own do they go to Elgen and get the data that you presented do they get data from us about our en rolling past like where where does the data that a demographer would use right so so I I read the I read the attachment that uh think Andy dogen sent so you know I read that and um so uh RPS or something like that there was like a long report yeah so um the you know in that they talk about like you know they pulled data from like the the city and from the county and from like you know birth and death records and like they pulled data from all these different sources basically like my take on this is look we've tried to pass the referendum twice to get this done the Build The Better district has said like uh at least from the the vocal individuals that have emailed us and talked to us that we want to see this independent data so my take on it is I don't know what uh those demographers do and like you know I have the same questions and and like you know as a lay person as a non- technical person in this area like I might look at it the same way Jeff did that you know said well we're GNA give them the data and they're going to put it into a report and I know that that's probably dismissive to to take to take that approach but you know like as a late person I think that so why don't we like get some presentation maybe like ask some of these other school districts that have done it maybe uh get uh somebody that isn't going to bid for for for uh a project for us to come and give us a presentation on what it is and answer some of these very rudimentary questions so that we can then say all right maybe we should do something like this and I personally could take an educated vote say well what is this um demographic report what goes into it how long does it take where do the DAT to come from how is that I'd like to ask them a question how is that different than the data that we've been given you know over the last couple of years that has convinced me that you know we're constantly growing and we need more space ask them you know what will you tell us different from what we've seen already and then we could take an educated vote and if it turns out that yeah this is going to give us like insights that we can't have on our own let's go ahead and you know I would propose that we would then go ahead and do because the alternative is to just you know hope for a better turnout in the vote in you know a future election uh better campaigning canvasing I mean we lost bigger the second time around than we did the first time around and I feel like both sides did their due diligence in getting their point of view across I I I don't agree with um a lot of the emails that I got that said that we were uh you know our Our Town Halls were uh dismissive or sales opportunities not at all we we were giving the Community Information Community had an option to come and participate those who came participated They Come Away with a different opinion from the the perspective that I have but it it was done the right way but clearly they weren't convinced so it's it's it's in our it's our responsibility uh for the sake of all these kids that are coming through the system to see if you know this request is uh viable um and uh for me to vote Yes on that I need to be educated on it yeah I agree I could I think it's a waste of money right now in my lame view so yeah I like to say that I'm Pro investing in our infrastructure when I first moved to this District I was kind of um embarrassed to see that our students are in Portables now as a member of the board I'm ashamed that our students are in Portables and we need to get a plan that gets the students out of Portables and then ultimately addresses the growth because when's the growth going to come I don't know but obviously there's open space there's going be building or houses built at some point we need to proceed slowly with a really solid plan um I don't we're in a position where he can go forward with a new referendum um the way I would look at it we're kind of like a um sports team we've gone over for two and we went with this last referendum we had basically the two best draft picks we get and we had the rascally veteran being the pr firm and ultimately failed at a bigger rate and soever there's a referendum the new referendum has to pass at the same level that this current referendum failed at and I think the only way to forward is to have a demographic plan I think the other thing we need is somebody who's going to be able to guide us in what we're needing are we needing an elementary school do we need a middle school do we need both do we need the high school what do we need and we need that guided it's great that we've asked the community what they're thinking but as we saw there's so many different opinions across the board what do we truly need and we need someone to help guide us through that I mean I personally think I just need more information I'm with Jay on that I feel like just with so many different you know sides to this like you said comments questions to me that just means that we need more I want to make sure we're not missing something um especially since like we said we tried twice and did not Prevail so to me that just means more of a question mark of okay what are we missing what do we need to look at a little bit differently um I think we can all agree as a community that there's a need right there's something that needs to be done I think obviously we're disagreeing on what that something is um and I just think that more information um hopefully will get us a little bit more streamlined I don't want us to be seen as just working in a um in a vacuum and not taking the different opinions um that there are out there because they're all very important and um I think for me you know especially rather it's a loud voice or a soft voice um for me I want to hear all voices um I think it's important it challenges me to think differently than where I was coming from and so I would agree I would want more information and a study to be done well I think we have to listen to the public I think in some ways we think we did a good job being transparent but based upon all the feedback we're getting or something we could have done better or several things maybe we could on better and we really need to slow down and listen to what we're getting from the public and somehow change how we do things to make us more transparent you know we see ourselves as transparent but obviously perceptions are different than how we see we conduct business yeah I'm not going to Bas an enrollment analysis off eight people you know or or 12 including the emails we have so um yeah if we get more information and look at it if we have town hall with the public and maybe more people show up now that they're all riled up from Facebook maybe we'll get a better turnout and a wider range of opinions there maybe that would be helpful too but I think that um uh getting the opinions are are it's valuable and having that conversation is good but I like personally I want to hear from like a a vendor or somebody like an RPS andalis yeah yeah in that Forum where they're presenting and telling us this is what we're going to tell you this is how we're going to do it and this is how it's different than what you and us uh did in house with the data because then I can say oh okay so what you're G to do is going to be you know significantly different or you know uh it's going to take into consideration so much more information than like you know our back of the napkin you know by relative standards uh approach if it turns out to be that or they might say no you guys went 75% of the way or 85% of the way we're just going to add this additional thing that's the kind of information that's gonna uh Empower me to say oh well yeah I think then this is a good idea or you know or not and I'll decide at that time yeah and I and what I would say too is you know I'm a big believer in my office and everything if we're going to get more data it has to drive our decision Mak if we get a an enrollment report that says you know what getting the getting a new high school is the best option I I I don't based on what we've heard I I don't know how that would pass the concerns about a bill that's increasing our in Max by 100 million dollars understandable concern about that okay that's fine so if things are off the table because of that already which again eliminates a high school eliminates a middle school even that's the same size as PK so again we're not going to use it to drive what the potential different options are at the board level like if we say gosh collectively going back and like trying to get a new high school I mean that's not even like in the realm of consideration for me at this point I wouldn't I personally in this moment would not even consider that based on what happened and so do we think it's feasible to come back and it would be more than $195 million the exact same one that we did because costs go up so we're over $200 million and we're asking for more money um you know and we could put every addition on every building this is what we'll talk about I think tonight we put every addition every building to increase temporarily the classrooms that we still need something what's four years from now right so we get a new a new elementary school for $55 million and let's say it goes on 47 and then what about when we need more Middle School space then what's next and then another you know so I mean you know so that's I think again if we're going to use the data to actually change what we're doing I think that's one thing if it's if it's just to check a box and did it I do not agree with that well does a demographic report show us how quick expansion would come as far as new homes being built when I them I give you years guarante they guarantee it they'll you for but they get five years bottom line is we get our money back if they're wrong at five years or what what they build a school for us they confident there's a 95% confid okay good to know we have to educ kids right so that's that's the bottom line and the one thing we do know is the registrations are going up so we have to act quick and swiftly about a plan as to how we're going to educate all these people our product that we Pro you know and also make it a accommodating for the Educators that are teaching these kids you know I mean the more you put in the classroom we've seen it it's it's not you know pretty as far as the scores and everything so we have to keep cognizant with that as well so you know I I I'm willing to find a path forward um certainly to make to make sure that we're educating the product that we put forth the best so you know whatever that study or whatever you want to do I'm open to it I just I just think you know we have larger concern here now which is a grow that's moving upward and we heard it through one of the Town Halls was was at um you know the Ws is doing a complete shift now and turning over and now the kids are younger as people are aging out of their homes and going elsewhere so you know I heard a comment on one of the Town Halls that maybe thought it was kind of a back a comment but how do we become so desirable maybe we shouldn't be such a desirable district for people which is kind of amazing but I guess if we can't pass the ref ref to your point what's the alternative and maybe annexation I know it's not ever done in the school district but it is possible um P grow of development that hasn't even begun I mean that would be crime I don't even know how you do that with no voters in the area that you want to Annex but as crazy of a idea as that is it's a possible possibility you know I do think one of the things miscommunication out there regarding why can't we just build it why can't we just put our kids over to sou elig you know every district has boundaries and our school district's boundaries requ we can put our schools so we can't send kids to u46 to use their schools they not using um I suppose we could try to run it from u46 they'd be happy to take our students from the tax base um but we can't send our kids somewhere else um our kids have to be educated inside the district boundaries we don't make those boundaries up when I say District boundaries there a a difference between District boundaries and School boundaries so District boundaries mean that the county has determined the boundaries that make up Central District where those boundaries lie School boundaries mean the boundary shifts that we make internally within our district when we look at the heat Maps we look at where student populations are coming from we have to shift them to allow us to manage school buildings of a certain size and so when you're looking at those kinds of things the options you have is annexation that means that a whole subdivision can choose to Annex to another district and they can put forth down it takes two-third of a vote by those people to go there but it also takes the other District voting to take those people into their district for annexation so that that's one option and we do border District 300 we border u46 we border St Charles so there are annexation pieces that could happen for subdivisions or different people even individuals um so that that's one option I think the other option is to try to consider you know District boundary shifts and we'll talk about other options that I think we can do here um you know we all know where our buildings are sitting every of you bu are sitting right now we have we definitely have our that are there I think any fifth grade teacher who teaches tell you they not best for kids that might listening to going around talking to staff that's one of the pieces that's brought to my attention is just the the needs of teaching a classroom in Mobile there's not enough space to do some groupings there's not enough room for shifting some of the things they need to do you have kids that are going in and out of brain coming in soaked have a soaked lot of challenges that come with that um of course we're always looking at ideas from gr funded dollars to see other ways to get something covered whatever we can do to help from a fiscal standpoint as well but the growth isn't going to stop um at least we haven't seen it at some point we'll get done I just don't know when the next group will start you know we have 300 whatever it was 306 homes once those are done if we get a lall great news we get out further than we thought we were going to get out but you still have to Tak three years to build something and so you know V has come and something just opens you're here and you've gotta you've got to plan for the future that's that's got to be one of the things we have to consider so I think that's part of the eners Mr was talking Pro for the future of the district in the last referendum that passed for CT and PK how many we run that was that an insane referendum ran three times and it only passed the presidential election the third time I guess my question would be at that time when it didn't pass was the public as vold as it is right now social media not social media streams game right it started 06 was passed that in 03 or 04 it was passed in 04 because right it was buil in 206 so was 2004 texting all the time on my fot phone it was all frer was around um my space right space other questions regarding uh enrollment okay some options to consider um trying to think about things differently we can do modular classrooms uh Dan did do his due diligence in trying to get some pricing for me so thank you Dan um building option we could put up a 12 modu unit U system which is similar what St Charles has done in the past they there's lots of programming that has come to their 12 modular units um that comes at a cost of 83,8 to purchase it uh we could do a lease option at 36 months for $21,000 a month uh for those uh 12 modular units we did consider this maybe at Central Middle School uh currently long Plato is one of the softball field is so there's not a lot of space that's not used often The Varsity softwall is used much more frequently uh Dan felt we could maybe get water there so we have to do water and sewer right Dan Water and Sewer there to where we could place those 12 classroom modu units there and then we could pull a second grade level there whether it be a four five we do a six uh 56 uh we do early childhood kindergarten I think there's some options to do that but you you would absolutely have to have the modular units at Central Middle School in order to put two great bands there just based on the sizes of what they are building option two uh is similar what we're currently doing this would be the four module units which is what we currently located at Country TRS at PR um and at um hbt they come at purchase price of 32 3889 for four units or 36 months uh we can lease them at $6,900 a month um and those would be still getting the cost of what we're doing now for pumping pump and dump uh for sewage uh trying to bring in botle water like we do now all that's occurring that would be similar to what would you do for building option to the challenge I think we're having I'm going to your but I think the challenge with building option two is there's some requirements for the what we have to put down to put the modu up is that correct right yeah the expanse expanse of the current of the three modular units at Howard be Thomas Prairie View and Country Trails would be footings and how that those sites lay out obviously the parking lot option we're eliminating more parking we need to have a lane to be able to drive around them so it's going to be really tight and talking with the vendor joining units together can be problematic so they had s suggested a Breezeway option which I don't think we really have space for so just that that construction would be kind of complicated and mind you these costs are literally just for the unit that doesn't include all the other ancillary costs fire alarm Blue Point all the other pieces this is just the cost of the units and the current modules we have the three buildings we' had to put new flooring down because they did separate the joint we were getting nail coming up through the flooring so I know FL yep and do to some of that sh yeah I mean it's they their trailers life expectancy Dan the life expectancy is is probably I think 10 to 15 years is probably a good life expectancy of them you're still going to be maintaining roofs structural Integrity pieces but they do shift they do move it's it's a modular unit I mean we all know it's not the best option but it's space it's a good option it's space we need yeah yep thank you so this is just what the 12 just do you want to know classroom unit was so there bathrooms in between both of the sections of three on each side bathrooms in the center similar to what we have in the four classroom uh we have a bathroom between two classrooms uh currently in those four this would provide two bathrooms but in the 12th uh classroom unit we could build another Middle School similar size in pkms so two middle schools uh sixth through eth grade uh one placed on Route 47 the other one over at uh where it's currently at nestler um obviously part of the challenge there again is going to make sure that boundaries District School boundaries uh don't play a role part of our challenge is our heat map is over on the alen corridor um so we may be busing kids quite a distance um trying to you know make sure we're getting there and making sure that we don't have massive shifts that have to occur um we don't want to relive what we already did we go to e Grade Center because of population changes advantages were bigger now we have more growth coming it's just really that's where the demographer study is very very important trying to figure out that heat map and trying to K us out X number of years to make sure that we're we can sustain programing and sustain population that we as well as at Middle School advantages provides flexibility consistent programming for electives uh it's challenging when we have a six CER theth Grade Center is challenged because part teachers asers are sharing with school we don't have enough section to run fulltime programing when you get a whole 68 you can now bring in fulltime teachers you get better quality people aring part time pieces our high school staff running back and forth that some of the stressors that they have to go to go through but when you're doing a CT Music art foreign language all go ative courses it just provides for a better system we do know the state has a mandate coming down the pipeline where every student has to take foreign language for two years when that goes into play uh we would like to do foreign language at the eth Grade Center so we can open up ative options and not complete that at the high school level require one year foreign language at the high school and one year at the eth grade because you can have an eighth grade course count is graduation credit as long as it's taught by a certified teacher in that country area we do that down math in foreign language so it's not something new to us but we definitely want to do that provide some of that flexibility it provides more continuity to learning progressions we know that you have when every time you do a break in a student's life scores dip so when you go for five to six scores dip seven to eight scores dip eight to n scores dip because that is research out there it shows you anytime a student shifts that's what happens if we can minimize that we can get better learning progression from sixth to eth grade so there's not that constant shifting we can provide related Services psychologist social workers you know those people they're really connecting with for some of our students that really struggle for some of our special education students who need um their case managers get to work with them get to know them being able to provide that for our students is a good thing so only having it shift once versus twice would be great um obviously you know as I mentioned the district challenge that I think is probably some of our most challenging pieces that we have to consider as we continue look at construction options bu El School similar size to CT uh for EC through fifth grade on rout 47 property uh advantage of that is it does get us to five elementary building so again you can shift those numbers out we may pull see out and put the Central Middle School that's an option it gives you more space we have to run some numbers to figure out which gets you out the longest um it provides flexibility for growth um as Aroma changes provides opportunity for small community film um but again District boundary challenge would be the shift there and it's always going to be the sh the cost when I ask our um construction management firm for the Middle School equivalent cost for pkms right now is around $16 million That's not including the FF and so you can take another eight% or so on that because it cost as Furniture fixtures equipment that you need basketball rooms all the things that you need for furniture for classroom desks teacher desks all of that there's an added cost on top of that6 um and also the additional Mass grading site remember we have a new site this road doesn't matter part of5 that massing site we have bring roadways in we have toing we parking LS we have to do all of those that's an additional cost regardless of what we do on the facility of anywhere between six and a half to8 and a half million doll is the cost to do any of that site work that we have to do so if you just did an elementary you have to add another six and a half to eight and half million doll if you do just in Middle School add another six and a half 8 half million if you do middle school and high school you can add all together plus the six and half eight and half the middle school is out of our range of 110 million with that s grade if you did not use the legislation that's allowable to the district um you cannot get a middle school the only thing we could do at this time would be an elementary school um what the current funding that um we would have if we did not go over the legislative numbers um so that that's an option but it is allowable to go over that limit so the legislation process and I I made a note to maybe have Tammy come because obviously this is not my exper right we depend on agency but this isn't us this is our agencies that we work with we work with PMA um who gives us the information what we can do and what we can't do uh the legislative process really nothing happens till after the referend passes because it's truly will will the community do they have a flavor for going and and spending and doing what we need to do um for growth interesting enough the legislation also has some areas that if you're over 200 students in enrollment you automatically can do this without a legislative process are close to that every single year there are years we've done that um it is not required to notify community members of that legislative process it is basically after the fact so once it gets passed it then goes to a hearing and the bonds get posted in the newspaper all that's been after the fact because we don't want to raise you don't want to cause massive problems very difficult to understand I myself as a first year superintendent been in education a long time still struggle that's why we have experts like PMA who are counseling as we work through the process uh so everything we did with legislative process was absolutely truly within the gual is what we should have done um and so there was nothing that was hidden any kind of hidden agenda nothing that was done behind the backs of anybody it's the normal process I asked them what's the process most schools Angel who wrote the language for the referendum said this is always the process they um and so that is just what they tell school districts when they're working with us us being superintend how to move forward in the process um other expansion of CMS we could expand CMS we could drop buildings grounds we could we could take out the transportation facility drop down all those little stalls build a new facility on the property Route 47 property expand Central Middle School and make that the 68 building so instead of going to R 47 expand Central Middle School um we take out some of the parking figure out where that parking might go we could expand out to the softball field that I talked about that Dan and Ted thought May get by with that we going to put those classroom mobes maybe expand that direction um and then build something a little bit for transportation because we need a transportation facility and U building BRS maintenance um and that would allow for that second Middle School 68 as well that would have to be grade school though we expand Middle School that doesn't help I mean we got it I mean that would theoretically be an expansion plus a grade school plus buildings and grounds on correct the other side construction option we know currently we're building a two story 20 classroom addition at the current High School um we do have the option right now I mean there's not a lot of time we'd actually have to have probably have a special board meeting to figure out if you want to make action on this we do have debt certificate bonds that we could take out does not require any kind of a referendum it's up to the board to do this uh you could have debt certificate B you could take out for three to 3.3 million which is the cost we do that are available to us to add a third floor to the current edition when I had that constructed I had a constructed to be to go up we have room for an elevator all of that is there we only to go two stories could go the third floor to that current edition it would probably push us out another year which means we could not use those facilities this school year we have to wait a year um but the advantage to that is it would provide the ability to offer those CTE expansions that we really need to have uh currently our our forb problematic we can't get some of CT expansion that we need to do we don't have the facilities for that um so being able to give those handson opportunities for our students which are crucial would provide us the opportunity to do first floor of addition for that expansion we would do the 10 classrooms on the third floor which would provide us the 20 classroom Edition we need to be able to expand the challenges right now would remain that we wouldn't have the cafeteria aor or parking I did ask um Shel n what it would cost for the auditorium addition be 14 to 16 million to put an auditorium onto the high school at some point in time and the cafeteria expansion would be million so those are some add dolls that we can look into for for the future as we're looking at other construction options as a board that you could look at and then the question is are we even considering the no November referendum because obviously we don't want to spend money we don't need to spend and so if we're going to take a break and sit back um then we can we can do that look at some of these other options and see where you guys want to go um we tight you know uze mobile for we start looking at that we're going to do what we probably looking at that 12 classroom Edition 12 classrooms would be the smartest and then using some of those sh loc and discuss regarding some of these thoughts so when do we have to decide if we want the November referendum like what's the process for that well the process is just the language we've done all the work right so I mean it's pretty much process of determining if we're going to go out then redoing campaign and some of those so I would say by August so I I think that um before we talk about November referendum why don't we like look at this uh uh possibility of doing this it feels like the barrier is this de like a thirdparty demographic and like you know growth study I mean that's what I'm hearing that that's what we want we want this study to show whether or not what what we as board members have been shown through like within internal staff so let's let's figure out if that's viable let's get it let's I I don't know how long that takes to do you know yeah and then let and if we if we get a presentation and we you know learn what this is and the board votes yes let's do it and uh you know we we set the timeline then maybe we can get that and and and then if if that if that study shows you know if it confirms what we've been told from staff then let's get it on the November referendum and and and then the uh advocacy work is already done because there's this third party that's telling us what we what we already knew and if it turns out that it's not what we thought then fine we can step back I think that the the only thing that is time sensitive is this third floor and I think the other challenge is going to be too if we lose out on those 20 classrooms for next year what does that do for us at the high school makes it pretty tight you don't say yeah because the incoming classes Y is big would ises that dollar figure include ripping off the steel that just got placed for the roof on the addition does that three include taking out the steel that we just put in for the roof to go we don't have any roof on the I thought he said the steel was plac he's probably talking something no the steel so that so what what we did with this addition so the steel floor the steel deck still goes on it's a Concrete roof that we're putting on so now all we do is peel off the roofing insulation roofing membrane and we can go up so we're at the point correct yep yep steel and then the next the next phase of concrete would be would be for that that floor but like we're like there like like now like yeah yeah like now and we're starting the interior built we're starting the interior buildout yeah sure the interior build out of the first floor is essentially done we did drywall partition so to modify that now to make larger CTE space and you know do some different things would cost us a little bit but again it's it's like now is the time to do it but if we do it then that pushes us out another year so get up andol to saying we may have some space by Christmas break would be the goal to try to have some space available disabili children so I mean that's the other concern special boxes the challenge is there's so many decisions I've on other decisions we just have to figure out where to start that's the bottom L I think the question is if the challenge is you don't want to put a third High School go for high school you're not go for school and you're andily because we definitely need c space we definitely need to expand that high school to be able to manage the populations that are coming in obviously limit and I know Mr mentioned already complains parking is parking it's going toi for next year that's just where we're that's live so just some of those things that have to understand that's just off that's where we be for them to function we provide busing so bu especially to school located yeah parking is more than just parking to allow your kid to drive in high school you know I mean Athletics clubs after school parents work now they're working more because their kids are older they can sustain themselves on their own so it's not really a I mean it's a benefit to the family so I mean it's not a benefit as oh I'm a junior I get to drive it's helpful for your family to be able to drive so now we're cutting out Junior parking you know it's a for those who have high schoolers it's a pain to drive up to the high school at what five o'clock six o'clock who knows as it gets bigger less parking more teachers have to park here um you know events you take up more space again you're land like you put a third story on that's 30 additional teachers 300 kids not 30 addition teachers it's right it's 20 classrooms so it's you know every time we we're adding ft right you kids got brity F of and the other concern is the more the more time we take to make decisions the more the cost got and I guess a question I would have too I mean even with the 3.3 million so you know do we feel like you know let's say something happens where we add this on and then a demographic study comes says oh we under under sorry we underestimated where we thought it was going to be we really need something I mean we could use CT classrooms at the middle school level it's not like we we you know we could use them with other you know kinds of opportunities and so I don't think it would go to waste U my biggest concern is delaying a whole year based on what we had planned for that's a bit concerned um and then if we don't do it and there isn't anything going on moving forward uh related to high school at least than we out the CT than what do you CT and mobile units but maybe that's what we'd have to do I don't know one of the things we've talked about uh you know being creative maybe double blocking classes using some of the outs that are for construction those of things beond we just don't we have CES we already use Fox Valley we use ECC one of the things that you know Mr books talked about coun was even though we use those programs there's lied seating so for example we have a nursing program right the nursing program we've always run through Community colle well unfortunately they limited our seats so we had 22 students who wanted to get into a CNA program they're qualified they're ready to go they gone through EC Unfortunately they only have eight seats for our kids well eight seats out of 22 kids actually qualify so we then checked with Fox Valley Fox Valley originally told them he had night okay yeah Wilding we seats any students who wanted to seats so those are challenges for every district righted is is Shifting The Way We doed sh the way all of those things that are down are shifting the way we bus and so when look at that if want to give our kids the best opportunity we can want to give them the choices of where they want to land of facilities to provide those opport if we don't have the space we just don't offer them we are usings as best as we can at the school the challeng is lab space needs lab space you can't do you can't do a chemistry lab room that can't do a chemistry lab I mean certain Labs certain labes that are required to do the education which we want to us those similar to a science lab have differentes ofs I guess my question would be how much time does this really buy us you know if we add on this third level we go and we use a 3 million like to me it's a bandid I mean it sounds like a bandid it might not be but like how long and I know you don't ever Crystal Ball but right like what is it another year another two like what our enrollment numbers the way they are I mean depends you could do Central Middle School as a nth Grade Center and then the high school becomes a 10th or 12th grade Center you know if you don't expand Central Middle School I think it's about there's lots of options it's about which option do you want to go with how far want to go out you know the issue is we TR go for the one thinking that us out there's lots of things that bck get paid people off and goes backet that being paid off and try to do so that it's not tax not being to a always the only other question I have that kind of bring my mind is was there any analysis on whether or not I know a lot of people said it's not a tax thing but for those that it is a tax thing have we looked into if we were keep taxes flat and not have that increase what does that get us as far as an amount have we looked into that all yeah am what's the question was it 95 million if we were just going to go out for flat no tax increase I think it was 995 million was that 20 years for without the leg be 9 you know I think this corer Tech I mean that that's important we heard that throughout all the I mean you know I mean not every kid I mean we all want them to go but not every kid's meant to go right and there's a lot of opportunities in different traits such as welding and you know carpentry and ement um being a attack you know so I I I I think you know it's our responsibility to make sure that kids have the best opportunity to do that whatever that looks like and we need to we we need to act quickly and swiftly because it's just not the one thing that I believe based on what we're seeing as far as registring uh Dr it's that's going forward quicker than what we're doing here and so that's my concern so do we need to have another board meeting the next week yeah yeah we need to do I mean we need to act now I also heard that the public would like us to do the best job we can with what we have so maybe we are trying to do too much you know so maybe we keep sending the kids to CT outside of the district don't focus on exactly I mean we have to stick with what we have and do it better than anybody so that's another option we cut some programs in order lied seats yeah I mean you can't have everything right I think we be creative in how we do it and I really want to see what do we really need is it at a high school level if it is and we do these studies that they want and it shows that it sounds like the community would be behind that maybe not at the Grand size that we were looking at but maybe in a smaller size you know as you put up for the option in the survey the Google survey was a 2400 student you know high school instead but I need more information to make that educated decision to vote on it I need to know where we need it do we need it at the elementary do we need it in the Middle School does the high school need like I think with that statement is that every Elementary becomes a midle scho mid scho becomes a school the situation we have at the high school as our community grows that numbers grow in all levels and every level is that capacity it's not like we have space anywhere other than Central Middle School and Central Middle School isn't big enough to take on another grade level I can put a mobile unit in there and get on the grade level there but every single building is almost to capacity and all of those kids are feeding to the next level so it's not like you can just fix one level a point in time right they're feeding like 400 kids become 500 kids 500 kids become 600 kids for each grade level as those 600 kids become there as a grade level they go to the middle school now 600 becomes 1800 middle school now same 600 become 2400 High School it just multiplies it's it's so you can't think of it that way because that's not the reality of how education system functions we have small Elementary buildings but they all go into a six seven Center or an eth Grade Center and then they all go into a high school and so as we're graduating smaller classes bigger class are coming in right kindergarten numbers are down a little bit right we know that birth rates have been down but birth rates are picking back up so during Co they went down but they're G to come back up this is all cical and we know for our district is not a St Charles it's Nota they're losing because they're landl our challeng is we don't know it mob you still have to put the kids we can't decide whether to educate a kid or not we have to educate them so we're gonna have to we're have to do mobile if that's and if we go peace meal and um we you know go with the stay Within million budget and just do whatever little we can if that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy uh maybe we shouldn't be a desirable Community because over time that's what'll happen the school district will cease to be a desirable place to come uh to you know to for for the schools because it'll become less and less desirable as we continue to be peac meal uh year over years so I'm saying let's let's figure out what this demographic study research you know thing is I want to learn about it figure figure out what it offers and then I want to vote on it and um if if if and how I vote on it will depend on whether or not I think it's really that much better than what we've done in house if it's not I'm not going to vote for it uh but if it is then I'm GNA vote for it and I'm saying that we should collectively move that ball forward as quickly as possible so that there's a possibility that can still be in the November referendum with the buyin of the the the sector or segment of the community that said we don't trust what you did in house we want independent eyes so again back of the timing we really to talk about 3.2 million for a third store the only thing we have to talk about urg I think it's a the only i g what he said PE more money time you know I mean it's just I don't that b don't think GNA help time be right where we started well we need a comprehensive plan I don't like this idea of peac mailing in my mind I see this looking like some type of I don't know Geral Community all these additions and things coming off the buildings and you know we don't want that want so we investigate we use our intellectual sweat we move forward with whatever we we uncover but I mean we we we can't pause I mean the district you know I I moved out to this District because it had a great reputation and the scores were what I aspired to see in my kiddos so I mean I think that everybody can agree on that that that's why you moved either West or south or north or wherever you move or east you know but we got to educate these kids well and that's our responsibility that's the that's the main responsibility and make sure that the teachers have the tools to do that and you know bigger classrooms as you see in other districts don't work so and mobile units are challenging as through the the exploratory for the referendum I I can't remember but um there there was one of the one of the gentlemen that said or ladies said their kid was struggling because they were in a mobile unit and they couldn't he AIT correct so so me I'm in favor I'm in favor if we need to meet to meet um but we also need to investigate to see what we what we don't know and correct me if I'm wrong I mean do is this just a general consensus right I'm we're not interested right but I'm talking about for the we're talking about voting that's a consensus at the table correct so that's not a formal vote so we don't need information so we could have the presentation and make a decision correct together at right other questions on this we'll go on to rental rout 47 property um So currently I've had two individuals now three um actually Reach Out determine the possibility of running the rout 47 for cash Farm lease um according to what we found out during the closing piece there was a lease on the property uh prior to us purchasing it by an individual it was for right around 286 Acres uh that they had rented the property um that's what they had the total land um on the overall property that we have um the cash fings did not include the residents and the adjacent buildings the 10 acres more less of the former nser um you see a map that I provided for you in the board packet of the property see was outlined in terms of what the farm lease was covered in terms of that but I think the important piece is the FFA had 20 acres that they were basically using the purpose of FFA Mr Mets talked about a little bit earlier for the FFA alumni they support our F organization by paying doing scholarship but they also help of they spend they also send some of our kids down state cover some of the cost for some of those registrations down state all of those types of things um so in here you'll see that I've also got information from the FFA piece and I think that plays a role in terms of the direction how much we use here um when you look at leasing Farmland I think what people don't realize they think you're just going to make the dollars we have to pay at that point we remember we're tax exempt but we're not tax exempt if we rent the property that property we no longer taxes out so we pay property taxes um so those property taxes have to come back out but also know that part of that money comes back to the tax levy to us so we pay the tax we get some of that money back in tax levy uh so it's kind of like a double sword so we had 135 Acres on Ron um we rented it for 33 about 334 um for the farmer to to pass property taxes were $13,700 on that so we had a net income of about 19,00 plus we had the eight that came back to us through the tax levy so we made about $27,000 net on that property another person reached out to me uh which is an interesting piece to consider as well um there's something out there called a crop share lease program and basically what that is is that a farmer works with you in conjunction as a school dist work with you they would lease our the property um from you but not for for a portion of the share so say it was a 60 40 they get 60% you get 40% because they get the fertilization they plant the seeds they do all the exavation and that 40% could go back to say the foundation or something that could actually fund educational programs and so it's another way to give an opportunity from an educational standpoint where you're working as a CR share program with some other farmer to help you get that so I think there's a couple options for the board to that is still tax because uh somebody is still earning dollarss at 60% I'm sure they're making money to do all the work because they're coming to do all the farming and all those so there's those two options you could out and out lease it knowing that you know either way we're going to be paying dollars you could do this crop share where actually the district or Foundation District wouldn't take the money because it wouldn't seem right but the foundation who does really benefit the organization the Educational Foundation could get those dollars and then bring it back into some type of programming um could be an option all to the FFA if you had somebody and they could do with your crop share and it would all go back to some other student organization I think there's multiple ways to skin the can that I don't want to always I think sometimes we go to the traditional let's just lease it but there's other options that could be beneficial for organizational standpoint as well that we may want to explore we are under a tight timeline when I talk to a farmer one of the farmers that out to me obviously they need plant and they really need to plant later early um this is under the same timeline as when we had done it last time with I think we're in the same time frame um we could have a special board if so thought we should be to do that a little quicker what's our it's May 20th I think is our so it's later May for them to be able to be notified that they actually could lease the property the other challenge is that we have multiple people reaching out to lease it so we don't have to bid a lease that's not part of the law um so it's like how do you want to award you want to force a bid we did before Dan looked up on the Ora proper we did bid that out and that bid came in at $327 per acre that's what got us to the total that we get now through the B process you could reach out put as a b process they what to the B if you so so those are all options them least with a bit because we have multiple people have reached out so I would not want to say definely you need to go for bid check out the farm share and see what that does the land share where you lease it and it's a split between the whoever's doing that for free basically that the profit but also giving a certain percent back to the district say the foundation of some other organization we just solicit kind of informal proposals there's no formal bid process we just the people that like how would that work I think you have to I don't good question I think there's a difference between an RFP and R and a bid yeah so maybe a proposal is more flexible just curious about that ask our attorney I don't know answer the next meeting well we need to have an action it for the next meeting because a person who was going to lease it could not L it dire want to go they need to get CR well I know you said you want to get more information right and then put it for the farm from the far if we're interested in the farm lease I don't want to spend time doing that if there's no interest in a one Le it be a one year right now because we wouldn't want to do beyond that depending what we do so we' be just a onee cycle I know you say that's TR it's also predictable and it's also we don't know what the year is going to be like that means I think there's also a lot of uncertainty right now I think just doing a year lease a regular lease guarante price all right then I want to talk so that was 286 Acres but my recommendation and Mr Mets is here so thank you for coming Mr Mets for to talk about the F Bank you have questions the next information is really about the Fout 47 the the board approved for AC for FFA and hased in talking to our legal counsil I think there has to be some drawn up agreements to make sure that we're clear on how this is supposed to work and having work maybe the board legal team really felt that the student organization should get something back it goes back to mr's comment about students not been in a lot of activities of that field so they don't come out they don't do soil testing they don't do some of those things that they can do fora and I talk to Mr Robinson teacher for he agrees that there's ways to do that easily integrate those things and he would like to have those opportunities for students so my recomendation at this point in time would be to really look at the opportun for us to give 20 acres Dan did a little bit PL study for for me of it's kind of the far south end that's like a little rectangle in the plot um it's 20 it's actually 28 plus acres plus or minus but it's natural place for them to be able to enter off about 47 on the property um it's nice clean it's really not usable place for us for construction because we want to be a set off it's right off of the building so it just makes good sense to give that to the f a little B more than we given in the P we do think it makes sense for the purpose of student education and for some of those scholarship opport they give to our students as well Asar funding that they do for our kids to be able to go down and to do some of those activities in field trips very kind in trying to help assist that and that we would work behind theen more directly on reating the bylaws getting things more in line what they should be but they'll come forward next month to all to a Mr anything you want to add to that I work some of the land that I deal with is because of the FFA program and because I like to donate back to the school in different ways uh up there at the high school when I was landscaping and farming many years ago the kids came from to me and we did that where the flag pole is we did the papers there and the students helped work on that none of you have seen it it's a beautiful place and it's still there today um with the land with the FF um if you were able to lease me the the land which I could honor the rent that you would like uh I would also Farm the 28 acres for the FFA program at no charge so I would plant it Harvest it spray it and haul the grain to the elevator um it's roughly about a $200 hour I'm just taking a rough number it's about a $200 an acre cost in labor with equipment and all the labor that we deal with per acre that's just a rough number so thank you um just just a little note and back to what you guys are talking about I think it was good that you guys had that presentation in different areas with the referendum and it might not be a bad idea to have a monthly get together fundraiser for the new school like a tent and what you do is you call up um phas barbecue and you just put up a tent out there and they'll come out and cook up the pork chops and it's a fundraiser for the new school and I'm just throwing it out there it's it's a way to bring the community together and to let everyone be aware of hey this is what we need to do we're trying to raise money so thank you thank you move on to the enrollment report I already talked about the enroll report pretty much what we do so any questions on there for so fo it's been a very busy Foya season um for us continues to be busy uh Miss Tesa received a request for information regarding uh my employment agreement compensation bonus structure meeting minutes uh which we had submitted to her uh Miss McDon received request for information regarding Orton Gill to certification training and accreditation we're able to give her all the information she requested to that request Miss not received request the sell property Morris Road um the request was denied as the closing has not yet occurred uh Miss dubanowski we received a request for a complete list of reading materials at Central High School uh we were able to comply with that request and those were the points that we currently have responded to any questions on the Motion in second to adjourn Open Session and move to close session for the following exceptions 2c1 2c9 2 C10 2c1 and 2c2 so second aif yes Fulk yes Hil yes Nolan yep papis yes V yes Gman yes motion is carried hopefully do like a seven minute break seven for

so we can't really see your face it's okay that's okay yeah if you just look down or elsewhere uh I will not be offended by that so uh good evening thank you uh for the opportunity um the Invision 230 update is a staple item that we have uh for each of our meetings uh sometimes we have more content to share sometimes we have less uh tonight is a night that we have quite a bit um in your packets to approve and uh just a few slides to go over uh in synopsis so um what you have for um action this evening are uh items listed on your screen permission to bid phase one of the uh Johnson work as a reminder that is in effort to move Bright Beginnings from McDow over to the Early Learning Center at Johnson um just four classrooms of work in that first phase a an approval for GMP guaranteed maximum uh price for the Schmidt renovation we open bids on that they were a little bit higher than expected um so we are just awarding nine of the 11 bid categories for now uh basically um the two bid categories that we will reconsider at another time would be site and concrete work U outside of the outside of the the building and the parking lot selection for construction managers as Constructors for the majority of the Envision one phase one projects those are summarized in three packages uh and I'll speak to that here in just a bit and then finally and and um excitedly uh our recommendation for the selection of a design architect for the new Elementary School uh this remains unchanged but just as a reminder of where we are uh with the with the projects and the timeline of those phase one projects within evision 2030 Schmid and Parkside being the exception um outside of uh the projects but their uh timeline is listed there for a reference the construction manager as Constructor recommendation that we're bringing to you this evening uh we were fortunate to have 10 construction firms submit proposals uh for each of our packages um within this first phase of the Invision 2030 work the five listed are the five firms that our team interviewed uh Mr Stenner uh mentioned that process a little bit we had six members of that selection committee Mr Senor being one um and we we he is accurate we spent quite a bit of time vetting these folks um interviewing really reviewing um piles of material that they have submitted all 10 firms were very reputable we were very pleased with the 10 um but the ones High highlighted excuse me are the ones that we're bringing to you for recommendation for approval this evening so project one Northside north um we recommend to award my AUM Myer AUM is a firm that we have not yet worked with but they have done uh many similar scale and size projects across the state uh most recently in Brownsburg Lebanon zionville and a few other districts and their um recommendations from those from those districts and others were exemplary project two Smith and East package just as's a reminder that's uh full renovation to north side and just a little bit of work at North High School relative to C4 same for Smith our recommendation is to war that to Maxwell construction Maxwell construction is a firm that you're familiar with they're currently our construction manager on the parks side and Schmid projects we we've had a very good experience with them and then on the new Elementary which is a a project by itself um we're recommending Taylor brothers and pepper Taylor brothers and Pepper have joined together um as the construction manager as Constructor for that there are a lot of benefits to bcsc and to the community um with that partnership so um our recommendation is to award that cm contract for the new Elementary on pro project three for Taylor brothers and pepper construction and also just as a reminder um there there's a lot to consider in that in that decision and that recommendation as I mentioned um we are not subject to just low biders which is good for for us and other other districts um it is an important factor but is not the uh we are not tied to just selecting low the low bid on those you're familiar with our process and our time that we've spent recently in um searching for interviewing vetting and selecting a design architect for the new Elementary School we're fortunate to have the partnership of the cumin architectural Foundation that provided us four um very qualified firms we invited those four firms to submit rfps you can see the timeline listed there Jim Funk from CSO and I met with them on site and toward Parkside the week of February 26 spent about a half day with each of them they uh submitted their proposals in written format and they were about 40 or so pages long um each of our 16 committee members um were provided those written responses had the ability to provide some feedback and scoring you're also familiar that those two firm those four firms rather presented over the course of two nights at the Westside Community Church the week of March 25th and our team met on April 4th and went through a structured protocol to help come up with um a recommendation for the board to approve uh it's a photo of of some uh very qualified folks sitting around the table and having some some interesting conversations and uh from that we had a few follow-up questions that um a handful of us six folks or so had um had some follow-up zooms with two firms and asked them some additional questions that's the list of the um committee members that had served um Mr Stenner said we we have a commination of teachers um a represent representation from CSO there we have parents we have community members there's a student listed there um and some bcse administrators and then Mr Stenner and Mr Allen from the board as Representatives our recommendation is to award the design architect for the new Elementary School to Hower and Yun from Boston Mass Metts um in order of presentation they were the third that presented on those those nights uh that seemed to resonate with folks um when we when our committee had gone through our our structured protocol to make this selection the criteria um that they had used and come up with and has and as they um as they scored these these different firms um terms such as collaborator synthesizer the firm's ability to be flexible Innovative and um I mentioned this to Eric when I called and offered him this position to where he was very excited and was quite speechless for a moment but um I said Eric I said when you had given your presentation at the church and and you opened with speaking about designing a school through the Through The Eyes of a child it really resonated with folks it really got people excited so um so I'm I'm I'm happy with the committee's recommendation um feel confident in the process feel confident that me Jim uh y on the left here and Eric Hower on the right and their firm out of Boston will do a fantastic job working well with b bcsc and CSO to to uh design an elementary school on the west side of town that serves this community for 50 years plus happy to answer any questions you may have I have any questions from the team no questions okay thank you Dr board members that with the information that Dr Boseman just shared those items are to be voted on here in just a little bit Dr Phillips good evening I have for you tonight the quarter One financial report um and overall uh generally as uh is as we expect at this point in time from a both a revenues and expenditures perspective this slide will be one that is not usually in our quarterly update the dgf released their spreadsheet that has all the school district's tax rate uh tax levy and all that information and uh for the last several years I have put that into a chart just to bring everyone up to date with where we stand compared to other school districts across the state and comparison groups and so last time I showed you this it just had 23 and now it has 2024 added on there for all the other comparison districts so um this is our fourth year in a row of having very slight decline in our own tax rate um but it's interesting to look at the other comparison groups that we use both um the Indiana average as well as districts around us and districts with like assessed values and like budgets they seem to be concentrating if you look at at them at the wide variation in the decade you know leading up to 2020 they're pretty wide variation and they just seem to be getting closer and closer to one another as um there's probably a good reason for that um but it does seem like it's it's a much more predictable process over the last five years or so to I could almost tell you what our tax rate is going to be the day we put the um the budget up for our first hearing and so it's a much more predictable process than it used to be uh from a revenues perspective um on the education fund side uh revenues are up about 8% over last year um and most of this increase uh is because of that in continued uh higher interest rates and so we continue to collect um more interest earned than what we usually budget for um but I consider those to be artificial inflations because there's no guarantee that that rate will stay where it is in the future um we also had a just a timing issue with some C4 uh member districts um contributing their money in January instead of December so there's a little increase there that would have come in last year and there are no significant uh revenues for tax property tax supported funds until after uh we start collecting the the spring payments in May and June this is the education fund expenditures chart that I always show and um salaries and benefits from the education fund are up 10% over 2023 excuse me that made it worse inste it better um and this is a result of the collective bargaining agreement that that was passed excuse me last fall um in addition to the addition of uh administrators at the high school for the cohort model and honestly continued success in filling positions we just continue to have fewer and fewer unfilled openings as we go uh as we go forward which is obviously a victory as I shared back in the fall and you continue to remind you that we will need an additional appropriation in calendar year 2024 just to pay for the raises that were approved in 2023 as a result of the um collective bargaining agreement and raises for all groups thank you Dr ple so we'll probably wait till the fall for that additional appropriation request on the uh all the other expenditures in the education fund which is are very small percentage of the education fund budget are as expected and consistent with previous years uh on the operations fund side uh expenditures are as would be expected little um increase over there on the other category and that is almost entirely due to uh the property and liability insurance uh contribution that we pay from the operations fund um that came in the second quarter of last year and came in the first quarter last year but I will mention that that continues to increase as we see more and more catastrophic events happen not only across the country but across the world unfortunately just like when I watch uh a football game and I see prescription drug commercials all I can think of is how much how much that costs on the news when I see catastrophes I think about how much our property and liability insurance is going to go up uh and people I think about people in both those cases too um on the operations operating referendum fund side all expenditures are consistent with pre previous years and with budget as would be expected I'll just point out each quarter we'd like to to point out the impact of that operating referendum um in the first quarter of 2020 for that resulted in about $1.8 million in additional employee salaries for all uh qualifying teachers and all uh classified staff members it's about 540 teachers out of our 760 or so and uh about 1,00 um classified staff members benefited from that operating referendum and then last on the fund cash balances um the all balances with the accepted exception of uh Debt Service are up from the prior year those are as would be expected um of course higher revenues are driving that up um but I also expect um as we go through the course of this year that to be drawn down just a little bit as the uh salaries and benefits continue to draw forward um the health and dental balances are continuing a positive trend of increasing but I will note that our medical claims through the first quarter of this year are actually down from prior years um but uh prescription claims are way up from prior years I think that's consistent with probably what most employers are seeing um with the Advent of some new very expensive medications and then uh just remind you that The Debt Service fund will continue to decline um slightly as we retire old debt and and add new debt to replace the uh with the change in the state law regarding how much we can carry in cash balances in that fund happy answer any questions you have about the budget through the first quarter questions no thank you thank you Dr Phillips okay we will move on to the public comments section of our agenda however there is no one signed up currently for public comments so we will we will move past that on to request for approval Dr Roberts okay I have two items for uh approval under old business although one of the items has quite a few meetings you all had over the last month or so so asking for approval for the minutes of the executive session of March 3rd the regular school board meeting on March 4th the executive session on March 18th the executive session on March 19th the executive session of March 23rd and the executive session of March 28th additionally as asking for approval of policy 5380 a revision we talked about at our last meeting which was some time ago um but it was bringing in this case policy in line with practice because Indiana statute had changed we had not U made a revision to our particular fundraising um policy in this particular case uh the change was to make sure that students even those under 18 years of age may sell tickets or chances for a raffle uh state law changed a few years AG go to allow that to be the case we did have a comment about making sure that any fundraiser involving games of chance must comply with Indiana Law including obtaining the appropriate license or permits after we've added this under 18 piece of students we added that sentence again on your recommendation at the last meeting so that was the change from the last meeting and asking for that approval as well thank you Dr Roberts do you have a motion from the board I move that we approve uh motions three A and B as presented second thank you Mr nelan I have a motion to approve items A and B items three A and B all those in favor say I I I I all those opposed say n no okay motion approved thank you uh the next is uh approval for new business and we have 10 items under new business this evening including all the ones from Dr Bosman from before for so we have a list of supplemental contracts in your packet field trips and professional leaves school fundraisers uh claims and payroll the claims for April 15th total about $1.8 million the pre- runs from February 24th through March 31st equal about $4.8 million in payroll going from March 8th all the way through the April 5th payroll a little over $1 million there's an extra note about just the differences sometimes in those payrolls in terms of of what is included in those additionally asking for per mission to approve the disposal of laptops and desktops when we move equipment or property away from our building we have to have a proper permission from you all to do that we are also asking for a memorandum of understanding to be agreed upon with Indiana University Columbus regarding admission of our bcsc students that particular memorandum would allow um our students to be accepted into I based upon very specific criteria so without them having to go through the process of applying uh our sharing of information I would accept them and then of course it's up to the student and the family as whether they actually enroll pay do all those kinds of things but just takes away maybe one step in the process uh we have permission to receive bids on Johnson's Early Education Renovations phase one important part of us moving in the phase one uh of our project permission to award a design architect for new Elementary School uh permission to award construction manager as Constructor for phase one of the Envision 2030 projects there were three different ones there for you for you and permission to establish a guaranteed maximum price for the Schmidt renovation so those are the additional 10 new business items I'm asking for approval okay thank you Dr Roberts I move that we approve item four C through L under new business as presented thank you Mr Nan do I have a second second thank you Mr Bryant would it be would it be possible for us to separate out J and K please J and K so I would make a motion to amend the the prior motion to remove J and K and vote separately on those okay okay so we see through I yep so C3 I and L did you say J and K or I sorry I couldn't hear J and K okay can you say that as one motion so someone can second it I don't think it needs to be seconded to poll doesn't it technically you got to close out the current motion do you have to close out the current motion because you got a motion in a second doesn't hurt to vote on it right it doesn't matter to me I mean we've done this every other way that we can ever think of so just strike strike what I said and just move forward with this okay okay thank you Mr mcgyver so for those who may not have been able to hear because we've had a motion in a second we need to actually conclude that with a vote and now is the time for us to have discussion as a team on the motion which was to approve C through l so is there any discussion on any of those items so yeah this isn't on jnk but but two comments that I wanted to include here um one is recognition and thank you to Mr Edwards for his work on the memorandum of understanding I think that's really a huge benefit for our students down the road and and the second I don't usually call out field trips but I thought it's really cool that East is applying to take kids to Washington DC next year that didn't get to do their eighth grade trip because of covid that was awesome that make national news very good there any other questions or comments on C through l no just so everybody understands to be consistent with what I've stated in the past based on the data that was shared with us back in November shown reduction in students between 2021 and 2031 anytime we have a discussion about approvals for anything for a new elementary school I will say I will vote no um because I don't believe when we're projecting a reduction in students over the next 10 years that we need to be building capacity it's uh not useful expenditure of tax money okay thank you Mr major okay so I have a motion in a second to approve um 4 C through L all those in favor please say I I all those opposed please say nay nay okay motion passes 61 Dr P I request approval of the 38 recommendations as presented in your packet this evening which consist of six retirements 15 resign 13 appointments and Four Leaves you have been busy Dr ple is this the season for retirements anything to be concerned with here this is the time for all us to start so okay okay thank you do I have a motion from the board I move that we approve item five Human Resources recommendations as presented thank you thank you Mr n do I have a second second thank you Mr Bryant all those in favor of approving human resource recommendations item five please say I I I all those opposed say nay motion carries seven thank you we have nothing from the additional right no no additional okay board input and review I will start with Mr Bryant please I really don't have a whole lot but I would like to thank uh Dr Boseman and uh also Central Middle School letting the library use their facility and their uh field uh it was great unfortunately I had to call Dr bosem uh that morning but we worked everything out and it was really great uh we have any anywhere between 8 to a thousand uh people out there wow so thank you Dr yeah I'd like to congratulate all the teacher of the year award winners in the top 10 for both Columbus East and Columbus North to the teachers I want to thank them all for the support they provided to our students and to the students congratulations to all the hard work paying off best of luck in your future endeavors uh there's funny enough Jamie Riley Caitlyn and Malia all are friends of my daughter she's a Sen senior as well which is kind of cool I saw my daughter actually in Mr Chastain's video so that's awesome uh especially considering that uh she talks about him quite a bit as being her favorite teacher I did get to spend a few minutes with him earlier and just express my thanks to him for her saying that so um when your kid comes home and talks about a teacher being a good teacher and it just so happens they wining teacher the year it kind of really resonates and hits home so special thank you to Mr Chastain as well um I'll do a shout out for Miss Summers as the Edna fer Award winner when I worked at the chamber that was one of the highlights of the year uh because it would always be a secret uh the teacher would be invited to sit at the table with some other bcsc teachers they had no idea then their family members would show up by the exit door just as the speeches were starting it was a wonderful event so congratulations to Mrs Summers um and then I'd Echo uh my colleagues comments about what an amazing evening this is to recognize folks uh for their Excellence their hard work uh Mr Grimes uh wanted me to let everybody know that he hates missing any board meeting any board meeting at all but he was especially upset to be missing this one uh because there's so many well-deserving and dedicated students and teachers being recognized uh he did want to congratulate them all and he wanted me to explain briefly that he is on uh probably right now an evening tour of memorials in Washington DC with students from his school so that's the report from Mr Stenner and Mr Grimes can I add something just real quick of course because otherwise they will forget I want to just highlight something Mr major said uh in terms of saying something to a teacher that means something CU I I'm not sure really any of us any of us here too often maybe the impact we've had on other people so making sure that they know that so his going to Mr Chastain and verbalizing that because I wonder for each of us if our favorite teacher knows that they were our favorite teacher and and if not let's take an opportunity maybe here at the end of the year to to do that no matter how old we are is is to look that person up and see if we can let them know that they that was actually the case for us as we were maturing and developing as well so I appreciate that a comment thank you on that same vein um maybe some people don't know April 23rd is National bus driver appreciation day so that is between now and our next um schooling I wanted to to highlight that we have 100 approximately 110 amazing bus drivers that get our kids to school and home safely every day it is a not an easy job I can't imagine um and so if you could please take a moment on that day parents to appreciate bus drivers um a few options for you you can write a nice thank you note um if you're good at social media I am not but if you are # than you buus drivers is apparently what will be used on that day um you can give them a special treat or snack or I would also venture to guess just walking up to the bus when you put your kid on in the morning and saying thank you would probably go a really long way so April 23rd that's all thanks for the reminder uh Miss Pat who puts up with the Schultz children every day we'll get that reminder now I appreciate it uh some recognitions I want to recognize uh the Food Service team facilities team Miss day at Schmidt and Cherry for helping us put together uh the superintendent search there was a lot of uh last minute uh drills just trying to get everything together and I appreciate the efforts it was I think it was great and it showed what we can do in a short amount of time um I want to Echo the congratulations to the teachers and students uh miss me was teacher at Taylorville when I was there and so nice to see old faces as well um Dr Boseman and Dr Phillips for hosting the architecture uh meetings and their presentations and my students or my my children getting to see pictures of the students at the new elementary school they had a lot of questions all wanted to know what it was going to look like and I was like time will sell and we'll see um and then the last thing was just kind of a call and I know I've talked with Dr Roberts and U Miss London on cea about how are we're going to address s sp1 and I think that's something that hopefully we'll be able to look through the cicc uh committee to see what what do we need to do differently to make sure our children are ready to uh move on and not be retained under this new law so that's the only other call out that I had appreciate it so I think like everyone else this is my favorite meeting of the year um when I think about what schools do it's really getting teachers and students to interact with each other in ways that that help students move forward and and we get to celebrate both tonight so I appreciate that um and actually to Echo what Dr Robert said so when I retired from teaching I didn't take a whole lot of stuff home but I did take home um notes that I got from kids over the years um so I I would Echo what he said let let let a teacher know what they meant to um and we had a lot of recognitions tonight but I have one more to add um I'd like to offer commendations to the Columbus North Indiana Math League team who finished in second place in the Statewide contest six of the top 20 finishers in the state were from Columbus North Michael Crossman was second grace Hong was sixth Nevin Justin was ninth isan jasuja sorry isan was 14th and Adrien Perez and Janine Wong tied for 17th um there were four other students that missed the top 20 just by one or two points so they had an outstanding finish there and also just thank you to the to Columbus North and the custodial staff here because I know that it's not easy to set up for all of this and then tear down when we go home they still have to turn it back into a cafeteria so our next board meeting uh is here on April 29th um at 6:30 6:30 p.m.

like that I would just add before you gble out is that we are working to schedule a reception for that evening too since we are looking to uh approve or at least vote on the uh superintendent um selection recommendation so we are trying to set that up we will communicate that publicly okay thank you Dr Roberts with that meeting adjourned thank you all

es there were two different buckets that we took to meet and conferred the 2 million was for ongoing and then I believe we took I think it was 1.8 for onetime uh dollars um and uh the meet and confer has uh determined the needs and that's what I recommend is that we we focus on our needs and um figure out how to get to our needs um these additional dollars are not accounted for in the current budget uh but [Music] um I always have to be thinking about the declining enrollment are these sustainable um I will always say that we will find what we need for the things that we need um I did uh become aware that the 10% increase to classified staff um I'm not trying to say if it's sustainable or not I'm just saying it's a big hit for food services and a grants that's already being um uh lowered um by 20% at this point um so I just want to put it out there that we may need to support those areas with M Ando dollars again these are what the budget balance carry for dollars are for is that when these types of things come to play we have the ability to support until we figure out Solutions so if the grants get into a bind and can't afford that if that's what we move forward and do we need to be aware that M dollars may need to come and assist um you know student enrollment Trends we sent the demography report out uh it does not look great um the only thing that we're seeing at this point is that the declining enrollment is has slowed down so it will not be as severe as it has been in the past I think it's going to stay pretty on track um but it will be declining enrollment we're looking to lose anywhere from 800 to a thousand students over the next 10 years so we need to be thinking about that that's with a 4,800 student enrollment um that's impactful so we absolutely need to be thinking about our District's future fiscal health and how do we accomplish the task that we're putting before ourselves um I've been to multiple economic forecast seminars I'm not hearing anything different it is all the Realtors the financial planners the you know all of the different experts in those fields so so um and it's the entire State of Arizona we moved from being uh top five of growing States uh I think we're down to 29 at this point um we got totally bumped out of our top five of fastest growing States for a lot of different factors um it's an interesting piece Nevada kicked us out um so those future development uh considerations these are things we've already already talked about you know the state has some budget challenges so we're not real sure what all that's going to look like or how it will pan out uh we know those prop one two3 are very um politicized right now uh more things to be keeping in mind um again we have those reductions to Title One and um spending in this current year as I said is not done but we are on track to be pretty much in the ballpark at our uh 20% is where I feel like we're going to be right in there again um these are budget examples from the adopted budget I just wanted to point out a couple of pages to the board when we bring revisions and budgets too there's a lot of good information on that first page of a budget it gives you some of the totals it gives you average salaries for teachers it's it's just a fantastic page to to review not that you wouldn't review the whole budget but these are some standouts for you uh the budget summary is a a great one look all of information in the budget is spread out over different pages so it's memo Capital um this summary page gives you all of that information in in one page so a quicker view um and it's made up of account codes which we all know that I like um so uh even better um same thing with the the total expenditures by fund this is that look where we're looking when people are like what did we budget last last year um what are we budgeting this year these are quick views for you to get information in a simple way as opposed to going through several Pages it's all kind of summarized here um I also where did we have it there it is sorry I did miss this additional dollars need to be reserved to support s soof gals so I hope through this process of budget development that we're able to start having really good clear conversations as we identify how we're getting to those goals and we do the interim goals and we have the guard rails uh My Hope and what I plan to do is when we bring these items forward we're able to say these dollars these dollars are what we need these dollars are the ones we're going to set aside and uh have those conversations with the board so it's very clear uh what those dollars are for now obviously we're going to be spending regular budget dollars on all of these goals but I wanted to make sure that there was space in the budget for us to have that you know I think it's important um so very quick because it's the end of the night and I was gonna do this at the study session and been like an hour because I love budget and I love account codes and all that but I'm happy to take any questions um I have some questions comments and wonderings I guess all three um something that I've been learning about this framework is is um I'm going to note this and maybe I need to take a little bit I'll take full responsibility for this a little bit more time with my coach as well um when I'm talking about the budget and goals and guard rails but here's a couple of things yes um one of the things is that the goals should be the first priority for resources allocation and those combined with the guardrails become the superintendent focus when crafting a budget okay so that's part of the thing um along with this is um some feedback that I have that's in the book as well it says that the design of the budget should not be contingent upon what was done last year it should not be about adding in what parents teachers or board members want in budgeting the only focus of the school board should be requesting evidence from the superintendent that the budget prioritizes prioritizes accomplishing the goals while honoring the guardrails I think that's why it's really important that we do adopt even though we're not trying to rush it that we do have goals and guardrail set up because our budget needs to be aligned um I have a minor concern in the language that we're already using we um in slide on slide 12 I believe it is where it says future budget development considerations it says additional dollars need to be reserved to support sofg goals that to me is already a misunderstanding of our framework that should be our one and only priority and everything else should fall afterwards we're spending a lot of time on looking at data seeing what's missing what's not working so our budget needs to be aligned exactly to what um the district will or the board will adopt in the goals and then once we get to adopting our guard rails our budget should reflect off of the guard rails as well and then everything else should be discussed afterwards um part of this framework is also having the Mind shift change of um all of our allocation should be going to the students and not prioritizing adult complacency in the institution so in reality the questions that I I'm personally going to ask and I would hope our board members ask to is um how are those impacting our student outcomes how you know that's where the priority should be not creating a space for the sofg goals it should be already aart that's the number one thing that we do and then everything else should be revolving around that with that being said um anybody else have any and those are just the quick things that I saw and can I respond real quick because again the sofg goal development um it was mostly just to make sure that um there was an understanding that we will move forward with with that focus and I believe based on what I heard tonight the goals and guard rails will be in place prior to the June proposed slash adopted budget process so I anticipate that that will be the entire framework for the budget when it comes to the board I mean obviously there are you know this page does this and this page does that and this is what this is for but I believe we'll be able to put that in alignment um uh for the board with our next proposed adopted um I think my intent there was just to put the space start having the conversation and then getting the guidance from the board thank you so much yeah and that's fine I just um I think part of this and this is for me too it's a lot of not only mindset work uh different but it's also how we're bringing out the information right and we want to make sure that we're getting the clear message from top bottom that the these goals are our number one priority and everything that we do when it comes to hiring spending budget dollars whatever it is it's for the betterment of our students and impacting them first versus anybody else in the institution first but yeah I mean I get it I just wanted to make sure that um when we're having these meetings and we're discussing this that that is going to be our priority and everything should be aligned within not just you know hopefully we can get the SG goals yeah we'll get to there then first absolutely thank you how have other districts have adopted sofg goals like visually or organize this so that you can kind of they just add another column to the budget or do even an example to show what that could ultimately look like yeah and then for I I can do the research and I will talk to our coach about that and if he has any examples I'll make sure that they get sent out not only to all board members but cabinet as well and I know in the book there were some um references and examples um so I was going to be using those as a baseline also okay awesome thank you and I know that Dr Ramos um will be probably touching base with other administrators and cabinet and he'll be able to guide them in that sense too but yeah I'll make sure I bring more information because again this is like an evolving piece and there's so many moving pieces to it I just want to make sure that we're always focusing that if we're going to adopt these goals for the next five years that's where everything needs to live in it's that resources section um thank you in the it's like chap five is it like chap it's like in the end of the book oh the chapter five yeah trust me it's very marked up yeah any other questions comments um I just want to appreciate um this presentation I think um just also considering as we move forward to like knowing that we'll have some board turn over um I think things like this are really helpful in breaking down those parts of the budget um a lot of us have now been here and and dived into it but I just want to appreciate like the way that you communicate the information because I think it is really important um and and especially when you're talking about carry forward um I just want to highlight and and appreciate the work that our district has done um with this because it is a really fun Balancing Act where you need those reserves for emergencies but you also don't want the state to think too much you're not spending enough money we're gonna give you less so um just huge appreciation um to to the cabinet to your department and to the com committee members on this work because it is a lot it's a lot of moving pieces it's a lot of cause and effect um between a lot of different bucket so thank you any other questions or comments okay thank you so much for that M perel all right and that brings us to our next item which is future agenda items um Miss Caleb I know about your on May 7th meeting I yeah I will be virtually coming in shortly after 7:30 perfect do we have any for the order of things if things are needed but do we have any future agenda items I just wanted to add um the uh from the comment tonight I would hope and we've discussed this in our student conduct committee that I think there will be a need for St a staff conduct policy Review Committee and so I just want to put that out there is something we should explore in the future as well because it's something that keeps getting brought up in the committee and it's relevant to what was discussed here tonight so thank you Miss Gibson mle any other future agenda items um I also just noticed that um for CVA at some point aren't we going to have to vote on something and I feel like it was on here and now it's fallen off yes and um that is not we're gonna have it in the board update and you'll have a board update of exactly what's gonna happen thank you I was just like it was on here I know there we go without going out of the scope of the agenda there there may be a there may be a procurement as well that comes forward to the board thank you any other future agenda items all right hearing none I move the governing board adjourn second all those in favor I I all right thank you have a great night when do noes you want to 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that's I was I finally went to the doctor today after so they either think walking the god are test done and now I have to go get oh I hope that goes I just need to I hav [Music] I am just went to the ENT this afternoon Jay are you able to hear us okay yep I can hear you loud and clear I am not hearing you right now oral steroid and I am not mut let me try a couple things here on my ends [Music] our sound is working on this side go caning can you try saying a few more things for us can you hear me now Russell y we sure can you are in with the room awesome thank you know just yeah the only time stud s in governance regardless so did it oh you did yeah oh yeah [Music] little oh yeah my daughter to tell me what go Little Giant little take okay I need to get and it's you know there's something about when you see people for the first time regard of time I always tell people then you can hear all the puzz get a note from fine is purpose yeah H all cards go to hild you can give it to me in the middle so kind of towards a little bit before the middle just okay long so I'm just going to read it for three minutes too CU you guys already rece do the three minutes it's usually uh yeah just do three minutes oh yes yes I'm on okay all right ma'am my tabl is Frozen thank you all right thank you to everybody graas we're gonna go ahead and get started Craton School District understands that our community of schools is located on the ancestral land of theam Jude and akam people who descended forok and have inhabited these lands since time IM Memorial the oam whose name translates literally to people are a vibrant culture and community spanning of countless Generations into the past continue to thrive in the present and carrying a powerful Legacy for Generations into the future with this acknowledgement the crane school district formerly recognizes that the traditional caring keeping of these lands by indigenous people is an aspirational model of community stewardship that we are committed to honor with practices policy and human Rel relation and Miss Caleb if you can please lead us in the pledge of allegiance to flag of the United States of America and to the repu for it stands one nation indivisible andice thank you that brings us to our next agenda item which is onc roll call we have Miss Mr Man online he's not feeling well but he is with us online so thank you for being with us um Miss Gibson McAn Miss SS myself Miss MB and Miss MC cheffrey and we want to welcome everyone to tonight's meeting and remind the audience to the request to address board cards must be completed and submitted to the board secretary if they wish to speak to an agenda item board policy provides for two cards White cards to be submitted in order to speak to an agenda item and blue cards to be submitted in order to speak during public comments due to open meeting law board members are not allowed to address items that are not on the agenda that brings us to approval of agenda I actually have a slight change so I move the governing board approve the or move 3D before 3A um for the agenda second all those in favor I I I sorry I was just trying to keep up with that District poetry contest winners yes so we're gonna do we just switched the agenda so we're gonna go ahead and start off our beautiful board meeting with the recognition of District poetry contest winners and for that I believe we're going to have Dr dupin thank you good evening Madam president members of the government board as you know one of kraton's longest standing Traditions is its poetry contest and this evening we're very proud to bring forward this year's award winners I'm going to invite forward Dr pombo Who will introduce our winners and invite them forward to share their original poems with us this evening I might repeat what you said a little bit so good evening president Kio doll and members of the governing board superintendent man and our executive team and honor of national poetry month we are proud to have student poets share their poems with you tonight each site held its own poetry contest with two categories novice and practitioner the top poems from each category were entered into the district contest and scored using poetry rubrics two District finalists from each category were selected in front of you are the copies of the 2024 kraton poetry anthology which includes the winning poems and honorable mentions our team judges included Dorothy Wrangle Jan wock Amber mlan and TAA Stanford and we're proud to announce the winners of our 2024 crean District poetry contest and share the poems tonight so I'd like to introduce um one of our coordinators Sarah Sarah Beth George and she's going to introduce the our winners tonight good evening so in the novice category so we will have our novice category winners read first and then our practitioner category winners will read theirs and I will read the poems for our students who are unable to attend tonight so we will start with Y from the Katon Academy for her poem [Applause] summertime spring birds chirping and sitting with with delight purple yellow white and blue flowers so bright rain passing with all it might insects passing with aite nature which is quite a sight green leaves grass and trees in the night which is quite all right and Mr carbajal is going to read her poem in Spanish and then you stand up acon [Applause] all right and our first place winner is leam manwal from builtmore Preparatory Academy is she was she able to make it okay all right so her poem is a dog named Millie there was a dog named Millie she was so silly she had a crown she also had a frown I think she likes to be silly all right and in the practitioner category second place is awarded to Valeria VOR from Kennedy at Linda for her [Applause] poem my mom immigrated to the United States she was 16 she's originally from chaning gero that is 1,629 .2 miles from Arizona she has been working her entire life raised herself and her six siblings she was forced to drop out of school she never lived the American dream my mother's dream was to attend a university attend Middle School I mean attend Medical School become a pediatrician she never wanted kids in reality none of this happened though she never finished high school or had her dream job dream job instead she had three kids and was forced into an exhausting marriage I have a lot of pressure on me I have to become something great be the first of my family to go to college my chest feels so heavy when I'm asked about my future what if I mess up my opportunity this opportunity what is the point of life if I cannot exceed if I nothing then her sacrifices were for nothing that means all her hard work will be pointless mom will you still love me if I'm not exceptional I'm her daughter an immigrant's daughter the only thing I will ever bleed is her tears and dreams Val in for [Applause] right first place was awarded to Isel iera for her poem unnamed as the leaves turn red all she wants to do is stay in bed while everyone is enjoying fall she just sits in her room staring at the wall while everyone gets seasonal treats from a cafe inside her apartment is where she would rather stay when everyone prepares for Halloween she'd rather wait until the leaves turn green everyone celebrates fall in Delight her personal demons she silently fights while everyone else's happiness outlasts she patiently waits for the flower to broom Bloom from the [Applause] grass thank you as you can see it was very hard to judge the poetry and it was amazing to read all their poetry so thank you again yeah thank you so much to everybody I'm gonna give the board an opportunity to give their comments and then after we're all done with our comments I am going to take a 10-minute recess real quick we have cookies if families want to take pictures whatever they want to do use this space as yours you're welcomed and um I'll go through the board reports and then we'll go into a quick 10-minute recess Miss MC cheffrey did you want to say something not board reports right no this is just no though poetry was one uh beautiful heartbreaking beautiful though um yeah same just I think the power of poetry is to move and Inspire emotion and you all have done that and it's beautiful so congratulations anything from you miss Gibson McLean um I just thanks for everybody coming out and thank you for sharing it's hard to do it in front of people or recite your poetry in front of people and I will say I do remember being something that's gone on the entire time I went to school here too so I feel like it's probably been happening for like 40 plus years so that's pretty exciting that we still carry this on every year so I'm glad to see it and same sment thank you for coming and um sharing your poem uh yours was very touching reminds me a lot of a lot of my students at my school and so thank you for sharing your story and I know your mom's very proud of you see it yeah thank you guys for taking the time and opportunity to be here sharing your most vulnerable awesome moments with us I know it's not an easy thing and your mom can be assured that you're not going to disappoint her you're already doing an amazing job at your age so you're already a leader so you're doing great thank you and then we can start our 10-minute recess thank you guys [Applause] said I don't think I have enough time don't get Qui we good okay one two three I love that dress when I saw the thought she was in talking about your skirt we like your skirt okay you look super slim if anybody can wear Stripes it's you well you can wear anything the baby sure I don't need toight [Music] one one of you and Mom okay all right you want to see actually taking care of a medical is it's not a side effect thing getting to a point where I'm starting to consider things because I can't me too to and I don't and honestly I have no interest our sign forar okay yeah let's get aide um p and it just went from there our B are the way our bodies are right I have no just and I don't have any other options and I don't have any other options but I'm e e e thank you all right our 10minute races is up we're going to go ahead and get started again that left us off on 3A which is governing board report and Miss MC cheffrey yeah um thank you so I know we have some public comments coming this evening and I just wanted to basically publicly apologize to this group of teachers that is here tonight and say thank you for coming tonight and for sharing a little bit about what you have been through with the hope that it doesn't happen again I know that you have all been through a lot and you've documented it You' followed policy you've followed up and followed up all to it seems to no avail and you have faced intimidation and retaliation which is what I had hoped would not happen um I'm disappointed and disgusted by what I've learned um and we wonder why we have a teacher retention problem um I want to be really clear that I believe this is the Legacy that is left by Donna Lewis this is a new era um I'm embarrassed to have my name associated with this toxic culture that I've learned about of intimidation and fear that exists on some of our campuses and the idea that some administrators will protect other administrators while leaving teachers and support staff out to dry is completely unacceptable last year we lost a large group of school psychologists and other staff and special ed who had similar complaints about intimidation retaliation and favoritism also uses of the r-word the nword used towards and around our kids homophobic slurs and bullying towards colleagues is complet completely unacceptable that is not who we are um it is disgusting and embarrassing to learn about and again I'm ashamed to have my name associated with instances like this that are going on I will say I had a difficult but very good conversation with Mr Man about this and I believe as we move forward we are on the same page and and believe that these things are unacceptable and I believe there's things coming into place that should help change this culture in lack of accountability um I think there's some misalignment with some of the professionals who we get advice from um and so I think some of these things are about to change but I just wanted to make an awareness that um there there's stuff it's just unbelievable that um people have had to work in these environments thank you Miss mcrey Miss MB um good evening um I know we're all in State Testing season and hopefully here into makeups um I want to give a big appreciation to all of the staff who help make testing go smoothly and all the teachers who have to stand and walk around and Proctor all day when I know that you'd rather be continuing working with your students so um I know it's a tough time to get through but I appreciate everybody's dedication and making sure that our kids have environments that will make them successful and I know you've all been working so hard with them all year um to get to this point and that's about all I have for tonight you miss SS sorry I'm still fighting this sickness but I finally went to the doctor today so hopefully we get it cleared up um I look forward to hearing about this problem that Miss MC cheffrey is talking about I have no clue what is going on with that right now so that'll be interesting um and I know it's testing season hopefully are almost done and I'm sure those of you that had to test today were really stressed out with um the internet being out because like that's just one thing that sets us off when we're teaching like when the internet's out uh it startes us out even when we're not teaching because we rely so heavily on um our technology um so I'm sure you guys had a difficult uh day to-day uh maneuvering around that um and thank you Jay for keeping us updated on that I appreciated that um so I hope that we're you're wrapping that up and uh getting that out of the way thank you Miss Gibson McAn um just to talk about the student conduct committee so um we've been working well I'm not really doing a whole lot other than answering questions but they've been working diligently um even at adding extra meetings um to try to meet our timeline however I'll just put that this out here to set the stage hopefully so that nobody's caught off guard that it's it's looking like you know um it's a big task right and so there might be a few policies that we don't get to and we were trying to emphasize or the committee is trying to emphasize quality over quantity and so I just want everyone to be prepared that there's a possibility that one of the recommendations could be that this committee continues its work into the next school year but there will be I think quite a few recommendations that will be made to the board and so over the next week or two we're going to be working on um the presentation to the community council and then also the presentation to the board and so I'm excited for everybody to see what we've been working on and we have a meeting next Tuesday we're always here if we're not at the board meeting we're here so come see us you can hang out next Tuesday thank you I'm gonna hold my board report until we go into our nsba conversation and our student outcomes focused governance framework conversation um that's going to bring us our to next agenda item which is 3B which is the superintendent report thank you madam president members of the board um I'm not gonna say a lot because I'm going to try to preserve voice but um I just wanted to give um the the internet issues came up and I just wanted to give a a shout out to everyone um in the organization who who worked so quickly to try to find work grounds and solutions and keep us moving forward today but I especially wanted to give a shout to Miss Shapiro uh Mr denal and his team and the uh Herculean efforts that they went to to try to you know soften the blow as much as they could and get the Solutions in place as quickly as they could you this was not something we could have foreseen it was it was due to an accident um on the street um while it wasn't extended outage um our our partner provider really did move very quickly uh and running again and I'm gonna leave it at oh actually one other thing I just wanted to say thank you again to those poetry uh contestants amazing poetry and I know we'll be talking about our student outcomes Focus governance work tonight and I just felt it was important to say that while we are focused on those um smart goal measurable outcomes because that's the format of the governance work um I do believe that things like our poetry contrast winners uh the output for our annual art show um our our band and choir festivals um all of those things are outputs it's more than just what we consider the Reading Writing and rithmetic it's also um these these excellent examples of quality in the Arts that are outcomes that are our students demonstrate so and with that I will uh wrap up my my report thank you thank you that brings us to our next agenda item which is 3C the nsba annual conference report myself Miss Aon and Mr Man were there um Miss SS if you want to go ahead and share your experience there then I can share mine and then whatever finishing touches superintendent man wants to do then he can do so all right sorry so uh the first thing I want to talk about is our main keynote speakers that we got um the privilege of hearing um Ruby Bridges was there the first day to talk to us and like it was amazing I I was like so excited um and it was really weird because when she first came out I was like wow she's not really that old and then she said oh I was born in 19 1954 which literally 69 cuz that would be the par my parents age my parents were both born in 54 so um it kind of blew my mind that she was like still so young and this hasn't been like super long ago um but it was such a privilege to like be able to like listen to her and then Jay and I later like met some other people uh later we were talking to him and like this this lady didn't even literally know who Ruby Bridges was and I was like astounded um and so I I don't know just history um but I want to talk about the key points that she made in one one key point that really resonated with me um because of course we talked about inequalities in education um especially with um children of color but at the end she said it doesn't matter what color we are because being a mean person comes from every race so she talks about being kind and that um The Real Enemy is like the people that are just truly mean people um and so I just really connected um with that um and then the second keynote um he talked a lot about dignity uh so it kind of went in the same same place and then um we got to the dignity index that U Miss MC cheffrey and Mr Man had brought to um the board from your other conference um and I picked up a ton of those cuz was like Hey there there's a bunch on the seat so I'll bring those for people that that don't have them because I thought it would just be nice to have them because I think they're quite lovely um so the Keyes were Keynotes were really great um a couple of the the workshops that I went to um that I really liked was the first one was engaging families through advocacy um so it focused on building Partnerships with families through um relationships and Trust um from from the board and then of course advocating um for our constituent especially our families on all levels um state and local levels so just talking about how we can get families involved um on a state and local level um and the other interesting one that I really liked was the education um with AI um it was actually done by the National Education Association a person from there and um it was fun because he talked about a lot about what AI is and what AI isn't so like AI isn't like people because we're like always scared that they're going to like take over our job someday like if we're teaching right and so they're like not like to replace people but they are great tools for example they personalize our students learning um they offer ways to differentiate for our students um and they build they can build language um with our students so those were um some of the highlights of the trip besides just being in New Orleans it was my first time and um it it was it was kind of like what people think it is like so yeah and it was kind of humid and I hate humidity so um so I like dry heat I'm a dry heat girl but it was fun I thought you said I hate Humanity humidity I do not hate Humanity humidity okay just for everybody to understand humidity definitely not Humanity thank you thank you for that um next time I'll make sure I go first you did a lot of my pointers but one of the overall um I I believe in the Synergy right with even the work that we're doing here at the district at a national level they were really talking and going back to that one common phrase that we've been using through this adoption is that student outcomes don't change until adult behaviors change and they really emphasized on how the adults in the institution can be the hindrance of even the growth or what a child is learning in the environment so even when um Ruby Bridget said that even Richard um our hot Cheeto guy um we call him our hot Cheeto master who created Hot Cheetos he kind of said the same thing in the environment and how I became from a janitor to becoming you know this creation but it really had to do with the networking the Rel ships and other people not you know putting up barriers in place just because he was the quote unquote janitor of that institution so it it there was just a lot of synergy in the rooms um what other Schoolboard members Nationwide not just here in Phoenix are doing to really start grasping and seeing what we can actually do for our students is gather the data that we have knowing what's working what's not working for them and going back to kind of what Miss mcsheffrey said is holding the individuals of the institutions that are being those barriers accountable it's as simple as that we suspend kids we give them referrals we do all these crazy things for our students and we can't hold the same standards for the adults in the room that just makes no sense and that starts with me as well right um that's inner work and this is why the framework that we're in not only focuses on the Academia part of it but it really is a mindset shift that I have the power to change that and depending on what behaviors I as a person am exhibiting either in my board role my parent role or my community role is going to directly impact the outcome that I have for my personal children or the students that I'm here to serve so it's always inspirational to go to these um conferences and learning and knowing that we're moving in the right direction and getting more um support on how we can move and move the needle forward especially with all the things we're dealing with right now in the state of Arizona vouchers there's so many things coming at all these different whirlwinds and we cannot lose our Focus which is our students and making sure that they are thriving and not just surviving in this institution um and with that I will leave it over to Mr Man thank you so much um you both captured a lot of a lot of you know what my experience was and I um really had two further comments sorry we're getting really bad feedback give me one second yeah okay try to talk now Mr Man one thing that I was very heartened by was the number of Arizona people that I ran into at the conference so it's amazing you know you're you're uh hundreds of miles away from home and you run into people that you never get to see when you're in town um but the reason that that was heartening to me is it shows that we have a lot of people working in our school systems who are focused on the students who are trying to make those adult Behavior changes and you know hopefully someday we'll have more support at the legislative level at oh can you hear me Jay I I can hear you okay we were getting the feedback again I'm so sorry we getting feedback I I think we should be okay go sorry it's okay I'll try to speak I'll try speak quickly um I was very heartened to see a lot of people from Arizona there because it shows there are a lot of adults who are trying to make shifts in their adult behaviors to support our students in our state and my hope is that someday we see our legislature and uh the leadership at our Department of Education as well to to support that work that's happening um we uh one of the other things that was very interesting um that was sort of outside of the conference and both of you shared a lot of the the conference things uh was we made a lot of contacts both at the conference and even outside of the con conference that may be helpful and so I'll just share a quick weird one uh Miss SS and I were in line in our hotel for something and she met a gentleman who was in town for an osteopathic doctor conference and um when he found out uh that we were from a school district we were able to connect with them it turns out he is the Doctor Who is updating all of the student energy standards for schools throughout the nation and so he's um been looking for where they may not have closed the loop on all of the information that they need to do their work and so we'll be connect ing them with our Child Nutrition and wellness team because apparently they have not had conversations with those folks over the years they've they've talked to superintendents and nurses but never to the folks who are actually Ser you know preparing and serving the meals in the cafeteria so I just you never know where that connection is going to come from and it was just a great opportunity to learn a lot and connect with a lot of people to bring more back for our district and our community thank you so much Mr Man all right that brings us to 4A which is the student outcomes for focused governance update discuss and consider goals and guardrails um before I get started into that conversation um I just wanted to read um something real quick from the book um given the closure of our site councils our cafos and getting the feedback from the community there's one very um popular um opinion or I would say um concern about the framework and it's that we're focusing a lot of our energy on testing and numbers right and they a lot of the parents in the community I've heard several from different locations talk about how we should be focusing more on the experiences that our children are having whether they're happy with the material or they're not happy with it right one of the things that this framework has helped us as governing board members is really definate and set apart what our governing board role on holding the institution accountable for what it's doing for our students versus all the other stuff which is like what curriculum is being used and all those things not that we lose our power or our voice on what's going in but it really sets us apart in make sure that we're setting goals to make sure that our students are you know being equipped to when we send them off to high school so one of the things that in the book that I found is kind of to get an explanation to that concern um AJ um States in his book great on their behalf he says students having a positive learning experience is a means not an end if schools ensure that children go on field trips and are happy about their schooling but the children don't actually learn anything that is not a victory that is malpractice a wonderful culture in climate isn't is an adult input not a student outcome it is necessary but it is insufficient and it's neither why school system exists nor why School boards exist so one of the things that I want us to start getting into knowing about this framework is that what the community wants and what's important to us whether it's teacher retention the morale culture that doesn't mean that doesn't coexist in what we're trying to do that's all um evaluated under the superintendent guard rails and we let him know this is the problems we're having in our district this is we're going to make it a guardrail for you to get to the bottom of it and it's not fixed and that's how our administrators are going to be held accountable to the system but for us we really as governing board members as the five elected ones here I'm not talking about teachers or any other administrators but us as setting the the policy of the institution and the goals of where our student accountable so instead of focusing us as five board members on the whirlwinds that occur um when it comes to the goals not the guards two separate things then that's where we really feel that we can start moving the needle forward for our students that our data has shown that we have not been meeting the needs of our kids it's out there we've discussed it and it's not acceptable so that was just one of the things that I wanted to bring up and hopefully has a little bit more clarification because this is on new I'm also learning I'm in a 9month um cohort learning along with my board members so it's it's a lot of work on us we're we're learning we're reading we're we're doing and and this is why we're going to be going out to the community every quarter and updating and if something needs to change with the teacher teers um help with their staff help and the communities and parents will make those changes but it's all for the students it's not for for me to be comfortable it's not for administrators to be comfortable it's time for us to get uncomfortable for the betterment of these students so with that being said um we did have some recommendations that came back from Administration on altering our goals so um um I want to know if anybody has any specific questions to Mr Man or to our administrators on the goal recommendations one I'm sorry just one second yeah share a little bit yeah go ahead um I mean I think when I was reading the revisions it was funny because then I went back to our initial notes when we were all pulling the data and brainstorming and honestly a lot of the revisions are a version of things that we started with because we started with like what 10 goals and we had to you know parse it down and um consolidate things I I really value the current goals we have however I know from feedback I've heard the written feedback we've received um I think there were uh valid points um with regards to the English Learners um and I actually feel better that we have one goal focus focused or measured by a zela rather than half of the goals um additionally I think you know if we look at the revisions we do have a little bit better spread of addressing um areas that we receive feedback on as far as specific grade levels special education um so I'm not opposed to the revisions I guess is my point um I think the original ones we had also have value but I do feel that these revisions encompass a great deal of what we heard um from academic feedback around the goals thank you Miss MB anybody have yeah um so as far as goal number two goes um I'm still pretty adamant about us keeping that goal as it is um the De Moines Public Schools in Iowa the district there adopted student outcomes focused governments and one of their goals in De MO in the de moin schools district is goal number two the percent of black male third grade students on track in Reading will increase from 35% to 72% by June 203 2023 as measured by fast which is their assessment also their third goal is the percentage of black male students completing Algebra 1 with a b or higher by the end of grade nine will increase from 17% to 35% by August 2023 now on their website they do a great job of explaining why why they are adopting race based goals why specify black males in two of the three goals they take it even a step further right black males the data tells us that this group has the lowest rates of achievement in the district it doesn't mean that black males are low Achievers but that's our system's performance in creating success for black males is critically low and it needs to be named and addressed it recognizes the Need For Change within the system to evolve into one that does not continue to marginalize various student populations this means that in a system operated by adults success will be driven through support and development of adult Behavior change doing things the same way and expecting different results has proven to be ineffective that resonates with me I I'm one of the proponents of this goal to begin with I think that we need to stick with it I don't shy away from these things and it's going to be a hard cell to change my mind on this and and I usually try to keep an open mind but this is something that I developed in my work in education and continues to be um reinforced in what I witness every with the school to prison Pipeline and we cannot we can't like shy away from identifying how we failed black kids in our district we just can't do it that's unacceptable we have to face it and we have to figure out how to fix it so I'm not okay with changing it to the new recommendation I think it needs to remain as it is thank you um Miss SS do you have any questions input concerns no I don't um but I do agree age um I do agree with you um I feel that that needs to stay um the same I think this is not just uh an issue that this District faces but across the state that we face um and I know that we're focusing on this District but I I do strongly agree um with this one as well and it completely the revision on here is for a completely different subgroup um it's not even the same um so yeah um thank you Miss MC cheffrey um so on that on that particular one um I totally agree with you Katie as well um I guess my only issue with it is I would love to have the time to Circle back with those kids who we heard feedback from and just out of respect to them you know um so um that's my only hang up on it really and I do think um three and four it does seem like it is a larger subset of kids and you know we did the when we worked on this originally we did get numbers on what these groups consisted of and I forgot to ask for this but I thought that would that would be probably helpful to know also like what size what are the different sizes yeah like how many kids are we affecting you know I like the idea of certainly you know it affecting more kids not that that's exactly the point of it but it's I just like that idea so thank you um yeah and one of the things that also with this framework is that I agree with um Miss Gibson McLean and um Miss SS on number two the point of this framework too is to do away with what we historically have been doing that has historically been failing not just 1 2 3 4 5 six years we're talking about data that we just started looking at at 2015 I can only imagine what before 2015 looks like right and part of this framework is to disrupt the normal things that have been going on like in Den Mo they say and in this book they go back and reiterate the same whirlwinds is not going to get us any anything different and my my concern is when we start getting larger groups I think think even though some goals are okay I don't want us to fall back into the habit of having way too many subgroups and then we just went back to square one where we're all over the place running around again and then we're spreading everybody too thin we're coming up with all these subgroups and now we have to take care of everybody and that kind of does away with what even the framework was supposed to be intended to it was really intended to focus and make sure that our most vulnerable students are being impacted and our resources eventually are going to have to line up to that there's a lot more to this framework than just accepting goals and hey look pretty we have goals party over no this is an ongoing quarterly monitoring going back to the community having budget talks that we probably haven't had in the past reigning resources and if we start getting into the whole field of doing too many goals with too many subgroups I think it's going to put us back in my personal opinion in the world that we're in right now I say the world warwind because that's what the book likes to call us that we get stuck with all these little things you know like the test and the curriculum and the vouchers and all these different things and then it puts us as governing board members in this Whirlwind where we're trying to accommodate um everybody and everything and our students are not learning and our students are the ones that are failing due to those worldwinds so um I personally would like to keep you know one and two as they are I don't know um I don't know how I feel about three and four just because it's putting us in that huge subgroup again so maybe um I need a second just to process and maybe I can ask a question on how because I understand how interim goals work and eventually we're going to have subgroups within these goals but I don't want us to be spread too thin either so um did I make a yes meeting with them but because of the State Testing that you know that was not possible um is is it possible to maybe just let us marinate on this a little bit longer um so that we can just check in with them and then also maybe we can find out what the actual get the numbers on to compare three and four the um current goal how many students that is and then how many students it is for the revision like I'd be curious just to know that with that requests being made of Miss MC cheffrey I would like to First how much time would it take from staff to actually come up I think those numbers will be easy to obtain within a couple of days at most Okay then if the board is okay with that I don't mind doing this one more time so we can get the last input especially since Dr dupin is saying that it's not a hard task for them to do so if you guys are okay with that we can do it move it to the next board meeting and have it there that way everybody kind of has a clear option as well too and if you guys have more feedback or anything that's okay too but I'm willing to move it um to the next board meeting well I was on on the zel one so on the original number three one of the things that was brought up um by multiple people I talked to which is a good point is if we're just looking our eighth grade El students it is a very small sample size and often there's a lot of other factors going on not just like language immersion or um language acquisition um and so you when you're looking at eighth grade eals sometimes it's kids that are just stuck in this system because the aola test quite frankly is often more difficult than even our state Ela tests um or there's undiagnosed or you know undetermined special education needs um or we have often Middle School Refugee students who come in and it's unrealistic to expect them to immediately pass that test a year um so I I know the like all that being said I just wanted to share some of the context of looking at altering the um elll goal that being said I think getting the numbers will help because I am a little wary about having half of the goals be such large groups um so I don't know I don't have the perfect answer maybe it's not all El students maybe it's a grade and I don't know and just um happy medium you know right and just some food for thought too with what you said is that part of this framework too is with the interim goals is that's going to be um superintendent man's job to figure out for example if he finds out that there is an issue because we have you know other students that don't speak the language or there might be something with this test that could be an intrum goal of him focusing and saying now I found what the actual problem is and now we're going to bring in resources to figure that out so sometimes when w with what you said yes I can see how that can be a concern because of all the out and barriers but this is what this these goals are supposed to bring up is all those added on barriers so our administrators are bringing us options on like hey this is what the real issue is and now we're going to have to divert from what we've been doing to now this and I think that's what the cause of all these goals is is that we get really to the root issues versus keep on buying new curricul curriculum and doing all these things and we're just adding adding adding and nothing is being done does that make sense yeah no it it definitely does I just think like initially we had an eighth grade and a third grade El right I think there's been a lot of feedback on keeping the like we want to address El we also there was a lot of feedback about addressing third grade language arts so I'm just trying to think I I don't know that I would out of any of these four be like feel really good about picking to as they are I think getting some more numbers and getting some more feedback from the students because I feel like there's an in between area here that we're not finding if that makes sense yeah president C you may I make a comment real quick absolutely I want to point out a key difference with within goal three the original goal was about proficiency which is the end Target the revision addresses Movement by one or two grade levels or not grade levels I'm sorry proficiency levels so the way aella works is it has four maybe five I forget proficiency bands so there's pre-emergent emergent basic and then proficient so the focus here was to move kids up levels so regardless of the direction the board chooses to go we can either use the the recommendation keep the original goal maybe a change the group or the grade level focus and even add movement between proficiency bands as interim targets because that movement is what will ultimately lead to proficiency so they really do go together and in to miss mb's point it's often it can be often very difficult to make that proficiency leap in one year but they do capture we are able often to capture a lot of growth within those proficiency bands and I think that's like there's a balance we want we need to set high expectations we need to set all the interim goals um so I just want to be clear that I absolutely don't want to like fluff the goals um I just also want to be realistic because we not just Katon every district has a tendency to put these as you were mentioning these huge groups and these huge lofty goals you know and we're never getting there and so there's you know it's finding the line there what what is realistic and we talked a lot about that when we were looking at the initial data and say you know looking at the percentage jumps but I think when you're looking at a zala specifically it's not realistic for a pre-emergent student to become proficient in a year that's not the way the entire um test is designed so I I do really appreciate that language regardless of what subgroup we pick I think addressing the increasing on one more levels on Aela makes way more sense than just the proficient I have a question about this one um the 25% is that like grades k through eight are you talking about goal three yeah the third one so we're still on the third one um yes that is increase looking at the aggregate through eight so right now we're saying that only 25% go of one or more levels that's in K8 okay um I might make just a suggest question um and something to think about is maybe we take like a grade level band and like continue to follow those students throughout um the years a cohort instead of just saying because what happens is then you're comparing apples to oranges because the group of kids we want to see if these kids are improving as a group as they're moving or are they staying the same instead of keeping testing the different kids every time so just something to think about and actually I believe Phoenix Elementary has one of their goals in a band like that I believe because I've heard them so I'll make sure I go back and watch their meetings but it might be helpful for our administrators to touch Bas over there too because I think they have something like that going on where it's on a band so that's that's actually pretty nifty thinking I like that yeah okay um yeah did you have a question concern coming had something else I was going to add but I didn't know what where you were moving next oh just dependent on what you were about to say um so any other questions or concerns or additional comments for the board goals um just while we're on this agenda item I did want to address the email that we got um because I talked to Dr Samson as well and we can do that right hildra since we're on sofg yes okay um we you can you can address J I'm sorry I don't mean to interrupt you just address generic topics don't address specifically what's being said if that makes sense okay so I mean I think there's just a general concern recently um uh feedback you know more feedback is the focus on the testing um and you know my kids are not on campus anymore so I'm not seeing this stuff but um Dr Samson you know said you know there's communication out there like be on time there's prizes If You're Not absent there's parties if you reach a certain growth um measurement you know and so the unattended um consequence of that is kids are getting left out maybe shamed maybe bullied over it you know it's a bullying opportunity um I this brings me back to when my daughter was in third and fourth grade these little kids like with a stomach ache that they're about to vomit every year with the testing you know and then when we move to a different school they don't talk about it at all like it can be done um so I think this was like I you know it just was a reminder for me that that's not what this is about we need to get away from scaring our kids about these tests it should be like any other Benchmark to them um and I know and it's just again it's a culture I think we have that's been going on for a very long time and my eye has got been off the ball on that but we don't want our kids feeling sick to their stomach and not wanting to come to school because it's test day I mean that we're having the opposite effect uh on what we want so I I I task Mr Man and Miss um I'm always afraid of pronouncing your name is wasc um on the communication like I think we should standardize it across the district and really we want kids to be present at their desk every day of school not just testing we want parents to have supports at home to help them with math and and reading every day not just testing week not until we're not waiting until April to do that we need it done all year long so if we can just kind of reinvent this communication strategy around the testing um that's mandatory or we are gonna be focusing too much on the test it's already happening so I think that's I appreciate Dr Samson bringing us that feedback because that wasn't really something I was aware of or even concerned about but it's it will definitely cause us problem um if we don't you know pay attention to that um that's what I was comment on so um as a student in this District 30 plus years ago I was faced with the same kind of pressure for Stanford Nines in Phoenix Union I was given incentive on incentive to come to the ases and take it every year it was ridiculous um and so I would hate to see that happen happen again and so when we started adopting these things I'm a skeptical person I don't buy into things I ask a lot of questions if people haven't noticed um and I was like what is all this who's this dude what are we paying for this what is going on here why are we focused on testing blah blah blah and then I we you know you got us this book and I was like all right I'll finally read this book so on uh I did appreciate when we got to chat and for people who haven't read the book yet admin please do chapter 10 understanding assessments I'll also add if you don't know this about me I have my bachelor's in education I worked in education for five years before I became a lawyer but um inappropriate use of standardized assessments an assessment of what our students know and are able to do is a valuable tool but tools that are not used as intended can do more harm than good and so it moves on to talk about how standardized assessments can never tell you a child's worth about how if students are assessed in what they do but nothing is done with that data that's an inappropriate use of standardized test and even more so it goes into the myth perpetuated by testing companies he calls out that you need to teach to the test and so I don't have to tell teachers that that's a myth um because that's preaching to the choir I don't want them to feel like they're being pressured by the border Administration and thinking that that's what needs to be done in order to achieve these goals because I know it's not and so we need to be creative we to think outside of the box yes these are the data points for measuring because this is the data that we have okay this is all we can measure how do we get there by doing things differently and so I don't I really am concerned if I'm hearing anything about incentives about pressuring students about kids stressed out parents none of that should be happening and this this one thing stuck with me what improves performance on standardized assessments when students are taught the assess material to a depth of knowledge that allows them to use the material in new ways there's no shortcuts and we already know what proficiency is we already know how to engage our kids and material we already know what that looks like when they are proficient in things um we just can't do it by teaching to the test because it's going to create all of these issues that we've already discussed and so I don't know if that looks like getting a specific guard rail but there's a couple guard rails that I think it could fall under but I just want to be absolutely clear that's what I mean by these guard rails so the superintendent will not cause or allow conditions practices or procedures that are inequitable or insufficient for students I think this squarely falls into that and we should not be doing that according to that guard reel and I think the very last one also the superintendent shall not allow adult convenience or preference to take priority over the academic progress of students like I mean obviously I'm not trying to get into any personal things but like admin at the district teacher coaches admin at schools your job is to figure out new ways to help our teachers have the tools they need to be able to do these things without teaching to the test and so we can't just fall back on the things we've always done because that's what we know how to do and so we got to figure this out without falling into this incentive and stressing everybody out so when I'm saying what I see these guardrails I'm not I'm expecting to hear none of this this time next year about incentives and to come to that point right this is why the super I mean the guardrail conversation is so important and maybe lack of my leadership that I haven't really been on the guardrail we've been so focused on the goals and making sure that we're listening to everybody but within the guard rail that's how we're going to hold this institution and our superintendent our administrators if our community which it's loud and clear our community does not want us incentivizing doesn't want us to bring this anxiety Then we put that in the guardrail it might have to do culture changes where nobody's promoting an incentive for testing and if that's what our community wants this framework says we're going to speak to and create guardrails and goals to the community and the vision of our to whatever the vision and the community needs and throughout everything I'm hearing not necessarily that they're against us doing this but they really want to make sure that what's going inside the everyday of the kids that it's not being emphasized and that's going to be something that we're going to have to hold um Mr C Mr Man accountable to once we get into these God rails and them intram is like what other things are you doing and come and prove to us that you're incentivizing with not not even incentivizing that you're doing different things and our kids are still empowering there you go different ways not show up and you get an ice cream on test day like yeah I can see how that is wrong but that takes away also that's Mr man's job to be like hey this is not what we want we heard from the community now you go and figure it out within your people and tell us how you're not going to do this so she that is a very valid point and I think when we bring back our guard rails we really need to revise our guard rails and make sure that that's emphasized in the guard rails that we do not want that climate because it it really goes back to the climate and culture of of the district and I just think it just needs to be communicated just very clearly and we kind of missed that in this so so I appreciate the feedback and that brings another Point too um Communications seems to be a very common discrepancy in our district and we can make that a guardrail too and making sure that that two-way communication I mean even in the staff feedback that we got when we did that Equity communication was at our lowest so if that's something that we as a district and a board needs to start focusing and making sure that that two-way communication is being processed to our community our parents even our teachers and staff members um there's some teachers that I know or staff members that have no idea what we're even doing and if we're trying to move the needle for our students how are we not all taking part in this in this together so that could be a guard rail too and that's a very good conversation to have this is why these guard rails get implemented and these interim guard rails to make sure that we're not just saying this is what it's going to look like in five years and from here until then we'll just sit here and talk about everything else but what we wanted to in these guard rails and goals so those are very valid points and I think once we bring it back I would love love to have you guys um us switch this bring what ideas we want for the god rails and talk about that when we bring it back for the board goals as well because those are very important issues that I continue hearing at different sites and I think we've different perspective absolutely as a teacher so I think until the state stops making everything punitive I feel like that's where it's coming from so we come from this state level where if your kids don't perform at the district level then it's punitive because you get a letter grade and then it continues to be punitive to the principles who aren't doing their job at their site because their teachers aren't doing their job and then the teachers aren't doing their job because they're in direct contact with their students and it's punitive so it continues to remain this punitive um system and until change it at the state level that's where the stress and the the this is coming from um we do the same thing at my school like you know please be here like every day I mean I try not to stress my kids out because you know my feelings about State Testing I've I've mentioned it a million times um and luckily I don't I don't feel as much stress as maybe some other people do but the punitive is where maybe we need need to think about like how are we being punitive certainly to the people that work here and the people that live in this community and our students so we can't continue to say um you can't do this to get your kids to do stuff if we're constantly wagging on them about getting an F score or a d score like you can't have it both ways it just doesn't work that way so we either need to be supportive of what our sites are do doing and what grade they get or we need to be punitive and demand more from them it just doesn't work both ways and so I I once again feel like I I don't rag on people for their scores um and what's going on but then also looking at this now we're talking about okay so these eighth grade students are going to score minimul proficient on aesa well we got to get into the school like we're focusing once again on test scores and I think a lot of that email was about test scores and I don't feel like we have any other way at the moment due to state regulations to do anything about other than grading off of a test score but I think what you're saying is important yes what is the difference is how we are framing that right and I think that at many districts the problem is is that they're chasing their damn tail all the time at the school board members and they're like oh no no and they're concerned with the things I know a couple of you are leaving hopefully you're coming back the two of us that are staying are sure as hell aren't scared of the Arizona Department of Education so I can tell you right now whatever we got to do to fix things for us is what we're going to do at least that's what I'm on because we're not here to be scaredy-cats of the Arizona Department of Education well I'm not either I mean I know but I'm saying so I think when we have our people's back is what's really going to make the difference rather than turning our back because the state's telling us we should and as far as I know none of our schools are about to get taken over or anything like that so I think I think we can do what you're saying by having the back of our people and I totally agree with it but I'm just saying once again it starts with us right like our behaviors have to change so everyone else's Behavior can change so we can't say you know your test scores blah blah blah blah blah and then not expect like our principles and our admin to like push as hard as we can to get these kids to score so they get an A grade and they feel good for that one year I think too just I Echo everything everyone said and um I think you know definitely increasing communication I think we've taken longer to get these pieces finalized because we really want to do it right and we really wanted to get everyone's feedback that being said also just so everyone's aware like it's not always going to be hammering out the language of all these test score-based goals like the idea of this is this is finalized by the end of the school year so that moving forward every time we have this on the agenda we're talking about all of those pieces that go in every single day for the 150 whatever days before State Testing right and all the magic that the teachers do and all of those inputs and and those will be the conversations um that you know and the directives that we're giving to Mr Man and the administration based on what we're seeing and what we're continuing to hear so I also like I agree with everything but I also just wanted to remind everyone like every sofg conversation is not going to be picking apart test score we need it for the measurement that is what we have we know we need to move our kids and and help them be successful and they leave our district that and this is a measurement we have that being said once we have these goals these guard rails finalized we start working on inter goals and we can have those really deep meaningful conversations about how do we best support the teachers to do what they know they need to do in the classroom every day starting on the first day of school yeah and one thing I want everybody to know just to wrap it up is that this is not about being right getting it right or being wrong this isn't about it being good or you did a bad thing this is really about getting to the bottom of what's working for our students what's not realigning resources to the most vulnerable who are not learning and our data again shows that we consistently and cron have failed their students to learn a lot of anything and sending them off to high school to basically not be successful so this is not really about good or bad right or wrong this is about figuring out what's working what's not how do we align our resources to that and in reality it's going to bring in who's ready to do the work and who's not and if that means that we have to ship a different sale with different people then that's fine everything happens for a reason there's seasons for everything but this is really going to align the priorities and everybody's priority I don't care what title you have or what you do in the institution is for these students whether you're gardening the grass or your signing checks or I'm signing off on staff payroll it doesn't matter we're here for the students if we have no students I have no board presidency and nobody has a job that's who we're here for and this is what this framework is going to help us get there is to align our resources and really get to the bottom of how we can have um our students be empowered and for them to grow into high school and do whatever they want to do whether that's College small business whatever it is that there it is we're here to empower the students at the end of the day um so do we have any other comments Mr Man is there anything that you would like to add I know you're feeling a little under the weather but it's all good to add anything or close off with anything yeah the only other thing I wanted to share is that um our uh extended executive team with Dr pombo and members of her team had the opportunity to work with our coach um the board's coach Dr Ramos uh not this past Tuesday but the Tuesday before and um he walked us through some mindset work which was very much aligned with many of the comments you've made president CUO about you know focusing on um the student and instead of the adult uh but also um really kind of focusing in on getting us ready for the development of those interim uh basically interim goals and the interims for the um uh guard rails and so um we are excited we stand ready to take the next steps and uh are very much aligned with everything the board has shared this evening so thank you thank you um all right so I will move this over to our next board meeting just to make sure that we have the feedback from our student Congress and that we have a little bit of that more information oh yeah and Miss Dr dupin sorry the clarifying question so I can make sure when we go back we're going back with the right frame of mind so if we take this the same document with the recommendations and we go in and you know put another column or put in a call call out for the numbers would that be is that going to meet your expectations so for example with Goal one the percentage of eth grade students that score minimally proficient in ASA will decrease from 73% so if we put what that 73% was in terms of the number of kids last year will that and we just repeat that for the goals and the considerations will that work did you want it for all goals or just three and four since it was a bigger umbrella yeah actually three and four four yeah and then um just maybe maybe not in the table under the table maybe some different variations on the revised goal three that might be able to pull in like if it was a grade band if we looked at a cohort I don't know options okay so we'll we'll modify this document to just include the numbers for goals three and four and then options for goal three that reflect ranges yeah in between just eth grade El's and everybody I I do really like the idea of the cohort especially if we're focusing on five years and increasing one or more levels that just makes more sense um a smart goal is only smart if you're really matching the words that you're saying that you're going to measure to the the valid group of kids that you are measuring and theel is such a anomaly in how it's you know with all the levels so all right thank you just wanted to make sure we were accurate thank you any other comments real quick yes I'm not just going to keep going on number two but one thing I did notice in our consent agenda tonight is a travel request for the California Association of black school Educators Institute and the C caby Institute is a three-day convening designed to Foster collaborative action among education professionals committed to advancing equity for black students this conference is a unique Gathering of board members districts superintendents admin officials teachers leaders and decision makers from across the nation and so I think that if we're going to be spending time and money on that resource we should definitely be keeping goal number two but I will just leave that as it is thank you okay hearing nothing further that moves us to our next agenda item which is public comments and I'm going to go ahead and get started with Megan Ros yes um just as a quick since I have couple public comments if you can just state your name and then each one of you will have three minutes go ahead thank you good evening mad president and my name is Megan Rios and I currently teach seventh grade ELA at Kennedy at Linda I've had the opportunity to work with an awesome group of students this year and have had the privilege of working for Dr briess and Mr Breezy I am beyond grateful and truly appreciate their leadership skills however despite my positive experience this year I will not be returning to the district next year I chose not to return because of my negative experiences with the school district's systems and policies or lack thereof last year I worked at a different campus in our district April 2023 myself with Miss corneli Mr Grant and Miss Pierce filed a claim uh with the district addressing concerns we had at a different campus many of which negatively impacted students and staff to this day that claim is still open we participated in a process with the HR department for five months in September of 2023 we submitted our additional resolutions after rejecting the findings from their investigation we never received communication from the district stating that they read these resolutions nor were we contacted to meet and discussed these resolutions we sent another follow-up email in October of 2023 and never received a response I know that this is not a unique situation I requesting that the school board do an internal investigation looking into kraton school district's HR department I would like the board to look into how claims have been handled and tracked for the last three to five years to ensure that there is documentation that these claims have been investigated closed and if warranted that these claims have counted toward an individual's Progressive discipline plan I would also like the board to review current HR procedures identify those that need to be restructured and ensure that this restructuring occurs a lot of things are very unclear the entire claims process who is eligible to leave their contract without being financially penalized and what the progressive discipline plan is for staff due to the time limit I will be submitting additional written comments further explaining our request I would like to thank you for your time and consideration this evening thank you next we have Margaret CNA hi everyone um president Kio school board members and superintendent man up in the cloud uh my name is Margaret Cerna and I'm the mother of uh Natalie Cerna Chavez who has been at builtmore Academy for the past five years kindergarten through fourth grade in addition to being a proud mama I'm also a school administrator in the Scottsdale Unified School District so I do love education uh many time parents and community members are moved to come to the board meeting with concerns Andor issues tonight I'm on a mission I am here to brag about builtmore Prep Academy my daughter's school I want to compliment the teachers the students staff and the administration we are open enrolled at this awesome school and plan to be there through 8th grade one of the many reasons that we love our school is because of the incredible academic and social emotional opportunities that have been provided for our Natalie I'm here to speak to this honorable board to thank you for the education my daughter is receiving and to reiterate my family's pride and support of the builtmore Preparatory Academy The Learning Community is led by an outstanding education leader that I invited here tonight Dr dilmar principal Dr dmar whose exceptional students and staff have earned the Arizona Department a label for Stu for student achievement next our school was awarded a distinguish Arizona Education Foundation A+ designation designation wow um in a time when parent choice is abundant in the state of Arizona we choose buil more Preparatory Academy for our daughter's education in February of this year as a fourth grader Natalie and I were fortunately given the opportunity to participate in the Ed morio Exchange program I cannot begin to express how this adventure helped my daughter grow with confidence kindness and knowledge the amount of planning organization and managing of sending 20 students and their parent was and is Monumental thank you kraton board members principal dear and teacher Melinda Hutchinson and Monique sto for their sponsor sponsorship and coordination of this once in a lifetime trip for our kids please don't ever stop sending the kids to her Moro please pass on my Kudos and accolades to the entire BPA staff for everything they do for these young tiger Scholars every single day and I'm getting emotional the best recruitment for Arizona public education comes from Word of Mouth mostly from happy and energized parents one to another I I give you my word I will continue to help Market our awesome school with positive praise and with many awesome stories of our school's accomplishments and success thank [Applause] you thank you um next we have Ryan Kemet uh Madame President on the board uh my name is Ryan kemt and I'm uh taking on some of the roles that Matt Jude has previously had with our uh pack and we're gred gladly and willingly going to be helping the board in any way we can to uh you know pass any legislation that the Board needs to move forward with any bond proposer voted on so just wanted to give our encouragement to the board to move forward and know that we support you and what you're doing thank you so much and next we have Matt jitt thank you president Kio uh members of the governing board uh superintendent man and members of the administration um I think you all know me but my name is Matt JWT um I was a governing board member like yourselves so I appreciate your late nights your hard work and the uh the books that you are reading and conferences you were going to to um help uh create a better future for all of our students um you will be hearing later tonight about uh possible Capital plan and possible Bond and uh I am the chair of yes kraton kids and have been this is my fourth cycle um you saw I have someone else who's a helper here because I'm trying to I keep saying every time that this is going to be my last time but I think it finally is so um but we are happy to get more and more community members um suzan schwager nitel continues as our Treasurer I think that you know she's interested in also moving on if you know anyone who's interested in filing Financial reports for campaign um send them our way but um we stand fully behind whatever you decide tonight and if you decide to go to the voters and ask for support on a bond we are here to support you in that and we will bring to the table the resources that a political action committee can do thank you very much thank you and Miss wattis I believe we have an online have a email I mean emailed yeah thank you let me start this because it's also three minutes this is from Miss Carrie Samson um dear kraton Elementary School District board members first thank you for your work and dedicating your time and service to the kraton community I know it's a lot in your leadership does not go unnoticed on your agenda tonight you are planning to discuss and possibly vote on the student outcome Focus governance framewor workk goals tonight I am concerned a few weeks ago I removed my son who was in third grade from the Craton Academy and the Craton Elementary School District I remained however a voting resident of this District part of this move of my son was because of bullying but the other part that solidified my decision was because of the overcrowded classes he was in and the hyperfocus on test prep of the latter for example in February the school instituted March Madness which required teachers to remove 20 minutes of social studies instruction each day in order to go over five test questions this lasted about six weeks there were also dozens of messages including details about incentives that can be dehumanizing for our children sent to parents concerning the need for their children to show up and do well on the test this had my son full of anxiety about the possible consequences of missing the test or doing poorly I had to continuously reiterate that he is more valuable than a test score and that he doesn't need to be concerned with his performance for an 8-year-old child to feel this anxious about testing is ridiculous how many children felt this and I bet parents whose children are in schools located in more affluent areas don't experience this if I could I would opt my kids out of testing but there are very few options without taking them out of school the entire time with these goals I am concerned that this hyperfocus on testing will only be intensif IED the framework you are about to vote on is focused on student outcomes that are solely standardized test scores this is extremely narrow my concern is that high stakes accountability testing is dangerous and is often not achievable and or unsustainable instead I would love to see the district adopt goals that include less narrow outcomes aside from test scores examples would be assessing students level of Engagement in learning their excitement about reading and math and science students feeling safe and happy at our schools families feeling increasingly satisfied with the level in which their children are valued in schools and the level in which they feel their children are learning Etc other goals include discipline outcomes I urge the district to identify outcomes aligned with AC academic research which lead to Student Learning including small class sizes culturally relevant curriculum Etc there are ways to measure these outcomes again I am not supportive of these test Focus goals and and I think all the board has a copy of this email thank you Miss [Music] wates okay with that moves to our next approval of consent which is our item six on the agenda can I pull one absolutely sorry you go ahead and you can go ahead and make the motion yeah um can uh I move to approve uh consent agenda items 6A through 6f 6A through what 6f F so you're pulling G yes okay one it's okay yeah not for bad reasons is there a second I'll second okay thank you for being here thank you all those in favor I apologize I I go ahead Miss MB um no I uh again not bad reasons um I pulled it because um I just wanted to make sure that there was space we have representative from not my kid here tonight so if there were any questions or comments from the board um I just wanted it's an amazing opportunity and partnership so I wanted to call it out because it was a little strange to me for it to just be consent I don't know if there's specific questions or if we want a little um I do not have any specific questions does anybody have any questions or comments I don't see any um so I'm thankful for the opportunity for this partnership and we can go ahead and move on to approve it yeah I've heard great things about the organization as well so I think it just I just want to emphasize that you know especially because we've been a lot of like test scores right um the these are those pieces that are those additional inputs that fall into those guardrails that make sure that our kids are emotionally safe and healthy and are able to get to the learning so it's just really important that we continue to expand Partnerships like this not to like single you out but is there anything you feel moved to share after listening to our conversation this evening you don't have to say anything I'm just making sure can you please make it right to the pum yeah come in yeah since you're here thank you well um thank you I'm Caitlyn I'm Caitlyn de I'm with not my kid I'm the grants and contracts manager and no I think after listening and hearing to everything that everyone has said I think what our mission is that my kid really aligns and can support with challenges that your school district and a lot of different school districts are experiencing at this time and really excited to extend a partnership where we can support resiliency help build life skills um healthy coping skills with the youth in cron School District thank you I appreciate you being here tonight okay all right I move we approve item uh consent agenda item 6G I all those in favor I perfect motion passes and that brings us to personnel which is item 8A and I will take that over to Mr Man or Dr Lauren yeah um I'm gonna go ahead and kick us off and then I'm gonna ask Dr dupin to help me out for a second and then yeah of course we'll go to Dr Lauren so um you know this this one's a little unusual so I wanted to just kind of point point to the fact that um it it is a restructure and it is based on a number of different things that actually date back to my time um as a candidate for superintendent uh the 90-day plan uh input and information from our governing board about a desire to evaluate some of our systems and so um we did bring in an outside consultant who did an evaluation um of our structures and systems um what what we're bringing before you is in alignment with the feedback that we received um and uh you know when you do a restructure like this it's a little bit different than when you're adding positions because one of the goals was uh to try to reduce administrative cost and reduce total number of administrative positions without losing capacity to continue to bring in the critical funding that we need to do the work that we do and so with that I'm going to ask Dr dup because I am not very eloquent tonight with um my voice failing me but I was hoping Dr dupin could maybe add a little bit more detail to that and then turn it over to Dr Lauren uh to bring forth the item thank you Mr Man thank you president kadu this reorganization that is before you for consideration this evening reflects a great deal of intentionality around um purpose and role alignment so there's there's probably a lot of different ways reorganization could be accomplished but when thinking about effective schools and our grants in particular the number one priority of those entitlement programs is to ensure that resources are directed much in alignment with our student outcomes focused governance conversations toward supports services that create greater opportunities and reduce gaps in achievement for students particularly our most marginalized that's the whole intent of of the grants fundamentally that are managed in effective School in addition to that and I believe it was you president C who talked about the importance of communication relative to engagement when you think about also the purpose of of of title one especially but all the entitlement grants the intention is to ensure that people who would otherwise be marginalized have a say so in the governance of their schools in the planning and the selection of those reports and services and in order to do that effective communication has to occur and it can't be communication that's one way from the school system to the families it has to be both ways and it needs to be in languages that are accessible to all involved and it takes quite a deal quite a quite a large amount of effort and planning and hard work to make that possible we have a wonderful Community engagement and Outreach department but that alone isn't enough to fully uh achieve the the intention of the grants that we that we have to provide services and supports to our kids so the rationale for this particular restructure which blends effective schools and Communications is to ensure that we are re streamlining our administrative roles in order to reduce costs meet our intentions of student outcomes focused governance and the entitlement programs that we oversee so that we can maximize our impact and it was felt that these this particular combination of roles was the best way to accomplish all of those objectives um of the variety of possibilities and we're fortunate that we have Personnel within the district at this time who although the learning curve will be steep um they won't be learning alone and they have the capacity to step into that um and do so with great effect do we have any questions or comments um the only comment that I have is that I'm thankful that Mr Man went around and administration did this um in my one in-one conversation with him we did have some hard conversations and obviously we have to do what's best for students and one of the biggest things that we continually see is that our Communications does need a more support it's impossible for one person to hold one job and be able to be everywhere at once especially with the Family Resource Center stuff that we're doing there's just so much stuff going on that our families and communities to be informed of that with this restructuring and how it was explained in the 101 I feel that not only is it aligned to what we're trying to get at with the framework but it also it's going to be a more of effective tool so this is part of making hard decisions um but I believe that it it is going to be one that that is going to be effective for the betterment of our students so um with that being said and having no other no comments did you need to add something oh yeah sorry I was already going and I'm like yes heard everything uh nothing much to add just to note that there are two separate items that are contained in this uh motion that Al that include the approval of the job description for the executive director of effective schools and Communications uh that role uh many of the aspects of the two current roles the director positions for Effective schools and the director for communications and marketing are combined uh we tried to really look at what those job responsibilities would be so that we could streamline those roles as well as have support from manager level positions and that's all outlined in that uh structural organization chart um we're looking as it says in the notes approximately for $54,000 saving over time uh that doesn't decrease the Staffing either that is the support staff because I think uh rightfully so in the conversations that we've had about the very important work that our grants team does as well as the need for effective communication is we really want to make sure that the structur are in place for us not only to be successful in our entitlement grants but in the future as we start to deal with declining enrollment or continue to deal with declining enrollment then how do we go out and look for competitive grants and how do we make sure that we have opportunities that that aren't missed or a ways to support if individual sites want to pursue grants or what that process would look like as well so we look at it as a way to expand capacity as well as kind of streamline that function uh so that job description is there uh Emily wck is being recommended as the executive director um her bio is there I think we all know Emily really well from our experience in the district um she's currently our director of communications and marketing and uh we bring her name forward is part of that restructuring thank you any comments okay I move the governing board approve the job description of executive director of effective schools and Communications and approve Emily wasik for the position effect of April 25th 2024 second all those in favor I I motion passes congratulations more work now yeah that brings us to our next item which is 10A so Madame President members of the board um I am going to not even Preamble this one I'm going to hand it over to the more than capable Miss Shapiro to uh walk you through the the bond resolution thank you used it all I'm trying not to do what I did last time which is help help help but um help help help did exactly what I was told to do this time I did do it I plugged it in can just click on the one you want put dirty okay thank you I used to do I do that at home yay only started doing that as an adult and I thought it was really clever I was like everyone probably thank you for your patience I had got that set up uh and put that there not uh president kuo board members superintendent man I am happy to bring an item for the board to consider discuss amend if desired and deemed advisable to adopt a resolution ordering and calling a special bond election um prior to uh bringing that item and asking the board to take action um I would like to present the recommendation of the fiscal stewardship committee and I have a quick presentation before we bring that resolution item forward so I did want to just very quickly um review in more of a simplified format What bond dollars are used for I know sometimes there's confusion uh this is money generated from a bond election it can only be spent on specific things like buildings grounds Furniture those Capital items and needs for a district um also Transportation Vehicles bonding authorization is good for 10 years districts use these funds as a loan so you want to make sure that these um items that we're purchasing these assets for our district have a lifespan longer than five years and um uh and and stay within that process and what Bond dollars are specifically for versus regular Capital dollars Bond dollars typically cannot be spend on salaries I wouldn't say never um but it's very um spe specified and what they can be used for is like if you had a construction project manager who is overseeing a bond construction project then some of those dollars could be used to pay for a potentially a salary these dollars cannot be used for districtwide uh salary support purposes in 2016 the district uh called and successfully passed at $85 million Bond over an eight-year period those Bond dollars have been used for campus rebuilds and construction the kraton academy the new brand new Kennedy School that's going on the Beautiful um new gymnasium at the builtmore newly remodeled Middle School Wing at the builtmore amphitheater Sports field Mont Vista districtwide um remodels um restroom remodels I know there's been a lot of conversations when those came forward uh to the board um enhanced learning spaces um there was an open roof for a Better Learning space at uh excellencia believe not I believe as um multiple purpose room remodels at gayway and excellencia we did replace 17 buses and then a very large portion of your needs when you talk about Bond dollars are those life cycle projects that are going to extend the asset so you want to make sure that you stay up and not let things you know drift away you want to make sure you have weather ration parking lot um resurfacing uh and so we did do those at a lot of our schools but I was really excited to see the high efficiency air conditioning units those are great uh definitely have a longer lifespan that's a smart purchase um we've been uh participating in district-wide energy and Water Conservation upgrades um again weatherization flooring this is just a small portion of the things that the bond dollars have been used for and uh very successful um Bond project but unfortunately those Bond dollars do not last forever and it is coming time to have discussions about how do we continue to keep our life cycle projects going how do we support the rebuilds and remodels of campuses that we do not receive dollars from the state to to support and maintain so the fiscal stewardship committee uh and repurposed for Capital planning they were able to review the planning and oversight recommendations for Bond and capital resources uh ensure that those were in alignment with the governing board Direction and superintendent goals um we did have some conversations regarding our student out comes Focus governance which kind of came almost you know parallel as we were um developing these Community or these I'm sorry committee meetings um and they wanted to make sure that they had an opportunity to review the bond options for potential future bond election and bring that recommendation to the governing board so that was their purpose the committee members um are listed here and um I think we ended up with four meetings dedicated to reviewing the materials um these were some of the items that were reviewed in the committee process those past 2016 Bond and capital planning documents obviously but some really insightful information um that we have shared with the board through updates were the facilities condition assessments the bill built more Loma Linda structural reports um life cycle expectations for facilities and then some of those um sfob life cycle requirements because what how long they think a building will last isn't necessarily how long the building will last uh so it's very important to make sure that we we know what those life cycle should be so we can plan ahead when something's going to last 50 years we need to make sure it lasts 50 years uh we also uh gathered staff input so these were just a few of the items um that we reviewed through that committee process in order to bring a recommendation to the board what was identified um through that process was that um the builtmore main campus Building is 70 years old the lifespan for a building is uh 46 to 60 years so we've already outp uh Pac that published lifespan from sfob lomalinda main campus Building is 75 years old and then we also have many campus buildings around the district that need remodeling or structural repair um um our life cycle projects are those ongoing projects as we said weatherization HVAC Roofing playgrounds we need to continue to maintain our bus fleet so that we have safe operating vehicles for our students the district has um gone forward with an energy savings project that the board approved through vary uh that's a part of these Bond dollars the Safety and Security project which is bringing the safety um up to a districtwide standard at all of our campuses so that we have a minimum standard to meet for that and just grow from there and then uh any technology upgrades would be included in these Bond dollars we have a big focus on cyber security so the recommendation coming before the board is the fiscal stewardship committee brings a recommendation to the kraton governing board to approve the call for a bond election providing the necessary funding to address ongoing needs for General and itive maintenance on all buildings replacement of major systems that have failed become unsafe or outlive their use of lives with more energy efficient models construction or renovation of school buildings to include the replacement of dilapidated structures districtwide Safety and Security improvements and upgrades improvements to school grounds Furniture technology and equipment to replace or supplement worn out unsafe or outdated items replacement of our oldest student transportation vehicles and an energy saving solar and and shading project the committee supports a bond that saves taxpayers money over the life of the bond and allows flexibility with shorter lifespan projects such as the Safety and Security project this recommendation supports a 10cent increase in the bond tax rate the prior 2016 Bond supported a 35 Cent increase in bond tax rate and with that I believe I pass it over to is it a roll call oh I need questions yeah any questions comments concerns the only thing I found is in the um is uh the sample ballot has a random question mark those draft items as we build the after there's just some random typos everything else looks amazing items will be uh gone through with our bond Council and um the experts and so some of that information is uh put in there after uh the board calls for the election so if we if we're looking at this amount um we do have Representatives here for any questions also okay thank you because I know last time we talked about it um only Built more was uh discussed as far as Renovations um or re builds and now I see Lolinda on here as well which I'm happy to see because when we did this last time it was between lck and lalinda um so is the looking at all of the documents and everything the committee feel that both of those sites then could be addressed yes with this fond okay any other questions comments um you know I'm not a math person so the 10 C increase in the bond tax rate is that an on top of the 35% the 35 C increase from 2016 starting over starting over Okay cool so this is kind of like a home equity line of credit on the district level like we're assessing our values they're giving us some money we're using it to make improvements I'm trying to make this as simple as possible for people to understand I agree yeah okay I think it just Megan has good information with all of the bond tax rate and all that right yeah it is taking a loan out uh through the sales of bonds and as we're talking about keeping it simple and are the bonds based on your assessed values or no yes yeah okay that's why I was like okay this kind of just feels like when you're improving your house okay yeah Madam president and members of the board um executive staff uh thanks for being letting us be here tonight I'm happy to answer any questions but yeah a bond I mean it's similarly I guess it's not how I would put it but I get what I get how you're equating it but yeah your bond tax rate is already in place so you have existing Bonds in place that have been sold and when they sell it's like your mortgage your home mortgage like your principal and interest payments are locked in um and so those repayments stay the same unless you were to refinance your home mortgage so those rates and um those dollar amounts are already locked in and based on your current assessed value and what the existing bonds are you have a tax rate of a126 on your bonds and so what we're proposing to do is or what we're discussing um is Raising that future tax rate up to A1 36 to help support um getting the district $85 million for these projects over the life of six to eight years thank you thank you the plan also saves taxpayers over the lifespan of the bond approximately 3 million dollar okay cool yeah yeah because we're increasing the rate or potentially increasing the rate you sell the bonds you advertise the bonds quicker and therefore you have a lower interest rate or sorry a low lower interest cost um saving you know what you have to pay back in debt service and um residents will not really notice a huge change because we've had this bond in place for 10 years right and I know there is some good news in the neighborhood too because we have that Big Data Center being built and that's going to contribute a little bit more um to the district tax burden for residents so the the burden on residents will be a little bit less less correct y thank you for coming and sitting through our meeting for back here TI thank you you we'll just have Megan come every time sure for her thank you Megan any other questions or comments I don't have any either I think we did a pretty good job at the study sessions we've had a couple meetings I think we've asked a right questions and um I think we're ready to move forward so with that being said um I I move the governing board approve the job oops wrong one I already did that I move the governing board approved the resolution calling for a board a bond election in November of 2024 second all those in favor I I I does it have to be roll call do we need a roll call no okay I I I I motion passes thank you and I look forward to all the work in collaboration thank you all right and our next agenda item is the budget information update I am set up and ready to [Laughter] go so um we're heading into budget Revis revision season which is in May we'll be bringing that uh to a board meeting I believe May 7th uh for the the budget revision for our current uh 23 24 District budget um so coming in new to the process I am picking up what things have already been in place and bringing some information to add to our process but there were some changes that have been um happening and we started seeing them in the new AFR requirements so we saw this last year so you'll remember when we brought the AFR we were like oh my gosh they changed the forms they didn't give us notice there were a lot of items on there that um there was a lot of confusion on many District's Parts on on what Our obligation was um they actually told us after the the deadline to post our AFR that some of those items were optional um but the consensus out there and the information that we're getting is that these are optional items right now but they're heading toward required so we're anticipating some of this may be required in our next AFR and it's regarding fund balance management and fund balance balance reserves so um you know just some things to be keeping in mind as we go through a a budget development and um and some of those considerations that I'm looking at as I'm building the budget scenarios and the different options that may be available to us to do the things um that that the board and the District administration is focused on so I wanted to couple cover a couple areas um those new AFR requirements some budget scenarios and start talking about maybe some trigger language option excuse me options um I know that there uh is interest in our budget balance carry forward process and our fund balance reserves which we will need to uh develop and then future budget development considerations and then just you know kind of tying that back the way that we manage those uh budgets do have um some reflection in our bond credit rating and how well we do when we sell those bonds so just trying to tie it all together there so tonight's informational piece um is in the hopes that over some time as we go through I'll give you some information and what to expect in the May revision but then also be working towards uh per chance developing a governing board policy that helps to direct the budget development process so that it's very clear and transparent so those new um AFR requirements this was the section it's uh asked about a lot of different funds that we don't typically report out anything other than uh beginning fund balance revenues that came in expenditures that went out ending fund balance um this section was required uh there was no notification and we didn't necessarily have a plan or a process to answer the questions that were being asked of us um because it isn't something that one person like a budget Creator could answer these are things that need to be developed through our budget process um the optional questions were talking about and it's very tiny but it's like what is your fund balance Reserve process or policy there are districts that do have um some of these pieces already written into policy so this was optional in FY 2223 may be required 2324 we're still waiting to find out um the intent stated intent is to create a more transparent fund balance management process but there is some concerns with how um when we talk about information not necessarily being used with the intent that's put out there um there are some concerns with how this information may be used uh in a state that maybe doesn't have as much support to public education as others um so that's kind of what is triggering some of these conversations and the future information that I'll be bringing to the board is trying to develop what does that process look like in kraton and working with the board and our stakeholders to develop something that again is very transparent so as a part of that it's having those conversations of what happens with the budget how is it planned um what do you do with extra funding there have been Mo many budget years after we've planned the budget which I'm doing right now because as soon as we get that budget revision done for this year I need to bring a budget to the next year before we've even closed out this year before I even know where we're kind of sitting in the budget World um I have to produce a budget an adopt or proposed budget for the board to adopt so um after we've adopted that and let's say it's halfway through the year and the legislator legislation brings some additional revenues we don't really have a policy or a process in place to discuss what we would do with those additional revenues right now those just kind of go into the budget and they become a part of the budget balance carry forward so I've had some experience with developing language that kind of tells me as the budget Creator um when we do get extra funding where do we want to prioritize that where should that go and and when should it go it's not just that it's a couple extra dollars it needs to be enough dollars to make some difference uh so during that budget revision process we have a December revision um that's when we have some opportunities to say and develop some options with maybe our meet and confer team that talks about contingency language and these are all just options and ideas that we'll throw out there as we develop this budget process over time um so we could say something that if that extra funding is in excess of a percentage of this amount of this particular information piece it would trigger for an example a 1% onetime payment to all staff you know there are things that we can do to take make sure that those dollars go to where the priorities are um if it's not in some contingency language it could be assigned to a budget committee like the fiscal stewardship committee um or we could take recommendations back to meet and confer there's a lot of places we can go to determine as a group what are we going to do with these additional dollars that were not in the original budget process the other option is leave that in um in the budget and it rolls for with our budget balance carry forward um in December the board will receive a letter from the state that says that our budget is in excess of 1% higher than the adopted figure then we have to do a budget revision if our budget is not in excess of 1% meaning that we really were on Target and uh we projected our numbers very well for student enrollment very difficult and a declining enrollment situation um then we don't have to do a budget revision I'll remind the board this year we did not have to do a budget revision because uh prior budget Builders um Mr Man and Dena our Director of Finance did an excellent job putting together a budget that was spoton um I don't know that I've ever not gotten the letter so thought that was pretty uh fantastic um and so before the December revision you have some options and opportunity uh that we could develop some trigger language after December um it's just it's really too late so by the time we have to do our final May revisions if numbers have changed if our student um enrollment is recalculated not at the level that we thought it would be or other factors that can affect your budget by made it's it's just too late for any kind of trigger language what we would do is just roll that into the budget balance carry forward so this is the letter um it's published after October 1st it's addressed to the governing board um again it's if you exceed that 1% of the calculated budget bug limits and they require you to do a budget revision um it's the time for us to make some decisions budget balance carry forward that's um so our memo budget is determined by some our student counts our enrollment and some Transportation miles and that creates the formula that creates the dollars that come into our m&o budget um our budget is increased with a 15% M override uh passed in 2022 by our voters those overrides are for seven years with onethird reduction to each um in years six and seven it goes down by a third we will need to renew by year five to prevent that onethird reduction so when you're looking at a budget uh building process it's just always good to keep in mind that those override dollars are not a for certained um amount you don't always necessarily pass those overrides um but in this case we've got a few years to uh not have to worry about going out for another election or trying to pass another override so that is built into the budget process the budget balance carry forward is the amount of unspent budget and any prior budget balance carry forward so if you have a budget of $32 million and then you have some override dollars of let's say eight million and so you have A40 million budget if we spend 38 million 2 million is unspent out of the budget that would create a budget balance carry forward that then gets to come into the next year um this calculation if you're interested when I bring um some of these budget items to the board that's on page seven of the budget is where you can kind of see the details of that moving forward budget balance carry for is onetime monies so when you move that that two million once you spend it it's gone it's doesn't keep moving forward they're one-time dollars so creating policies and practices regarding these fund balance reserves are going to create also a positive credit rating outcome for debt issuance and that's where I was saying if we have good fund balance Reserve policies or procedures it really um helps us when it comes time to assign a rating to us from standard and poor or Moody's before we go out to sell bonds they want to see that you're managing your reserves properly uh and so I would want to make sure that the very least we're at the same reserves or level of reserves that we were um I believe we had a good like an AA rating at our last Bond sale so um we'd want to at least maintain that level of fund balance uh to ensure a good credit rating uh this is Page seven of the budget very tiny but um this is where all these numbers come to play and then you can see um on this s page there first page budget balance carry forward from the prior year there's the 8.6 million so this is a very busy sheet and I think it's the maybe one of the top three slides in this presentation for information um budget balance carry forward I've heard a lot of different things in the district I don't know if there's a lot of understanding how it works um but uh the things that affect budget balance carry forward so we did as we've spoken to the board in the past have a a very intent intenal process that we um accumulated some budget balance carry forward with the purpose of ensuring that we maximized our M dollars during the time period that we had Esser dollars um and then also um held those in reserve for when those items that were being covered with those additional monies move back into the M budget so it was a a process it was developed it was discussed through meet and confer um and I walked into a very good situation where we did have that budget balance carry forward um accumulated to handle very specific things coming back into our budget after Esser funds are sunsetting um so the items that can affect the total amount of budget BS Carri forward are going to be those uh recaptured M cost as Sr money Sunset one-time payments to our prepaid health insurance it's very important that we have a focus there so that we can maintain that District coverage levels if you uh don't put a focus there then what you will see is an increasing cost to our staff um as healthc care costs increase so as much as possible you want to navigate that with some interest earnings and that prepaid health insurance allows us to navigate that area um obviously we always have a focus on classroom dollars but in these future budgets I also have a focus on sofg driven expenditures so I think it's very important that we start talking and and about what do those dollars look like how much are we holding in reserve what you know how do we determine how those are directly supporting sofg goals those conversations need to happen so a very common way of uh managing fund balance and creating policies and practice is to create percentages of various elements um budget balance carry forward used to be restricted by the state to only to no more than 4% um there was a big push back from school districts that we they were constantly not able to perform in manage um emergencies or um the flexibility for those unseen needs we would have never gotten through covid with a 4% budget balance carry forward in fact I don't think most people can get through just the regular stuff non-co with a 4% um so it was eliminated in 2016 so where I found sustainable budget balance carry forward percentages fall looking through other districts and other District policies other District practi IES um kind of just finding that commonality it falls anywhere between 15% to 30% and that was before covid um as we talked about we had an intentional increase to budget balance co uh carry for during the four years of Esser funding so ours ended up this year currently at 22.7 one% that was that $8.6 million that you saw that was used to build this year's budget I won't know our budget balance carry forward into the next budget until we're done spending in this year that plan when I gave you this sheet you'll see that I had a budget balance carry forward Target spend down so that spend down was a 5% spend down of that se um that 22% to get us to the 17.71% for this year's budget which brings us to the 6.6 million which left $2 million to take to meet and confer and um I felt very confident in that number um those are for ongoing non onetime this these are not one-time expenditures that we took to meet and confer so what that means is that we're bringing those dollars at $2 million back into our budget that we haven't been spending so if our budget was 40 million let's just say we we spend 36 million we're going to bring 2 million back into our budget and go up to 38 million for our annual expenditures it's not that cut and dry and it's not that black and white I just want to say that it's not simple but it kind of is simple you know it is math um so that's how the $2 million came to be to take to meet and confer because that brings us to a 17.71% of budget balance carry forward this doesn't include how much will the complete amount that will be reduced uh as Esser funding sunsets um so we do know that we have those existing expenditures that have to come back in that was built into our budget also um what I'm recommending is creating a percentage phase down as we go through the Sesser sun setting to where we reduce the amount of budget balance carry forward down to something that I feel will be sustainable and provides good fiscal uh budgetary health for the district allows us to deal with unforeseen emergencies um right now we're dealing with the fact that our title dollars are being cut in we don't know where that's going to end up so when you have necessary um programs and Staffing and then they cut it what does a district do if you don't have additional dollars to support those programs and processes so um you know you always have to have some flexibility built in there I'm putting one option out there is that we move to a 20 to 30% um budget balance carry forward and that is of our Revenue control limit that's what tells us how much dollars we can bring in in a budget um so what I'm recommending for 2425 is a 20 to 30% I think that we're going to end up on the low end of that when we get done with this um fiscal year uh I believe we'll be right around the 20% um and that gives us next year to finalize Esser sunsetting so it gives us a little bit of cushion that was built over time specifically for that purpose and then I'm looking to move us to a 25 to TW and 25 26 to maybe a 15 to 20% and then in 26 uh 27 and ongoing a 12 to a 15% um percentage of budget balance carry forward that then puts us right in the bucket of not being saving or intentional about saving up those dollars for a specific purpose it just puts us in the operating ongoing of a budget management policy or process um obviously all of this is kind of up for conversation as we go through a budget development process but I just wanted to kind of get on paper something that I thought was sustainable that made sense that was in alignment with what other districts do and to express that I I've been in plenty of districts that did not have a policy I feel that our future is going to need one and before someone tries to put one want on us I think we should develop our own something that works for kraton something that works for supporting the initiatives that we're looking forward in the future to do and that's what these percentages will do um as we were talking about that budget development I just want to let you know I'm going to bring that final revision on May 15 we need to bring our Pro proposed and um have a adopted Budget prior to June 15th all of these are statutory processes these dates are um legal dates that we have to meet um and then again as we mentioned we have uh September and December potential revision um opportunities all of these uh requirements are audited by our Auditors did you get your budget approved by this date so it's you know just don't have it the time when we have to build budgets I've already gone over this a couple times uh with the board and

e e testing one two 3 testing one two 3 test e e good evening I would like to call this meeting to order for Creek mon 2011 you Committee of the whole meeting today is Tuesday April the 16 2024 6:30 p.m.

Juliana you Le in the pl please to the of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation God indivisible and justice for all and uh for the record I called me to order at uh first item on the first item on the agenda is the chair's corner I'm the vice chair L Daniels is the chair he very much regrets not being here tonight he's in route on a plane right now he's going to zoom in but he can't do that so but he sends his regards to everyone who was here for sure uh but uh just some information I'd like to share with the board members and with here uh as you may know uh we have lost our newest board member Carlin Fox uh we followed the town Charter in replacing Ryan O'Donnell who was a Republican and was who resigned a few months back the town Charter says that when a vacancy occurs anyone from the same party or any unaffiliated voter May apply we posted the vacancy had a half dozen applicants all of whom were either Republicans or unaffiliated on April 1st and we appointed Carlin Fox for the job uh on April 1st the Republican Town chair Mr Tom lley filed a concern with the town that while the charter says what I just described state law indicates that when one party has a maximum majority in this case that would be six a vacancy in the minority must be filled by a member of the party not an unaffiliated member we received legal input from both the town attorney and our board attorney who did confirm this as a result M Fox's appointment was declared null and boy if a vacancy is unfilled after 45 days the board of selectman fills that opening it's been more than 45 days so that uh action goes to the board of Select I do need to say that we acted in good faith we acted in line with the town Charter we followed the rules uh exactly as spelled out in the charter turned out that the charter was was inaccurate in that regard uh Miss Fox was a valuable board member had great potential she exemplified the dedication and commitment that our town values a you will be missed and to board members if you have any questions I would ask you to save those and directly to uh to Mr Daniels thank you uh at this point Dr Gman we have an important uh announcement to make super so tonight I'll be recommending to the Board of Education the principal of Cherrybrook Primary School just some history on this search process and it's great to see so many people here this evening when I was hired as the superintendent of schools last January I was formed informed by the Board of Education chair in I believe June that one of the first things that I would have to do is hire the Cherry Brook primary School principal there's not a more important job for superintendent of schools than to recommend to the Board of Education a principal for a school district there's not a more important job in this school district than recommending the primary school principal ship for the purpose that is the first entrance for some of our Learners at the age of three in their start of the can Public Schools and specifically their schooling with them starting at preschool so I took that responsibility very seriously we immediately formed a committee last spring of 17 members I I asked uh Mr Bishop Mrs Corto and M McLean to lead that committee and that committee also did a survey that was sent out to staff in the community at large and we got a very good response right back and I was able to receive and read all of those survey responses and really got a good understanding of where Cherry Brook primary school was at that time I asked the committee through the chairs to bring me three candidates that they would support to be their next principal at Cherry Brook primary school this was last June and I proceeded with a small group of people to interview three candidates in June and really got to know our three candidates and any of those three candidates could have done the job but as I mentioned the most important thing at that time was me really understanding what Cherry Brook was at that time and where Cherry Brook could be and and the The best scenario that I came up with and that I communicated to the the public the staff and I had a meeting with them in July probably my first day on the job in July I called a staff meeting virtually and informed the the committee that I really needed to get into Cherry Brook's school and really understand where Cherry Brook was at as a school and the best way that I felt that I could really Analyze That was not to appoint a permanent principal at that time but was to appoint an interm principal at that time and Mr Amry was leading the school at that time as the interm principal and I heard many wonderful things about Mr Amry and he was one of the three finalists that came to me from the committee so Mr Amry went through a very rigorous process with a committee of 17 and then a very rigorous process with a small group and then a one-on-one interview with me in a in a very rigorous process and at the end I decided that I was going to name him the interm principal at Cherrybrook Primary School what that enabled me to do as I put in my letter to the community it really allowed me as the new superintendent of schools remove that I was here 4 years ago a lot of things change when you leave a district four years and a school changed in four years I wouldn't expect a district to be in the same place when I left and I certainly would not expect a school to be in the same place so I was committed to being very visible at Cherrybrook primary school and committed to be talking to many individuals openly and honestly and candidly about the search for the next principal at Cher Brook primary school I averaged at least once to twice a week going into Cher Brook primary school without them knowing that I was even in the building I would go in for five minutes and I would go talk to a a student I would go talk to a staff member how's it going and then I would leave I would show up for events at the school to see how the culture and climate went I met with parents I met with PTO Representatives I met with Union Representatives I met with non-certified representatives and their Union leadership and I even met with the the leadership overall of the teacher Union leadership not only within the school but within the the the district leadership I met with custodial uh staff and I also met with the the secretarial staff so I spent a lot of time at sherbrook primary school during my first six to seven months at in and back with the can Public Schools but the day that really hit me hard was the day that I walked into Cher Brook Primary School right before our holiday break in December that day has the potential to be a day that some people would say don't send your children to school that day because they may not be doing anything that is not true within the can public schools and that definitely was not true the day that I went to Cher Brook primary school that they had a winter singalong that day and the culture and climate that I saw at sherbrook primary school that day really led me to the decision which I'm going to be recommending tonight I saw smiling faces on children which number one is the most important thing in children having fun with what they're doing I saw number two the second most important thing to me is staff members enjoying where they were at that moment of time and really celebrating whether they were celebrating that they were going to be on a long break or celebrating with one another the happiness and the joy that is going on within that school what I can tell you is that Mr Amry has dedicated himself to bring the culture and climate at Cherrybrook school to a very very high level at that school right now and to me if you don't have a good school climate you're not going to learn you're not going to learn and staff are not going to be able to teach and that day the climate at that school was unbelievably high and I saw children smiling I saw a principal when a principal got up the day before vacation and just put his hand up in the in the air and asked boys and girls to settle down literally you can hear silence very difficult to do with three-year-olds all the way up to seven and 8year olds take away the staff very difficult to get a staff also to a align but then I saw staff align with Mr Amry when Mr Amry raised his hands I saw staff raise their hands and then I immediately we saw children just actively engaged in what was going on at that assembly that day that is just one example of the wonderful things that I've seen going on at Cher Brook School besides the hard academic work that has been going on I heard from one teacher that was so impressed that when Mr Amry and I showed it to the rest of the administrative team and and they kind of looked at them themselves and said well I guess we just had to raise our bar presented to the staff a 37 page slideshow presentation that had all data and student achievement for the past three or four years in there and how students have performed and they were the staff was like this was one of the first times that they've seen the the data analysis like this and I said to Mr hry when I found out about it when somebody sent it to me I said well who did this and when did they have time to do this and he says well I did this I said well when did you have time do this he didn't answer that question but what I can tell you is that this is a man that will put student needs before his own will put staff needs before his own he's charismatic he's dedicated he cares about children but he also cares about his staff so to the C Board of Education I feel that I've done my homework I'm I'm a very tough cell when it comes to a principal I know that it's one of the most important jobs that I have as a superintendent to fill a principal seat I've done it before and it gives me great pleasure this evening to recommend to you to be the next principal of Cher Brook Primary School Mr Abe Amry [Applause] thank you Dr Gman for that that terrific introduction with Mr Amry and for all of the uh important work you put in into making that decision at this time I would ask a board member to move move that the C Board of Education appoint Mr a Amry as the principal of terb primary school effective Tuesday April 17th 2024 Felicia and Kim second uh before we vote on the motion uh any on the board wish to say anything just like to congratulate Mr I think that um he Testament to him you look online tons of Staff here I think online supporting you and in the audience and I think that um all can be more your so congratulations to your family and chry school well I'll I'll comment on on behalf of the board uh that we are delighted to have this motion before us uh this evening uh we not to the degree Dr grman has but we've seen the good work uh that you've done we've heard about the good that done from the community uh that you you succeeded in a difficult job as an emergency filling principal sry Brook uh you've proven yourself as an instructional leader you've proven yourself as an excellent Communicator with staff and parents uh We've enjoed your weekly newsletters found them informative and entertaining at the same time uh we heard about the calls you made to every home uh of incoming kindergarteners over the summer we had the opportunity to hear directly from you we visited your school uh a month or so a couple months back the chance to tour of the school for a couple of hours had some time with the curriculum committee uh for a morning not too long ago uh that we have concluded as Dr Gman has beyond the doubt you're the right person for the job uh as principal of cherryb primary school and we congratulate you and and thank you uh I'll call the question uh all those in favor say I raise your hand oppos it's unanimous and congratulations thank [Applause] you I'm GNA try not to get emotional here as my staff knows um words can't describe um the appreciation and how humbled I am by this um opportunity um there's so many people I need to thank um obviously you know Mr shler Mr Daniels the Board of Education Dr Gman Mr Bishop my administrative colleagues um obviously my amazing staff cuz I tell them all the time it's we it's we're te we're a teammate it's a it's a village that that makes a village strong um and then obviously um my parents surprised me driving up from Pennsylvania this morning which was really nice and um my my wife my children who who've um kind of sacrificed for good things but have been ultimately flexible over the past year and um embraced me when I come home at different hours with big hugs and smiles um but to the board um to to Dr Gman Mr Bishop my fellow administrative colleagues the Cherry Brook staff especially the students um and the families that that know fill our building um if it wasn't for for The Smiling Faces of of the children of Cherrybrook and and the parents and and the dedicated staff I most likely wouldn't be in this position it's because of them I'm here and I thank them sincerely for for their support um because without them um we wouldn't be able to do it we wouldn't be in the spot that we're in right now and I'm really excited to take us to the next level at Cherrybrook there's great momentum there's the children come in smiling and laughing and staff are coming in smiling and laughing and I'm just excited for what the future holds holds for us so thank you to everybody and truly sincerely mean it and appreciate everybody's um kind words and support it means a lot so so a couple of things Mr am um two things I've just been informed that Mr Daniels is online and he is he can't say anything verbally um but he is watching uh online and supporting this also um I do want to let you know that we do have a few things here for you and um your family number one with the the rest of the administrative team you have your Camp school's notebook [Applause] for and bring your children up here Mr emry we have we have a shirt here for each of them we are you throw [Applause] that we got a shirt here we are canting for Mr Amry got no that's yours okay we got a shirt here we don't have to put that we got a shirt here for you and then Whitney we do have a shirt here for you [Applause] also and then and then we have a beautiful backpack like the rest of the ministrative team Mr Amry and then we'll take some uh pictures and I do also want to thank Mr Amry family for being here the the the most special thing a as a parent is to be able to see your child achieve something that you were that you always wanted your child to be able to do is to achieve so I'm so happy that you're here today to see this because I promise you a a as parents he will never forget that you were here to mark this most special moment of him being named the the prin Canon CH primary school and his own children won't forget that you were here to to see that so I thank you so much for being part of this [Applause] apprciate and then I do want to let everybody know the PTO is going to be doing I don't know if here um she may be online the PTO is going to be doing a big celebration to Mark the moment of Mr am being the principal I believe it's on April 29th um it's going to be after the school there'll be communication going out so we're hopefully all children parents Guardians and the staff could attend that event so I asked the PTO to coordinate that I thought it would be more appropriate to do it after the school and more appropriate to do it around the time that the children and the staff won't have so let's take some great pictures of this yeah oh yeah let's go right [Music] in we'll take one with the whole board and then you should take one separ just on come on come on come on come on [Music] way let's go with just the Amry family would be [Music] great and then we'll go Mr myself and then if we can let's get the old Cherry Brook staff as you're walking out you can take pict yes let's get your [Applause] parents a good point thank you [Music] Mr why you take [Music] [Applause] [Music] w [Music] okay [Music] thank you all very much uh I did jump a gun on a couple things I was supposed to announce uh there are some dates this is mainly for the board members and the community as well uh this Thursday the 18th the select room there's a select room meeting town meeting on the fouryear phasing of the reevaluation it's kind of a complicated issue just an important vote and the information will be provided and then the Town members that are there and will vote on the outcome basing in the reevaluation and the effects of reevaluation the budget hearing is Tuesday April 23rd at the community center at 6 pm.

Madam Secretary can I have a roll call please sure Mr alre here Mr gagos here M rup is here Mr swales here miss site stumbris here Dr Hall here president Brown here let us stand for the pledge led by board member Alex gagos followed by mission statement by board member Dr Hall I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all and our mission statement is Empower each student to positively impact the world or a brighten new future thank you all right uh any electronic course okay no hard copies somebody okay no board comments have any board updates we are having a bpack event on May 8th I believe um that will be here in ELC um I'm not quite sure it's just like a family game night I don't think there's any uh serious uh it was it's not like last time fun yeah it's it's a fun fun event uh so that'll be on May 8th here in that bpack the acronym can you spill it out yeah it's uh spill it out bilingual parent uh advisory committee so that's without a k b pack bpack without a k yeah all right okay thank you uh Alex you're doing a great job experting that and being the participant in that as a board rep really appreciate it this board does okay any other board updates I had did I did promise you guys I didn't say promise I did send an email to you guys say I I was going to update you on a few things so I apologize for not sending it out to you but I will get it out definitely before our next board meeting just a few things that I just want to send out to you we are looking to possibly have a workshop IV Workshop in the July so kind of look at a date well I'm going send it to Dr car tomorrow or today and I need to talk to you on this I know I haven't forgot you okay you on top of the food chain when it comes to that possibly a workshop just to get the board together take an opportunity in the July time frame it it'll be in the afternoon okay even though we deliberately didn't have a committee of the whole in July that's a good point that's Dev was okay that's what we talking about yeah that's a good point just for it say it's a busy month but we'll we'll see okay maybe June we'll see we get I don't want to stress anybody out definitely don't want to stress anybody out I'm stress and too late too late for that and I just want to share this and I'll put this in some words I have to you guys uh on the on the site basically without violating any open meetings act i attended the National School Board conference and I'm just going to say this I am so proud of our superintendent she did an excellent presentation really really I all that that you presented I kind of like didn't know a few things I'm like okay maybe I'll have you presented to the board but that was very good I really was proud of you I was so proud that I came back the next day thinking she was presenting but she wasn't she was this other school was there from Utah yes very good you you really represented us well talking about the barriers that we are overcoming and all the things that you have done so very good very good presentation proud of you all right know the board updates ministrative updates um I've got a few my on I've got a few um just wanted to let you know uh teachers and students are working very hard and as we're um coming into the spring season uh finishing some testing um so we're working on that um we were out to visit the Middle School visited with uh the leadership team School leadership team and uh to kind of share some of the results of the feasibility study for the space um concern that we have so we're circulating that among um the Departments and the uh the different grade levels and uh we will be meeting them back uh next week to uh hear some of their questions or concerns so we're we're pleased about how that is moving forward I'm really delighted that um I'm going to be working with the high school we're going to be going out to park Force Water Treatment Center uh on uh the next Thursday we're taking 12 students out um to see if we can start getting students more involved with Community uh work especially our public service work there's a lot of holes out there and there's a lot of jobs that people don't know about so uh we work to provide a tour for them so I'll be going with them so I'm excited about that to learn actually about how the Water Treatment Center Works um so we'll be taking those students and lastly um we're halfway through our strategic plan we have our next meeting tomorrow evening um we have one more meeting in May and then we'll be presenting it to the board in June so we're moving along on that so things are going well in that in that department so those are my updates thank you not time really fly getting through that strategic plan you guys doing a good job doing that so okay uh business we datting yeah I S I'm like did I I said did I miss that okay that's why I kind of gave you a chance I'm like okay I must missed something here all next year um we've adjusted as we could to various and so forth uh July we have just as a regular board meeting without the comme as the whole uh we did that last year and it seemed to work out well lot material in July so that's why it works out really well um so anyway this is our schedule if you would like to entertain any conversation about the schedule so in August we'll go the first and second Tuesdays yes and again uh we usually are trying to capitalize on all of our late hires we do have a lot of mentoring and um you know a lot of teachers like to get into the classrooms and took a look around so we want to make sure we've got them hired okay I don't have it in front of me what when is our first when is our first meeting in August okay and no committee as a whole per se in August no well the reason why we have a special boarding so we can take action on any of our hires okay all right okay have any questions with those dates just get back to the superintendent you concerns yes yeah we'll get to her before uh we vote okay now can I say business business department it's three of you not all three of you jumping thank you president Brown uh Mr Tobias is here to give you guys an update on the EV system at Creet mon High School good evening everybody thank you for having me Mr President Mr superintendent and members of the board I do not have a lengthy presentation just some simple statements you're welcome uh simple updates and reminders that uh you agreed to the Evolve um weapons detection units which are all in place at the high school now we have seven units assigned to the high school two of them uh were active and put in place at the first week of January when we returned January 8th 9th and 10th was the installation and activation process for those at the bridges Wing um the remaining five in the um previous high school or original High School Wing uh were installed uh the week of March 18th um with training and um other updates or software updates to them throughout that week uh we had them live at the end of that week uh some prel linary testing with students and staff uh as well as security and administration working them uh we had them available and live for any parents that came during parent teacher conferences to see firsthand and then we went very active with them the week of March 25th before Spring Break um kind of a soft open getting students understanding the process uh looking at our entry procedures um seeing how the scan were working and then when we returned from spring break we went to um more rigorous uh scanning and uh conversation activity with students so we have three that are used every day on that High School Wing side um the entrance a and the entrance B from the bus lot where the students arrive and we have the main entrance which is active all day it's there in the morning for student arrival for those being dropped off by parents walking or driving themselves and then we have that unit working all day um for any guest visitors that arrive and late arrival of the students um the bridges Wing those two are still active they have the student arrival entrance which works during that time and then they have the unit by the main entrance which is operating all day for any late arrivals of students or visitors and other guests at that time uh we have access to an online portal uh we are just getting access to that which we can review our software updates and get um daily weekly monthly reports as to the amount of activity those units have um with regards to number of bodies that pass through them number of alerts we have we can also adjust the settings to make them more sensitive or less sensitive and that's part of the learning curve we're going through right now um I think it's gone very well thus far Mr holfield has done a great job um addressing any parent questions or concerns meeting with students personally that are curious about them or have other questions um I I think it's the right decision this time as far as the board agreeing to it and us getting them installed um it's made for some easier arrivals than I think people anticipated through the scanning process um but we'll continue to kind of go through that learning curve and um make the adjustments as we need to we have our evolved vendor and installers on hand anytime via phone call or Zoom or texting um to troubleshoot anything uh we have a startup and um calibration process that is done daily at the high school to make sure the units are scanning properly for certain items uh and a shutdown process that needs to be followed rigorously at the end of the week so they can um get their rest and go through any software updates over the weekend we do have uh units by the auditorium entrance and the athletic entrance um which are in place are operational and we anticipate more rigorous use of those going into the fall um with the fall athletic events by door three and any of the auditorium events um by door two we do have the spring Musical coming up at the high school where people will be passing through those and we'll have security on hand to kind of go through a preliminary kind of soft open process for that to see what's alerting um letting patrons know when they're coming um that they may or may not have something on them that that is making the the machine register um so those two devices by the auditorium and the athletic entrance um are are just going through learning curves right now but will be more active come uh the fall when we initiate those for regular events um at this time they're all live online active and um are able to use as we need to daily any questions yeah uh Robin have you have you guys encountered any like bumps in the road um so to speak like any issues um that happen all the time or um something that's that shouldn't happen it um great question and nothing I would say out of the ordinary that I've been informed or have seen or experienced um they they are designed to hit on pieces of metal that should be we um could be drawn concern with firearm type stuff but there are also types of metals that mimic that um Chromebook stuck together with with a metal thermos um an eyeglass case that's enclosed uh certain instruments um the the devices have an AI quality where they learn so umbrellas would register as as a ping usually um but through the tablet we can identify it as an umbrella a the machine that it's detecting umbrellas and it begins to learn maybe not to detect those types of umbrellas in the future through further software updates that doesn't mean we wouldn't check them and make sure people aren't hiding stuff in them um but there hasn't been anything unusual that has been brought to my attention as as far as a bozo no no being brought into school um we've also created at the high school and we'll be initiating probably next week um something called amnesty buckets um which some schools do they they have these buckets placed at the various entrance of the students and upon their arrival if they remember they have something due to being at a parents house over the weekend that maybe is okay in public but not appropriate in school they can deposit in that bucket and make sure it doesn't come into the building and we can retrieve it and work through it that way um so we we haven't been alerted to anything unusual or extraordinary other than dealing with um uh how Chromebooks might be pinging and then students make those adjustments they may take them out of their clear backpack hold them out in front of them so we could see when they pass through it's pinging on the Chromebook book and then everything else is clear um the device registers uh a little red box indicator um either on the person or against the backpack depending on the area of concern we should have what it's registering and if somebody has multiple concerns then multiple red boxes will appear on the backpack or in person that we can address um it's very efficient and at least alerting us to either the backpack or area of the body that we should address right away and then letting other people pass through if if there's nothing of concern there's similar devices that are like McCormack place you see at Disneyland um Wrigley Field white socks Park um the difference we experience or any school is when you're walking into those facilities it's usually just you your person um if something's pinging they'll address you personally that way but you're usually not carrying in a lot of luggage at schools we have kids carrying in luggage all the time whether regular backpack athletic bags instruments so the process is going smoothly but it's it's not going to be as quick or smooth like you experienced in those other places because you're just passing through as a person um all our students are bringing in something every day um hopefully for academic or or extracurricular reasons um but we've been able to address those and and figure out okay your your Chromebook and your three- binder probably shouldn't be touching let's figure out how we can make those um easily and and more readily um passing through and the students have been resilient they've been really awesome of just adapting to it um the high school staff and Administration staff have done a good job job adapting to what their new routines are because a lot of this is obviously new to them or there supervisory roles to it or work in the electronics of a tablet um making sure they're not overlooking something um Security's been great in working that through too and any bag searches we've had to do are are really minimal in the sense of we got clear backpacks so it's easy to see yeah that's probably the thermos in there or you can look at it real quick and see if there's anything else hiding in there um that's been very helpful in terms of those types of procedures and processes we have have um average over 400 students coming in the the door B entrance over 400 about that coming in the door a entrance on real good attendance days um and then we have over 600 students that probably come in that main entrance the the A and the B we filter 400 plus students through that those two doors in 12 minutes less than 12 minutes um prior to the detectors being in place it was probably seven or 8 minutes so we had about four or five minutes due to being more r ous and going through the process uh the main entrance for student arrival between 7:00 a.m.

on some earlier calendars listed as Monday uh that's the evening of Passover so it was moved to Tuesday Tuesday the 23rd 6:00 budget hearing very important budget referendum is Tuesday May 7th uh graduation is Friday June 7th 6 grade promotion is June 11th 8th grade promotion is the 12th the Memorial Day parade is May 27th board does participate in that uh the CIS walk through is Tuesday May 7th the cherb walkth through is Thursday May 30th those are now 8:30 to 10:30 correct uh something uh want to call your attention to a couple events that took place at Cherrybrook uh I'm sorry I didn't do this when all your staff was here my bad uh it's a toy drive uh an 100th Day celebration toy drive and food drive and and Mr Amry asked you to make a just a quick comment or two about those events sure so um for about good part of March and in the beginning of April um well Mrs leir came to me back in the end of February with an idea that her her children um came up with they've been working this year with um Mr Paul benty who runs the nonpr the nonprofit organization um fighting a good fight on hunger and homelessness and um through um Li Mrs leir's teacher leadership and her kids leadership her third grade leadership um third graders leadership we've talked about it at Cherry for third graders being those leaders of our school and making those small changes in a in a larger community and they really took to the idea of being a compassionate citizen as one of our attributes of our board vision and they've been working with Mr venty with the Coy Drive and then um on April 5th um led by the 18 or so children in Mrs Air's class with pretty much the whole school of Cherrybrook organized well over aund couple hundred 3 300 yeah 300 um non- perishable um bags with food um personal hygiene items um to give to Mr venting um to help support those families and and folks in need and um children were featured on um great kids from WFSB um liby Scher came out to our school and um spoke to some of the children about why they wanted to do this and um they just said you're part of the you're part of the group you want to say anything why why you and your friends and classmates wanted to do that um because we wanted to and that's pretty much it right there and just really building that that empathetic Citizen and that compassionate Citizen and know that there's people you know in our community that that need that help so um big congratulations to you know M her students and then the whole Cherry book staff for really coming together and and and really holding a successful great kids kids event thank you a and thank you you're here I gather Mrs Le here yes M yes thank you for that and and thank you to your whole staff those are lessons in exercises in kindness and in citizenship that are really invaluable so we just want to call everyone's attention attention to that and and thank you for that uh just jump ahead to we stay with the agenda jump to again celebrates folks are all here wait no I we just keep R Dr Dr gr super thank you as the superintendent announcements just want to thank Mr Amry and Mr Moore for being here this evening for can celebrates which will start very shortly so we're very excited to celebrate the accomplish M uh we have I think we're honoring one student from Cher Brook that it just kept getting delayed a little bit so we're excited for that and then to honor our middle school students tonight the the as the board knows this past month I spent a lot of time at uh finance and budget meetings of working on the budget and working with our Board of finance and and working with our subcommittee to get our budget out there into the community and now it's h the board of education budget and as Mr Sher provided you the dates I also want to let the board in the community know that it's been a a tradition of mine as a superintendent of schools to meet with the senior class of any District that I've been in and meet with the seniors and small groups of about 15 to 20 so right before our break I started meeting with seniors and I asked them a series of questions it really gives me some good feedback from the the seniors about where we are in the Ken public schools with some of them being in our schools for 13 years and getting it from a a student perspective I was supposed to finish the those senior focus groups on the the unfortunate day of as I was driving to work thinking that we were going to have a 2hour delay actually having to cancel school because I was told that we couldn't get buses down our roads because of that surprise uh snowstorm so I'm about 50% through our our senior class and and it's very enlightening for me but I've also told them on the the beautiful day that we'll have on on graduation on a Friday I don't want the first time that they've had interaction with the superintendent with me being on a Podium talking at them I want to be able to talk with them so that's another reason that I'm meeting with the the each senior is really so they can know who I am and ask me questions and for me to understand their experience within the can Public Schools I also want to let the community and the board know that we have an exciting concert actually tomorrow night April 17th which is a districtwide coral concert at 7 p.m.

and 7:25 has about 600 students coming through there um due to drop off walking parent um and self-driving so um once that process completes the A and the B entrance will shut down store those tablets in a safe place for charging uh in order to also download the data and then the main entrance will operate all day for visitors as well awesome I I you know personally wasn't impressed I was over at the high school a couple weeks ago and Dr Hol hollyfield uh gave me a walk down I saw the machines in action I saw machines being tested or challenged and and went the process was seamless in my opinion so I tell you it exceeded the machines themselves exceeded my expectations and I think all high schools should have something like this they're they're C it's nice they're customized with our cm2 oneu logo so they they look friendly um while they're they job they do they just you know again it I just wasn't a fan of metal detectors and but this it it it's kind of modern very modern and Sleek you know and I'm like wow it's a seamless process so good job good job good job doc thank you we bringing this to the board okay good job thanks question much thank you thank you thanks Don good evening board and Dr Cara and everyone else um wanted to share with you uh about is this yeah oh good thank you sry um some questions about the sale of MEC or what your options are of the sale plus the use of the proceeds most the information or almost all the information I'm going to share with you came from Bill Gleason um I know he's not here tonight Eric groski is here tonight uh so you know there may be some legal questions ask but let me kind of go through this there are really two options with the sale of that property if the board chooses to sell the property um one is if you sell it to another public governmental entity that's number one that's the first option and that falls under the local government transfer act and what needs to happen is the Board of Education passes a resolution approving the sale based on agreed upon terms and conditions so very similar to selling a real estate property you would go into negotiations with the other entity work out the terms of that the price anything else and then uh the board would have to pass a resolution agreeing to that that is by 2third vote um the same thing and again I put Village Moni because I know they're interested in that they would also need to approve it by a 2third vote and then after both approvals our legal council will take care of the paperwork filing with the county clerk and the transfer complete okay so that's the first option are there any question before I go into the second one are there any questions about that what if you had competing government bodies looking to possibly purchase the building how do you do that is that up to the board to determine which direction they want to go just little different than two buyers from a seller I believe that there are public entities that you would just talk to each one of them and determine which one you want to go with I I pref I don't know if Eric know that but I would think it again each one is a public entity so would have fall under this and you would just negotiate with each one you know and determine which one you want and then go through the process okay okay so that's option one again going from one public entity the district to another public entity or government entity the second one is the sale of the property to anyone other than a public governmental entity so somebody else that is not a village of a church that that we know of charitable organization anyone else so that falls under the school code you'll see I referenced that but here are the action items you may sell it through auction or sealed bids okay so it has to be one of those you have to publish notices uh three successive weeks prior to the date of the auction of the date of action or bid opening board May set a reasonable minimum selling price meaning the board May accept a written offer equal to or greater than that price if the board desires to lower the minimum selling price so let's say you don't get any bids and you want to lower the price you have to go through the same process again with putting out three more consecutive weeks of public Ing and all of that once the offer accepted by the board legal council will schedule the closing and will file the paperwork with the county clerk okay so it's a little different process if it's not a governmental or public entity that you have to go through you have to go through either auction or bid opening sealed bids all of that and go through some Publications again on the other one you don't have that so it just depends which way to go can a um Can a governmental entity bid under this scenario I would say yes they can Eric I would I would think so yes I would think so I don't know why you would go through that process though think call you and say we want to this purchase okay excuse me got a question over here oh I'm sorry Jam no that's okay is it an either or so like do we have to choose so can we announce that we're putting it up for sale and then if governmental entities wanted we publish the three weeks but if a governmental entity decides they want it they can do it the other way I I think that would be the first step that you're going to want to do that you know the board is going to want to make determination what to do with that building and if the the board's decision is to sell the building then that's part of the public we can put a public we can put a an advertisement out there public notice out there that we are selling it uh and to see if there's interest to contact you know probably contact our legal counsel would probably be the best thing to do don't contact us because this I mean and and the reason I say that is because I think this is a real legal process that we need to follow and just need to make sure of that that's all yeah Co I was just like why not no I agree I agree I agree I think it makes I but I and I think the first step is what you're referring to I think the first step is you know have the board decide what to do with the property perfect yes and just saying that the Board needs to discuss is that a closed session discussion I think the discussion could take pa place in close session because it's real estate okay however I think the action item has to be taken in public MH yeah you know so a motion would have to be made in public to go into discuss that but you can discuss it in close session under real estate yes okay and going back to the seal bid if you had just say X Y and Z bid on this property and X get it for whatever reason based on price are there going to be any stipulations that says that xap to provide money or the the know to show the board that they could pay this within x amount of time and things like that and what are the consequences if the prospective buyer were to back out of the deal so now the board put all this energy in there I call it the responsible bidder this person is not responsive now do you go to the next bidder I don't I that's a legal that's a great question and um it's something and Eric I don't know if you know this but it is something that I asked Bill also can we put the terms in our notice so can we say and I'll just give you an example Mr Brown I think this is what you're alluding to is the purchase price has to be paid in one installment by this day let's just say okay so can we put that stipulation in there when we are requesting bids I think you can but I I'm going to have to refer to legal counsel on that to say and Eric I don't know if you know that if we can can put the stipulations on that yeah I I didn't see anything in the school code that says otherwise so that would be my way of answering uh confirming what you're what you're saying that I believe that could be like just like we put other um stipulations into into a bid I think that could be one as well so yeah and and then again you know I I'm I'm assuming and again I just assume this that the board wishes to sell that building as is you know that'll be listed me it'll be listed that way well that's what I mean it's sold as is you know and all that stuff so I think there are some stipulations and again um I think once the board makes that determination that they wish to sell it then I think we'll confer with legal council to kind of put some specifications together again if there is an entity out there you know other than a public entity that is interested now I know the board has heard that you know and again but but talking them and saying okay um you know these are the stipulations you know and all that stuff to make sure that they can meet that so yes okay so we've gone just so where I know where we're at we've gone through we've had the three hearings yes do we H does the board have to do anything now other than that's completed now it's kind of up to us what next step is so the board has passed a resolution saying that we don't need the building anymore I'm summarizing that we've done that yeah okay so that's all done now we're at the step of okay the board need to decide what to do with the property got it okay so that would be the next step you know and all that do you know Ken do you know roughly I know this kind of a loaded question but do you know roughly the expenses that we're paying right now I don't know that I know um Jason was over there the other day we've lowered the Heat and all I remember the old Sixth Grade Center you know we were expending I believe like 40 Grand a year wasn't a whole lot but yeah it's not a whole lot are we looking to are we looking to rid ourselves of the building we don't yeah I think it's I think it's very minimal we we were keeping the heat down low you know there's not that much going there's no air conditioning over there so yeah that's not right who cuts the grass who maintains is that that's part of our l that's us Landscaping contract oh really yeah that's part of our Landscaping contract so that's all wound into our Landscaping contract so we'll maintain that you know I think the goal so the board knows this um you know we've talked about we are probably going to need that facility during the summer for storage okay uh especially as we transfer out our new uh our old I should say classroom Furniture um so we're going to store it there you know first um and everything so we're probably going to need that so I think think you know the idea is if the board chooses to sell that property to close on the property probably September October time frame okay that's what that's what we're kind of thinking and we would recom and the property includes the building and the land that includes those two ball fields yes I believe it does we we can get a a pla of survey on that and to let you know in that uh you know when it goes on close session agenda we can have all that stuff available and everything okay the last thing I wanted to share is and this is this is all part of the El school code is okay what can I do with the money if I sell the property and so I wanted to share this uh to let you know that there is part of the Illinois school code that places restrictions on the use of the proceed so here's what it says first you have to pay any principle and interest on any outstanding Bonds on the property being sold we believe I talked to Bill about this that we do not have any Bonds on that property at all um so that's a good thing so we check that one out and then the second one is is pretty hold on let's go back let's go back on that because I kind of rang a bell here was there any way along the line that we borrow life safety soow life safety bonds or borrow Life Safety bonds or whatever and which included addressing the life safety issues at MEC no I that wasn't part of a package deal right I went back into our uh when we originally sold the bonds in 1920 when we started the first short-term facility plan what year oh 19 well I I should you were here it 209 they they didn't have bonds back there I'm sorry yeah I wasn't that 19-2 19-20 okay but yeah uh I like okay so when I went back and looked that we did not mention mon Education Center in any of our presentations or anything like that so none of the bonds that we took out were earmarked for that school okay so we look that facil so we're good on that regard okay okay the second one used to meet any urgent District needs as defined by the Illinois school code and this is what the Illinois school code says Life Safety that present an immediate Hazard to the safety of students or one that present an imminent and continuing threat to the health and safety of students or other occupants requires complete or partial evacuation of a building consumes one or more of the five emergency days or otherwise cause a school to fall short of minimum number of attendance days okay so in essence what is saying is that if you have any outstanding life safety items that you have to use it for that we believe and we're going through that process now that there will not be any outstanding Life Safety is uh items oh no no no it'll be finished there there will not be any life outstanding life safety issues um at the end of this summer because we're we're we're finishing those all up from 2013 we don't have any new Life Safety surveys yet so the idea is I would sell this property before the next life safety survey and then your proceeds as number three says can go into any fund for any authorized purpose okay I got to take a step back here we had over $400,000 of life safety issues remaining with m so you saying and we put the braks on that so you saying we went back and addressed those like no we have not we're but but we're not we don't have to use the money to fix that building up okay even though there's life safety issues even though there life safety issues there because you got to remember you're going to get the proceeds after the sale you're going to sell the building you're going to close on the building now I have the proceeds I don't own that building anymore more so I don't have to do any life safety stuff there we're selling it as is so s it as is so you're trying to so so that's just another reason for us to rid ourselves of the building prior to the next life safety yes which is next next year this year well it'll it'll come next year but you know you haven't signed with an architect to do that yet you'll do that in the fall and then it's going to take them a while so right you know if you can close on that building in September October you're in good shape okay yes uh can you put that in writing to the board just some Milestones what's what's that just when you're looking the be wi is so we can have that captured in the room form yes okay I can do that all right okay thank you that's all I have all right but good job good job Ken thank you no any other questions from the board on this would just back on the life safety survey even if we still had the building and we're not using it for academic purposes would it even be included in the scope of the new life safety survey I I don't know the answer to that okay I I don't know we'd have to find that out I I would think it may it may be a moot point but just curious yeah I would think it'd be outside the scope of it the building's not being used no and there's no students in inhabiting it right so again I'd have to look into that too but my my guess is that it's outside the scope of any safety issues mhm okay and um I I read a couple months ago that there was a school district the school district and the municipality were going back and forth and the school district felt that they had the rights of how they control life safety issues under the school code but the village saying you know what this is a village ordinance and the ordinance supersede the life safety issue and I went to court I think here in Illinois and they sided with the village so we're not going to have any issues like that right as long as we have the building oh think I'm not I'm not aware of any okay I I'll I'll kind of locate it or and send it over to a superintendent or something it was a Crystal Lake I believe that kind of for me yeah it was here in Illinois okay I might be talking about apples and oranges here two different things but nonetheless when you said that about here's the life safety issues because we always had the perception that we are kind of exempt from the ordinance of the village but that particular Village ordin is superseded the life safety issue of that school at that time okay and they had to address it and did they they had to deviate from something that they were looking to do but it was based on the village of wildness okay I'll I'll see if I can find anything I think my one question to the Bo Mr Brown would be um when do you want to put something on the agenda or what to do with that building I would think you know hearing what you discussed that we want to hold on to the building at least till September or whatever for storage purposes right so I would think the sooner the better that we offload the building would be better there's no reason for us to have it okay there's no purposes other than what you have looking to do with the furniture and all of that sure that's me I don't know if the board want to chime in on here anybody else and we can start the process of but we need to talk too among ourselves about which direction we want to go well I'll talk to Dr car and then so we can have that in close session even probably I don't know if it's too early on on Tuesday or in our next board meeting the sooner the better you know have it as a action something on the agenda that we can talk about and go in close session and talk about it why don't we do why don't we have discussion in close session next week yeah and then we can have an action item on it after it yeah in May you guys because I would think if if we don't want if we want to use the property for storage up until August September we may not want to start marketing putting an notice out there it's possible June or July maybe I I think as part of your stipulations you would say you know closing wouldn't be until that point so okay great anybody else any questions don't let me speak for the whole board on this and Nelson anybody else have any problems any quals sooner the better yeah cuz we can set the closing to whenever we I drove past it today it says building cloes on the Marquee yeah okay thank you board all right all right thank you oh no that's not me yeah I'm like uh Staffing just a little bit jump president Brown members of the Board of Education Dr koganes I'm here to discuss the uh bid for post construction cleaning at five of our schools in the district uh we went out to bid and the winner of the bid was pure bright janitorial services they bid a base bid amount of $138,900 and the buildings that would be covered for our post construction cleaning are balore element Elementary tala ele Elementary excuse me creit elementary um Keta Scott King Magnet School The Early Learning Center and did I miss another one I think I got all five of them in tala I'm sorry tala Elementary so um we actually have a representative from Pure bright janitorial sister uh systems in attendance this evening um any questions regarding the bid or for the representative from purebright well when we first get into Contracting out our buildings for cleaning janitorial service following the construction and cleaning jobs of our schools you know the work going on in our schools I think we had pure brigh was there the first company to win the bid I'm sorry the very first year was yeah that was about $300 something thousand I believe and then there was some quals last year with how the document and all of that and another company won it for I believe like aund and something thousand correct the winning bid last year went to custom and their their base bid was $4,550 for four schools did we you didn't did one of you guys from the business department sent us a bid tab on that I didn't see it yes it was in did okay so was it one one company two two bids it was Custom Companies yes sir and they what was their bid the other company 157 157 you say it up there okay I'm curious to see why I think we got the same amount of schools right same amount last year there was four schools we didn't do any work at ELC and then this year we will be doing work at ELC so there how would you guys I know that's you know how you decided to bid that's your prerogative but I'm looking at are we getting the same service to go down from 300,000 to to be more much more competitive cut the price in more than half are we looking at the same scope of work here to get it for 148 $138,000 $140,000 roughly yeah I think uh the 300,000 was two years ago last year custom won for 114 so last year at four schools it was 114,000 which they completed the job and then pure bright came in at 138 yeah so the first bid of 300 something th000 how many schools was it at that time Keith can you help me speak to that that was probably the summer of that was roughly we talking this is the last time right is this it are we looking should be we going to do everything in house after this right okay so I'm just curious so I think you're trying to figure how they cut it so much and get so low they were ad if they were at ad coming up here again that's your that's how you bit that's how you bit you was you guys were adamant about the other company bidding so low and almost saying how could they do that how could they do that and yet and all you come back and you was able to win the bid for the same price and are we going to get the same service the scope might be different too well I guess that's what they would yeah L more construction wasn't there I mean it was really is the scope is the scope different that's the question like how is it yeah no the scope is very much the same but you know when we got the bids in can they hear me up here if you want to Keith you can come here I think the question isn't scoped this year versus last year is scoped this year versus two years two years ago two years ago right yeah yeah exactly exactly there was a lot more demolition the first year um there was a lot of demolition that first year he ter ceilings down things like that to so at the end of that summer things were were a mess but that wasn't something that was really up front you know that came at the end of the summer uh when their bid came in low this year I did I called meeting went them to make sure we went through you know the bid document and uh parts of it and know Jan he said that they're comfortable they did bit much much leaner than they did the first year uh he's he's a new manager um and bit differently than I gu uh Jake did so they seem comfortable with their bit okay that's all I just want to know you know that just kind of Jarred my memory on such a low price in the same company you know company stood up here and said you couldn't do it for that price right right but Jean Jean is not Jake so that's where we're at right now and we got a we got a time frame and expectations is to be cleaned up and ready for our kids to get back in school and stad abs Keith can't Keith emphasize the time frame when he met with them after okay correct was there any provisions if they did not make that time frame anything uh hold them accountable for whatever reason yeah we have a 10% built in% Bond on that it was a bid Bond yeah okay but wouldn't we won't get that until after approval got it okay sounds good thank you is he to speak yeah he could speak if he yeah the door was the floor was open to he but look like you didn't have much to say all so the number dropped truthfully they did drop we could more organized I appreciate it thank you any additional questions thank you thanks Jason you can stay up there you giving it back to the Godfather tagam oh okay we're tag teaming tonight um again hello board um I'm just going to say right here real quick um the last item on the agenda is just a discussion about the Bina hearing which is the bond issued notification act hearing that's required that'll take place it's a public hearing that'll take place next week um on Tuesday um everything's been published and all of that it allows the public an opportunity to make comments about the selling of bonds uh keep in mind that the selling of bonds will not take place until probably February of next year um however this is just a procedural thing that we're going through um it'll it can last for three years um so it'll cover you for three years but again um hopefully s bonds will take place in febru them so um just wanted to reiterate that um again it's very similar to the budget hearing and all of that so okay any questions at all so I guess you will not be around at that time when we sell us F probably not you got a lot of seat open seat I know you do I know well I might be a surprised visitor every once in a while so thanks thanks Ken for all you do appreciate it okay all right any questions for Ken he hasn't sat down yet all righty all right number six Charlie personnel and culture all right so uh before the Staffing presentation the uh uh new evaluation system uh we looked at evaluwise as a new vendor to do all of our employee evaluations we've had some we've encountered some Road bumps with our current system um not many districts also use our system whereas a value wise is utilized by a lot of Will County and Cook County school districts I've been using I've used the value wise 10 plus years prior to my arrival here um so we presented it with our par committee had our teachers an opportunity uh to kind of look at the system provide some feedback and ultimately decided to go forward with uh eval wise for the next school year um they provided a different renewal options uh year one year two year threee um at the three-year it will come in less than what we expect to pay with our current system so that is the recommendation to go with the three-year as well as to have them provide us some support and getting it set up and then we kind of take the Reigns from there um their set up is just kind of helping us get a some of our forms and rubrics in the system showing us how how to do it and then we kind of will be spending the summer typing away getting everything in there for the start of next school year how much do we spend on the current system the current system is about it's about 155 and we're expecting about an 8% increase so that'll put us over what uh the three-year renewal of a value wise would be okay y okay and it'll do the same exact same thing that we're doing now uh it'll relieve some administrative um backend issues and evaluator issues that we've kind of experience so it'll be a better system all the way around okay all right now for the time you've all been waiting for our staffing looking uh forward to next year our staffing plan um so I've kind of baked in our enrollment because enrollment is going to drive some staffing um have some data here to share with you about our enrollment historical present and then kind of go into Staffing and some recommendations so our enrollment here for the past five school years and then this current school year um I've got this information from The Residency presentation that was shared back in October and then our enrollment report you can see that we are up from the last five years and you'll kind of see more than likely why in the next coming slides um student demographics this information again came from the Illinois school report card that's been shared The Last 5 Years and then our current information um right kind of the middle two lines you can kind of see a shift in um some demographics where our Latino population is now steadily our second highest demographic subgroup over our uh White students our English language learner population has grown almost 4% almost doubled last year's our students with IEPs remains about the same it as you can see it fluctuates throughout the year our homeless students have also gone up over 5% this year so between this number and our English language Learners our our enrollment spike is more than likely contributed to the number of newcomer families that have joined us which we've experienced throughout the school year that we've discussed at this level um throughout so some other items impacting enrollment for next year uh we have our pending boundary change that was discussed with the board uh that will result in a loss of 24 students um some other things are how we overflow students uh board policy 730 which is Student Assignment governs how we overflow um I have that on the next slide so typically how we overflow is by geographic area so if a section a grade level is closed at tala for example we will typically overflow to Moni if something at bmal is closed we will overflow to creit ideally to kind of keep students geographically close by doesn't always happen we do have some kind of crossover just depends on numbers and enroll um any students that were overflowed this year we did notify them in January that they would be returned to their home school so in the Staffing levels and class size um for the elementary you'll see some of those numbers reflected in that um also because in board policy 7:30 uh parents have the opportunity to appeal the decision of their return um by writing a letter stating that their child will be serviced by uh better by their current school by the educational program there so as of right now six students have been approved to remain at their overflowed School versus returning to their home school so with our registration process as you know we've implemented clear uh we're creating affidavits for people to for those that are doubled up or that are claiming that they live with a taxpayer again just additional verification our Registration Department is doing to make sure we are servicing students that truly do live in the district uh kindergarten registration started yesterday and that's going throughout this week and then May 1st will be new and return returning student registration and we plan to keep that open throughout the summer instead of in the past it was shut off uh we plan on keeping that open and then here is uh board policy 7:30 student assignments that govern again um your authority to shut down a section at a grade level because of enrollment and then to overflow that student to another building based on that and that um students parents can request that um that transfer back to their home school this is all that policy that governs all of that okay any questions about that first part okay all right so with our projections for next year I've made some assumptions I made some the assumptions that all of our overflowed students were returned to their home schools um our current grade level just rolls up so whatever whoever's in kindergarten in 2324 is in first grade in 2425 etc etc etc and then the kindergarten projections were based off of projection uh our kindergarten enrollment this year um as best as I could so you'll see some areas that are marked with yellow that we will need to be watching and some areas that will be marked with red that we would state that these sections are flows then we would beginning to begin overflowing um with that all right so first up is the ELC The Early Learning child Early Childhood Center uh we're projecting as of right now 2117 students that's down from 72 um but that is because it's enrollment here at ELC is on a rolling basis they do their screenings they've got five scheduled screening dates set down from 72 or down by 72 572 okay yeah sorry um so they have screening dates they have they are continuously enrolling students so that number will expect to go up by more than likely this time next year um it's just as students turn three and become eligible to become enrolled here um that's kind of what we have to wait for so um with that we don't anticipate any the enrollment to D dramatically remain low where we would need to remove staff um we can we're going to keep staff levels the same we don't expect also a huge Spike that would result in adding staff unless new grant opportunities became available which you know director chesta would kind of keep us all informed of that um so status quo for ELC at B moral we're looking at 394 students for next year which is down six students from this this current year uh there are three teachers in each grade level K through five the one area that we would be concerned with is fourth grade at bmal um also on the right side you have we have the contractual limits of class sizes that are within the the um cmea contract that we keep in mind um we kind of you really use these as the barometer of closing sections and overflowing um whether we need to either add staff or uh again over flow um that that is our North Star with determining whether or not we're closing a section so fourth grade here is looking a little high so we'll keep an eye on that over the summer cre Elementary projecting to be 337 students which is down four students from this year um kindergarten right now we would look at closing based off that projection because there are only two teachers for kindergarten at cre uh of the other sections have three uh the actual enrollment in kindergarten right now for this year is 49 so we're just one off from our projection but again we would close that section if that enrollment holds and then begin overflowing more than likely again to B moral um depending on their enrollment too CSK is different um just because they're subject their enrollment is subject to application we won't go over we Cap all the class sizes there at 25 automatically um so again we don't anticipate any changes if we get 50 kindergarteners to enroll at CS CSK will be up 15 students over this year with again just monitoring the third and fifth grade sections if all of those students return mon Elementary is at 304 students for next year with a loss of 56 s that is in large part due to overflow again I in these projections I did return all overflow students so that is a big contributor to that um large number there three sections of each grade level at mon uh again we would maintain all three there because then we go over to tala we see lots of red and yellow so again returning all of the overflowed students would result in some overages in some sections so we would already begin preparations to overflow students but again it's enrollment is on a first come first serve so it would be impressed upon the building to put out the communication to their parents to register and return as early as you can to guarantee your spot at tala because there's the potential that depending on what grade level you're in you might end up in an overflow situation so I have a question real quick on that so if so if you have two teachers at Mo you know you have grade levels of M Elementary and you have at tala and instead of taxing the teachers at tala is would there be an option that you would pull a few more kids instead of just two say maybe six and put two in each classroom at Moy Elementary to raise their numbers but then the teacher is not you know what I mean so you're kind of evening it out so she's not at her Max because if you do get another student during the year you know what I mean at least you have a little leverage one way or the other right yeah when we've experienced that this year where we've said okay we're at you know a capped class size at tala and we maybe we've lost the student at tala and when we're we've already entered that overflow situation we typically continue that overflow situation so again like you said oh we've got one spot let's add one and now here come three more for that grade level you know it's again to try to even it out balance okay yeah we do that well it seems like there's a fairness aspect to it too if you got move some over kids to students to and then somebody else you lose somebody and somebody comes in rules later not the ones You' already moved yeah to bring that next person right yeah the differences in teacher size um numbers of classes tell in each School depending on the size of the building yes okay yeah yeah there there is is no room to add a third section tala here yeah so that's the elementary um I'm going to preface before going on to the middle school and high school that they're a lot different because again it's subject to certification so I you know it's their average class size is going to look a lot different but again it's you can't just say oh we lost 20 kids we're going to cut a teacher it's well they have to have a certified English teacher math teacher science teacher social studies teacher so I just again like to preface all of that before you know going on to the middle school and high school hey Dr am just one quick question before you go into the middle school and maybe Ken could answer this question at one point Moy Elementary was considered over right at the 80% that's the threshold we use for being overcrowded or Max Capacity 80 percentile I believe for Mony for all the schools is it 80% for I'm not sure for students okay but mon was mon Elementary was kind of meaning towards the red for this capacity so this number 304 I don't know what's the max what's our capacity at that capacity students right I'm sure that I'd have to see I know that again another loaded question I I I guess I want to I'm sorry go ahead goad I wanted Clarity cuz I think I know what he's talking about and when you about the 80 Pur I remember the terminology and I just wanted to be clear that as he's talking about the same thing do you know what he's talking about when he says 8 student Roman not SP realization but student Roman student Roman students themselves because I don't want to lose sight that you know we're talking about adding rooms I know we're not talking you know really discussing that tonight but adding rooms to the middle school because of the potential overcrowding and all of that right more classroom space the building is designed it's designed for a certain enrollment for maximum enrollment based on square footage student square footage so we can look at that and see yeah I think that's something we need to be for future forecasting we don't want to lose sight of that for Mo Elementary okay okay okay all right so with the Middle School we're looking at uh 966 students for next year that's down 16 stud students from this year um we have 16 core teachers so your core subjects are English language arts Math Science History and integrated studies um which is a part of the IB curriculum so there are three teams on each grade level um average class size we're looking at between you know a a 17 and a 20 the contractual limits is a 30 so we've got really nice class sizes at the middle school I have a back yep so 16 * 3 is 4 got 86 that is including all of the specials teachers special education teachers so they don't factor into the class size because they provide an ancillary service to the than the core teachers do and I did pay attention on the other we had that same no this one on the elementary schools we just are looking straight at class size for the uh but you do have special ed teachers yes yeah okay yeah there's no anticipated change in the special education teachers at the elementary levels the uh specials teachers your art music PE all of that will remain status quote I I I do have a question um back before we added the addition I think we were about 1,200 students and it wasn't a sixth grade in there now we are at 966 students and we had to we added an addition since then now we have to add another addition we've added sixth grade I get that I've schedule for IB and I don't know these special circumstances that everybody keeps talking about that makes this schedule impossible let's go go back for clarity we we didn't have 1,200 kids with without the sixth graders coming over I don't think we is that what you said I thought that was it without the sixth graders without we never hit 12 No 1 1200 I think was with the sixth with the sixth grade okay okay I stand correct it so 1 1200 with the sixth grade still is down to 966 yes and they keep talking about these I've heard I want to say they um the cabinet has mentioned that's who the day is the cabinet has mentioned this the special circumstances for scheduling IB and I've scheduled IB and I've been over IB from 7 through 12th grade and I'm still not understanding why we don't have room for our um for our teachers I don't understand I don't know what I don't so I'm trying to I'm sure Dr yeah I'm sure Dr KAG is going to have a detailed report I'll be I'll be honest with you I'm going to go into that with a skeptical eye because I just don't believe that that's a uh the case yeah I mean we don't even know what the feasibility study is going to suggest yet so the brain space does kind of address some of that because they look at the amount of classes the amount of rooms available and the scheduling of those rooms that's what she kind of talks about doc you under the radar with that report now you under the radar can't wa can't wait for that and so that's not and again don't get me wrong if if they can get it they can get it I the more the whatever I'm just looking at like it's something I'm missing so basically you're saying doc show me the money so show me the money okay I'll show you the space Have you have you visited the middle school during the day that's a rhetorical question no I mean I have been to the middle school that's not the question the question is the scheduling piece of it it's not even a because I've scheduled for for those programs and I and it's added you know but I'm just trying to see it could look a certain way but I don't know what this I don't know what the scheduling looks like yeah that's I don't know that so have I been there I have not this year but at the same time I just wonder if there's something more efficiently that we can do um well do we expect do we expect your report to kind of Encompass the topic of scheduling as well so I want to make sure into the scheduling per se basically look do an analysis of room usage and um but you'll be able to your team will will be able to validate the scheduling again based on Dr Hall concerns and all that right with the report you're coming to Better is the int and again that's I'm not trying to take anything from the middle the middle school I'm just saying I can we be more efficient I that's what I want to see yeah yeah sure all right going on to the high school uh we expect 1414 students 1,414 that's down from 47 from this year uh again with a total of 93 teachers teaching 695 different courses um and again certification plays a big part into the number of teachers there um used to be where teachers could teach out of their certification for a small portion of their day that is no longer the case so we're working uh really hard to make sure that the high school has the appropriate licensed staff that they need again that's not to that is not an increase of of any staff from what we currently have this year I wanted to share this with you too this is kind of where our overflow numbers break down so you can kind of see um where our students are being overflowed from and where they're going um it's at all kinds of different grade levels um so I just wanted to let you know about that that's kind of some of the discrepancies that you saw with mon losing so many students tala gaining so many it's more than likely because of the it's big chunk of the Overflow students so and that first graph you had a three overall enrollment going up 300 yeah but if I look at the individual Pages I've got an increase in uh hold on tala plus 30 and CSK plus 15 and so that's up 45 every other school is down enrollment so how how do you reconcile that that that enrollment that bar was for this current school year okay so and then those other numbers are for next year okay yeah so uh this is our current or our current and our past five years teacher Staffing patterns um as you can see we've kind of have become more efficient by the number of teachers that we've have in the district um because that number has steadily declined enrollment has but except for this year so we've had to make better use of all of our people that we we have here in the district this this school year um for this school year these are this is the list of positions that we were unable to fill um with a certified licensed teacher that have been filled with a uh long-term substitute teacher so you can see that there are 11 positions there um we have all of these positions either posted or ready that are already filled for next year these are our current openings for next year that are still available so if you know anybody you want to send them our way um a lot of these positions are in process we have had principles have held interviews they're just processing their candidates before they've made their way to me um one of the new things that we've implemented this year year is all candidates being recommended before you approve them on a Personnel report get their final interview with me um and it's been a real joy and it's it's been a wonderful uh a wonderful addition to our process because I really stoked about the people that our principles are are finding to fill some of our positions for next year um we've got the swath from you know uh right out of school couple years of experience to people are coming as a package from other districts because the word is getting out about us so um that's that's good to hear our retirement pipeline is up here so at the end of this year we'll have three uh licensed teachers retiring all of those positions have been filled already for next year uh large part due to when we posted because again we know that these positions are coming up we posted in February so we got the jump on um other districts so we've been fortunate to fill those positions already and we're going to do the same for all of the years um that to come so kind of wrapping everything all up our enrollments increased it appears that it's in direct correlation to our elll and homeless students um our newcomer families that would fall into both of those categories our Latino students are now our second largest student demographic population all of our class sizes are within our contractual limits are really looking really good at the middle school and high school and we've become more efficient with Staffing patterns to as we've experienced that increase in enrollment this year without increasing staff but that's also to go that doesn't go without saying that we do need to have a couple of additions for next year and really that's at tala to service our elll students um because again that's the building that's been hit the hardest with our new cmer families so what we're looking to do is to create three different sections of elll um inst struction there so at the K1 level we would create a bilingual section uh at 23 would be an elll section where the the students would uh be with a gened teacher part of the day then pull out with the elll teacher and switch you know with them being in second and third grade and then a bilingual section with in fourth and fifth grade um an overall net increase would be one one teacher uh is what we're looking at because one of the current grade level teachers at tala in fifth grade I believe is that right johnel um has got her bilingual certification so that would be the teacher that would take that section uh we already have an elll teacher at tala so the K1 section would be the new section that would' be looking to add above what we have this year um another recommendation could be to not look at returning the overflowing students from tala but again I think that's going to it's really going to depend on when students enroll at tala the messaging from the school to get in get get in as early as you can to secure your spot and then fluctuate that support um for elll we could maybe shift some of that support from tala to Mo if that's where students are overflowed from so that's something that we will keep an eye on as we start um next year and then as I mentioned before B moral we're just really going to make sure that we monitor that fourth grade enrollment again impress have the school impress upon their parents get in early to secure your spot or otherwise you could be potentially overflowed somewhere else and that that overflow would go to cre more yeah more than likely okay and again more than likely I say that just again it's going to depend on what C's enrollments looks like so and looking at this our registration has gone up our elll has gone up our our numbers have our enrollment has gone up our ell has gone up our homeless have more than doubled and why did the homeless population go up so much because of our our uh newcomer families they're technically classified as homeless okay yeah okay I I knew that I just want Goa I'm just wondering with the newcomers do we have any gug gen like like I don't know what um like if there's any benefits like if they were getting some rent or something paid and does that stop do we do we have any idea if think people will stay if they'll move on from what what I I I can't speak large scale but I do know that we are generating interest in employment here and some families have signed up to be sub Food Service workers sub custodians um and Hector and Vince Have Been instrumental in helping us get th those people signed up to do that so I think there is there is a I don't I again can't speak large scale but it seems like there looks like some families are looking for that stability to stick around okay yeah thank you I was just wondering if we had any idea on it thank you you cleared up a lot that was a good presentation thank you very much in my opinion I appreciate that I can't speak for the board I got yes you can I'll I'll take it thank you thank you doc d appreciate it all righty do we have any old business new business old business any update on Up's their resolution to dissolve the Tiff I know that it was on the agenda at the U at their last get my dates right on this at the end of March on the on their business meeting at the end of March um they pulled it and tabled it um due to the fact that the lawyers needed to work on some wording because the res the the agenda item said if they dissolved it it would have been dissolved right at that time and that's not the the proper wording so the next day I contacted John ISO our attorney John is working with their attorney to clarify all that and then once they get the resolution done it'll be put back on the agenda they're hoping to get that done um this is April I think either April or May they're looking get that done okay so so that's where we stand with okay so you haven't gotten any updates from ASO I have not gotten any up I can find that out for next meeting that'd be great or put it in the FYI put it in the FYI I'll do that see where we're at I had one old business uh Ken I saw the FYI I don't know who put it out uh about the bridges with CCC and and um Healey Bender so the 10 the retention is is that all we have left there is the 10% retention no we have I've stopped all pay application but I mean that's the only payout left is the 10% right no there's a couple there's there's still some payout on some construction items that still have not been done that are still being done okay uh plus the 10% is there so that is there now the other work is real minimal it's not a lot um I see there not one of CCC is not coming to the there's a solution issue there so I'm just making sure that you know yeah uh we had our regular schedule of meeting last Thursday um on April 11th when we met on March 14th Ken requested upper management from CCC and Healey Bender her patent to be president in person when we went to meet on April 11th the only representative from CCC was a site superintendent so at that point I ended the meeting documented the attendance and that's when I instructed both companies that I won't process any further pay applications until the meeting we requested to resolve the issue takes place that current that meeting is currently scheduled for tomorrow at 9:00 am. correct Ken yes all right with all parties so I'm assuming Friday we'll have an update of Thursday or Friday of what that meeting was about then we should yeah okay that's my hope to have that meeting and we were steadfast and not scheduling it it won't be virtual no one's calling in we want all parties at the table with an applicable amount of time frame to resolve the issue and if if I understand that was an infiltration issue that was that a sprinkler pipe that broke or a water pipe it was a sprinkler pipe that broke uh you know from what we understand it was an air filtration issue where cold air got in during that real cold time cold air got in froze the pipe it expanded and then it burst okay um you know again so the board is aware we have stopped all we are not paying either Healy patent Healy Bender patent Bean or CCC any more money until this gets resolved because our feeling is is that this has gone on long enough it need to be resolved and we should not be responsible for that the only question I have on that and the only thing I and I and again after the meeting tomorrow maybe it'll be a mute point but we just have to think as a district that if Healey bender and CCC can come to a conclusion that it was a matter of four different trades whatever it is that if you have 20 trades in there and they're all money we have to be careful of That So within respect the reason I say that is because I do I do stuff like this right and when someone you know I know procedurally but we just want to be aware the 10% I get holding till the job is 100% complete i' I've done that for a year and a half waited for until a a resolution came up about but the rest of it we just got to be aware if we want people to come back and do more work in in in long term that's after tomorrow's meeting just think about that and I agree with that but the subs don't report to us the subs report to the contractor so again if there's payments due to the subs that should come from the contractor you know now even though we're holding money yeah they should be able to I wasn't sure if you were approving a contractor's statement so in in direct payouts would be directly to them I wasn't sure if that was happening or was it going straight to them it it goes directly to the contractor not to the sub that's different too that's because I've done it both ways where they were cut directly to a contractor SW statement and yeah we we cut all of our checks directly to contractor we don't kind do that to the subs and all so all right so that's where we're at with everything so uh it's unfortunate but you know it's a stance we we feel comfortable taking and have to take to protected District thank you and I just want to clarify that uh we're not processing any pay applications for Healey Bender patent and being subject I mean that pertain to that specific project not the other work that they're doing throughout the district right okay that okay good conversation any other old business new business uh yeah I was at uh speed meeting uh I think it was last month I believe uh last month do we have any outstanding payments to speed for our uh kids that go there not to my knowledge we process everything as it's submitted to the office okay all right just a quick question thanks any other new business yeah I've got one this came up at a uh District safety meeting I think a month ago and the representative from the cre fire department made kind of a comment in passing that the fire hydrant that would service the bridges program was in a less than ideal s place that they would have to actually bring their vehicle up onto the grass and it would you know sink in and and might be just something to follow up and and check into okay so now I don't know whose responsibility would that be is that ours is that Villages you know but be worthwhile to check into I'll bring that up to the architect when we meet with them tomorrow okay excellent point any other new business okay I I do have one I I think this would be considered new business uh first of all I want to congratulate bill for being the recep I know you know Bill want to fly up under the radar as well as this whole board you know we do what we do is who we are but you know what you give honor to whom honor is due so thank you Bill for being the recipient of a award I can't exact State the name but that's given in mon for uh a community person that does so much for the community and I could attest to that just you've been here on the board so congratulations on that thank you I might as well keep it going I want to somehow I'm going to get with you Dr koganes because there's an application that's due July 1st for recognizing a board as being an outstanding board I want to nominate us to be recognized at that itle itle e conference in November and and I think another place or three rivers or whatever that is I think this board has done a tremendous job over the many years under the leadership with Nelson and our board secretary Cheryl and we need to get credit for that you know I think this board has done a tremendous job over many years a lot of things right so that's one thing I want to get our superintendent nominated as a superintendent of the year as well she has done a tremendous job as well as there's a nomination process for employees so our executive assistant over there for the superintendent our assistant superintendent there on and so forth and goes all the way down to some teachers students and staff members as well so that's a process I'll be sending you guys that link so if you want to if you want to say mo I don't want to be recognized you don't have that option okay okay so doc we'll be talking see that's what what happen when you stay away so long we don't talk I got a lot of things going on and stirring up and I see this was on did you want to say anything about this this was uh discussed at or June June yeah this morning [Music] each year our um AP African-American studies class um the teachers work with the students and they um produce a magazine of the um authentic student work and so uh this is this year's magazine that is being published of their artwork and poetry um from the Lessons Learned in class awesome yeah we had very good conversation earlier today on and I think the June 15th date that we're going to have this event I can just see the collaboration Foster and teamwork coming together with the different various Villages and their representative I'm I'm just so elated to be part of this where it's going to Encompass everybody and an opportunity to to just come together as a community doing this event really appreciate it and again thank you Alex and and Jamie for coming on the board and just coming with your sleeves rolled up and ready to go and all the things that you guys do I really appreciate it and with that being said we do have an opportunity and a reason to go into close session for the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees could I have a motion to go and close session for the reason stated so moved move by Alex second second by Nelson roll call please if there's no questions sure um Mr gigos I Mr swales I miss s stus i Mr Al i m rup isn't I Dr Hall I president Brown I motion Carrie we will be in close session for about 30 minutes hopefully no longer and we will not take any type of action thereafter appreciate the public

700 p.m. Friday April 19th I believe I'm a judge for this is Canton Got Talent I'm glad I'm a judge it's Monday so you thank you uh Monday April 22nd is an Earth Day event at Kenton High School where we'll be planting some trees by the new softball field Tuesday April 23rd is an early release for the campon schools April 23rd is a town budget hearing 6: p.m.

and I was stunned when Mr Moore told me this that next week our eighth grade actually goes to Washington DC amazing I see some eighth graders just not in their head kind of excited it it threw me for a loop I was like really already and I was like wow we're all ready towards the end of the year so our eighth grade have a great time at Washington DC and I want to thank Mr CH uh Mr shler for uh running the the Board of Ed meeting tonight in replace of our uh board chair who's out of town I'll take any questions out of the superintendent's office at this time thank you Dr Gman uh s Juliana what do you have for us okay um I will start hi I'm Juliana and I will be reporting on Cherrybrook so this past month uh Cherrybrook students have enjoyed the youth art month celebration that was held on Thursday March 14th at the community center students and families enjoyed the opportunity to view the artwork that was displayed from students across the district over the past few weeks Cherry Brook welcomed the following guest speaker uh officer John Chicos uh K parent who presented the program skins and schools to third grade students uh during this the students learned about various kinds and types of animals found in Connecticut and how their features help them in their environments Additionally the Roaring Brook Nature Center visited the first graders and Mr kapan presented the program frogs and friends which showed how they go from eggs tadpoles to frogs uh rberg nut Center also visited the kindergart kindergarteners and uh Mrs Winters presented the program seeds seeds and seeds which uh introduced them to all seeds and they learned about that and how the difference is between fruits and veget um Additionally the PTO held a successful book fair during conference week uh to the state there is been 3,958 positive cards on Monday March 25th approximately 40 third graders from Cher singers in the cbps music teacher Miss card traveled to Yukon to participate in a music collaboration uh Cherry bir Unified sports had its last practice today approximately 30 students from across cherb participated in Unified sports this year the success of Unified sports can be attributed to the large group of Staff members who supported this program on Saturday April 27 at Conor High School from 9:30 to 11:30 uh the cherberg Unified sports team will participate in the elementary skill Day event and yeah uh again congratulations to he's definitely has helped me put together all these reports so just congrats thank you Juliana M all right so Maggie's not here tonight but I will be reporting on behalf of her for CIS um CIS students celebrated Pi Day on March 14th with various piie related activities during their math classes thanks to our room parents each grade level enjoyed some pie together in the afternoon in advisory students began decorating Paper Shop bags to share with the community to be used on Earth next week the institute for American Indian studies came to CIS and worked with the students in small groups as a part of as a part of our fifth grade Native American unit in social studies congratulations to the Future the CIS future Problem Solver teams who competed in the state competition and represented CIS very well two teams placed in the top three for their division CIS completed the esac math performance task the week before vacation and yesterday fourth graders kicked off a multidisciplinary study of migration and movement and now I will be reporting on um CIS and or sorry CMS and CHS but I'm going to be talking about um two events that are kind of districtwide um Dr Gman already touched on this but tomorrow uh Wednesday the 17th yes 17th um we you're having a really special commission concert I know he kind of spoke on it but just to give you a little more information um we have a pretty well-known um composer named Dr Francesco J Nunes uh who wrote a commission piece for our district to sing for the very first time ever and he will be actually coming to the schools tomorrow during the morning and throughout the school uh to work with us like a little workshop before we perform per tomorrow night um along with that the other schools all of the schools will be performing a few pieces from each um school and then Friday as you mentioned as well um we have the kittens Got Talent where all schools have an opportunity to send a few students through an audition to show off their talents there'll be a judge I'm hosting so please please show up it will be really fun thank you very much those are very comprehensive appreciate it I think our last meeting you gave us a preview of the play and since then the play took place were you both in it or just both she was in the pit in the pit yes well the pit and the play uh was was really very very well done it was an enjoyable night packed houses and and people loved it so congratulations on that as well thank you uh that uh uh twice a year Dr grman uh has arranged this year for the board of to visit uh each School uh and after that visit uh the principal comes to a board meeting and brings some students for us to celebrate with them and tonight uh we visited Canton Middle School April 2nd and tonight Mr Morris here with some students and super so tonight we have Ken celebrates we're going to hold the middle school for a minute we're going to bring up Mr Amry for our Char book can celebrates and I need to let everyone know that after uh Mr Amry does his K celebrates we'll take a quick picture we'll bring Mr Amry and the student up we'll take a picture and we'll do the same thing for the middle school so parents you'll get as many pictures and Guardians as you would like so Mr Amry and Mr I have your presentation right here thank you made we're here so um it's an honor to present um a Canon celebrates War to um Reagan Conor she was recognized at Cherry Brook by Mrs santanella and this is what Mrs santanella has to say Reagan's positive energy is contagious wherever she goes she is mature Beyond her years and is able to relate to adults in a way that most other students cannot Reagan is an Avid Reader who often comes down to the learning Commons in the morning so swap her books out for new ones we love seeing her walk through our doors congratulations Reagan on this award [Applause] congratulations come on up and let's take a picture here okay I can turn around with Mr congratulations than Mr Moore he Middle School good evening everybody thank you very much for having me here this evening to celebrate uh just a few of the wonderful things happening at Canton Middle School that happened to Canton Middle School this year um I have a few groups of students it's some very special things to recognize and so I think the way that I will do this is uh have a group of students join me and then speak on why they're here and then I'll hand out their their individual Awards so could I have joining me up here if they are in attendance I'm looking at the note here so not everyone's here but could I have SEL Hugo Hugh and Landon joining me come on up me right in this area right [Music] here so we have uh we're very proud of our athletic accomplishments amongst many things happening at C middle school and always seeking to expand those opportunities for students to thrive and and perform wrestling is one of our newest programs at Canton middle school so this is not this there's not a long history of wrestling at Kon middle school and so in a short time frame our students have thrived and performed uh at at the state level and so the wrestling coach let me know that four wrestlers this year in our relatively new wrestling program qualified for and competed at the Connecticut youth wrestling state championships in New New Haven uh about 2 months ago and so uh I'd like to congratulate these four students on that accomplishment qualifying and competing at the state level so Seline so first Landon de Cruz Hugo [Applause] e Hugh Jacob [Applause] and S K not not present tonight so we congratulate them and before Landon leaves I need to highlight the coach let me know that Landon was also noted in his weight class uh finished fourth place in the entire State a huge accomplishment so congratulations gentlemen congratulations I take your seat for now we'll come back up for a picture hold on do same thing could I have Aiden Ethan Michael Riley and Aiden join me up here yes so we have a wonderful music program at can Middle School throughout our district and can middle school is in my opinion uh one of the the the jewels in the crown of the can music program and um specifically our Jazz program is unique amongst the state and it is a preeminent Jazz program in the state and I give a my congratulations to the our entire music department on a successful year of musical performances uh and accomplishments specifically the entire jazz band that these select students have something very unique to to highlight so Canton Middle School's jazz band performed at the Yukon jazz festival in February at this Festival the entire jazz band performed amidst High School colleg and other highlevel middle school jazz bands they performed in front of a full Auditorium where the entire jazz band was commended on an outstanding performance they then broke into uh workshops by instrument and they worked with a Yukon professor in their area of specialty and there our trumpet section received an extra special recognition from the professor that worked with them they were given an award for outstanding musicianship for their Excellence so we congratulate our jazz trumpet section on this unique honor well done members of members are Aiden glassie Michael [Applause] Landry Riley mson not in attendance congratulations Riley Ethan shayer and Eden vet we'll call you back for a picture great job can I have Archer he join me up here Archer is being recognized tonight with what we are dubbing the rising leader award Archer is a seventh grader C middle school and he's shown leadership through his involvement in commitment to multiple clubs in the building including student council we speak and GSA he's a dedicated member of each of those clubs consistently sharing his ideas and perspectives in student council he campaigned and won the position of secretary he actually joined us in the fall when uh that uh when he earned that chair position that leadership position on our student council which doesn't often happen for seventh graders one of his primary POS uh roles and responsibilities as secretary was to record the of each meeting which he did with Excellence additionally he's always willing to volunteer as an extra hand when help is needed and was a crucial part of the success of several of our school events including uh student council's glow up the night dance and the incredibly challenging and multifaceted series of events that we called fundraising February Archer Heath makes our school a better place and is absolutely deserving of our Rising leader award congratulations Archer [Applause] I would now like to move to two of our highest Honors that we give at Camp middle school and to start can I have uh Yasmin alhad and M O'Donnell join me up [Applause] here uh yine and Loan are up here in recognition of our cave student leadership award this is something we give on annually um cab is the Connecticut Association of boards of education and they may put out an annual call for a school's finest and we go through multiple rounds of voting as a staff to uh think about which students are most deserving of this we have many students who could fit the criteria and but we are called to pick two eth graders who most the fit and deserve this recognition the cap student leadership award looks for students who demonstrate leaderships defined as a willingness to take on challenges a capability to make difficult decisions showing a concern for others and an ability to work with others a willingness to commit and see through difficult projects diplomacy the ability to understand issues clearly and the ability to honor their commitments of all the students in Kon Middle School I'm proud to give this award to these two students y me in Lin um so first fin and you get four folks I got to find your certificat I got to give you the right one not that one yet here they are okay for our first recipient of the cave student leadership award Yasmin alhad congratul and [Applause] all right and finally as I shuffle my papers could I have Landon de Cruz back up here and Roman sh all right Romana and Landon joined me up here for the other uh one of the highest distinctions that we give at Canton middle school and that's the Cass scholar leader award Cass is the Connecticut Association of schools and they put out an annual call for Stu for um students at the middle school level who demonstrate leadership uh and scholarship so they Define that as active participation in a school in a school and in community organizations looking for citizenship those that are a positive influence on their school climate who have dependability character and integrity all while maintaining the highest levels of academic success again we went through multiple rounds of voting looking for the students who best exemplify this in our 8th grade class and I'm very proud to say that these two students are very deserving congratulations a cast scholar leader award to Landon de Cruz and [Applause] Roman thank you for giving me an opportunity to recognize some of these students amongst a year wonderful things all the students that just receiv received their Awards come on back up here join me in the middle for a group hope uh we can go out there may have we'll get in the back I just got to get behind yeah there we go here here everybody first start Kira in the middle and [Music] then okay now everybody else will see here forever and I know Mr Shyer would like to say a couple words well uh first all thank you Mr Mo for bringing These Fine students to let you know how proud We Are of all of you and so delighted that you came to join us tonight and and we wish you well and congratulate you on your accomplishments and and know that there's a lot more to come it's only 8 seventh or eighth grade so you got a lot long way to go but uh congratulations and it's it's great to see you and we appreciate all all you do thank [Applause] [Music] you thank you very much thanks for coming congratulations [Music] Jeff before you start I should have made a ask for a motion at the beginning of the meeting and we were so involved in other things uh we'd like to add two items uh to the agenda they assume a lot of time so I'd asked for a motion that the board of educ had two agenda items for approval one for a revision of an authorized signer for the Ed 99 agreement and the other for a non-renewal of non-tenure teachers him and any discussion all those in favor anybody oppos thank you Dr so now we're going to ask Mr MO just give a brief update to his continuous Improvement plan there was many of you that were at the walkthr but there was a few board members that weren't able to attend the the walkth through so Mr Amry Mr Amry Mr Moore has a a packet for the board members that were not able to attend the the walkthr but he's also going to go through a high level view of what he spoke about during the walk through time so everybody would have an update Mr War all right thank you again for the opportunity to celebrate our students uh I appreciate everybody coming out and then the opportunity just to briefly highlight uh some of our accomplishments relative to the school goals um I appreciate the board members that have come out multiple times throughout the year to come and visit and see the great work happening at campon Middle School I've been proud to share with you um things that we have learned the things that we are working on and the growth progress and Improvement that's been happening as a result of the incredible efforts of our staff and students the bottom line as I summarize uh our progress towards our goals is that we've accomplished them the tasks that we set forward to our the action steps that we wanted to be held accountable to doing by Year's End uh we have done and we I'm able to say that recognizing that there's still two months of school ahead I looked at the goals that I presented to you in the fall and was very pleased to see that we had done in each of those things taking steps towards each of those things and I can briefly highlight some of those here for you in the area of student growth and achievement uh perhaps one of the biggest accomplishments so small bullet point but a very uh represents very large body of work we submitted our turnaround plan to the state department of education's turnaround office and our due to present to them uh which would be uh kind of a summary of the work that we did in our planning year as well as a commitment to work to make sure that c Middle School is doing as well as we can for every single student uh for the next 3 years so that we wrote that plan and submitted it to the state we revised our assessment our formative assessment calendar investing in really learning about the interim assessment blocks we uh have implemented that and are learning a great deal from them we revised how we did professional development to make sure that teachers had time to then do something with those assessments and brought in some Consultants to help them that process hiring a new math interventionist while I'll come back to under another goal and the implementation of a new tutoring program targeting students that uh that need the support to make sure they're achieving their their individual level of growth we've implemented professional development on pacing and alignment and tier one best practices in areas of social studies language arts special education and math in the area of Partnerships and Community engagement um the turnaround committee had Community representation both in terms of CommunityWide surveys and parent representation on the committee itself all teachers set goals uh related to community outreach and communication uh and we have a great partnership with the Kon Public Library that helps our library media center be a hub of community building obviously literacy but also executive functioning skills and overall wellbeing our partnership with the library really helps us accomplish that in the area of learning environment and belonging we administered and utiliz results of the desm we uh continue to build upon our our essential uh advisory program which is a longstanding tradition for us but we enhance them uh by getting back to the team building activities at winding trails and enhancing them through monthly Town Halls team come together and celebrate the things that are going well on a monthly basis and I bring the whole school together quarterly to both celebrate good things and set the path for moving forward student council is a great uh representation of the student of student voice to make sure that we're promoting a positive culture through special events the dances community service projects and things like fun F raising February to make sure that we're taking care of our financial sa sustainability and efficient operations we wrote next year's budget looking at the current projections in and then um planning accordingly we work in collaboration with the our our high school colleagues here at 76 Simon AB to U make sure that we are doing Capital Improvement planning appropriately and our turnaround plan um which invests heavily in K Middle School there we are planning very carefully 3 years out to make sure that Staffing support and resources uh decisions are made and purchases are made with a three-year plan for adoption in mind flipping over uh in the area the area in the goal area of embracing Equity um we have Middle School teachers that are leaders on the district Equity team uh and I'm extremely proud of how we Embrace that work and lead I think the district in that work we implemented a new student leadership club called The Warrior Squad uh another leadership student voice and student leadership team focusing on community service and uh positive well-being within the building we look at data uh through the lens of equity making sure that every student is getting the instruction and support that they need and make sure that we collaborate with the new open Choice the aison to address and remediate barriers to success and finally in supporting our teachers in Workforce Development we hired our math interventionist and Coast uh coach Tony ji who is doing a wonderful job at both middle and high school level we made sure PD was was available on Desa informative assessment data use the math department is collaborating with the consultant to really uh build their expertise with the a few years ago now but the relatively newly adopted illustrative math curriculum our expertise and knowledge of that is as deep as it's ever been and as I mentioned before language arts teachers social studies teachers special education case managers and instructional coaches are collaborating with Consultants looking at our literacy instruction focusing on identifying best practices and aligning them in the curriculum Canton Middle School is committed to being the best school that it can be and I think that these steps uh I'm proud of what we've done this year to move in that direction of continuing to serve all students well but doing it even better moving forward so I'm happy to answer any questions about this work uh and I appreciate your support throughout the year that allowed us to get it all done thank you Jeff uh it was a very impressive and informative two plus hours we spent with you uh back on April 2nd uh board members who were able to 10 a quick thought you want to share based on you guys couldn't but quick thought you want to share or not it was a great visit and we appreciate all your transparency with the plan and your ability to quickly pivot and embrace it and Jump Right In and you know make changes that are necessary and delve into stuff deeper over the next 3 years so I appreciate your um you know walk Jordan the the tours have been great and the you know the activity we got active engagement of uh working in the math class was fabulous and um so thank you for for sharing with us that day I know it doesn't get reflected in the meetings what what you presented and stuff is you know but I think we appreciate um the format of that yeah it's always nice to go around and see what it's like in the classrooms and how much middle school has changed from when I was in Middle School and kids engaged on task in creative ways and just to see how the teaching process has changed and um great things going on in C middle school so thank you good and folks that didn't have a chance to go to attend do you have questions or comments or yes I yes thank you I was going to say I'm just I'm really excited when I look at these categories they're like really thorough and all encompassing all the right things to to me school by side we happy to see that um and I was just curious about the Consultants that the teachers are working with and who are the Consultants yeah so um Matt is working with a gentleman named John K and the other departments and our literacy focus is organization called Ed Advance uh I credit Mr Bishop with doing a lot of betting of potential resources and doing you thorough background checks in terms of where they've done work before um all all of the people that we're working with we know schools that have worked with them and sing their praises I can't think of a more professional way to say it but like love these folks and the our work with them is yielding fruit both of the short-term and long-term variety immediately implementing impacting practices of so how do I do this math lesson in a more effective way and then also asking questions about are we teaching the right things at the right time in the right order for the right amount of time really the work that's happening at K middle school right now is really detailed curriculum work I think is the bulk of it and so to have an outside perspective come in and say have you thought about a learning Target success criteria and progression through the standards here and U so that work is invaluable it has an immediate positive impact on students so those are the those are the two Consulting groups that ien thank you Russell good uh that you know me meting is productive when it goes 2 hours and it goes 20 minutes over and nobody was complaining uh it was informative and and worthwhile and and it helped us a lot understand what's going on uh that that you and your staff clearly have recognized what the issues are uh you've come up with a plan in instruction and curriculum to address the issues uh you're cooperating with the State Department of Education with their experts you just heard that uh there's the opportunity there for some funding from them that which would be okay with us if that occurred um and there's a chance for us uh not only to see uh some real growth and development in our own students and faculty but to become a model School uh for the entire State and we hope that's what will occur uh as we spoke with you and visited classrooms uh that we realized it was obvious that that a lot of good work is going on and we congratulate you for that and support you in that and uh uh you're to a good start on on making some significant changes and improvements so thank you very much thank you I appreciate the the partners at the state that you mentioned they've been wonderful Partners again I credit the work of the staff that they working real hard as none of is possible about them and and you supported well and I promise in return I'll keep the results of the math quiz and the math you did confidential thank you you know the missing chair tonight did take last place in that D but we don't want that in the record so but just quickly I I wasn't able to attend the Cher Brook walk through so Dr Gman arranged for me to meet with Mr Amry for an hour by myself which was really good so uh Mrs Muller and Mr Bush if you would like to meet with uh with Jeff uh just let Jordan know and he'll set that up thank you enjoy enjoy the DC train thank you for going I know you a young family but you're you're spearheading me so they didn't say they were sad to see me go so it has just a reminder to the board that May 7th at 8 at 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.

is a CIS walk through so hopefully everybody will be able to attend and as Mr shiler says if that time does not work for you um we will set up a time for you to uh get a tour with Mr Corto at a separate meeting and it could be I know some of you work it could be before school at the after school we we'll work around um your schedule um but if you could attend that would be great and then may uh 30th is our Cher Brook primary school walk through also I didn't yes you did I you want say anything did you want to say anything I no I'm fine okay assistant superintendent report no March financials oh March financials I'm sorry super so the the board of Finance last night were reviewed our March financials and then this morning our Board of Education subcommittee reviewed our financials in its in your packet overall we are progressing really nicely we are forecasted end of the year budget is 31,8 27 794 which is unfavorable in the red by 81,7 3 but what is a positive is that the forecast of March indicates a favorable change of 37,44 over last month so we're moving in in the right direction as we explained this morning at our Board of at our subcommittee meeting and some of the major changes were that Mr Bishop was able to obtain a $115,000 grant for professional development so we are going to really analyze um that account so we're able to take away $115,000 out of that account to know that that would put us in the black and Mrs McLean has done a wonderful job bringing our special education costs um down and some kids are coming back that were more favorable to the tune of $222,000 and then on the Highlight memo it gives you a little bit more specifics one of the things that I want to do is introduce the the board and the community to our interm business manager Mrs Robbins who is here with us this evening I I feel fortunate enough to to uh have Mrs Robbins uh by our side as our inter business manager uh Mrs Robbins was here as the business manager for two years in the Ken Public Schools while I transitioned from the business from the bus from the principal of Ken Intermediate School to the assistant superintendent and then I had the privilege of working with Anna as my business manager for the gramby public schools and was the the business manager for the Grammy public schools for eight and a half years of a very solid solid foundation of Good Financial practices in grany and I I learned a lot from Anna being the the the business manager in gramby so when I had an opening uh for an interim business manager and Anna was available um I we reached out to see if Anna would fill that slot as the intern business manager and I'm excited for her to jump in and really look at our March and April financials and I expect uh some movement as I explained to the board of Finance last night in the subcommittee this morning of some movement of us really looking at some of our areas to see if we can bring that gap of $81,000 down into a possibility of black as we know the the board of Finance has a very difficult job of our fund balance is not at the level that we would hope it to be at and the last thing that we want to do is request to the board of Finance to to dip into that fund balance so I'm counting on Anna to really look at our financial aspect and the operations of our district to see if we could close that Gap so I want to welcome Anna Anna Robins back to the Ken public schools and excited to have her by my side again to work so Mr Bush I don't know if you have any comments no I think you covered everything I mean you I'll go through my financial committee report as a lower down yeah i' just like to we're delighted to have you back in so thank you so much for being [Applause] here assistant superintendent report Mr Bishop uh yes thank you Mr Shyer I wanted to share with the the board that uh our work on the teacher valuation and growth plan continues I'm looking forward to bringing that forward to the board uh curriculum sub commmittee uh next week for a first review of that work it's been a great um piece of work from our committee uh which is cons situated of folks from across um responsibilities of schools and I'm grateful for uh Mr CTO and Miss Marshall jensson for their work and co-chairing that work um I also wanted to be able to let the board now again with the state requirements for uh reading programs CH Brook primary school is continuing with the review of programs with help for literacy uh we are just at the end of completing our first review and moving through with the second of two uh the second two uh reviews that we have to be able to complete our three by the end of the year uh with a hope a hopeful goal of being able to bring a presentation uh for the beginning of next year and then um wanted to let everyone know to the the SAT occurred uh just at the end of this uh last March so congratulations to all of the junior class Juliana who completed that work and we have our Smarter Balance assessment uh uh assessment we which will be coming up in April um so April is a a strong testing month for us and in May I'm sorry and in may as well so a lot of work that's going on within our schools any questions from my office thank you John thank you we're running a little bit late so maybe we'll skip public just kid uh we move to public comment now uh any Community member is welcome to speak for up to 3 minutes we have should keep your comments in no longer than 3 minutes uh recognize that we can't engage in the discussion with you back and forth Peg's an old friend she knows she started on the board for eight years uh years nine years she understands the uh the rules there so uh is there anyone in the audience take the full five minutes since I'm the only one here no I do have notes hi everybody I'm Peg Barry I'm uh 115 Robin Drive and I am a member of the board of Finance but I'm here as a community citizen today um about a topic that is very important to me um I have presents uh Joe for you Jordan for you I'm going to talk a little bit about this book for a few minutes um and why it's important to me I heard this author interviewed on I have notes to try to keep it 3 minutes I'm going to try uh on a morning news program a few weeks ago I immediately ordered three copies of the book you'll see there's only two of them here I've already loaned one out to a friend whose son is dealing with some serious mental health issues um I've since seen this book referenced and the author interviewed in the New York Times the New Yorker a few podcasts I listen to and yes last week I got a free copy of People magazine in the mail and he's in there too so either he's got great publicity people or it's a timely topic I think maybe both um I'm here today to urge each of you to read it um I'll bring my third copy when my friend is done with it pass it around I read it in a few days it's fascinating um uh Jonathan hate the author is a social psychologists at um NY new Stern business school he works with graduate students uh he didn't set out to write this book he was looking into social media and was so profoundly impacted by some of the data he came acoss he published it in um on a Google doc anybody can access it he's done a metadata analysis of all of the surveys that are out there um and what he's talking about is the danger of the combination of smartphones and social media to our youth this is something I'm passionate about I have a niece and a nephew who've attempted suicide I have a nephew who died by Suicide this doesn't just impact me this impacts everybody in our society our children are suffering when I went to high school there was an East parking lot in Simsbury where students high school students could smoke they stopped that when they realized how dangerous smoking is um since I've been here for an hour or so tonight I've observed each one of the members of the board glancing at their phones they're Insidious here um and they're bad for our children I want to share a few facts 46% of teens say they are online almost constantly the average teenager receives 237 notifications every day if their phone is in their backpack but they're wearing an eyewatch they'll conveniently get a notification on their wrist it's highly distracting and they truly have a padog in reaction One in five of today's college undergraduates is suffering from clinical depression this is double where it was in time um there have been 13 there has been a 134% increase in girls suicide since 2010 if you add in self harm the number is exponentially higher educationally test scores began to drop across the board since the beginning of 2012 this drop became more precipitous due to covid uh but they did not begin with Co this may be correlational data versus positive but it's interesting nonetheless smartphones came out in 2010 Instagram came out in 2012 um the book makes the case for communities banding together and eliminating smartphones in schools uh they don't have to be collected or left at home uh I know that there's a lot of people who are concerned about the danger of God forbid a school shooting and being able to hear from their children if something like that would have happened what parents don't realize is it's far more likely that their child will be dealing with a mental health issue by the time of 14 if we allow them to have phones in schools as as young children um there's a lot more things in the book um but what he mo what he notes most is that most kids when asked as graduate students um they don't want to give up their phones but when the question is posed in the context of everyone doing it collectively as a group kids and parents are largely supportive um I'm I'd like to ask today that you consider what he has to say and then consider enacting policy that ensures the C in schools at least through the middle school be smartphone free this um there's ways to do this the simplest being the phone stay in the backpack all day that includes recess study halls lunch um they they would still be accessible to the children in event of an emergency it eliminates the need for for uh teachers to have to police um but it it it creates an environment of socialization versus social media um I think it's a time it's it is um is is the time has come for you to consider this when smartphones came out they were cool we didn't know the damage they could do um and social media isn't all bad it creates a community for some students who don't have it um but parents can police that at home um it doesn't belong in our schools my kids are grown I don't have skin in the game anymore um and I'm lucky that smartphones were only beginning to come out when my kids were in school but I'm here today because I think this book is a must read for every parent every educator and every Community leader you have an opportunity to improve the mental health and the lives of canton's kids maybe even Save a Life I think you should seize it thank you thank you P I have a lot of things i' like to say but I'm not allowed to but thank you very much thank you p uh and I'm going to go home now always nice to see you good to see you uh is everyone online we have two people online tonight if either of you joining us online would like to make a public comment you can go ahead and use that rais hand feature zoom and I'll call in you by your Zoom name no okay thank you here uh we don't have any new business no uh reports Russ Finance okay uh Jordan covered uh the part 2024 financials um we're looking forward to seeing uh us audits over the next month to see where we're ending up uh we also approved a refrigerator freezer at Jerry Brook primary school that comes out of Co Rel funds money that we had to spend the next 8 months and it was necessary to broke down recently um uh we did discuss a building and ground update that uh is starting in May Tom Richards since starting to do mulch getting ready for spring and uh we also discussed some of the projects the board of finances considering for five we'll get an update on R you want to explain why that money uh for the freezer why it had to be spent on that sort of thing I would love to explain that uh they the money had to be spent because it was Co relief money somebody can correct me wrong had to be spent on infr I want to say infrastructure upgrades of Capital Improvements couldn't be spent spent on food per se uh the refrigerator is on its last legs it gets broke down over president day I believe had to transfer a bunch of stuff over to the high school so it was a great opportunity that it chews up about half of the money that we have left to spend and um there's already a plan for the other half other more minor uh projects because of the size of this purchase brought into the yeah thank you questions for Russ uh policy uh the U uh review of the policies is behind us uh you'll be getting a an email from John hopefully shortly which outlines the policies that we are suggesting that we keep uh and the policies that we retire and the policies that we replace them with and they've all been vetted the committee has gone through every one of them had a bunch of questions SE uh embeded through uh other folks uh the school nurse the administration that sort of thing uh that many of you made comments along the way over various policies uh when you get the email from John it there's a policy that you want to take a look at and you read it and say whoa I didn't know this was here uh we need to have further discussion on that just let John and me know that uh and and we can always pull that policy out and uh hold it over keep the old one for the time being and and hold it over again uh but John's done a tremendous amount of work uh making this happen uh Peggy this is the first meeting she's missed uh she's been great Erica pinched hit a couple of times she's been great much appreciated and and uh I think we'll have a good finished product when we get done I don't expect you to reread all there's a lot of policies to reread them all when you get them but if there's something you want to check this would be a good time to do it uh we already have a first read on the on this from back in M John so we would hope to vote as a second read and adopt the uh you know what we're going to keep what we're going to retire and what we're going to change to at the main meeting questions if we gave you feedback or responded or question those things were oh yeah every everyone was discussed at a meeting uh John went through them allall John has become an encyclopedia on school policy at this point keeping him up at night or putting him to sleep one or the other but uh yes nothing was nothing was pushed aside is it just me who find some hard to locate on the website or is that just because the the the new ones I think will be easier to find the older ones are much harder to find because you put in a search and you could go nuts trying to find it yeah so that might help I think so yeah uh curriculum technology okay so at our March meeting um we got Mr Bishop's assistant superintendent monthly monthly update um we discussed the uh process of selecting a kindergarten through third grade reading program we discuss the kindergarten registration process and we are up to 20 waivers filed um then we did our text Qui review we only had one for AP Chemistry passed unanimously uh we heard from uh Mr depo and Mrs Jorgenson on that um got to look at the book and pass it around and everything um and I think there's one in central office if anybody's interested in looking at the textbook stop by and look at it there um and then we had Mr Del asro uh there to do a technology update um which was quite informative uh he presented the improvements that were aligned with the tech plan of 2020 through 2025 um we discussed the safety of the student data and strong practices of the district um additional staff has helped dramatically he said that he went from 300 Open tickets down to 20 Open tickets on any given day which is huge Improvement um new technology resources were discussed and he also shared that he would send a video showcasing the new technology to the board um if anybody's interested he did send that we sent that out oh it everybody got it okay um and then our next meeting is going to be on April 24th at 9:00 a.m.

any questions the I a good question what were the tickets you were talking about with like like those are like yeah Open tickets so if somebody's having an issue with a laptop they they write up a ticket and and so they have so many Open tickets meaning things they have to problems they have to address and fix K you're probably familiar I would uh recommend to the curriculum and Technology committee and then to the the the policy committee for Mr Bishop to provide an update uh to that committee on how we utilize Since you're speaking about technology how we utilize our BYOD uh device that we have we have a a regulation on BYOD um and how it works within technology within our schools right now with kids own devices and give a background to the curriculum committee and then to the policy committee next month because it's both committees and I think that will hit a lot of members of the board and then um that we could provide a little bit of a brief update to the entire board just a summary of what the current uh policy is the reason that I bring that up is because you uh mentioned technology and I think it's relevant to uh what we heard so it's appropriate for the superintendent to uh just say that that's I I think that's a a good area whether you could do that John at your May meeting or even your your your June meeting one of the the the two should should happen I think it's timely and it's relevant to what you just spoke about Erica okay thank you ER I have to say I've been to several the curriculum meetings they've been really informative and and very worthwhile uh the AP km text is $187 and God bless the students that can get through that because it's it's over did you take it I didn't but I I won have to go through that right by me I know that so uh good luck and Communications ficia okay um we had our last meeting on the 25th of March uh The Joint Manor was sent out in collaboration with uh Board of Ed town and board of Finance if anybody didn't see it I happen here it was it came out really well so lots of thanks to K for all and hard work on this publication a lot of information and data in that one publication um assistant superintendent John Bishop met with Lori deito social School social worker Justine Ginsburg with pharmacist Valley Health Department and Dr Taylor who's a chief medical officer at the Village to highlight School supports and Community Resources in support of students and families in the arena of mental health and wellness and our district is developing a resource page associated with this information for the community so it be accessible um on um and our next meeting is April 29th at 1: p.m. thank you question and Mr Bishop will be with some of the members that Felicia was talking about will be providing an update on Mental Health uh resources and programs that we have in the Ken Public Schools as part of his assistant superintendent report next month so his report will be a little bit longer than it traditionally is I've asked him uh through the chair to do about a 15 to 20 minute presentation on Mental Health um within our district and I think it kind of aligns with a little bit of what you heard today uh from a a public comment so everything is kind of timely uh of what's happening so he'll be reporting on that and we'll have some of our support staff and some outside professionals that maybe are also correct with Mrs mle is absolutely correct thank you so that's at the May board meeting May board meeting for all board members too get that report that update heard several positive comments about the mail the budget mail okay I've heard several positive comments folks in town about the mail other questions yeah can you repeat the the time of that meeting on 4:29 um it's 1 p.m Google so there's a link um I think it was it may have been sent to it wasn't I'll make sure I'll let you know there's a list of thank you there's a list of uh April and May dates in your packet uh again I'll call attention to the town meeting the town budget hearing on the 23rd it be really important for as many of board members to be there as possible uh that that uh the board of Finance wants to wants to hear wants to listen uh and and show support from us would be would be very worthwhile um board member announcements anyone uh recommended actions uh a move that the camp board of V approve the consent agenda it consists of the minutes from the walkth through on March 7th the U regular meeting on the 12th the B Boe workship on the 26th of March and the special meeting on the special walkthrough meeting on April 2nd any care to make that motion Erica anyone second anyone Russ thank you uh discussion all in favor it's unanimous uh the uh you all received information on the uh he proposed high school trip to Barcelona uh I would accept the motion that the C board ofed approved the Canton High School trip to Madrid Barcelona in Rome April 10th to 18th 2025 Cindy Russell second discussion yes just a couple items out of my office this is a trip that to Barcelona Rome and Madrid I believe and I I did meet with the World Language team I did meet with Mr to pipo feel very comfortable with this trip looked at our travel advisories feel very comfortable we're still a year out from this trip please know even though that you are there's a recommendation to approve this trip I will be monitoring this uh trip and the insurance that is embedded within this is will be known to the the students and their their families and the most important aspect to me is student safety money will be secondary so um this has complete support the the teachers have done a nice job putting this to together and at this moment of time I don't have a concern with them traveling to this part of the world questions discussion do we know what the cost of the yeah it should be in there fairly significant 4,800 yep so they will be looking at as part of that they'll be looking at fundraising activities and they'll be talking to to to students about that but with any trip right now it it it's a lot of money other questions concerns uh I'll call the question then all those in favor of supporting this as I guess it's a first first this is for approval okay approving the trip favor say raise your hand or say I russle good okay that's unanimous I think yeah um look for a motion that the Kon Board of Ed revised the authorized signers for the Ed 099 agreement for Child Nutrition programs and remove donakowski and adding Anna Robbins as an authorized signer I think this is the first Felicia and the second Russ discussion this this is just a formality of removing her former business manager into our inter business manager I have a copy of it here do we should I sign tonight questions discussion all those in favor please ra hand oppos no one it's unanimous thank you uh for a motion that the contract of employment for Aon herach Ashley Clark and Andrea Zera and Abigail MC mcmanamy mcy not be renewed for the following year upon its expiration of the 20 upon upon the expiration at the end of the 23 24 school year that the superintendent of schools is directed to advise such persons in writing of this action uh first Russ second Erica and explanation Jordan yeah so this is the non 10e Act and the the superintendent has to by May 1st recommend to Board of Education the non-renewal of non- tenar I did not give you every non 10year teacher that we have in the district uh right now there there are several reasons um that you could recommend there's six reasons actually that you could recommend a nonrenewal it could be anywhere from performance standpoint from budgetary standpoint from a loss of position a reduction of of force um oneyear contracts that that come into it long-term Subs come into it um so all those things so every single person that's on this list I actually met with today and they completely understand the the the position that the superintendent in the the the board is it I can't speak about each individual um with that questions uh all those in favor please raise your hand uh that's unanimous um and I think we're done but motion to adjourn at 8:41 Felicia Kim in favor everybody thank you all much